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• Trainspotting | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £6.18   |  Saving you £15.07 (306.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh. Directed with abandon by Danny Boyle, Trainspotting conspires to be at once a hip youth flick and a grim cautionary fable. Released on an unsuspecting public in 1996, the picture struck a chord with audiences worldwide and became adopted as an instant symbol of a booming British rave culture (an irony, given the characters' main drug of choice is heroin not ecstasy).McGregor, Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner play a slouching trio of Scottish junkies; Carlyle their narcotic-eschewing but hard-drinking and generally psychotic mate Begbie. In Boyle's hands, their lives unfold in a rush of euphoric highs, blow-out overdoses and agonising withdrawals (all cued to a vogueish pop soundtrack). Throughout it all, John Hodge's screenplay strikes a delicate balance between acknowledging the inherent pleasures of drug use and spotlighting its eventual consequences. In Trainspotting's world view, it all comes down to a question of choices--between the dangerous Day-Glo highs of the addict and the grey, grinding consumerism of the everyday Joe. "Choose life", quips the film's narrator (McGregor) in a monologue that was to become a mantra. "Choose a job, choose a starter home... But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?" Ultimately, Trainspotting's wised-up, dead-beat inhabitants reject mainstream society in favour of a headlong rush to destruction. It makes for an exhilarating, energised and frequently terrifying trip that blazes with more energy and passion than a thousand more ostensibly life-embracing movies. --Xan Brooks

• The Breed | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With a hot cast and a sexy look 'The Breed' puts a stylish twist on the classic vampire tale. FBI Agent Steven Grant (Woodbine) is reluctantly assigned to track a renegade bloodsucker that is bent on exposing a government plan to integrate vampires into society. Along with his new partner 'good' vampire cop Aaron Grey (Paul) Grant follows the clues and the bodies to the lair of the stunningly beautiful Lucy (Ling). Trusting any vampire is difficult for Grant but when he finds hi

• Destry Rides Again | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Destry Rides Again will forever be remembered for Marlene Dietrich's performance as Frenchy a crooked saloon waitress with a heart of gold. Her rendition of ""See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have"" is one of the highlights of her career. But Destry Rides Again has much more to offer than just Dietrich's performance. This hilarious satire carries Jimmy Stewart in the lead as Tom Destry a supposedly tough law enforcement man who doesn't like guns. Stewart's comic touches are brilliant as he eagerly gives out educational anecdotes anytime an opportunity affords itself. The plot concerns the efforts of a saloon owner and a corrupt Mayor to rob the local cowpokes blind. Frenchy's on the payroll of the bad guys but when sparks fly between her and Destry her loyalty becomes a deciding factor in whether it's Destry or the bad guys who will ride off into the sunset.

• The Aquabats Complete Season 1 (CITV) | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £12.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (3.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Warship: Series 1 | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £15.57   |  Saving you £14.42 (92.61%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Warship is the hugely popular naval drama series produced by the BBC in close collaboration with the Royal Navy, examining the working lives of Royal Marines at sea. The HMS Hero is captained by Commander Nialls (Donald Burton) and features David Savile and James Cosmo amongst the crew. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of all crew members, from Captain right down to the lower decks, as they travel the world on tours of duty and tackle dangerous seafaring missions. Lau.

• Lord of the Flies (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this classic 1963 adaptation of William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, a planeload of schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. They've got food and water; all that's left is to govern themselves peacefully until they are rescued. "After all", says choir leader Jack, "We're English. We're the best in the world at everything!" Unfortunately, living peacefully is not as easy as it seems. Though Ralph is named chief, Jack and the choristers quickly form a clique of their own, using the ever-effective political promise of fun rather than responsibility to draw converts. Director Peter Brook draws some excellent performances out of his young cast: the moment when Ralph realises that even if he blows the conch for a meeting people might not come is an excruciating one. Well acted and faithfully executed, Lord of the Flies is as compelling today as when first released. --Ali Davis

• The X Files: Season 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £14.93   |  Saving you £20.06 (134.36%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Season Two, the 1994-95 run, of The X Files was the one where creator Chris Carter, having had a surprise hit when he expected a one-season wonder, started trying to make sense of all the storylines he had thrown into the pile in the first year. Moreover, he had to cope with Gillian Anderson's maternity leave by having Scully get abducted by aliens (back then, a pretty fresh device) for a few episodes and come back strangely altered. The season also inaugurated the tradition of opening ("Little Green Men") and closing ("Anasazi") with the show's worst episodes, both pot-boiling attempts to keep the alien infiltration/government conspiracy balls up in the air while seeming to offer narrative forward-thrusts or revelations. But it's also a show noticeably surer of itself than Season One, with its stars reading from the same page in terms of their characters' relationship and attitudes to the wondrous. Scully's no-longer-workable scepticism finally starts to erode in the face of Mulder's increasingly cracked belief. There are fewer marking-time leftover-monster-of-the-week shows--although we do get a human fluke ("The Host"), vampires ("3"), an invisible rapist ("Excelsius Dei") voodoo ("Fresh Bones")--and the flying-saucer stories at last seem to be going somewhere. The powerful two-episode run ("Duane Barry", "Ascension") features Steve Railsback as Mulder's possible future, an FBI agent burned out after a UFO abduction who has become a hostage-taking terrorist, which climaxes with Scully's disappearance into the light. The standout episode is also a stand-alone--"Humbug"--the first and still most successful of the show's self-parodies (written by Darin Morgan, who had played the Flukeman in "The Host"), in which the agents investigate a murder in a circus freakshow, allowing the actors to make fun of the mannerisms they have earnestly built up in a run of solemn, even somnolent, explorations of the murk. Other worthy efforts: "Aubrey", about genetic memory; "Irresistible", a rare (and creepy) straight psycho-chiller with little paranormal content; and "The Calusari", a good ghost/mystery. Rising deputy characters include Nicholas Lea as the perfidious Krycek and Brian Thompson as the shapeshifting alien bounty hunters. Notable guest stars: Charles Martin Smith, C.C.H. Pounder, Leland Orser, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce Weitz, Daniel Benzali, John Savage, Vincent Schiavelli, Tony Shalhoub. --Kim Newman

• The Crimson Kimono (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Samuel Fuller re-worked and reinvented popular film genres as lenses through which to examine American history, ideals, and topical events. His detective thriller The Crimson Kimono, with its frank and unsentimental interracial romance twist, attacked the stubborn prejudice, ignorance and bigotry that Fuller saw lurking beneath the surface of the American nation. Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The Culture of ˜The Crimson Kimono' (2009, 10 mins): analysis by filmmaker Curtis Hanson Switch-Hitting Between Three Triangles (2018, 15 mins): audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López Sam Fuller Storyteller (2009, 25 mins): insightful documentary with contributions from Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, as well as Fuller's wife, Christa, and daughter, Samantha Sam Fuller on Henry Chapier's Couch (1989, 22 mins): archival interview from French TV in which Fuller answers questions about his life ˜The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera' Rushes Tapes 01-06 (1996, 194 mins): unedited interview footage of Sam Fuller in conversation with actor Tim Robbins, recorded for Adam Simon's classic documentary Original theatrical trailers Image gallery: publicity photography and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove Collection (Remastered) | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This eight disc Lonesome Dove Boxset relays the saga of Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae capturing the spirit and adventure of these wonderful westerns. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novels by Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove stars Robert Duvall Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica Huston in the tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.

• The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie | DVD | (05/07/2021) from £7.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Things start out plenty looney as Yosemite Sam strikes a Devilish bargain to send Bugs straight to you-know-where! The looniness continues as Daffy and Tweety tangle with a pair of feather-brained bird-napping gangsters. And in the even loonier finale, Bugs turns Hollywood's glitziest awards ceremony into a cartoon-star-studded disast-hare zone! A fabulous, 24-carrot tour de farce from animation legend Friz Freleng!

