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• The Abyss | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  James Cameron's 1989 aquatic epic The Abyss was, quite literally, a watershed in the annals of filmmaking: not only was it the first (and only) movie to be shot almost entirely underwater, in the largest tank ever used for a movie set, and to use live dialogue from specially designed headsets, it also pushed forward the boundaries of computer animation in one gigantic leap. The famous water tentacle sequence is now regarded as the defining moment when CGI came of age; ironically perhaps, its very success has ensured that the punishing realism of the setting, which is the best thing about the movie, is likely never to be attempted again. But the impressive technical aspects aside, is the movie any good? Granted it contains any number of striking moments, from forcing a rat to breathe liquid (it really works, apparently) to resurrecting a drowned Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. But the story is a slim one for the running time, especially in the extended Special Edition version which plays almost half an hour longer than the theatrical cut and contains a completely excised subplot featuring much too much heavy-handed moralising: "How all the world can stop fighting and learn to get along with each other", by James Cameron esq. All you need is love, apparently. Here is one rare example of the theatrical cut being preferable to the director's. Now, if only he had cut the love story from Titanic too On the DVD: The Abyss Special Edition two-disc set has plenty of neat extra features, but is let down a little by the non-anamorphic 2.35:1 letterboxed picture. Sound, on the other hand, is vivid THX mastered Dolby 5.1. Happily, the first disc contains both the original theatrical cut and the extended special-edition version. There's a reasonably informative though inevitably rather dry text-only commentary. The principal extra on Disc 2 is a 60-minute documentary, "Under Pressure", with retrospective interviews in which cast and crew detail the extraordinary challenges involved in making the film, and more than one near-death experience. In addition there's the complete screenplay, various different pieces on the effects sequences, storyboards, artwork, DVD-ROM features--in short, plenty to keep even jaded DVD enthusiasts amused for hours. The menu interfaces for both discs are a treat and the set comes with a good 12-page booklet. --Mark Walker

• The Snows Of Kilimanjaro | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This lavish big-budget blockbuster combined tales from Ernest Hemingway's life with Papa's already famous autobiographical novel of the same name. As Harry (Gregory Peck) lies wounded and delirious in an African campsite at the foot of the snow-covered slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro he recounts the story of his life in a series of flashbacks. Writing women and big-game hunting - these are the things that have defined and dominated his existence. In pursuit of all three he has travelled the globe from the salons of Bohemian Paris to the battlefields of Spain to the plains of Africa. Now in the shadow of the greatest mountain and his own approaching death from gangrene he tries to make sense of his failures. Few Hemingway novels play as well onscreen as they do on paper but under the direction of Henry King Peck and Susan Hayward who plays Harry's devoted beau turn in inspired performances but both are eclipsed by Ava Gardner as Cynthia the love he lost. The romantic sentimental qualities are embedded into the fine script are driven home by Bernard Hermann's brilliant score yet US theatre operators actually feared that audiences would stay away from the film because they couldn't pronounce Kilimanjaro but the film turned out to be one of the biggest hits of 1952.

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Series 1 | DVD | (09/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All five feature-length spinoffs from the classic 1960s spy series 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E'. With weapons in hand - and tongues in cheek - agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) carry out the bidding of U.N.C.L.E. chief Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll). Guest stars include Joan Crawford, Rip Torn, Herbert Lom, Telly Savalas, Terry-Thomas, John Carradine and Leslie Nielson. Films are: 'The Spy With No Face', 'One Spy Too Many', 'Karate Killers', 'Helicopter ...

• The Accused | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (111.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for her role in The Accused (1988), based on an actual incident. While out for a night of fun at a poolroom, before her character knows what's happening she finds that the men she's been flirting with have pinned her down for a gang rape. The story centres on the efforts of a district attorney (Kelly McGillis) to press her case, in spite of a wall of silence by the participants--and then to take the unusual step of going after the witnesses as accomplices. Foster is outstanding as a tough, blue-collar woman who persists in what seems like an unwinnable case, despite the prospect of character assassination for standing up for herself. --Marshall Fine

• Moby Dick | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Acclaimed director John Huston’s (The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo) authorative, masterly version of Herman Melville’s fabled novel is cinema at its most spectacular. Intelligently adapted by novelist Ray Bradbury, MOBY DICK draws upon the narration of the surviving shipmate of a terrible tragedy to tell the classic tale of Captain Ahab’s (Gregory Peck) obsessive hunt for the great white whale that has dictated his destiny ever since leaving him a peg-legged cripple. In a perilous journey that will take Ahab and his crew to the ends of the earth, no sacrifice is too great in Ahab’s thirst for bloody revenge. Stunningly shot and impressively staged – MOBY DICK is an exciting, epic work bolstered by first rate performances (as Father Mapple Orson Welles delivers a charismatic, show-stopping cameo) and Huston’s audacious vision

• Moby Dick | Blu Ray | (11/11/2019) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Huston's 1956 classic, Moby Dick, is one of the great epic adventure movies. Adapted from the novel by Herman Melville and starring Gregory Peck and Orson Welles, this is the tale of Capt. Ahab who has a vendetta against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for taking his leg. He sets out on a treacherous sea voyage aboard The Pequod, along with a crew including Starbuck (Leo Genn), Father Mapple (Orson Welles) and Ishmael (Richard Basehart), to hunt down the elusive beast. With reckless abandon, Ahab leads the crew on his obsessive and suicidal quest, anxious for a final showdown with the legendary white whale. Extras: Interview with Script Supervisor to Moby Dick and many more John Huston films - Angela Allen Audio commentary with film historians Julie Kirgo, Paul Seydor and Nick Redman A Bleached Whale - Recreating the Unique Colour of Moby Dick (5:41 featurette) Original theatrical trailer Behind the scenes stills gallery

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This spectacular retelling of Gaston Leroux's immortal horror tale stars Claude Rains as the masked phantom of the Paris opera house - a crazed composer who schemes to make a beautiful young soprano the star of the opera company and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.

• Goal 3 - Taking On The World | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mexican football star SANTIAGO MUNEZ (Kuno Becker) is pitted against his Real Madrid team-mates and England players CHARLIE BRAITHWAITE (Leo Gregory) and LIAM ADAMS (JJ Feild) in a mutual quest to lift sport's ultimate prize: the FIFA World Cup.

• Personal Shopper | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £4.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 1-7 - Complete | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £61.93   |  Saving you £38.06 (61.46%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Horace Rumploe (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. He is famed for always winning his cases but there is one person who he has never beaten - his wife She Who Must Be Obeyed! Includes every episodes from all seix series!

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: Season 1 | DVD | (03/08/2015) from £29.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (2.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star as a team of secret agents battling the global crime organization THRUSH. Under the aegis of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement-- U.N.C.L.E.--the dapper suave Napoleon Solo (Vaughn) and the equally dashing Illya Kuryakin (McCallum) jet to exotic locations defending the world from evil chaos and bad taste in this hit spoof on the espionage genre. Episode List: Mr. Solo (pilot) The Iowa Scuba Affair The Quadripartite Affair The Shark Affair The Deadly Games Affair The Green Opal Affair The Giuoco Piano Affair The Double Affair The Finny Foot Affair The Neptune Affair The Dove Affair The King Of Knaves Affair The Terbuf Affair The Deadly Decoy Affair The Fiddlesticks Affair The Yellow Scarf Affair The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair The Secret Sceptre Affair The Bow Wow Affair The Four Steps Affair The See-Paris-and-Die Affair The Brain Killer Affair The Hong Kong Shilling Affair The Never-Never Affair The Love Affair The Gazebo In The Maze Affair The Girls From Nazarone Affair The Odd Man Affair The Vulcan Affair

• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (57.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities stolen documents secret codes... and exposed backsides. Featuring an outrageous ensemble cast including Madeline Kahn as the seductive singer Marty Feldman as the bug-eyed assistant and Dom DeLuise as the eccentric opera star-turned-blackmailer this fun-filled caper packs a slew of clues and loads of laughs!

• Wonder Park (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (19/08/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wonder Park tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive. One magical day, June is running through the woods to find her way home where she discovers an old rollercoaster car and climbs inside. She suddenly finds herself in Wonderland, an amusement park she had created in her mind and put aside. All of her rides and characters are brought to life but are falling into disarray without her. Now, with the help of her fun and lovable park characters, June will have to put the wonder back in Wonderland before it is lost forever.

• Rumpole Of The Bailey: Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £159.99

  This mammoth of a box set contains every episode from the seven series and the specials of Rumpole Of The Bailey.Leo McKern stars as the eccentric, bibulous Old Bailey defence lawyer Horace Rumpole in the magnificent and hugely popular series written by the barrister/playwright John Mortimer. It's not an easy life for the lawyer as, all the time, Rumpole is trying to stay on top of the day to day shenanigans at chambers whilst constantly endeavouring to pacify wife, she who must be obeyed.Episode listing:1:Pilot: Rumpole Of The Bailey2: Rumpole and the Younger Generation 3: Rumpole and the Alternative Society4: Rumpole and the Honourable Member5: Rumpole and the Married Lady6: Rumpole and the Learned Friends7: Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade8: Rumpole and the Man of God9: Rumpole and the Case of Identity10: Rumpole and the Show Folk11: Rumpole and the Fascist Beast12: Rumpole and the Course of True Love 13: Rumpole and the Age for Retirement 14: Rumpole's Return 15: Rumpole and the Genuine Article 16: Rumpole and the Golden Thread 17: Rumpole and the Old Boy Net 18: Rumpole and the Female of the Species 19: Rumpole and the Sporting Life 20: Rumpole and the Last Resort 21: Rumpole and the Old, Old Story 22: Rumpole and the Blind Tasting 23: Rumpole and the Official Secret 24: Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow 25: Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim 26: Rumpole's Last Case 27: Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation 28: Rumpole and the Barrow Boy 29: Rumpole and the Age of Miracles 30: Rumpole and the Tap End 31: Rumpole and Portia 32: Rumpole and the Quality of Life 33: Rumpole a la Carte 34: Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent 35: Rumpole and the Right to Silence 36: Rumpole at Sea 37: Rumpole and the Quacks 38: Rumpole for the Prosecution 39: Rumpole and the Children of the Devil 40: Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice 41: Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle 42: Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson 43: Rumpole and the Family Pride 44: Rumpole on Trial

• MORGAN (OMU) - MOVIE | DVD | (27/09/2013) from £17.47   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Kids | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Larry Clark's controversial Kids is a film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope, but it's also an unblinking look at the dehumanising rituals of growing up. It really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin-busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Accused | Blu Ray | (14/03/2022) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a young woman suffers a brutal assault in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

• Der Hexentöter von Blackmoor (+ 2 Bonus-DVDs) (+ 1 CD) | Blu Ray | (09/07/2020) from £51.22   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cass | Blu Ray | (29/12/2008) from £6.81   |  Saving you £18.18 (266.96%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.

• The House on 92nd Street | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £6.77   |  Saving you £3.22 (47.56%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The F.B.I.'s own tense, terrific story behind the protection of the Atomic Bomb!Nazi spies have infiltrated America, one of which tries to recruit a college graduate, who then becomes a double agent for the F.B.I.