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• Planet of the Apes Triple | Blu Ray | (27/11/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Billed as a "re-imagining" of the original film, Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honourable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape make-up (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right. While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea. --Jeff Shannon

• Planet of the Apes Triple | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Billed as a "re-imagining" of the original film, Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honourable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape make-up (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right. While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea. --Jeff Shannon

• Dragon Ball Z: Season 3 | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £30.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Horrifying power of Frieza! The battle to decide the fate of the universe begins! On the distant Planet Namek, the seven magic Dragon Balls have been brought together and the dragon Porunga summoned. Now, Goku and the Z-fighters are all that stand between the evil Frieza and his wish for immortality! Having survived their encounters with Frieza's dreaded minions, Goku and his friends are now left to contend with the ruthless tyrant himself. Despite their recent victories, however, the Z-fighters are ill prepared to face the terrifying reality of Frieza's power. To defeat this seemingly invincible foe and restore peace to the universe, there is but one hope - a Super Saiyan must emerge! Box Contents includes: Season 3 of Dragon Ball Z on Blu-ray, 1x Poster, 4x Art Cards packaged in an exclusive collectors slip case.

• Honey | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Jessica Alba stars as a hard-working dancer and choreographer who makes good but finds that working with a group of neighbourhood kids is worth far more than success.

• The Jazz Singer | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Back in 1927, The Jazz Singer entered the history books as the first true, sound-on-film talking picture, with Al Jolson uttering the immortal words, "You ain't heard nothing yet!" But even then it was a creakingly sentimental old yarn. By the time this second remake showed up in 1980 (there was a previous one in 1953) it looked as ludicrously dated as a chaperone in a strip club. Our young hero, played by pop singer Neil Diamond in a doomed bid for movie stardom, is the latest in a long line of Jewish cantors, but secretly moonlights with a Harlem soul group. When his strictly Orthodox father (Laurence Olivier, complete with painfully hammy "oya-veh" accent) finds out, the expected ructions follow. Though the lad makes it big in showbiz, it all means nothing while he's cut off from family and roots. But in the end--well, you can guess, can't you? Diamond comes across as likeable enough in a bland way, but unencumbered by acting talent, and the music business has never looked so squeaky clean--nary a trace of drugs, and precious little sex or rock 'n' roll. As for anything sounding remotely like jazz, forget it. This is one story that should have been left to slumber in the archives. --Philip Kemp

• The Skulls | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two new students at Harvard join an elite secret fraternity, but when they begin to realise the true nature of the organisation things become dangerous for them.

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 4K UHD | (03/07/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Big budget sci-fi action based on the original film series of the late 1960s and early 1970s. James Franco stars as Will Rodman, a genetic engineer working in present-day San Francisco who is performing scientific tests on apes in his attempt to find a cure for Alzheimer's. His first test subject is Caesar (Andy Serkis), the prototype of a new breed of apes with human-like intelligence. But when Caesar breaks free, a revolution is triggered and an epic war for supremacy breaks out between humankind and the primates of the world.

• The Shining Special Edition | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Kubrick Classic, this limited edition set includes: 4K UHD Extended Cut, Blu-ray Extended and Theatrical Cuts, Exclusive Booklet, Letter from Stanley Kubrick to Saul Bass, Saul Bass Early Design Illustrations, Behind-the-Scenes Imagery, and a Replica Theatrical Poster. Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's disturbing blockbuster horror novel. Writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), a former alcoholic, accepts a job as the writer caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, isolating him, his wife (Duvall) and their psychic young son until spring. But when the first blizzard blocks the only road out, the hotel's store energy from evil past deeds begins to drive Jack insane...and there may be no escape for his family in this haunting story of madness, memory and violence. Special Features: Commentary by Steadicam Inventor/Operator Garrett Brown and Historian John Baxer (on 4K and Blu-ray) Vivian Kubrick's Documentary The Making of The Shining with Optional Commentary 3 Mesmerizing Featurettes: View from the Overlook: Crafting The Shining, The Visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, Composer

• Dust | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (49.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At the turn of the last century in the American West two brothers fall in love with the same woman. Lilith chooses the younger brother Elijah (Joseph Fiennes). The embittered Luke (David Wenham) travels alone to Europe. His demons drive him to Macedonia where he becomes a ruthless mercenary fighting amongst the vicious local gangs. However the revolution takes on a personal face when pregnant Neda saves dying Luke. 100 years later in New York City a desperate robber Edge (Adr

• Brother White | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-17.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  If you like Sister Act, you'll just love Brother White! In this family musical comedy starring David AR White (Jerusalem Countdown, Me Again), Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live) Jackee (Sister Sister, 227), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) and Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison. James White and his wife Lily are sent, well demoted, from their rich, white-middle-class church in Southern California to an impoverished neighbourhood church in Atlanta. Pastor White and his family must fight to save the little faith church from a corrupt banker anxious to foreclose.

• Evil Beneath Loch Ness | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Professor Gus Egan and his team of scientists are exploring the depths of Scotland's mysterious Loch Ness to prove his theory that it was once a prehistoric breeding ground for ancient marine reptiles. Suddenly a fault-line ruptures deep below the surface of the Loch and Gus disappears in an underwater earthquake. Unbeknownst to the team the rupture has reopened a passageway to the depths of the North Sea and given new life to the most fabled creature ever known to man - the legendary Loch Ness monster.

• The Locals | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Two best friends Grant and Paul hit the road for a weekend of surfing booze and hopefully girls. With night falling they take a short cut and meet Lisa and Kelly a couple of babes with a fast car who invite them to a party. Desire takes over and a game of cat and mouse begins leading them deep into the heartland of evil where the locals don't take too kindly to outsiders. In order to survive they must uncover the awful truth about the land they find themselves trapped in and the

• Art Of Mixing, The - A Guide To Recording, Engineering And Production | DVD | (21/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  David Gibson's hugely popular The Art Of Mixing the book that has taught a generation of mixing engineers comes to life with over three and a half hours of vivid animated instruction on one feature-packed DVD! Topics covered include: descriptions and visuals of the functions of each piece of studio equipment involved in mixing; Specific concepts behind making a mix that is appropriate for the music and the song; correlations between audio parameters and the visual parameters of

• Barbra Streisand - The Belle Of 14th Street | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Barbra is the ""top-billed act"" in this affectionate tribute to turn of the century vaudeville. No detail was too small for this lovingly created world of a bygone era. Her first television special to feature guest-stars The Belle of 14th Street celebrates in ways both comedic and heartfelt ""The Golden Age of Song"". A marvelous showcase for such evergreens as Sophie Tucker's ""Some Of These Days "" ""How About Me"" (written by ""a new young talent"" Irving Berlin) the poignant ""I'm Always Chasing Rainbows "" and the sublime ""My Buddy"" - all classics of the vaudeville era reinvented by the ""greatest star"" of our time. This DVD is from the 5-disc boxed set Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials.