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• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Blu Ray | (02/12/2013) from £9.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (33.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) is a crass, loud American. Laurence Jameson (Michael Caine) is a suave, urbane European. Their common ground is that they both are confidence men, and they meet in a train compartment as Benson is scamming his way across Europe, taking advantage of women's generosity. The two are forced into a rivalry, which culminates in a wager to see who can be the first to bilk $50,000 out of American heiress Janet Colgate (Glenne Headly). Their game of one-upmanship is, of course, brought to ridiculous heights as things progress. Written by Paul Henning (the mind behind such TV shows as Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is an uneven but funny mix of Martin's physical comedy and Caine's oily charms. Martin's first role as cohort is to assume the persona of Ruprecht, the "special" younger brother intended to scare off potential brides. As Ruprecht, he comes off as a down-home version of Jerry Lewis; hilarious as it is, it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the film. Once the wager is on, though, Martin slips into his overly earnest mode as an American military man suffering from hysterical paralysis, with Caine as a psychologist who takes on his case. All in all, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (a loose remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando) is a droll, intelligent comedy, short on knee slappers but long on comic situations and characterisations. --Jerry Renshaw, Amazon.com

• Last Orders | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £5.32   |  Saving you £0.67 (12.59%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jack Dodds was a regular guy so why the strange last order to have his ashes thrown off Margate pier? And why did his wife refuse to do it? As his friends make the trip to the coast they try to understand Jack's death by reliving their lives through him - the war the children the good times and the bad. The journey becomes a pub crawl full of drinks and punch-ups and the men discover that through it all it's your friends who break your heart and your friends who mend it.

• Sherlock Gnomes / Gnomeo & Juliet 2-Film Collection | DVD | (19/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The beloved garden gnomes GNOMEO AND JULIET are back for a whole new adventure. When they first arrive in the city with their friends and family, the biggest concern is getting their new garden ready for spring. However, they soon discover that someone is kidnapping garden gnomes all over London. When everyone in their garden goes missing there's only one gnome to call SHERLOCK GNOMES. The famous detective and sworn protector of London's garden gnomes arrives with his sidekick Watson to investigate the case. The mystery will lead our gnomes on a rollicking adventure where they will meet all new ornaments and explore an undiscovered side of the city.

• Secondhand Lions | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £31.73   |  Saving you £-11.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A coming-of-age tale following the comedic adventures of an introverted 14-year-old packed off to spend the summer with a pair of cranky, eccentric great-uncles.

• The Great Escaper | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a great escape from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary. It was a story that captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, can-do spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn't the whole story. It was an inspirational but sanitised retelling of one man's need to come to terms with the lasting trauma of war. Bernie's adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene (Glenda Jackson) - THE GREAT ESCAPER celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation.

• The Weatherman | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Weatherman Dave Spritz has a shot at the big time when a national TV show calls him for an audition. But secretly his life is in turmoil.

• A Bridge Too Far/The Great Escape/Battle Of Britain | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A Bridge Too Far: In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to the disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fear. The Great Escape: In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Lu...

• Alfie | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £5.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (217.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What's it all about, Alfie?" asked the hit Burt Bacharach/Hal David title song, to which the less philosophical answer might be: an amoral young man comically seducing a succession of beautiful women in swinging-sixties London. Michael Caine was the titular anti-hero, here consolidating his new star status from Zulu (1964) and The Ipcress File (1965), his conquests including Shelley Winters, Jane Asher and Shirley Ann Field. Alfie was a huge success, bringing a new frankness about changing sexual attitudes to the screen, in which respect it was almost the male companion to Julie Christie's then shocking, Oscar-winning performance in Darling (1965). It was also a sort-of contemporary Tom Jones, which had swept the Oscars for 1963, however, Alfie was not only better made, but in Michael Caine's guilelessly amoral asides to camera, offered a groundbreaking illustration of a newly self-conscious cinema. It is a technique Caine would reprise as the middle-aged philanderer in Blame It On Rio (1983). With Blow Up also released in 1966, and Ken Russell's Women In Love following in 1969, British film-making was truly in the midst of a sexual revolution. Michael Caine would reunite with director Lewis Gilbert and meet his female match in Educating Rita (1983). --Gary S. Dalkin

