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• The Lady From Shanghai | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Legend has it that Orson Welles more or less conned studio boss Harry Cohn over the phone into making The Lady from Shanghai by grabbing the title from a nearby paperback. In any case, this is one of Welles's most fascinating works, a bizarre tale of an Irish sailor (Welles) who accompanies a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her handicapped husband (Everett Sloane) on a cruise and becomes involved in a murder plot. But never mind all that (the aforementioned legend also claims that Cohn offered a reward to anyone who could explain the plot to him). The film is really a dream of Welles's driving preoccupations both on and off-screen at the time: the elusiveness of identity, the mystique of things lost, and most of all the director's faltering marriage to Hayworth. In the tradition of male filmmakers who indirectly tell the story of their love affairs with leading ladies, Welles tells his own, photographing Hayworth as a deconstructed star, an obvious cinematic creation, thus reflecting, perhaps, a never-satisfied yearning that leads us back to the mystery of Citizen Kane. --Tom Keogh

• Freeheld | DVD | (22/02/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Freeheld' is the true love story of Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) and Stacie Andree (Ellen Page) and their fight for justice.

• Wolf Creek 2 | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seeking to experience the real Australia backpackers Rutger and Katarina venture from the main tourist trail to visit the awe-inspiring Wolf Creek crater. Unfortunately for them it's also the hunting ground of psychopathic pig-shooter Mick Taylor: the last man any outback traveller wants to meet. After a chilling attack in the dead of night the crazed bushman pursues his prey in an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland. The long awaited sequel to the seminal horror classic that gave us one of the most iconic horror villains of the modern era.

• Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome To The Videos | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £7.26   |  Saving you £2.73 (37.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Welcome to the Videos provides a baker's dozen of Guns 'n' Roses' most explosive and memorable music videos from 1987 to 1993, and what a lesson they provide in the early evolution of visual style on MTV. Looking back, it seems Guns n' Roses embraced almost every type of music-video setting: "Welcome to the Jungle", for instance, finds rapid images of the band's stage performance interspersed with a semi-narrative featuring Axle Rose as a newcomer to the big bad city; "Paradise City" is set against an arena sound check, while "Sweet Child O' Mine" is structured around the now-threadbare idea of a video documentary about a video production. A couple of obsessive themes emerge from this anthology, the starkest involving love and watery deaths ("Don't Cry" and "November Rain"). Most interesting are the opiate-like distortions of "The Garden" and the surreal "Since I Don't Have You", starring Gary Oldman as a grinning devil. --Tom Keogh

• The End | Blu Ray | (31/12/2025) from £19.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wonder Woman - Vol. 2 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £5.76   |  Saving you £8.23 (142.88%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Taken from a long-running DC Comics strip, Wonder Woman was made into a popular television series between 1978 and 1981, starring former Miss America, Lynda Carter. Capturing the hearts of TV audiences with her sexy outfit as much as her superheroine abilities, Wonder Woman quickly became a kitsch icon, battling the forces of evil with the unforgettably camp "garb of justice", including bullet-proof bangles, a golden lasso and the belt of strength built into her corset. She had an invisible plane, too. Originally Princess Diana of Paradise Island (an uncharted land of Amazon women in the Bermuda Triangle), Wonder Woman is sent as an emissary to the outside world to protect the human race from the forces of evil. And so she becomes Diana Prince, the geeky, bespectacled assistant to Steve Trevor of the Inter Agency Defence Command in Washington, whose father she assisted against the Nazis in the 1940s. --Laura Bushell

• Boardwalk Empire - Season 1 (HBO) | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £7.10   |  Saving you £44.15 (755.99%)   |  RRP £49.99

  In fine (and bloody) style, HBO's Boardwalk Empire returns to 1920 when the ban on booze led to a syndicate of bootleggers and smugglers. Created by Sopranos scribe Terence Winter and coproduced by director Martin Scorsese, the story centers on Atlantic City treasurer Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi), who schemes in private while preaching temperance in public (Mark Wahlberg and Tim Van Patten also serve as producers). Jimmy (Michael Pitt, Buscemi's Delirious costar), a war veteran, acts as his right-hand man, while zealous Agent Van Alden (Michael Shannon) and refined mobster Arnold Rothstein (A Serious Man's Michael Stuhlbarg) represent significant threats to his enterprise. Nucky's other associates include his sheriff brother Eli (Shea Whigham), sexpot girlfriend Lucy (Paz de la Huerta), and distributor Chalky (The Wire's Michael K. Williams). If Nucky has little regard for law and order, his soft side emerges in his dealings with Irish immigrant Margaret (Kelly Macdonald, excellent), who segues from abused wife to kept woman. As Nucky puts it, "I try to be good. I really do." After he sends Jimmy away a spell, his sidekick joins forces with Al Capone (Stephen Graham, Public Enemies) and disfigured vet Richard Harrow (Jack Huston), abandoning his son, common-law wife Angela (Aleksa Palladino), and mother Gillian (Gretchen Mol), who has a fling with Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza). Inspired by Nelson Johnson's book, Boardwalk Empire takes a Deadwood-like approach to history by combining characters both factual and fictional with blue language and ladies without brassieres. Winter, who won an Emmy for The Sopranos episode Pine Barrens, takes liberties with the historical record, but the series never claims to represent the truth and nothing but--which is only fitting when everyone's hiding secrets. If the entire ensemble deserves praise, Buscemi rules the show as thoroughly as Nucky rules the city. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Life After Beth | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £6.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (139.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Beth isn t quite how he remembered her, and before long Zach s whole world takes a turn for the worse.

• American Pie | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Kids no more, the American Pie crowd return to take on another rite of passage: Jim and Michelle's marriage. Bachelor parties, bridesmaids and dirty jokes galore in another slice of outrageous comedy.

• Analyze This / Analyze That | DVD | (21/03/2006) from £9.03   |  Saving you £3.96 (43.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Analyze This: De Niro deftly spoofing the wiseguy roles that have been a staple of his estimable career plays powerful New York crime family racketeer Paul Vitti. Crystal always one joke ahead of sleeping with the fishes is shrink Ben Sobel who has just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy well-adjusted gangster. Yes Sobel is a family psychiatrist. But surely this isn't the kind of family he had in mind! Analyze That: They locked up

• Wuthering Heights | DVD | (26/03/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A poor young English boy named Heathcliff is taken in by the wealthy Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.

• Flash Gordon -Trip To Mars | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  This is the original 1938 serial film based on the comic strip Flash Gordon series starring Buster Crabbe. Another crisis is striking the Earth: a fictional chemical element called nitron is vanishing from the atmosphere causing hurricanes and other meteorological disasters. Flash and Zarkov use an airplane to take measurements only to discover that a ray-beam from Mars is the source of the nitron depletion. A comical newspaper journalist Happy Hapgood arrives on the scene to get the scoop and stows away when they together with Dale Arden leave to investigate in Zarkov's rocket ship. They discover that Azura Queen of Mars is working with Ming the Merciless their old nemesis from Mongo not dead as they had believed to conquer earth. All Martians who oppose her have been turned into clay humanoids consigned to live in a world of clay-walled caverns beneath the Martian soil. Flash Zarkov Dale and Happy take refuge from the Martians in one of these caverns and are captured by the Clay People and taken to their Clay King. From him they learn what is transpiring between Queen Azura and Ming and anxiously agree to help. Chapters Comprise: 1. New Worlds To Conquer 2. The Living Dead 3. Queen Of Magic 4. Ancient Enemies 5. The Boomerang 6. Tree-Men Of Mars 7. Symbol Of Death 8. Incense Of Forgetfulness 9. Human Bait 10. Ming The Merciless 11. The Prisoner Of Mongo 12. The Black Sapphire Of Kalu 13. The Miracle Of Magic 14. A Beast At Bay 15. An Eye For An Eye

• The OC (Orange County) - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Live. Laugh. Lie. Cheat. Grow. Share. Connive. Love. In California's beach paradise they do everything under the sun. There's trouble (and plenty of fun) in paradise in this Season 2 collection of the smash-hit series set in Orange County's posh Newport Beach. Hook up with what's coming down as the core-four romances of Ryan-and-Marissa and Seth-and-Summer may (or may not) go from very over to very on; Sandy and Kirsten face choices that could trainwreck their 20-year

• American Pie | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £4.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (195.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jim (Jason Biggs) is just Like any other healthy, red-blooded guy -- who is also a virgin -- he's desperate.

