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• Butterflies - The Complete Collection | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £20.05   |  Saving you £29.94 (149.33%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This classic poignant BBC comedy starring Wendy Craig as the bored suburban housewife Ria looking for more from life. Ria is seemingly happy with two teenage sons but after 19 years of marriage she feels that everyone is taking her for granted and that life is passing her by.

• Predator - Single Disc Edition | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of US Army commandos to a remote region of the South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realise that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie's so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection | Blu Ray | (10/06/2019) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The original Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of the silver screen's most unforgettable characters and, along with the other Universal Classic Monsters, defined the Hollywood horror genre. The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 3 films from the original legacy including the gripping classic and the sequels that followed. These landmark motion pictures perfectly blended Universal's classic monster heritage with the science-fiction explosion of the 1950s and continue to inspire remakes and adaptations that strengthen the legend of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to this day. Bonus Features: Back to the Black Lagoon Documentary 3 Feature Commentaries Production Photographs Theatrical Trailers

• The Rescuers | Blu Ray | (01/10/2012) from £7.50   |  Saving you £2.49 (33.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From Walt Disney's original team of legendary master animators who brought you The Jungle Book comes a thrilling adventure and timeless tale overflowing with action, suspense and extraordinary little heroes you can't help but love! Join the shy but brave mouse Bernard and his glamorous partner Miss Bianca - two tiny heroes on a great big mission to save Penny, a young girl who has sent an urgent call for help! Taking off on the wings of the albatross Orville, together they soar to the marshy swamp of Devil's Bayou. There, they find themselves on the riverboat hideout of the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who wants to use Penny to steal the world's largest diamond! With Oscar-nominated music, a snappy new remastering, and bursting with bonus features with a multitude of surprises, The Rescuers is high-flying fun you'll want to share with your loved ones again and again. Special Features: Peoplitis - The Deleted Song Three Blind Mouseketeers - Silly Symphony Animated Short Water Blinds - A Walt Disney True Life Adventure Someone's Waiting For You - Sing-Along Song The Making of the Rescuers Down Under Discover Blu-Ray 3D with Timon and Pumbaa

• As Above, So Below | DVD | (26/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the secret of what this city of the dead was meant to contain.

• Toy Story | Blu Ray | (06/02/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (75.19%)   |  RRP £6.99

  As 6-year-old Andy's favourite toy, Woody (Tom Hanks), a take-charge, pull-string cowboy, is confident in his role as room leader. But after Andy's birthday party, newcomer Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), a flashy space ranger with laser action and pop-out wings, crash-lands into Woody's world.Buzz instantly wins the admiration of Andy's other toys, igniting a rivalry that lands the duo inside the home of Sid - the toy-torturing boy next door. To escape Sid's evil plans, Woody and Buzz must work together and realize they've got the perfect friend: in each other!If you enjoyed Disney Pixar's Toy Story then check out some other classics from the awesome animation studio!Toy Story 2: One of the best movies of all-time, Pixar's sequel is a stunningly imaginative, incredibly funny take on the secret life of toys. Cars: Paul Newman and Owen Wilson lend their talents to this charming adventure about a regretful race car.Wall-E: If cute robots, alien encounters and incredible animation are what you're after then watch this charming and thought-provoking film.Monsters Inc.: The monster world receives a visit from a tiny toddler, setting off a hilarious chain of events.Up: The Oscar-winning tale of an old man on the adventure that he and his wife never shared is packed full of imagination.Ratatouille: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite the obvious problem.Dumbo: Find out why Disney's big-eared baby elephant has been wowing audiences for 70 years - absolutely wonderful.Snow White: This fairy tale fantasy classic hasn't aged a day since it's cinematic release in 1937.Pinocchio: A mesmerising spectacle and quite possibly Walt Disney's crowning achievement.Sleeping Beauty: Only a dashing prince can awaken the sleeping beauty from her eternal sleep.

• The Great Escape - Special Edition | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £6.20   |  Saving you £13.79 (222.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The all time classic tale of a massive escape from a World War Two German Prisoner of War camp released as a two disc DVD set with a host of extra features.

• Planet Of The Apes - The Television Series | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £17.05   |  Saving you £-6.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.24

  Set around a dozen years after the 1967 Charlton Heston-starring Oscar winner of the same name, this Planet of the Apes is a 1974 TV spin-off that attempts to recapture the appeal of the original apes films. A second spaceship arrives on the planet, the basic plot being the same as in 67, as two surviving humans go on the run with a renegade chimpanzee, Galen (Roddy McDowell essentially reprising his Cornelius character under another name). The actor provides the strongest lead, while Booth Colman as Zaius (replacing Maurice Evans from the original film), offers fine support. The humans Ron Harper and James Naughton are relatively bland, a buddy duo very much anticipating Starsky and Hutch, while the stories, in which our heroes have a new adventure each week and then move on, fall very much into the formula that dominated earlier shows such as The Fugitive, Star Trek and Alias Smith and Jones. This is a post-apocalyptic world where everyone has perfect hair and make-up. But if the action and effects are limited, at least that gives the stories room to concentrate on some moral debates about the nature of human violence. A show finally hamstrung by the tight limitations of its formula, Planet of the Apes: The Television Series lasted only 14 episodes and was cancelled so abruptly it lacks any resolution. Nevertheless its reappearance offers a welcome chance to reassess it in context with the classic movies it apes. On the DVD: Planet of the Apes: The Television Series is presented on four discs, including all 14 episodes. The sound is good mono and the 4:3 colour picture is excellent considering the show's age. Print damage is minor though occasionally quite noticeable, and there is some fading in a few shots. Otherwise this is the best these shows have ever looked. The only extras are trailers for the movie box set and for Tim Burton's 2001 cinema "reimagining". --Gary S Dalkin

• King Kong | DVD | (05/12/2022) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The towering new 4K restoration of the 1976 event movie reimagining of the classic monster story, King Kong. Primate palaeontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) sneaks aboard an expedition to the uncharted Skull Island, warning the ruthless oil executive Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) against exploiting its resources with an ominous message about the roar of the greatest beast from previous doomed explorers. En route they rescue aspiring actress Dwan (Jessica Lange), the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Upon disembarking on the island they discover a strange primitive world of mystery and danger, where the natives live within the confines of a vast wall to protect them from the giant ape god, Kong. Dwan is abducted and offered as a sacrifice to the savage beast, before the crew rescue her and capture Kong to take him to New York. Wilson views him as a profitable Broadway attraction, but the ape has other ideas and escapes to rampage through the streets of the Big Apple. Product Features Deleted Scenes Interviews with: Barry Nolan, Bill Kronick, Scott Thaler and Jeffrey Chernov, David McGiffert and Brian E. Frankish, Jack O'Hallor, Steve Varner Original Trailer Audio Commentaries with Ray Morton, Rick Baker

• Die Hard 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (187.73%)   |  RRP £22.99

  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 really bad day...

• Boon - The Complete Series 7 | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Troubleshooting private eye Ken Boon saddles up for the last time in this final series of the BAFTA-winning hit drama. Michael Elphick stars as Ken, the former fireman with a heart of gold and a passion for the Wild West, with David Daker as business partner and old friend Harry; Neil Morrissey is affable and ever-enthusiastic sidekick Rocky. Witty, heart-warming storylines and an array of prestigious guest stars ensured Boon was an instant ratings winner for ITV, and it remains a much-loved series to this day.This time around, Ken and Harry are thrown into chaos by the departure of their secretary at Crawford Boon Security but there's a happier twist when Ken finds himself a sassy new Girl Friday in black leather, and Harry finds himself falling head over heels in love. Daniel Craig, Michael Kitchen, Leslie Phillips, John Nettles and Martin Jarvis are among the guest stars.

• Hamburger Hill | Blu Ray | (07/12/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill... up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was the way it really was. It's a raw gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. Dodge the gunfire. Get caught behind enemy lines. Go into battle beside the brave young men who fought and died. Feel their desperation and futility. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst men at their best.

• Midnight Cowboy | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £7.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (80.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson

• The Cedar Tree: Series 1 - Volume 2 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £15.25   |  Saving you £14.74 (96.66%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Created by Upstairs Downstairs' Alfred Shaughnessy The Cedar Tree is a study of one fictional aristocratic family the Bournes of Larkfield Manor focusing particularly on daughters Elizabeth (21) Anne (18) and Victoria (16). Dependent on their parents for income and bound by the remnants of the previous century's code of social behaviour they represent a small backwater of Thirties life. The girls' great hope is to fi nd a suitable husband and their expectations are high; but who is to know that what awaits all women at the end of the 'devil's decade' is war? A huge success for ITV in the 1970s The Cedar Tree picked up the reigns for classy period drama from Upstairs Downstairs and is the precursor to today's highly popular costume dramas such as Cranford and Downton Abbey.

• Stay Lucky: The Complete Series | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Minder and Sweeney legend Dennis Waterman stars as a London wheeler-dealer who heads north to escape old demons and start a fresh chapter in this popular, light-hearted drama series; Jan Francis, Susan George, Rula Lenska and Leslie Ash are among the ladies in his new life. Also starring Ian McNeice and Watching's Emma Wray, with guest appearances from Peter Capaldi, Celia Imrie, Michael Kitchen, Tim Healy and Frances de la Tour, this complete set presents all four series. At a rain-lashed A1 service station, Thomas Gynn helps to get recently widowed Yorkshire businesswoman Sally Hardcastle back on the road after a breakdown. The encounter marks the beginning of a series of shared (mis)adventures as Thomas and narrowboat enthusiast Sally attract more than their fair share of drama and come to rely upon each other rather more than either would care to admit...

• Virus | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £8.65   |  Saving you £1.34 (15.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jamie Lee Curtis faces a new unstoppable terror in this science fiction chiller from the producer of Aliens Terminator 2 and Tremors. Curtis plays the navigator of a tugboat crew which loses its cargo during a hurricane. In the calm eye of the storm they come across a Russian research ship floating dead on the water. Boarding the vessel they initially believe it to be deserted - but they soon realize they're not alone. First they discover a terrified survivor (Joanna Pacula)

• Hustle - Series 2 | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £7.25   |  Saving you £25.00 (417.36%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The con is on! Hustle follows the fortunes of a gang of five expert con artists let loose on the streets of London. From rare comic books to antique banknotes they are specialists in the way of the grifter and all are keen to liberate cash from the amoral and undeserving... Gold Mine: Mickey Danny Albert Ash and Stacie return from a well-earned break to discover that old time grifter Harry Holmes (Ronald Pickup) has been banged up. After attempting to con ruthless

• In Plain Sight - Season 1 - Complete | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £15.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (63.44%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Since 1970 The US Federal witness protection program has relocated thousands of witnesses - some criminal some not - to neighbourhoods all across the country. Every one of those individuals shares a unique attribute distinguishing them from the rest of the general population and that is somebody wants them dead. Get lost with Mary McCormack as the compelling and quirky hit series In Plain Sight comes to DVD! U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon (McCormack) works for the Federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC) relocating and protecting career criminals compulsive liars thieves murderers and the occasional innocent bystander. With the help of her partner Marshall Mann (yes Marshal Marshall) and her beat-up beloved car she just may get through her workday on time to deal with her sort-if boyfriend her flaky sister and her ne'er-do-well mother.

• Die Hard Quadrilogy - Die Hard/Die Hard 2/Die Hard With A Vengence/Die Hard 4.0 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £9.23   |  Saving you £25.76 (279.09%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Now joined by a hit fourth instalment, the Die Hard Quadrilogy is, bluntly, an essential set for any self-respecting fan of action cinema. The gold, of course, is the original Die Hard, a flat-out five star classic pretty much without equal. Introducing Bruce Willis' John McClane as an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation, it's littered with great lines, great characters, and genre-defining moments. Plus, in Alan Rickman, it has one of the finest cinematic villains of the past few decades. Die Hard 2: Die Harder inevitably dilutes matters, this time switching the action to Washington's Dulles International Airport. But with Willis and a good number of characters returning from the original, it's a fun--if at times brutal--ride, that scores highly in the entertainment stakes. Die Hard: With A Vengeance, the third film in the series, pretty much strips away the bulk of the supporting cast, and replaces them with the not-significant figure of Samuel L Jackson. It changes the dynamic of the film into a buddy-buddy movie, albeit a good one. And again, it's a ride that's hard not to enjoy, with Jeremy Irons giving good measure as McClane's chief foe. Finally, Die Hard 4.0 is a real surprise. Given the fact that it arrived over a decade after the third film, it finds Willis and relative newcomer Justin Long shouldering an entertaining, old fashioned action film, that papers over its occasional cracks by asking its lead actor to ramp things up a gear when necessary. And watching John McClane do what he does--even when any hint of reality is thrown out of the window near the end--is endlessly entertaining. So while none of the sequels have matched the peerless original, the Die Hard Quadrilogy nonetheless delivers one classic, and three very enjoyable action movies. And you can't argue with that kind of hit rate. Always, always bet on McClane... --Simon Brew

• The Power Game: The Complete Series | DVD | (23/03/2020) from £51.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Power Game - ATV's famous boardroom drama from the 1960s stars Patrick Wymark as John Wilder, the ruthless and power-hungry executive that everybody loves to hate. His adversarial relationship with his wife and colleagues in his fight for political power and one-upmanship set the template for many boardroom dramas to come. Wymark revelled in his role as the despicable Wilder, his strong and compelling characterisation encouraging equally high-calibre performances from co-stars Peter Barkworth, Clifford Evans, Barbara Murray, Jack Watling and Michael Jayston. Comprising all three complete series, this set will appeal to fans of high-quality drama and archive television. With both the second and third series not being seen since their original transmission, the majority of episodes have been transferred from film elements especially for this set. Special Features (Series Three): Man from Italy (mute) Alternative Main Titles and Promotion Promotional Trailers 35mm Title Footage (mute)