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• Too Late The Hero | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £6.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set on a Pacific island in 1942, Too Late the Hero is a hard-as-nails "men on a mission" war movie: a group of British soldiers have to traverse the New Hebrides to destroy a Japanese radio transmitter, then get back to safety while being hunted all the way. Inevitably everything goes wrong, but director Robert (The Dirty Dozen) Aldrich turns the book of WWII movie clichés on its head and springs some unnerving surprises. Even the token American star, Cliff Robertson--echoing William Holden's grafted-on role in The Bridge on the River Kwai--proves less than obviously heroic, while an outstanding Michael Caine brings considerable depth to his usual cynical cockney. Henry Fonda gets heavily billed for a brief guest appearance, but there are star performances such fine British character actors as Denholm Elliot, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser and Lance Percival. This portrait of battle-worn men offers greater complexity than Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, while the jungle trek was more recently paralleled in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Only the attitudes--more 1970 than 1942--detract from Aldrich's tellingly realistic vision, which with a thoughtfully ironic script and a succession of tense set pieces and brutal firefights, builds to a harrowing climax. On the DVD: The picture is presented at approximately 1.7:1, reformatted from the original 2.2:1 70mm theatrical presentation. Despite approximately 25 per cent of the original image being missing, this loss is only really noticeable in a few scenes. Apart from the occasional fleck, the print is in superb condition, and despite the lack of anamorphic enhancement the picture is sharp, detailed and has excellent colour. The surround sound (not mono as listed on the packaging) is highly effective, with the tension being increased by a considerable amount of the music coming from the rear speakers. The special features are simply a few static pages of biographical and production notes. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Flatliners | Blu Ray | (02/07/2007) from £10.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Are you afraid to die? Kiefer Sutherland isn't. He's an ambitious charismatic medical student who persuades classmates Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon to take part in a reckless experiment. To see if there is life after death they will kill themselves: temporarily shut down (flatline) their heartand brain functions to briefly experience clinical death. After Sutherland survives the first experiment the others flatline for increasingly longer intervals. But their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive... they haven't come back alone. Flatliners is a chilling suspense thriller of obsession fear and redemption that will take you across the line to a place where terror lives forever.

• Crime Scene Investigation - Season 5 - Part 1 | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £6.11   |  Saving you £33.88 (554.50%)   |  RRP £39.99

  C.S.I. is an acclaimed edgy fast-paced drama series about a passionate team of forensic investigators (among them William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau. Their job - to find the missing pieces at the scene that will help to solve the crime and vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves - the victims. Between the hidden clues and the buried motives lies the trail to the truth because people lie...

• In The Heat Of The Night | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £10.08   |  Saving you £5.91 (58.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This 1967 film took home lots of Oscars for its fascinating drama about a Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) who assists a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) in solving a murder. A study in racism that ebbs a bit through the collective and shared need between a black man and a white man who don't want to be working together, In the Heat of the Night continues to strike a chord today. Steiger is a mass of snarling danger, Poitier a bundle of nerves covered in class. Norman Jewison (Moonstruck) directs with a keen feeling for the cultural and social atmosphere of the setting. --Tom Keogh

• CSI: Las Vegas - Complete Season 7 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £13.76   |  Saving you £39.22 (364.16%)   |  RRP £49.99

  C.S.I. Complete Season 7 (Crime Scene Investigation)

• Sergeant Cork - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £14.98   |  Saving you £27.00 (207.85%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Sergeant Cork: Series 1 (4 Discs)

• History Of Violence | Blu Ray | (09/05/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Viggo Mortensen stars in this stylized thriller from director David Cronenberg.

• Regular Show - Season 1 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two best friends a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby try to turn their regular boring job as groundskeepers at a park into exciting adventures. Trying to entertain themselves by any means and usually leading to a mess they've created the two are joined by a hot-tempered gumball machine named Benson a yeti named Skips an English gentleman with a lollipop-shaped head named Pops an overweight green man named Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head. Episodes Comprise: 1.0 The Power Just Set Up the Chairs Caffeinated Concert Death Punchies Free Cake Meat Your Maker Grilled Cheese Deluxe The Unicorns Have Got to Go Prank Callers Don Rigby's Body Mordecai and the Rigbys

• Dark City Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Alex Proyas, visionary director of The Crow, comes Dark City, a mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there's a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife, and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city... except him. With a cast that includes Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys), William Hurt (A History of Violence), Jennifer Connelly (Phenomena), and Richard O'Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and a script by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (Batman Begins), Dark City is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism... an extraordinary feast for the cinematic senses. 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS ¢ Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negatives approved by director of photography Dariusz Wolski ¢ High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of both the Director's Cut and Theatrical Cut of the film ¢ Original DTS-HD MA 5.1, stereo 2.0, and 7.1 audio options for both cuts of the film ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ 60-page perfect bound collectors book featuring new writing by author Richard Kadrey, and film critics Sabina Stent, Virat Nehru, and Martyn Pedler ¢ Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Doug John Miller ¢ Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Doug John Miller ¢ Three postcard-sized reproduction art cards ¢ Postcard from Shell Beach ¢ Dr. Schreber business card DISC 1: DIRECTOR'S CUT ¢ Brand new audio commentary by director Alex Proyas ¢ Brand new audio commentary with Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs, and Herschel Isaacs, co-hosts of the Film Versus Film podcast ¢ Archive audio commentary by director Alex Proyas ¢ Archive audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert ¢ Archive audio commentary by writers Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer ¢ Archive introduction by Alex Proyas ¢ Return to Dark City, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with director Alex Proyas, producer Andrew Mason, production designers Patrick Tatopoulos and George Liddle, costume designer Liz Keough, storyboard artist Peter Pound, director of photography Dariusz Wolski, actor Rufus Sewell, hair & makeup artist Leslie Vanderwalt, and VFX creative director Peter Doyle ¢ Rats in a Maze, a new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra West ¢ I'm as Much in the Dark as You Are, a new visual essay by film scholar Josh Nelson on film noir and identity in Dark City ¢ Design & Storyboards DISC 2: THEATRICAL CUT ¢ Archive audio commentary by director Alex Proyas, writers Lem Dobbs & David S. Goyer, director of photography Dariusz Wolski, and production designer Patrick Tatopoulos ¢ Archive audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert ¢ Memories of Shell Beach, a 2008 featurette in which cast and crew look back at the making of the film from concept to reception ¢ Architecture of Dreams, a 2008 featurette presenting five perspectives on the themes and meanings of the film ¢ Theatrical trailer ¢ Image gallery

• Nobody's House: The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.02   |  Saving you £7.73 (106.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Kevin Moreton following up his memorable performance in Granada Television's Sam headlines this mid '70s fantasy-drama from Tyne Tees Television. Co-starring Champions star William Gaunt and featuring guest turns from Brian Blessed, Joe Gladwin and Brian Wilde, Moreton plays the ghostly resident of a derelict Victorian house, visible only to the two children who move there with their unsuspecting parents. The faded elegance of Cornerstones has long been home to the occasionally mischievous spirit of a Victorian ragamuffin known simply as 'Nobody'. Now Peter Sinclair, his wife Jane and their two children, Tom and Gilly, arrive there with the aim of setting up an antiques business. For years, Nobody has succeeded in frightening all-comers away from the rambling old house but it seems the Sinclair children see right through him literally!

• Network | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £17.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I will be retiring from this programme in two weeks' time because of poor ratings. In 1976 two of the key players in the Golden Age of Television writer Paddy Chayefsky and director Sidney Lumet delivered a coruscating attack - at once savage and hilarious - on the medium that made their names. Since this show is the only I had going for me in my life I've decided to kill myself. To speak Chayefsky's Oscar-winning dialogue Lumet enlisted a powerhouse cast list including Faye Dunaway William Holden Peter Finch (as 'the mad prophet of the airwaves' Howard Beale) Robert Duvall Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. Five of them would be nominated for Academy Awards three would win. I'm going to blow my brains out right on this programme a week from today. As well as its four Oscars Network was also garlanded with a quartet of Golden Globes a BAFTA and numerous other awards. In the years since its release its reputation has only grown: the Library of Congress granted it a place on their prestigious National Film Registry; the American Film Institute named it as one of the greatest American films of all time; and the Writers Guild of America declared it screenplay one of the ten best of all time. It remains a true classic. So tune in next Tuesday. Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the film Uncompressed mono PCM audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing The Directors: Sidney Lumet - a 1999 documentary on the director containing interviews with Jack Lemmon Rod Steiger Christopher Walken and others Tune in Next Tuesday - a visual essay by Dave Itzkoff the author of Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Mike Sutton and an American Cinematographer article by director of photography Owen Roizman illustrated with original stills and artwork

• Titans of Cult: 2001: A Space Odyssey Steelbook | Blu Ray | (31/08/2020) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning* achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonised space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin. This Limited Edition Set Includes: 2001: A Space Odyssey in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray feature and bonus discs Limited Edition SteelBook Case Exclusive Enamel Pin Exclusive Embroidered Patch Special Features: Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood Channel Four Documentary200 1: The Making of a Myth4 Insightful Featurettes:Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey A Look Behind the Future What Is Out There? 2001: FX and Early Conceptual ArtworkLook: Stanley Kubrick! Audio-Only Bonus:1966 Kubrick Interview Conducted by Jeremy Bernstein Theatrical Trailer

• Objective Burma | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £12.37   |  Saving you £2.62 (21.18%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.

• Westerns Collection | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £29.39   |  Saving you £10.60 (36.07%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise: Pale Rider: In Pale Rider Clint Eastwood returned to the saddle after nine years and Western movies were riding high again. After corporate mining boss Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) begins a campaign of terror to drive independent pan miners out of the area a nameless stranger called Preacher (Eastwood) rides into the underdog's camp. He becomes their avenger. The tycoon then hires a badge-wearing killer and his duster-shrouded deputies men loyal to whoever pays the most. LaHood pays gold. But in a climactic shootout to remember Preacher pays in lead. The Searchers: With The Searchers John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made. Outlaw Josey Wales: As the Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood is ideal as a wary fast drawing loner akin to the Man with No Name from his European Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw Josey Wales has a name and a heart. That heart open up as the action unfolds. After avenging his family's brutal murder Wales is pursued by a pack of killers. He prefers to travel alone but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected. One of the top Westerns ever. The Wild Bunch: They came too late and stayed too long. Director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch a powerful tale of hangdog desperados bound by a code of honor rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns. In 1994 it was restored to a complete pristine condition unseen since its July 1969 theatrical debut - and this digitally remastered anamorphic transfer showcases it to renewed blood-and-thunder effect. Watch William Holden Ernest Borgnine Robert Ryan and more great stars saddle up for the roles of a lifetime. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid: Best of enemies. Deadliest of friends. They are fast friends and worse foes. One is Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) a law unto himself. The other is the law: Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) who once rode with Billy. Set to a bristling score by Bob Dylan (who also plays Billy's sidekick Alias) and with a `Who's Who' of iconic Western players Sam Peckinpah's saga of one of the West's great legends is now restored to its intended glory. For the first time since it left the cutting room the film has the balance of action and character development Peckinpah wanted a mix of fury and elegy based on the director's notes and the insights of colleagues.

• The Thin Man Collection | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £45.99

  The sparkling series featured the irresistible William Powell and Myrna Loy chemistry as husband and wife sleuths who solved murders with the aid of their wire-haired terrier Asta. Set in the glamorous world of 1930s upper-class Manhattan The Thin Man and its sequels established the standard for witty comedy clever dialogue and urbane one upmanship. This fantastic collection includes 'The Thin Man' 'After the Thin Man' 'Another Thin Man' 'Shadow of the Thin Man' 'The Thin Man

• The Detective | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £4.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (173.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland The Detective was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-connected department store mogul Leland executes an open-and-shut investigation. He quickly elicits a confession from Teddy's crazy roommate and the defendant is convicted and executed while Leland scores a promotion. But when the widow of an accountan

• Sergeant Cork - The Complete Series 5 | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £24.96   |  Saving you £-11.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the melting pot of 1890s London Sergeant Cork works for Scotland Yard’s newly formed Criminal Investigation Department enthusiastically employing the pioneering techniques of the new science of forensics to tackle crimes born of poverty and deprivation passion vengeance and greed. Ably assisted by youthful detective Bob Marriott Cork is astute years ahead of his time and knows that even the most convincing evidence can all too often deceive.

