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• Shaft | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £7.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (99.00%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre cliché (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Rio Bravo | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.58   |  Saving you £7.41 (112.61%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, Hawks' Red River and John Ford's The Searchers. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River, a sweeping cattle-drive drama, Rio Bravo is a much calmer film. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T Chance (Wayne), his alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black coffee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. If the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. The film achieved additional notoriety in the 90s when Quentin Tarantino revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• A Touch of Frost: Series 1 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £20.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (22.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Includes the feature-length episodes 'Care & Protection' 'Not With Kindness' and 'Conclusions'. David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. This release features all the episodes from Series One of A Touch of Frost.

• Bereavement | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1989 six year old Martin Bristoll is abducted from his backyard in Minersville, Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, keeps Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm forcing him to witness unspeakable horrors. For five years his whereabouts remain a mystery until seventeen year old Allison Miller moves to town to live with her Uncle Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings she discovers that things at the farmhouse down the road aren't quite right. Her curiosity reveals a hornet's nest of evil that once opened, can never be closed.

• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Classics | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The acclaimed 1967 BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, Great Expectations is now available to own on DVD for the first time. Starring BAFTA-winner Francesca Annis (Home Fires), Gary Bond (Zulu), Hannah Gordon (The Elephant Man) and BAFTA-nominee Peter Vaughan (Game of Thrones) Young Philip Pirrip (Christopher Guard) universally known as Pip encounters escaped convict Magwitch (John Tate) in a deserted graveyard, and helps him find food and escape his shackles. When his kindness is later rewarded by an unexpected inheritance, the adult Pip (Gary Bond), surrounded by home comforts, grows mean and arrogant and smitten with the aloof Estella (Francesca Annis).Maxine Audley plays vindictive recluse Miss Havisham, who has raised Estella to distrust all men. Written by acclaimed playwright Hugh Leonard, who adapted many of Dickens books for TV and the stage, this is a delightful cautionary tale of the power of wealth to corrupt and betray.

• Wagons East! | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They came they saw they changed their minds! A group of disillusioned townsfolk living in the West renounce their settlemen and decide to return to their homes in the East. Hiring a grizzled and eccentric wagonmaster (Candy) they set off on the trail...

• The Miracle Worker | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft had been playing their respective roles as Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, on Broadway for some time before director Arthur Penn (The Left-Handed Gun) built a mesmerisingly beautiful film around their layers-deep performances. Duke is astonishing as the deaf, blind, mute Keller, who awakens to an awareness of language under Sullivan's determined guidance. Bancroft is fascinating and focused. Penn wisely kept his adaptation unencumbered by cinematic indulgence. The black-and-white film is sparse and charged with the immediacy of the drama. The Miracle Worker's script is by William Gibson, who also wrote the original play. --Tom Keogh

• Pitch Black | Blu Ray | (02/02/2009) from £19.85   |  Saving you £0.14 (0.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vin Diesel creates a cult icon as Riddick in this epic sci-fi adventure. The new Special Edition DVD comes complete with a range of exclusive extra features.

• War | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jet Li and Jason Statham go head to head in this all action spectacular as an FBI Agent seeks revenge on a mysterious assassin.

• Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi | Blu Ray | (24/08/2020) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks new mysteries of the Force. Special Features: Score-Only Version of the Movie Audio Commentary By Writer/Director Rian Johnson Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Bonus Disc The Director and the Jedi Balance of the Force Andy Serkis Live! (One Night Only) Meet The Porgs Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle Snoke and Mirrors Showdown on Crait Introduction From Rian Johnson Alternate Opening Paige's Gun Jams Luke Has A Moment Poe: Not Much of a Sewer It's Kind of Weird That You Recorded That The Caretaker Sizes Up Rey Extended Fathier Chase Mega Destroyer Incursion - Extended Version Rose Bites the Hand That Taunts Her Phasma Squealed Like a Whoop Hog Rose & Finn Go to Where They Belong Rey & Chewie in the Falcon The Costumes and Creatures of Canto Bright Caretaker Village Sequence Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Writer/Director Rian Johnson

• Cat People - Collectors Edition | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £17.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paul Schrader, the director of American Gigolo, brought a similar kind of sexual chic to this explicit horror movie. A remake of the beautiful, haunting 1942 Cat People, this version takes off from the same idea: that a woman (Nastassja Kinski), a member of a race of feline humans, will revert to her animalistic self when she has sex. Arriving to meet her brother (Malcolm McDowell) in New Orleans, she finds herself disturbed by his sexual presence. A zoo curator (John Heard) becomes fascinated by her, but he will discover that her kittenish ways are just the tip of the claw. Schrader dresses the story up in a stylish, glossy production, keyed on Kinski's green-eyed, thick-lipped beauty; it's hard to think of another actress in 1982 who could so immediately suggest a cat walking on two legs. Luckily Kinski had a European attitude toward her body, because this film has plenty of poster-art nudity. There's also lots of gore and some wacky flashbacks to the ancient tribe of cat people, who hold rituals in an orange desert while Giorgio Moroder's music plays. Cat People doesn't really make all this come together, but it's always interesting to look at, and the dreadful mood lingers. --Robert Horton

• Donovan's Reef | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Life on a South Pacific island for two ex-Navy buddies is just about perfect. That is until a beautiful straight-laced Bostonian arrives on the island in search of her father...