• Dressed to Kill Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Upon its release in 1980, Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill was as acclaimed for its stylish set-pieces and lush Pino Donaggio score as it was condemned for its sexual explicitness but the glee with which the writer/director turns this material inside out is completely infectious, as he delves deep inside the troubled psyches of his characters to undermine expectations at every turn. After sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) has a session with her psychiatrist, Dr Elliott (Michael Caine), she silently seduces a man in an art gallery an assignation that ends in murder and the only witness, high-class prostitute Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), being stalked by the killer in turn. One of De Palma's darkest and most controversial suspense thrillers, Arrow Video is proud to present this iconic neo-Hitchcockian masterwork in stunning 4K alongside a raft of archival and newly commissioned bonus features. 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) ¢ Original lossless 1.0 mono soundtrack ¢ Optional lossless 5.1 soundtrack ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Brand new audio commentary by critics Drusilla Adeline and Joshua Conkel ¢ Audio commentary by critic Maitland McDonagh ¢ Beyond Good and Evil, a brand new visual essay by critics BJ and Harmony Colangelo ¢ The Empathy of Dressed to Kill, a brand new visual essay by critic Jessica Crets ¢ Strictly Business, a 2022 interview with actress Nancy Allen ¢ Killer Frames, a 2022 interview with associate producer/production manager Fred C. Caruso ¢ An Imitation of Life, a 2022 interview with actor Keith Gordon ¢ Archival interviews with actors Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon, and producer George Litto ¢ The Making of a Thriller, an archival documentary on the making of the film ¢ Unrated, R-rated and TV-rated comparison featurette ¢ Slashing Dressed to Kill, an archival featurette examining the changes made to avoid an X rating ¢ Photo gallery ¢ Theatrical trailer ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx ¢ Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Sara Michelle Fetters, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Matthew Sorrento and Heather Wixson

• The Italian Job (1969) 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (10/02/2025) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this furiously fast-paced action-comedy, Charlie Croker (Oscar® winner* Michael Caine) is out of jail and on the make with an ingenious plan for the heist of the century. Aided and abetted by top criminal mastermind Mr. Bridger (Noël Coward), Charlie sets off with an ace team and three very special cars to lift a major stash from under the noses of the Turin Polizei. Featuring one of the most incredible car chase sequences in movie history, and a true cliffhanger of a finale, THE ITALIAN JOB is an essential classic caper.

• Kingsman: The Secret Service | Blu Ray | (08/06/2015) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass X-Men: First Class) KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

• Jaws 4 - The Revenge | DVD | (22/07/2014) from £8.32   |  Saving you £-0.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  One would think that after the aquatic horror of the previous three Jaws films the remnants of the beleaguered Brodie family would be happily nursing their hydrophobia somewhere in Kansas. However, in Jaws 4--The Revenge, we find that Ellen (Lorraine Gary) is still living on a tiny island and her eldest son Michael (Lance Guest) has become, of all things, a marine biologist. Even when yet another giant shark slaughters her younger son, all Ellen can do to take her mind off it is go to the Bahamas and gaze at the sea. There she embarks on a romantic affair with salty sea-pilot Hoagie (a nice turn from Michael Caine), but this peace is shattered as the shark begins to target her grandchildren and friends. Where this monster-with-a-grudge comes from, bearing in mind that the sharks in each of the previous films got blown up or electrocuted, is something of a conundrum. But logic is clearly not a concern in a script that demands only that this film should bear some tenuous relation to its predecessors. The ghost of the far-superior original looms large here--in the form of Ellen's flashbacks (which actually use footage from the earlier films), scenes that overtly refer to moments from the series (Michael's son mimics him at the dinner table, as Michael once did to his own father) and a set littered with conspicuously large photos of Roy Scheider. There are nice touches--Michael and his Jamaican partner Jake (Mario Van Peebles) fit the shark with a heart monitor which lets off an eerie blipping sound when it approaches, it is nice to see a romance between more "mature" characters portrayed so warmly and when the maternal Ellen forms the resolve to protect her family it even looks like she may briefly become a sort of geriatric Ripley character (à la Aliens). But with a shark that has never looked more rubbery, set pieces that lack suspense and invention and a short running time (only 86 minutes) it is hard to shake off the sensation that this is a made-for-TV film. Those wanting a dose of tongue-in-cheek killer-creature action would be better off avoiding this wet fish and taking in a Jaws rip-off with a little more bite, such as Deep Blue Sea or Deep Rising. --Paul Philpott

• Children of Men | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £15.90   |  Saving you £4.09 (25.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a world fallen into anarchy a disillusioned bureaucrat becomes the unlikely champion of Earth's survival.

• Youth | Blu Ray | (30/05/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the Academy Award®-winning director of The Great Beauty, and featuring a career-best performance from Michael Caine, Youth is a warm, witty and deeply moving portrait of love and loss. With dazzling visuals, a great soundtrack and a stellar supporting cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz and Jane Fonda.

• The Eagle Has Landed | DVD | (19/07/2007) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This 1976 adventure story set in World War II concerns a Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill from his retreat--or murder him if need be. The large, great cast and a director, John Sturges, who's been down this road of ensemble action before (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) make this project exciting if not as memorable as Sturges' more famous works. The weak ending doesn't help. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Batman Begins (2 discs) | DVD | (21/10/2005) from £4.90   |  Saving you £12.09 (246.73%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Christian Bale stars in director Christopher Nolan's new take on the origin of the legendary superhero.

• The Dark Knight | Blu Ray | (14/09/2020) from £21.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE FOLLOW-UP TO BATMAN BEGINS, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organised crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective. But soon the three find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante Special Features: Gotham Uncovered: Creation of a Scene Director Christopher Nolan and Creative Collaborators Unmask the Incredible Detail and Planning Behind the Film, Including Stunt Staging, Filming in IMAX®, the Batsuit and Bat-pod and More! SPECIAL FEATURES Batman Tech The Incredible Gadgets and Tools Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight Delve into the Psyche of Bruce Wayne and the World of Batman Through Real-World Psychotherapy Gotham Tonight 6 Episodes of Gotham Cable's Premier News programme The Galleries The Joker Cards, Concept Art, Poster Art, Production Stills, Trailers & TV Spot

• Quicksand | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £12.40   |  Saving you £-6.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On the trail of a money laundering operation New York financier Martin Raikes flies to the south of France to investigate a film studio rumoured to be fronting the scam. But Raikes asks too many questions and soon finds himself drawn into a bloody turf war between the French underworld and the Russian Mafia. Lured to the studio's offices with the promise of inside information the American witnesses an assassination in the street below and with mounting horror realises the rendezvous is a set up and now he's wanted for murder. A lone fugitive from justice Raikes must stay one step ahead of the cops until he can prove his innocence. But when his daughter is kidnapped by the mob it's much more than just his freedom that's at stake...

• The Wrong Box (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/07/2020) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two warring elderly brothers and their respective heirs are determined that each will outlive the other in an attempt to hold onto the family fortune, and will stop at nothing even murder to achieve their goal. Bryan Forbes' riotous black comedy, based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, stars some of the greatest talents of the day, including Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Hancock, Ralph Richardson, Nanette Newman and John Mills. Extras: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The BEHP Interview with Bryan Forbes (1994, 102 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with Roy Fowler Audio commentary with film historians Josephine Botting and Vic Pratt Box of Delights (2018, 21 mins): award-winning actor Nanette Newman talks about The Wrong Box and her work with husband Bryan Forbes Box Cutting (2018, 10 mins): a new interview with assistant editor Willy Kemplen Chasing the Cast (2018, 11 mins): second assistant director Hugh Harlow recalls his experiences on set Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Flawless | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £11.44   |  Saving you £8.55 (74.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From director Michael Radford comes "Flawless", a diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London starring Demi Moore and Michael Caine.