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• Darling | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £10.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (73.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  "It's far too pleased with itself. I wince when I see it now", director John Schlesinger observes of his 1965 film, Darling. You can tell why he's embarrassed. Looking back, his swinging 60s' satire about a model (Julie Christie) so keen to get ahead that she ditches her husband and betrays a succession of boyfriends looks hideously dated. With its self-consciously hip dialogue and unnecessary voice-over, the screenplay by Frederic Raphael (who also wrote Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) doesn't help. Most of the men Christie encounters, whether Laurence Harvey's slick businessman (who can't pass a mirror without preening himself in it) or Dirk Bogarde's neurotic TV pundit (who has delusions of literary grandeur), are as narcissistic as she is. Although this seems to be a cautionary tale about slick, superficial London media and fashion folk, it's obvious that the filmmakers are half in love with the world they're pretending to lampoon. The visual gags--rich, society matrons at a charity event gorging themselves on food or Christie's poster being plastered over an image of a starving child--are heavy-handed in the extreme. Still, Christie is tremendous in the role which established her as an international star (she won an Oscar). However shallow and selfish her character seems, we can't help but warm to her. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Gosford Park | Blu Ray | (26/11/2018) from £13.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  TEA AT FOUR. DINNER AT EIGHT. MURDER AT MIDNIGHT. In 2001, Robert Altman (MASH, The Long Goodbye) took the unexpected step into Agatha Christie territory with Gosford Park, a murder-mystery whodunit set in an English country house starring a host of British acting greats and with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. It would become a huge success with audiences and critics alike. Set in 1932, the action unfolds during a weekend shooting party hosted by Sir William McArdle (Alan Bates), and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) at his estate, Gosford Park. Among the guests are friends, relatives, the actor and composer Ivor Novello (Jeremy Northam), and an American film producer (Bob Balaban). When Sir William is found murdered in the library, everyone and their servants becomes a suspect. Also starring Charles Dance, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith, Emily Watson and many more, Altman produced another masterpiece deserving to be ranked alongside Nashville and Short Cuts as one his finest forays into ensemble drama. Special Edition Contents: Brand new 2K restoration from a 4K scan, carried out by Arrow films exclusively for this release, supervised and approved by director of photography Andrew Dunn High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by director Robert Altman, production designer Stephen Altman and producer David Levy Audio commentary by writer-producer Julian Fellowes Brand-new audio commentary by critics Geoff Andrew and David Thompson (author of Altman on Altman) Introduction by critic Geoff Andrew Brand new cast and crew interviews recorded exclusively for this release The Making of Gosford Park archive featurette Keeping Gosford Park Authentic archive featurette Q&A Session with Altman and the cast Fifteen deleted scenes with optional Altman commentary Trailer Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Sheila O Malley and an archive interview with Robert Altman

• Neighbours - Best Of Neighbours | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (63.81%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This release features 15 of the most memorable Neighbours episodes including: Scott and Charlene's wedding Brad and Beth's wedding and the tragic demise of Helen Daniels. Witness early screen appearances by such future megastars as Kylie Minogue Jason Donovan Natalie Imbruglia and Craig McLachlan. Shed a tear at the raw emotional power of the song 'Suddenly' by Angry Anderson.

• The Twilight Zone (2019) Season 1 | DVD | (19/10/2020) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Enter another dimension with Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg's modern take on the all-time classic. Hosted by Academy Award® and Emmy® Award winner Jordan Peele, each of these ten Season One episodes of the CBS All Access Original Series is its own mesmerising, mind-bending journey into another dimension. Featuring contemporary, socially conscious storytelling, this anthology includes standout cast members like Oscar® nominee Kumail Nanjiani in his Emmy® nominated role, Seth Rogen, Tracy Morgan, Greg Kinnear, Sanaa Lathan, Adam Scott, DeWanda Wise, Zazie Beetz, Ginnifer Goodwin, John Cho, and others BONUS FEATURES Crossing Over: Living in The Twilight Zone Two-part documentary on developing and producing the new series Remembering Rod Serling An insightful journey into his life, legacy, and fertile imagination Opening the Door A behind-the-scenes look at each episode Music Video from The Wunderkind Episode Audio Commentary on Select Episodes Deleted Scenes and Extended Scenes Gag Reel

• The Bible | Blu Ray | (31/03/2014) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (18.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The greatest stories of the Old Testament are brought to the screen with astounding scope and power in this international film which depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis. This is the spectacular story of man's creation his fall his survival and his indomitable faith in the future. Matching the epic scale of the production are performances by George C. Scott as Abraham Ava Gardner as Sarah and Peter O'Toole as the haunting presence of the Angel of God. The legendary John Huston directs and delivers a commanding performance as Noah. From the film's opening amidst cosmic chaos to its lingering message of hope and salvation The Bible stands as a monumental motion picture achievement.

