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• Rumble Fish | Blu Ray | (27/08/2012) from £12.72   |  Saving you £4.03 (36.77%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The second of Francis Ford Coppola's films based on the popular juvenile novels of S.E. Hinton (the first being The Outsiders), Rumble Fish split critics into opposite camps: those who admired the film for its heavily stylised indulgence, and those who hated it for the very same reason. Whatever the response, it's clearly the work of a maverick director who isn't afraid to push the limits of his innovative talent. Filmed almost entirely in black and white with an occasional dash of color for symbolic effect, this tale of alienated youth centers on gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) and his band of punk pals. Rusty's got a girlfriend (Diane Lane), an older brother named Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), and a drunken father (Dennis Hopper) who've all given up trying to straighten him out. He's best at making trouble, and he pursues that skill with an enthusiastic flair that eventually catches up with him. But it's not the whacked-out story here that matters--it's the uninhibited verve of Coppola's visual approach, which includes everything from time-lapse clouds to the kind of smoky streets and alleyways that could only exist in the movies. The supporting cast includes a host of fresh faces who went on to thriving careers, including Nicolas Cage, Christopher Penn, Vincent Spano, Laurence Fishburne, and musician Tom Waits. --Jeff Shannon

• Richard III (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/06/2016) from £14.11   |  Saving you £5.88 (41.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. Richard III is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerising portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. --Tom Keogh

• Neighbours - Best Of Neighbours | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This release features 15 of the most memorable Neighbours episodes including: Scott and Charlene's wedding Brad and Beth's wedding and the tragic demise of Helen Daniels. Witness early screen appearances by such future megastars as Kylie Minogue Jason Donovan Natalie Imbruglia and Craig McLachlan. Shed a tear at the raw emotional power of the song 'Suddenly' by Angry Anderson.

• Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £28.98   |  Saving you £-18.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Though he gets solo above-the-title billing, Will Hay was no more a solo comedian than Groucho Marx--and Oh, Mr Porter!, one of his finest vehicles, finds him congenially teamed with sidekicks Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt in one of the British cinema's greatest comedy gangs. Hay's William Porter, an inept railway worker, is shunted off to the dead-end job of stationmaster in Buggleskelly, Northern Ireland, arriving as the latest in a long line of doomed souls who have left their presentation clocks on the mantelpiece of the dilapidated office. The delight of the film is in the interplay between Hay and Marriott, the single-toothed dotty old-timer, and Moffatt, the chubby smart kid, as they fail the most basic requirements of their jobs but come up trumps when investigating the ghost of One-Eyed Joe and his haunted mill, discovering a branch line being used by cross-border gun-smugglers who are defeated in a spirited final chase. There's some slapstick with an escape from the mill in a high wind and the last ride of the venerable locomotive Gladstone, but Hay works best with character comedy, pompously reprimanding his subordinates for dodges he proceeds to pull himself, reacting to every ominous line with a perfect double-take and blithely surviving the chaos his character causes wherever he goes. --Kim Newman

• House Of Wax | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £8.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (112.18%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Car troubles and a spooky waxworks museum spell trouble for a gang of US teens in this horror re-make.

• The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury) | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's film of The Canterbury Tales was one of a trilogy from the early 1970s that, like its companions The Decameron and the Arabian Nights, was an international box-office hit playing for long runs in mainstream cinemas. All of them adapt a masterpiece of literature where man becomes the moral catalyst for his own destiny. Chaucer's ribald sense of humour was a natural outlet for Pasolini's own desire to throw caution to the wind on screen, causing controversy at the time by displaying all facets of the male and female body unadorned. (Although it all looks pretty tame now, the Italian authorities were a threatening presence to Pasolini at the time.) Produced by Alberto Grimaldi with a large budget, the location scenes were filmed in many historic sites in England, notably Wells Cathedral, its crypt, and the surrounding flatlands leading toward Glastonbury, captured in early spring by Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography. The cast with Italian and English actors dubbed into Italian with English subtitles is a mixed blessing. Hugh Griffith as Sir January is one Anglo-Saxon recognisable from his role as the lecherous squire in Tom Jones, and overacts like the rest of the cast. Pasolini himself appears briefly as Chaucer in a non-speaking role that one regrets he didn't enlarge for himself in this sprawling tableaux of pilgrim's tales (Ken Russell's excesses from the same period come to mind). The musical score, an adaptation by Ennio Morricone of some traditional indigenous melodies, prefigures the early music revival by a few years and provides a stimulating soundtrack. --Adrian Edwards

