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• Jurassic Park | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £5.98   |  Saving you £15.27 (323.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On remote Isla Nuba entrepreneur John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has built the ultimate theme-park, populated by genetically engineered dinosaurs painstakingly reconstructed from DNA extracted from prehistoric amber... and, of course, frogs! Adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, Steven Spielberg's classic blockbuster became a cultural and commercial phenomenon thanks in part to the enduring appeal of all things prehistoric. But the film's extraordinarily realistic digital dinosaurs also showcased the spectacular computer-generated effects which have since become ubiquitous in Hollywood filmmaking. Indeed, in the years since 1993 it is debatable whether any film has revolutionised special effects to such an extent, and this DVD release offers the perfect opportunity to relive its visual and aural splendour (the film was also the first to be released with a DTS soundtrack). Given the rather insipid team of experts (including Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum) sent to approve Hammond's site, there is no doubt that the dinosaurs are the real stars of Spielberg's film. From the benign majesty of the towering brachiosaurus to the reptilian menace of the velociraptors, the inhabitants of Jurassic Park were a radical departure from their stop-motion predecessors, and remain compellingly real in their animalistic pursuit of survival at all costs. Most memorable of all is the T-rex, displaying a spine-chilling combination of physical ferocity and child-like bewilderment in the face of its reincarnation in the modern world. It was no surprise that in The Lost World sequel the T-rex once again took centre stage, but this first appearance still retains a unique power and a seminal place in film history. --Steve Napleton

• Merlin | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £10.52   |  Saving you £-0.53 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  What kind of guy was the wizard Merlin, anyway? He lives a long time, raises a boy to be a king, props up a Utopian empire with his magic and wisdom, and then watches as it all crumbles under such banal forces as vengeance and betrayal. This four-hour mini-series re-tells the story of Camelot and King Arthur from the perspective of the magic man who sacrifices a great deal to guide mortals toward a better destiny. Sam Neill plays Merlin as an accessible, flesh-and-blood fellow of real passion, powerless to undo the spell of a rival (Rutger Hauer) who has virtually imprisoned Merlin's great love, Nimue (Isabella Rossellini), but gifted enough to counter the treachery of Morgan Le Fey (Helena Bonham Carter) and the wicked Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson). The battle sequences and special effects are striking and original, and it is great fun to see such art-house movie actors as Richardson, Carter, Neill, etc., in fantasy entertainment the whole family can enjoy. (An unrecognizable Martin Short must be singled out, however, for a wonderful, largely dramatic performance as Mab's sidekick, Frik.) Directed by Steve Barron (The Adventures of Pinocchio), Merlin is a nice bit of glossy revisionism of a beloved legend. --Tom Keogh

• Jurassic Park Trilogy | Blu Ray | (30/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Own all three jaw dropping Jurassic Park films in this new collection now including Ultraviolet so that you'll never be far from the action. Jurassic ParkA millionaire builds a theme park on a remote Pacific island where real dinosaurs have been grown from long dormant DNA molecules. The millionaire's two grandchildren two dinosaur experts a mathematician and a lawyer discover the power of nature: but it's no longer a game when the dinosaurs run amok. Special Features: The Making of Jurassic Park Original Featurette on the Making of the Film Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park Hurricane in Kauai Featurette Early Pre Production Meetings Location Scoutings Phil Tippet Animatics Raptors in the Kitchen Foley Artistsl Theatrical Trailer Animatics TRex Attack ILM and Jurassic Park: Before and After the Visual Effects Storyboards: TRex Attack Jeep Chase Raptors in the Kitchen Omitted Baby Trike Scene The Original Ending Production Archives: Photographs Design Sketches Conceptual Paintings Return to Jurassic Park Making Prehistory The Next Step in Evolution Dawn of a New Era Jurassic Park: Making the Game Thank You Piracy Trailer Jurassic Park: The Lost WorldThe sequel to the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as the unconventional mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm. It's been four years since the secret disaster at John Hammond's Jurassic Park. On InGen's second Costa Rican island the dinosaur manufacturing and cloning facility code named Site B has been destroyed by a hurricane. Now Malcom finds himself with the terrifying realisation that not only has something survived but the animals now live and breed in the wild. Special Features: Production Photographs Illustrations and Conceptual Drawings Models The World of Jurassic Park The Magic of ILM Posters and Toys Storyboards: Stego Attack The Round Up Eddie’s Death Death in the Waterfall Malcolm Vs. Raptor Sarah Harding Vs. The Raptors Getting The TRex Off The Island The Cargo Ship Sequence The TRex Visits San Diego The Revenge Of The TRex Omitted Air Attack The Original Ending Return to Jurassic Park: Something Survived Finding the Lost World Deleted Scenes The Making of the Lost World Original Featurette on the Making of the Film The Jurassic Park Phenomenon: A Discussion with Author Michael Crichton The Compie Dance Number: Thank You Note to Steven Spielberg Behind The Scenes: ILM and the Lost World: Before and After the Visual Effects Theatrical Trailer Thank You Piracy Trailer Jurassic Park IIIThe saga of genetically modified dinosaurs running amok continues. Special Features: Return To Jurassic Park: The Third Adventure The Making of Jurassic Park III The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs The Special Effects of Jurassic Park III The Industrial Light and Magic Press Reel The Sounds of Jurassic Park III The Art of Jurassic Park III Behind The Scenes: Tour of the Stan Winston Studio Behind the Scenes (Spinosaurus Attacks the Plane/Raptors Attack Udesky/the Lake) A Visit to ILM Dinosaur Turntables Storyboards to final feature comparison (Lake/The Aviary/Boat Attack) Production Photo's Theatrical Trailer Feature Commentary with Special Effects Team Thank You Piracy Trailer

• The Daughter | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £8.41   |  Saving you £7.58 (90.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

• A Cry In The Dark | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A family torn apart. A public filled with outrage. A woman accused of murder. Based on true events Fred Schepisi's film stars Sam Neill and Meryl Streep as an Australian couple who are accused of murder when their claims that their baby was taken by a dingo in the outback fall under suspicion...

• Little Fish | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

• Jurassic Park III | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £4.86   |  Saving you £11.13 (229.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome. Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humour (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon

• My Brilliant Career | Blu Ray | (27/05/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Judy Davis stars in Gillian Armstrong's breakthrough, a period romance as unconventional as its brash heroine. For her awardwinning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turnofthetwentiethcentury Australian comingofage story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a starmaking performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all else. When a handsome landowner (Jurassic Park's Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life's work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humour and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit. Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Gillian Armstrong, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2009 featuring Armstrong New interview with Armstrong Interview from 1980 with actor Judy Davis New interview with production designer Luciana Arrighi One Hundred a Day (1973), a student short film by Armstrong Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey

• Jurassic Park (BD) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2018) from £9.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award-winning visual effects and ground-breaking filmmaking that has been hailed as a triumph of special effects artistry (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times), this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough, discover the breath-taking adventure you will want to experience again and again. Special Features: Return To Jurassic Park: Dawn Of A New Era, Making Prehistory, The Next Step In Evolution The Making Of Jurassic Park Original Featurette On The Making Of The Film Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park Early Pre-Production Meetings Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors In The Kitchen Animatics: T-Rex Attack ILM And Jurassic Park: Before And After The Visual Effects Foley Artists Storyboards Production Archives

• Merlin 2 | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sam Neill returns to the small-screen as the mythical wizard Merlin in this sequel to the original Emmy Award-winning smash mini-series. The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot a Kingdom now vulnerable to ill-fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly magic the fight against unknown dangers begins - to find the Grail restore it to its rightful plac

• Reilly - Ace Of Spies - The Complete Series | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  All six volumes of adventures starring Sam Neill as the British master spy.

• Molokai: The Forbidden Island | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In 1872 Father Damien shamed the cynical establishment into helping the abandoned lepers on the island of Malakai. Based on Father Damien's true story.

• Jurassic Park 30th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £32.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award®-winning visual effects and ground-breaking filmmaking that has been hailed as a triumph of special effects artistry (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times), this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Product Features Illustrated 4K + Blu-Ray Steelbook with Spot Gloss detail Rigid Outer Slipcase featuring front & back artwork from Chris Koehler 44-Page Collectible Booklet Film Cell Replica Art Cards Certificate of Authenticity

• Merlin's Revenge | DVD | (24/03/2014) from £4.55   |  Saving you £15.44 (339.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The great sorcerer Merlin (Sam Neill) has returned to Camelot a kingdom now at war since the theft of the Holy Grail which was its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack a cheeky young beggar-thief empowered with his own unruly magic the fight begins against the evil Rauskaug and the Lady of the Lake (Miranda Richardson)! They must find the Grail restore it to its rightful place and b ring Camelot back to its glory days. Merlin awakes after 50 years to find the Kingdom in disarray. Evil walks throughout the land and it seems all hope is lost. A young beggar thief Jack comes into Merlin's rooms where it's discovered he possesses magical abilities that may just be the key to finding the Holy Grail. This epic picture was also released under the title Merlin's Apprentice.

• Iron Road | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Iron Road

• Omen III: The Final Conflict | DVD | (20/06/2006) from £18.10   |  Saving you £-5.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The power of evil no longer rests in the hands of a child... Damien Thorn (Sam Neill) has helped rescue the world from a recession appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S Ambassador to England Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ. Determined to thwart his holy arch-nemesis as well as a group of priests intent on killing him Damien begins his most destructive rampage yet...

• Sibling Rivalry | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kirstie Alley knocks 'em dead - literally - and then becomes hysterically hysterical in this comedy co-starring Bill Pullman Carrie Fisher Jami Gertz Scott Bakula Sam Elliott and Ed O'Neill. All Marjorie (Alley) ever wanted was to become a writer - ""like Slyvia Plath... only happy."" But she put her dream aside to marry a doctor (Bakula)... before discovering that he has no bedside manner. Unhappy unfulfilled and decidedly unsatisfied she attempts to find bliss in a hotel room wi

• Snow White - A Tale Of Terror | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £8.47   |  Saving you £1.52 (17.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The fairy tale is over. If you thought Snow White was only a fairy tale you're about to discover the truth but lock up your children first. The real tale of Snow White is a tale of relentless terror and unimaginable horror. When young Lillian's mother dies during childbirth the father soon remarries the well-intentioned Lady Claudia. However Claudia's heart is ruled not by her husband but by an evil mirror with the power to make Claudia Queen over all living things until

• The Tudors - Season 1 | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £4.40   |  Saving you £13.59 (308.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Passion, ambition, and treachery collide in this compelling drama about the early years of King Henry VIII's infamous 40-year reign. With a lust for power and an appetite for love, this young Monarch (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) rules his kingdom as he lives his life - with ruthless abandon. Affairs of the state carry little interest for him, and official matters are left to the powerful Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (Sam Neill), while England's ruler tends to his own desires. This engaging and thrilling...

• Plenty | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There will be days and days and days like this... Meryl Streep delivers one of her greatest performances in David Hare's adaptation of his own stage play which spans two decades in the life of a French Resistance operative who struggles to build a new life amid the apathy of post-war England. Featuring a stellar supporting cast and winning a brace of awards and nominations in 1985 this masterly feature is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. At the end of World War Two Susan Traherne a young Englishwoman who has worked as a courier in Nazi-occupied France returns home full of hope for a golden future. Yet peacetime brings its own difficulties for Susan; she finds her marriage to a Foreign Office diplomat arid and unfulfilling and the seemingly trivial concerns of others leave her cold. As the danger and intensity – and undeniable excitement – of her wartime days give way to a new mundane life her fragile mental and emotional stability begins to crumble… Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF