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• A Room With A View | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The prestigious film-making trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it's a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the class system of manners and mores. It's that system of rigid behaviour that prevents young Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) from accepting the loving advances of a free-spirited suitor (Julian Sands), who fears that she will follow through with her engagement to a priggish intellectual (Daniel Day-Lewis) whose capacity for passion is virtually non-existent. During and after a trip to Italy with her protective companion (Maggie Smith), Lucy gradually gets in touch with her true emotions. The fun of watching A Room with a View comes from seeing how Lucy's thoughts and feelings finally arrive at the same romantic conclusion. Through an abundance of humour both subtle and overt, the film rose to an unexpected level of popular appeal. The Merchant-Ivory team received eight Academy Award nominations for their efforts, and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction and Costume Design. --Jeff Shannon

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.70   |  Saving you £11.55 (136.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rediscover Narnia with a brand new adventure! While back home in England Edmund Lucy and their cousin Eustace are pulled into a magical painting transporting them back to Narnia for their next great quest. Reunited with King Caspian aboard the mighty royal ship the Dawn Treader Lucy Edmund and Eustace set sail toward the islands of the East battling slave traders violent storms sea serpents and other new dangers at every turn. Despite these perilous obstacles they stay the course in hopes of vanquishing the evil mist before Narnia is lost forever.

• Run, Fat Boy, Run | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simon Pegg stars as a slightly chunky, clueless guy who sets out to win back the love of his life. But first he's got to get in shape.

• Ready Player One | Blu Ray | (06/08/2018) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stephen Spielberg directs the worldwide phenomenon Ready Player One. When an unlikely young hero, Wade Watts decides to join the ultimate contest to find the digital Easter eggs to win the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe where anything is possible, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery, and danger.

• The Lord of the Rings (Animated Version) | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £10.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (28.47%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the movie's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well-conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• Roald Dahl's The Witches | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £4.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Reimagining Roald Dahl's beloved story for a modern audience, Robert Zemeckis's visually innovative THE WITCHES tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. The boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, so Grandma wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globeundercoverto carry out her nefarious plans. Extras: Deleted Scenes

• The Death of Stalin | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  'The Death Of Stalin' follows the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.

• Star Trek: Into Darkness (4K UHD Blu-ray + Blu-ray) | 4K UHD | (05/09/2016) from £24.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Star Trek: Intp Darkness on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray is 4 times sharper than HD. Brilliant brights and deepest darks with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and wider colour spectrum adding dazzling colours to your viewing experience. Also includes Blu-ray copy. When a ruthless mastermind known as Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) declares a one-man war on the Federation, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), and the daring crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise will embark on the greatest manhunt in history. It will take all of their skills and teamwork to defend Earth and eliminate Khan's threat in J.J. Abrams' exhilarating belter of a blockbuster (The Sun). Bonus Features: Creating the Red Planet Attack on Starfleet The Klingon Home World The Enemy of My Enemy Ship to Ship Brawl by the Bay

• Blott On The Landscape | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.39   |  Saving you £12.60 (170.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea: why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extrao

• Westworld: Season 2 | Blu Ray | (03/12/2018) from £16.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the first season, the hosts didn't understand the nature of their reality. They didn't have an element of choice. All that changes with the pull of a trigger. In Season Two, chaos takes control as the rancher's daughter, Dolores Abernathy (series star EVAN RACHEL WOOD) takes charge, Maeve Millay (series star THANDIE NEWTON) is on a mission and the mysterious Man in Black (series star ED HARRIS) is back. A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life on Earth, and the evolution of sin, the series also stars JEFFREY WRIGHT, JAMES MARSDEN, TESSA THOMPSON, LUKE HEMSWORTH, RODRIGO SANTORO and more.

• T2 Trainspotting | Blu Ray | (05/06/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal.Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.Click Images to Enlarge

• Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime | DVD | (05/04/2021) from £6.31   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Black Christmas (DVD) | DVD | (20/04/2020) from £6.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the producer of Get Out and Halloween, comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, the sisters start to question whether they can trust any man. Whoever the killer is, he's about to discover that this generation's young women aren't about to be anybody's victims.

• The Man Who Invented Christmas | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Beauty and the Beast) as Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the true story of how the iconic author came to write the seminal yuletide novel A Christmas Carol in only six weeks. Set in 1840s London, Dickens had been struggling to come up with fresh ideas after the failure of his last three works. However, when he's inspired by the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, he set out to write and self-publish a book that would reignite his career. As the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Academy Award-winner Christopher Plummer) and The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future start coming to life in his head, Dickens began creating a masterpiece that gave birth to the Christmas we know and love today.

• 24 Hour Party People (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (03/06/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New to Blu-Ray: the British cult pop history movie released for the first time on BD, complete with a massive 4.5 hours of bonus material! A witty and compelling portrait of the 80's music scene, 24HRPP is viewed through the eyes of Tony Wilson: founder of the now world-famous Factory Records & the Hacienda nightclub. Starring Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, Philomena) and featuring Peter Kay, Rob Brydon, Simon Pegg, John Simm, John Thomson, Ralf Little & Shirley Henderson.

• Tiger Cage Trilogy - Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (26/09/2022) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !Bought to you by legendary martial arts stalwart Woo-Ping Yeun, the original Tiger Cage (1988) was an explosive, fast-paced Hong Kong feature replete with criminal gangs and a dedicated law enforcement team in a battle for the city.Just as a crack drug unit celebrates a successful operation one of their numbers is killed. This leads them on a mission to expose the killer and the underground operation and more importantly to discover who the mole in the team might be. Fun, furious and rammed with glorious fight choreography, Tiger Cage is the perfect late 80s Kung Fu spectacular.It was quickly followed by two sequels Tiger Cage 2 (1990) and Tiger Cage 3 (1991) also directed by Woo-Ping Yeun. This brand-new set brings all three movies together in a beautifully presented delux pressing. A must for cult martial arts fans everywhere.ExtrasDisc 1 - Tiger CageNew 2K Transfer from the Original NegativeHigh Definition (1080p) Blu-ray Presentation2.0 LPCM English Mono2.0 LPCM Cantonese Mono with Newly Translated English Subtitles2.0 LPCM Mandarin Mono with Alternate Music ScoreAudio Commentary with Frank Djeng and Vincent LynVincent Lyn's Personal 'Behind-the-scenes' FootageTiger King - An Archive Interview with Donnie YenEnglish TitlesExtra Shots From the Taiwanese VersionTriads - with Vincent Lyn and Frank DjengOriginal Hong Kong TrailerEnglish TrailerDisc 2 - Tiger Cage 2Choice of Both Hong Kong and Malaysian CutsNew 2K Transfer from the Original NegativeHigh Definition (1080p) Blu-ray Presentation2.0 LPCM English Mono2.0 LPCM Cantonese Mono with Newly Translated English SubtitlesAudio Commentary with Action Specialists Mike Leeder and Arne Venema (HK Cut)Audio Commentary with Asian Cinema Expert Frank Djeng (HK Cut)Original Hong Kong TrailerDisc 3 - Tiger Cage 3New 2K Transfer from the Original NegativeHigh Definition (1080p) Blu-ray Presentation2.0 LPCM English Mono2.0 LPCM Cantonese Mono with Newly Translated English SubtitlesOptional SDH SubtitlesAudio Commentary by Phil Gillon and Kenneth Brorsson of the Podcast on Fire TeamOriginal Hong Kong TrailerAlternate English Trailer

• Ghosts: Series 5 | DVD | (08/01/2024) from £8.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Henry V | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules: Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the Bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an anti-war story in contrast to Olivier's patriotic spectacle. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and wilful eyes revealing much about the personal cost of war. Not that the director-star doesn't provide lighter moments: his scenes introducing the French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) trying to learn English quickly from her maid are delightful. What may be the crowning glory of Branagh's adaptation comes when the dazed leader wanders across the battlefield, not even sure who has won. As King Hal carries a dead boy (a young Christian Bale) over the hacked bodies of both the English and French, a panorama of blood and mud and death greet the viewer as Branagh opens up the scene and Patrick Doyle's rousing hymn "Non nobis, Domine" provides marvellous counterpoint (like the director, the composer was another filmic first-timer). A more potent expression of the price of victory could scarcely be imagined. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Riddle Of The Sands | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Based on the ""classic spy thriller of the 20th century"" that historians hail as the ""tip-off"" that saved Britain from invasion. Two sailboating Englishmen discover a massive German fleet secretly preparing to attack their nation and set out to do something about it not only do they have to thwart the German Navy but Kaiser Wilhelm himself.

• Ice | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £5.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The human race finds itself contemplating the dawn of a new ice age in this epic disaster starring Richard Roxburgh, Frances O'Connor, Claire Forlani, Ben Cross, Simon Callow, Patrick Bergin with Stephen Moyer and Sam Neill. The destructive effects of global warming cause unimaginable devastation and panic worldwide. It is 2020. Global warming has turned the regions of Southern Europe to desert and the Arctic polar ice cap is disappearing rapidly. There is a refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale as populations migrate north. Energy companies are turning to increasingly dangerous methods to extract what little oil is left on Earth. Environmental scientist and activist Professor Thom Archer, warns of the imminent possibility of a new ice age. His findings suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt, with alarming consequences. Archer heads to the Polar Alliance subcommittee and presents his findings to a sceptical audience, failing to convince anyone of the danger ahead. Intent on exposing Halo, Archer receives a frantic call from friend and colleague Ben Jameson and heads to the glacier. Jameson, an expert Glaciologist, claims to have found damning evidence that proves Archer's findings are correct. Arriving on the ice cap, the effects of Halo's actions are clear to see. With the realisation that the human race is under immediate threat, Archer races home to his family hoping he's not too late. The collapse of the glacier is every bit as devastating as Archer imagined. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline.