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• Deep Impact | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £9.17   |  Saving you £12.08 (152.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A great big rock hits the earth, and lots of people die. That's pretty much all there is to Deep Impact, and most of that was in the trailer. Can a major Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a slender excuse for a premise? The old disaster-movie king, cheese-meister Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), would have made a kitsch classic out of this, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resigned and mumbly Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut who risks several lives trying to blow up the comet that's headed right this way! As stiffly directed by Mimi Leder, this thick slice of ham errs on the side of solemnity. It may be the most earnest end-of-the-world picture since Stanley Kramer's atomic-doom drama On the Beach. There are a couple of classic melodramatic flourishes: an estranged father and daughter who share a tearful reconciliation as a Godzilla-sized tidal wave looms on the horizon; and an astronaut, communicating on video with his loved ones back on Earth, who follows whispered instructions from a buddy lurking just off camera--so that his little girl won't realise that he's been struck blind. Deep Impact stars Morgan Freeman as the president of the United States. --David Chute

• The Little Polar Bear | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £3.21   |  Saving you £12.54 (864.83%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Little Polar Bear is a wonderfully sweet movie adaptation of the bestselling children's book by Dutch author and illustrator Hans de Beer. Lars--the bear of the title--lives in the North Pole with his father Mika, who warns him that he should not mix with any walruses. Unfortunately, Lars is already best friends with Robby. The two of them just can't understand what all the fuss is about, raising issues of tolerance and understanding to viewers of all ages. This isn't to say the film heavy-handedly throws messages at its young viewers. Subtle points made about society and environment are there to be interpreted, but it's the friendship tale that's at the heart of the movie. Along the pair encounter four hilariously depressed lemmings, the happy snow goose Pieps, Lena the Arctic hare, Caruso the singing penguin and the pretty bear Greta, to whom Lars finds himself curiously attracted. No violence. No pessimism. --Paul Tonks

• Deep Impact | Blu Ray | (01/02/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What would you do if you knew that in a handful of days an enormous comet would collide with Earth and all humanity could be annihilated? Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directs guiding an all-star cast featuring Robert Duvall Tea Leoni Elijah Wood Vanessa Redgrave Maximilian Schell and Morgan Freeman. With the film's dynamic fusion of large-scale excitement and touching human-scale storylines Deep Impact makes its impact felt in a big and unforgettable way.

• The Deadly Affair (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £12.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on John le Carré's first novel, Call for the Dead (which introduced spymaster George Smiley), The Deadly Affair sees an ageing British secret agent (James Mason) set out to uncover the truth behind a government employee's apparent suicide. Eschewing the glamour of the era's Bond thrillers, Lumet's chilling and intelligent take on the spy drama presents a palpable and darkly sinister picture of Cold War intrigue. The exemplary cast also includes Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Roy Kinnear and Lynn Redgrave. Extras High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Michael Brooke and Johnny Mains The National Film Theatre Lecture with James Mason (1967, 48 mins): archival audio recording of an interview conducted by Leslie Hardcastle The Guardian Lecture with Sidney Lumet (1983, 89 mins): archival audio recording of an interview conducted by Derek Malcolm at the National Film Theatre, London A Different Kind of Spy: Paul Dehn's Deadly Affair (2017, 17 mins): writer David Kipen discusses the life and work of screenwriter Paul Dehn Take One and Move On (2017, 5 mins): camera operator Brian West on The Deadly Affair Lumet's London (2017, 4 mins): the London locations of The Deadly Affair explored Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Laura's Star | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £6.46   |  Saving you £7.53 (116.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  After a seven year-old girl arrives in a new city, she has great difficulty finding friends, but she does find a star in the sky and a fantastic friendship begins between the two...

• War Box Set 3 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Film comprise: 1. The Wooden Horse (Dir. Jack Lee 1950) 2. They Who Dare (Dir. Lewis Milestone 1954) 3. Cross Of Iron (Dir. Sam Peckinpah 1977)

• Judgment At Nuremberg | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £19.63   |  Saving you £-6.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Presiding over the courtroom in which twenty one members of the Nazi High Command are accused of crimes against humanity is a small-town American judge who is determined to uphold justice and truth in the explosive conflict between freedom and tyranny...

• Vampires | Blu Ray | (30/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first few minutes of John Carpenter's Vampires--in which James Woods' vampire killer leads a dawn raid on a New Mexico "goon nest" of bloodsuckers--not only suggests a horror movie that refuses to pull its punches, but even evokes some of the more disturbing dream-memories of American Westerns. Muscular and uncompromising, the sequence suggests a new Carpenter classic unravelling before one's eyes. Things don't quite work out that way, but this is still a film to reckon with. There are a few serious (and surprising) misjudgements on the director's part, particularly a mishandling of Sheryl Lee's role as a prostitute poisoned by the bite of a "master vampire" (who pretty much wiped out Woods' team of goon terminators). But aside from some weaknesses, the action is jolting, the suggested complicity of the Catholic Church in destroying monsters is provocative, and the traces of Howard Hawks' continuing influence on Carpenter's storytelling are in evidence. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Young Lions | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One of the most thoughtful films about World War II, this 1958 Edward Dmytryk (The Left Hand of God) drama, based on a novel by Irwin Shaw The Young Lions, tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls "a likeable coward," Clift is intense as a Jewish GI and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi re-evaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom Keogh

• The Bible - Abraham | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £12.39   |  Saving you £-4.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Richard Harris offers a commanding central performance as Abraham commanded by God to lead his family to the promised land of Canaan who must undertake great trials and finds his faith severely tested...

