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• Edward And Mrs Simpson | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  He abandoned crown and country for the woman he loved. Everything that is known about Edward VIII is almost totally eclipsed by the world-shattering act which brought his short reign to a close in 1936. To many it seemed a selfish and irresponsible abandonment of duty. To others it was the supreme sacrifice of a man who put love above all things. Based on the definitive biography by Frances Donaldson Edward and Mrs Simpson focuses on the riveting truth behind the sensational headline

• Band Of Brothers | Blu Ray | (31/01/2011) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes of the award-winning mini-series based on the real-life experiences of American paratroopers who fought in Europe during the Second World War. From their training in Camp Toccoa, Georgia, through their landing in Normandy as part of the D-Day offensive, their participation in the Battle of the Bulge, and all the way up to the final surrender of the German forces, the series follows the adventures of Easy Company, a unit noted for its skill and bravery, but which also suffered a high number of casualties in its journey across Europe. Each episode also features excerpts from actual interviews with surviving members of the company.

• U-571 | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £3.90   |  Saving you £16.09 (412.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  U-571 is a white-knuckle World War II suspense drama about an American submarine crew's battle against time-and their own fears-while carrying out a daring mission to capture a top-secret encrypting device from a Nazi U-boat.

• Three To Tango | DVD | (18/12/2000) from £5.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (133.95%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Matthew Perry stars as an aspiring architect given the additional job by a big client of spying on his mistress (Neve Campbell). As he begins to fall for her it becomes clear that everyone thinks he's gay, but does he really want to jeopardise his career

• The Lost Prince | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £6.12   |  Saving you £9.87 (161.27%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A marvellous reinvention of the costume epic, The Lost Prince is Stephen Poliakoff's absorbing study of the turbulent years leading up to and during the First World War, seen through the percipient eyes of a scarcely remembered royal child. Extensively researched, impeccably cast, beautifully filmed, written and directed by Poliakoff himself with masterly economy and restraint, this is a timely reminder that original, intelligent drama can work as prime time entertainment while appealing on multiple levels; and there isn't an escaped soap star in sight. Johnnie, the prince kept hidden away by his parents Queen Mary and George V for fear that his epileptic fits and idiosyncratic ways might draw unwelcome attention, is not presented as a tragic figure. His view of the great events which shatter his family and change the world forever is direct and uncluttered. Poliakoff celebrates his apartness--and that of all children who are different--as a force for good, without judging the standards, protocols and contemporary medical theories which kept him on the periphery of society. The series makes the most of its well-chosen locations, and from Johnnie's garden at Sandringham to the assassination of the Russian imperial family, it maintains a hypnotic and elegiac quality The acting is first-rate, too. Gina McKee is profoundly moving as Johnnie's devoted nurse Lalla; and Miranda Richardson's Mary is an extraordinary performance, the controlled façade of single-minded focus occasionally fracturing to reveal a flash of humanity. This production is exquisite in every respect. On the DVD: The Lost Prince is presented in its original transmission format of 16:9. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, enhanced by Adrian Johnston's haunting score is crystal clear. Extras include Poliakoff's revealing commentary, with occasional input from Johnston and designer John-Paul Kelly, and a couple of documentary fragments which show the production in progress and place it in context with the rest of Poliakoff's work. --Piers Ford

• 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

• 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.

• I Know What You Did Last Summer Trilogy - Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (05/04/2021) from £28.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Leatherface had his chainsaws, Freddie has his glove... now there's a new slasher icon, and he's got a hook. In I Know What You Did Last Summer a group of kids pay the price for not reporting a hit and run a year later when their victim comes back for revenge, apparently from beyond the grave, and he doesn't finish with them then, chasing down the survivors for more slicing and dicing in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. And if that wasn't enough, he finds all new targets for more hook-heavy payback in I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. From the creators of Scream and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., 88 Films are proud to present these three modern slasher classics for the first time on UK blu-ray, completely uncut.

