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• Shaft's Big Score | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £21.15   |  Saving you £-7.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing (and $250,000 goes missing), New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect, while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali-trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wisecracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air - Season 2 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £6.07   |  Saving you £23.92 (394.07%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A wealthy family living in Bel-Air California receives a dubious gift from their poorer relations in Philadelphia when Grammy Award-winner Will Smith arrives as The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. His mother wants him to learn some good old-fashioned values from his successful relatives. But Will shatters the sophisticated serenity of Bel-Air with his streetwise common sense much to the dismay of his upper-crust uncle Philip Banks (James Avery) Aunt Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten and Daph

• Hell Is For Heroes | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £6.52   |  Saving you £9.47 (145.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  His reputation precedes him but commander Fess Parker is in no position to be choosy when he learns that his tired platoon will not be shipping home as rumored but tossed into a ragged new offensive...

• SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - DVD-SPI | DVD | (01/08/2013) from £10.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Simon Boccanegra - DVD Live from the Royal Opera House | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £19.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (15.74%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Pl'cido Domingo's triumphant return to his baritone roots (his first debut with the Mexican National Opera in 1959 was as a baritone) is captured in this stunning 2-DVD set of the Royal Opera House's 2010 production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Domingo is joined by Mariana Polavskaya Joseph Calleja Ferruccio Furlanetto Jonathan Summers and Lukas Jakobski in this Antonio Pappano conducted performance directed by Elijah Moshinsky. The Simon Boccanegra release features exclusive bonus material including a Back Stage with Pl'cido Domingo featurette and an interview with director Moshinsky. There is an additional audio function which features introductions to each of the opera's scenes (in English with subtitles).

• 50/50 | Blu Ray | (24/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Inspired by a true story, 50/50 is a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

• Ariadne Auf Naxos | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Strauss's opera 'Ariadne Auf Naxos' performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Artists include: Jessye Norman Kathleen Battle Tatania Troyanos and James King. Conducted by James Levine.

• Peak Practice - The Complete Series 7 | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Filmed amid the breathtaking scenery of the Peak District and focusing on both the professional and personal challenges facing the team of doctors at a busy village surgery, Peak Practice was one of ITV's most popular shows, with regular viewing figures of around 15 million and frequent appearances in ITV's Top Ten. In this series, The Beeches medical practice welcomes two new faces, as Dr Joanna Graham replaces Dr Erica Matthews and young locum Dr Sam Morgan causes a stir in Cardale. Andrew faces danger and heartache when he is involved in a crash at a local motor rally, and as Joanna settles into her new role at the surgery, David becomes emotionally involved with the mother of a teenager awaiting a bone-marrow transplant; as their friendship turns to passion, a web of deceit begins to unravel and events are to take a tragic turn...

• Smokin' Aces / Smokin' Aces 2 - Assassins' Ball | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £3.55   |  Saving you £11.44 (322.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Smokin' Aces: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing... Smokin' Aces Assassins' Ball:Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty that has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda) a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favourite Tremor family from the original film featuring nymphomaniac gun-nut (Autumn Reeser) and her lethal kinfolk (Maury Sterling Michael Parks and C. Ernst Harth). Baker (Clayne Crawford) the agent in charge of the operation puts himself and his team in the line of fire to defend Weed but it's not until the smoke clears on the film's explosive climax that the surprising identity of the plot's mastermind is revealed. Executive produced by Joe Carnahan (Narc) the writer-director behind the shockingly edgy hit Smokin' Aces and directed by P.J. Pesce ('Lost Boys: The Tribe') Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball features a sexy cast whip-smart script and hyper-kinetic visuals. And with the return of infamous assassins Lazlo Soot and the Tremor Brothers from the original theatrical film audiences will experience a furious frenzy of explosive action that will keep them guessing until the very last scene. Both the Blu-ray and DVD editions include the rated and unrated versions of the movie and an arsenal of explosive bonus features. Starring Tom Berenger ('Training Day') Clayne Crawford ('Brooklyn to Manhattan') Martha Higareda ('Street Kings') Ernie Hudson (Heroes) Michael Parks ('Grindhouse') Autumn Reeser (Entourage) and Vinnie Jones ('X-Men: The Last Stand' 'Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels') as well as returning stars from the original theatrical release Tommy Flanagan ('Sin City') Maury Sterling ('Smokin' Aces') and Christopher Michael Holley ('Smokin' Aces').

• Navy Seals | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £6.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (88.81%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Navy's elite SEAL (Sea Air and Land) squad is made up of the best of the best: supreme warriors who take on dangerous missions no other fighting force would dare attempt. Sent to rescue the crew of a US aircraft held hostage by Middle East terrorists the SEALs know that their skills will be put to the test. But when they discover that the terrorists have seized the plane's arsenal of deadly Stinger missiles they're thrust onto the frontlines of the battle of a lifetime...

• The Great Raid | Blu Ray | (21/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Now in high definition starring James Franco (127 Hours, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order, Traffic), Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love, Enemy at the Gates).Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines. Brutalized, starved and tortured, the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945, an American battalion, with the help of Filipino guerrillas, planned a daring mission - some called it suicide - to rescue the five hundred U.S. soldiers still alive there. This film tells that story in glorious detail. The story is based on two books, The Great Raid: Rescuing The Doomed Ghosts Of Bataan And Corregidor by William B. Breuer and Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account Of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides. In addition, several men involved in the raid served as consultants on the project. The result is a thrilling, agonizing, and unforgettable war movie like they used to make in the 1940s and 1950s, a celebration of the human spirit.The Great Raid stars Benjamin Bratt as Lt. Colonel Mucci, an offbeat military man who puts his faith in young Captain Prince (James Franco) to lead the dangerous mission. Among the men imprisoned in the camp are Joseph Fiennes as the ailing Major Gibson and Marton Csokas as Captain Redding, who is always trying to escape. Connie Nielsen adds romantic tension as a war widow smuggling much-needed medicine into the camp.

• Manic | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £27.67   |  Saving you £-21.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A troubled young man (Gordon-Levitt) is committed to a juvenile mental institution where he's forced by his counselor (Cheadle) to confront the source of his rage or face the grim prospect of a life behind bars...

• To Save The Children | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A maniac wired to a bomb. His hostages: 154 totally innocent children... Cokeville Wyoming. A small peaceful town. And the perfect place for a maniac to put his evil plot into action. David Young is planning 'The Big One': a scheme to create his own bizarre 'brave new world' - and to make himself fabulously wealthy - by kidnapping every child in Cokeville Elementary School and holding them to ransom. And he's got an ace up his sleeve: a bomb wired to explode if anyone dares to attack or shoot him. With 154 hostages inside the school and the emergency services helpless outside it seems that Young cannot lose...

• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2 Disc) | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £4.67   |  Saving you £20.32 (435.12%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The love life of a woolly mammoth - handled with U-rated delicacy - drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot - in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby) - the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivorous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. --Bret Fetzer

• Jurassic Park (BD) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2018) from £9.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award-winning visual effects and ground-breaking filmmaking that has been hailed as a triumph of special effects artistry (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times), this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough, discover the breath-taking adventure you will want to experience again and again. Special Features: Return To Jurassic Park: Dawn Of A New Era, Making Prehistory, The Next Step In Evolution The Making Of Jurassic Park Original Featurette On The Making Of The Film Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park Early Pre-Production Meetings Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors In The Kitchen Animatics: T-Rex Attack ILM And Jurassic Park: Before And After The Visual Effects Foley Artists Storyboards Production Archives

• The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air - Season 3 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.35   |  Saving you £24.64 (460.56%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A wealthy family living in Bel-Air California receives a dubious gift from their poorer relations in Philadelphia when Grammy Award-winner Will Smith arrives as The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. His mother wants him to learn some good old-fashioned values from his successful relatives. But Will shatters the sophisticated serenity of Bel-Air with his streetwise common sense much to the dismay of his upper-crust uncle Philip Banks (James Avery) Aunt Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten and Daph

• Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For | Blu Ray | (15/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez reunite to bring Miller's visually stunning Sin City graphic novels back to the screen in 3D in FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. In a town where justice doesn't prevail the desperate want vengeance and ruthless murderers find themselves with vigilantes on their heels. Their paths cross in Sin City’s famous Kadie's Club Pecos. The film opens with fan-favorite “Just Another Saturday Night ” when Marv (Mickey Rourke) finds himself in the center of carnage as he tries to remember the preceding events. “The Long Bad Night” tells the tale of Johnny a cocky young gambler (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) taking his chances with the biggest villain in Sin City Senator Roark (Powers Boothe). The central story Miller’s acclaimed A Dame To Kill For features Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) in his final confrontation with the woman of his dreams and nightmares Ava Lord (Eva Green). “Nancy’s Last Dance follows Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba) in the wake of John Hartigan’s (Bruce Willis) selfless suicide. Driven insane by grief and rage she will stop at nothing to get revenge.

• No Retreat, No Surrender 3 - Blood Brothers | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two feuding brothers are reunited by the hunt for their father's murderer - a wanted international terrorist. Together they seek the men responsible using their martial arts skills to the full....

• Survivors - Series 1-2 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A chilling reinvention of the unforgettable 1970s series - written by Primeval writer Adrian Hodges and based on Terry Nation's original novel. Left bewildered and numb untouched by a virus that had swept across the world destroying all but a random selection of desperate souls these are the 'lucky ones' left alive when so many died. This lonely few now have to step into a strange new world where everything that was once safe and familiar is now strange and dangerous. Among those struggling for survival are Abby a devoted mother with a missing son; Greg a loner hiding the pain of his past; Anya a doctor who has seen too much; Al a playboy who becomes surrogate father to Najid; and Tom Price handsome dangerous and a high security prisoner before the virus hit. In the ghost cities and empty fields power water and food supplies are scarce. Just to stay alive they will have to band together utilise their talents and learn new skills. But can they all be trusted? And what new trials await those trying to rebuild a dead civilisation?

• Blade Runner Steelbook | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phoney happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, another worldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates. The cast also includes Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah Rutger Hauer and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson