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• Howards End - TV Mini Series | DVD | (05/02/2018) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

• Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £22.85   |  Saving you £22.14 (96.89%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The engaging characters, compelling action and intriguing plot twists of Charles Dickens' great novels provide the perfect material for screen adaptation. Lavishly-filmed with a galaxy of stars, but retaining all the tension, emotion and drama of the novels, these BBC series have received both critical and popular acclaim.Great ExpectationsRay Winstone, Gillian Anderson and David Suchet are among a fabulous cast bringing out the very best of Dickens' masterpiece - part thriller, part mystery, with a powerful love story at its heart.Little DorrifThis stunning TV adaptation weaves Dickens' tale of 1820's London into life with a sumptuous production and all-star cast - including Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay and Andy Serkis.Oliver TwistWith a stellar cast including Timothy Spall, Edward Fox and Rob Brydon, this gripping adaptation delivers a modern, thrilling, tragic and occasionally comic edge to Dickens' classic tale.Bleak HouseThe murder mystery, love story and tantalising scandal of Dickens' literary masterwork are transformed into fast-moving, daring and compelling television in this acclaimed adaption starring Gillian Anderson, Dennis Lawson and Charles Dance.

• Contact | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The opening and closing moments of Robert (Forrest Gump) Zemeckis's Contact astonish viewers with the sort of breathtaking conceptual imagery one hardly ever sees in movies these day--each is an expression of the heroine's lifelong quest (both spiritual and scientific) to explore the meaning of human existence through contact with extraterrestrial life. The movie begins by soaring far out into space, then returns dizzyingly to earth until all the stars in the heavens condense into the sparkle in one little girl's eye. It ends with that same girl as an adult (Jodie Foster)--her search having taken her to places beyond her imagination--turning her gaze inward and seeing the universe in a handful of sand. Contact traces the journey between those two visual epiphanies. Based on Carl Sagan's novel, Contact is exceptionally thoughtful and provocative for a big-budget Hollywood science fiction picture, with elements that recall everything from 2001 to The Right Stuff. Foster's solid performance (and some really incredible alien hardware) keep viewers interested, even when the story skips and meanders, or when the halo around the golden locks of rising-star-of-a-different-kind Matthew McConaughey (as the pure-Hollywood-hokum love interest)reaches Milky Way-level wattage. Ambitious, ambiguous, pretentious, unpredictable--Contact is all of these things and more. Much of it remains open to speculation and interpretation but whatever conclusions one eventually draws, Contactdeserves recognition as a rare piece of big-budget studio film making on a personal scale. --Jim Emerson

• Ripper Street - Series 4 | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £9.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (151.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The crime drama which has explored the mean streets of London's East End returns in the high summer of 1897, as the nation prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. This fourth series once more reunites our heroes Reid, Drake, Jackson and Long Susan - and takes them to their darkest point yet.

• The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £4.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (167.04%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Hilarity reigns in the motion picture comedy-adventure that takes you waaay back to the beginning before Simba's tale began... and beyond! From their uniquely hysterical perspective, Timon and his windy pal Pumbaa - the greatest unsung heroes of the Savannah!-reveal where they came from, how they helped Simba save the Serengeti and what really happened behind the scenes of The Lion King's biggest events.This essential chapter of The Lion King trilogy features the original all-star voice cast as your favourite characters and music by Elton John and Tim Rice. You will feel the love for every outrageously funny moment!

• Scooby-Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (DVD/ S) | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £7.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the classic series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, the gang captured 12 of the most terrifying ghosts the world has ever known. But whatever happened to number 13?? With their old partner Vincent Van Ghoul in trouble, Scooby and pals suit up to finish the job, catch the last ghost and seal the Chest of Demons once and for all.

• A Discovery of Witches Season 2 | DVD | (12/04/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the second season of the fantasy drama starring Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer and based on the novel by Deborah Harkness which follows a vampire and a witch as they navigate the modern world. With populations of witches, vampires and demons having greatly diminished in the 21st century, vampire Matthew Clairmont (Goode) must blend in to his surroundings while witch Diana Bishop (Palmer) tries to leave her secret world behind as she carries out her life as a historian. When she stumbles across a bewitched book in an Oxford library, however, Diana is dragged back into witchcraft and must uncover the origins of the book. As Matthew encounters Diana and informs her that he has been searching for this very book for over a century, the pair must work as a team to protect it from evil forces while crossing the boundaries of forbidden relationships amongst their kind. In this season the pair travel back in time where they hope an encounter with the all-powerful Goody Alsop (Sheila Hancock) can enlighten Diana on how to harness her magic abilities.

• Self/Less | DVD | (01/07/2017) from £6.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lost - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £11.35   |  Saving you £45.63 (545.81%)   |  RRP £53.99

  The complete third series of the groundbreaking drama Lost Jack Kate and Sawyer open the season in captivity as prisoners of ""The Others."" Just who these ""Others"" are and what they want are primary questions Season Three will explore. Michael Emerson joins the cast as a regular in his ongoing role as ""Henry Gale"". Romance looms on the horizon as Jack's interests veer towards a mysterious new woman whose motives may be questionable. Sun and Jin will continue to celebrate th

• Star Wars Clone Wars - Season 5 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of three daring young Jedi as a new chapter begins--Star Wars: The Clone Wars. On the front lines of the intergalactic struggle between good and evil Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker join forces in the mission that unites them as Jedi mentor and student as they battle to save the Republic from being splintered by the war between the separatist robot army and the white-armored clones which are destined to become the army of Imperial storm troopers. Young Padawan Jedi novice Ahsoka joins Anakin and Obi-Wan in their epic battle against Darth Sidious Count Dooku and General Grievous who plot to rule the galaxy.

• The Lion King Special Edition | DVD | (31/10/2003) from £10.46   |  Saving you £12.53 (119.79%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Disney's 1994 animated feature, The Lion King, was a huge smash in cinemas and continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed stage production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is deposed by a jealous uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends and eventually comes back to reclaim his proper place. Characters are very strong, vocal performances by the likes of Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane and Whoopi Goldberg are terrific, the jokes are aimed as much (if not more) at adults than kids, the animation is sometimes breathtaking and the songs from Tim Rice and Elton John, accompanied by a colourful score, are more palatable than in many recent Disney features. --Tom Keogh On the DVD: The Lion King Special Edition is a superb restoration: take a look at the serviceable but dull film clips incorporated in the plethora of extras and compare them to the vivid gorgeousness of the film presentation. This special edition also adds a 90-second song ("Morning Report") that originated in the lavish stage musical. To Disney's credit, the original theatrical version is also included, both restored and featuring two 5.1 soundtracks: Dolby Digital and a new Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix, which does sound brighter. As with the Disney Platinum line, everything is thrown into the discs, except an outsider's voice (the rah-rahs of Disney grow tiresome at times). The excellent commentary from the directors and producer, originally on the laser disc, is hidden under the audio set-up menu. The second disc is organised by 20-minute-ish "journeys" tackling the elements of story, music and so on, including good background on the awkward Shakespearean origins at Disney where it was referred as "Bamlet". The most interesting journey follows the landmark stage production, and the kids should be transfixed by shots of the real African wildlife in the animal journey. Three deleted segments are real curios, including an opening lyric for "Hakuna Matata". Most set-top DVD games are usually pretty thin (DVD-ROM is where it's at), but the Safari game is an exception--the kids should love the roaring animals (in 5.1 Surround, no less). One serious demerit is the needless and complicated second navigation system that is listed by continent but just shows the same features reordered. --Doug Thomas

• Mary Poppins Returns Doublepack | DVD | (15/04/2019) from £6.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.

• Pride and Prejudice | Blu Ray | (17/05/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen star in this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

• Resident Evil: The Complete Collection | DVD | (12/06/2017) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit. As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate. On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman

• Glory | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £7.25   |  Saving you £12.74 (175.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The negroes fought gallantly and were headed by as brave a Colonel as ever lived", was one Confederate soldier's eyewitness verdict on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers immediately after 247 of their 600-man regiment had fallen in bloody swathes beneath the withering fire from Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina in 1863. Glory is their story: the mustering of the first black regiment in the US Army, their battles with the Southerners as well as with the Northern military authorities, and their own moment of glory when they paid a terrible price for the opportunity to demonstrate to the world their courage. In telling this little-known story, director Ed Zwick single-handedly changed perceptions of the American Civil War: when a Grand Review of the Armies was held in Washington at the end of the war, none of the almost 180,000 coloured troops who fought for the Union were present; when that parade was restaged in 1990 a year after the movie was released, the 54th Massachusetts re-enactors were at the front of the procession. Zwick's stirring, factually accurate account is greatly enhanced by obsessive period detail and frighteningly realistic battle reconstructions (which were not to be surpassed in scale until 1993's Gettysburg). But Zwick also illuminates individual characters in the regiment with great sensitivity. As crucial as the military set-pieces are the scenes of the men together: talking in the tent or baring their souls in song. Denzel Washington, as the embittered ex-slave, gives a performance of real depth; he richly deserved his Oscar win for the heartbreaking flogging scene alone. Morgan Freeman brings great gravitas to his paternalistic role, and Matthew Broderick's idealistic Colonel Shaw is the centre around which the story revolves. With a clutch of remarkable lead performances, a sensitive and touching script, one of James Horner's finest musical scores, and a director with both the vision and heart to pull it off it's easy to agree with the backcover blurb: "Glory is one of the greatest war movies ever made". Without even a hint of hyperbole, it undoubtedly is. On the DVD: This is a superb looking (anamorphic) and sounding (Dolby 5.1) print, and the disc has some excellent additional features. Ed Zwick's commentary is insightful and extremely detailed: here's a director who obviously cares deeply about this movie. Of the three featurettes, one is a short-ish promo piece but the other two are genuinely impressive: there's a 20-minute "Making of" feature with major contributions from Zwick, Freeman and Broderick, and best of all a 45-minute "The True Story Continues" feature narrated by Freeman which tells the complete story of the 54th Massachusetts from beginning to end using footage from the movie as well as archive material and film of battle re-enactments. Also included are two deleted scenes, although a third scene which was shot for the movie but not used (the Frederick Douglass' speech) crops up in the "True Story" piece. James Horner's emotive score gets an isolated track all to itself and there are also some filmographies and trailers. All in all, this is a superb DVD. --Mark Walker

• Karas Collection | Blu Ray | (10/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Modern day Tokyo where humans spirits and demons co-exist in two overlapping dimensions. For time immemorial the balance and order between the two dimensions has been maintained by a guardian known as the Karas a raven-like creature and its masters. But now that balance is under threat from a former Karas named Eko. Disgusted by human arrogance Eko has turned his back on the ancient laws he helped uphold for so long and is determined to seize power and bring order to the city's streets. Standing against Eko is Yurine a spiritual entity who represents the will of the people accompanied by a newly risen Karas of her own. An ageless battle arise one that will stretch across both dimensions killing humans and spirits alike. Produced by legendary studio Tatsunoko Productions (Speed Racer Gatchaman) and featuring the voices of Jay Hernandez (Grindhouse Hostel) Matthew Lillard (Scream Scooby Doo) and Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly).

• Amistad | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £6.77   |  Saving you £13.22 (195.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitised history lesson, Amistad, explores the symbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most of Schindler's List (and, later, Saving Private Ryan) Spielberg restrains himself from the sweeping narrative and technical flourishes that make him one of our most entertaining and manipulative directors. Here, he doesn't even bother trying, succumbing to his driving need to entertain with beautiful images and contrived emotion. He cheapens his grandiose motives and simplifies slavery, treating it as cut- and-dry genre piece. Characters are easy Hollywood stereotypes--"villains" like the Spanish sailors or zealous abolitionists are drawn one-dimensionally and sneered upon. And Spielberg can't suppress his gifted eye, undercutting normally ugly sequences, such as the terrifying slave passage, which is shot as a gorgeous, well-lit composition. At its core, Amistad is a traditional courtroom drama, centred by a tired, clichéd narrative: a struggling, idealistic young lawyer (Matthew McConaughey) fighting the crooked political system and saving helpless victims. Worse yet, Spielberg actually takes the underlying premise of his childhood fantasy, E.T. and repackages it for slavery. Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), the leader of the West African rebellion, is presented much like the adorable alien: lost, lacking a common language, and trying to find his way home. McConaughey is a grown-up Elliot who tries communicating complicated ideas such as geography by drawing pictures in the sand or language by having Cinque mimic his facial expressions. Such stuff was effective for a sci-fi fantasy about the communication barriers between a boy and a lost alien; here, it seems like a naive view of real, complex history. --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• The Paperboy | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £5.19   |  Saving you £12.80 (246.63%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Directed by Oscar nominee Lee Daniels (Precious) The Paperboy follows two brothers: Ward (Matthew McConaughey Magic Mike) a reporter for the esteemed daily newspaper The Miami Times and Jack (Zac Efron The Lucky One) a recent college dropout. When Ward shows up with his writing partner Yardley (David Oyelowo Lincoln) to investigate a story Ward asks Jack to accompany them as their driver. Ward is in town because a local woman named Charlotte (Nicole Kidman Stoker) has convinced them that Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack Grosse Point Blank) an unsavory alligator hunter from the backwoods was wrongly convicted at a trial that took place near their hometown. As the investigation unravels it becomes clear that these brothers are on a journey that is filled with betrayal. The only thing that remains constant is that there is this strange beautiful woman who falls in love with killers and her passion could be everyone's downfall.

• Doctor Who - The Complete Series 5 | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £29.95   |  Saving you £40.04 (133.69%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Brand New Doctor! Exciting New Adventures! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Eleventh Hour 2. The Beast Below 3. Victory of the Daleks 4. The Time of Angels 5. Flesh and Stone 6. The Vampires of Venice 7. Amy's Choice 8. The Hungry Earth 9. Cold Blood 10. Vincent and the Doctor 11. The Lodger 12. The Pandorica Opens 13. The Big Bang

• Dirty Sanchez - European Invasion - The Complete 3rd Series | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Over four hours of gut-emptying side-splitting humour! Disc 1: All the episodes from the third series! 1. Scandinavia 2. Germany 3. Eastern Europe 4. Greece 5. Italy 6. Spain Disc 2: International relations Sanchez style; the unbroadcast story of the boyos! Over two hours of previously unbroadcast footage completely exclusive to this DVD!