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• The Strain Complete Series, Seasons 1-4 | DVD | (22/10/2018) from £34.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (43.86%)   |  RRP £49.99

  From GUILLERMO DEL TORO, CARLTON CUSE and CHUCK HOGAN comes a chillingly original series. When a freak virus tracing back to ancient vampirism strikes New York, it gives rise to bloodthirsty human hybrids. Hoping to destroy the creatures and the evil Master behind the outbreak, the CDC's Dr. Eph Goodweather (Corey Stoll) develops a deadly bio weapon. Teaming with a mysterious Holocaust survivor (David Bradley), and searching clues found in an ancient book, Eph races against time amidst great personal loss in an effort to save humanity, in this thrilling, post-apocalyptic story. All four blood-curdling seasons are here, packed with special features and in-depth behind-the-scenes access. Features: In the Beginning A Novel Approach Setrakian's Lair Audio Commentary on Selected Episodes Deleted Scenes Meet the Crew of The Strain The White Room Gag Reels Beyond the Page Sentient Strigo The Strain: Under Siege Companion Series and Intro with Carlton Cuse Vamp Boom Music Video Coping with The Strain: A Therapy Session And More!

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £19.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (25.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The original BBC radio adventures of Arthur Dent (an ape-descendant whose anger at the apparently inexplicable destruction of his home planet Earth, situated in an obscure corner of the outer spiral arm of the galaxy, is expressed in frequent irritation at friendly automatic doors and vending machines) and his travelling companions, Ford Prefect (an itinerant towel-carrying hitch-hiker originally from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse), Zaphod Beeblebrox (the notorious ex-Galactic President and patron of Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six) and Marvin the Paranoid Android (who's still suffering from that terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side) proved to be such a success for the BBC that its transition to TV was (almost) inevitable. In 1981 several key members of the radio cast made the move to the small screen. Simon Jones' bewildered Arthur Dent remains the central character, shambling around in his dressing gown (a fact easy to forget on radio); Mark Wing-Davey's Zaphod Beeblebrox is the same as his boastful radio persona, even if the second head utterly fails to convince. Unfortunately, newcomers David Dixon (as Ford Prefect) and the irritating Sandra Dickinson (as Trillian) are no match for their radio predecessors.The problem here is not so much the low-budget look as the script itself, which is lovingly faithful to the radio series in a way that Douglas Adams' novels aren't. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a lucid, satirical, occasionally profound, utterly unique comic invention on radio. As such, it has nothing to gain from TV. The script needs no visual elaboration--that's best left to the listener's own imagination. Only the animated renditions of the Guide itself enhance Peter Jones' wonderfully dry narration; otherwise--paradoxically, perhaps--by supplying images the concept is oddly diminished here.On the DVD: A suitably eclectic not to say eccentric collection of extra features makes this a wholly satisfying two-disc set, neatly packaged in a fold-out slipcase. On the second disc there's an hour-long "making of" documentary from 1992 featuring contributions from the cast and crew, including Douglas Adams; and then there's even more in a 20-minute section entitled "Don't Panic!". A fascinating behind-the-scenes peek at filming as the clock runs out on studio time and a look at the recording of the original radio series complete the first part. Then navigate to the "Outer Planets" to find outtakes, a deleted scene, Zaphod's animatronic second head on Tomorrow's World and Peter Jones's witty and shambolic introduction to the first episode, plus more besides. The series itself is presented in standard 4:3 ratio and Dolby stereo. --Mark Walker

• Pearl | Blu Ray | (19/06/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X , in this astonishing follow-up to the year's most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl (Mia Goth) must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this stunning, technicolour-inspired origin story of X's iconic villain.

