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• Too Late The Hero | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £6.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set on a Pacific island in 1942, Too Late the Hero is a hard-as-nails "men on a mission" war movie: a group of British soldiers have to traverse the New Hebrides to destroy a Japanese radio transmitter, then get back to safety while being hunted all the way. Inevitably everything goes wrong, but director Robert (The Dirty Dozen) Aldrich turns the book of WWII movie clichés on its head and springs some unnerving surprises. Even the token American star, Cliff Robertson--echoing William Holden's grafted-on role in The Bridge on the River Kwai--proves less than obviously heroic, while an outstanding Michael Caine brings considerable depth to his usual cynical cockney. Henry Fonda gets heavily billed for a brief guest appearance, but there are star performances such fine British character actors as Denholm Elliot, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser and Lance Percival. This portrait of battle-worn men offers greater complexity than Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, while the jungle trek was more recently paralleled in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Only the attitudes--more 1970 than 1942--detract from Aldrich's tellingly realistic vision, which with a thoughtfully ironic script and a succession of tense set pieces and brutal firefights, builds to a harrowing climax. On the DVD: The picture is presented at approximately 1.7:1, reformatted from the original 2.2:1 70mm theatrical presentation. Despite approximately 25 per cent of the original image being missing, this loss is only really noticeable in a few scenes. Apart from the occasional fleck, the print is in superb condition, and despite the lack of anamorphic enhancement the picture is sharp, detailed and has excellent colour. The surround sound (not mono as listed on the packaging) is highly effective, with the tension being increased by a considerable amount of the music coming from the rear speakers. The special features are simply a few static pages of biographical and production notes. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Gladiators - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £17.90   |  Saving you £2.09 (11.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gladiators: TV Series

• Regular Show - Season 1 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two best friends a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby try to turn their regular boring job as groundskeepers at a park into exciting adventures. Trying to entertain themselves by any means and usually leading to a mess they've created the two are joined by a hot-tempered gumball machine named Benson a yeti named Skips an English gentleman with a lollipop-shaped head named Pops an overweight green man named Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head. Episodes Comprise: 1.0 The Power Just Set Up the Chairs Caffeinated Concert Death Punchies Free Cake Meat Your Maker Grilled Cheese Deluxe The Unicorns Have Got to Go Prank Callers Don Rigby's Body Mordecai and the Rigbys

• Safe Men | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £12.47   |  Saving you £-2.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Welcome To The World Of Disorganized Crime. For the first time on DVD from comic filmmaker John Hamburg (Meet the Parents Zoolander Along Came Polly Meet the Fockers) comes this offbeat tale of inept lounge singers Sam (Sam Rockwell Lawn Dogs) and Eddie (Steve Zahn Out of Sight) who find themselves breaking into the burglary biz when they're mistaken by a low-level mobster (Paul Giamatti Sideways) for the best safecrackers in town. Now two guys who can't carry a tune are carrying off a series of hysterical heists in this comic gem

• Fireman Sam | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (44.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Time for some fun thrills & spills with Fireman Sam! There are seaside shenanigans a plenty in Pontypandy as Norman and Penny take sailing lessons a fire breaks out on Charlie's fishing boat and a whale becomes stranded on the beach. Back on dry land there's even more adventures when Elvis is left in charge of the fire station. Join in the excitement and make a splash with Choppy Waters! Episodes Comprise: Blow Me Down Stranded Poorly Penny Pirates Of Pontypandy Sailor Steele A Day At The Seaside

• King Kong | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-3.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A daring expedition happens across a giant ape in this classic 1933 creature feature.

• The American Civil War - a film by Ken Burns | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £49.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (20.10%)   |  RRP £59.99

  It divided a country. It created a nation.

• Yes | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An American woman and a Middle-Eastern man embark on an affair in this quality drama.

• Peterloo | Blu Ray | (11/03/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From acclaimed director Mike Leigh, Peterloo is an epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protesters were killed and hundreds more injured, sparking a nationwide outcry but also further government suppression. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.

• Say When | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £4.14   |  Saving you £8.85 (213.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Having spent her twenties comfortably inert, 28 year old Megan reaches a crisis when she finds herself squarely in adulthood with no career prospects, no motivation to pursue any and no one to relate to, including her high school boyfriend Anthony.

• Avatar: The Way of Water: Blu-ray 3D + 2D | Blu Ray | (06/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Nightingale (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/02/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases British officer Lieutenant Hawkins through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy who is also marked by trauma from his own violencefilled past. SPECIAL FEATURES She Will Not Be Silenced: an interview with Actor Aisling Franciosi Sometimes Trouble Finds You: an interview with Actor Michael Sheasby Just Making Light, Sir: an Interview with Actor Damon Herriman I Surrender: an Interview with Actor Harry Greenwood Taking Flight: an interview with Producer Kristina Ceyton Assembling Vengeance: an Interview with Editor Simon Njoo (12mins) Building Something Special: an Interview with Production Designer Alexander Holmes Hear her Voice: an interview with Composer Jed Kurzel ˜Bloody White People': A Video Essay by Alexandra HellerNicholas The Nightingale in Context The Making of The Nightingale Theatrical Trailer LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Rigid slipcase featuring new artwork by Laura Racero 40 page perfectbound booklet with new writing by Elena Lazic and Alexandra HellerNicholas 3 collectors' art cards

• Paper Planes | DVD | (25/01/2016) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  12 year old Dylan (Ed Oxenbould; Disney's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) has a passion for everything that flies - and he's about to embark on a quest to make the perfect paper plane. This is a journey that'll take him on adventures far from home and see him competing in the world paper plane championships in Japan. Along the way he befriends junior Japanese champion Kimi, and their close bond propels them to create a plane the world has never seen before. Also starring Sam Worthington (Avatar) and David Wenham (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole), Paper Planes is an inspiring story about following your dreams and spreading your wings!

• Fireman Sam - Sam's Greatest Rescues | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Five animated episodes from everyone's favourite fireman. Episode comprise: Going Out With a Bang Sticky Situation Best Foot Forward Hot Air Alarm On the Beach

• Irresistible | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £5.87   |  Saving you £0.12 (2.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sophie Hartley (Susan Sarandon) is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's (Sam Neill) beautiful co-worker Mara (Emily Blunt) wants her children her husband and her life. But no one believes Sophie. Forced to prove her sanity Sophie grows increasingly paranoid - but is she imagining things? Sophie becomes completely caught up in her obsession turning stalker herself - and makes a discovery more frightening than her worst fear.

• Hex - Season 1 | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £17.01 (131.05%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Bloody. Hell. Set in a remote English school Hex is the chilling story of one girl's exploration of the supernatural and her own sexual awakening. Cassie is a shy student who discovers she is cursed by terrifying links to the past. Longing to be popular but only truly loved by her best friend Cassie will come to realise she possesses dangerous powers. Stalked by Azazeal the leader of the Nephelim it will fall to Cassie to fight against the powerful forces th

• King Kong - The Eighth Wonder Of The World | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £13.09   |  Saving you £-3.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man". Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T-rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the film's most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.comOn the DVD: Although a little light on extras, this is happily the Director's Cut, restoring scenes that were censored after the film's original 1933 run, including Kong peeling off Fay Wray's clothes like a banana, and our hirsute hero using unfortunate natives as dental floss. The ratio of 4:3 is correct for a film of this age; the picture and (mono) sound are perfectly acceptable without being revelatory. The 25-minute "making of" documentary from 1992 is a 60th anniversary tribute to the film, which details all of Kong's many ground-breaking contributions to cinema, from Willis O'Brien's use of stop-motion and rear projection effects to Max Steiner's music score. There are contributions from film historians, modern admirers of the film including composer Jerry Goldsmith--who admits that Steiner created a template that Hollywood composers are still following--and a few surviving participants such as sound effects man Murray Spivak. Apparently, director Merian C. Cooper's original idea was to capture live gorillas, transport them to the island of Komodo and film them fighting the giant lizards! Thanks to Willis O'Brien's pioneering effects work good sense prevailed and a cinema classic was born. --Mark Walker

• Paul Merton In Galton And Simpson's... - The Complete Series | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Paul Merton's deapan comic delivery and fantastic wit are showcased in the fantastic In Galton And Simpson's.... Two comedy heroes of Merton's Galton and Simpson decided he was the man to breath new life into their comic scripts... Season 1: 1. Twelve Angry Men 2. Impasse 3. The Radio Ham 4. Sealed With A Loving Kiss 5. The Missing Page 6. Don't Dilly Dally On The Way 7. The Lift Season 2: 1. Visiting Day 2. The Wrong Man 3. I Tell You It' s Burt Reynolds 4. The Suit 5. Being Of Sound Mind 6. Lunch In The Park 7. The Clerical Error

• Welcome Home | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Jake Robbins (Kristofferson) was shot down over Cambodia while serving in the Air Force and presumed dead by his wife Sarah (Williams). In fact Jake was captured and then he escaped with the help of Leang a Khmer Rouge peasant. Although they are on opposite sides Jake and Leang develop an understanding and fall in love. But after years of raising a family together Jake is forcibly separated from Leang when it is discovered he is an American Citizen. Waking up in the United Stat

• Deadline Gallipoli | DVD | (24/04/2017) from £6.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915. They will report the war but are prevented from getting out the true story of an unfolding disaster. From encampment in Cairo to Anzac Cove to the evacuation, this is the story of journalists who will not accept that truth be the first casualty. This is the story of the men who will not shut up. The actions of these men will help change the course of the campaign, ensure that a strategic disaster becomes a legend of human heroism, and leave an impregnable mark on each of their lives.