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• Gladiator -- Superbit | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes movie-making back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marvelling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marvelling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general Maximus, Crowe firmly cements his star status both in terms of screen presence and acting chops, carrying the film on his decidedly non-computer-generated shoulders as he goes from brave general to wounded fugitive to stoic slave to gladiator hero. Gladiator's plot is a whirlwind of faux-Shakespearean machinations of death, betrayal, power plays, and secret identities (with lots of faux-Shakespearean dialogue ladled on to keep the proceedings appropriately "classical"), but it's all briskly shot, edited, and paced with a contemporary sensibility. Even the action scenes, somewhat muted but graphic in terms of implied violence and liberal bloodletting, are shot with a veracity that brings to mind--believe it or not--Saving Private Ryan. As Crowe's nemesis, the evil emperor Commodus, Joaquin Phoenix chews scenery with authority, whether he's damning Maximus's popularity with the Roman mobs or lusting after his sister Lucilla (beautiful but distant Connie Nielsen); Oliver Reed, in his last role, hits the perfect notes of camp and gravitas as the slave owner who rescues Maximus from death and turns him into a Colosseum star. Director Scott's visual flair is abundantly in evidence, with breathtaking shots and beautiful (albeit digital) landscapes, but it's Crowe's star power that will keep you in thrall--he's a true gladiator, worthy of his legendary status. Hail the conquering hero! --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Son (SHUDDER) | DVD | (11/10/2021) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura's home and attempts to steal her eight-year-old son David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive but soon, she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. Special Features Interviews with Cast and Crew Deleted Scenes

• Naked Gun Trilogy | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Naked Gun (Dir. David Zucker 1988): Those screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed rock-brained cop Frank Drebin who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley O.J. Simpson a stuffed beaver two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 - The Smell O

• 3 Days To Kill | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Secret Service field agent Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) dedicated his life to the CIA but when he's diagnosed with a terminal illness, he retires from his high stakes life in order to reconnect with his estranged family.

• Prom Night | Blu Ray | (02/12/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Prom Night (1980), a slasher classic and one of the most influential horror films of the 1980s. Released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, this extras-packed limited edition is title 011 on our Black Label. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) and Leslie Nielsen (Airplane!) and adorned with a highly regarded original score and disco soundtrack, Prom Night is a bloody landmark in high school horror. Four Hamilton High School seniors have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year- old Robin Hammond for six long years. But someone saw what they did and is preparing for vengeance a prom night killing spree. Hooded, masked, and wielding an axe, he'll stalk his prey in the dark, empty halls, striking when his victims are alone. As the spotlight falls on the newly-crowned prom king and queen, will the killer be stopped before he can exact his murderous revenge..? Extras: Chasing the Final Girl, a new documentary on the Final Girl in horror movies An interview with director Paul Lynch Audio commentary with FrightFest's Paul McEvoy and filmmaker Jake West Limited Edition booklet: includes ˜Just Some F****** Nerdy Brother: Prom Night and the strange case of the Canadian slashers' by Dave Alexander and ˜Dance ˜Til You're Dead: Composer Paul Zaza remembers the music of Prom Night' by James Burrell Additional Extras: Audio commentary with Director Paul Lynch and Screenwriter William Gray The Horrors of Hamilton High: The Making of Prom Night Featurette Collection of additional scenes added for television broadcast Outtakes Motion still gallery Original radio spots

• Soldier | DVD | (02/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Kurt Russell hits new heights in laconic action heroes with his portrayal of Sergeant Todd, born and bred to be a soldier in a futuristic army. Raised to kill mercilessly, living only for battle, he finds himself at the twilight of his career (and so-called life) when a regiment of genetically enhanced warriors threatens to make his brand of soldiering obsolete. Despite his extensive skills, he is no match for the best of breed of the new order and he's left for dead on a planet that serves only as a junk heap. There he encounters a ragtag group of castaways and in his own strange and silent way slowly begins to learn how to be less a killer and more a human. All is disrupted, though, when the genetic regiment arrives on the trash planet and decides to eradicate the local human "trespassers". Though Todd had been overmatched before, this time he has more than ever to fight for--a home and friends. Soldier is one of those rare sci fi movies that relies more on plot and action than special effects (though the trash planet is effectively wrought). The pace of action in the last half of the film is relentless and exciting and Russell's portrayal of the old warrior as he warms to human emotions relies more on expression than words--in fact, he barely utters more than a half-dozen lines. --Todd Nelson