• The Cave | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bloodthirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

• John Hughes Collection | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring 3 of the best movies from the master of the 80s teen movie John Hughes. Fans of the 'Brat Pack' need look no further! The Breakfast Club (1985): They only met once but it changed their lives forever. Without doubt John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest teen movies of all-time if not the best. They were five teenage students with nothing in common faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their High School librar

• Widow's Peak | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £7.32   |  Saving you £2.67 (36.48%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Edwina has moved into the neighbourhood known as 'Widows' Peak' so called due to the prevalent maritial status of the residents. The residents are all curious about their new neighbour Edwina including Mrs Counihan the residents leader whose son is busy wooing Edwina. Miss O'Hare and Edwina have an immediate dislike for each other and some accidential encounters look like Edwina is trying to ruin her new rival.

• Anne Of Green Gables | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This gorgeous adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's story is well worth watching with the whole family. Produced for Canadian television, it's one of those rare productions that actually sticks to the book and even enhances it through first-rate performances and an excellent script. Set on bucolic Prince Edward Island in the late 19th century, Anne of Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and headstrong orphan. When brother and sister Marilla and Mathew Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew work the farm, they are astonished when Anne arrives at the train station by mistake. "What use is she to us?" grumbles the gruff Marilla. "We might be of some use to her", answers Matthew, who has taken an instant liking to the talkative Anne. As Anne grows up, her adventures are both hilarious and moving. It's a delight to watch as she forms a friendship with the beautiful Diana and her admirer--the dashing Gilbert Blythe--then dyes her hair green, cracks a slate over Gilbert's head when he calls her "Carrots", and finds a sympathetic teacher who encourages her to attend college. Richard Farnsworth is perfect as the shy and gentle bachelor Matthew, who confides to Anne that he never went courting because "I would have had to say something". Colleen Dewhurst delivers a nuanced and powerful performance as Marilla, a seemingly cold-hearted spinster whose no-nonsense exterior conceals a warm heart. And as Anne, Megan Follows strikes the perfect note, maturing from freckle-faced orphan to elegant and poised young woman. --Elisabeth Keating

• The Princess Bride | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £14.66   |  Saving you £1.33 (9.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young boy confined to bed with the flu is less than thrilled when his grandfather (Peter Falk) arrives to read him the story of The Princess Bride. It tells the adventures of Buttercup the most beautiful woman in the world and Westley the man she loves in the fairy-tale kingdom of Florin. When Buttercup is kidnapped Westley has to overcome some pretty tough obstacles if he is to rescue her from the clutches of three kidnappers - scaling the cliffs of insanity battling rodents of unusual size facing tortue in the Pit of Despair... True love has never been a snap.

• Succession: Seasons 1-3 | DVD | (16/05/2022) from £34.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Power, politics, money...it's all in the family in this provocative, bitingly funny drama series about a highly dysfunctional dynasty. With aging, uber-wealthy patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox), CEO of one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates, considering retirement as he deals with health concerns, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda that doesn't always sync with those of their siblings--or of their father. Over the course of three seasons, Logan changes his mind about stepping down, resulting in the bickering of his heirs. Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season 2, Logan begins Season 3 in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances, as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Alan Ruck costar.

• Judas and the Black Messiah | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FBI informant William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton. A career thief, O'Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell. Hampton's political prowess grows just as he's falling in love with fellow revolutionary Deborah Johnson. Meanwhile, a battle wages for O'Neal's soul. Will he align with the forces of good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover commands? Special Features Fred Hampton for the People-Chairman Fred Hampton (Black Panther Party) was a seminal figure in the civil rights movement of the '60s who was struck down just as he was getting started. In this intimate character piece, we talk to the filmmakers and cast about why telling Hampton's story is more important than ever. Unexpected Betrayal-Arrested for impersonating an FBI agent, William O'Neal, (LaKeith Stanfield) is given an ultimatum: face jail or betray his community's trust by infiltrating the Illinois Black Panther Party. We talk to the cast and filmmakers about O'Neal's complexities and his eventual betrayal of Hampton.

