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• In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £7.34   |  Saving you £12.41 (222.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Michael Wood brings his own unique approach to the story of Alexander the Great which has excited and puzzled the imagination of East and West for the past 2000 years. Alexander's extraordinary journey is now seen as a key moment in history which laid the foundations for the later dominance of Western culture but which also ironically paved the way for the spread of Islam. In this innovative and compelling account combining travel adventure with history and current affairs Michael Wood embarks on a 2000 mile journey in the footsteps of Alexander's army through many of the 20th century's major troublespots including Gaza and Afghanistan. He travels with Lebanese traders Iranian pilgrims and Afghan guerrillas by jeep train boat camel and on foot. In an account based on the texts of Greek and Roman historians the momentous events of the past are interwoven with present day reality.

• The Crow 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (06/05/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The modern-gothic original that entranced audiences and critics alike comes to 4K Ultra HD for its 30th Anniversary. THE CROW tells the tale of a young musician brutally murdered alongside his beloved fiancee, only to be risen from the grave by a mysterious crow. Seeking revenge, he battles a criminal underground that must answer for its crimes. This supernatural superhero movie from director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY) was based on the comic book series and stars Brandon Lee in his tragic final performance.

• Men In Black II (4K + Blu-Ray) | 4K UHD | (27/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.39

  Agent J and Agent K are back! Agent J (Will Smith) needs help with a new breed of alien terror intent on destroying the planet. He is sent to find Agent K (Jones), restore his memory and enlist him in the fight of a lifetime.

• For Your Eyes Only | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £5.96   |  Saving you £15.29 (325.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After the lavish, effects-heavy splash of Moonraker, the twelfth Bond film and the seventh with Roger Moore concentrates more on core car-chase-and-crumpet values, evoking an almost retro feel that harks back to the first pressings of the Bond vintage in the 1960s. Starting to look a little wrinkly around the edges by this point, Roger Moore toughens his usually smarmy act up here with a gratuitous bit of killing, casually kicking a baddie and his car over a precipice, reviving memories of the ruthless streak with which Sean Connery made his name. Good old-fashioned Cold War politics lie at the heart of the plot, concerning a weapons system hijacked in the Mediterranean Bond must rescue. He's assisted by the exquisite Carole Bouquet, the only actress in history who can claim to have been both a 'Bond girl' and the star of a Luis Buñuel movie (That Obscure Object of Desire). Sadly, this is the first film to lack Bernard Lee's spymaster M, the actor having died beforehand, although British comedienne Janet Brown is on hand for an amusing Margaret Thatcher impersonation. --Leslie FelperinOn the DVD: The first audio commentary here is another one of those edited selections of interviews with sundry cast and crew members, tied together by an over-earnest host. Producer Michael G Wilson and others provide a somewhat more illuminating second commentary track. Once again the best extra feature is the "making of" documentary, which gives an almost scene-by-scene breakdown of the movie. The animated storyboard sequences will appeal to filmmaking aficionados. Avoid, if at all possible, the Sheena Easton video of arguably the most forgettable Bond song of all time (both song and score were perpetrated by series newcomer Bill Conti, not the estimable John Barry). --Mark Walker

• Angel Heart | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £9.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (80.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The film packed with stunning images jaw-dropping scenes and superb performances from Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke is a fusion of two genres - the classic Chandleresque detective story and the supernatural. Harry Angel is hired for 5 a day to track down the big band swinger Johnny Favourite. What seems like a straight-forward missing person case dramatically becomes a murder hunt for this down-and-out private detective. His client Louis Cypher a mysterious stranger is forced to up his fee to keep Angel on the case. Each of Angel's leads ends up as a victim of a ritualistic act of murder as he begins to put together the pieces in the jigsaw of Johnny's strange story... the nightmare has just begun.

• Digimon Frontier (Digital Monsters Season 4) | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £14.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five kids from the Real World have been called to the Digital World to acquire the 'legendary spirits' to save the Digital World from one of the three Holy Angels, Cherubimon, who has revolted against the other two. Takuya, Kouji, Izumi, Junpei and Tomoki are the five Chosen Children from the Real World that have to use the spirits to 'Spirit Evolve' into the legendary warriors themselves.

• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a murder shocks 1938 Los Angeles, Detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and his partner Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) pursue the case during a historic period of great change: from the construction of the city's freeways to the infiltration of Third Reich spies and the rise of radio evangelism. Set against the city's deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, these powerful forces soon threaten Tiago and everyone he holds dear. Also starring Natalie Dormer and Academy Award® nominee Adriana Barraza, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels takes you into the darkest shadows of Hollywood's Golden Age. Special Features Introduction to Penny Dreadful: City of Angels The Many Faces of Magda The Dance of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels The Devil is in the Details Parts I & II

• Exit Wounds | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (185.51%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Steven Seagal stars as a tough cop who sets out to expose the corruption in his inner-city police department, with the help of a local crime lord.

• Phantasm Boxset | Blu Ray | (27/04/2020) from £46.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  IF THIS ONE DOESN'T SCARE YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD! Few horror movie franchises are as iconic as Don Coscarelli's Phantasm series. From its deadly flying silver spheres through to its hooded dwarf minions, and of course, the towering figure of arch villain The Tall Man himself, the imagery conjured up by the Phantasm films remains etched in the psyche of genre fans everywhere. Beginning with the 1979 original through to 2016's Phantasm: Ravager, the five films which make up the Phantasm series follow the young Mike Baldwin as he battles against the enigmatic Tall Man - an extraterrestrial being intent on harvesting the human race as slaves for his home planet. Aided by friend Reggie and his trusty four-barrelled shotgun, Mike resolves to vanquish the Tall Man before he wipes out humanity altogether. Coillected together Blu-ray - including a stunning 4K restoration of the original Phantasm overseen by J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek Into Darkness) - the Phantasm series is back with added balls! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) of all five Phantasm movies Original Mono, Stereo and 5.1 Surround Audio options Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for all films Special Edition Packaging with reversable sleeves featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin PHANTASM (1979 - 2016 REMASTER) The Los Angeles Premiere Experience join the audience of die-hard phans as they experience the restored classic for the first time! Watch the entire feature with a 5.1 Surround audience track recorded at the 2016 Los Angeles premiere followed by the full Phantasm Q&A panel Audio commentary with director/writer Don Coscarelli and actors A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury and Angus Scrimm Archive Introduction by Tall Man Angus Scrimm Reflections of Fear: Realising Phantasm In this brand new pheaturette, experience new stories about the people and personal inspiration behind Phantasm, and learn how the film's success has impacted on the actors and filmmakers' lives. Features interviews with Don Coscarelli, actors A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester and Ravager director David Hartman Q&A panel from the 2016 Austin Premiere of Phantasm: Remastered 1979 TV interview with Don Coscarelli and Angus Scrimm Behind-the-Scenes with optional audio commentary by Don Coscarelli and Reggie Bannister Phantasm: Actors Having a Ball Phantasm cast and crew offer up various recollections from the making of the film Deleted Scenes Original Trailer, TV and Radio Spots PHANTASM II (1988) Audio commentary with director/writer Don Coscarelli and actors Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister Reflections of Fear: Realising Phantasm II In this brand new pheaturette, learn from the cast and crew how and why a Phantasm sequel happened, the evolution of the story, and the introduction of the most iconic props in the series. Features interviews with Don Coscarelli, Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, special make-up artists Mark Shostrom and Dean Gates and Ravager director David Hartman The Ball is Back archive making-of documentary featuring interviews with Don Coscarelli, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister and others The Gory Days FX artist Greg Nicotero looks back at his work on Phantasm II Deleted and Workprint Scenes Behind-the-Scenes Footage Angus Scrimm Fangoria Convention Appearance Angus Scrimm Fangoria TV Spot Original Trailer and TV Spots Still Gallery PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994) Audio commentary with actors A. Michael Baldwin and Angus Scrimm Reflections of Fear: Realising Phantasm III In this brand new pheaturette, the cast and crew reflect on the third chapter in the Phantasm series and the vast amount of make-up work on the film. Features interviews actor A. Michael Baldwin, Ravager director David Hartman and make-up artists Mark Shostrom and Dean Gates Behind-the-Scenes Footage with optional audio commentary by Mark Shostrom and Dean Gates Deleted Scene Original Trailer Still Gallery PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION (1998) Audio commentary with director/writer Don Coscarelli and actors Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister Reflections of Fear: Realising Phantasm IV In this brand new pheaturette, the cast and crew reflect on how the fourth Phantasm film evolved and reflect on their personal relationship with The Tall Man, Angus Scrim. Features interviews with director Don Coscarelli, actor A. Michael Baldwin, special make-up artists Mark Shostrom and Dean Gates and Ravager director David Hartman Behind-the-Scenes Original Trailer Promo Still Gallery PHANTASM: RAVAGER (2016) Exclusive Introduction(s!) by director David Hartman The Los Angeles Premiere Experience join the audience of die-hard phans as they experience Phantasm: Ravager for the first time! Watch the entire feature with a 5.1 Surround audience track recorded at the 2016 Los Angeles premiere Audio commentary with director David Hartman and writer/producer Don Coscarelli Reflections of Fear: Realising Phantasm: Ravager Brand new pheaturette looking at the final chapter in the Phantasm series, featuring interviews with actors A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Daniel Schweiger and director David Hartman Q&A panel from the 2016 Austin Premiere Behind-the-Scenes Featurette Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary Bloopers and Outtakes Original Trailer Phantasm and You a light-hearted recap of the Phantasm franchise by David Hartman

• Love On A Branch Line | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Leslie Phillips and Michael Maloney star in this BBC adaptation of John Hadfield's 1959 comic novel Love On A Branch Line. The series concerns a civil servant Jasper Pye (Maloney) who is sent by the government to dismantle a forgotten research unit housed in an old country mansion Arcady Hall. The owner Lord Flamborough (Phillips) an eccentric double amputee lives in an old train on his own otherwise closed 'branch line' while the government pay for the upkeep of his ancestral home. Flamborough's equally eccentric family his wife and three daughters all live in Arcady Hall. When Pye arrives he is intent on producing an efficient report regarding the unit however within days he falls under the spell of the stately home and its inhabitants...

• Fantasy Island | Blu Ray | (13/07/2020) from £4.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky quests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.

• Police Academy 2 (DVD) | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £5.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (59.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  To protect serve... and entertain. The comic crimebusters are back! An anti-social nut job and his leathered band of pranksters are on the prowl spray-painting the town red and emptying the pockets of anyone sharing the sidewalk. In the wake of this crime wave you might wonder where the educational system went wrong. But then again consider the Police Academy. For when the newly graduated misfits in blue tangle with these pinheaded punkers in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment the result is an open-and-shut case of nonstop hilarity. Steve Guttenberg George Gaynes and other Police Academy originals return to the roll call facing the formidable Bobcat Goldthwait in the tailor-made role of the wacked-out gangleader. It's a riot - a laugh-riot - in the streets!

• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1 | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £36.98   |  Saving you £50.00 (142.90%)   |  RRP £84.99

  In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: the Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the conference room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledged that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: Star Trek: The Next Generation comes to DVD in a distinctively packaged seven-disc set. This is reproduced for all seven series, thus forming a handsome collection. The outer gunmetal grey case is plastic, and the discs themselves are held in a rather flimsy cardboard fold-out sleeve. Each disc has nicely done animated menus and audio/subtitle options for each episode--though no "play all" facility. Disc 7 also includes bonus features in the shape of informative cast and crew interviews (both new and from the launch of Season 1), subdivided into four chapters: "The Beginning", "Selected Crew Analysis", "The Making of a Legend" and "Memorable Missions". Picture is adequate 4:3 with good Dolby 5.1 showing off the innovative sound effects. --Mark Walker

• Scrooge | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A mixed bag as variations on A Christmas Carol go, this 1970 British musical tells the usual story of Scrooge (Albert Finney) and his spirits on Christmas Eve, although the whole thing is set to music by Leslie Bricusse. Except for Finney's feisty and involved performance, however, there isn't much to recommend this. The songs, which absorb so much of the evolving story line and emotions, are not all that good. Plenty of support, however, from the likes of Roy Kinnear (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) and Dame Edith Evans (Tom Jones), the handsome production is directed by veteran Ronald Neame (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). --Tom Keogh

• Resistance | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £8.45   |  Saving you £11.54 (136.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The year is 1944. The Nazis have occupied areas of Britain, and a small Welsh village is about to awaken to a shocking surprise. All of the men in the village of Olchon have vanished without a trace, including Sarah Lewis' (Andrea Riseborough) husband Tom (Michael Sheen), a respected farmer. Could they have left under the shroud of darkness to join the Resistance?

• Cimarron Strip (Multi-Region DVD) | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert Duvall and Beau Bridges star in the complete collection of 23 films.

• Your Honor Season 2 | DVD | (17/07/2023) from £19.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The 6th Day | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £4.80   |  Saving you £1.19 (24.79%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a pilot presumed dead who returns home only to find he has been replaced by a clone and his life is in danger.

• Ronin (Two Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £9.87   |  Saving you £10.12 (102.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money.

• Jack Frost | DVD | (29/11/1999) from £7.55   |  Saving you £6.44 (85.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Whatever you do, don't confuse this Jack Frost with the 1997 comedic horror flick of the same name (its tagline: "He's chillin ... and killin'"). This family film stars Michael Keaton as Jack Frost, an aspiring musician, loving husband and occasionally absent father. Frost's life is unexpectedly cut short by a car accident and a year after his death he comes back as--you guessed it--a snowman, to help his family heal (Kelly Preston and Joseph Cross as wife and son Gabby and Charlie, respectively). The sudden death may affect sensitive younger viewers but by the time Frost returns the movie is more light-hearted and the film's message is a worthy one. There's an underlying theme that supports independence, and Gabby isn't saddled with a new dude by the film's end. There's also a good rapport developed between father and son, and especially mother and son. If an audience can take that huge leap of faith to accept the premise (as youthful audiences will no doubt be able to do), this is entertaining family fare. --N F Mendoza