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• Message In A Bottle | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  If, as they say, you're in a certain mood, Message in a Bottle can be just the ticket. Based on Nicholas Sparks' bestselling novel, this handsome but overly calculated romantic tale stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa, a Chicago Tribune researcher who finds a note encased in a green bottle that has floated onto a Cape Cod shore. The message within is a heartfelt, yearning declaration of love to a woman named Catherine but the author is unknown until Theresa (rather improbably) tracks him down in North Carolina. He's Garret Blake (Kevin Costner), a taciturn builder of sailboats and a grieving widower whose late wife, poetically speaking, was the intended recipient of the seafaring note Theresa found. Theresa, a divorcée with a son, decides to meet Garret, only to find him as bottled-up as his message. Nevertheless, a romance blooms on the strength of quality time in a sailboat and lots of cuddling, though the script tosses in bits of conflict to keep their relationship spicy. Directed by Luis Mandoki (When a Man Loves a Woman), this love story is entirely by the numbers, with Costner inhabiting (rather than performing) a stock fantasy of a man perfect in every way save his broken heart. Penn brings more vibrancy to her equally predictable part but fortunately for all, Paul Newman, John Savage, Robbie Coltrane and Illeana Douglas are on hand in nicely textured character parts. Sometimes predictability is exactly what one wants when settling in for an evening of home video, and this movie fits the bill nicely. The appealing cinematography is by ace cameraman Caleb Deschanel. --Tom Keogh

• Maggie | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £3.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (74.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  By the time a necrotic viral pandemic infected 16-year-old Maggie, authorities had established a protocol for patients infected with the deadly virus: they are removed from society and taken to special isolation wards.

• Spartacus | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £9.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Carry On Screaming | Blu Ray | (21/10/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (187.73%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Who is stealing virgins and turning them into shop-window mannequins? What is the meaning of the gigantic hairy finger found at the scene of the latest crime? What clues can the mad professor (Kenneth Williams) or his deathly pale and impossibly buxom sister (Fenella Fielding) provide to the hopeless Detective Bung? (Harry H. Corbett) Join the Carry On team including Charles Hawtrey Bernard Bresslaw and Joan Sims as they chill your spine in this hair raising spoof of a horror movie. Special Features: Audio Commentary Trailer

• Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £10.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (98.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A perfume maker's work turns sinister in this dark thriller.

• Paths Of Glory | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.81   |  Saving you £7.18 (81.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pity of war has been a much-favoured film topic; the treachery of war much less so, though never more persuasively than in Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick's breakthrough feature from 1957. Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest screen performances as Colonel Dax, the idealistic First World War soldier appalled by the arbitrary court-marshal meted out to three of his men after an impossible attempt to storm German lines goes disastrously wrong. George Macready is an utterly believable Gerneral Mireau, obsessed with his own honour and standing, whom Adolphe Majou complements tellingly as the urbane and cynical General Bruler. Those who know Kubrick from his later sprawling epics will be surprised at the tautness and concision shown here, even though the screenplay--which he co-wrote--has a certain theatrical stiffness. On the DVD: Paths of Glory on disc reproduces well in full-screen format, and Gerald Fried's bitingly ironic score comes through powerfully. There are five dubbed and six subtitled languages. The original trailer is a masterpiece of gritty reportage, well worth reviving. Along with Dr Strangelove and 2001, this is Kubrick's most focussed and durable film. --Richard Whitehouse

• The Thing From Another World | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Artic researchers discover a huge frozen spaceling inside a crash-landed UFO then fight for their lives after the murderous being (a pre-Gunsmoke James Arness) emerges from icy captivity. Will other creatures soon follow? The famed final words of this film are both warning and answer: ""Keep watching the skies!""

• Retro Tv - The Fall Guy | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £14.89   |  Saving you £15.10 (101.41%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ""I might jump an open drawbridge Or Tarzan from a vine.'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine."" Lee Majors stars as The Fall Guy Colt Seavers a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter who uses Hollywood stunt tactics to capture criminals.

• Bella Mafia | DVD | (05/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring a star cast including Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly and Illeanna Douglas, this mini-series from Widows and Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante follows five Mafia women who band together to seek vengeance when their husbands and sons are massacred by a brutal rival family. Bella Mafia earned Redgrave a Golden Globe nomination for her role as the widow of a powerful Sicilian mobster. Over two decades, a bitter feud has wiped out three generations of men from one of organised crime's most notorious families, headed by the wealthy Don Luciano. Now, with their lives destroyed and nothing left but pride, it is up to the Luciano women, led by the beautiful and dignified Graziella, to seek the ultimate justice...

• The Alienist - Season 1 | DVD | (20/05/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ray rebuilds his life both personally and professionally in New York City. After being rescued from a plummet into the East River, his saviour, a cop named Mac, brings Ray into the Staten Island Police Department fraternity. While exploring this new world of brotherhood and corruption, Ray fi nds himself once again working for media mogul Samantha Winslow. Sam has teamed up with New York City mayoral candidate Anita Novak, a partnership that puts Ray at odds with his new friends out in Staten Island. Starring Golden Globe® and Emmy® nominee Liev Schreiber, Academy Award® winner and four-time nominee  Susan Sarandon and Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winner Jon Voight. Special Features: Ray Donovan: Inside New York City Rise, Rebuild, Reclamation

• Lolita | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £6.19   |  Saving you £7.80 (126.01%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Stanley Kubrick's 1961 version of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's notorious 1953 novel, prompted a scandal in its day: even to address the issue of paedophilia on screen was deemed to be as perverted as the hapless protagonist Humbert Humbert. James Mason plays Humbert, the suave English Professor whose gentlemanly exterior peels away as quickly as his scruples once exposed to Sue Lyons' well-developed teenage beauty. In order to be close to her, he marries her mother, the lonely and pathetically pretentious Charlotte (Shelley Winters) only for her to expire conveniently, leaving Humbert free to embark on a motel-to-motel trek across America with Lolita in tow, evading suspicions that theirs is more than a father-daughter relationship. Peter Sellers, meanwhile, gives a Dr Strangelove-type tour de force performance as Clare Quilty, a TV writer also in pursuit of Lolita, who harasses Humbert under several guises, including a psychiatrist. As a movie, Lolita is flawed, albeit interestingly so. The sexual innuendo (a summer camp called Camp Climax, for example) seems jarring and pointless, while Sellers' comic turn detracts from any sense of guilt, tension or tragedy. It's as if the real purpose of the film is to offer a sort of silent, mocking laughter at the wretched Humbert and systematically divest him of his dignity. By the end, he is a babbling wretch while Sue Lyons' Lolita is pragmatic and self-possessed. It's Mason and Lyons' performances, which lift the film from its mess of structural difficulties. Decades on, their central relationship still makes for pitifully compulsive viewing. On the DVD: Few extras, sadly, though the brief original trailer is excellent, built around the question, "How could they make a film out of Lolita?". The original black and white picture and mono sound are excellent. --David Stubbs

• Bridget Jones 2: The Edge of Reason | DVD | (25/02/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from the law office? Will the reappearance of dashing cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) further spell the end of her self-confidence when they're shoved off to Thailand together for a TV travel story? If such questions also seem pressing to you, this sequel will be fairly painless, but you shouldn't expect anything fresh. Director Beeban Kidron and her screenwriters--all four of them!--are content to sink matters into slapstick, with chunky Zellweger (who's unflatteringly photographed) the literal butt of all jokes. Though the star still has her charms, and some of Bridget's social gaffes are amusing, the film is mired in low comedy--a sequence in a Thai women's prison is more offensive than outrageous--with only Grant's rakish mischief to pull it out of the swamp. --Steve Wiecking

• Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun - (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £38.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A boy's chaotic life in a prestigious boarding school for elite demons! Suzuki Iruma, human, 14, one day finds himself taken against his will into the world of demons. To add to his predicament, his doting owner and self-appointed Grandpa is the chair-demon at his new school. In order to survive, Iruma must deal with a haughty student who challenges him to a duel, a girl with adjustment issues, and so many more scary beings! Can this ultimate pacifist dodge the slings and arrows that are flung his way? As he struggles frantically, Iruma's innate kindness begins to win over his enemies.

• Angel | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• The Peasants | Blu Ray | (17/06/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the Academy Award nominated director and producers of Loving Vincent, comes a stunning and epic new animation based on the Nobel Prize winning novel. A young woman, Jagna, is determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village, rife with gossip, feuds and inequality. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village's richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

• Ouija | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £4.37   |  Saving you £20.62 (471.85%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In OUIJA, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

• The Vampire Lovers Blu-Ray Remastered | Blu Ray | (01/12/2014) from £12.00   |  Saving you £10.99 (91.58%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The arrival of the exotic Marcilla (Ingrid Pitt) causes a stir in the Austrian province of Styria. Women seek Marcilla's friendship and men are entranced by her beauty. When she stays at the home of General Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) and his niece Laura (Pippa Steele) the only clue to Laura's subsequent death is an unusual wound on one of her breasts. Now calling herself Carmilla the enigmatic stranger moves in with a nearby English family. Like Laura the naïve Emma Morton (Madeline Smith) soon falls ill. As her life hangs by a thread the terrible truth about Carmilla is finally revealed... Special Features: New Blood: Hammer Enters the 70s Audio Commentary with Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby Stills Gallery Original Trailer Restoration Comparisons

• There Was A Crooked Man | Blu Ray | (29/04/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him. Academy Award® winner* Joseph L. Mankiewicz cleverly lassos a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit, courtesy of a script by David Newman and Robert Benton (Bonnie and Clyde). Kirk Douglas as Pitman and Henry Fonda as Lopeman headline a sterling cast, with Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, Warren Oates and Lee Grant among the solid support. Boisterous yet blistering, lighthearted yet lacerating, There Was a Crooked Man... is, throughout all its moods, devilishly entertaining. On-Disc Special FeaturesVintage Featurette On Location with There Was a Crooked Man...Theatrical Trailer

• Conan The Destroyer | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £4.97   |  Saving you £1.02 (20.52%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The dark, brooding tone of Conan the Barbarian is replaced in this rousing sequel by a lighter, more humorous tone and one of the campiest casts ever assembled. In Conan the Destroyer, our massively muscular hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is assigned by a duplicitous queen (Sarah Douglas) to escort a virgin princess (Olivia d'Abo) on a treacherous trek to a crystal palace where they will retrieve a priceless gemstone. Basketball champ and self-described Lothario Wilt Chamberlain plays Bombaata, a warrior sent on a secret mission to kill Conan, and the androgynous Grace Jones plays Zula, a wild woman who becomes Conan's loyal ally. Some consider this sequel a disappointment but the film makes no apologies for its silliness, and that's the key to its success as gloriously pulpy entertainment. --Jeff Shannon

• The Diary Of Anne Frank | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George Stevens' epic screen adaptation of one of the most moving documents to emerge from World War II - the diary of a thirteen year old Jewish girl Anne Frank. To escape the horrors of Nazi persecution Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) hid with his wife (Gusti Huber) and their two daughters Anne (Millie Perkins) and Margot (Diane Baker) in a disused Amsterdam attic for two years. Also hiding with them were Mr and Mrs van Daan (Lou Jacobi and Shelley Winters) their son Peter (Ric