• Capone | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The man who made the Twenties roar! The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone (Ben Gazzara) and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years as well as with his subsequent fall...

• Wodehouse Playhouse (Multi-region DVD) | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £22.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the BBC adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse short stories starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins The first series includes 'The Truth about George', 'Romance at Droitgate Spa', 'Portrait of a Disciplinarian', 'The Unpleasantness at Budleigh Court', 'The Rise of Minna Nordstrom, 'Rodney Fails to Qualify and 'A Voice From the Past'. The second series includes 'Anselm Gets His Chance' and five other stories. Whilst the third series includes 'The Smile That Wins', 'Trouble Down at Tudsleigh', 'Tangled Hearts', 'The Luck of the Stiffhams', 'The Editor Regrets', 'Big Business' and 'Milliner's Buck-U-Uppo'.

• Inside Llewyn Davis | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £10.35   |  Saving you £14.64 (141.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates New York City's folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac Drive) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends (Justin Timberlake The Social Network; Carey Mulligan The Great Gatsby) and strangers Llewyn scares up what work he can find. His misadventures take him from the basket houses of the Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club - on an odyssey to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman - and back again. Written and Directed by Academy Award -winners Joel and Ethan Coen (O Brother Where Art Thou? No Country for Old Men) and brimming with music performed by Oscar Isaac Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis is infused with the transportive sound of another time and place.

• The Littlest Reindeer | DVD | (29/10/2018) from £2.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Blitzen announces his retirement on December 21st, a miniature horse has 3 days to fulfill his lifelong dream of earning a spot on Santa's team at the North Pole try-outs.

• The Day After | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'The Day After' is a drama about the unthinkable, catastrophic consequences of a superpower nuclear confrontation as it affects average American citizens in the midwest. The story of what happens before, during and after a nuclear attack makes this film a stark dream of ordinary human lives of people who laugh, cry, work, play, think, wonder, create, hate and love-lives that are changed forever by mans' final war upon himself.

• The A-Team - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £7.11   |  Saving you £2.88 (40.51%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Initially one of NBC network's most successful series, The A-Team ran for 90 one-hour episodes (with a few feature-length specials thrown in) from 1983 to 1987. The premise of the series was certainly different. A group of US operatives is sent to rob the Bank of Hanoi during the Vietnam War in an attempt to destabilise the country's economy, but the bigwig who organises the raid is killed, leaving no indication that the mission was officially sanctioned. Returning home, Smith (George Peppard), BA (it stood for "Bad Attitude") Baracus (Mr T), Face (Dirk Benedict) and that "crazy foo" Murdoch (Dwight Schultz) suddenly find themselves accused of criminal activity, obliging them to set up as benevolent mercenaries. They tear around the country in what looks like a delivery van, generally do-gooding while keeping one step ahead of the inept military police. Snappy, witty and fast paced, the series began as a spoof of the action-thriller genre. It wasn't until the later episodes that an element of seriousness crept in, which may have caused the decline in audience figures eventually resulting in the show's cancellation. On video and DVD though, it remains a feast for fans of classic cult TV.--Roger Thomas

• Duran Duran - Arena | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Released for the first time on DVD to coincide with Duran Duran's 25th anniversary tour, Arena (An Absurd Notion) was the band's first live album and foray into film. Pop idols ranging from Elvis to the Spice Girls have all attempted to make the crossover to the big screen; often such celluloid adventures turn into disasters, with the performers' acting talents rarely matching their vocal proficiencies. Filming is squeezed into a few days between the recording of a new studio album and other duties such as touring, ensuring that the end result is typically dire. Arena manages to avoid many of those pitfalls by giving the band no opportunity to act, instead focusing exclusively on their live concert performance. An additional SF sub plot is included centred on Doctor Duran--the evil dictator from cult film Barbarella, from whom the band got their name. The doctor, played by original actor Milo O'Shea, returns to earth from exile confused by the fans' call for Duran Duran. Crash-landing his ship underneath the stage, he and his three Brummie henchmen are determined to disrupt the show. Despite their attempts to abduct fans, and create anarchy the band continue to perform. Very much a product of its time, the film combines nomadic futuristic imagery with a big budget. Following the critical acclaim of the "Wild Boys" video, Arena seeks to capitalise on its style but also take the promotional video to a new extreme using expensive sets and special effects. The Barbarella sub-plot serves little purpose apart from illustrating the story behind the band's name. The live performance footage is excellent though, not just because of the music but also the guys' authentic mullet hairstyles. On the DVD:The original "Making of Arena" documentary is included on the DVD, along with a vintage interview with Simon Le Bon. The dubbed TV ad for the video and album is also featured along with a trailer, and video mix. Considering the age of the film, the sound and visuals have both transferred well to DVD, with the extended mix of "The Reflex" sounding particularly good. --John Galilee

• When The Wind Blows | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jim and Hilda Bloggs are the typical retired couple in rural England. They drink endless cups of tea and have an unwavering faith in the wisdom of their government. They understand that a Third World War is imminent between the US and the Soviets. However they fail to grasp the concept that war will be fought by nuclear means and what consequences this will have. With the help of government issued pamphlets Jim builds a shelter to protect the couple and although they survive a n