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• Quigley Down Under | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Master rifle sharpshooter Matt Quigley (Selleck) moves from the U.S. to Australia as a hired hand on an Australian ranch. He thinks his job will be to get rid of the dingoes plaguing the ranch but instead the ranch owner Elliot Marston (Rickman) wants him to kill the Aborigines. When Quigley refuses and turns the job down Elliot is incensed and tries to kill him. Quigley however manages to escape into the bush and takes the beautiful Cora (Laura San Giacomo) into the wilderness

• Galaxy Quest | Blu Ray | (22/03/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For four years, the crew of the NSEA Protector donned their uniforms and set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space--then their series was canceled.

• Die Hard | DVD | (10/01/2000) from £3.98   |  Saving you £16.01 (402.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank), and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet, and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. This film is exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh

• Die Hard: Legacy Collection (Films 1-5) | Blu Ray | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £52.99

  Die Hard Special Features: Commentary by Director John McTiernan and Jackson De Govia Scene Specific Commentary by Richard Edlund Personal Scene Selections The Newscasts Interactive Still Gallery Trailers TV Spots Die Hard 2 Special Features: Commentary by Director Renny Harlin Deleted Scenes Personal Scene Selections HBO First Look Featurette The Bad Guys Featurette Breaking the Ice Featurette Chaos on the Conveyer Belt Interview with Renny Harlin Visual Effects Breakdowns Side by Side Comparisons Trailers TV Spots Die Hard with a Vengeance Special Features: Behind the Scenes: Die Hard with a Vengeance Featurette A Night to Die For / McClane is Back Featurette Die Hard 3 Featurette Behind the Scenes Segments and Storyboard Alternate Ending with Optional Commentary by Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh Interview with Bruce Willis Villain Profile Featurette Visual Effects Segments Audio Commentray by Director John McTiernan Writer Jonathan Hensleigh and Film Executive Tom Sherak Trailers Die Hard 4.0 Special Features: Analogue Hero In A Digital World: Making of Die Hard 4.0 Fox Movie Channel Presents Fox Legacy Yippee Ki-Yay MotherF***** Featurette Behind the Scenes with Guyz Nite Featurette Music Video: Die Hard by Guyz Nite Trailer A Good Day to Die Hard Special Features: Original and Harder Extended Cut Deleted Scenes Featurettes: Making it Hard to Die Anatomy of a Car Chase Two of a Kind Back in Action The New Face of Evil Pre-Vis Sequences VFX Sequences Storyboards Concept Art Galleries Theatrical Trailers Commentary by Director John Moore and First Assistant Director Mark Cotone (On Harder Extended Cut) Maximum McClane (Compilation) Decoding Die Hard Special Features: Origins – Reinventing the Action Genre John McClane - Modern Day Hero Villains – Bad to the Bone Sidekicks – Along for the Ride Fight Sequences – Punishing Blows Action – Explosive Effects The Legacy – The Right Hero for the Right Time Trailers

• Die Hard: Legacy Collection (Films 1-5) | Blu Ray | (10/09/2013) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-10.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.52

  Die HardHigh above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone tired... and the only chance anyone has got.New York detective John McClane played by Bruce Willis (The Sixth Sense 12 Monkeys) is on his way to LA to see his wife and children. His plans must quickly change however when a terrorist cell led by Hans Gruber (played with excellent villainy by Allan Rickman) seizes the high-rise McClane's wife works in leaving him no choice but to go in and try to save the day in this the original prototypical modern action thriller. Die Hard 2On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport and now holds thousands of holiday travellers' hostage. The terrorists a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler) have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency except one: John McClane an off-duty seized by a feeling of deadly deja vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz) the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead desperately low on fuel. It's all-out war a heart-stopping jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts! Die Hard with a VengeanceThe third instalment of the hugely successful Die Hard series reteams Bruce Willis and Director John Mctiernan (Die Hard Last Action Hero) in a new action/adventure extravaganza of special effects unexpected comedy and non-stop thrills. This time New York cop John McClane (Willis) is a 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 moves 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 psychotic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day. Die Hard 4.0Bruce Willis is back as John McClane a New York cop ready to deliver old school justice to a new breed of cyber terrorists. When a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend; it's up to McClane to save the day once again. A Good Day to Die HardIconoclastic take-no-prisoners cop John McClane for the first time finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack. With the Russian underworld in pursuit and battling a countdown to war the two McClanes discover their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.

• Truly, Madly, Deeply | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £7.49   |  Saving you £6.76 (108.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody... and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss--think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next.--Grant Balfour, Amazon.com

• Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (Single Disc Edition) | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £4.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (105.98%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this third instalment in the blockbusting series a notorious prisoner escapes from the prison for wizards, and young wizard Harry Potter is believed to be his target for death.

• Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.10   |  Saving you £4.89 (95.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the hit Broadway musical telling the tale of the infamous Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), who sets up a barber shop in ye olde London town.

• Galaxy Quest Steelbook 25th Anniversary 4K UHD Collector's Edition (includes Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (02/12/2024) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Years after cancellation, the stars of the television series Galaxy Quest cling to their careers. When a distressed interstellar race mistakes the show for historical documents, lead actor Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) and his crew of has-beens are unwittingly recruited to save the alien race from a genocidal warlord. Featuring an all-star ensemble, including Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Justin Long and Rainn Wilson, GALAXY QUEST is a hilarious adventure that boldly goes where no comedy has gone before. This 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition includes the following: ¢ Rigid board slipcase ¢ Fold out poster ¢ x6 Art cards ¢ Collectible ˜NTE-3120 Hull plate' sign ¢ Convention Publicity stills ¢ Reproduction fan club banner ¢ Capacity wallet ¢ Sticker sheet

• The Anthony Trollope Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £15.95   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.31%)   |  RRP £16.00

  This collection features three of Anthony Trollope's highly regarded works brilliantly adapted for the small screen. With over 15 hours of timeless film from one of the nineteenth-century's greatest writers visit the fascinating world of Victorian England as the prolific and respected novelist illustrates the penetrating conflicts of the day. He Knew He Was Right: Louis Trevelyan's refusal to believe in his wife Emily's fidelity destroys a perfect marriage and drives him literally insane. Suspicious beyond reason that she is having an affair with Colonel Osbourne a man of dubious reputation he forces his wife out of their house hires the seedy private detective Bozzle to spy on her and organises the kidnapping of their son with devastating consequences. Throughout Emily's protestation of her innocence and the couple's enduring love for each other despite their estrangement render the story moving and tragic. The Way We Live Now: Set in the railway boom of the 1870s Anthony Trollope's epic tale of Victorian power and corruption captures the turmoil as the old order is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. It is packed with the trials and tribulations of young love the enduring values of honourable men the raw energy of one of the most powerful cities in the world and the greed and corruption that lay below its glittering surface. The Barchester Chronicles: The acclaimed 1982 BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novels. The community of Barchester is shaken from its cosy complacency when a newspaper's crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires. Overnight Rev. Harding (Donald Pleasence) becomes a pawn in a battle between his younger daughter's beau John Bold (David Gwillim) and his older daughter's husband. Little do they realise that the worst is yet to come until a regime change delivers Barchester into the hands of a most unholy trinity: the weak-willed Bishop Proudie (Clive Swift) the domineering Mrs. Proudie (Geraldine McEwan) and the insufferable Rev. Obadiah Slope (Alan Rickman).

• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2016 Edition) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Harry must contend with the fact that Lord Voldemort has returned in this, the fifth film in the hugely popular franchise.

• Quigley Down Under DVD & Blu-Ray Mediabook | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £24.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  American sniper Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is known for his exceptional shooting skills. With his custom-made Sharps buffalo rifle, he hits targets at long range like no other. A new job takes him to Australia, where he is employed to hunt dingoes for the greedy landowner Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). But Marston has only one goal: to claim even more areas of the largely uninhabited continent for himself, and he does not shrink away from the murder of the natives. When Quigley realizes that he is not supposed to kill wild dogs, but Aborigines, he refuses to start the job - and as a result gets himself into the line of fire of the unscrupulous rancher. The action-packed adventure western appears for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray in a Limited Collector's Edition Mediabook with DVD, extensive bonus material, 24-page booklet and restored PCM 2.0 soundtrack.

• Love Actually (Blu-ray + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  As a man and his young son adapt to the death of the man's wife new romantic possibilities loom with various characters facing similar problems of the heart many of their lives intersecting as events unfold. Bonus Features: Deleted scenes with introduction by Richard Curtis The music of Love Actually with introductions by Richard Curtis Kelly Clarkson The Trouble with Love is music video Feature Commentary with Director Richard Curtis and actors Hugh Grant Bill Nighy and Thomas Sangster Billy Mack Christmas is all around music video/ The Storytellers

• Gambit | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £3.94   |  Saving you £14.05 (356.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is a man with a plan. Art curator for media tycoon Lord Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman), Harry devises an elaborate plot to con Shahbandar into purchasing a fake Monet painting.

• Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - 2 disc Special Edition | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £13.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (35.74%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves reinvented the legend for contemporary cinema audiences, and in doing so far outstripped at the box office even Kevin Costner's own infinitely superior Dances with Wolves to become the biggest hit of 1991. It's an entertaining enough family adventure film, but plays like a big-budget TV movie with no distinctive flair for action or romance. (Director Kevin Reynolds would reunite with Costner four years later for the equally stodgy Waterworld). If the accents are all over the place, at least Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio makes a Maid Marion of ravishing Pre-Raphaelite beauty. Morgan Freeman is fine as Robin's Moorish sidekick, though, other than to expand the demographic, his character has no business being in the story. Realising that the whole enterprise has the credibility of a pantomime, Alan Rickman outrageously camps up his Sheriff of Nottingham, stealing the film in the process. Costner makes an acceptable hero, though he will never replace Errol Flynn in the definitive The Adventures of Robin Hood. If you can accept explosives in 13th-century England, that the approach to Sherwood Forest is a modern conifer plantation and that the 170 miles from Dover to Nottingham is a matter of a few hours ride via Northumberland, then you may find much to enjoy here. Otherwise an already overlong film has been extended to an excessive 148 minutes in this special edition, making far too much of a not very good thing. On the DVD: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is presented as a two-disc set, with a 1.78:1 anamorphic transfer that is generally good looking but with an occasionally soft picture and some evidence of dirt and minor print damage. The Dolby Digital 5.1 remix of the original stereo soundtrack is atmospheric and powerful and shows off Michael Kamen's score to its best. Though presented with 12 minutes of footage not seen in the cinema version, the film still suffers most of the cuts (amounting to 28 seconds) imposed by the BBFC over the years. The main extras are a pair of commentaries: Costner and Reynolds discuss the film in frank and enthusiastic detail, while on a second track Freeman, Slater, writer/producer Pen Densham and cowriter/producer John Watson offer a great deal of insight plus a fair bit of stating the obvious, backslapping and critic bashing. Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (31 mins) is a cut version of a 45-minute TV special originally broadcast in America the night before the premiere, and offers an interesting if brief look at the Robin Hood story plus some routine making-of material. Finally, there is a video of Bryan Adams performing "Everything I Do, I Do It for You" live at Slane Castle and 18 minutes worth of bland electronic presskit-style archive interviews with Costner, Freeman, Mastrantonio, Slater and Alan Rickman, plus the original American trailer, a stills gallery and cast and crew list. --Gary S Dalkin

• The BBC TV Shakespeare Collection | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £199.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  This mammoth box set includes the following BBC Shakespeare Adaptations: 1. Romeo And Juliet - Directed by Alvin Rakoff (1978) 2. Richard II - Directed by Jane Howell (1983) 3. As You Like It - Directed by Basil Coleman (1978) 4. Julius Caesar - Directed by Herbert Wise (1979) 5. Measure For Measure - Directed by Desmond Davis (1979) 6. Henry VIII - Directed Kevin Billington (1979) 7. Henry IV: Parts I & II - Directed by David Giles (1979) 8. Henry V: Parts I & II - Directed by Davi

• Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £9.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bringing the iconic myth to the screen, Kevin Costner (Waterworld) plays one of the most beloved characters of all time in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Robin returns from the crusades to find his father dead and vows revenge. With his Moorish companion (Morgan Freeman) he joins a band of peasant rebels in battle against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Featuring brilliant swashbuckling scenes of action and adventure, romance and a stellar cast including Christian Slater, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Brian Blessed, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is one of the great blockbusters of the 90s.

• Close My Eyes | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two siblings raised by different parents reunite as adults only to discover a deep passion for one another. Over a hot summer in London things have changed since they last met and Natalie the older sister is married to a hugely wealthy man and languishing in the home countries whilst Richard is seeking escape from the anxieties and pressure of working life. Overwhelmed by their love they struggle to overcome their addiction not wishing to hurt those around them and yet seemingly unable to part.

• Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Based on the hit Broadway musical telling the tale of the infamous Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), who sets up a barber shop in ye olde London town.