• Sky West And Crooked | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by John Mills and starring his daughter Hayley Sky West and Crooked tells the story of an isolated traumatised yet free-spirited young girl who fi nds solace in a rather unusual pastime. Tension mounts in the West Country village in which Brydie White (Hayley Mills) has lived all her life. As a child she witnessed the death of her friend Julian who was accidentally killed whilst playing with his father's shotgun. Brydie wounded and left mentally damaged by the accident has no memory of the event. But while the villagers have suspicions Julian's father Edwin (Laurence Naismith) holds her squarely responsible for the death. Ostracised and misunderstood Brydie retreats from the adult world and finds companionship among a group of younger children with whom she pursues a new pastime - solemnly burying deceased animals in a sequestered corner of the churchyard. As the children's activities cause consternation in the village Edwin Dacres' anger reaches boiling point. But there is yet more for the innocent Brydie to contend with: Roibin (Ian McShane) a handsome young gypsy has fallen in love with her... Hayley Mills' emotionally compelling performance is at the heart of this touching poignant and often humorous film. Sky West and Crooked was both written and adapted by Hayley Mills' mother Mary Hayley Bell and stars Annette Crosbie as Brydie's alcoholic mother and Geoffrey Bayldon as the beleaguered but sympathetic Reverend Moss; the film also boasts beautiful cinematography by Arthur Ibbetson and a haunting score by Oscar-winning composer Malcolm Arnold.

• The Mean Season | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Small time Miami reporter Malcolm Anderson (Kurt Russell) gets the break he is looking for when he starts getting calls from a notorious murderer in The Mean Season. He and his school teacher girlfriend Christine (Mariel Hemingway) had been planning to move away from the area to start up a new life. However his growing relationship with the killer and subsequent reporting of his crimes means that his career is on the up. But at what price? Soon Malcom realises that instead of just wri

• Weird Science | DVD | (01/04/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (103.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's all in the name of science. Weird Science. The Frankenstein legend takes an uproarious twist in this outrageous special effects - laden comedy from the writer/director of Sixteen Candles and the Breakfast Club. Critically acclaimed filmmaker John Hughes is at it again giving nerdy computer whiz Ilan Mitchell - Smith and best friend Anthony Michael Hall power to create the ""perfect woman"" (the tantalizing Kelly Le Brock). Like a computer gene

• 6 Degrees Of Separation | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £4.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (171.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Paul a streetwise young black man talks his way into the home of Ouisa and Flan Kettredge claiming to be a friend of their children and the illegitimate son of Sidney Poitier. They soon learn that this is not the case but find getting rid of him a little difficult...

• Bring It On: Fight To The Finish | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £6.13   |  Saving you £9.86 (160.85%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Get ready for the biggest dance battle of the year when the new chapter of mega-hit franchise "Bring it On" comes to Blu-ray and DVD on September 21. Starring Christina Milian and Cody Longo.

• Eroica | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £28.12   |  Saving you £-3.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  By the time the first public performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) took place in Vienna in 1805 a privileged few had already heard the work at a private play-through at the Lobkowitz Palace. Nick Dear's award-winning period drama starring Ian Hart as Beethoven brings to life the momentous day that prompted Haydn to remark 'everything is different from today'.

• Doctor Who - The Complete Series 7 Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/12/2020) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Matt Smith returns for his third series as the Eleventh Doctor. Fourteen big, blockbuster-movie episodes - each a brand new epic adventure featuring new monsters and some familiar foes as you've never seen them before. The first part of this series sees the Ponds (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill) return for their final voyage with The Doctor. They save a spaceship full of dinosaurs, don Stetsons in the Wild Wild West and are even kidnapped by the Doctor's oldest foe. But when they arrive in Manhattan the Weeping Angels are waiting for them - will The Doctor really lose Amy and Rory forever? Christmas brings The Doctor a new friend but how, where and when will he meet her? LIMITED EDITION STEELBOOK WITH BESPOKE ILLUSTRATED ARTWORK. INCLUDES: 6 X PREQUELS 15 X BEHIND THE SCENES 4 X COMMENTARIES 3 X ADDITIONAL SCENES 3 X DOCUMENTARIES 3 X EXCLUSIVE CONTENT SCRIPT TO SCREEN: GOOD AS GOLD THE MAKING OF THE GUNSLINGER POND LIFE COMIC CON