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• Glory: 35th Anniversary SteelBook 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (03/06/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The heart-stopping story of the first Black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwesand Morgan Freeman. Broderick and Elwes are the idealistic young Bostonians who lead the regiment; Freeman is the inspirational sergeant who unitesthe troops; and Denzel Washington, in an Academy Award®-winning performance (1989, Best Supporting Actor), is the runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts.

• Alan Bennett's Talking Heads Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (08/03/2021) from £11.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alan Bennetts renowned monologues are remade with an extraordinary British cast with two powerful new pieces added to the collection. Touching on universal themes such as guilt, grief and isolation, Bennetts masterful monologues have always had a timeless quality. But they feel particularly relevant today. Bennetts long-term collaborator, director Nicholas Hytner, heads up a superlative creative team. Actors including Jodie Comer, Martin Freeman and Kristin Scott Thomas bring Bennetts haunting work to life with darkly captivating performances. With the actors talking directly to the camera, this is an exceptionally intimate dramatic experience. As the characters unburden their souls, theres nowhere for the actors or audience to hide. Starring Jodie Comer, Monica Dolan, Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Sarah Lancashire, Lesley Manville, Lucian Msamati, Maxine Peake, Rochenda Sandall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Imelda Staunton, Harriet Walter

• Along Came A Spider | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £4.35   |  Saving you £11.64 (267.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Morgan Freeman stars once agin as detective Alex Cross in this sequel to "Kiss The Girls." A congressman's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Cross.

• The Bucket List | Blu Ray | (07/07/2008) from £11.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (200.22%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

• Middle Earth - Six Film Theatrical Version | Blu Ray | (31/10/2016) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-30.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.70

  THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Assisted by a Fellowship of heroes, Frodo Baggins plunges into a perilous trek to take the mystical One Ring to Mount Doom so that it and its magical powers can be destroyed and never be possessed by evil Lord Sauron. The astonishing journey begins in the first film of director/co-writer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy that redefi ned fantasy fi lmmaking. This imaginative foray into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards® and earned 13 total nominations, including Best Picture. THE TWO TOWERS The Fellowship has broken, but the quest to destroy the One Ring continues. Frodo and Sam must entrust their lives to Gollum if they are to find their way to Mordor. As Saruman's army approaches, the surviving members of The Fellowship, along with people and creatures from Middle-earth, prepare for battle. The War of the Ring has begun. Nominated for six Academy Awards®* including Best Picture RETURN OF THE KING The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring. Aragorn struggles to fulfill his legacy as he leads his outnumbered followers against the growing power of the Dark Lord Sauron, so that the Ring-bearer may complete his quest. Winner of 11 Academy Awards.®* AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY The first in a trilogy of films based on the enduring masterpiece The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome Dragon Smaug. Their journey will take them into the Wild, through treacherous lands inhabited by Goblins, Orcs and deadly Wargs, as well as a mysterious and sinister fi gure known only as the Necromancer. Along the path, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even himself, he also gains possession of a precious ring tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways he cannot begin to imagine DESOLATION OF SMAUG The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, continue their journey to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Along the way, they encounter the skin-changer Beorn; giant Spiders of Mirkwood; Wood-elves led by Legolas, Tauriel and King Thranduil; and a mysterious Man named Bard, who smuggles them into Lake-town. Finally reaching the Lonely Mountain, they face their greatest danger the Dragon Smaug. BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Thorin Oakenshield and the dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed the vast wealth of their homeland, but now face the consequences of having unleashed the terrifying Dragon Smaug upon Lake-town. Meanwhile, Sauron, the Dark Lord, has sent forth legions of Orcs to attack the Lonely Mountain, and Bilbo Baggins finds himself fighting for his life as five great armies go to war. As darkness converges, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide unite or be destroyed.

• You Got Served | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £4.94   |  Saving you £15.05 (304.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spectacular street dancing flick about two crews battling it out for money and respect.

• Oblivion | Blu Ray | (19/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.

• The Hobbit: Motion Picture Trilogy 4K (BOX) | Blu Ray | (03/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brian Pern: The Life of Rock/A Life in Rock/45 Years of Prog and Roll | Blu Ray | (04/04/2016) from £14.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (74.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Wanted | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £7.65   |  Saving you £18.60 (291.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Wanted" tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, the world will be introduced to a hero for a new generation: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy).

• Ghost Stories | Blu Ray | (27/08/2018) from £21.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's original Olivier nominated stage production, the same team have co-written and directed this adaptation for the big screen. Starring Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Andy Nyman, Paul Whitehouse, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman), professor of psychology, arch-skeptic, the one-man ˜belief buster' has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the ˜original' TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must meet. Cameron, it seems, is still very much alive. And he needs Goodman to find a rational explanation for three stories that have shaken Cameron to his core. As Goodman investigates, he meets three haunted people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last.

• The Office - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £12.46 (71.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base that the programme acquired watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional Slough paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television programme. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth, a paradigm of Andy McNab's readership; the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch; and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim, whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Alan Partridge or Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character than either. Partridge and Fawlty are exaggerations of reality, and therefore safely comic figures. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller On the DVD: Series 1 is tastefully packaged as a two-disc set appropriately adorned with John Betjeman's poem "Slough". The special features occupy the second disc and consist of a laid-back 39-minute documentary entitled "How I Made The Office by Ricky Gervais", with cowriter Stephen Merchant and the cast contributing. Here we discover that Gervais spends his time on set "mucking around and annoying people", and that actress Lucy Davis (Dawn) is the daughter of Jasper Carrott; as well as seeing parts of the original short film and the original BBC pilot episode; plus we get to enjoy many examples of the cast corpsing throughout endless retakes. There are also a handful of deleted scenes, none of which were deleted because they weren't funny. Series 2 is a single-disc release, but the extra features are enjoyable nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant feature in a gleefully shambolic video diary--highlights of which include Gervais flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes (mostly of him corpsing throughout dozens of takes) and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. --Mark Walker

• Yesterday's Dreams - The Complete Series | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drama series set against the background of a power struggle in an aero-engine works, about a once-married couple who meet again seven years after their separation and rediscover their past.

• Unforgiven - 10th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £17.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in Wyoming in 1881 during the sunset years of the Wild West, 1992's Unforgiven was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, and is generally considered to be the towering achievement of his twilight years. Eastwood plays William Munny, once a vicious, whisky-swilling bounty hunter, brought to heel by his marriage to a good woman. When she dies, he must raise two children and run a hog farm alone, something which we see him make a comically poor fist of doing. Then, in a twist of fate, a young outlaw called the Schofield Kid trots up to his farm and invites him to collect on a $1,000 reward raised by a group of prostitutes. However, Clint must not only face up to his own somewhat rusty skills as a gunslinger, but also to genial-but-psychopathic lawman Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman in superb form). Unforgiven ultimately conforms to the expectations of the genre, while subverting quite a few of them on the way. There's brooding on the consequences of violence ("It's a hell of a thing to kill a man"), as Munny's ineptitude with a rifle is matched by his feelings of penitence for his younger wrongdoings. Finally, however, Eastwood casts aside age and inhibition in a chillingly ruthless shootout, his powers miraculously (improbably?) restored, in what could also be seen as an assertion on the part of the ageing Eastwood of his own potency as a major player in Hollywood. On the DVD: Unforgiven is presented in this Special Edition release in a 2.35:1 widescreen transfer that gives due emphasis to what critic David Thomson described as the "drained, wintry" feel of the movie. There are numerous bonus features in addition to the original trailer. Eastwood official biographer Richard Schickel offers a particularly copious and detailed audio commentary which touches on all aspects of the film. The 64-minute 1997 documentary Clint on Clint offers a detailed if inevitably worshipful account of Eastwood's career. Finally, there's a 47-minute 1959 episode of Maverick, the old James Garner TV series, guest-starring a 29-year-old Clint, several years away from his big Hollywood break. --David Stubbs

• Fargo - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (22/09/2014) from £19.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (50.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An original adaptation of the Academy Award-winning feature film Fargo features an all-new story and follows a new case and new characters all entrenched in the trademark humour murder and Minnesota nice that made the film an enduring classic. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Lorne Malvo a rootless manipulative man who meets and forever changes the life of small town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard played by Martin Freeman.

• The Devil's Arithmetic | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £9.04   |  Saving you £-4.05 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When Hannah Stern a 13 year-old girl neglectful to her Jewish heritage and ""tired of remembering "" goes to open the door to the prophet Elijha during the Seder she finds herself in 1940s Poland. After being sent to a Nazi concentration camp she must use her knowledge of the future to survive the past and learn something about the importance of remembering.

• Last of the Summer Wine - Series 23 & 24 | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-5.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.54

  Last of the Summer Wine follows the adventures of a trio of pensioners, old men who have known each other all their lives who are reliving their boyhood, in and around their home town in West Yorkshire. The premise of the series has stayed pretty much the same from the start.

• Kiss The Girls/Along Came A Spider/The Sum Of All Fears | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £10.74   |  Saving you £2.25 (20.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set Comprises Kiss the Girls (1997): North Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) tracks an elusive psychopath whose modus operandi is not necessarily killing the young women he abducts but collecting them as trophies. Unfortunately his quarry includes the detective's own law-student niece so his race against time with the help of a no-nonsense medical intern Dr. Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) who escaped the collection is all the more desperate. Based on the series of novels by James Patterson. Along Came a Spider (2001): A congressman's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) drawing him into the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner... The Sum of All Fears: When the president of Russia suddenly dies and is succeeded by a man about whom little is known tension increases as old fears ignite new paranoia. Director of Central Intelligence Bill Cabot (Morgan Freeman) recruits a young analyst from the Russia desk Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) to supply insight and advice. A group of terrorists is trying to provoke a war between the two nations by manufacturing and escalating the conflict. When they successfully detonate a second bomb outside Baltimore during the Super Bowl the world is pushed inexorably towards war... unless Ryan can supply the needed proof to stem the tide of disaster in time.

• SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - The Film Vault Range Steelbook | Blu Ray | (19/08/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Few movies capture the triumph of the human spirit as memorably as this. Red (Morgan Freeman), a lifer who knows how to get things inside the bleak walls of Shawshank State Prison, finds himself drawn to new inmate Andy (Tim Robbins), a quiet banker with an indomitable will. As Andy brings hope and change to the entire prison, he turns out to be full of surprises and the best comes last, leading to one of the most satisfying finales in movie history.

• The Sum Of All Fears | Blu Ray | (23/05/2022) from £21.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ben Affleck takes command in the role of agent Jack Ryan in this thrilling adventure based on the Tom Clancy bestseller. America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. Suspecting Russian scientists to be developing more nuclear weapons, CIA Director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman) calls on Ryan to investigate. The danger-ridden trail leads to a shocking conclusionterrorists plan to provoke a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at a championship football game. Product Features Disc 1: 4K Ultra HD Commentary by Director Phil Alden Robinson and Cinematographer John Lindley Commentary by Director Phil Alden Robinson and Novelist Tom Clancy Disc 2: Blu-Ray Commentary by Director Phil Alden Robinson and Cinematographer John Lindley Commentary by Director Phil Alden Robinson and Novelist Tom Clancy The Making of The Sum of All Fears Creating Reality: The Visual Effects of The Sum of All Fears