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• Deep Impact | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £13.66   |  Saving you £6.33 (46.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A great big rock hits the earth, and lots of people die. That's pretty much all there is to Deep Impact, and most of that was in the trailer. Can a major Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a slender excuse for a premise? The old disaster-movie king, cheese-meister Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), would have made a kitsch classic out of this, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resigned and mumbly Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut who risks several lives trying to blow up the comet that's headed right this way! As stiffly directed by Mimi Leder, this thick slice of ham errs on the side of solemnity. It may be the most earnest end-of-the-world picture since Stanley Kramer's atomic-doom drama On the Beach. There are a couple of classic melodramatic flourishes: an estranged father and daughter who share a tearful reconciliation as a Godzilla-sized tidal wave looms on the horizon; and an astronaut, communicating on video with his loved ones back on Earth, who follows whispered instructions from a buddy lurking just off camera--so that his little girl won't realise that he's been struck blind. Deep Impact stars Morgan Freeman as the president of the United States. --David Chute

• A Taste Of Honey | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shelagh Delaney's play 'A Taste of Honey' had already played in the West End and on Broadway when Tony Richardson made his film adaptation shot on location in Salford and Blackpool. Rita Tushingham made her indelible screen debut as Jo a young girl who falls pregnant after leaving home and her floozie of a mother - a revelatory performance by Dora Bryan. Jo befriends Geoff (Murray Melvin) a gentle kind-hearted gay man and they move in together like two children playing house for a while finding an innocent but fragile happiness. Richardson always skilled with actors draws fine performances from his entire cast and 'A Taste of Honey' remains an outstanding example of the British New Wave shot by its star cinematographer Walter Lassally.

• Paranormal Entity 2 | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £5.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (77.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in suburban Chicago. 26 bodies were found in a crawl space beneath his house and 3 others were buried in the backyard. Although the house was completely demolished during the exhumation of the bodies on May 15 2004 a group of paranormal investigators wired the home that was built in its place with paranormal detection and surveillance equipment. The outcome of the investigation was grisly terrifying and disturbing.

• Existenz | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a stew of corporate espionage, virtual reality gaming, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favourite Crock-Pot juices of technology, physiology and sexual metaphor. Jennifer Jason Leigh is game designer Allegra Geller, responsible for the new state-of-the-art eXistenZ game system; along with PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they take the beta version of the game for a test drive and are immersed in a dangerous alternate reality. The game isn't quite like PlayStation, though; it's a latexy pod made from the guts of mutant amphibians and plugs via an umbilical cord directly into the user's spinal column (through a BioPort). It powers up through the player's own nervous system and taps into the subconscious; with several players it networks their brains together. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the game reality uncover more espionage and an antigaming, proreality insurrection. The game world makes it increasingly difficult to discern between reality and the game, either through the game's perspective or the human's. More accessible than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, often confusing, and with an ending that leaves itself wide open for a sequel. Fans of Cronenberg's work will recognize his recurring themes and will eat this up. Others will find its shallow characterisations and near-incomprehensible plot twists a little tedious. --Jerry Renshaw, Amazon.com

• Carefree | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £6.23   |  Saving you £3.76 (60.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A lawyer sends his girlfriend who cannot decide whether to marry him to a psychiatrist to help her increase her confidence. However she falls hopelessly in love with the charming psychiatrist who is uncertain of his best course of action... This delightful film features a superb score from Irving Berlin including the songs 'I Used To Be Colour Blind' 'The Yam' and 'The Night Is Filled With Music'.

• Escape From Planet Earth | Blu Ray | (14/07/2014) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

• Tom Cruise - All The Right Moves / Legend / T.A.P.S. / Minority Report | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All The Right Moves: Set in a dying mill town in the heart of Pennsylvania Stef (Cruise) dreams of winning a football scholarship to escape from a hopeless future... (Dir. Michael Chapman 1983) Legend: Young Jack (Cruise) lives in a magic forest populated with friendly and exotic creatures. But the delicate balance between good and evil is upset when the Lord of Darkness seizes Jack's beloved Lili (Sara) and a horn from one of the last unicorns thereby gaining con

• Wild Card | Blu Ray | (27/07/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jason Statham (FURIOUS 7, THE EXPENDABLES trilogy, HOMEFRONT) reunites with EXPENDABLES 2 director, Simon West, as the titular Nick Wild, a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a dangerous gambling problem. When a friend is attacked by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the attacker is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing. WILD CARD is directed by Simon West (CON AIR) and written by two-time Academy® Award-winning writer William Goldman (Best Original Screenplay, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969; Best Adapted Screenplay, All the President's Men, 1976). The Extended Edition features an extra 10 minutes of footage not seen in cinemas!

