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• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 40th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was that year's cerebral alternative to Star Wars. It's arguably the archetypal Spielberg film, featuring a fantasy-meets-reality storyline (to be developed further in E.T.), a misunderstood Everyman character (Richard Dreyfuss), apparently hostile government agents (long before The X-Files), a sense of childlike awe in the face of the otherworldly, and a sweeping feel for epic film-making learned from the classic school of David Lean. Contributing to the film's overall success are the Oscar-winning cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Trumbull's lavish effects and an extraordinary score from John Williams that develops from eerie atonality à la Ligeti to the gorgeous sentiment of "When You Wish Upon a Star" over the end credits. Not content with the final result, Spielberg tinkered with the editing and inserted some new scenes to make a "Special Edition" in 1980 which ran three minutes shorter than the original, then made further revisions to create a slightly longer "Collector's Edition" in 1998. This later version deletes the mothership interior scenes that were inserted in the "Special Edition" and restores the original ending. On the DVD: CE3K is packaged here with confusing documentation that fails to make clear any differences between earlier versions of the film and this "Collector's Edition"--worse, the back cover blurb misleadingly implies that this disc is the 1980 "Special Edition" edit. It is not. A gorgeous anamorphic widescreen print of Spielberg's 1998 "Collector's Edition" edit occupies the first disc: this is the version with the original theatrical ending restored but new scenes from the "Special Edition" retained. The second disc rounds up sundry deleted scenes that were either dropped from the original version or never made it into the film at all--fans of the "Special Edition" can find the mothership interior sequence here. The excellent "making-of" documentary dates from 1997 and has interviews with almost everyone involved, including the director speaking from the set of Saving Private Ryan. Thankfully the superb picture and sound of the feature make this set entirely compelling and more than compensate for the inadequate packaging. --Mark Walker

• Studio 54 | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Studio 54 is no Saturday Night Fever--more like Sunday Morning Hangover. This portrait of the legendary Manhattan disco and its colourful cofounder, Steve Rubell, plays like the outtakes of a much more interesting film—where are the sex, the drugs, the classic disco music? (It shouldn't surprise viewers that Miramax and writer-director Mark Christopher had a falling-out over the final cut of the film; Miramax prevailed.) Considering that the essence of Studio 54 was about the rich and beautiful, it seems a bit unwise to focus on the poor and only somewhat beautiful, namely Shane (Ryan Phillippe), a Jersey boy who gets taken in by the razzle-dazzle of the disco era. Crossing the river, Shane finds another, more exciting life at Studio 54 as a shirtless bartender, and soon finds himself partying with the crème de la crème--and smitten with comely soap star Julie (Neve Campbell). The permutations of the story are familiar, but too many elements are missing. Most of Phillippe's performance seems to have ended up on the cutting-room floor (although his chiselled torso gets maximum exposure), Campbell's role is basically a glorified cameo and Breckin Meyer and Salma Hayek, as Phillippe's only true pals, are wasted. The one true gem of the film, though, is Mike Myers' take on the late Steve Rubell, an inspired high-wire performance that balances humour and tragedy without ever giving in to camp or pathos--his drunken proposition of Philippe is a minor treasure. The soundtrack does feature some unknown chestnuts and a few new remixes, including an inspired disco version of--believe it or not--Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind". --Mark Englehart

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind--Collector's Edition (two discs) | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £12.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (76.98%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Byron | DVD | (04/05/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The young poet Lord Byron had everything. He was beautiful aristocratic talented - and sexually irresistible. By his mid-twenties he was the most famous man in England - the world's first celebrity. Women flung themselves at him. Men wanted to be like him. He lived for sensation and sexual excess indulging his darkest cravings and scandalising the nation until he could only be satiated by a passionate affair with his own half-sister. Too late he discovered that even a celebrity can go too far...

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 40th Anniversary Limited Edition | 4K UHD | (09/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl --may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophising about extra-terrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner "call." Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial. --Miles Bethany, Amazon.com

• Operation Pacific | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £6.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (112.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Submarine commander Duke Gifford feels guilty in the death of his former commanding officer, as well as about his failed marriage. These issues pull at him during a hazardous mission against the Japanese in World War II.

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Steven Spielberg's scifi blockbuster, now fully restored in 4K. Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who experiences a close encounter of the first kind witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. Meanwhile, government agents have close encounters of the second kind discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappears decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in an unusual place. Roy and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind contact. Includes All 3 Versions of the Film: Theatrical Version, Special Edition & Director's Cut - all restored in 4K.

• Footballers' Wives - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's glamorous sexy and totally unmissable - it's the all-new Footballer's Wives Complete Series 1 and 2 DVD boxset! Available for the very first time the set contains all 14 hours of the gloriously over-the-top first and second series together with a whole host of equally flashy DVD special features. No self-respecting 'Footie Wives' fan can do without this boxset!

• Rock A Doodle | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Rousing Rollicking Adventure Of The World's First Rockin' Rooster. Edmond's mother is reading him a bedtime story of a rooster who sings to make the sun shine while outside their farm is being flooded by a terrible storm. Hoping to save the family farm from flooding Edmond calls on his story's rooster Chanticleer to come save them but the evil owl Grand Duke has tricked the rooster into leaving the farm for the big city. To save him Edmond enters the animated storybook world transformed into a fluffy white kitten. Joining his new farm friends he sets off towards the big city in search of the rock & roll rooster.

• A Touch of Frost: Series 6 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £12.10   |  Saving you £12.89 (106.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. Featuring the complete series 6 of A Touch Of Frost. Episodes include: Appendix Man One Man's Meat Private Lives Keys To The Car.

• The Pack | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £9.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  On a remote farm in Southern Australia, hardened farmer Adam Wilson, discovers the last of his livestock have been mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. His dreams of keeping the family business going are shattered, but nothing can prepare him for what will happen next. As night falls the feral pack of dogs begin to circle the farmhouse. With a taste for fresh blood, they launch their attack, stopping at nothing to get inside the house. Will Adam and his family make it out alive? Or will they fall victim to THE PACK!

• Children Of The Living Dead | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £6.38   |  Saving you £-4.39 (-220.60%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Bred from the creators of the classic horror 'Night Of The Living Dead' comes the long awaited sequel 'Children of the Living Dead'. Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town Matthew Michael's only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface this small town is anything but calm and peaceful.

• The Hide | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £8.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (57.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One bird-twitcher heads out to the Suffolk mudflats looking for the elusive plover but he soon finds more than he bargained for when a bedraggled stranger shows up.

• Mangler 2, The: Graduation Day | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Escape Before It Rips You Apart. A terrifying new chapter in The Mangler legacy! What was designed to provide maximum security to Royal Collegiate College suddenly sets out to kill and destroy everyone in its path. Now virtual reality means virtual death!

• Motorhead - Stage Fright | HD DVD | (23/08/2010) from £20.82   |  Saving you £-7.83 (-60.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Motorhead have sparkled on the world's most prestigious stages graced countless magazine covers and released numerous rock classics; in 2005 they celebrate their 30th Aniversary! Tracklisting: 1. Dr Rock 2. Stay Clean 3. Shoot You In The Back 4. Love Me Like A Reptile 5. Killers 6. Metropolis 7. Over The Top 8. No Class 9. I Got Mine 10. Tragedy 11. Dancing On Your Grave 12. Ramones 13. Sacrifice 14. Power 15. Brazil 16. Killed By Death 17. Iron Fist 18. Whore House Blues 19. Ace Of Spades 20. Overkill

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Criterion Collection: Naked Lunch | Blu Ray | (09/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A