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• Cover Up | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  American bases in Israel are being bombed by rebel forces. The explosions just a diversion for a secret plot that may shake the free world.

• Mr Saturday Night | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Comedian Billy Crystal invested a life's worth of experience into his directorial debut, starring in and cowriting it as well. Mr. Saturday Night is a fascinating alternate biography of the career he never had. From the 1920s to the 90s, the movie uses flashbacks to follow a comedian's turbulent journey from making the family laugh, to stardom, to retirement. Buddy Young Jr (Crystal) and his brother Stan (David Paymer) show us the decidedly unfunny behind-the-scenes family events that can bolster or destroy an act. It's unfortunate that the flip side of Buddy's comic face is a viciously cruel streak. Distanced from his daughter and with Stan's need to move on, the contemporary segments are tinged with tragedy. They're assisted immeasurably by some impressive old-age make-up (which so often fails), transforming Crystal into an unrecognisable cantankerous creature. The gags come thick and fast; there are numerous cameos and the good-natured tone of the movie make it universally appealing. If only more acts from Saturday Night Live had been handled as well. On the DVD: Mr. Saturday Night is a standard transfer with no frills in 4:3 and stereo. The extras package offers a series of mini-interviews that are interesting in themselves, but inexplicably repeated in the accompanying five-minute featurette. --Paul Tonks

• The Dark Knight | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £7.41   |  Saving you £12.58 (169.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Dark Knight arrives with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great--in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision--is that it bypasses the normal fantasy element of the superhero genre and makes it all terrifyingly real. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is Gotham City's new district attorney, charged with cleaning up the crime rings that have paralysed the city. He enters an uneasy alliance with the young police lieutenant, Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), and Batman (Christian Bale), the caped vigilante who seems to trust only Gordon--and whom only Gordon seems to trust. They make progress until a psychotic and deadly new player enters the game: the Joker (Heath Ledger), who offers the crime bosses a solution--kill the Batman. Further complicating matters is that Dent is now dating Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, after Katie Holmes turned down the chance to reprise her role), the longtime love of Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne. In his last completed role before his tragic death, Ledger is fantastic as the Joker, a volcanic, truly frightening force of evil. And he sets the tone of the movie: the world is a dark, dangerous place where there are no easy choices. Eckhart and Oldman also shine, but as good as Bale is, his character turns out rather bland in comparison (not uncommon for heroes facing more colorful villains). Director/co-writer Christopher Nolan (Memento) follows his critically acclaimed Batman Begins with an even better sequel that sets itself apart from notable superhero movies like Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man because of its sheer emotional impact and striking sense of realism--there are no suspension-of-disbelief superpowers here. At 152 minutes, it's a shade too long, and it's much too intense for kids. But for most movie fans--and not just superhero fans--The Dark Knight is a film for the ages. --David Horiuchi

• Madman | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £18.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE. Gather around the campfire, and hearthe tale of Madman Marz an ill-tempered farmer who, one dark night, chopped up his wife and two children into pieces. When the locals learned of his heinous crimes, they exacted revenge sinking an axe into his head and hanging him from a nearby tree. But the next day, Marz s body was gone... Thus the camp counsellor finishes his tale, closing with the warning never to say Marz s name above a whisper, lest the hideously-deformed farmer comes looking for them. Naturally, the first thing that one of the young campers does is calls out Marz s name precipitating a terrifying night of murder, mayhem and sexy Jacuzzi vignettes! Inspired by the same Cropsey urban legend which informed 1981 s The Burning and starring Dawn of the Dead s Gaylen Ross (appearing under the pseudonym Alexis Dubin ), Madman stands as one of the finest offerings from the golden age of hack n slash.

• Dancing At Lughnasa | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This affecting, bittersweet tale--adapted from Brian Friel's semi-autobiographical Tony Award-winning play--examines the emotional lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters in 1936 rural Ireland. In their mutual care is eight-year-old Michael (sweetly understated Darrell Johnston), the illegitimate son of youngest sister Christina (Braveheart's Catherine McCormack). A voice-over from the adult Michael recalls that significant summer, in the month of August, during the feast of Lughnasa. The bolder townsfolk dance around a fire to Lugh, an ancient god of light. Yes, this is fiercely Roman Catholic Ireland and Lugh a pagan god, but that irony is at the core of the film: the hypocrisy of tradition. The dramatic change in the richly metaphoric movie comes with the arrival of two men: eldest sibling--and only Mundy brother--Jack (Michael Gambon), a priest returning from many years in Africa, now addled, and Christine's long-absent lover and Michael's father, the charmingly flighty Gerry (Rhys Ifans). Beautiful music and excellent performances highlight the film, which also features gorgeous cinematography of the Irish countryside. Meryl Streep is stern eldest sister Kate; Kathy Burke is lively Maggie; Brid Brennan (who appeared in the stage play) is thoughtful caretaker Agnes; and Sophie Thompson is simple sweet Rose. It's a quiet film, but one filled with ironic and haunting meaning. Directed by Pat O'Connor (Circle of Friends). --N.F. Mendoza, Amazon.com

• The Hunted | Blu Ray | (05/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Children Of The Corn 3 - Urban Harvest | Blu Ray | (27/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The third film in the 'Children of the Corn' series. When a farmer is brutally murdered in a Nebraskan cornfield it results in his two young sons, Eli and Joshua, being moved to Chicago to live with foster parents. Joshua soon settles in, but Eli, possessed by an evil force, begins to build an army of followers, determined to murder every adult in the city as part of a grim, ritualistic sacrifice.

• Gnomeo & Juliet - Festive Sleeve | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £8.19   |  Saving you £11.80 (144.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the gardens of fair Verona Drive, we witness the blossoming romance of two young gnomes, Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt), amidst a turf war between the reds and the blues. Between the high-speed lawnmower chases and stealth missions, hearts (and hats) are broken, loyalties are tested and garden boundaries drawn, but can true gnomance conquer all? When your best friends are an over-excitable frog, a lovelorn flamingo, a loyal mushroom, a team of Bond-esque bunnies and a dopey fawn, there's a shedload of fun and adventure around every plant pot!The miniature monuments are voiced by massive household names including James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Matt Lucas, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen, Jason Statham and Ozzy Osbourne to gnome a few! Featuring classic and original songs by Elton John and directed by Kelly Asbury (Shrek 2) Gnomeo And Juliet is a great love story......with a very small difference.

• Devil's Bridge | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £4.50   |  Saving you £8.49 (188.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sean takes his two friends into the rural wilds of Wales in search of an underworld specialist who can illegally revive his failing business. Deep in alien, isolated territory, they accidentally cross William Parry, a broken and desperate farmer dangerously hateful and paranoid of all around him. The situation spins rapidly out of control, spiraling into a horrific heart of darkness spree of pointless violence and revenge as Parry hunts the three friends across the stark and unforgiving terrain.

• Used Cars | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Used Cars, the 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis, gives no indication of things to come in his career (Back to the Future, Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humour he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden star in a sketchy comedy about competing used-car salesmen who resort to outrageous tactics to lure customers away from each other. The jokes, like the characters, are intentionally recycled, self-conscious comic fodder from a baby-boomer's lifetime (such as Gale's or Zemeckis') of immersion in pop culture. That makes Used Cars more pastiche than original (the film's title itself suggests that), but as such it has some good, if vaguely familiar, laughs in it. Russell, particularly, is very funny as a practiced con man. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 7 - Attack Of The Giant Leeches | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Attack Of The Giant Leeches: Unbeknown to the locals giant leeches live in caves under a swamp. The disappearance of a succession of trappers prompts the game warden to investigate matters with horrifying results. The Amazing Transparent Man: An expert safecracker named Faust (Douglas Kennedy) turns invisible via radioactive rays in this low-budget science fiction-crime movie. A beautiful dame (Marguerite Chapman) busts Faust out of jail and takes him to a remote Te

• Boycott | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A drama based on the events in Alabama in 1955. When a black woman refuses to give up her seat on a bus for a white woman she is arrested and charged under the state's segregation laws. Enter a man called Martin Luther King who leads a boycott of the buses and a fight against prejudice...

• Harvest | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heartwarming.

• WITHNAIL and I Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  The finest cult film known to humanity! Camden Town the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District – one that will involve rain booze minimal supplies a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. Based on the real-life experiences of former actor turned writer/director Bruce Robinson Withnail & I has become one of British cinema’s most fondly remembered comedies. A cult film in the truest sense that has also become a classic. Perfectly cast – with career-defining roles for Richard E. Grant Paul McGann Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown – and crammed with irresistibly quotable dialogue Withnail & I is a sheer delight even on the umpteenth viewing. Only 2 000 are being made available in this format – Please contact me to discuss a pre-order quantity allocation. Features: New 2K restoration of Withnail & I from the original camera negative supervised and approved by director of photography Peter Hannan High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD Presentation of both films -Original uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio for both films -Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing -Audio commentary by writer-director Bruce Robinson Audio commentary by critic and writer Kevin Jackson author of the BFI Modern Classic on Withnail & I Bruce Robinson’s follow-up feature How to Get Ahead in Advertising newly transferred from original film elements and approved by director of photography Peter Hannan All four original ‘Withnail Weekend’ documentaries first screened on Channel 4 in 1999 including The Peculiar Memories of Bruce Robinson which looks at the director’s career Withnail & Us which focuses on the film’s making and two shorter documentaries I Demand to Have Some Booze and Withnail on the Pier Newly filmed interviews with key members of Withnail & I’s behind-the-scenes team Theatrical trailers for both films Exclusive limited edition hardback book packaging (2 000 copies) containing new writing on the films reprints of key articles on Withnail & I deleted scenes and more across 200 pages illustrated with original production stills -More to be announced!

• Ticks | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the director of Hellraiser 2 and the special effects wizard of Terminator Gremlins and Total Recall comes the creepiest crawliest nightmare you will ever experience! Mutated blood-sucking insects are on the hunt for human flesh to host their eggs and feed their young. Starring Seth Green and Ami Dolenz this movie is guaranteed to make your skin crawl.

• 3 Ninjas High Noon at Mega Mountain | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An evil gang takes over an amusement park only to be foiled by three Ninja-trained brothers and a TV action star in 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, a smartly-paced, if by-the-numbers, kiddie action flick. Medusa (Loni Anderson) and Lothar (Jim Varney) head up the gang with ransom money and mayhem on their minds. But they don't count on the young trio, taught by their Asian grandfather, and Dave Dragon (Hulk Hogan), making a live appearance at the park. What follows is campy humour, lots of Karate-style action and plenty of Home Alone-type boy vs foolish bad-guy high jinks. And girls aren't left out: the brothers' neighbour, a brainy techno girl, is on hand to hack into the computer and override the gang's murderous plans, while also providing 007-style gadgets for hand-to-hand combat. While there is plenty of gunplay in the 90-minute film, no one is killed or even significantly hurt, making it appropriate for ages five and up. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

• Nim's Island | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anything can happen on "Nim's Island", a place where everything runs wild, especially imagination.

• House Of Fury | Blu Ray | (26/10/2009) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Teddy is an ex Secret Service man living out the quiet life as a chiropractor. His kids think he's a delusional loser, yet when a shadowy villain from his past re-appears, his license to thrill is dusted down and the high-kicking, crazy action begins.

• Another Shore | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Bad Land: Road To Fury | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £5.94   |  Saving you £14.05 (236.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jake Paltrow writes and directs this sci-fi action feature starring Michael Shannon and Nicholas Hoult. Set in a futuristic, drought-ridden America, Ernest Holm (Shannon) survives in the deserted wasteland whilst maintaining a farm and trying to rediscover a sustainable water supply. Following the hospitalisation of his wife Katherine (Aimee Mullins), Ernest lives with his two children Mary (Elle Fanning) and Jerome (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they try to get enough money together to enable their mother to return home. But their lives are tragically disturbed by the ruthless intervention of Mary's boyfriend Flem (Hoult) who wants sole possession of the family land.