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• Last Action Hero | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £7.10   |  Saving you £-1.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John McTiernan (The Hunt for Red October) imaginatively directs this action comedy, which is an interesting failure with some fascinating ironies that make it well worth seeing. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays both a character named Jack Slater--a fictional cop hero who exists only in the movies (ie, the movies seen by the characters in this movie) and the actor who plays Jack Slater in the real world (ie, in the movie we're actually watching). McTiernan's hall-of-mirrors effect is fun, though Last Action Hero never quite identifies itself as a pure action movie, science fiction, a kid's movie, or anything else. (The expensive film suffered at the box office as a result and was roundly criticised for this ambivalence.) What lingers in the memory, however, is Schwarzenegger, playing himself, being confronted by Slater for having created an alter ego for film in the first place. It's a provocative moment: how often have we seen a major star blatantly wrestle with his actor's legacy in this way? --Tom Keogh

• Not As A Stranger | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stanley Kramer directs this film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra. Medical student Lucas Marsh (Mitchum) is determined to succeed, but his relentless idealism and pursuit of high standards cause him to continually alienate those around him. After leaving medical school, he sets up practice in a small town, but his perfectionism continues to be a problem, preventing him from sharing any kind of empathy with his patients.

• My Little Pony - The Movie | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £20.94   |  Saving you £-18.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Feature length fun with the polychromatic equine quadrupeds. Trouble is brewing in the Volcano Of Doom where the evil Hilda and her daughters are cooking up a purple ooze called 'Smooze'. The ponies with Megan's help go in search of the Flutter Ponies their last and only hope....

• Dark Crystal | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £4.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (161.37%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In another time The Dark Crystal - a source of Balance and truth in the Universe - was shattered dividing the world into two factions : the wicked Skekis and the peaceful Mystics. Now as the convergence of the three suns approaches the Crystal must be healed or darkness will reign forever! It's up to Jen the last of his race to fulfil the prophecy that a Gelfling will return the missing shard to the Crystal and destroy the Skekis' evil Empire. But will young Jen's courage b

• 1492 - Conquest Of Paradise | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Ridley Scott's most wrong-headed films, this one (like all of his movies) looks fabulous and sounds utterly ridiculous, almost from the beginning. His first mistake was casting the wonderful Gerard Dépardieu as Columbus and forcing him to speak English, which Dépardieu does with decided difficulty. After spending far too much time on the ocean with Columbus' three ships (you wish they would sail over the edge of the world), they arrive in the West Indies, only to turn around and sail back. The rest of the film deals with the not particularly comprehensible politics of Columbus' venture, which leads to the violent slaughter of trusting natives by a band of cardboard villains. Dépardieu, who radiates sympathy, looks as if he's at sea with this material. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Softly Softly Task Force: Series 1 | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £24.36   |  Saving you £11.63 (47.74%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Legendary Z Cars police chiefs reunited to head up special task force. The classic long running police series starring Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor that became one of the BBC's most successful spin-offs. Stratford Johns stars as no-nonsense DCS Charlie Barlow, a tough, relentless and sharp-tongued copper, with Frank Windsor as his even-tempered sidekick DS John Watt. Together they tackle the force's most heinous crimes, and unravel the most perplexing cases. The two hard-nosed ...

• Raging Bull | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £10.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Raging Bull is arguably the finest work produced from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of real-life boxer, Jake LaMotta, whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, the fight sequences are famed for their realism. Jake LaMotta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty ar...

• Father Ted - Series 3 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £6.76   |  Saving you £13.23 (195.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This set contains the final series of Father Ted, which ended abruptly in 1998 with the death of its talented comic star, Dermot Morgan. The eight episodes here are a little uneven, but the best stuff is classic, laugh-out-loud satire, including "Are You Right There, Father Ted", in which Morgan's titular Catholic priest is re-banished to Ireland's Craggy Island, a green rock replete with paranoid sheep, randy milkmen, Nazi memorabilia collectors and an inexplicably large community of Chinese immigrants. Outstanding, too, is "Speed 3", in which Ted discovers that a number of babies recently born on Craggy all look like a self-made swinger named Pat Mustard. "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" speaks for itself, and "The Mainland" gives supporting actor Ardal O'Hanlon (as idiotic fellow cleric Dougal) a great showcase. --Tom Keogh

• State Fair | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £3.09 (63.06%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this rousing celebration of love and laughter in America's heartland each member of the Frake family is up for a different prize when they attend their state fair: Father wants a blue ribbon for his favorite pig first prize (and only first prize) will do for Mom's entry in the pie-baking contest and for their son and daughter the hunt is on for true love...

• Satan Bug | Blu Ray | (22/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Transformers Prime series 2 volume 1 Orion Pax - Standard version | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £3.90   |  Saving you £7.09 (181.79%)   |  RRP £10.99

  When Optimus' memory is erased the sinister Megatron manipulates him into joining the Decepticons. Jack and Acree travel to Cybertron to find the legendary super-computer Vector Sigma and the Autobots devise a risky plan to get their leader back. From Hasbro Studios and the writing team behind the mega-blockbuster Transformers feature films comes and all new series of stunning computer-animated adventures for Optimus Prime and his team of Autobots as they battle against their nemeses the Decepticons and their villainous leader Megatron.

• Jason And The Argonauts | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This version of Jason and the Argonauts is not a remake of the classic 1963 Ray Harryhausen feature, but a new re-telling of the Greek legend. It takes just as many liberties with the saga, but--with a running time twice as long as the original--it packs in much more of the story, building to an exciting finale filled with betrayal, retribution and copious sword-play. Made by mini-series specialists Hallmark, who also produced a lavish version of Homer's The Odyssey (1997), only the rapid fades where the commercial breaks would be really give away the fact that this is a TV feature. The multinational cast is variable, and while Jason London is unhappily wooden in the title role, such stars as Denis Hopper and Frank Langella are good value, American accents aside. Coming straight from the big screen sword and sandal epic, Gladiator, Derek Jacobi adds sheer class, while Jolene Blalock makes a breathtaking debut as Medea. The visual atmosphere is strong; the superb cinematography varying between lush beauty and the stark, sun-bleached look of Pitch Black. Production values are excellent, with several increasingly powerful and spectacular action set-pieces incorporating outstanding (for TV) CGI effects, the whole being immeasurably lifted by British composer Simon Boswell's splendid musical score.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Hustlers | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. Starring Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles

• 2001: A Space Odyssey | Blu Ray | (29/10/2018) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) fi rst visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.

• Star Wars : Revenge Of The Sith | Blu Ray | (09/11/2015) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Limited Edition Steelbook with Emboss on front Title Treatment Years after the onset of the Clone Wars, the Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Confirming the worst fears of Jedi Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson), Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is seduced by the dark side of the Force and becomes the Emperor’s new apprentice—Darth Vader. The Jedi are decimated, as Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Jedi Master Yoda are forced into hiding. The only hope for the galaxy are Anakin’s own children…a boy and girl who share a heroic destiny. Click Images to Enlarge

• Sweet November | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £6.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (115.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Charlize Theron stars as Sara Deever who, every month, takes a new lover. But her plans go awry in November after she meets Nelson Moss (Keanue Reeves) who hopes to win her heart for good.

• The Purge: Anarchy | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £3.90   |  Saving you £16.09 (412.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The New Founding Fathers of America invite you to celebrate the annual PURGE. The sequel to 2013's runaway sleeper hit.

• Murder By Decree | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £17.91   |  Saving you £-4.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murder by Decree has the distinction of being not only one of the best Sherlock Holmes films, but one of the best pastiches (i.e., a Holmes fiction created by someone other than author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) featuring the late-Victorian detective. Christopher Plummer is very good as Holmes, and James Mason redeems the many mishandled screen portrayals of Dr John Watson with a rare, insightful performance. The story may not be unique in post-Doyle Holmes adventures--the private investigator pursues Jack the Ripper during the latter's murderous reign in foggy London--but the script by John Hopkins (Thunderball) is keenly intelligent, developing concentric circles of power and evil with great subtlety. Before losing himself in Porky's, director Bob Clark did a masterful job of surprising audiences with Murder by Decree, convincing viewers they were watching one kind of drama but then unleashing something very different, very unsettling. --Tom Keogh

• The Rat Pack Collection | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £13.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The collection includes the following concert films and movies: Dean Martin: The Rat Pack, Sammy Davis Jr: The Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra: The Rat Pack, Rufus Jones for President, At War With The Army, Man with Golden Arm and Suddenly.

• Double Dynamite | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £24.91   |  Saving you £-11.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bank assistant Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) is too poor to marry his sweetheart Mildred Goodhue (Jane Russell) but one day he jumps into a fracas and saves 'Hot Horse Harris' a big shot bookie from a beating. When the bookie gives Johnny an extremely generous reward for saving his skin Johnny's first thought is that he can now afford to wed his sweetheart... until he discovers that by coincidence the money he has been given just happens to match a mysterious shortage at his bank! Johnny asks his pal Emile (Groucho Marx) an eccentric waiter to get him out of his mess... but will the comic antics of Emile leave Johnny in even deeper trouble?