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• The Last Temptation Of Christ (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (30/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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

• The Right Stuff | DVD | (21/09/1998) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humour, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicised (and sanitised) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim Emerson

• Black Swan - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £7.60   |  Saving you £17.39 (228.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• With Six You Get Eggroll | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £23.80   |  Saving you £-13.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Keeping this family together isn't child's play! In her last film which unofficially inspired TV's 'The Brady Bunch ' Doris Day plays a widow who marries a widower. Abby McClure manages lumberjacks by light and minds her three sons by night. One day she meets Jake Iverson a kind man who has a daughter and Abby and Jake quickly fall in love. When they decide to get hitched though their children are not exactly eager to become one big happy family...

• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) | Blu Ray | (15/04/2019) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. This fifteenyear labour of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances by Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie; bold cinematography by the great Michael Ballhaus; and a transcendent score by Peter Gabriel. Special Edition Features: Restored highdefinition digital transfer, supervised and approved by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with a 5.1 DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack by supervising sound editor Skip Lievsay Audio commentary featuring director Martin Scorsese, actor Willem Dafoe, and writers Paul Schrader and Jay Cocks Galleries of production stills, research materials, and costume designs Location production footage shot by Scorsese Interview with composer Peter Gabriel, with a stills gallery of traditional instruments used in the score PLUS: An essay by film critic David Ehrenstein.

• Insidious | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £4.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (267.14%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son, Josh, Renai begins to experience things that science cannot explain.

• Black Swan | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £9.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (151.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) this provocative psychological thriller exhilarated audiences and critics on its way to becoming the must-see film of the year. Portman gives the performance of a lifetime as Nina a stunningly talented but dangerously unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to breaking point by her driven artistic director (Vincent Cassel) and the threat posed by a seductive rival dancer (Mila Kunis) Nina's tenuous grip on reality starts to slip away. As the pressure builds Nina's all-consuming obsessions spin out of control plunging her into a waking nightmare that will threaten not only her sanity but her life.

• Insidious | Blu Ray | (12/09/2011) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (200.84%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son, Josh, Renai begins to experience things that science cannot explain.

• Last Of The Dogmen | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £15.00   |  Saving you £-9.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought necessary to make sense of the story (it isn't), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barbara Hershey) search for the descendants of a Cheyenne tribe who disappeared in the 1870s. What the two find in a remote mountain stretch is an entire community of Cheyenne who have kept themselves cut off from the modern world. A Dances with Wolves parallel emerges as the white outsiders gradually fit in, but Last of the Dogmen stands up just fine without comparison to any other films. As in Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning movie, however, there are ways in which this film captures a similar sense of yearning, mystery and loss--not least being David Arnold's fine John Barry-esque score. --Tom Keogh

• Insidious/Insidious - Chapter 2 | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £19.50 (78.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son Josh and Renai begin to experience things that science cannot explain. James Wan and Leigh Whannell the co-creators of Saw join forces with the producers of Paranormal Activity to take you on a mind-bending journey into the world of the unknown.

• Portrait Of A Lady | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £7.10   |  Saving you £2.89 (40.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.

• Tin Men | DVD | (17/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cruise back to Baltimore 1963 to the time and turf of a rare American breed: The 'Tin Man' (aluminium siding salesman). Two less-than-honest rivals in the tin game (Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito) meet in a fender bender but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendetta against each other's symbols of success - their prized Cadillacs. In what would seem to be a coup de grace Dreyfuss decides to seduce DeVito's neglected wife (Barbara Hershe

• The Bible - Complete | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Over 18 hours of informative but epicly entertaining Biblical adventures lavish productions of the greatest stories ever told featuring the greatest casts ever assembled! Includes the stories Samson And Delilah Moses Jesus Joseph Abraham and David. Samson And Delilah: Samson hero of the Israelites becomes hynoptised by the devious and beautiful Delilah. In an act of betrayal she cuts Samson's hair the secret of his strength. Enslaved blind and weak Samson retai

• Return to Lonesome Dove | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £14.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (33.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jon Voight heads an all star cast as feared and revered ex-Ranger Captain Woodrow Call seizes his dream to drive a herd of mustang from texas to Montana. Barbara Hershey Rick Schroder Lois Gossett Jr. William Petersen and Oliver Reed hit the saddle as Captain Call's single vision unites them all in a powerful struggle against hustlers Indian warriors each other and the volatile wilds of the West itself in a fight that's far more than a dream; it's their destiny...

• Boxcar Bertha | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £39.29   |  Saving you £-26.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Bertha is orphaned she links up with a controversial leader of a union Big Bill Shelley. On the run from McCarthy type witch hunters who think Shelley is a 'red' they unwillingly become involved in underground crime escape from jail and ride boxcars on freight trains until the all powerful railroad bosses catch up with Shelley and take their revenge...

• Stephen King's Riding The Bullet | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £5.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (11.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When about to head off to a concert with two of his friends Alan Parker receives a phone call and finds out that his mother's in hospital after having a stroke. So Alan skips the concert and hitchhikes to get to his old hometown to visit his Mom. But the journey proves to be far from easy as he experiences strange and bizarre encounters along the way. Eventually he is picked up by a stranger who gives him a choice... a choice between life and death.

• Insidious 2 | Blu Ray | (06/01/2014) from £8.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (101.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son Josh and Renai begin to experience things that science cannot explain. James Wan and Leigh Whannell the co-creators of Saw join forces with the producers of Paranormal Activity to take you on a mind-bending journey into the world of the unknown.

• Splitting Heirs | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Insidious/Insidious - Chapter 2 | Blu Ray | (06/01/2014) from £14.34   |  Saving you £12.65 (88.21%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son Josh and Renai begin to experience things that science cannot explain. James Wan and Leigh Whannell the co-creators of Saw join forces with the producers of Paranormal Activity to take you on a mind-bending journey into the world of the unknown.

• The Bible - Abraham | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £7.73   |  Saving you £2.02 (33.84%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Richard Harris offers a commanding central performance as Abraham commanded by God to lead his family to the promised land of Canaan who must undertake great trials and finds his faith severely tested...