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• Alice In Wonderland (Animation) - Special Edition | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £9.15   |  Saving you £-4.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In the hands of Disney's extraordinary animation artists Lewis Carroll's immortal literary classic comes to life like never before. The surprises begin when a daydreaming Alice encounters a White Rabbit who is frantically running late. She chases him and falls into the magical madcap world of Wonderland with its kaleidoscope of off-the-wall characters. Filled with topsy-turvy fun Alice In Wonderland is teeming with spectacular songs and astounding animation in the highest Disney tradition.

• Cinderella - Diamond Edition | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £7.62   |  Saving you £-0.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  The kind and beautiful Cinderella dreams of romance and a better life while serving the selfish needs of her wicked stepmother and two jealous stepsisters. With the help of her mischievous mice friends, Gus and Jaq, and a little Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo from the magical wand of her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella meets the handsome Prince Charming at the Royal Ball. But as she flees the castle before the stroke of midnight breaks the spell, Cinderella leaves behind a single glass slipper... leading to the ultimate fairy tale ending!

• Dumbo | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £4.78   |  Saving you £18.21 (380.96%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A Disney "classic" that actually is a classic, Dumbo should be part of your movie collection whether or not you have children. The storytelling was never as lean as in Dumbo, the songs rarely as haunting (or just plain weird), the characters rarely so well defined. The film pits the "cold, cruel, heartless" world that can't accept abnormality against a plucky, and mute, hero. Jumbo Jr. (Dumbo is a mean-spirited nickname) is ostracised from the circus pack shortly after his delivery by the stork because of his big ears. His mother sticks up for him and is shackled. He's jeered by children (an insightful scene has one boy poking fun at Dumbo's ears, even though the youngster's ears are also ungainly), used by the circus folk, and demoted to appearing with the clowns. Only the decent Timothy Q. Mouse looks out for the little guy. Concerns about the un-PC "Jim Crow" crows, who mock Dumbo with the wonderful "When I See an Elephant Fly", should be moderated by remembering that the crows are the only social group in the film who act kindly to the little outcast. If you don't mist up during the "Baby Mine" scene, you may be legally pronounced dead. --Keith Simanton

• Lady and the Tramp | Blu Ray | (30/01/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fall in love with Walt Disney's Beloved Classic, Lady And The Tramp - now unleashed in glorious high definition for the first time ever on Blu-ray! Experience like never before the thrilling adventures of Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel, and Tramp, a freewheeling mutt with a heart of gold. This heartwarming tale now charms a new generation of families and fans with its exquisite animation, unforgettable songs brilliantly restored with high definition sound, and all-new bonus that reveals the extraordinary making of process behind one of the greatest love stories of all time.

• Cinderella - Diamond Edition | Blu Ray | (27/08/2012) from £4.98   |  Saving you £4.03 (80.92%)   |  RRP £9.01

  Walt Disney's beloved Cinderella, based on one of the world's greatest fairy tales, has captivated audiences for generations with its spellbinding story, memorable music, spectacular animation and unforgettable characters. Experience the magic with this special edition - and audiences will believe that their dreams really have come true.The beautiful Cinderella spends her days doing chores for her cruel stepmother Lady Tremaine and her spoilt daughters Drizella and Anastasia. As she works she daydreams of romance and a better life, sharing her wishes with her animal friends, including the loveable comic mice Gus and Jaq. When the King holds a ball in honour of his son Prince Charming, all the women in the kingdom are invited. Cinderella's initial excitement turns to sadness when her stepfamily stops her from attending, but with the spectacular arrival of her fairy godmother all Cinderella's dreams look set to come true.

• Alice in Wonderland | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £12.55   |  Saving you £-4.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, Alice In Wonderland is an imaginative new twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny. This Wonderland is a world beyond your imagination and unlike anything you've seen before. The extraordinary characters you've loved come to life richer and more colourful than ever. There's a Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and more. A triumphant cinematic experience - Alice in Wonderland is an incredible feast for your eyes, ears and heart that will captivate audiences for all sizes.

• The Jungle Book (2 Disc Special Edition) (Disney) | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  One of the most popular Disney films ever The Jungle Book is a song-filled celebration of friendship fun and adventure set in a lush and colourful world. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's""Mowgli"" stories Disney's 19th animated masterpiece was the last animated feature that had Walt Disney's personal touch. The jubilant adventure begins when Mowgli a little boy raised by wolves is urged by his friend Bagheera a wise old panther to seek safety in the man-village. Feeling very much at home in the jungle Mowgli resists and runs off. Much to Bagherra's dismay Mowgli meets a new friend with a happy-go-lucky- philosophy of life- Baloo the bear a lovable "" jungle bum."" Together the three buddies find the journey back to civilization anything but civilized! They encounter a crazy orangutan the hypnotic and sly snake Kaa and the menacing Shere Khan!

• Lady and the Tramp | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £4.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (69.25%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Experience the thrilling adventures of Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel, and Tramp, a freewheeling mutt with a heart of gold. This heartwarming tale now charms a new generation of families and fans with its exquisite animation, unforgettable songs and one of the greatest love stories of all time.This is the night to share a special bella notte with your family and introduce them to one of Disney's most enduring classics!

• After Hours (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences-involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight-pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese-abetted by Michael Ballhaus's kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and John Heard-directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.

• After Hours | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences-involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight-pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese-abetted by Michael Ballhaus's kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and John Heard-directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.

• Medium Cool (1969) | Blu Ray | (31/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A carefully crafted open-to-everything mixture of live-wire reality and controlled narrative  Medium Cool is the debut fiction feature of Haskell Wexler who had already established himself as one of Hollywood’s premiere cinematographers in the post-studio-system-era on such films as Elia Kazan’s America America and Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1968  he hurled himself into the tear-gas of the cultural-political moment. The result was alongside Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider a seminal early work of what came to be known as “the New Hollywood”. John (the prolific Robert Forster who would find latter-day fame in Jackie Brown  Mulholland Drive and Breaking Bad) plays a television cameraman who has become disenchanted as a creative subservient to the mainstream. Eileen (Verna Bloom latterly of High Plains Drifter and After Hours) depicts a newly relocated war-widow swept up in the maelstrom of the conflicts of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago — the actual events of which serve as the spontaneous backdrop for Wexler’s picture. Documentary and narrative blur in the upheaval and chaos and perhaps only Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park stands analogous as such a powerful statement on the politics media and cinema of the late-‘60s — and the present. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray and DVD. Special Features Including: Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray from the 4K digital film transfer approved by director Haskell Wexler Original trailer Booklet featuring new and archival writings and imagery

• High Plains Drifter | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £9.30   |  Saving you £-2.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger". He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defence and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell", the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humour with action, High Plains Drifter is both a serious and tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Westerns that made Eastwood a household name. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Journey Of Natty Gann | DVD | (13/04/2004) from £4.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (70.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful atmospheric adventure a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her extraordinary odyssey she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent protective wolf and a hardened drifter (John Cusack). A brilliant moving tapestry woven of courage and pe

• The Pemini Organisation (1972-1974) (UK Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the early 1970s, three ambitious friends Peter Crane, Michael Sloan and Nigel Hodgson combined the first letters of each of their names and set up the Pemini Organisation, a young and vital independent British film production company. Active between 1972 and 1974, Pemini produced one mid-length film, Hunted, a high-suspense thriller starring Edward Woodward and June Ritchie, and two feature films: Assassin, a grimly realistic spy film starring Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Frank Windsor, Ray Brooks and Mike Pratt; and Moments, an enigmatic romantic mystery starring Keith Michell and Angharad Rees. When Pemini disbanded, the films disappeared into the ether... Now, these three lost works, made by one of the most vibrant independent production companies of the era, have been rescued from the archives to be given their first ever home entertainment release in this deluxe, individually numbered Limited Edition Blu-ray set, accompanied by a wealth of newly produced extras, including feature-length director commentaries, cast and crew interviews, and an 80-page book. Product Features New 2K restorations of Hunted, Assassin, and Moments from the only surviving film elements Original mono audio Audio commentaries on Hunted, Assassin, and Moments with director Peter Crane and film historian Sam Dunn (2022) Interview with Peter Crane, director of Hunted, Assassin, and Moments (2022) Interview with Michael Sloan, writer of Hunted, Assassin, and Moments (2022) Interview with Bruce Atkins, production designer Hunted, Assassin, and Moments (2022) Interview with Pemini Organisation co-founder Nigel Hodgson (2022) Interview with June Ritchie, star of Hunted (2022) Interview with Hunted composer Graham Dee (2022) Interview with Martyn Chillmaid, assistant director of Assassin (2022) Interview with Moments actor Valerie Minifie (2022) Interview with Moments composer John Cameron (2022) Interview with Bill Summers, electrician on Moments (2022) ˜Moments' in Cannes (2022): Peter Crane recounts a memorable story from an exhibitor screening Film historian Vic Pratt charts the history of the Pemini Organisation (2022) Ian Hendry biographer Gabriel Hershman looks at the actor's role in Assassin (2022) Moments: deleted sex scene (1974): sequence removed from release prints at the behest of the distributor In Search of Lebanon (1970): student film directed by Peter Crane and Nigel Hodgson exploring present day Lebanon as the living source of the Adonis myth Original theatrical trailers Image galleries: extensive promotional and publicity materials from the Pemini Organisation's archives New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive 80-page book featuring extensive extracts from Peter Crane's ˜Memories of Pemini', detailing the rise and fall of the Pemini Organisation and the production of their three films, extracts from the films' original press materials, archival news articles on Pemini's activities, new writing on In Search of Lebanon, and full film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 6,000 copies for the UK and US All extras subject to change

• The Last Temptation of Christ | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £7.49   |  Saving you £3.76 (60.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It isn't difficult to imagine why this 1988 retelling of the Crucifixion story was picketed so vociferously on its release in the US--this Jesus bears little resemblance to the classical Christ, who was not, upon careful review of the Gospels, ever reported to have had sex with Barbara Hershey. Heavily informed by Gnostic reinterpretations of the Passion, The Last Temptation of Christ (based rather strictly on Nikos Kazantzakis's novel of the same name) is surely worth seeing for the controversy and blasphemous content alone. But the "last temptation" of the title is nothing overtly naughty--rather, it's the seduction of the commonplace; the desire to forgo following a "calling" in exchange for domestic security. Willem Dafoe interprets Jesus as spacey, indecisive and none too charismatic (though maybe that's just Dafoe himself), but his Sermon on the Mount is radiant with visionary fire; a bit less successful is method actor Harvey Keitel, who gives the internally conflicted Judas a noticeable Brooklyn accent, and doesn't bring much imagination to a role that demands a revisionist's approach. Despite director Martin Scorsese's penchant for stupid camera tricks, much of the desert footage is simply breathtaking, even on small screen. Ultimately, Last Temptation is not much more historically illuminating than Monty Python's Life of Brian, but hey, if it's authenticity you're after, try Gibbon's. --Miles Bethany

• Cinderella 1,2 & 3 Box Set | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £18.08   |  Saving you £-3.57 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.51

  CinderellaCinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmothers wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball to meet her Prince. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving only a single glass slipper, a slipper that will be the key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!Cinderella II: Dreams Come TrueAs a newly crowned princess, Cinderella quickly learns that life at the Palace and her royal responsibilities are more challenging than she had imagined. In three heart warming tales, Cinderella calls on her animal friends and her Fairy Godmother to help as she brings her own grace and charm to her regal role and discovers that being true to yourself is the best way to make your dreams come true.Cinderella III: A Twist In TimePrincess Cinderella is living a charmingly perfect life until her stepmother gets her hands on Fairy Godmothers magic wand. With a wicked spell that turns back the clock, she erases the Prince's memories of the girl he met at the ball and shatters Cinderella's happily ever after! Jaq and Gus scurry to save the day before time runs out. But was it all really just a dream in Cinderella's heart, or will truelove triumph over all?

• Sleeping Beauty | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £6.77   |  Saving you £13.22 (195.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Malificent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke, Amazon.com

• Duck Soup | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £11.57   |  Saving you £-1.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A pointed political satire 'Duck Soup' is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film! Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand the Paul Revere parody the ""We're Going To War"" number (a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals) the hilarious mirror scene and a final battle episo

• Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Disney) | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The timeless classic "Sleeping Beauty" celebrates its 50th Anniversary by awakening on DVD. It also marks the first Disney Platinum title to be released on Blu-ray. Both DVD and Blu-ray are available to buy from Monday 27th October, 2008

• High Plains Drifter | Blu Ray | (22/11/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A