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• The Fifth Element / The Abyss / Aliens | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £21.59   |  Saving you £-1.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Fifth Element In the year 2257 a planet-sized sphere of supreme evil is approaching the earth at relentless speed threatening to exterminate every living organism unless four ancient stones representing the elements of earth wind fire and water are united with the mysterious 'Fifth Element'... The Abyss: In this thrilling underwater action-adventure from writer-director James Cameron a civilian oil-rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25 000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. Aliens: Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 lead her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate...

• Brazil | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £9.40   |  Saving you £6.59 (70.11%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--Brazil is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. In fact it was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek government clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. It's not a software bug but a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka's famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets squashed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unravelling this bureaucratic tangle, he himself winds up labelled as a miscreant. The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. --Jim Emerson On the DVD: Brazil comes to DVD in a welcome anamorphic print of the full director's cut--here running some 136 minutes. Disappointingly the only extra feature is the 30-minute making-of documentary "What Is Brazil?", which consists of on-set and behind-the-scenes interviews. There's nothing about the film's controversial release history (covered so comprehensively on the North American Criterion Collection release), nor is Gilliam's illuminating, irreverent directorial commentary anywhere to be found. The only other extra here is the ubiquitous theatrical trailer. A welcome release of a real classic, then, but something of a missed opportunity. --Mark Walker

• American Gods Season 1-3 | DVD | (04/10/2021) from £29.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  American Gods is the epic story of an inevitable war building between the Old Gods of mythology and our New Gods of technology, based on the bestselling novel by Neil Gaiman.

• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy One Ring Giftbox Special Edition | Blu Ray | (05/05/2025) from £134.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: With the help of a courageous Fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring.THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS: In the middle chapter of this historic movie trilogy, the Fellowship is broken, but its quest to destroy the One Ring continues.THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE 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.Featured In-PackTheatrical and Extended Editions in 4K Ultra HDLimited New Book Packaging with faux-leather finish, gold foil, and embossingNoble Collection One Ring Replica AUDIO LAUNGUAGES - THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: Extended Version: Dolby Atmos-TrueHD: English, DTS-HD Master Audio: Castilian Spanish 6.1, French 5.1, German 6.1, Italian 6.1 Theatrical Version:Dolby Atmos-TrueHD: English, DTS-HD Master Audio: French 5.1, Italian 5.1 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS: Extended Version: Dolby Atmos-TrueHD: English, DTS-HD Master Audio: Castilian Spanish 6.1, French 5.1, German 6.1, Italian 6.1 Theatrical Version: Dolby Atmos-TrueHD: English, DTS-HD Master Audio: Castilian Spanish 5.1, Dolby Digital: Czech 6.1, German 6.1 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING: Extended Version: Dolby Atmos-TrueHD: English, DTS-HD Master Audio: Castilian Spanish 6.1, French 5.1, German 6.1, Italian 6.1 Theatrical Version: Dolby Atmos-TrueHD: English, DTS-HD Master Audio: Castilian Spanish 5.1

• Life As A House | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £13.85   |  Saving you £9.13 (84.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Confronted with life-changing news a middle-aged architect seizes the opportunity to begin living life on his own terms as he builds the house of his dreams and winds up rebuilding the world around him in the process...

• Disraeli - Complete | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ian McShane plays the English statesman and Victorian Prime Minister in this exceptional BBC mini-series centred around his life.

• X-Men | Blu Ray | (20/04/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marvel Comics' team of mutant superheroes The X-Men return in a sequel to the blockbuster hit of 2001.

• Doc Martin - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £9.07   |  Saving you £10.92 (120.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Martin Clunes returns to play the curmudgeonly Dr. Martin Ellingham whose truculent and tactless manner upsets the convivial community of the picture postcard village of Portwenn Cornwall.

• Get Carter | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Released in 1971 (the same year Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange hit the screens, which must make 71 the annus mirabilis for violent films set in Britain), Get Carter opens with gangsters leering over pornographic slides and ends on a filthy, slag-stained beach in Newcastle. It's a low-down and dirty movie from beginning to end, and possibly the grittiest and best film of its kind to come out of Britain. The granddaddy of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and all its ilk, director Mike Hodges' Get Carter offers revenge tragedy swinging-60s style, all nicotine-stained cinematography, shabby locations and the kind of killer catchphrases Vinnie Jones would die for ("You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself", says Michael Caine's deadpan anti-hero Carter before inflicting a few choice punches on Brian Mosley, aka Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, to name but one example from Hodges and Ted Lewis' exquisitely laconic script). Presenting the dark horse in his family of loveable Cockney geezer roles (Alfie, The Italian Job), Michael Caine plays the title role of Jack Carter, a man so hard he barely registers a flicker of regret watching a woman he's just had sex with plunge to her death. After taking the train up to Newcastle as the credits roll and Roy Budd's chunky bass-heavy theme tune plays, Carter returns to his hometown to attend his brother's funeral and investigate the circumstances of his death. Not that he's all that sentimental about family: he shaves nonchalantly over the open coffin, and shows affection to his niece Doreen (Petra Markham) by cramming a few notes in her hand and telling her to "be good and don't trust boys". Gradually, Carter unravels the skein of drugs, pornography and corruption tangled around his brother's death, which brings him up against supremely oleaginous kingpin Kinnear (played by the author of Look Back in Anger John Osborne) among others. A remake starring Sylvester Stallone is in the offing, but quite frankly it will be a 30-degree (Celsius) Christmas night in Newcastle before Hollywood could ever make something as assured, raw and immortal as this. --Leslie Felperin

• Loch Ness | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Doctor Jonathan Dempsey is sent to Scotland to destroy the myth surrounding the Loch Ness monster. The daughter of his new girlfriend said to possess special mystic powers changes his life forever....

• Have I Got News For You - Best Of The Guests - Vol. 2 | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Over 2 and a half hours of the award-winning topical news quiz featuring previously unseen footage! Team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are joined by a different guest presenter each week including Alexander Armstrong Gyles Brandreth Marcus Brigstocke Jimmy Carr former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook Ronnie Corbett Jeremy Clarkson Martin Clunes Jack Dee former Director-General of the BBC Greg Dyke former Conservative leader William Hague John Humphreys befuddled Conserv

• Beverly Hills 90210 - Series 4 | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Join the party in Beverly Hills 90210! Watch as the down-to-earth Walsh twins Brandon and Brenda (Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty) navigate the treacherous halls of West Beverly High.

• The Flight Of The Phoenix | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a gripping tale of courage resourcefulness and determination the consequences of a plane crash strip bare the morals of the survivors. The pilot of the doomed aircraft Frank Towns (James Stewart) is an aviator of the old school used to seat-of-the-pants flying distrustful of new technology. With his navigator Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough) he is piloting a cargo-cum-passenger plane high above the Arabian desert when a powerful sandstorm rises from below. Trusting his instincts Frank decides to fly through and above the storm; a risky move which leads to the starboard engine overheating and catching fire shortly followed by the demise of the port engine. Without power the plane begins a long dive towards the ground a sequence memorably intercut with the opening credits before impacting messily. Staggering from the wreckage the living find themselves deep within the Arabian desert far off their original flight plan and with little hope of rescue. Two of their number were killed instantly while a third (a young oil-worker) has been gravely wounded - right from this beginning the crosses of the dead loom over those left alive. Frank blames himself bitterly for this tragedy (correctly so from an objective perspective) but still tries to exert some authority over the rabble and provide reassurance. Since they have enough water for about ten days according to Dr.Renaud (Christian Marquand) and plenty of dates as food Frank and Lew spin the yarn that they will surely be found by search aircraft. Meanwhile a pecking order emerges among the men (a mix of oil-workers soldiers technical personnel and the aircrew) with the more learned/respected exerting control over the manual workers. As time passes the situation becomes increasingly bleak and Captain Harris (Peter Finch) decides to march to the nearest oasis with Sgt.Watson (Ronald Fraser) who is less than keen on the idea. In fact Sgt.Watson manages to fake a sprained ankle just to get out of the desert trip (a move symptomatic of his hatred of the military) and his superior leaves with another passenger. Unfortunately another survivor Trucker Cobb (Ernest Borgnine) is so deranged that he staggers after the departed pair. Frank is still so wracked with guilt that he goes after Cobb risking his own life in the brutal midday heat and fails once again in his task. Just when the situation looks irretrievably lost Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Kruger) comes up with an audacious idea - why not build a smaller plane from the debris of the first? Initially he is ridiculed both for being German and for having such a crackpot scheme but attitudes change slightly when he reveals that he is actually an aircraft designer. Once again there is hope no matter how slim that they won't become vulture food - just as long as the struggle for control between Frank and Heinrich doesn't destroy the entire enterprise...

• Phantom of the Open | DVD | (25/07/2022) from £17.98   |  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.

• Murder Rooms - The Dark Beginnings Of Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  So you're interested in the beginnings of Sherlock Holmes? Well then its elementary my dear Watson that you start here with 'The Dark Beginnings'... This BBC drama provides a fascinating insight into the fictional beginnings of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson the tale based on the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Doctor Joseph Bell his tutor at Edinburgh University.

• Ransom | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £5.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (67.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sean Connery gives another powerful and charismatic performance as a Scandinavian security chief battling to thwart the deadly plans of a terrorist leader played by Ian McShane. Beautifully photographed by double Oscar-winning Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist and complemented by Jerry Goldsmith's memorably haunting score Ransom takes us through a tightly plotted relentless race against time. Presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements this intelligent atmospheric thriller has never looked better. Following a series of bomb attacks in London a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to the ficititious state of 'Scandinavia'. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists – yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn... Special Features: Original theatrical teaser and trailer Image Gallery Promotional material PDF

• Sweeney! | DVD | (04/02/2019) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rough, tough and politically incorrect, The Sweeney was one of the major television successes of the last fifty years and this first feature film spin-off is just as hard-hitting! Featuring memorable performances from John Thaw and Dennis Waterman - and made by the same team who worked on the hit television series - Sweeney! has been newly transferred from original film elements. Hard-bitten, womanising Flying Squad officer Jack Regan becomes embroiled in a political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate a seemingly suspicious death. Framed on a drink-driving charge and suspended from the force, Regan is embroiled in a deadly conspiracy and must think fast and rely on his wits if he's to survive! SPECIAL FEATURES: Theatrical Trailer Image gallery PDF material

• The Watcher In The Woods | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An American family moves into a spooky manor house located within a wooded area in the English countryside. Before long they start to see some odd things like mirrors that don't reflect and the ghost of a blindfolded girl. The new tenants learn that 30 years ago a teenage girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to their daughter Jan disappeared nearby. Soon the supernatural presence starts contacting both sisters.

• I, Claudius --Five Disc Set | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £41.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (7.17%)   |  RRP £44.99

  A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, the series dramatises the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert Graves in his two enormously complex novels, I, Claudius and Claudius The God. Derek Jacobi gives one of the greatest television performances ever as Claudius, the appalled chronicler of the decadence, corruption, intrigue and carnage which comes with the absolute power of his ruling family. Augustus (Brian Blessed) is Emperor and Livia (Sian Phillips) his scheming, ambitious wife, Claudius's aunt. By virtue of his stammer and uncontrollable twitches, Claudius passes for a fool, thus escaping the poisonous machinations of Livia, all the while recording the comings and goings of the Imperial household. Events become increasingly frenzied as Caligula (John Hurt playing the tyrant with psychotic fury) bloodily slaughters his way to power, making a senator of his favourite horse along the way. Claudius eventually becomes Emperor himself, and Jacobi is simply magnificent in the intensely moving finale, which is not to overlook the rest of a fine cast, including: George Baker; Ian Ogilvy; Christopher Guard; Stratford Johns; John Rhys-Davies; Bernard Hepton and Patrick Stewart as the murderous Praetorian Guard Captain Sejanus. Inevitably lacking the visual scale of cinematic features such as Ben-Hur, and today looking more studio-bound than ever, I, Claudius remains a television masterpiece of intelligently written and rivetingly intense character drama. --Gary S Dalkin

• Beverly Hills 90210 - Series 7 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Join the party in Beverly Hills 90210! Watch as the down-to-earth Walsh twins Brandon and Brenda (Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty) navigate the treacherous halls of West Beverly High.