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• Father Brown Series 9 | DVD | (14/02/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1953, and the charming Father Brown (Mark Williams) returns to solve more mysteries in the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford. Based on the character created by G.K. Chesterton, the charismatic priest is joined again by Mrs McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack), Inspector Mallory (Jack Deam),Sergeant Goodfellow (John Burton), Sid Carter (Alex Price), and Bunty Windermere (Emer Kenny). In the ninth series the sleuthing priest finds himself in a race against time to unmask a mystery attacker before pernicious newcomer Lord Hawthorne has him hounded out of the parish for good. Elsewhere Sergeant Goodfellow needs Father Brown's ingenuity to solve a fiendish kidnapping. And in the thrilling 100th episode, Lady Felicia's illustrious New Year Masked Ball is marred by a killer in its midst. Could this be the last waltz for Father Brown?

• Thor 1-3 Box Set BD | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £11.99   |  Saving you £19.51 (195.30%)   |  RRP £29.50

  Thor: The world has many heroes but only one is a god. When the arrogant warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is banished to Earth from his home world of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero. Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins also star in this blockbuster adventure critics have called a rousing, entertaining thrill. Thor The Dark World: From the Studio that brought you the #1 Super Hero movie of all time, Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble, comes another msut-own, epic blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth as The Mighty Thor. Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness. Now, reunited with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction. Thor Ragnarok: In Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok, Thor, imprisoned on the other side of the universe, must race against time to get back to stop Ragnarokthe destruction of his world and the end of Asgardian civilisation at the hands of the ruthless Hela.

• Mission: Impossible 6-Movie Collection | Blu Ray | (12/06/2023) from £36.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mission: Impossible Tom Cruise ignites the screen in the hit big-screen blockbuster that launched one of today's biggest, and still-growing, action movie franchises. Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is a top secret agent, framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. Directed by Brian De Palma (THE UNTOUCHABLES). Mission: Impossible 2 The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in. Mission: Impossible 3 The stakes have never been higher. The action has never been hotter. This is Mission: Impossible... like you've never seen it before! Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Super 8 ). Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Oscar® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman*). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Bursting with breathtaking excitement and thrilling plot twists, this movie delivers! - Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol No plan. No backup. No choice. Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his elite team (Jeremy Renner -The Avengers and Simon Pegg - Star Trek ) go underground after a bombing of the Kremlin implicates the IMF as international terrorists. While trying to clear the agency's name, the team uncovers a plot to start a nuclear war. Now, to save the world, they must use every high-tech trick in the book. The mission has never been more real, more dangerous or more impossible. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Loaded with jaw-dropping stunts *, prepare for the best action movie of the year **. With their elite organisation shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) must race against time to stop The Syndicate, a deadly network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop this global threat, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent (Rebecca Ferguson) whose loyalty is suspect as he faces his most impossible mission ever. Mission: Impossible - Fallout Some missions are not a choice. On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his team over completing the mission, allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly-skilled operatives intent on destroying civilisation. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to become reluctant partners with a hard-hitting CIA agent (Henry Cavill) as they race against time to stop the nuclear fallout. There's never been a threat more destructive or stunts more jaw-dropping than in this film that critics are calling the best Mission yet (Jamie Graham, TOTAL FILM). Product Features Mission: Impossible Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible Mission: Explosive Exploits Mission: Spies Among Us Mission: Catching the Train and Much More! Mission: Impossible 2 Commentary by Director John Woo Behind the Mission Mission Incredible Impossible Shots and Much More! Mission: Impossible 3 Commentary by Tom Cruise and Director J.J. Abrams Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Mission Accepted: On-set Action with Tom Cruise J.J. Abrams & Director Brad Bird Impossible Missions: The Sandstorm Brought to Life and the Secrets Behind the Gadgets Deleted Scenes with optional commentary by Director Brad Bird Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Commentary by Tom Cruise and Director Christopher McQuarrie Lighting the Fuse Cruise Control Heroes... Cruising Altitude Mission: Immersible Sand Theft Auto The Missions Continue Mission: Impossible - Fallout Blu-ray Feature Film Disc: Commentary by Director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise, Additional Commentaries and More! Bonus Disc: Behind the Fallout - get an inside look at the impossible stunts and breathtaking locations! Deleted Scenes Montage with Optional Commentary by Director Christopher McQuarrie and Editor Eddie Hamilton Foot Chase Musical Breakdown Storyboards and More!