• Love/Hate - Series 1-2 | DVD | (21/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set in Dublin's violent underworld the multi-award winning Irish series Love/Hate is a hard-hitting and unflinching look at the lives and loves of the young criminals who work in the city's drug gangs - the pressures they are under the dangers they face and the innocent lives they destroy. Featuring outstanding performances from Robert Sheehan (Misfits Red Riding Trilogy) Aidan Gillen (The Wire The Dark Knight Rises) Ruth Negga (Shirley World War Z) and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Becoming Jane).

• Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story | DVD | (20/03/2000) from £7.92   |  Saving you £8.07 (101.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This enjoyable and touching biography of martial-arts film star Bruce Lee stars Jason Scott Lee (no relation), an actor with a lively face and natural intensity, who makes every moment of this film compelling. Directed by Rob Cohen, Dragon traces Bruce Lee's slow rise over myriad obstacles--most of them race-based--to become an international superstar in films. Lee's origins are oddly set in San Francisco instead of his real home in Seattle, but then again there is plenty of artistic license going on as Cohen explores the actor's psyche through some powerful fantasy sequences. Lauren Holly is good as Lee's wife, Linda (whose book about her late husband inspired this movie). A scene involving Bruce's rescue of son Brandon (who died in a film-making accident in 1993) from a murderous spirit is plain spooky. The special-edition DVD release has a widescreen presentation, director interview, featurette, screen tests, closed captioning, optional French soundtrack and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• A History Of Scotland | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £37.09   |  Saving you £-7.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• The Tall T | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Western star Randolph Scott straps on his guns for one of his very best films, now available on DVD for the first time. After losing his horse in a bull-riding contest, rancher Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott) hitches a lift home on the stagecoach out of the frontier town of Contention. At a remote way station, the stage is ambushed by a ruthless bandit gang led by Usher (Richard Boone). They don't intend leaving any witness - until they discover that one of the passengers is copper heiress Doretta Mims (Maureen O'Sullivan). Now they want $50,000 in ransom from her father - or everybody dies. As tension mounts almost to breaking point, Brennan must discover a way to outwit - and outgun - the outlaw gang before they murder all of their hostages. Adapted from a story by Elmore Leonard, The Tall T is widely acknowledged to be one of the very best films in a series of highly rated westerns starring Randolph Scott and directed by Budd Boetticher. In 2000, The American Library of Congress selected the film for special preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for being 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.' Believed by many to be one of his best films, Randolph Scott excels as expected in a western with many twists...

• Jarhead: The Siege | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £6.93   |  Saving you £6.06 (87.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Assigned to protect a seemingly safe U.S. Embassy in the Middle East, elite Marine Corporal Evan Albright (Charlie Weber) thought he wasn't going to see much action. But when a hostile, extreme militant group launches a surprise attack aimed at killing an Embassy informant, Albright's team is caught off guard. Out-gunned and outnumbered, Albright's routine assignment escalates into an all-out war. With national security at stake, an international crisis ensues in this riveting fi lm directed by William Kaufman (The Hit List ), starring Dennis Haysbert (24 ) and Scott Adkins (The Bourne Ultimatum).

• The Abyss | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  James Cameron's 1989 aquatic epic The Abyss was, quite literally, a watershed in the annals of filmmaking: not only was it the first (and only) movie to be shot almost entirely underwater, in the largest tank ever used for a movie set, and to use live dialogue from specially designed headsets, it also pushed forward the boundaries of computer animation in one gigantic leap. The famous water tentacle sequence is now regarded as the defining moment when CGI came of age; ironically perhaps, its very success has ensured that the punishing realism of the setting, which is the best thing about the movie, is likely never to be attempted again. But the impressive technical aspects aside, is the movie any good? Granted it contains any number of striking moments, from forcing a rat to breathe liquid (it really works, apparently) to resurrecting a drowned Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. But the story is a slim one for the running time, especially in the extended Special Edition version which plays almost half an hour longer than the theatrical cut and contains a completely excised subplot featuring much too much heavy-handed moralising: "How all the world can stop fighting and learn to get along with each other", by James Cameron esq. All you need is love, apparently. Here is one rare example of the theatrical cut being preferable to the director's. Now, if only he had cut the love story from Titanic too On the DVD: The Abyss Special Edition two-disc set has plenty of neat extra features, but is let down a little by the non-anamorphic 2.35:1 letterboxed picture. Sound, on the other hand, is vivid THX mastered Dolby 5.1. Happily, the first disc contains both the original theatrical cut and the extended special-edition version. There's a reasonably informative though inevitably rather dry text-only commentary. The principal extra on Disc 2 is a 60-minute documentary, "Under Pressure", with retrospective interviews in which cast and crew detail the extraordinary challenges involved in making the film, and more than one near-death experience. In addition there's the complete screenplay, various different pieces on the effects sequences, storyboards, artwork, DVD-ROM features--in short, plenty to keep even jaded DVD enthusiasts amused for hours. The menu interfaces for both discs are a treat and the set comes with a good 12-page booklet. --Mark Walker