• Taming Andrew | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When her abducted son finally returns home after 5 years Gail Carlson feels as if her prayers have been answered. However her nightmare is far from over when she is confronted with the emotional and mental trauma her son has endured.

• Give Us A Break | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Geoff McQueen's classic BBC comedy drama set in the wheeler-dealing world of London's snooker halls starring two of Britain's most popular actors. Micky Noades (Robert Lindsay) describes himself as 'an overall concepts man'. He is an ace promoter, the only problem is he has nothing to promote. Enter his brother-in-law Mo (Paul McGann) with one redeeming feature: his outstanding talent at snooker. Created by Geoff McQueen this vintage British comedy drama gave Paul McGann his breakthrough ro...

• Same Kind Of Different As Me | DVD | (19/03/2018) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the New York Times bestseller comes an inspirational true story. Successful art dealer Ron Hall (Oscar® nominee GREG KINNEAR) and his wife Debbie (Oscar® winner RENÉE ZELLWEGER) seemingly have the perfect life. But when their faith and family are tested, an unlikely bond with a homeless drifter (Oscar® nominee DJIMON HOUNSOU) leads them on a remarkable journey that forges an everlasting friendship. Same Kind of Different As Me shows how a simple act of kindness can change everything. Special Features Commentary by Director Michael Carney and Writers Ron Hall and Alexander Foard Love is Patient, Love is Kind The Making of Same Kind of Different As Me

• Piranha | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As a producer, Roger Corman has always loved to make low-budget rip-offs of hit movies, and Piranha is his typically cheeky take on Jaws--and, as so often with Corman, in many ways it's funnier and more entertaining than the original. Directed with gusto by schlock-horror specialist Joe Dante and sharply scripted by John Sayles, it replaces one huge underwater toothy monster with dozens of little ones and ups the body count by a factor of 10 or so. Two hapless teenagers, hiking in a remote mountain region, stumble on a secret US military research lab. They don't last long, but their intrusion leads to the release into the local river system of a huge shoal of super-intelligent piranha, originally specially bred for use in Vietnam. Downstream from the virulent little munchers lie a kiddies' holiday camp and a tacky new waterfront theme park. Lunch time, fellas! Sayles, with his staunch left-wing credentials, slips in some mordant political satire at the expense of the military-industrial complex, and authority figures of any kind come off pretty badly, but the satire never gets in the way of the gleeful black humour. The two leads, Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies, are fairly pallid, but there are ripe cameos from such cult horror-movie icons as Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller and Barbara Steele. Pino Donaggio's score impudently borrows aspects of John Williams' famous Jaws theme while never quite infringing copyright. The movie was successful enough to spawn a much-inferior sequel, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), which marked the inauspicious directing debut of one James Cameron. On the DVD: Piranha on disc comes with just the theatrical trailer as an extra. The transfer is a respectable job, reproducing the original's full-screen ratio. --Philip Kemp

• Hallmark Christmas 7 (The Christmas Parade / One Starry Christmas / Catch a Christmas Star) | DVD | (30/10/2020) from £24.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Deal | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £7.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (-25.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A cocky amateur with a lot to learn. A former champ with a lot to prove. Bets will be placed.... stakes will be raised.... only one will take it all. The game is on! Alex (Bret Harrison) is a cocky hotshot card-playing college senior who dreams of becoming a professional Texas Hold 'em poker player. He doesn't yet have the skills to totally master the table but a chance encounter introduces him to retired poker legend Tommy (Burt Reynolds). Tommy realises he can regain his own self confidence; repair his pride and a win a poker championship title by turning Alex into his prot''g''. The two pair up and soon every tournament they enter is theirs but this winning streak and their friendship is eventually thwarted by the interference of Las Vegas call girl Michelle. Parting ways they prepare separately for the World Poker Tour. Facing each other across the table at the final tournament of the season only one will be declared champion.