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• Silver Linings Playbook | DVD | (01/04/2013) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In lesser hands than director David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook could have been a typically cringe-inducing throwaway Hollywood rom-com. As it is, this unusual and deeply affecting story of crazy love is a bold observation about the joys and tragedy of life lived by deeply flawed characters facing triumph and adversity against a backdrop of painfully familiar family dysfunction. It's also a tremendous achievement in formal structure, with a flair for storytelling that's as moving as it is delightful. Bradley Cooper plays Pat, an until-recently undiagnosed bipolar person who's just home from a lengthy stay in a mental institution and doing his darnedest to get his head and his life back on track. His concerned parents, vividly embodied by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver, have plenty of troubles of their own when they warily take him in and tiptoe around the eggshells of a psyche that still veers wildly from seeming self-control to scary bouts of mania. Pat has a plan to win back the unfaithful wife whose restraining order is still in force because of the violent episode that sent him away after he nearly killed her lover. Interjected into this wobbly family scenario is Tiffany, a friend of a friend who is embroiled in her own turmoil of mental instability following the recent death of her husband. Jennifer Lawrence is a charming revelation as Tiffany, flexing sensitive acting muscles that are as toned as her lithe form. She throws herself into the role of a depressed, promiscuous young woman who needs Pat in her life about as much as she needs another personal tornado to rip her apart. But the movie magically reveals that these two disturbed souls have a destiny that's never really in doubt; although the whirlwind turns the movie takes to get them there are often breathtaking. Russell liberally adapted the movie from Matthew Quick's 2008 novel, and he deftly imbues the story with a vibrant sense of place (suburban, blue-collar Philadelphia) and each character, no matter how tangential to Pat and Tiffany's journey, with quirks and nuances that brilliantly reveal their essence. The subject of mental illness has rarely been portrayed with such honesty and candid respect. Constantly keeping us off guard, Silver Linings Playbook soars from darkness to a kind of screwball comedy that is as tender and touching as it is unpredictable. There are several tour-de-force moments that Russell constructs with the surest hand of direction, dialogue, and the talents of his cast. A key scene unfolds in a small living room where eight people are crammed together, each adding important pieces to the whole, and which thrums with a masterfully rhythmic pace. Another sequence follows the buildup to one of Pat's manic outbursts with a dizzying and increasingly stressful manifestation of the madness careening around in his head. It seems hard to believe that a love story with real humour, real pain, and genuine resonance that gets from point A to point B--it begins with a lone figure mumbling to himself and ends with a jubilantly staged ballroom dance--can succeed with so few missteps. But Silver Linings Playbook turns it all into an absorbing reality wherein life stumbles heartwarmingly toward what real love is all about. --Ted Fry

• When Harry Met Sally | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.64   |  Saving you £10.35 (183.51%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit, this splendid, irresistible film from director Rob Reiner is one of the best-loved romantic comedies of all time.

• 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

• The African Queen (Vintage Classics) 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (21/10/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adapted from the novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen (1951) directed by John Huston stars Humphrey Bogart in his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called the African Queen, which ships supplies to small EastAfrican villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn plays Rose Sayer, the maiden-lady sister of a prim British missionary (Robert Morley). When invading Germans kill the missionary and level the village, Allnut offers to take Rose back to civilization. She can't tolerate his drinking or bad manners; he isn't crazy about her imperious, judgmental attitude. However, it does not take long before their passionate dislike turns to love. Together the disparate duo work to ensure their survival on the treacherous waters and devise an ingenious way to destroy a German gunboat. Along with masterful direction from John Huston, the wonderful script makes this a rare treat indeed. Winner of Best Actor Oscar, nominated for 3 further Oscars and 2 BAFTA AwardsNEW Audio Commentary with Script Supervisor Angela Allen and Ian Christie ¢ Audio commentary by cinematographer Jack Cardiff ¢ Sir John Woolf on the Making of The African Queen ¢ Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen, a comprehensive documentary about the making of the film (60mins) ¢ A video interview with co-screenwriter Peter Viertel¢ 2010 NFT Q&A with Anjelica Huston and script supervisor Angela Allen ¢ 1981 NFT / Guardian interview with John Huston¢ Video interview with critic Kim Newman ¢ Video interview with historian Neil Sinyard ¢ Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from1952 with Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson ¢ Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery ¢ Original theatrical trailer