• Friends: Complete Series 2 - New Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £44.00 (734.56%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Arguably the best series, this season's episodes really developed the characters as the show's popularity took off. Love is in the air as Rachel and Ross, both finally realising they're attracted to each other, nearly get it together, don't, and then finally do. Joey gets that role as Dr Drake Ramoray in Days of Our Lives and moves out of the flat he shares with Chandler, precipitating a bust-up between the two best buddies. Monica dates Richard, the hunky, older eye-doctor played by Tom Selleck, and Phoebe makes a video of that seminal song for a generation, "SmellyCat". --Leslie Felperin

• Stepford Wives, The | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £4.18   |  Saving you £17.07 (584.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech terrifying little town, in a very modern comedy-thriller.

• Manhunt - Series 1 - BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (11/10/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Manhunt is the real life story of how the murder of French National, Amelie Delagrange, on Twickenham Green in August 2004 was eventually linked to the murders of Marsha McDonnell in 2003 and the abduction and murder of Milly Dowler as she travelled home from school in 2002.

• The Jetty | DVD | (12/08/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Spooks - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Who Watches the Watchers? MI5. The Spooks. They don't exist. You will never know their names where they come from who they are. And they're all that stand between you and those who watch this country with terror on their minds. This release features all 6 episodes from Season One of the BBC drama 'Spooks'.

• Chicago Justice: Season 1 | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.50

  The State's Attorney's dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy head-on, while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city's high-stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system, and their unwavering passion for the law.

• Reign Of Fire | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £7.71   |  Saving you £10.28 (133.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  By 2024 highly evolved dragons are the dominant species on earth and only a few humans remain. A team of Englishmen lead by Christian Bale team up with American dragon slayer Matthew McConaughey and plan a dangerous crusade to post apocalyptic London.

• Serenity (DVD) | DVD | (01/07/2019) from £4.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From writer and director Steven Knight (Locke, Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders) and starring Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar, Dallas Buyers Club) and Anne Hathaway (Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises), comes a mysterious tale of a fishing boat captain whose past is about to crash up against his life on a small island in the Caribbean and ensnare him in a new reality that might not be all it seems.

• Wedding Planner, The / Down With Love / One Fine Day | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £9.70   |  Saving you £10.29 (106.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Wedding Planner While celebrating her newest and most lucrative account - the wedding of Internet tycoon Fran Donelly (Bridgette Wilson)- Mary is rescued from a near-fatal collision with a runaway dumpster by handsome pediatrician Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey). After spending the most enchanting evening of their lives together Mary thinks she's finally found a reason to believe in love. What she doesn't know is that cupid and her career are about to collide head-on... Down With Love When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor) the sparks they generate will fly you to the moon and back! Set in the early sixties every frame pops with 60's technicolour. One Fine Day Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a school field trip Melanie and Jack agree to take shifts babysitting for the day resulting in twelve hours of hilarious misadventures with one unexpected twist.

• The Mysterious Cities Of Gold - Season 2: The Adventure Continues (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/02/2014) from £17.15   |  Saving you £27.84 (162.33%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The Mysterious Cities of Gold returns after a 27 year break! The hit animation series that was the hottest show on Childrens BBC Television in the 80's is now back! With the same team in charge of artisic and script supervision Jean Chalopin and Bernard Deyries. The series features a brand new orchestration of the original music with vocals by Crystal Petit. Join Esteban, Zia and Tao with some amazing new characters and follow their adventures as they travel to find new cities of gol...

• Friends: Complete Series 6 - New Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £6.09   |  Saving you £43.90 (720.85%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Always there for you, the hit sitcom Friends has matured and blossomed over the years. The beginning of the sixth series finds the sextet back from Las Vegas where Ross and Rachel managed to get married in a state of pronounced intoxication, thus upstaging the intended nuptials of Chandler and Monica. The first half of the season follows Ross' failure to arrange the annulment, while Monica and Chandler move in together and Rachel sets up house with Phoebe. Joey gets a shapely new roommate in the shape of Elle Macpherson. Halfway through the series, we are given a wonderful fantasy peak at a parallel universe where Rachel married Barry after all, Ross' wife Carol never realised she was gay, Monica is still fat, Chandler is a writer, Joey is starring as Dr Drake Remoray on Days of Our Lives and Phoebe is a stockbroker. The closing arc of the series features a guest appearance from Bruce Willis in two episodes as the father of Ross' new girlfriend Elizabeth--who ends up romancing Rachel. --Leslie Felperin