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• Armageddon | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £3.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (355.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This 1998 testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continued Hollywood's millennium-fuelled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understand what mainstream audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid-fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but, of course, lovable) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's fetishising of technology, even though it's apparent he doesn't understand it as anything more than flashing lights and shiny gadgets. Smartly, the duo also try to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable to populate the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humour and charisma. When Bay applies his sledgehammer aesthetics to the action portions of the film, it's mindless fun; it's only when Armageddon tackles humanity that it becomes truly offensive. Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly--African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims, French ... if it's not white and American, Bay simplifies it. Or, make that white male America; the film features only three notable female characters--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'". Sadly, she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than all the other women characters combined. Sure, Bay's film creates some tension and contains some visceral moments, but if he can't create any redeemable characters outside of those in space, what's the point of saving the planet? --Dave McCoy

• Boardwalk Empire - The Complete Season 1-5 | Blu Ray | (01/06/2015) from £69.99   |  Saving you £40.00 (57.15%)   |  RRP £109.99

  Boardwalk Empire is an Emmy®-winning HBO drama series from Academy Award® nominee/Emmy® Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese. The series chronicles the life and times of Enoch Nucky Thompson, Atlantic City's czar at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America.

• The Remains Of The Day | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £7.52   |  Saving you £5.47 (72.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Remains of the Day is one of Merchant-Ivory's most thought-provoking films. Anthony Hopkins is a model of restraint and propriety as Stevens, the butler who "knows his place"; Emma Thompson is the animated and sympathetic Miss Kenton, the housekeeper whose attraction to Stevens is doomed to disappointment. As Nazi appeaser Lord Darlington, James Fox clings to the notion of a gentleman's agreement in the ruthless political climate before World War Two. Hugh Grant is his journalist nephew all too aware of reality, while Christopher Reeves gives a spirited portrayal of an American senator, whose purchase of Darlington Hall 20 years on sends Stevens on a journey to right the mistake he made out of loyalty. As a period drama with an ever-relevant message, this 1993 film is absorbing viewing all the way. On the DVD: the letterbox widescreen format reproduces the 2.35:1 aspect ratio with absolute clarity. Subtitles are in French and German, with audio subtitles also in English, Italian and Spanish, and with 28 separate chapter selections. The "making-of" featurette and retrospective documentary complement each other with their "during and after" perspectives, while "Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honour" is an interesting short on the question of appeasement and war. The running commentary from Thompson, Merchant and Ivory is more of a once-only diversion. --Richard Whitehouse

• Over The Hedge (1 Disc Edition) | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A mischievous racoon and his sensitive best-buddy turtle along with other forest creatures try to resist the evils and temptations of encroaching suburbia.

• Ghost World | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £7.05   |  Saving you £-1.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the succesful alternative graphic novel this tells the story of two girlfriends spending the summer after high school graduation together.

• The Last Outlaw | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £6.29   |  Saving you £-0.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Riding the coat-tails of the early 1990's Western revival, the HBO television movie The Last Outlaw is a good, taut B-picture evoking the conventions of bigger and better Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and 70s. Set in New Mexico in 1873, from the opening bank robbery onwards the movie plays like The Wild Bunch meets High Plains Drifter, the obsessive, psychotic Colonel Graff (Mickey Rourke at his best) hunting down his own men after they refuse to abandon an injured comrade. Facing up to Graff is the impressively understated Dermot Mulroney as Eustis, a man who has seen too much killing and simply wants it to stop. Writer Eric Red spins some interesting variations on a classic Western set-up, delivering a comparable psychological intensity to his earlier The Hitcher (1986); as the story unfolds Graff becomes an avenging emissary of death, the tale assuming a timeless mythological resonance. Director Geoff Murphy stages what comes down to one long chase with considerable style, and while there's nothing here fans of the genre haven't seen many times before, in an age starved of Westerns that's actually a large part of the appeal. --Gary S Dalkin