• Fade To Black | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £7.25   |  Saving you £-1.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shy lonely Eric Binford delivers film cassettes and film-related supplies in Los Angeles for a living. But he really exists only to see movies and immerse himself in fantasies about cinematic characters and stars. Frequently bullied and betrayed Eric comforts himself by pretending to be one of the many tough heroes or villains who have captivated him from the silver screen. When a series of unpleasant incidents loosen Eric's already weak grip on reality it sends him into a homicidal rage. He launches a series of grotesque murders all patterned after characters and incidents from his beloved movies. He becomes known as the Celluloid Killer one of the most horrifying murderers the city has ever known.

• Endeavour Series 1 to 6 | DVD | (18/03/2019) from £30.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in Oxford during the 1960s, against a backdrop of revolutionary social change, ENDEAVOUR chronicles the early criminal casebook of a young detective who will grow to be Colin Dexter's immortal Inspector Morse. Together with friend and mentor, the gruff yet kindly Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, the crime-solving pair investigate murder and dark deeds in the eternal city of dreaming spires. As Oxford's Finest unravel a collection of unique and thrilling cases, writer Russell Lewis continues to reveal the hidden and secret history of Endeavour Morse.

• Primeval | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £6.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (217.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When strange anomalies in time start to appear all over England Professor Cutter and his team have to help track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past.

• Bell Book And Candle | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Band Of Brothers | Blu Ray | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The acclaimed TV mini series tells the story of Easy Company of the US Army Airbourne Paratrooper division and their mission in WWII France during Operation Overlord.

• L'Elisir D'Amore - Donizetti | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £15.75   |  Saving you £-1.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  L'Elisir D'AmoreMelodramma In Two Acts.

• End Game | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (299.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Assassination Was Only The Beginning... A secret Service agent and a hardbitten news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President and find the truth is not only closer but also deadlier than they ever imagined...

• Blood From The Mummy's Tomb | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A British expedition team in Egypt discovers the ancient sealed tomb of the evil Queen Tera. But when one of the archaeologists steals a mysterious ring from the corpse's severed hand he unleashes a relentless curse upon his beautiful daughter. Is the voluptuous young woman now a reincarnation of the diabolical sorceress or has the curse of the mummy returned to reveal its horrific revenge? Andrew Keir and the luscious Valerie Leon star in this supernatural shocker based on Bram Stoker's classic novel 'Jewel Of The Seven Stars'.

• The Victim | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Victim is a thriller told through the eyes of the plaintiff and the accused. Set within Scotland's unique legal system, the show asks: who is really 'the victim'? Kelly MacDonald plays Anna Dean, whose son was murdered fifteen years ago. She is accused of revealing his killer's new identity online and conspiring to have him murdered. Has the anger of a grieving mother turned her into a criminal? What is she capable of doing in her son's name? Hard working family man Craig Myers is viciously attacked, after being identified online as a notorious child murderer. Should Craig keep his head down or try to prove his innocence? Is he a convicted murderer, or simply the tragic victim of mistaken identity? The Victim follows the progress of a trial in Edinburgh's High Court, while also covering the events leading up to the legal proceedings and the criminal investigation, led by D.I. Steven Grover, who has his own reasons for wanting to crack the case. Craig and Anna are pitted against each other, but our sympathies will be divided. New potential suspects will be revealed and long buried secrets unearthed as the story builds to a final, devastating climax. Starring: Kelly MacDonald (Puzzle, Boardwalk Empire, The Child in Time), John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), James Harkness (Rogue One, Darkest Hour). Writer/Creator/Executive Producer: Rob Williams (The Man in the High Castle, Killing Eve, Chasing Shadows); Executive Producer: Sarah Brown (Oliver Twist, The Interceptor, Lark Rise to Candleford); Director: Niall MacCormick (The Long Walk to Finchley, Wallander, Complicit); Producer: Jenny Frayn (The A Word, Case Histories) Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• BOLT 3D BD (SONY BUNDLE) | Blu Ray | (13/09/2010) from £5.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A