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• Count Arthur Strong: The Complete Second Series | DVD | (26/09/2016) from £16.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wit, bon vivant, social gadfly, master of the mystic arts and star of stage and screen Count Arthur Strong is none of these, though he likes to think he is... Steve Delaney returns as the pompously delusional Count Arthur in this BAFTA-nominated sitcom written by Delaney and Graham Linehan (Father Ted, The IT Crowd). Co-starring Rory Kinnear as Michael, a perpetually nervous writer and the son of Arthur's late comedy partner, this complete second series contains all seven episodes, complete and uncut. Currently resting on his ample laurels, with the next big thing only a phone call away, Arthur whiles away his time by writing a novel full of damaging showbiz gossip much to Michael's horror! Brushes with politics and a disastrous flying lesson pale into insignificance, however, when Arthur has to move in with Michael in the aftermath of yet another 'trouser fire'... SPECIAL FEATURE: Graham Linehan audience Q&A

• War Collection | DVD | (28/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Bridge Too Far: In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to the disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fear.The Great Escape: One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time, The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven), screenwriters James Clavell ('Shogun') and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story.The Battle Of Britain: This is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the outcome of war . But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe, they may well have altered the course of history!

• The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £16.17   |  Saving you £-6.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Robert Wise chose to film Robert McKenna's award-winning novel The Sand Pebbles as his follow-up to the success of The Sound of Music. Shot in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the film combines historical sweep and intimate human drama in several parallel stories, all revolving around US Navy machinist's mate Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a skilful but fiercely independent sailor who joins the "sand pebble" crew of the USS San Pablo, a Navy gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River on the eve of the Chinese revolution in 1926. The San Pablo's inexperienced captain (Richard Crenna) obsessively defends the Navy's mission-however unnecessary or unwanted--to protect American missionaries and businessmen, blind to the more dangerous implications of American involvement with China's opposing political factions. Holman is a defiant voice of humanity in this clash between outmoded values and inevitable change; his final line of dialogue ("What the hell happened?") is a tragic summation of misguided policy, expressing the film's criticism of the Vietnam War. Rather than preach, however, Wise lets McKenna's potent drama emerge from finely drawn relationships: between Holman and a young American teacher (19-year-old Candice Bergen, in her second film); between Holman and the Chinese "coolie" (Mako), whose heart-breaking fate transcends all issues of racial or political difference; and between crewmate "Frenchy" Burgoyne (Richard Attenborough) and the Chinese woman he's sworn to love and protect at all costs. Combined with the film's colourful supporting cast, adventurous scope, and climactic battle scenes, these personal dynamics bring substance and spirit to a complex story of good intentions gone awry. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Blood - The Last Vampire | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.92   |  Saving you £11.33 (200.18%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Blood the Last Vampire brings a moody atmospheric quality all of its own to the Japanese animated film tradition. In a few short enigmatic scenes, we learn of the young girl Saya who is working for nameless government agencies and is sent, after one of her killings, to pose as a new pupil at an American school on an air force base. The Vietnam War is underway, but this does not concern her--she is involved with a far older war. All we ever find out is that she is not quite human, and that two of her schoolmates (and a whore in the mean streets adjacent to the base) are something yet again. Much of what ensues--gore and metamorphosis and nightmare chases--is all the more confusing for being seen through the eyes of a schoolteacher who never learns very much. This is a dreamlike film which does not have to make entirely literal sense, far more so than the creator's more famous Ghost in the Shell. It is also a memorable stage in the development of digitised animation. --Roz Kaveny

• Upgrade | Blu Ray | (18/11/2019) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a near-future world, where technology controls everything, technophobe Grey Trace is the victim of a brutal mugging that leaves his wife dead and him paralyzed. A reclusive billionaire inventor offers him an experimental cure, an A.I. implant called STEM. Grey accepts and is immediately transformed into an unstoppable killing machine with enhanced strength and agility. Now it's payback time. This hugely successful collaboration between genre specialists Blumhouse and the creator of the Saw franchise has become an instant cyberpunk classic. SPECIAL FEATURES: 'Not Action. Not Sci-Fi. More': A new interview with director, Leigh Whannell 'Permission Granted': A new interview with producer, Kylie Du Fresne 'Future Noir': A new interview with cinematographer, Stefan Duscio 'Hacking Upgrade': A new interview with editor, Andy Canny 'The Art of Fighting Without Fighting': A new interview with fight choreographer, Chris Weir Optional English subtitles for the Hard of Hearing LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: Rigid slipcase featuring new artwork by Adam Stothard Poster featuring the new artwork 40-page soft cover book with new essays by Jon Towlson and Scott Harrison.

• Catwoman: Hunted | DVD | (07/02/2022) from £5.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the all-new original Catwoman: Hunted, Catwoman's attempt to steal a priceless jewel puts her squarely in the crosshairs of both a powerful consortium of villains and the ever-resourceful Interpol, not to mention Batwoman. It might just be enough to contain her. Or not.

• The Prey | Blu Ray | (20/04/2020) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's not human, and it's got an axe! One of the most underrated efforts to hail from the slice-and-dice boom, The Prey at last emerges from the VHS wilderness in a brand new 2K restoration from the recently unearthed original camera negative. Three young couples set off into the mountains for a weekend of climbing, drinking and lovemaking. But little do they know that they are stumbling into the terrain of a fearsome predator a wild man, horrifically burned as a child many years ago in a fire which engulfed his gypsy camp and left only him alive. Now he roams the woods in search of his next human prey. Filmed in 1979-1980 but not released in the US until 1984 when it was picked up by New World Pictures, The Prey is a unique woodsy slasher gem ripe for reappraisal in this extras-packed edition! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation 2K restoration of the filmmaker-approved US Theatrical Cut from the original camera negative Original uncompressed mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with Ewan Cant and Amanda Reyes Audio interview with director/co-writer Edwin Scott Brown Audio interview with producer/co-writer Summer Brown Gypsies, Camps and Screams interview with actress Debbie Thureson Babe in the Woods interview with actress Lori Lethin Gayle on Gail interview with actress Gayle Gannes The Wide-Mouthed Frog and Other Stories interview with actor Jackson Bostwick Call of the Wild interview with actor Carel Struycken In Search of The Prey Ewan Cant and actress Debbie Thureson revisit the original shooting locations in Idyllwild, California ¢ Texas Frightmare Weekend Experience relive the premiere of the restored The Prey at Texas Frightmare Weekend 2019, with full audience reaction track and post-screening Q&A with actors Lori Lethin, Carel Struycken and Jackson Bostwick TV Spot and home video trailer Original shooting script from the personal archives of Debbie Thureson (BD-ROM Content) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn

• Count Arthur Strong | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £6.65   |  Saving you £14.60 (270.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Count Arthur Strong - A man born to entertain an audience whether they like it or not. Variety star bit-part actor life model medium entrepreneur enjoyer of all-day breakfasts and inexplicable Count nothing is outside his area of expertise. Into Arthur's world comes Michael Baker the son of his vastly more successful former double-act partner Max. Michael (Rory Kinnear) is professionally and personally adrift an author whose last shot at the popularity he craves is a book about his Dad the King of Saturday Night... but last time he met Arthur he burst into tears and wet himself. Thirty years on it seems that Arthur is still capable of embarrassing him one way or another. The creator of Count Arthur Steve Delaney joins with Graham Linehan (The IT Crowd Father Ted) to bring this stage legend and BBC Radio 4 favourite to the screen at last.

• Robbie The Reindeer Trilogy - The Whole Herd | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £3.01 (60.32%)   |  RRP £8.00

  Robbie The Reindeer Trilogy: The Whole Herd

• Dinner for Schmucks | Blu Ray | (17/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Tim (Paul Rudd), an up-and-coming executive has just received his first invitation to the "dinner for idiots," a monthly event hosted by his boss that promises bragging rights (and more) to the exec that shows up with the biggest buffoon.

• Despicable Me Blu-ray 3D | Blu Ray | (21/02/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (49.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The world's greatest villain (Steve Carell) has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

• The War Lover | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stationed in England during World War II Buzz Rickson (McQueen) is the bravest Air Force pilot in his squadron and the most reckless. His maniacal quest for thrills takes him to the brink of destruction during the B-17 bombing raids on Germany. But while Buzz's daredevil heroics win the grudging respect of his crew his rebellious attitude alienates everyone except his co-pilot Ed Bolland (Robert Wagner)...

• Lifeforce | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £28.89   |  Saving you £-15.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, the follow-up to his most popular hit Poltergeist, is a film that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, though, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a picture that starts out as a science fiction mission to Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon have whipped up a concoction that's got everything anyone could ask of a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts that signal the apocalypse to come. Keeping it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley-mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. --Jeff Shannon

• Minority Report - Single Disc Edition | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in a future where killers are arrested before they commit murder, Tom Cruise stars as a detective accused of a murder that hasn't happened yet who must move quickly to solve the murder and prove his innocence.

• Rawhide: The Complete First Season | Blu Ray | (31/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Blu Ray | (02/12/2013) from £4.12   |  Saving you £20.87 (506.55%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Alan's radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

• Greed (UK) | DVD | (29/06/2020) from £3.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  GREED tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), whose retail empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion bringing the high street to the catwalk and the catwalk to the high street but after a damaging public inquiry, his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicised and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. A satire on the grotesque inequality of wealth in the fashion industry, the film sees McCreadie's rise and fall through the eyes of his biographer, Nick (David Mitchell).

• Warlock - The Armageddon | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Son of Satan attempts to bring his father to Earth with the aid of some mystic stones.

• The Player (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (24/05/2016) from £28.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Boardwalk Empire - Season 1 (HBO) | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £9.83   |  Saving you £40.16 (408.55%)   |  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