• Jackass 1-3 Movie Box Set | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Jackass - The Movie: All the jackasses you love from the MTV series are back performing stunts no one would let them pull on television. Johnny Knoxville and his insane crew take the concept of the MTV show Jackass - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - to the extreme. This time it's not edited for television! Jackass - The Movie - Number Two: Twice as fearless twice as hilarious and twice as curious. Laugh yourself silly and gasp in disbelief as the guys launch their battered bodies into the an onslaught of absurd situations and hopeful outcomes whether it's Pontius laying his manhood on the line for a puppet show Bam taking one for the team as he faces off butt-first against a hot branding iron or Knoxville's undercover and over-the-top pranks as a 90-year-old man these guys know what it takes to lower the bar and up the ante in their quest for nonsensical fun. Jackass 2.5: The Movie with all the stuff we couldn't show in theaters. As if going number two wasn't enough Johnny Knoxville and the entire crew from Jackass return in yet another insane foray into stupidity Jackass 2.5! Featuring all the stuff they couldn't show you before the boys take their stunts to all-new heights that'll leave you laughing squirming and begging for more. Jackass 3: Celebrating all forms of madness and mayhem the entire Jackass crew - including Johnny Knoxville Bam Margera Steve-O Chris Pontius Preston Lacy and Jason Wee Man Acuna - returns for more side-splitting lunacy and cringe-inducing stunts. From wild animal face-offs with a crazed bull to pitiless practical jokes - high-five anyone? - you can guarantee logic-defying acts pain and suffering as Jackass 3 reaches new heights in the pursuit of the inventively insane.

• The Ultimate Matrix Collection (Ten Disc Set) | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (24.00%)   |  RRP £61.99

  A 10 DVD box set that houses the complete Matrix story stuffed full of everything you could ever want to know & see! Disc 1 - The Matrix: The film in a new digital transfer supervised by the Wachowski brothers and director of photography Bill Pope. Two all-new audio commentaries with written introduction by the Wachowski Brothers - The Critics: Todd McCarthy John Powers & David Thomson / The Scholars: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber Disc 2 - The Matrix Revisited:

• Kings of Comedy 2 Collection | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Saturday Night Live: Kings of Comedy Collection 2 (4 Discs)

• Stuart Little | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £2.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The smallest member of The Little family returns in this blockbusting sequel. Alongside fellow family pet Snowbell the cat he sets of on a journey through the streets of New York in search of a missing friend.

• The Missouri Breaks | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Montana Badlands rancher David Braxton is a self-made man. Through years of tireless effort and determination he has transformed his vast and rugged land into a thriving prosperous empire. So when his livestock his fortune are threatened by a ruthless horse thief Braxton takes matters into his own hands. Hiring a sadistic 'regulator' to track down the outlaw Braxton intends to liberate the territory from crime but what he initiates instead is a complex series of events that re

• Battle of the Sexes | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £5.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

• Can't Stop The Music | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A retired model invites friends from Greenwich Village to a party to help the career of her room-mate an aspiring disco composer. A visiting socialite discovers the 'Village People' and launches them to overnight stardom. With music by Jacques Morali.

• Frankie Drake Mysteries Season 1 | DVD | (09/04/2018) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 11 episodes of the brand-new series on 3-disc DVD. Set in 1920s Toronto, Frankie Drake Mysteries follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The Drake Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties, and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties of the city's elite.Frankie and Trudy's fearless sense of adventure gets them into all kinds of trouble, but they always manage to find a way out. They are new detectives for a new world - but is the world ready for them? Includes subtitles for the Hard of Hearing

• Wonder Wheel | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WONDER WHEEL tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment. Poetically photographed by Vittorio Storaro, WONDER WHEEL is a powerful dramatic tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950s Coney Island.