• Cross of Iron (Vintage Classics) SteelBook 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (31/07/2023) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the novel by Will Heinrich, Sam Peckinpah's only war film is an intense and uncompromising affair that brilliantly reflects both the futility of conflict and the director's fascination with individuals confronted by events beyond their control. A World War II tale told from the German perspective, Cross Of Iron follows a platoon of German soldiers in Russia when the German Wehrmacht forces had been decimated and the Germans were retreating along the Russian front. Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is a German corporal and recipient of the Iron Cross who has grown disenchanted with Hitler's war machine. When Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell) assumes charge, the pair are thrown into immediate conflict, the autocratic but ultimately cowardly Stransky coveting the loyalty and honour Steiner commands. Evocatively shot by John Coquillon (Billy the Kid) in sombre tones to emphasise the horrors of combat, the superlative lead performances are matched by David Warner and James Mason as war-weary senior officers. Viewed as one of Peckinpah's most powerful works, it's an unflinching vision of the Second World War. Product Features UHD & Blu-Ray Disc 1 Audio Commentary by filmmaker and film historian Mike Siegel NEW Promoting STEINER NEW STEINER on the set NEW Filming STEINER NEW Filming STEINER pt 2 NEW STEINER in colour Blu-Ray Disc 2 On Location: Sam Peckinpah On Location: James Coburn On Location: Maximillian Schell On Location: James Mason On Location: David Warner Passion and Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War Kruger Kisses Kern Vadim & Sam: Father & Son Cutting Room Floor Steiner in Japan: Ads filmed in 1977 Mike's Home Movies: Steiner & Kiesel Meet Again US/UK Trailer German Trailer US TV Spot

• Left Luggage | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in Belgium in the early '70s Left Luggage is the touching and emotional story of Chaja a rebellious philosophy student stuggling to come of age. Her relationship with her parents both concentration camp survivors is strained and she finds herself unable to accept her Jewish identity. A family friend finds her a job as a nanny for a Hassidic family with 5 children. Joining forces with Mrs. Kalman (Isabella Rossellini) and through her love for the youngest child who doesn

• Krakatoa - East Of Java | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Captain Hanson (Schell) of the Batavia Queen embarks on a perilous search for sunken treasure off the island of Krakatoa. To find a fortune in rare pearls he must brave a boiling sea douse an uprising by a horde of convicts and outwit a greedy crew desperate for more than their fair share... only to confront the most devastating and catastrophic volcanic explosion the modern world has ever felt!

• Romeos | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  20-years-old Lukas is right in the midst of male puberty - medically triggered – for he was in fact born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he enters big-city life but even upon arrival encounters a major screw up: recruited for his community service he is the only male quartered in the female nurses’ residential hall. What would be a dream for any other boy is acute, everyday stress for Lukas: being transgender means always finding yourself trapped in the wrong social compartment. Fortunately his best friend Ine sticks by him and sweeps him into the scene of homosexuals in Cologne, where she is very well integrated. Here Lukas experiences his first real flirt – with the cheeky, daredevil and outwardly attractive Fabio. Fabio embodies all that Lukas lacks: disproportionately positive self-confidence and highly erotic masculinity. But Lukas, whose female attributes are still unaltered, is just about to express his desires. The initial attraction between the two boys gradually develops – until Fabio accesses the secret of Lukas’s identity when suddenly all are compelled to risk something for their feelings. 'Romeos' dares to give a most unusual insight into the subject of transgender and humorously and cheekily sets out to do away with conventional thought on such roles. It is a film about love, friendship and a quite remarkable sexual awakening.

• John Carpenter's Vampires / John Carpenter's Vampires: Los Muertos / Vampires: The Turning | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Vampires: ""Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires"" warns Jack Crow (James Woods) the leader of Team Crow a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. When master Vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) decimates Jack's entire team Crow and the sole team survivor Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) set out in pursuit. Breaking all the rules Crow and Montoya take one of Valek's victims hostage. The beautiful prostitute (Sheryl Lee) is their sole psychic link to Valek a

• Reformation | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five hundred years ago, a revolutionary priest changed the face of Christendom. Risking his life and academic reputation and facing damnation for his beliefs he challenged the teachings of the all-powerful Catholic Church and the Western World was never to be the same again. Marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this stunning two-part drama from the makers of Deutschland 83 and Generation War captures the story of Martin Luther, the visionary reformer who changed the beliefs of society at a time when the Catholic Church dominated every aspect of public opinion and private life. From passionate speeches railing against corruption and oppression to sweeping battle scenes and compelling moments of intimacy, Reformation charts key events and figures in Luther's story, offering a parallel to our contemporary political situation in the form of vividly authentic historical drama. It is a timely exploration of an era of upheaval in which the path of European civilisation was changed forever.

• Eurovision Song Contest - Istanbul 2004 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD covers footage from the two days of the Eurovision Song Contest. Featuring the qualifying round and the final plus an interview with the winning entry - the Ukraine!

• Cherry Blossoms | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. It is up to her to tell him or not. The doctor suggests that they do something together perhaps something they were long planning to do...

• Counterpoint | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of an orchestra captured by Nazis and due to be executed. General Schiller (Maximilian Schell) however is a music lover who orders them to perform for the Nazis. But Evans realises that when the concert is over his orchestra will be killed - and so begins a deadly game of cat and mouse...

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mozart 22 - Appollo Et Hyacinthus/Schuldigkeit Des Ersten Gebots | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99