• Priest (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/11/2025) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First time on Blu-ray for this award-winning British 1990's drama, directed by Antonia Bird and written by Jimmy McGovern. At his new parish in inner-city Liverpool, eager young priest Father Greg (Linus Roache) clashes with his colleague Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson) over his progressive politics and disregard for his vow of celibacy. But soon, Father Greg's harsh judgement is directed inwards as he grapples with his attraction to a man, and his faith is tested when he learns of a young girl's abuse in the confessional. On its release, the film was widely condemned by the Church for its depiction of Catholicism, with calls to ban its theatrical release and boycotts of theatres screening the film. While some saw it as blasphemous, others praised it for its bold and confronting lens on the scandals and contradictions within the Catholic institution. Extras The BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series: Jimmy McGovern (2016, 27 mins): The award-winning writer in conversation with journalist Miranda Sawyer The Guardian Interview: Antonia Bird (1995, 70 mins) The Priest (1953, 22 mins): amateur documentary outlining the work of Catholic priests in the Brentwood and Romford area. The film's tone, though pious, ranges from gentle humour to deadly earnest. Other extras tbc **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with new writing on the film

• Heat (Remastered) | Blu Ray | (06/02/2017) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of The Godfather, Part II, but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together, and although their only scene together is brief, it's the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino, playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop and criminal lead similar lives. Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; and Kilmer's wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career. These are men obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's necessary to bring the other down. Mann's brilliant screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with absorbing insight, and the tension mounts with some of the most riveting action sequences ever filmed--most notably a daylight siege that turns downtown Los Angeles into a virtual war zone of automatic gunfire. At nearly three hours, heat qualifies as a kind of intimate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently waiting for more action, but it's all part of Mann's compelling strategy. Heat is a true rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of intense excitement and dramatic depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a prime showcase for their finely matched talents. --Jeff Shannon

• Wild at Heart - Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £33.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set against the stunning scenery of the South African bush, this boxed set contains the complete Wild at Heart, the story of Danny Trevanion (Stephen Tompkinson), a widowed English vet and his new extended family. Sarah (Amanda Holden), Danny's second wife, decides they should all return a sick monkey to its natural habitat in Africa in an attempt to bring her family and Danny's closer together. The holiday becomes a permanent adventure when they agree to stay to run a game reserve, presenting life-changing opportunities beyond even their wildest expectations or greatest fears. When the wild takes a terrible toll, Danny is bereft, but newcomers bring new life and with it, new hope for the future. And by Danny s side there is always his friend, tracker, guide and partner Duplessis without whom life would never be the same. This is a television drama series like no other. Colourful, adventurous, rich in dreams and possibilities, celebrating a way of life few can ever know but which can be enjoyed and experienced here who wouldn't want to live their lives Wild at Heart.

• The Intern | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin. Click Images to Enlarge

• Joker | DVD | (10/02/2020) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joker is an original, standalone story. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale. Please Welcome...Joker! - Through various takes of Joker's entrance on The Murray Franklin Show, learn why Todd Phillips describes Joaquin Phoenix as ˜the most nimble actor' he has ever worked with.

• Terminator 2 - Remastered | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arguably the finest film of its kind, Terminator 2: Judgment Day captured Arnold Schwarzenegger at the very apex of his Hollywood celebrity and James Cameron at the peak of his perfectionist directorial powers. Nothing the star did subsequently measured up to his iconic performance here, spouting legendary catchphrases and wielding weaponry with unparalleled cool; and while the director had an even bigger hit with the bloated and sentimental Titanic, few followers of his career would deny that Cameron's true forte has always been sci-fi action. With an incomparably bigger budget than its 1984 precursor, T2 essentially reworks the original scenario with envelope-stretching special effects and simply more, more, more of everything. Yet, for all its scale, T2 remains at heart a classic sci-fi tale: robots running amok, time travel paradoxes and dystopian future worlds are recurrent genre themes, which are here simply revitalised by Cameron's glorious celebration of the mechanistic. From the V-twin roar of a Harley Fat Boy to the metal-crunching Steel Mill finale, the director's fascination with machines is this film's strongest motif: it's no coincidence that the character with whom the audience identifies most strongly is a robot. Now that impressive but unengaging CGI effects have come to over-dominate sci-fi films (think of The Phantom Menace), T2's pivotal blending of extraordinary live-action stuntwork and FX looks more and more like it will never be equalled. --Mark Walker Total Recall, director Paul Verhoeven's mega-budget sci-fi action blockbuster from 1990, began its production life as a very different film. An adaptation of the Philip K Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", it was originally conceived with Richard Dreyfuss starring as a Walter-Mitty-like character that experiences a variety of artificially induced fantasies. But with Arnold Schwarzenegger on board, the final version took a rather different direction. The Austrian Oak plays a normal working man who discovers his entire reality has been invented to conceal a scheme for planetary domination on Mars. Oscar-winning special effects and violent action propel the twisting plot, in which Arnold manipulates his manipulators in a world of dazzling high technology. Verhoeven (Robocop, Starship Troopers) indulges his usual penchant for gratuitous bloodshed, but the film has enough cleverness to rise above its excesses. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Out of Africa 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (17/11/2025) from £25.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 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

• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (1 Disc Edition) | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £3.60   |  Saving you £7.39 (205.28%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Harry must compete in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament in this fantasy smash.

• Death Carries a Cane (Limited Edition Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/09/2025) from £20.67   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert Hoffmann (A Black Veil for Lisa), Nieves Navarro aka Susan Scott (The Big Gundown), and George Martín (A Pistol for Ringo) star in Death Carries a Cane, a stylish giallo mystery from director Maurizio Pradeaux (Churchill's Leopards).Tourist Kitty (Navarro) stumbles upon a murder whilst looking through coin-operated binoculars. When witnesses start being gruesomely bumped off, Kitty teams up with boyfriend Alberto (Hoffmann) to try and find the black-clad killer... if he doesn't find her first!With supporting performances from Rosita Torosh (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and Simón Andreu (The Blood Spattered Bride), Death Carries a Cane is a bloody and shocking classic of Italian genre cinema.INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse FilmsTwo presentations of the film: Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio, the Italian-language version; and Death Carries a Cane, the English-language versionOriginal mono audioAudio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson (2024)A Life in the Suite (2024): editor Eugenio Alabiso remembers his time working on the film Eugenio Ercolani on Maurizio Pradeaux (2025): the filmmaker and film historian discusses the director's careerPierpaolo De Sanctis on Roberto Pregadio (2025): the founder of Four Flies Records explores Death Carries a Cane's score and the work of its composerOriginal German theatrical trailerImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialNew and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrackNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrackLimited edition exclusive 80-page book with new essay by Roberto Curti, archival interviews with Nieves Navarro, Robert Hoffmann, and George Martín, and full film creditsLimited edition of 5,000 individually numbered units (4,000 4K UHDs and 1,000 Blu-rays) for the UKAll features subject to change

• Kes | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £7.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (106.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two brothers get caught up in Ireland's bid for independence in 1920.

• The Great Outdoors | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £8.65   |  Saving you £1.34 (15.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When an unannounced uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation the result is anything but restful. It's a vacationer's worst nightmare as wheeler-dealer Aykroyd his sexually repressed wife and eerie twin daughters 'join' the easygoing Candy and his straight-laced clan for a season of 'fun' in the sun. Unfortunately the only thing these two in-laws have in common is their intense dislike for each other. Soon it's brother-in-law against brother-in-law in an uproarious and hilarious fight to the finish to see which one really knows how to enjoy 'The Great Outdoors'.

• Sense And Sensibility | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel . Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films (such as Eat Drink Man Woman). Thompson's script won an Oscar. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• An American In Paris | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £5.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (137.52%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art.

• A Matter Of Life & Death Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• The Emperor's New Groove | Blu Ray | (03/03/2014) from £7.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Experience Disney's outrageously funny modern classic The Emperor's New Groove presented for the first time ever on Blu-ray with perfect picture and sound. Featuring an all-star cast and the Academy Award - nominated song 'My Funny Friend and Me' (Best Music Original Song Sting and David Hartley 2000). The young and spoiled Emperor Kuzco (voiced by David Spade) is transformed into a llama as part of a plan by his advisor Yzma and her henchman Kronk (Patrick Warburton) to overthrow Kuzco's reign on the kingdom. Unwillingly paired with a peasant named Pacha (John Goodman) the ruler must set aside his difference in order to assume his place in the kingdom once again. Special Features: Behind the Scenes: The Research Trip Character Voices Creating Computer Generated Images Deleted Scenes: Destruction of Pacha's Village Pacha's Family Original Kuzcotopia Ending My Funny Friend and Me' Music Video Performed By Sting