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• The Machinist | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A little guilt goes a long way... Having not slept for a year lathe operator Trevor Reznick (Christian Bale) is dying of insomnia. Why he can't sleep he can't remember. His every waking minute has become an unrelenting nightmare of confusion paranoia guilt anxiety and terror; each of which is part of an escalating series of clues that will lead him to the source of his mysterious affliction... Method actor Christian Bale who favours total immersion in the roles he plays lost an astonishing 63 pounds from his already lean frame in order to convey the shockingly gaunt physique of the main character. Exhausting in his preparation close to the point of permanent physical damage Bale is the centrepoint of this extraordinary film.

• Great British Railway Journeys Series 5 | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £5.98   |  Saving you £31.00 (776.94%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Armed with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of four journeys, he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. This 4 DVD set features 20 episodes covering 4 different journeys: Manchester to Chesterfield London to Leeds Southampton to Wolverhampton Cheltenham to Wolverhampton On his first journey of this series, Michael Portillo goes from Manchester, birthplace of George Bradshaw, the publisher of his trusted guide, to Chesterfield, burial place of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. For the second journey Michael is guided by his Bradshaw's Handbook from London's Euston station to Leeds. He finds out what happened to the once proud Euston Arch and then alights at Cheddington, scene of the Great Train Robbery. On the third journey of the series, Michael begins at Southampton where he learns to set table aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth before she sets sail. He finishes in Wolverhampton where he hears Queen Victoria made an emotional visit, which signalled the end of her exile from public life after mourning her husband, Prince Albert. The final journey takes Michael from one cathedral city, Norwich and a painful encounter with a polecat, through to another cathedral city, Chichester, from where he heads for a taste of life in the fast lane at Goodwood.

• The Sentinel | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A disgraced special agent to the White House endeavours to foil a conspiracy to assassinate the US President.

• Viral | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £14.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the outbreak of a parasitic virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, Emma (Sofia Black D'Elia; Project Almanac) and her sister Stacey (Analeigh Tipton; Lucy) find themselves separated from their parents as it reaches their neighbourhood. Quarantined with no connections to her family, Emma, with the help of her love interest Evan (Travis Tope; Independence Day: Resurgence), fights to protect her infected sister and for her own survival.

• Slow West | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £11.94   |  Saving you £13.05 (109.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past 12 Years a Slave) and Kodi Smith-McPhee (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) SLOW WEST follows the story of 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Smit-McPhee) as he journeys across the American frontier at the end of the 19th century in search of the woman he loves. Along the way he is joined by Silas (Fassbender) a mysterious traveller with his own agenda and is hotly pursued by an outlaw named Payne (Mendelsohn). Directed by John Mclean SLOW WEST also stars Ben Mendelsohn (Exodus: Gods and Kings) Caren Pistorius (The Light Between Oceans) and Rory McCann (Game of Thrones).

• Resident Evil - Degeneration | Blu Ray | (12/01/2009) from £31.68   |  Saving you £-6.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  7 years after Raccoon City Claire Redfield returns to investigate reports of an infected man attacking several other people. Meanwhile Leon S. Kennedy is sent to the city after a passenger plane crashes into the lobby of a hotel. Together they are ordered to track down an unknown terrorist who is threatening to spread the T-Virus unless the government release details of what really went on in Raccoon City all those years ago. Reunited the duo along with an ex-SWAT police officer Angela Miller are forced to repel a new legion of zombies find survivors in the airport and to nullify the terrorist threat before the virus is spread through every major city on the planet. Unfortunately they only have 4 hours...

• Cats - Ultimate Edition | DVD | (13/10/2000) from £20.49   |  Saving you £-14.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cats is a pop-cultural phenomenon that has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, resulting in more than two billion dollars in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided it until now. This video version has been restaged but, alas, not really reconceived for its new medium. Most of the cast--assembled from London, Amsterdam and New York productions--are competent. Ken Page as Old Deuteronomy, Jacob Brent as Mr Mistoffelees and Elaine Paige--the original London Grizabella, the Glamour Cat well past her prime--are a great deal more than that. Paige has toned down her theatrical belting of her big number, "Memory", and allowed the faded ruin of her character's soul to prevail in close-up. For all the covers of her signature song, Paige's version remains definitive. The video is, by definition, more intimate, which is not always a good thing: costumes are even more Halloweeny in garish close-up, the cats less cuddly without that all-important interaction, the stage's appropriately midnight lighting transmuted to a Las Vegas neon. And the chorus of cats in production numbers is even clunkier and more amorphous in two- and three-shots. The one complete newcomer to the cast is the 90-year-old icon among English actors, John Mills, a delight as Gus the Theatrical Cat. Sir John and his character show the youngsters how it's done in close-up, largely behind the eyes, abetted by a heart-tugging delivery of his one song. Yet virtually all of the songs are lip-synched, further robbing the video Cats of its onstage spontaneity. It's clearer than ever that Lloyd Webber's music is mostly twaddle, with the important exception of "Memory", which instantly and rightly became one of the genuine theatre standards not dependent on context, in the vein of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns". On the plus side, most of the characters and lyrics, from TS Eliot's 14-poem Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, are far better defined and understood from the video version. --Robert Windeler, Amazon.com

• Disco Pigs | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £6.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (203.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pig and Runt were born moments apart in the same hospital and except for blood are twins. They grow up together and have equal appetites for recklessness and destruction. Just before their seventeenth birthdays Pig's behaviour threatens the private world they have spent a lifetime building. Their special relationship is stretched to breaking point and the survival of one of them depends upon which one can break free.

• Sleepaway Camp 3 - Teenage Wasteland | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.

• Angel Dog (DVD) | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A heart-warming film about a dog named Cooper, the lone survivor of a terrible car accident. When Jake loses his wife and children in the accident he becomes angry and resentful toward Cooper for surviving, but eventually the pair bond and this bond ends up being the one thing that gets Jake out of bed in the mornings, eventually helping him go on living after his tragic loss.

• Frost/Nixon | Blu Ray | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make.

• Quest For Fire | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £14.02   |  Saving you £3.23 (25.31%)   |  RRP £15.99

  80 000 years ago a primitive tribe desperately guards its most values possession fire. They know how to tend it how to use it but its creation remains a mystery. During an attack by a neighbouring tribe their flame is lost and so begins an epic obstacle-filled quest to find another source of the element so precious in their struggle for survival. Special Features: Director's Commentary Commentary with Actors Ron Perlman Rae Dawn Chong and Michael Gruskoff The Making of the Quest for Fire Interview with Director Jean-Jacques Annaud Video Gallery with Jean-Jacques Annaud Commentary

• Time Without Pity (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following his blacklisting in the McCarthy HUAC hearings, director Joseph Losey (Eva, The Damned, Secret Ceremony) moved to the England in the 1950s. The gritty British suspense thriller, Time Without Pity was the first film he made in the UK under his own name. In a BAFTA-nominated performance, the great Michael Redgrave (Goodbye Gemini, Connecting Rooms, Dead of Night) stars as an anguished father whose son is convicted of murder and languishing on death row. In a desperate race-against-time, he attempts to prove his son's innocence whilst bringing the real murderer to justice. With photography by Freddie Francis (The Elephant Man), and a superb supporting cast including Ann Todd (Taste of Fear), Leo McKern (X the Unknown), and Peter Cushing (Corruption, The Beast Must Die), Time Without Pity is brilliantly accomplished slice of Brit-noir, and a potent cry against capital punishment. Extras: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The Guardian Interview with Joseph Losey (1973): the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with film critic Dilys Powell at London's National Film Theatre Selected scenes commentary with film historian Neil Sinyard Introduction by Gavrik Losey (2019): a new interview with the filmmaker and son of director Joseph Losey Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Robert Murphy, archival interviews with cast and crew members, an overview of contemporary critical responses, archival articles, and film credits and more World premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• Warrior Queen - The Complete Series | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Boudicca, the widowed Queen of the Iceni tribe of East Anglia, to wrest power from the Romans in first-century Britain. Produced by Ruth Boswell (Timeslip, Tightrope, Shadows), Warrior Queen stars Sian Phillips as the fearless Celtic queen, Nigel Hawthorne as Catus Decianus, the rapacious Roman Procurator, and Michael Gothard as Druid priest Volthan. It is AD61. The Romans rule Britain. Prasutagus, King of the Iceni, is dying. In his will, he bequeaths one half of his kingdom to his two daughters; the other half is to be ceded to the Roman Emperor, Nero. Prasutagus's widow, Queen Boudicca, invites the Roman Procurator, Catus Decianus, to attend his burial. Catus Decianus, however, has no intention of attending 'this flea-bitten king's funeral'; instead, he arrives when it is over. It is an ominous sign...

• Vault of Horror Blu-ray UK Release | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £14.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (58.66%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Five unsuspecting hotel guests step into an elevator, which leads them into an underground vault. Trapped with no way out, each guest shares a gruesome tale of an encounter with death. But as the stories unfold, the men begin to suspect that their presence in the vault is no coincidence, and that the only way out is death.

• Sorority Boys | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £8.93   |  Saving you £6.06 (67.86%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When three college lads are thrown out of their fraternity they become so desperate for free lodgings that they join the female Delta Omicron Gamma sorority house....

• Dexter - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  To all around him, Blood splatter analyst Dexter Morgan appears to be a perfect gentleman and respected member of the police force but, behind this convincing facade, Dexter harbours a terrifying secret. He is a serial killer.Orphaned at the age of four, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) was adopted by Miami police officer Harry Morgan (James Remar), after finding him abandoned at a particularly gruesome crime scene. Discovering that Dexter had murderous urges, Harry taught the natural born killer to channel his gruesome passion in a constructive way - to kill only those who 'deserve' it! By means of satisfying his interest in blood and to erase his own crimes, Dexter now works as a forensic expert in blood patterns for the Miami Dade Police Department: the department currently investigating a spate of victims fallen at the hands of an unknown murderer branded `The Ice Truck Killer'. Discovering that the city's slayer is provocatively leaving personal messages for him to pick up, Dexter begins to wonder if `The Ice Truck Killer' is closer to him than first thought.Emmy-Award winning screenwriter James Manos Jr. (The Sopranos) delivers a dark, engrossing, yet funny adaptation of Jeff Lyndsay's crime novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Forefront of its shining cast is Michael C. Hall who takes complete control of Dexter and provides us not only with a clear insight into the mind of a serial killer but also forces the audience to grapple with the wonderfully twisted moral ambiguity of having a serial killer as a likeable `hero'.

• Railways of The Great War with Michael Portillo | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £21.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this five part series for BBC2, Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the First World War by discovering the central role the railways played in securing victory, repatriating the dead and wounded, and feeding the insatiable appetite for weaponry and supplies that the theatre of war demanded. This is a story of how a British invention that brought trade, travel and prosperity in peacetime became an engine of war. Michael will track down the fascinating, emotional and sometimes tragic s.

• Quirke | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue - a charasmatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden death in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep a drink a smoke good food a woman. One woman in particular - his adoptive brother's wife Sarah - and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life. Adapted from the novels by John Banville writing as Benjamin Black the three feature length films - Christine Falls The Silver Swan and Elegy for April - reveal the tangled truth about Quirke's living family even as he uncovers the secrets of the Dublin dead.

• Transformers | Blu Ray | (19/06/2017) from £3.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  How do you like your blockbuster movies? If the answer’s loud, fast and full of big robots fighting, then you’re well and truly in luck. For director Michael Bay’s take on Transformers, based on the toys of the same name, delivers just that. And with some style. The film stars the fast-rising Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia) as Sam, who discovers that his first car has a little more to it when it transforms into an Autobot robot called Bumblebee. Fortunately, the Autobots are the good guys, and following not far behind are a good number more, headed up by Optimus Prime. Against them are the less friendly Decepticons, with Megatron at the helm, and the two sides are set for a frenetic battle right in the middle of Planet Earth. There’s a plot sitting underneath all of this, but it’s pretty much given with the Transformers movie that it’s just a vehicle to get the film from one set piece to another. And there’s little denying that the action sequences are spectacular. Boasting quite staggering special effects, the on-screen action moves with a pace and ferocity that sometimes makes it hard just to keep up with it all, as mighty robots engage is some quite staggering fights. It’s quite an achievement. Paving the way for an already-in-production sequel, Transformers has little pretensions about what it’s going to do, and is all the better for it. This is a film about big robots, big fights, big effects and, ultimately, big, dumb grin-inducing fun. What, really, is there not to like? --Jon Foster