• Don't Say A Word / One Hour Photo / What Lies Beneath | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Don't Say A Word Michael Douglas is tremendous (Tribune New Services) in this psychological thriller in the classic Hitchcock tradition (The New York Observer). When the daughter of a prominent New York psychiatrist (Douglas) is kidnapped his only hope for her safe return is to pry a 6-digit number from the memory of a troubled teenage girl; time is running out... One Hour Photo In this unnerving thriller an employee in a one-hour photo lab (Robin Williams) becomes obsessed with a young suburban family... What Lies Beneath It had been a year since Dr. Norman Spencer (Ford) betrayed his beautiful wife Claire (Pfeiffer). But with Claire oblivious to the truth and the affair over Norman's life and marriage seemed perfect. So perfect that when Claire tells him that she is hearing mysterious voices and seeing a young woman's ghostly image in their home he dismisses her mounting terror as delusion. However as Claire moves closer to the truth it becomes clear that this apparition will not be dismissed and has come back for Dr. Norman Spencer... and his beautiful wife.

• Gladiator - Special Edition (2000) | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Upon the sudden death of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, his trusted and successful general Narcissus Meridas is unlawfully imprisoned and condemned to the gladiator games by Marcus's twisted son Commodus.

• Scary Movie - Collection | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-16.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Scary Movie: A year after disposing the body of a man they accidently killed a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer! Some of the send-ups include: Scream I Know What You Did Last Summer The Blair Witch Project The Sixth Sense and The Matrix. (Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans 2000) Scary Movie 2: All your favourite Scary Movie characters are back in a laugh-packed sequel that scares up even more irreverent fun than the original! Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans and Anna Faris lead a stellar cast that takes extreme pleasure in skewering Hollywood's most frightening feature films and spoofing popular culture. Also starring Regina Hall Christopher Kennedy Masterson Tori Spelling plus Tim Curry Chris Elliott and James Woods - nothing's sacred and anything goes in this outlandish must-see comedy... (Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans 2001) Scary Movie 3.5: 3.5 times the laughs! 3.5 times the terror! 3.5 times the stars! Charlie Sheen Anna Faris Eddie Griffin Queen Latifah Regina Hall and Denise Richards take Scary Movie 3.5 to new levels of twisted comedy. With the help of nonstop celebrity cameos - including Pamela Anderson Jenny McCarthy George Carlin Leslie Nielsen and a who's who of rap artists - thrillers blockbusters and pop culture get their best goosing yet. Rapid-fire jokes and funny bone-chilling suspense are sure signs this outrageous comedy will have you laughing your head off ... once you experience this longer funnier and more explicit unrated version! (Dir. David Zucker 2003) Scary Movie 4: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to watching films Scary Movie 4 rears its ugly head! It's an unsavoury hilarious treat for all comedy fans as the DVD release brings you The Uncut & Unsanitized Edition: different to the version seen in cinemas it's even ruder cruder and more fun! Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Just as an added challenge alien Tr-iPods are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.... (Dir. David Zucker 2006)

• All I Want For Christmas | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £0.96 (16.10%)   |  RRP £5.95

  In this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, she and Ethan (Sweet Home Alabama's Ethan Embry) come up with a plan to strand their parents alone together on Christmas Eve. Hallie even asks Santa (Leslie Nielsen) to help them out. All I Want for Christmas doesn't pack any surprises, but it's suitable for all ages and features lively cameos from Andrea Martin as Lillian's housekeeper and Renée Taylor as Catherine's rodent-fearing wedding planner. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Zoombies | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Just days before the Eden Wildlife Zoo s grand reopening, a monkey begins exhibiting signs of a strange virus which makes the animal extremely aggressive. When an effort to save it fails, it confounds the laws of nature and returns as a terrifying zombie monkey, killing its handlers and infecting others of its kind. As the newly-undead Capuchins break free and rampage through the enclosures, they viciously attack the other animals and spread the contagion. As the whole zoo rapidly becomes infested with these abominations, the zoo keepers find themselves under siege and outnumbered, and have only hours to stop the outbreak before the Zoombie creatures reach the birds of prey exhibit. If the birds become zombified and escape, a plague of the squawking-dead threatens to end the world as we know it...

• Zack Snyder's Justice League | Blu Ray | (27/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• In a Better World | DVD | (09/01/2012) from £7.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (102.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  2011 Oscar & Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Language Film, In A Better World is a gripping and beautifully constructed human drama about revenge and the power of forgiveness from acclaimed director Susanne Bier (After The Wedding).From the confines of a refugee camp in Africa, to the deceptively idyllic suburban life of two families in Denmark, Susanne Bier expertly paints a portrait of two fragile worlds inextricably linked by conflict and violence and the hard choices struggling to be made for life in a better world.Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness.Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death.Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy.

• Stratton | DVD | (01/01/2018) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following a mission in Iran which goes spectacularly wrong, Special Boat Service agent Stratton (Dominic Cooper) is summoned by the head of MI6 (Connie Nielson) to undertake another deadly operation. Having been presumed dead, former Soviet operative Barovski (Thomas Kretschmann) has gone rogue and intends to use deadly chemical weapons stolen from his former paymasters to take revenge. Stratton and his team are dispatched to track down Barovski in a nailbiting race against time to the unimaginable happening. Features: Cast & Crew Interviews Making Stratton featurette

• Help I'm A Fish | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Help! I'm a Fish is an action-packed, entertaining 78-minute animated feature film, made in Denmark and dubbed for British audiences, starring the vocal talents of distinguished actor Alan Rickman and Monty Python's Terry Jones. The plot is simple but creative. Three children--Fly, Chuck and Stella--are on a clandestine fishing trip, when they stumble upon a mad professor whose potion transforms humans into fish. Stella innocently drinks the liquid, becomes a starfish and is thrown into the ocean. In an attempt to save her, the boys follow suit with Fly changing into a Californian flyfish and Chuck into a jellyfish. The antidote falls into the hands (or fins!) of a pilot fish, Joe, who drinks it and acquires human intelligence, the power of speech, a tyrannical desire for world control and a following of militant crabs. The threesome has 48 hours to retrieve the antidote, or they will remain fish forever. Traditional hand-drawn cartoons are interspersed with more modern computerised animations. The variety of life underwater is beautifully portrayed, adding greatly to the colour and interest of the film. Terry Jones is suitably loopy as Professor MacKrill and Alan Rickman creates a villain to match his baddie roles in Die Hard and Prince of Thieves. There are several key themes including the importance of intelligence, determination and friends and of being kind to animals and respecting the environment. Overall, this is a fast paced video with catchy songs and the occasional scary moment that will excite and delight children aged four and over. --Tracey Hogan

• Repossessed | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This is a hilarious parady of 'The Exorcist'. 'Repossessed' stars the master of comedy spoofs Leslie Nielson and the original star of 'The Exorcist' Linda Blair. The devil possesses Nancy's body via her television set while she is watching a religious programme and there follows a side-splitting battle to exorcise the demon with many jokes and gags along the way!

• Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | Blu Ray | (10/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oscar night. Who will win? Who will lose? And will someone please kick that numbskull off stage? Wait! That's no ordinary numbskull. That's Lt. Frank Drebin, crashing the ceremonies to stop a terrorist plot that could mean curtains for him - or will a simple window shade be enough? Yes, back for a hilarious threepeat and a state-of-the-art advance in sequel numbering are the filmmakers you love, the returning stars you adore, plus others getting Naked for the first time: Fred Ward, Anna Nicol...

• Mission to Mars (Blu-Ray) (Filmjuwelen) | Blu Ray | (26/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• L.A. Confidential / The Negotiator / Devil's Advocate | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  L A Confidential: L.A. Confidential is tough gorgeous and vastly entertaining (The New York Times) a genuine masterpiece that will knock your socks off (Rex Reed) and won 1997 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Director Curtis Hanson and a terrific cast serve up a ravishing thrilling tale of police corruption and Hollywood glamour in this film version of James Ellroy's novel. Three Cops (Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce) a call girl (Kim Basinger) a mysterious millionaire (David Strathairn) a tabloid journalist (Danny De Vito) and the Chief of Detectives (James Cromwell) fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery ambition romance and humour. The Negotiator: Maverick hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) is framed for embezzlement and murder. Newly married and unjustly faced with prison Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones. Squaring off against him is respected methodical negotiator Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Under siege and racing the clock the two lock in a deadly battle of wits. Devil's Advocate: In this gleeful modern gothic fable Keanu Reeves plays eager Lomax and Al Pacino is the charismatic firm founder who knows there are cases to be won.... And soul to be lost. From Lomax's court triumphs and skyrocket rise to its double-twist ending The Devil's Advocate is red-hot entertainment. Lomax's life wife (Charlie Theron) and soul are on the line. He's landed a job that's Heaven on Earth...and which could lead him straight to hell.

• The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear | Blu Ray | (10/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's more of Leslie Nielsen's Lt Frank Drebin, the bumbling cop from the old Police Squad! television series. This time, Drebin uncovers a plot--led by supervillain Robert Goulet!--to sabotage America's energy policy. The jokes don't stick as well as those of the first film (Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!), but there are some very funny slapstick moments, including several involving former First Lady Barbara Bush (played by an actress, of course). --Tom Keogh