• The Doctor Blake Mysteries Complete (Series 1-5 Plus Ghost Stories) | DVD | (25/03/2019) from £39.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• What We Did On Our Holiday | DVD | (26/01/2015) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY is a hilarious journey through an unforgettable family holiday as a couple attempt to keep their impending divorce secret from their extended family. Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father Gordie’s birthday party where it’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping their secret under wraps their children are their biggest liability. From 9 year old Lottie’s notebook to keep track of the lies so she remembers which ones to tell to 4 year old Jess’s perverse attachment to a brick named Norman signalling her maladjustment a mile off the parents are kept on tenterhooks and a week has never seemed such a long time. But it’s middle child Mickey and his granddad’s shared passion for Vikings which gives rise to the most far-reaching and unexpected consequences when a day at the beach turns to tragedy and the children take matters into their own hands.

• The Serpent Queen: Seasons 1 & 2 | DVD | (12/05/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Notebook | DVD | (13/01/2020) from £7.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Behind every great love is a great story. its sweeping and emotional force. As teenagers, Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) begin a whirlwind courtship that soon blossoms into tender intimacy. The young couple is quickly separated by Allies upper-class parents who insist that Noah isnt right for her. Several years pass, and when they meet again, their passion is rekindled, forcing Allie to choose between her soulmate and class order. This beautiful tale has a particularly special meaning to an older gentleman (James Garner) who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging companion (Gena Rowlands). Based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook is at once heartwarming and heartbreaking and will capture you in.

• Sleepless in Seattle | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they are destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 19 | Blu Ray | (31/05/2021) from £34.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BUILD YOUR OWN DOCTOR WHO ARCHIVE WITH THIS 8-DISC COLLECTORS' SET! The Fifth Doctor's classic first season all 26 episodes newly restored for Blu-ray, packed with bonus material. CASTROVALVA FOUR TO DOOMSDAY KINDA THE VISITATION BLACK ORCHID EARTHSHOCK TIME-FLIGHT Special Features PETER DAVISON IN CONVERSATION - A candid one-hour interview with the Fifth Doctor FIVE NEW MAKING-OF DOCUMENTARIES For Castrovalva, Four To Doomsday, Black Orchid, Earthshock and Time-Flight BEHIND THE SOFA - Classic clips viewed by Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse, Mark Strickson & Sophie Aldred IMMERSIVE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES For Kinda and Earthshock EXCLUSIVE EXTENDED EPISODE Black Orchid Part One EXTENSIVE STUDIO RECORDING TAPES - Raw studio footage from Castrovalva, Four To Doomsday, Earthshock and Time-Flight OPTIONAL UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS FOR CASTROVALVA PRODUCTION ARCHIVE MATERIAL Also contains extensive Special Features previously released on DVD including: TIME CRASH MINI-EPISODE, MAKING OF DOCUMENTARIES, FEATURETTES, OPTIONAL CGI EFFECTS, AUDIO COMMENTARIES, RARE FOOTAGE, PRODUCTION INFORMATION SUBTITLES, ISOLATED MUSIC SCORES AND MUCH MORE.

• Angel - Complete Season 1-5 (New Packaging) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £47.55   |  Saving you £-8.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.08

  Divine action, Devilish thrills and a killer new look! The continuing blood sucking saga...unleashed again on DVD!Angel, a 240-year old vampire cursed with a conscience, haunts the dark streets of Los Angeles alone. But after he meets a half-demon with mysterious visions, Angel realises his true purpose: to help those in danger with the hope that he may have a chance to redeem himself and save his own soul. With Cordelia and Doyle at his side, he forms Angel Investigations, and is soon joined by Wesley, Gunn, Lorne and Fred. He will need all their expertise to fight the growing forces of evil, and the supernatural law firm of Wolfram and Hart.

• Basquiat (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (12/05/2025) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Julian Schnabel's tribute to his friend and fellow painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is less a conventional biopic than an impressionistic, sensory immersion into the much-mythologized downtown-Manhattan art world of the 1980s.

• Gladiator (4K UHD) | 4K UHD | (30/04/2018) from £23.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marveling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general Maximus, Crowe firmly cements his star status both in terms of screen presence and acting chops, carrying the film on his decidedly non-computer-generated shoulders as he goes from brave general to wounded fugitive to stoic slave to gladiator hero. Gladiator's plot is a whirlwind of faux-Shakespearean machinations of death, betrayal, power plays, and secret identities (with lots of faux-Shakespearean dialogue ladled on to keep the proceedings appropriately "classical"), but it's all briskly shot, edited, and paced with a contemporary sensibility. Even the action scenes, somewhat muted but graphic in terms of implied violence and liberal bloodletting, are shot with a veracity that brings to mind--believe it or not--Saving Private Ryan, even if everyone is wearing a toga. As Crowe's nemesis, the evil emperor Commodus, Joaquin Phoenix chews scenery with authority, whether he's damning Maximus's popularity with the Roman mobs or lusting after his sister Lucilla (beautiful but distant Connie Nielsen); Oliver Reed, in his last role, hits the perfect notes of camp and gravitas as the slave owner who rescues Maximus from death and turns him into a coliseum star. Director Scott's visual flair is abundantly in evidence, with breathtaking shots and beautiful (albeit digital) landscapes, but it's Crowe's star power that will keep you in thrall--he's a true gladiator, worthy of his legendary status. Hail the conquering hero! --Mark Englehart

• Planet of the Apes Triple | Blu Ray | (27/11/2017) from £16.99   |  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

• The Equalizer 1-3 Triple Pack 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Equalizer: Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has put his mysterious past behind him and is dedicated to living a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. The Equalizer 2: Denzel Washington returns to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed - but how far will he go when it is someone he loves? The Equalizer 3: Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, Robert McCall discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

• The Shape of Water | DVD | (25/06/2018) from £4.88   |  Saving you £2.11 (43.24%)   |  RRP £6.99

  From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes 'The Shape Of Water' - an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

• 10 Things I Hate About You | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £8.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (118.06%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Padua High in Seattle, Washington, has Smarties, Skids, Preppies, Granolas, Loners, and Lovers. The Beautiful People are the jocks and cheerleaders you don't talk to unless they talk to you first.

• The Darling Buds of May - Complete Collection | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £12.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wallow in the nostalgia of the 1950s as Britain's best loved family are back in this celebration of love family life and romance in the idyllic British countryside. Loveable rogue Pop Larkin (David Jason) Ma (Pam Ferris) and their six children including the stunning Mariette (Catherine Zeta Jones) radiate happiness with hardly a care in the world! Whilst Pop's unconventional money making schemes bubble along Ma nurturers and the family from the warmth of her busy kitchen and life continues in a paradise of sunshine and happiness. Episodes Comprise: Series 1: 1. The Darling Buds Of May 2. When The Green Woods Laugh 3. A Breath Of Fresh Air 4. Christmas Is Coming Series 2: 5. Oh! To Be In England 6. Stranger At The Gates 7. A Season Of Heavenly Gifts Series 3: 8. The Happiest Days Of Your Life 9. Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine 10. Climb The Greasy Pole 11. Le Grand Weekend

• Seven Worlds, One Planet | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £23.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Millions of years ago huge forces ripped apart the Earth's crust creating seven spectacular continents. Over time, each continent developed its own remarkable wildlife. From the depths of the South American jungles to the frozen peaks of Asia, and from the cities of Europe to the vast plains of Africa - Seven Worlds, One Planet features extraordinary animal behaviour and untold wildlife stories from each continent. We discover how our seven worlds gave rise to the great diversity of life on Earth today, and reveal the challenges now faced by animals in a world shaped by us. Special Features: Highs and Lows of Wildlife Filmmaking McMurdo - Would you dive below the Antarctic ice? Fireflies - Behind the scenes in an enchanted forest Photo Gallery Additional special feature for UHD: On Location

• Dexter: Complete Seasons 1-8 | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £31.99   |  Saving you £-3.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.40

  Join your favourite serial killer in all 8 chilling seasons of the Emmy�-winning SHOWTIME series. This to-die-for collection is a must-have for all Dexter fans!

• The Emperor's New Groove (Disney) | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £4.45   |  Saving you £2.50 (56.18%)   |  RRP £6.95

  This new Disney animated feature is set in a mythical South American land and tells of an arrogant emperor who learns a valuable lesson about life when an evil sorceress plots to take over his empire.