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• Operation Mincemeat | DVD | (04/07/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1943.¯The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.

• The Planet of the Apes Collection (six disc box set) | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-16.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.49

  The five films in the Planet of the Apes series are enjoyable as pure entertainment and yet substantial enough to have inspired academic studies about the film's broader political themes. Loosely adapted from the novel by French author Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes was released at the height of racial and political unrest in America, adding resonance to its story of a NASA astronaut (Charlton Heston) stranded on a planet where superior apes dominate inferior human slaves. The film's final image--in which a horrified Heston realises the fate of humankind--remains one of the most indelible in all of science-fiction cinema. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) continues the original's distant future scenario, pitting militant apes against mutant humans dwelling in the subterranean ruins of New York City. Its phenomenal success spawned Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), in which simian scientists Cornelius and Zira (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter, reprising their roles from Planet) travel backward in time, setting the stage for the ape supremacy of the first two films. McDowall returned in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) as Caesar, the son of Cornelius, leading an ape revolution that bridges the historical gap of the previous films. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) ended the five-film cycle with McDowall again playing the chimpanzee leader Caesar, defeating gorillas and human mutants to establish the hierarchy introduced in the original film. The Apes films present a classic what-if scenario that hasn't lost a bit of its potency. As if to prove its cultural endurance, the cycle returned to its origins with director Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes in 2001. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com On the DVD: A glorious indulgence for diehard fans of the series, this handsomely packaged six-disc set contains all five original" Apes" movies, from the wonderful 1967 original to 1973's low-budget Battle. It all look as good as possible in widescreen anamorphic transfers, the first movie's starkly wonderful cinematography in particular is a treat to see on DVD. Planet has been remixed in vivid Dolby 5.1, highlighting the bold sound design and JerryGoldsmith's masterful avant-garde score. The others are good Dolby stereo, with the odd exception of Escape, which is mono. There are trailers on each disc, but no commentaries sadly. The sixth bonus disc consists of a relatively new two-hour documentary hosted by Roddy McDowall which takes us through the entire saga in detail, pointing out the series' daring social commentary and the increasing difficulties of working with progressively smaller budgets. Sensibly, the documentary spends about an hour on the first movie and then an hour discussing all the rest. Overall, this is a very attractive package. --Mark Walker

• Operation Mincemeat | Blu Ray | (04/07/2022) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1943.¯The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.

• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £4.35   |  Saving you £8.64 (198.62%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two civilizations battle for the right to inherit what's left of earth! The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization a community of intelligent apes lives in harmony with a group of humans but a community of mutants who reside beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. Footage from the previous installments is effective in providing background information as flashbacks in an attempt t

• Rapid Fire | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Rapid Fire was the penultimate film starring Brandon Lee before his untimely death on the set of The Crow. It's a standard martial arts thriller in which Lee plays Jake Lo, a young arts student who witnesses a gangland execution and is unwittingly drawn into a pitched standoff between the mafia, a Chinese drug syndicate and Ryan, a downbeat but resolute Chicago cop (Powers Boothe) determined to nail his prey. With a plot that careens through every genre cliché, Lee's smouldering looks and showy fighting skills carry the film. The martial arts sequences (which Lee co-choreographed) are nicely staged, but given the unusual settings--the penultimate fight takes place in a Chinese laundry--could have been even more inventive. The workmanlike direction by Dwight H Little (Marked for Death, Free Willy 2) fails to inject much into the material. In particular, traumatised by seeing his Special Agent father die in the Tiananmen Square massacre, Jake Lo's attraction to both a corrupt FBI agent and Ryan as surrogate father figures could have been given more resonance given the loss of Brandon Lee's own father at an early age. With hundreds of bloodless deaths, cringe-worthy dialogue and a dated power rock soundtrack, Rapid Fire looks and feels like a TV film. And on that level, at least, it's entertaining. On the DVD: The main feature is presented in letterboxed widescreen. Sound and picture quality are very good. Subtitles are provided for ten languages (Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norweigian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish) and in English for the hard of hearing. Extra features are limited to chapter selection and a theatrical trailer. --Chris Campion

• Highlander - Endgame | Blu Ray | (30/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Exclusive all-new cut from the producers of the original Highlander – featuring 12 minutes of added footage never seen before. For the next electrifying chapter in this wildly popular action-packed legacy, Highlander: Endgame teams big-screen star Christopher Lambert (Highlander I, II and III Mortal Kombat) with Highlander TV series star Adrian Paul. To Combat the fearsome Highlander villain and his ruthless band of immortals, Connor (Lambert) and Duncan (Paul) join together for a power play for the ages. But even though it will take the combined strength of two immortals to win this fight, in the end there can be only one. Bold, exciting and tremendously entertaining – an epic struggle of good versus evil.

• Highlander: Endgame | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For the next electrifying chapter in this wildly popular action-packed legacy, Highlander Endgame teams big screen star Christopher Lambert (Mortal Combat) with Highlander TV series star Adrian Paul. To combat the fearsome Highlander villain and his ruthless band of Immortals, Connor (Lambert) and Duncan (Paul) join together in a power play for the ages. But even though it will take the combined strength of two Immortals to win this fight, in the end there can be only one. Bold, exiting and tremendously entertaining – an epic struggle of good versus evil.

• Highlander - Endgame | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The immortal Macleod's Connor (Lambert) and Duncan (Paul) must join forces against Kell an evil immortal who has become too strong for anyone to face alone...

• White Snake Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (09/11/2020) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by one of the most ancient and enduring stories in Chinese history, White Snake presents a sumptuous tale of trickster demons, deadly mythical beasts, assassins, wuxia action, and the promise of eternal love. Bianca, a young woman who has lost her memory, is helped by Xuan, a snake catcher, and together they set off on a search to find her identity. They have to overcome one dangerous obstacle after another and in their quest they gradually develop feelings for one another. Just as they come close to finding out who Blanca really is, disaster looms....

• Five Children And It / Two Brothers / James And The Giant Peach | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  5 Chidren And It: Written by E.Nesbit author of 'The Railway Children' this is the movie of five childrens' chance encounter with 'The Psammead' - an ancient extremely irritable sand fairy who has the ability to make wishes come. The only problem is that the wishes only last till sunset and the children also find it hard to think of sensible wishes! Two Brothers: Two tigers separated as cubs and taken into captivity are reunited years later as enemies by an explor

• Boss'n Up | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £6.97   |  Saving you £13.02 (65.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some play the game. He changed it! Stuck as a dead-end grocery clerk Cord Christopher (Snoop Dogg) is down on his luck broke and frustrated. And while he doesn't have much he has a way with the ladies. Cord realizes his true calling when Orange Juice (Hawthorne James) a legendary veteran of the pimp game pays an unexpected visit and shows him the ropes. With Orange Juice as his guide and the girl of his dreams Chardonnay Allen (Shillae Anderson) on his arm Cord embrac

• No Code Of Conduct | DVD | (29/08/2002) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jake Peterson is a renegade cop who thrives on the adrenaline rush of danger and fear and is no more at home than when bullets start flying with his insatiable quest for a piece of the action causing him to have a callous disregard for those nearest and dearest to him all but alienating even his closest family. The biggest and baddest criminals come and go as they fall victim to Jake Peterson's own brand of justice and the body count rises in spectacular fashion. Unfortunately for Jake his true sense of loyalty is about severly tested when he thwarts a multi-million dollar drug deal and revenge and retribution are the only focus of the battle hardened high-tech criminals who have suffered as a result of Jake's interference.

• Planet of the Apes Ultimate Collector's Edition | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  This amazing collector's item is an individually numbered limited edition Ape head containing 12 DVDs within a digistack which slots into the back of the head! Planet Of The Apes: 35th Anniversary Edition (2 Discs): Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist... Winner of an Honorary Acade