• Doctor Who Original Series: New Beginnings - Box Set | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £11.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (150.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This cracking three-disc DVD boxset comprises 'The Keeper of Traken' 'Logopolis' and 'Castrovalva' - adventures that saw both the return of the Doctor's arch-enemy Master plus the transition from Tom Baker's Doctor to Peter Davison's. Prepare for not one but two new companions killer statues the slow destruction of the Universe cunning disguises big beards recursive occlusion and stick-on celery. What a combination! Packed with more special features than the good Doctor could fit in the Tardis this one is a right little belter!

• Spider-Man: Far From Home | Blu Ray | (11/11/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Parker returns in Spider-Man™: Far From Home, the next chapter of the Spider-Man™: Homecoming series! Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent! Click Images to Enlarge

• The Sandman | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the beloved award-winning DC comic series written by Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Coraline), THE SANDMAN is a rich, character-driven blend of myth and dark fantasy woven together over the course of ten epic chapters following Dream's many adventures (plus a bonus episode featuring two fan-favorite stories). When the Sandman, a.k.a. Dream (Tom Sturridge, Sweetbitter, Velvet Buzzsaw) the powerful cosmic being who controls all our dreams is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for over a century, he must journey across different worlds and timelines to fix the chaos his absence has caused.

• Marvel Studios Collector's Edition Box Set Phase 2 | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £33.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Iron Man 3: The studio that brought you Marvel's Avengers Assemble unleashes the best Iron Man adventure yet with this must-own, global phenomenon starring Robert Downey Jr. When Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him: Does the man make the suit... or does the suit make the man? Thor The Dark World: From the Studio that brought you the #1 Super Hero movie of all time, Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble, comes another must-own, epic blockbuster starring Chris Hemsworth as The Mighty Thor. Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness. Now, reunited with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: From the Studio that brought you Marvel Studios' Avengers Assemble comes an epic adventure that teams Captain America (Chris Evans) with the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Falcon to battle an unexpected and formidable enemy - the Winter Soldier. Expand your Marvel collection as you relive the ultimate battle for the future of mankind. Guardians Of The Galaxy: From Marvel Studios, the studio that brought you Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Avengers Assemble, comes an unlikely new team - the Guardians of the Galaxy. The Marvel Cinematic Universe expands into the cosmos when brash space adventurer Peter Quill steals a mysterious, all-powerful orb. Chased by relentless enemies, he forms an uneasy alliance with a ragtag band of misfits, leading to a desperate battle that will decide the fate of the galaxy. Avengers Age Of Ultron: Marvel Studios unleashes the next global phenomenon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Avengers: Age of Ultron. Good intentions wreak havoc when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) unwittingly creates Ultron (James Spader), a terrifying A.I. monster who vows to achieve world peace via mass extinction. Now Iron Man, Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) - alongside Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) - must reassemble to defeat Ultron and save mankind... if they can! This action-packed adventure is a mind-blowing blast! Ant-Man: The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe introduces the newest member of the Avengers: Marvel Studios' Ant-Man. Armed with the amazing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang joins forces with his new mentor Dr. Hank Pym to protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from ruthless villains! With humanity's fate in the balance, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a daring heist against insurmountable odds. Filled with humour, awesome special effects and thrilling bonus features, this action-packed adventure takes you to new levels of pulse-pounding excitement! Included Extras: Iron Man 3: Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, Iron Man 3 Unmasked, Deconstructing The Scene: Attack on Air Force One, Deleted & Extended Scenes, Gag Reel, Exclusive Behind The Scenes Look - Thor: The Dark World, Commentary By Shane Black and Drew Pearce Thor The Dark World: Marvel One Shot: All Hail The King, Featurette - A Brother's Journey: Thor & Loki, Exclusive Look - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Featurette - Scoring Thor: The Dark World With Brian Tyler, Deleted & Extended Scenes, Gag Reel, Audio Commentary, Extended Celebration Scene, Jane Learns About The Aether, Loki: The First Avenger, Thor and Frigga Discuss Loki, Dark Elves Prepare For Battle Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Commentary by Joe and Anthony Russo, & Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes: In Pursuit of Captain America, Hill and Sitwell Talk Loyalty, Nick Fury's Circle, Widow Reveals Her Past, Featurettes: On the Front Line: Inside Look at Captain America's Battlegrounds, On Set with Anthony Mackie: Cut the Check!, Steve Roger's Notebook Guardians Of The Galaxy: Featurettes: Guide to the galaxy with James Gunn, The Intergalactic visual effects for Guardians of Galaxy, Exclusive look at Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Gag reel, Deleted & extended scenes: Fake laugh, The Kyln will have to do, No, I'm the stupid one, Sisterly love, Dancing guard, Audio commentary with director James Gunn Avengers Age Of Ultron: From The Inside Out - Making Of The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, The Infinite Six, Global Adventure, Deleted & Extended Scenes, Gag Reel, Audio Commentary With Director Joss Whedon Ant-Man: Featurettes - Making Of An Ant-Sized Heist: A How To Guide, Featurettes - Let's Go To The Macroverse, Featurettes - WHIH News Front, Deleted & Extended Scenes - Audio Commentary By Peyton Reed And Paul Rudd, Gag Reel BLU-RAY Bonus Disc Additional Content: Deleted & Extended Scenes, Marvel One-Shot films and Commentary, From Here to Infinity: Phases 2 and 3 of the M.C.U., Tag Scenes: A Making-Of, Screen Test with Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista From Here To Infinity: Phases 2 & 3 Of The M.C.U. Phase 2 Tag Scenes: A Making-Of Gag Reel Marvel One-Shots: The Consultant [Thor] Marvel One-Shots: The Consultant With Audio Commentary By Clark Gregg [Thor] Marvel One-Shots: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer [CA: The First Avenger] Marvel One-Shots: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer With Audio Commentary By Clark Gregg [CA: The First Avenger] Marvel One-Shots: Item 47 [The Avengers] Marvel One-Shots: Item 47 With Audio Commentary By Louis D'Esposito, Max Hernandez, Titus Welliver And Jesse Bradford [The Avengers] Marvel One-Shots: Agent Carter [Iron Man 3] Marvel One-Shots: Agent Carter With Audio Commentary By Louis D'Esposito And Hayley Atwell [Iron Man 3] Marvel One-Shots: All Hail The King [Thor: TDW] Marvel One-Shots: All Hail The King With Audio Commentary By Drew Pearce And Ben Kingsley [Thor: TDW] Iron Man 3: Deleted Scenes Iron Man 3: Preproduction Creative Thor: The Dark World: Deleted Scenes Thor: The Dark World: Preproduction Creative Captain America: The Winter Solider: Deleted Scene Captain America: The Winter Solider: Deleted Scene With Audio Commentary By Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Preproduction Creative Guardians Of The Galaxy: Deleted Scenes Guardians Of The Galaxy: Preproduction Creative Avengers: Age Of Ultron: Deleted Scenes Avengers: Age Of Ultron: Preproduction Creative: Hulk vs. Hulkbuster Ant-Man: Deleted Scenes, Ant-Man: Preproduction Creative

