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• Cross Of Iron | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £8.25   |  Saving you £10.00 (143.06%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In Cross of Iron Sam Peckinpah weighs in on World War II from the German point of view. The result is as bleak, if not quite as bloody, as one expects from the director of The Wild Bunch, in part because this 1977 film was cut to ribbons by nervous studio executives. The assorted excerpts that remain don't constitute an exhilarating or even an especially thrilling battle epic. The war is grinding to a close, and veterans like James Coburn's Steiner are grimly aware that it's a lost cause. The battlefield is a death trap of sucking mud and barbed wire, and the German generals (viz., the martinet played by James Mason) seem to pose a bigger threat to the life and limbs of Steiner's men than the inexorable enemy. Not even Peckinpah's famous sensuous exuberance when shooting violence is much in evidence; the picture is a depressive, claustrophobically overcast experience. The bloody high (or low) point isn't a shooting; it's a wince-inducing de-penis-tration during oral sex. For a fun time with the men in (Nazi) uniform, try Das Boot instead. --David Chute, Amazon.com

• Live and Let Die | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £4.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (320.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately re-established Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the '70s. This film also marks a deviation from the more character-driven stories of the Connery years, a deliberate shift to plastic action (multiple chases, bravura stunts) that made the franchise more of a comic book or machine. If that's not depressing enough, there's even a good British director on board, Guy Hamilton (Force 10 from Navarone). The story finds Bond taking on an international drug dealer (Yaphet Kotto), and while that may be superficially relevant, it isn't exactly the same as fighting super-villains on the order of Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.comOn the DVD: Anyone old enough to remember the old milk marketing board commercials will relish the sight of James Bond exhorting everyone to "drink a pinta milka day" in one of the TV spots included here. Elsewhere in the special features, the characteristically in-depth "making of" featurette has a mixture of both contemporary and new interviews plus behind-the-scenes footage (the alligator-jumping sequence is positively hair-raising). The first of two audio commentaries is hosted by John Quark of the Ian Fleming Foundation and features a variety of cast and crew members, notably director Guy Hamilton; the second has writer Tom Mankiewicz on his own, who in between pauses has the occasional interesting thing to say. Overall another good package of features to accompany another excellent anamorphic print. --Mark Walker

• Walking with Cavemen | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £24.38   |  Saving you £-6.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Breaking the mould of previous "Walking with" offerings, the BBC's Walking with Cavemen sees Professor Robert Winston follow in the footsteps of ancient man in a series that traces the history of humanity from bipedal ape-men (Australopithecus Aphaeresis) to the awakening of the human mind's potential with Homo Erectus. Spread over four fascinating half-hour instalments, Wilson presents an accessible and populist, but still suitably anthropological study on how apes became human and the traits that we inherited from our earliest ancestors. Unlike Dinosaurs and Beasts, Cavemen combines CGI with actors to portray the characters in the story of man. Initially this seems to make it far less technically impressive than the earlier programmes--memories of Kubrick's 2001 are inevitable--but fortunately the acting is superb and the viewer soon forgets that these are people in monkey suits. The series also makes use of a special effect called "deep time-lapse", which shows in a matter of dramatic seconds the thousands of years of geological changes that sped up our ancestors' evolution. Wilson himself takes part in the action as if he is a modern-day naturalist following lions across the Serengeti rather than creatures long extinct. This approach makes for a more immediate as well as poignant interpretation of history: the result is an enlightening and moving tribute to the human journey. On the DVD: Walking with Cavemen on disc has production interviews with series producer Peter Georgi, executive producer and director Richard Dale, director of animated extras Ben Palmer and actor David Rubin. There are also location interviews, the best of which is two of the actors in full costume explaining the difficulties involved in eating lunch. There are sequences explaining the creation of the digital effects, and the original score can be accessed as an audio-only option. A fact file for each episode and a picture gallery complete the extras package. --Kristen Bowditch

• Ncis: Seasons 1-13 | DVD | (11/12/2017) from £93.05   |  Saving you £-20.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £72.26

  All episodes from the first 13 seasons of the JAG spin-off series NCIS, centering on the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a crack team of government agents who operate outside the military chain of command. These special agents traverse the globe, investigating crimes linked to the Navy or Marine Corps from murder and espionage, to terrorism and stolen submarines. More than just an action-packed drama, NCIS shows the sometimes complex, always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together under high-stress situations.

• Grimm: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £85.05   |  Saving you £-30.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.91

  All the episodes from the US supernatural drama following Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), who discovers that he's descended from a line of Grimms, hunters who fight supernatural forces. Able to perceive the unearthly beings around him that nobody else can see, Nick finds himself having to keep the balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the Grimm world. Season 1 episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Bears Will Be Bears', 'BeeWare', 'Lonelyhearts', 'Danse Macabre', 'The Three Bad Wolves', 'Let Your Hair Down', 'Game Ogre', 'Of Mouse and Man', 'Organ Grinder', 'Tarantella', 'Last Grimm Standing', 'Three Coins in a Fuchsbau', 'Plumed Serpent', 'Island of Dreams', 'The Thing With Feathers', 'Love Sick', 'Cat and Mouse', 'Leave It to Beavers', 'Happily Ever Aftermath', 'Big Feet' and 'Woman in Black'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Bad Teeth', 'The Kiss', 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Quill', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Over My Dead Body', 'The Bottle Imp', 'The Other Side', 'La Llorona', 'The Hour of Death', 'To Protect and Serve Man', 'Season of the Hexenbiest', 'Face Off', 'Natural Born Wesen', 'Mr. Sandman', 'Nameless', 'One Angry Fuchsbau', 'Volcanalis', 'Endangered', 'Kiss of the Muse', 'The Waking Dead' and 'Goodnight, Sweet Grimm'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Ungrateful Dead', 'PTZD', 'A Dish Best Served Cold', 'One Night Stand', 'El Cucuy', 'Stories We Tell Our Young', 'Cold Blooded', 'Twelve Days of Krampus', 'Red Menace', 'Eyes of the Beholder', 'The Good Soldier', 'The Wild Hunt', 'Revelation', 'Mommy Dearest', 'Once We Were Gods', 'The Show Must Go On', 'Synchronicity', 'The Law of Sacrifice', 'Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen', 'My Fair Wesen', 'The Inheritance' and 'Blond Ambition'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Thanks for the Memories', 'Octopus Head', 'Last Fight', 'Dyin' On a Prayer', 'Cry Luison', 'Highway of Tears', 'The Grimm Who Stole Christmas', 'Chupacabra', 'Wesenrein', 'Tribunal', 'Death Do Us Part', 'Maréchaussée', 'Trial By Fire', 'Bad Luck', 'Double Date', 'Heartbreaker', 'Hibernaculum', 'Mishipeshu', 'Iron Hans', 'You Don't Know Jack', 'Headache' and 'Cry Havoc'. Season 5 episodes are: 'The Grimm Identity', 'Clear and Wesen Danger', 'Lost Boys', 'Maiden Quest', 'Rat King', 'Wesen Nacht', 'Eve of Destruction', 'A Reptile Dysfunction', 'Star-Crossed', 'Map of the Seven Knights', 'Key Move', 'Into the Schwarzwald', 'Silence of the Slams', 'Lycanthropia', 'Skin Deep', 'The Believer', 'Inugami', 'Good to the Bone', 'The Taming of the Wu', 'Bad Night', 'Set Up' and 'The Beginning of the End'. Season 6 episodes are: 'Fugitive', 'Trust Me Knot', 'Oh Captain, My Captain', 'El Cuegle', 'The Seven Year Itch', 'Breakfast in Bed', 'Blind Love', 'The Son Also Rises', 'Tree People', 'Blood Magic', 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'Zerstörer Shrugged' and 'The End'.

• Paul Weller - Live - Route Of Kings / Later... With Jools Holland | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Paul Weller Live At Hyde Park Tracklist: Introduction Sunflower Bull Rush Magic Bus Friday Street Hung Up A Bullet For Everyone Whirlpools’ End Leafy Mysteries Up In Suze’s Room All Good Books Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) This Is No Time Foot Of The Mountain Broken Stones Picking Up Sticks You Do Something To Me Stanley Road Out Of The Sinking Peacock Suit Into Tomorrow The Changingman Standing Out In The Universe Wild Wood Call Me No. 5 Woodc

• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £13.33   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this adrenaline-fueled adventure, Optimus Prime and the Autobots take on their biggest challenge yet. When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, they must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Noah (Anthony Ramos) and Elena (Dominique Fishback) will do whatever it takes to help the Transformers as they engage in the ultimate battle to save Earth.

• Inspector Morse - The Complete Series (33 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £79.99   |  Saving you £120.00 (150.02%)   |  RRP £199.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whately's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter said he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Session 9 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back to haunt them...

• 3 Gerry Anderson Classics - Supermarionation - Joe 90 / Captain Scarlet / Stingray | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring nineteen episodes taken from the Jerry Anderson collection including Captain Scarlet Joe 90 and the Stingray adventure series.

• Shameless Series 1 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blisteringly funny offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids... The real head of the family is big sister Fiona (20) who looks after Carl (11) Debbie (9) and baby Liam (3). She is occasionally helped more often hindered by reluctant virgin 'Lip' (16) and the actively gay but very private Ian

• United 93 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £12.26   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Paul Greengrass recounts the final moments of the ill-fated flight in this 9/11 drama.

• James Bond - Live and Let Die (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In Roger Moore's first outing as 007 he investigates the murders of three fellow agents he soon finds himself a target evading vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Known on the streets as Mr Big Kananga is co-ordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan he meets Solitaire (Jane Seymour) the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond of course works his own magic on her and the stage is set for a series of pulse-pounding action sequences involving voodoo hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats.

• Impact | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £6.00   |  Saving you £3.99 (66.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A rogue asteroid smashes into the moon in a tremendous explosion of rock and debris. Within days disastrous abnormalities start happening on Earth. What started as the most beautiful and the largest meteor shower in 10 000 years unexpectedly becomes the catalyst for a potential collison between the moon and planet Earth. The world's leading scientists Alex Kittner (David James Elliott TV's JAG) and Maddie Rhodes (Natasha Henstridge Species) have 39 days to stop the moon's course or the Earth - - and all of mankind - - will perish. Also starring James Cromwell (W. and The Green Mile). The countdown is on.

• Foolproof | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £14.41   |  Saving you £-1.42 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kevin. Rob. Sam. They know how to make any heist foolproof. That's where Leo comes in. He's got his eye on $20 million in untraceable bonds and he wants these three experts to get it for him. As a little insurance he's holding their latest plan hostage until they deliver. The pressure's on and with so much at stake even friends can't trust each other...

• Short Circuit 2 | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £4.03   |  Saving you £3.22 (116.25%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ""Two Thumbs Up!... Even Better Than The Original."" -Siskel & Ebert Number Five aka Johnny Five that incredible lovable robot form the smash hit Short Circuit is back and taking the big city by storm in this action-packed comedy adventure. Upbeat Johnny's out for some ""urban input "" but some street hoods a greedy banker and a gang of crooks see his naivete as their high-tech ticket to easy street. Will Johnny survive the big bad city and its big bad city slickers? Keep your wi

• Kung Fu - Season 2 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £28.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (7.42%)   |  RRP £30.99

  He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by the blind avuncular Master Po and the stern yet loving master Kan. Caine speaks softly but hits hard. He lives humbly yet knows great contentment. He is the Old West's most unusual hero. But hero is not a word Caine would use. He would simply say ""I am a man""... Episodes comprise: 1. The Well 2. The Assassin 3. The Chalice 4. The Brujo 5. The Sp

• Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters II - Set | Blu Ray | (28/09/2020) from £34.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The classic supernatural comedies that defined a generation: Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2, together in this special collector's edition Blu-ray set. Celebrate 30 years of the Ghostbusters franchise with remastered high-def picture & sound for both movies, plus all-new and never-before-seen special features. Plus, explore the history of the films with this deluxe collector's edition, loaded with production notes, character sketches, insider info and more. Bring home these spooktacularly successful films that captured the imagination of audiences around the worldand redefined the action-comedy genre in the process. Who you gonna call? UHD release: The classic supernatural comedies that defined a generation: GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS II, together in a limited edition 4K Ultra HD Steelbook® with never-before-seen special features! In the original GHOSTBUSTERS, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson)

• Phantom of the Open | Blu Ray | (25/07/2022) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Phantom of the Open tells the remarkable true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator and optimistic dreamer from Barrow-in-Furness who, with the support of his family and friends, managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. With pluckiness and unwavering self-belief, Maurice pulls off a series of stunning, hilarious and heartwarming attempts to compete at the highest level of professional golf, drawing the ire of the golfing elite but becoming a British folk hero in the process.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 15 And 16 - Masonic Mysteries / Second Time Around | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (150.67%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford