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• Prancer | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £5.84   |  Saving you £2.15 (36.82%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A reindeer doesn't have to fly to be magical to someone, and Prancer proves the point in an unassuming and plainspoken way. This 1989 family film stars Rebecca Harrell as nine-year-old Jessica, a motherless schoolgirl raised (and largely ignored) by her bereaved and embittered father (Sam Elliot), an apple farmer. While Jessica's dad struggles to keep food on the family table, the little heroine worries over the fate of a wounded reindeer she meets and wistfully identifies as a member of Santa's sled crew. The story may sound overly precious, but the film is grittier and more realistic than that. Far more concerned with wobbly family relationships than gilded escapism, Prancer is a rare family film that can entertain without invoking fluffy enchantment. It was followed 12 years later by a sequel, Prancer Returns. --Tom Keogh

• The End Of The Affair | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  THE END OF THE AFFAIR is a brilliant and powerful story of love, betrayal and sexual jealousy.

• Outlander - Season 1 (Collector's Edition) | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Outlander follows the story of Claire Randall a married combat nurse who in 1946 is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743 and immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior a passionate affair is ignited that splits Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. Bonus Features: An Epic Adaptation The Dresses and Kilts of Outlander 21 Deleted Scenes Walk Through the Sets and Stages with Ronald D. Moore Emerging a Scot: Cast Goes to Boot Camp On Location: Castle Leoch The Magic of Scotland

• Oppenheimer | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The acclaimed, multi award-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, starring Sam Waterston. Sam Waterston stars in this classic seven-part BBC mini-series as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project to build the weapon that would bring a devastating end to World War Two.A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer began to realise the scale of the weapon he was developing, and he became increasingly ambivalent and even hostile about its eventual use. His fears lead the military establishment to suspect him of having Communist sympathies and, during the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer found himself accused of being a risk to national security.The series won three BAFTAs including Best Drama Series, and was nominated for two Emmys. Sam Waterston was nominated for the Best Actor Golden Globe.

• Somersault | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A visually haunting film, set at the foot of the Australian ski fields, this is the story of a young girl's sensory journey.

• The Day The Earth Stood Still - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A spaceship lands in Washington D.C. capturing the attention of the world. But the peaceful alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings fails to earn the public's trust. When a young woman and her son befriend him they soon realise they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction.

• Trigger Happy TV - Series 2 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £7.40   |  Saving you £2.59 (35.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Prankster Dom Joly adds a marvellously surreal edge to the hidden camera show in this, his second collection of highlights from Trigger Happy TV, all of which are once again set to a great soundtrack of downbeat anthems. Joly not only waylays unsuspecting members of the public and minor celebrities, he subjects them to any number of odd or downright bizarre scenarios. Among many other gems here we have the millionth customer at the sex shop, the MI6 recruiting officer whose potential recruitee is frighteningly willing to become an assassin, the infuriating traffic warden ("You can't park here"), the workmen who eat and sleep in the middle of the street, the cultured punk, the obvious burglar, the park warden who eats all the birds, and the ice cream man who is incapable of serving anything. Best of all, perhaps, are the creature features: the snail literally crawling across the zebra crossing, the vain gorilla-gram, not to mention sundry sadistic squirrels, dangerous dogs and randy rabbits. Oh yes, and there's still that guy with the huge mobile phone, though it must be increasingly hard for Joly to find anyone who doesn't know this character by now. Trigger Happy TV gamely exploits the British public's unwillingness to confront strangers, but it also hearteningly demonstrates their innate politeness when placed in awkward situations. In how many other countries could he approach people in the street to insult and bemuse them without running a serious risk of assault? On the DVD: The disc has an excellent, irreverent commentary from Joly and producer Sam Cadman, who talk about the difficulties of filming, chat to people on their mobile phones and munch snacks from the Abbey Road studio canteen. There's also the excruciating stand-up routine Joly did pseudonymously at The Comedy Store, which if nothing else proves he's got no shame at all. --Mark Walker

• Tron - Special Edition | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Milestone In The History Of Computer Animation! A masterpiece of breakthrough CGI ingenuity - Disney celebrates the 20th anniversary of Tron - a dazzling film at the flashpoint of a continuing revolution in its genre. Packed with five hours of bonus features including exclusive never-before-seen material this feature-rich collector's edition showcases an epic adventure inside a brave new world where the action is measured in microseconds. When Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks int

• Cowboys & Aliens - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (39.95%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Arizona, 1873. The small desert town of Absolution is a close-knit yet uptight community where strangers aren’t welcome. The streets are harshly run by iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). But when a stranger (Daniel Craig) with no recollection of who he is or where he has come from stumbles into town, Dolarhyde’s power is put to a test. The only clue to this drifter’s past is a mysterious shackle attached to his wrist.Soon after wandering into town the Stranger is captured and held under strict surveillance by Colonel Dolarhyde. But when a space craft lands in Absolution, the town soon comes to the realisation that this lone ranger may be their only hope in the fight to survive this alien invasion.From renowned director Jon Favreau (Made, Iron Man) comes this action-packed extravaganza filled with blistering special effects and witty dark humour. -M.F.

• The Big Bang | Blu Ray | (12/03/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend - and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dogg) and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics (Autumn Reeser). Lexie proves to be as elusive as she is beautiful and Cruz becomes obsessed with finding her. With time running out, Cruz discovers the trail leads to reclusive billionaire (Sam Elliott), and his physicist (Jimmi Simpson), intent on recreating The Big Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Tailed by a trio of cops also looking to find the missing diamonds, and with the body count piling up, Cruz soon realizes that what appeared to be a standard missing person's case is anything but, and could quite possibly bring about the end of the world as we know it.

• The Sitter | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Sitter may be the last movie featuring the "heavy" version of Jonah Hill. With the many pounds he's since lost, many movie-industry minds are wondering if the Jonah Hill-ness of his screen persona, flaunted so prodigiously in the likes of Knocked Up, Get Him to the Greek, and Superbad, has disappeared from the scales too. But until Jonah 2.0 gets his chance, The Sitter couldn't capture his trash-talking, man-child, king-of-comeback essence more boldly, more lovingly, or with such blatant vulgarity. Hill plays Noah, a jobless twentysomething layabout still living with his divorced mum along with the delusion that he has a hot girlfriend (she only keeps him around for oral talents that are unrelated to speech). As a favour that might help Mum with her own sad love life, he agrees to a one-night babysitting stand for the neighbours and their three wildly dissimilar but equally messed-up children. The night progresses through slapstick, farce, adventure, romance, danger, pathos, and eventual catharsis for everyone. (Unfortunately there's a touch of maudlin, sentimental corn in the mix too.) The children are as important to the escapades as Noah and are the primary source of his stupid/smooth shtick that mixes clever put-downs, terrified jabbering, and hilariously relentless patter of urban slang vernacular. Noah's spoiled charges are two boys--an anxiety-wracked 13-year-old and a 10-year-old Nicaraguan adoptee with severe anger and pyromania issues--and a precocious 8-year-old-girl who's heavily into make-up, hip-hop, and a score of other age-inappropriate behaviours. As the four of them hurtle deeper into the night, the situations become more antically treacherous with drug dealers, gangster thugs, police officers, and upper-crust snobs as part of the mix, along with their knives, cocaine, diamonds, alcohol, and guns. Director David Gordon Green, whose unusual career has gone from art house (George Washington, All the Real Girls) to raunchy bromance (Pineapple Express, Your Highness), supplants formal technique with the off-kilter and oft-unseemly style of Jonah Hill vs. the world. Green sometimes evokes the flow of surreality that Martin Scorsese took to unnatural ends in After Hours, only with more dirty bits and a lot more full-on crude laughs. Nearly everyone in the large supporting cast makes an excellent foil for the star's constant streetwise riffing, especially Sam Rockwell, who digs in to his role as a psychotic but emotionally conflicted drug dealer always on the lookout for new best friends. But it is Jonah Hill who sits firmly, even heavily in the driver's seat. It's a great place to flash his better-honed actorly chops along with his beloved version 1.0 comedic gift. --Ted Fry

• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £17.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Holy Man | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Holy Man could have been a stellar satire in the tradition of Frank Capra, George Stevens, or Preston Sturges. Instead, this well-meaning romantic comedy was bluntly written by Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) and broadly directed by Stephen Herek, who fared better with his 1995 drama Mr. Holland's Opus. Their good intentions shine through, however, and while it's easy to appreciate Eddie Murphy's attempt to shift his career in a more substantial direction, Holy Man delivers some pointed criticism of commercialism and its deadening effect on spiritual well-being. Murphy plays an enlightened eccentric named "G" (for "guru" or "God"?) who rises to national celebrity when he's enlisted to host a TV shopping network. Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston play the show's producer and marketer, respectively, and their formulaic romance provides the movie's lackluster subplot. With skyrocketing ratings and a flurry of cameos by celebrity hucksters (Morgan Fairchild, Florence Henderson, Dan Marino, and even James Brown), G delivers preachy platitudes urging America to stop buying and embrace the finer values of life and love (a hollow message coming from Disney, the most conspicuously commercial of all major Hollywood studios). To its credit, Holy Man occasionally achieves a delicate balance of comedy and commentary, and receptive viewers will be grateful, at a time when crude comedies rule the box office, that someone bothered to try. For that reason, this flawed movie deserves to be seen. --Jeff Shannon

• Steven Spielberg Director's Collection | Blu Ray | (13/10/2014) from £104.95   |  Saving you £-34.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Eight memorable films from one of the most acclaimed directors in motion-picture history come together for the first time ever in the Steven Spielberg Director's Collection available on Blu-ray™. Spanning over 40 years Steven Spielberg's career began as a teenager when he made his way onto the Universal backlot and befriended studio executives. His passion and talent quickly developed allowing him to direct an unprecedented number of blockbuster films. The Steven Spielberg Director's Collection showcases a selection of the Academy Award® winner's unforgettable movies filmed for Universal including his very first TV feature Duel and his first theatrical release The Sugarland Express and blockbusters such as Jaws E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Jurassic Park Steven's work has captivated audiences worldwide and continues to set the standard for filmmaking. 8 Unforgettable Movies from 1 Visionary Director: Duel The Sugarland Express Jaws 1941 (Theatrical and Extended Versions) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Always Jurassic Park Jurassic Park: The Lost World Special Features: Layflat Book (Housing the 8 Movies) 32 Page Booklet: Steven Spielberg: A Journey In Film

• Hulk | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (120.24%)   |  RRP £10.99

  "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" director Ang Lee brings the brutal Marvel Comics character to the silver screen.

• Christmas Crackers Collection | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Jungle Book | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Jungle Book tells the story of the little boy Mowgli. Lost as a baby he was raised by wolves and became a good friend to all animals. When he returns to his old village he learns that there is greed under the humans and Mowgli has to protect the jungle and his animal friends because deep in the woods there is an ancient town with a hidden treasure.

• Coronation Street - Out Of Africa | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (234.11%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Coronation Street favourites Chesney Kirk and Fiz set out for South Africa to be reunited with Cilla. With regular Corrie viewers able to watch the fallout in Weatherfield on ITV1 the action in South Africa is only available to watch on ITV DVD. Guaranteed to make the christmas wish list of every Corrie fan this is the first Coronation Street DVD special for ten years.

• The Hero | DVD | (29/01/2018) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) is an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy. With a world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, The Hero is a celebration of life that will pull at the heartstrings.

• Fireman Sam - The New Hero Next Door / Red Alert / Sticky Situation | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £20.18   |  Saving you £-7.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes comprise New Hero Next Door Red Alert Sticky Situation