• Ms. 45 Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/10/2025) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN! From Abel Ferrara, director of The Driller Killer and King of New York, comes a terrifying revenge-thriller in the tradition of Death Wish and Taxi Driver... Ms .45 (aka Angel of Vengeance) will blow you away. New York, 1980. Raped at gunpoint on her way home from work, mute seamstress Thana returns to the safety of her apartment only to be assaulted again by a burglar; but this time she fights back. Bludgeoning her assailant with an iron, she takes his gun and begins to dispose of the body piece by piece. Fuelled by her trauma, Thana sees that sexual threat is everywhere in the city and decides to bring a .45 calibre solution to the problem. A devastating depiction of sexual violence and female rage, with a stunning central performance from Zoë Lund (credited as Zoë Tamerlis), Ms .45 arrives in a brand-new restoration that gives an extraordinary glimpse into the grimy glamour of New York in the 80s and with all its controversial power intact. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS ¢ Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original 35mm camera negative ¢ High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation ¢ Original lossless mono audio ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Brand new audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of Rape Revenge Films: A Critical Study and Cultographies: Ms .45 ¢ The Voice of Violence, a new featurette with film critic BJ Colangelo ¢ Where Dreams Go to Die, a new featurette with film critic Kat Ellinger ¢ Archive interview with director Abel Ferrara ¢ Archive interview with composer Joe Delia ¢ Archive interview with creative consultant Jack McIntyre ¢ Zoe XO, a 2004 short film directed by Paul Rachman ¢ Zoe Rising, a 2011 short film directed by Paul Rachman ¢ Theatrical trailer ¢ Image gallery ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde ¢ Perfect bound collector's book featuring new writing by Robert Lund, previously unseen photographs of Zoë Lund and extracts from her diary, plus select archival material including writing by Kier-La Janisse and Brad Stevens ¢ Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde

• Spitting Image - The Complete Eleventh Series | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A milestone in television comedy Spitting Image lifted satire to a new level through the 1980s and '90s. No target was safe from its gunsights: politicians of all persuasions even the Royal Family and the Pope could find themselves up for a ribbing on any given programme. BAFTA-nominated many times Spitting Image won a Bronze medal at the Montreux TV festival in 1984 firmly establishing its success for over a decade. Packed with more wickedly witty sketches and spoof songs this complete eleventh series employs the familiar vocal talents of Steve Coogan Hugh Dennis Kate Robbins and Alistair McGowan among others. In this series the entire Labour Party attends a drama workshop Prince Charles tries to rein in William's video-game addiction Jeffrey Archer tries to finish his novel and there's ongoing televised coverage as Boris Yeltsin introduces the first loaf of bread in Russia. A retired Alastair Burnet is still reading the news at ten every night and we share some intimate moments over dinner with John and Norma Major...

• The Crocodile Hunter - Collision Course | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fans of Steve Irwin's television show will already know what to expect from The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. By the time of this, his first feature film, the Australian nature programme presenter had become a worldwide cult figure, thanks to his natural charm, good-natured wit and, most importantly, what appears to be his utter disregard for his own safety when facing some of the most dangerous wild animals on the planet. Simply put, he does things that are utterly mad, but manages to do so while appearing supremely competent. Steve Irwin is a dude. The makers of Collision Course obviously knew this, as their attitude towards the film is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". There's a rudimentary plot that involves a renegade crocodile, a lost Top Secret American satellite and some CIA agents on a retrieval mission in the Australian Outback, but these are just a backdrop filled by forgettable characters. The real stars are, quite rightly, Steve Irwin, his wife Terri and their long-suffering dog Sui (who probably dreams of Frisbees and warm beds on those constant boat trips through the swamps of Australia). The entire film is done in the same format as the TV series, with Steve speaking directly to the camera as he handles everything from "the most poisonous snake in the world" (which, of course, he grabs by the tail), a bird-eating spider (he pokes it with a stick to show off its fangs) and overzealous "poachers" (in one of the film's funniest scenes). Plus, of course, an enormous crocodile which he wrestles underwater (fans of old Tarzan films take note!), grapples on land and lassos from a boat. Best of all, because it's Steve Irwin, you know these animals aren't props or special effects--that huge snake is real (and really angry), as is that spider crawling on his wife and that crocodile chewing on his oar. People looking for plot and substance would be better off avoiding The Crocodile Hunter. But fans of the Irwins (no matter what their age) will find this an entertaining and amusing way to spend a couple of hours. On the DVD: The Crocodile Hunter disc has six short featurettes that take viewers behind the scenes, providing insights into how those numerous wild (and dangerous) animals were made to appear cooperative on screen. There's also an interactive commentary track providing extra trivia titbits, as well as a fairly pointless photo gallery of still images. --Robert Burrow

• The Look Of Love | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £7.55   |  Saving you £10.44 (138.28%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Steve Coogan's passion project reunites him with longtime collaborator Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story) for the real life story of the 'King of Soho', the legendary gentleman's club owner and porn publisher Paul Raymond.

• Studio 54 | DVD | (06/08/2018) from £5.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club s hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.