• Strike: Career Of Evil | DVD | (16/04/2018) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Marlene Dietrich at Universal 1940-1942: Seven Sinners, Flame of New Orleans, The Spoilers & Pittsburgh | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £22.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This new Bluray collection combines four classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood, starring the iconic Marlene Dietrich. All produced by Universal in the early 1940s, the set showcases Dietrich's alluring and enduring persona; the epitome of big screen glamour and sensuousness. Featuring Seven Sinners (Dir. Tay Garnett, 1940), Flame of New Orleans (Dir. René Clair, 1941), The Spoilers (Dir. Ray Enright, 1942) and Pittsburgh (Dir. Lewis Seiler, 1942), with costars including John Wayne, Broderick Crawford and Randolph Scott, the films exhibit Dietrich's uniquely captivating style of performance and the charisma that continues to endear her to fans worldwide. Extras Audio commentary on Seven Sinners by David Del Valle Audio commentary on Flame of New Orleans by Lee Gambin and Rutanya Alda Audio commentary on The Spoilers by Toby Roan Audio commentary on Pittsburgh by Pamela Hutchinson Other extras TBC Fully illustrated booklet with new essays by Pamela Hutchinson, So Mayer, Ellen Cheshire, Katy McGahan, Sarah Wood and Philip Kemp

• Parks & Recreation - Season 5: 3 DVD Set | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £16.01   |  Saving you £18.98 (118.55%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Big changes are ahead for newly elected City Councilwoman Leslie Knope (Golden Globe winner Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live)in the outrageous fifth season of Parks and Recreation. Leslie learns that city politics is nothing like the Parks department as she tackles issues such as saving a local mini-golf park and fixing Pawnee's quaint, but ridiculously outdated, laws. And life outside the office is just as wild, as she and Ben (Adam Scott, Step Brothers) try to plan their wedding amidst the usual chaos of their friends' lives. Created by Primetime Emmy Award winning executive producers Greg Daniels (The Office) and Michael Schur (The Office, Saturday Night Live) and featuring guest stars including Jason Schwartzman (Moonrise Kingdom), Lucy Lawless (Spartacus), Patton Oswalt (Justified) and Vice- President Joe Biden, watch all 22 hilarious episodes back-to-back and uninterrupted!

• The Kid | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £5.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (171.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bruce Willis is a successful forty year old image consultant who is forced to reevaluate his life when his childhood self from the '70s confronts him in the present day!

• The Postman | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £13.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Falling from the Oscar-winning glory of Dances with Wolves to the opposite end of the critical and box-office scale, Kevin Costner must have been deeply humbled when this three-hour postapocalyptic tale--his sophomore effort as a director--was greeted with a critical thrashing and tepid audience response. One of the most conspicuous flops of its decade, the 1997 release must have seemed like a sure thing on paper: a kind of futurist Western starring Costner as a charismatic drifter-turned-hero who leads the resistance against a military tyrant (Will Patton) by reviving the long-dormant postal system to reunite isolated communities in their fight for freedom. The movie bombed, but, like many audacious failures, it's got qualities that make it at least partially endearing, and its earnestness (although bordering on corny) keeps it from being entirely silly. Faint praise, perhaps, but Costner's ode to patriotism is occasionally stirring and visually impressive. --Jeff Shannon

• Dangermouse 2 - The Spy Who Stayed In With A Cold | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £1.91 (23.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""He's the greatestHe's fantasticWhere ever there is danger he'll be there. He's the ace He's amazing.He's the strongest he's the quickest he's the best. Dangermouse Dangermouse Dangermouse!"" The world's greatest mouse detective Dangermouse together with his bumbling sidekick Penfold embark on a series of devilishly dangerous and definitely death defying missions. Includes The Spy Who Stayed In With A Cold where Penfold is ill at home with a cold and so Agent 57 and Danger Mouse team up to defeat Baron Greenback; the only problem is that Agent 57 has caught the cold too and every time he sneezes he involuntarily changes disguise...

• Patton | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winner of seven 1970 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Actor for George C. Scott), Patton is a riveting portrayal of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. As rebellious as he was brilliant, George Patton (Scott) was the only general truly feared by the Nazis, yet his own volatile personality was the one enemy he could never defeat.

• NCIS: New Orleans: The Sixth Season | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This 5-disc collection contains all 20 episodes of NCIS: New Orleans, Season 6, including unforgettable moments that shocked every fan. For Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride (Scott Bakula) and his team at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, kidnappers, cults, traffickers and murderers are business as usual. But with the tragic loss of one of their own, these agents suddenly find themselves driven by more than duty; now it's personal. Will Pride stay loyal to the law, or will vengeance push him over the edge? Experience every stunning surprise, dramatic reveal, and breathtaking cliffhanger in the most suspenseful season of NCIS: New Orleans yet.

• To Kill a King | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With Tim Roth as Oliver Cromwell and Dougray Scott as Sir Thomas Fairfax, the film explores how the love and loyalty between two of the most fasicnating figures of the English Civil War turned to betrayal and political intrigue.