• Die Hard With A Vengeance (Two Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £5.83   |  Saving you £12.16 (208.58%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This time New York cop John McClane (Willis) is the personal target of the mysterious Simon (Jeremy Irons) a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner (Samuel L. Jackson) McClane careens wildly from one end of New York City to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a real

• The Galloping Major (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This brand-new restoration of the 1951 British comedy The Galloping Major directed by Henry Cornelius is based on an idea by Basil Radford. After a successful day at the races, Major Arthur Hill (Basil Radford) and Harold Temple (Hugh Griffith) decide to raise a £300 syndicate to buy a certain racehorse. With excited help from their friends (Janette Scott, Jimmy Hanley, Rene Ray, Joyce Grenfell, A. E. Matthews) they get the money, but things don't go so smoothly from here. First, they accidently buy the wrong horse which proves to have more of an affinity for jumping than racing. They then decide to train it themselves as a jumper under the new name The Galloping Major . However, on the night before the Grand National, the horse mysteriously disappears... Product Features NEW Locations featurette with Historian Richard Dacre Betting On Success - Matthew Sweet On the Galloping Major Stills Gallery

• Grilled | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £4.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (320.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You can't beat their meat. Maurice (Ray Romano) and Dave (Kevin James) are meat salesmen roving the San Fernando Valley armpit of America on the lookout for clients to buy their line of prime-cut steaks. Once they get a hold of the hottest leads in town Maurice and Dave embark on a comedic adventure spiked with danger and sexual innuendo involving transvestites gangsters and the macho beef lover (Burt Reynolds) hosting his son's Bar Mitzvah...

• Murphy's Law | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £13.09   |  Saving you £-0.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murphy's Law is a thoroughly unpleasant 1986 thriller stars Charles Bronson as a cop systematically framed for one murder after another. The killings, though, turn out to be the work of a female nutcase (Carrie Snodgress) he had once sent away to prison. Everyone involved in this leans on the atrocity-and-revenge formula, particularly Bronson and director J Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), two Hollywood guys who once upon a time made plenty of classic films. Snodgress's performance is unhinged, interesting but hard to watch, as we never really got to know her onscreen after Diary of a Mad Housewife. Just think of this movie as having come from the same creepy planet as the Death Wish series. --Tom Keogh

• Wagons East! | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They came they saw they changed their minds! A group of disillusioned townsfolk living in the West renounce their settlemen and decide to return to their homes in the East. Hiring a grizzled and eccentric wagonmaster (Candy) they set off on the trail...

• Idlewild | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Idlewild" synthesizes drama, music, cinema and style to bring a tale of struggling singers to life.

• John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £6.22   |  Saving you £-0.23 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars attempts a productive combination of SF elements (a largely terraformed Mars with its long-lost civilisation) and horror (mass possession that turns the victims into rampaging, self-mutilating monsters that kill and burn). A police-force detachment turn up in a mining community to collect a bandit, whose last heist was uncharacteristically violent, and soon find themselves under siege from rampaging hordes who used to be solid citizens. This is a fairly simple set of variations on stock Carpenter elements--a hybrid between Assault on Precinct 13 and In the Mouth of Madness. However, there is some powerful chemistry between Nastasha Henstridge's icy, drug-abusing police lieutenant and Ice Cube's bandit, Desolation Williams, made stronger by the lack of sexual tension. Other characters, such as Pam Grier's tough commander and Clea Duvall's nervous rookie, are more or less defined by plot functions; the mobs never become more than faceless, or facially distorted, anonymous menaces. This is one for die-hard Carpenter fans only. On the DVD: Ghosts of Mars on disc comes with Dolby Digital sound and its original widescreen ratio of 2.35:1. A sparky commentary by Carpenter and Henstridge is included, which is informative, but otherwise there are uninspiring documentaries on the musical score, the special effects and the difficulties of shooting at night in the Mexican desert, as well as filmographies and the theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Arrietty (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  This is a story of a family of "little" people. Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents.

• Supernatural: Season 12 (BD/S) | Blu Ray | (04/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their 67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

• Shooter Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/03/2022) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mark Wahlberg and director Antoine Fuqua (INFINITE ) first teamed up for this standout action thriller, available for the first time in 4K UHD. Respected former Marine scout and sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is pressed into service to stop an assassination attempt against the President. But the unthinkable occurshe's double-crossed and framed for the attempt. And so begins a high-tension race against every law enforcement agency in the country and a shadowy organisation that wants him dead. Proving his innocence will be the most dangerous mission of his life. Starring: Mark Wahlber Michael Peña Rhona Mitra Danny Glover

• Independence Day | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £18.09 (369.18%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh

• Supernatural: The Complete Tenth Season | Blu Ray | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as SUPERNATURAL enters its tenth season. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) have spent their lives on the road, battling every kind of supernatural threat. Over the years, after dozens of bloody adventures, they have faced everything from the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother to vampires, ghosts, shapeshifters, angels and fallen gods. They even came face to face with Lucifer and the Four Horsemen in averting the Apocalypse. With the help of allies -- both human and supernatural -- they've discovered that every threat they vanquish opens a new door for evil to enter through. In the show's ninth season, their supernatural hunting expedition led them directly into two brand-new power struggles: the first involving the King of Hell and a Demon Knight after his throne; the second centering on an unbalanced angel who's taken over Heaven and exiled legions of volatile angels down to Earth. With the help of their protectors -- the fallen angel Castiel (Misha Collins) and devil-you-know Crowley (Mark A. Sheppard) -- Sam and Dean's lifelong quest to set the world right will take everything they've got ... and a bit more. And now, when the unthinkable happens to Dean, the Winchesters must find a way to make things right before their world explodes.