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• Wages Of Fear | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £18.88   |  Saving you £1.11 (5.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1953, before any American studio exec used the phrase "high concept", Henri-George Clouzot's The Wages of Fear boasted a premise so literally explosive that audiences were excited before they got into the theatres. With an oil-fire burning out of control deep in the South American jungle, two lorryloads of highly unstable nitro-glycerin have to be driven through miles of unstable terrain littered with dangerous turns, crumbling planks, falling rocks and mediocre hardtop. One good jolt will vaporise truck, nitro, drivers and a substantial swathe of the countryside, so the company recruits desperate souls among the loser tramps who loiter around the nowhere town of Las Piedras, begging for any kind of work. On the road, Clouzot stages a string of unforgettable sequences: one stretch of badly paved track can only be crossed by driving at under six miles an hour or over 40; a mountain turn requires that the trucks back out onto a rickety, rotten wooden structure; a 50-ton boulder has fallen into the road, and one of the drivers calmly drains a litre of nitro into his thermos to blow it up, only remembering when the fuse is lit that this will rain pebbles all over the countryside and a few good hits on the cargo will set it off. This is perhaps as great a mix of action-adventure and contest as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and still a textbook example of sustained suspense. On the DVD: The print is in great shape, though the image is a little soft; the menu has a clever explosive aspect and uses the same vintage artwork as the sleeve cannily combined with a snippet. There are trailers for both Wages and Clozuot's other masterpiece, Les Diaboliques, as well as biographies of the principal cast, eight stills and three posters.--Kim Newman

• The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air - Season 1 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Philadelphia resident Will (Will Smith) is sent to live with his exceedingly wealthy Bel-Air cousins and finds that his street sensibilities cause havoc with the well-ordered lives of his distant family! Season 1 episodes: 1. The Fresh Prince Project 2. Bang The Drum Ashley 3. Clubba Hubba 4. Not With My Pig You Don't 5. Homeboy Sweet Homeboy 6. Mistaken Identity 7. Def Poet's Society 8. Someday Your Prince Will Be In Effect (Part 1) 9. Someday Your Prince Will Be In Effect

• Blind Date | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nothing to do with Our Cilla this Blind Date is an altogether tougher proposition, as you'd expect from exploitation ace Niko Mastorakis (In The Cold of the Night, Island of Death). After losing his sight, Ad Exec Jon Ratcliff (Joseph Bottoms, The Black Hole) is fitted with an experimental device that partially returns his vision. Only... Although he can't 'see' very much, one night he catches a glimpse of a notorious killer. Is it enough to find the psycho? And can he do it before the murderer catches up with him? One of Mastorakis' best (and bloodiest) films, the cast includes Kirsty Alley (Cheers), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Keir Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey). 88 Films are sure you'll have a lorra, lorra fun with this lost classic from the slasher golden age. Extras: New 4K Master from the Original 35mm Camera Negative Remixed 5.1 DTS-HS MA Soundtrack Original LPCM Stereo Soundtrack Optional English SDH Subtitles The Film of Nico Mastoraki - Part 2 Stills Gallery Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible Sleeve

• Day of the Dead: Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (17/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Analyze This | DVD | (03/04/2000) from £4.55   |  Saving you £9.44 (207.47%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together in a film and it should be a sucker's bet as to who's going to be funnier and who's going to give the more nuanced performance. Somehow, though, De Niro walks away with most of the laughs, mugging gleefully through Analyze This, a buddy action-comedy about a mob boss (De Niro, naturally) suffering from panic attacks who makes a shrink (Crystal, naturally) an offer he can't refuse--actually, it's not really an offer, it's a command. The good doctor is forced to help the gangster get in touch with his feelings. Had the brilliant TV series The Sopranos not underscored how thin and formulaic director-cowriter Harold Ramis's approach to such potentially rich material actually is, the movie--a hit in cinemas (and De Niro's biggest film ever)--would seem more fresh. De Niro is definitely a hoot as the ever milder menace and Crystal actually concentrates on giving a credible performance opposite the acting legend (alas, he doesn't turn his character's fear of his patient into inspired comedy, as Alan Arkin did in Grosse Pointe Blank). The conclusion devolves into the requisite gunplay and Chazz Palminteri and Lisa Kudrow are criminally wasted as an opposing mob boss and Crystal's fiancée, respectively, but overall, Analyze This is breezy fun. --David Kronke

• Preacher (2016) - Season 04 | Blu Ray | (06/04/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As our story inches closer to the finale, God's endgame for the universe begins to click into place. Trapped between heavenly prophecies, hellish prisons, and all-out nuclear war, Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy make their bloody way to the Most High. Whether they can reach God in time or whether all this carnage is part of His divine plan will soon be revealed as Preacher barrels towards the end of the world.

• The Originals - Season 1-2 | Blu Ray | (19/10/2015) from £67.48   |  Saving you £-17.49 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Simmering with supernatural elements this is THE ORIGINALS from The Vampire Diaries executive producer/writer Julie Plec. The first season of THE ORIGINALS brought the most formidable creature on earth the Original vampire-werewolf hybrid Klaus Mikaelson back to his former home -- the vibrant and supernaturally charged city of New Orleans. When he arrived with his siblings Elijah and Rebekah not far behind he was stunned to learn that werewolf Hayley Marshall was pregnant with his child. Though Elijah hoped that the news of a baby might help rebuild their fractured family other forces threatened to destroy it further -- namely Marcel Gerard Klaus's beloved vampire protégé whom the Original siblings thought to be long dead along with a dark secret that Marcel and Rebekah held for a century. The Originals and Hayley soon found themselves caught in a bloody war between vampires and witches the stakes raised by a vengeful teenage witch Davina and by Klaus's surprising connection to Cami a student with a painful past. Meanwhile Hayley helped her exiled werewolf family return to the French Quarter unaware that a ruthless pack of wolves was already lurking in the city waiting to stage a violent coup on the vampires. As the first season came to a dramatic close the werewolves decimated the vampire community while the witches made a horrific assassination attempt against Klaus and Hayley's newborn daughter. Season two finds our heroes adjusting to a new status quo with the newly empowered werewolves controlling the city Klaus struggling to adjust to new weaknesses and Elijah desperate to save Hayley -- now a hybrid -- from a vicious spiral of self-destruction.

• Death Collector | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  He's a collector for the mob...and he doesn't take no for an answer. It's all in the family for a young streetwise hood as he quickly becomes a collector for the mob. He quickly rises rung by rung up the ladder of the underworld in this violent crime sage.

• Episodes - Series 5 | DVD | (21/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The award-winning, critically acclaimed comedy Episodes returns for a much-anticipated fifth and final series. Sexy, rich and sophisticated, the final season of Episodes is the funniest one yet. Hearts are broken, egos are crushed, careers are ruined, sex tapes are revealed, and one very large pig is shot. Just another day in Hollywood.

• The Escapist | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £5.86   |  Saving you £10.13 (172.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "The Escapist" is a twisty thriller which focuses on one man's struggle to break free of his own personal hell!

• The Magnificent Ambersons | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Having long passed into movie legend for director Orson Welles' battles with RKO Pictures over the content of this follow-up to Citizen Kane The Magnificent Ambersons is the haunting story of a wealthy Midwestern family's struggle to adapt to the rapidly changing world at the turn of the 20th century...

• Prime Suspect 5 - Errors Of Judgement | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison has been transferred to Manchester and finds herself in a world she does not know surrounded by people she cannot trust and invloved with a man she cannot have. Her latest case is destined only to make things worse...

• The Night Before | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £23.13   |  Saving you £-16.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.77

  Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity.

• Dead And Buried | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed then brutally murdered! Even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal friendly citizens around town... Now the local sheriff and an eccentric mortician must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well: no one is ever truly dead and buried!

• Smokin' Aces/ Smokin' Aces 2 - Assassin's Ball | Blu Ray | (05/11/2013) from £18.29   |  Saving you £1.70 (9.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two volume collection of thrillers. In 'Smokin Aces' (2007) a Vegas funnyman turns snitch against some heavyweight mobsters and needs protecting. Buddy 'Sarah Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a comedic Vegas magician who has informed on an important mobster. The call goes in from the mobster that a million bucks goes to anyone who cuts Buddy's heart out and the FBI intercepts the call. Aces is put under the protection of agents Carruthers and Messner (Ray Liotta and Ryan Reynolds) who squirrel.

• King Cobra | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As Fillmore prepares for its festival panic spreads as a mutated half African King Cobra/half Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake escapes...

• The Beach | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings

• Shameless - Series 1-5 - Complete | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £15.08   |  Saving you £54.91 (364.12%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Blisteringly funny offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids... The real head of the family is big sister Fiona (20) who looks after Carl (11) Debbie (9) and baby Liam (3). She is occasionally helped more often hindered by reluctant virgin 'Lip' (16) and the actively gay but very private Ian (15). Welcome to a hectic world of sexual adventures triumphs love scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.

• Carlito's Way | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £6.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (86.37%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Al Pacino cuts a noble figure in this very enjoyable drama by director Brian De Palma (Scarface), based on a pair of books by Edwin Torres. Pacino plays a Puerto Rican ex-con trying hard to go straight, but his loyalty to his lowlife attorney (a virtually unrecognisable Sean Penn) and enemies on the street make that choice difficult. Penelope Ann Miller plays, somewhat unlikely, a stripper who has a romance with Pacino's character. The film finds De Palma tempering his more outlandish moves (think of Body Double or Snake Eyes) just as he did with the popular Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. But while Carlito's Way was not as commercially successful as those two movies, it is a genuinely compelling work graced with a fine performance by Pacino and a surprising one from Penn. --Tom Keogh

• Moby Dick | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Consumed by an unquenchable rage Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) has but one purpose; revenge on Moby Dick the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him. The obsessed skipper of a whaling boat Ahab uses his command as an excuse to sail the seven seas in an unrelenting search of his prey. Battling a mutinous crew tropical heat and violent storms Ahab finally catches up to his quarry and begins a confrontation that culminates in an epic struggle of non-stop fury...and inevitable