• Orrible | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £47.91   |  Saving you £-29.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The idea behind 'Orrible is easy to appreciate, even if the programme itself often wasn't. Take Johnny Vaughan--a supremely talented and likable broadcaster, one of very few ubiquitous television presences whose appearance does not drive the intelligent viewer to grim fantasies of revenge involving a baseball bat and a dark ally--and cast him as the lead in a sitcom. It was, at best, a partial success. The problem with 'Orrible is that Vaughan's forte is improvisation and association, not adhering to a script, not even one he cowrote. His character, a dimwitted, shell-suited West London minicab driver with Walter Mitty-ish fantasies of being an underworld player, has possibilities. But the potential is never fully realised, partly due to surprisingly leaden lines, but mostly due to Vaughan's limitations as an actor: he never quite manages to project anything other than a less-funny version of the screen persona audiences know and like. On the DVD: 'Orrible on disc has an episode selector, and a scene selector for each episode. Subtitles are available in English. There is also the option of listening to a running commentary by writers Ed Allen and Johnny Vaughan which, as it is isn't scripted, occasionally offers glimpses of the unrestrained, free-flowing Johnny Vaughan familiar from his other television work--as such, it's far funnier than anything in the actual programme. --Andrew Mueller

• The Yellow Balloon | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £10.12   |  Saving you £7.87 (77.77%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Frankie Palmer is a normal lovable boy who one day catches sight of a yellow balloon in a shop window. Procuring the money from his impoverished father Frankie sets on his way to buy the balloon but drops the sixpence which rolls down the drain. When he sees his friend Ronnie has purchased the balloon he playfully snatches it away and a wild chase follows up and down the rickety skeleton of a blitzed building. Their chase ends in a terrible accident witnessed by the unscrupulous Len Turner who takes advantage by blackmailing young Frankie convincing him he faces criminal charges. Too terrified to confide in his parents Frankie becomes a pawn for Turner coerced into a robbery that ends in murder. Features: Introduction by Film Historian Charles Barr Stills Gallery

• Fletch | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.03   |  Saving you £0.96 (19.09%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fletch is a fairly sarcastic and occasionally very funny Chevy Chase vehicle scripted by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles, The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas) from Gregory McDonald's lightweight mystery novel about an undercover newspaper reporter cracking a police drug ring. Enjoyment of the film pivots on whether you find Chase's flippant, smart-ass brand of verbal humour funny, or merely egocentric. If you don't like Chase, there's really no one else worth watching (Geena Davis is sadly underused). Chase seems born to play IM "Fletch" Fletcher, a disillusioned investigative reporter whose cynicism and detached view on life mirrors the actor's understated approach to comedy. Fletcher offers Chase the opportunity to adopt numerous personas, as his job requires numerous (bad) physical disguises, and much of film's humour centres on the ridiculous idea that any of these phoney accents or bad hairpieces could fool anyone. These not-so-clever disguises are put to use when Fletch becomes involved in the film's smart but continually self-mocking two-part mystery. As well as trying to gather drug-smuggling evidence against the LAPD for a long-overdue newspaper story, a rich and apparently terminally ill stranger also offers Fletch a large payoff to kill him. While the film does a fairly good job juggling both of these plots, not to mention tossing in a love interest as well, they're subservient, for better or worse, to Chase's memorable one-liners and disguises. Followed by two forgettable sequels that lack both the original's wit and Chase's attention span.--Dave McCoy, Amazon.com