• Mission: Impossible - The 6-Movie Collection (Blu-ray + Bonus Disc) | Blu Ray | (03/12/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Catch up on all 6 Mission: Impossible films with the 6-movie collection.

• Grantchester: Series 8 | DVD | (19/02/2024) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God - but how can he now, when his despair leads him on a dangerous downward spiral? Geordie has found a new contentment in his relationship with Cathy but when they are both confronted with shock announcements at work their new-found happiness is threatened. As Mrs C, Leonard, Jack and Daniel rally around, both Will and Geordie find themselves in unfamiliar, emotional waters and murder is always around the corner. Series eight of Grantchester will range from speedway to spies, exploring the lives of invisible women and the very visible problems caused by Leonard's new vocation which may, once again, find him battling the law. Exploring faith, forgiveness, and redemption - this explosive series of Grantchester tests Will and Geordie to the limit.

• Inferno | DVD | (20/02/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest thriller in Dan Brown's (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop the unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population. Click Images to Enlarge

• Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, A (PKA You Are My Friend) | DVD | (08/06/2020) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his scepticism, learning about kindness, love and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbour.

• Rock of Ages | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £12.80 (178.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rock of Ages tells the story of small town girl Sherrie and city boy Drew, who meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

• Toy Story 4 | DVD | (21/10/2019) from £3.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Bonnie takes the toys on her family's road trip, Woody ends up on an unexpected detour that includes a reunion with his long-lost friend Bo Peep, whose adventurous spirit and life on the road belie her delicate porcelain exterior. Woody and Bo are worlds apart when it comes to life as a toy, and they soon realise that that's the least of their worries.

• Spider-Man Homecoming | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £3.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (75.19%)   |  RRP £6.99

  A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made his sensational debut in Captain American: Civil War, begins to naviagate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.). Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine - distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened. Click Images to Enlarge

• Edge of Tomorrow | Blu Ray | (12/09/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An alien race, undefeated by any existing military unit, has launched a relentless attack on Earth, and Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself dropped into a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage is thrown into a time loop, forced to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again. Training alongside warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), his skills slowly evolve, and each battle moves them one step closer to defeating the enemy in this intense action thriller. Product Features Storming the Beach: Dive into the trenches for a gritty look at creating the film's epic sci-fi battle. Weapons of the Future: Watch Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt tackles the challenges of strapping on exo-suits to become super soliders. One the Edge with Doug Liman: Follow the passion-fuelled director as he confronts the pressures of making a futuristic war film look real. Deleted Scenes and more!

• Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation | DVD | (07/12/2015) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.04

  Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. Click Images to Enlarge

• Denial | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team led by Richard Rampton (Academy Award® nominee Tom Wilkinson), to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred.

• Billy Liar - 50th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (06/05/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Billy Liar was the multimedia phenomenon of its era. Starting out as a novel by Yorkshire writer Keith Waterhouse, it rapidly became a long-running stage play, adapted by Waterhouse with playwright Willis Hall, which lead to the movie, scripted by Waterhouse and Hall for John Schlesinger to direct, then a stage musical and finally a spin-off TV series. Do you get the feeling it caught the mood of the times? The basic set-up owes a lot to James Thurber's classic short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Our hero, Billy Fisher, lives at home in a Bradford semi with his nagging parents and works as a lowly clerk in an undertaker's parlour. But, in his imagination he lives a rich and varied fantasy life as gallant military leader, suave socialite, best-selling novelist and so forth. Trouble is, he can't always keep fantasy and reality apart, any more than he can the keep two girls he's engaged to separate. Not to mention his other problems…. Schlesinger's direction brings out the desperation behind the comedy, and Tom Courtenay, at once defiant and hangdog, slips perfectly into the role created on stage by Albert Finney. But the whole cast's a joy, not least the great Leonard Rossiter as undertaker Mr Shadrach, Billy's saturnine boss. And then there's Julie Christie--the luminous spirit of the Swinging 60s--in her first starring role as the girl who offers Billy a chance of real escape. At the end, when she takes the train to London, away from the smoke and the grimness "oop" north, the whole British New Wave went with her. On the DVD: just the theatrical trailer which is a fairly crass affair. There's been no remastering, it seems, but both sound and vision are clean enough and the print preserves the original's full 2.35:1 widescreen ratio. --Philip Kemp

• Cast Away | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cast Away reunites star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in their first collaboration since the heavy-handed sentimentality of Forrest Gump. Thankfully, this time their film's life-affirming message is delivered with more subtlety, attributable both to an extraordinarily committed, physically demanding central performance from Hanks and to Zemeckis' technically masterful but carefully understated direction. It's also a film with three distinct "acts" or, to be old-fashioned about it, a proper beginning, middle and end. The story follows schedule-obsessed but fulfilled FedEx supervisor Chuck Noland (Act 1) on a personal journey into the bleakest, most solitary despair (Act 2), before Helen Hunt, in the thankless role of ex-girlfriend, unwittingly allows him to glimpse an optimistic future full of untapped possibilities (Act 3). Hanks' sojourn on the island is the centrepiece, but this is no tropical island idyll: following a terrifying plane crash (the one sequence in the film where Zemeckis shows off his uncanny ability to choreograph action), life on the island is seen to be a depressing and bitter experience filled with disappointment, danger and suicidal despair. Having lost all hope of rescue, ultimately Noland's greatest test is not to survive, but to find a reason to survive. He has no Man Friday for company, just a volleyball named "Wilson" that is both a narrative device allowing Hanks to deliver dialogue and an intriguingly pagan personification of the island's spirit under whose protection Noland is finally able to summon fire (significantly, and heartbreakingly, Wilson leaves him as he regains contact with the world). In an era of MTV-style film editing, Zemeckis and Hanks fearlessly take their time establishing with total conviction the grim realities of Noland's situation, his devastating loss of hope and the means by which he achieves his escape. Like Contact before it, Cast Away is a refreshingly thoughtful piece of mainstream cinema that explores weighty existential issues but retains a warm human intimacy. On the DVD: The luminous anamorphic print with vivid Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is accompanied on the first disc by a technical commentary from Zemeckis and key crew personnel. It's plenty insightful for budding filmmakers, although for pure listening pleasure one might have preferred a more relaxed piece with just the director and Tom Hanks. The second disc includes a 30-minute making-of documentary in which the director sums up the moral of the movie--"Surviving is easy but living is difficult". This draws on material from the three other mini-documentaries about survival skills, Wilson the volleyball and the Fijian island location of Monu Riki respectively. There's also a section on the sometimes surprising use of CGI effects and a storyboard-to-film comparison sequence. Tom Hanks chats with American TV host Charlie Rose about this movie and his career in the extensive 50-minute interview. Trailers, artwork and stills round out a valuable two-disc set. --Mark Walker

• The Mummy (DVD) | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An ancient queen is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension. Click Images to Enlarge