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• Cast Away (2 Disc Set) | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £12.76   |  Saving you £13.22 (135.31%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Cast Away reunites star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in their first collaboration since the heavy-handed sentimentality of Forrest Gump. Thankfully, this time their film's life-affirming message is delivered with more subtlety, attributable both to an extraordinarily committed, physically demanding central performance from Hanks and to Zemeckis' technically masterful but carefully understated direction. It's also a film with three distinct "acts" or, to be old-fashioned about it, a proper beginning, middle and end. The story follows schedule-obsessed but fulfilled FedEx supervisor Chuck Noland (Act 1) on a personal journey into the bleakest, most solitary despair (Act 2), before Helen Hunt, in the thankless role of ex-girlfriend, unwittingly allows him to glimpse an optimistic future full of untapped possibilities (Act 3). Hanks' sojourn on the island is the centrepiece, but this is no tropical island idyll: following a terrifying plane crash (the one sequence in the film where Zemeckis shows off his uncanny ability to choreograph action), life on the island is seen to be a depressing and bitter experience filled with disappointment, danger and suicidal despair. Having lost all hope of rescue, ultimately Noland's greatest test is not to survive, but to find a reason to survive. He has no Man Friday for company, just a volleyball named "Wilson" that is both a narrative device allowing Hanks to deliver dialogue and an intriguingly pagan personification of the island's spirit under whose protection Noland is finally able to summon fire (significantly, and heartbreakingly, Wilson leaves him as he regains contact with the world). In an era of MTV-style film editing, Zemeckis and Hanks fearlessly take their time establishing with total conviction the grim realities of Noland's situation, his devastating loss of hope and the means by which he achieves his escape. Like Contact before it, Cast Away is a refreshingly thoughtful piece of mainstream cinema that explores weighty existential issues but retains a warm human intimacy. On the DVD: The luminous anamorphic print with vivid Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is accompanied on the first disc by a technical commentary from Zemeckis and key crew personnel. It's plenty insightful for budding filmmakers, although for pure listening pleasure one might have preferred a more relaxed piece with just the director and Tom Hanks. The second disc includes a 30-minute making-of documentary in which the director sums up the moral of the movie--"Surviving is easy but living is difficult". This draws on material from the three other mini-documentaries about survival skills, Wilson the volleyball and the Fijian island location of Monu Riki respectively. There's also a section on the sometimes surprising use of CGI effects and a storyboard-to-film comparison sequence. Tom Hanks chats with American TV host Charlie Rose about this movie and his career in the extensive 50-minute interview. Trailers, artwork and stills round out a valuable two-disc set. --Mark Walker

• Matilda - Special Edition | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £6.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (162.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Unfortunately for Matilda her father Harry (Danny DeVito) is a used car salesman who bamboozles innocent customers and her mother Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) lives for bingo and soap operas. Far from noticing what a special child Matilda is they barely notice her at all! They bundle Matilda off to Cruncham Hall a bleak school where students cower before the whip hand and fist of a hulking monster headmistress Miss Trunchball (Pam Ferris). But amid Crunchem's darkness Matilda discove

• Calamity Jane | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (119.28%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.

• Motherland S1-3 Boxset | DVD | (14/11/2022) from £21.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Red Sonja (4K UHD) | Blu Ray | (18/07/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Richard Fleischer (Conan the Destroyer), the classic 80s fantasy action film RED SONJA has been restored in 4K UHD and includes a score from the renowned Academy Award-Winning® composer Ennio Morricone. Based on stories by the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard and featuring new original artwork by Renato Casaro, the original movie poster artist. Brigitte Nielsen (Rocky IV, Cobra) stars as the iconic, flame-haired heroine who sets out to avenge the death of her family after being granted extraordinary powers by a mysterious vision, but only if she vows to never fall in love with a man who cannot defeat her in combat. She is tasked to stop the tyrannical Queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman, Conan the Barbarian), who is in possession of a talisman that could destroy the world. On her journey she meets Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator, Total Recall), a powerful stranger gifted with unusual strength who insists on helping Sonja end the Queen's reign of terror. Product Features Feature-length Documentary about Renato Casaro: The Last Movie Painter Documentary Feature: Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Man who raised Hollywood Interview with Assistant Director Michel Ferry: Red Sonja vs. Kalidor - The Making of a Misunderstanding Original Theatrical Trailer

• Still Game - Series 7 | DVD | (21/11/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After a nine year hiatus, iconic comedy series Still Game is back for a hilarious new six-part series revisiting life-long friends Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade as they embrace the spirit of growing old disgracefully. Created, written by and starring Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, Still Game visits the fictional area of Craiglang as Jack, Victor and the rest of the residents cope with everything modern life throws at them.

• Normal People | DVD | (02/11/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the Academy Award® nominated director Lenny Abrahamson (ROOM) and the Academy Award® winning producers Element Pictures (THE FAVOURITE, ROOM), NORMAL PEOPLE is the unmissable BBC / Hulu series based on the best-selling novel by Sally Rooney. An exquisite and compulsive modern love story about how two people profoundly impact each other's lives, NORMAL PEOPLE tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small west of Ireland town to their undergraduate years at Trinity College Dublin. This critically acclaimed 12 part series explores just how complicated intimacy and young love can be. Extras: Exclusive unseen footage in DELETED SCENES and AUDITION TAPE, Other Extras: Featurette, Daisy & Paul extended interview, Casting.

• Marvel Studios Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania DVD | DVD | (22/05/2023) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) continue their adventures as Ant-Man and The Wasp. Together, with their families, they explore the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

• The Complete Yes Minister & Yes, Prime Minister | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £32.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brand New condition, Factory sealed. & disc set of "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister". -Box 1-

• Deep Cover (1992) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (23/08/2021) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director BILL DUKE (The Killing Floor). LAURENCE FISHBURNE (The Matrix) stars as Russell Stevens/John Hull, a police officer who goes undercover as the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (The Fly's JEFF GOLDBLUM) in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomesand the harder to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring DR. DRE's debut solo single, this unsung gem of the nineties' Black cinema explosion delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interview with director Bill Duke New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover's place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film's title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop Panel discussion from 2018 featuring Duke and Fishburne and moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by Gillespie

• All Of Us Strangers | Blu Ray | (17/06/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

• The Sting | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (82.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who had previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969. Set in 1936, The Sting features a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend and partner. Using a bogus bookie joint as a front for their con of all cons, the two feel the heat from the Chicago Mob on one side and encroaching police on the other. But in a plot that contains more twists than a treacherous mountain road, the ultimate scam is pulled off with consummate style and panache. It's an added bonus that Newman and Redford were box-office kings at the top of their game, and while Shaw broods intensely as the Runyon-esque villain, The Sting is further blessed by a host of great supporting players including Dana Elcar, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Charles Durning, and Harold Gould. Thanks to the flavourful music score by Marvin Hamlisch, this was also the movie that sparked a nationwide revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime jazz, which is featured prominently on the soundtrack. One of the most entertaining movies of the early 1970s, The Sting is a welcome throwback to Hollywood's golden age of the 30s that hasn't lost any of its popular charm. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Babe | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £7.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (51.20%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The surprise hit of 1995, this splendidly entertaining family film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and screenplay, and deservedly won the Oscar for its subtly ingenious visual effects. Babe is all about the title character, a heroic little pig who's been taken in by the friendly farmer Hoggett (Oscar nominee James Cromwell), who senses that he and the pig share "a common destiny." Babe, a popular mischief-maker the Australian farm, is adopted by the resident border collie and raised as a puppy, befriended by Ferdinand the duck (who thinks he's a cockerel), and saves the day as a champion "sheep-pig." Filled with a supporting cast of talking barnyard animals and a chorus of singing mice (courtesy of computer enhancements and clever animatronics), this frequently hilarious, visually imaginative movie has already taken its place as a family classic with timeless appeal. --Jeff Shannon

• 1917 (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917. At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiersBlake's own brother among them. Bonus Features Exclusive To Blu-ray The Weight Of The World: Sam Mendes Allied Forces: Making 1917 The Score Of 1917 Feature Commentaries - In The Trenches and Recreating History

• Paw Patrol: Dino Rescue | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ROAR into a prehistoric land with the PAW Patrol in these 6 dino-mite tales, including 2 double-length missions! Join the pups as they roll into Dino Wilds to keep their new friends safe from an erupting volcano and a scheming dino egg thief. Then, the team gears up for a robotic dinosaur adventure! Includes: Pups and the Lost Dino Eggs Pups Save a Pterodactyl Pups and the Big Rumble Pups Save a Big Bone Pups Bark with Dinosaurs Pups Save a Robo-saurus

• The Best Of Ealing Collection | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £19.63   |  Saving you £15.36 (78.25%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• The Towering Inferno | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (35.17%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Disaster movies used to work because there was little certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revellers. Newman's an architect, McQueen a firefighter and Fred Astaire a kind old gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. OJ Simpson plays a security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. -- Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• Breaking Bad - The Final Season | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The transformation of Walter White (Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston) continues in the final season of Breaking Bad. Join Walter and his erstwhile student and sometimes business partner Jesse Pinkman (Emmy Award winner Aaron Paul) as their corrosive story reaches its epic conclusion.

• Citizen Kane | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £6.54   |  Saving you £3.45 (52.75%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the May of 1941 RKO radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25 year-old first-time director. That premiere of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect on the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle story-line inventive cinematograp

• Something's Gotta Give | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £8.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (56.31%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves team up for a sophisticated romantic comedy about a New York music mogul who is astounded when he falls in love with a woman his own age.