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• Erin Brockovich / Stepmom / Steel Magnolias | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2000): Erin Brockovich was never trained or indeed meant to work in a lawyers office. Circumstances take this down-on-her-luck twice-divorced mother of three into a legal practice. Here she discovers some legal files that don't add up... On investigation she discovers an injustice and decides against the odds to take on the bad guys on behalf of a poor and very ill community. Stepmom (Dir. Chris Columbus 1998): Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is a divorced mother of two. Isabel (Julia Roberts) is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie's ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris) forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. It is the universal dilemma of the 'non-traditional family' they all love the children but the complex interplay between parents step-parents step-children ex-spouses and significant others is decidedly tricky. But when Jackie discovers she is ill both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest while they have the chance. Steel Magnolias (Dir. Herbert Ross 1989): A beautiful bittersweet comedy set in deep south Louisiana Steel Magnolias unites talents of America's finest actresses as six very special friends bonded together by mutual triumphs and tragedies. Despite their differences beautiful Shelby (Julia Roberts) her strong-willed mother M'Lynn (Sally Field) beauty parlour owner Truvy (Dolly Parton) elegant wealthy widow Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) sharp tongued Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) and mousey newcomer Anelle (Daryl Hannah) enjoy a friendship that spans the boundaries of age and status. Sharing each other's strength and loyalty they face their greatest fears and highest hopes with dry wit and a self-deprecating style...

• The Beastmaster | DVD | (29/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Beastmaster is an epic scale adventure - an extraordinary tale of a mythical hero in a life and death struggle with the forces of evil that unfolds in the distant mists of time. His amazing powers meant animals succumbed to his every order. From earliest childhood Dar finds the animals do his bidding. Then his idyllic life is shattered when an army of Jun barbarians led by the high priest Maax rides from the outlands on a crusade of destruction. All but Dar are slaughtered and alone he sets out to track the Jun warriors. His falling in love with a beautiful slave girl spells a warning to the evil sorcerer Maax.

• Arrow: Season 1-8 | DVD | (25/05/2020) from £108.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. Reinventing the DC Comics character for a modern-day audience, the Arrow is not a superhero ... but a hero -- every bit as dangerous as the criminals he's hunting. After suffering unimaginable ordeals on the island, the Oliver returns to Starling City a new man -- determined to right the wrongs of his father and sworn to bring justice to those who've corrupted his city. But Oliver finds his crusade complicated by his friends and family. Overjoyed by his miraculous return, the Queen family nevertheless still trades on secrets that conflict with the Arrow's agenda. Oliver's return also affects his best friend, Tommy Merlyn, who will ultimately travel down a dark path; and the love of his life, Laurel Lance, who must somehow forgive Oliver before she can ever love him again. A dark and dangerous crime procedural with edge, intrigue and action, Oliver's story will be told from three perspectives: the Queen family, Oliver's harrowing ordeal on the island and the Arrow's adventures in Starling City. Showing all facets of the mysterious loner, this action drama follows the Oliver that disappeared, the one that returned and the one known as Arrow.

• Best Of The Best: The Complete Collection | Blu Ray | (14/11/2016) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The 4 film true cult classic series released for the first time on Blu-ray. Best of the Best Alex Grady (Eric Roberts), an Oregon welder and widowed father of a five-year-old son is chosen for the US National Karate Team. He finds himself in the company of Travis Brickley (Chris Penn), an urban cowboy with an attitude and a host of other off beat characters and their coach Frank Kouzo (James Earl Jones), a hardened veteran of high-powered Karate competition. It's a team with rough edges and problems that must be resolved if they're to win the international competition and become the Best of the Best Best of the Best 2 A classic sequel to the brilliant original. Alex Grady (Eric Roberts) is a martial arts champion who, along with Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee), is seeking revenge for the death of his friend Travis (Chris Penn). He finds out that Travis has gotten involved in a secret, high-priced, gambling event in which fighters go to the bloody extremes, attempting to become the champ. This is another breath taking action film that is punctuated with the fight scenes. Best of the Best 3 No Turning Back Tommy and another former members of the US National Karate Team join forces to avenge the death of their friend, who was brutally slain in competition at an underground Las Vegas fighting club. An initial confrontation between the revenge-minded pair and the murderer leaves the evildoer with a horrible facial scar, and he vows to bury the two former internationals. After he makes a few attempts to gun the duo down, they finally settle the score in a bloody grudge match at the club. Best of the Best 4 Without Warning Russian mobsters have stolen a computer disk which will allow them to print money, and have hijacked a truck containing blank currency paper. Unfortunately for the mobsters the disk is accidentally slipped into the possession of Tommy Lee. Desperate to get the disk back, the mobsters kidnap Tommy's daughter, and in order to rescue his child Tommy must face deadly temptresses, high- tech gadgets and an array of explosive weaponry.

• K-19: The Widowmaker / Witness / Clear And Present Danger | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  K-19 The Widowmaker (Dir. Kathryn Bigelow 2002): Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star in a thrilling action-drama inspired by the true story of a Soviet submarine crew trying to save its vessel from a nuclear meltdown - and avert global war. Witness (Dir. Peter Weir 1985): When a young Amish woman (McGillis) and her son (Haas) are caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent their unlikely savior proves to be the worldly and cynical Philadelphia detective J

• White Men Can't Jump | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £8.36   |  Saving you £-2.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  White Men Can't Jump, writer-director Ron Shelton's 1992 follow-up to the baseball comedy-drama Bull Durham, involves a different sport: basketball, as played on the neighbourhood hustler circuit. Woody Harrelson is Billy Hoyle, a good shooter using his white complexion to fool black players into thinking he can be stomped in easy bets. Billy's banter-filled matchup against Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) on a public court leads to a partnership in which Sidney becomes Billy's manager, taking the white outsider on a tour of the tougher sections of Los Angeles, where he plays homeboys for a few bucks. Inevitably, the two come apart over their innate competitiveness, a situation that has to be re-evaluated after Billy gets into trouble with some underworld creditors. Meanwhile, Billy's girlfriend (Rosie Perez) sits at home preparing herself for a maybe-someday appearance on Jeopardy. As with all of Shelton's sports-related films (Tin Cup, his script for The Best of Times), White Men Can't Jump is less about the fine points of the game than it is the rules by which players survive it. The script is literate and crackling with wit and satire (a scene in which a politician sponsors a black-white "solidarity" game is hilarious). The actors are entirely in sync, and the scenes under and around the hoops are a thrill to watch. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Playing for Keeps | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £4.74   |  Saving you £13.25 (279.54%)   |  RRP £17.99

  George is trying to put his life back together again after numerous set-backs, as well as falling far from grace with his ex-wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel), and young son Lewis (Noah Lomax).

• Infinite | Blu Ray | (04/04/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is haunted by memories of places he has never been and manifests skills he's never learned. When a secret group that calls themselves Infinites comes to his rescue, they reveal that his memories are real but they are from multiple past lives. Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock the answers in his memories that are the key to stopping a madman from destroying humanity. Product Features They Call Themselves Infinites The Kinetic Action Of Infinite Anatomy of a Scene Police Station & Forest Infinite Time

• Only Fools And Horses - Miami Twice | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £6.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (130.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The 1991 Christmas Special of the best-loved UK sitcom of its time, Only Fools and Horses: Miami Twice is a two-parter which takes Del Boy and Rodney on a transatlantic jaunt that turns out to be more than the jolly boys' excursion they'd bargained for. The action begins in Peckham, with the christening of Del's recently born child Damien. Never without an eye for the main chance, Del takes the vicar aside and outlines a scheme to save "vicar hours" and get a "nicker and a bit ahead" by "pre-blessing" lorry loads of Romanian wine he's arranged to be imported, selling them on to other clergymen. Rodney, meanwhile, has received a pensions fund rebate and Del unscrupulously engineers it so that the pair of them jet off to Miami where he looks forward to showing off his leopardskin trunks. The first part of Miami Twice is classic stuff, featuring the familiar ensemble with some vintage idiocy from Trigger and some hilarious farce involving a baby intercom. The second part, however, set in America, is a let-down, involving as it does a rather lame and far-fetched plot in which Del turns out to be the double of a local Don (an excuse for David Jason to deliver a hackneyed Godfather impersonation). A cameo from Richard Branson feels like product placement and generally the Trotters feel all at sea when off their home turf. A Christmas audience, stuffed with pudding, would have indulged this over-rich fare but there's no reason to come back for seconds. Still, it's worth it for the first 50 minutes. On the DVD: Only Fools and Horses: Miami Twice has no special features on DVD but holds up well visually, albeit unable to rid the original of blights such as a distracting burst of studio light in the first part. --David Stubbs

• Star Trek: Discovery - Season Three | Blu Ray | (15/11/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After following Commander Michael Burnham into a wormhole, the U.S.S. Discovery lands in an unrecognizable world 1,000 years in the future. With Starfleet and the Federation on the brink of collapse due to a catastrophic event known as The Burn, the Discovery crew, with the help of new and mysterious allies Book (David Ajala) and Adira (Blu del Barrio), must uncover what caused The Burn and restore hope to the galaxy. Bonus Features Deleted Scenes Writer's Log: Michelle Paradise Star Trek: Discovery: The Voyage of Season 3 Stunted Being Michael Burnham Kenneth Mitchell: To Boldly Go Bridge Building Gag Reel and more!

• Frenchman's Farm | DVD | (27/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman's car breaks down in the country and when she goes to get help she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car time reverts to normal but unable to convince anyone of her story she investigates the crime herself...

• Victoria Series 1-3 Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £29.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Immerse yourself in three seasons of this global hit drama starring Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria, a nineteenth century heroine for our times, alongside an all-star cast including Tom Hughes, Rufus Sewell and Diana Rigg. This landmark account of the life of one of history's greatest monarchs begins as Victoria takes her first faltering steps from capricious, hormonal teenager to respected monarch, navigating palace intrigue and constitutional crises alongside an epic romance with her cousin Prince Albert (Hughes). As Victoria's reign continues, she must face the very modern challenge of balancing a growing family with her husband and her work as ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. As the lavish saga unfolds over vital moments in history, the Queen and Prince Albert must meet each public challenge whilst confronting profound personal changes. Life as a mother, wife, and Queen has never been more demanding.

• Cold Feet Series 7 | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £8.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (11.62%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Series 6 saw an eagerly awaited return of this much-loved hit drama and now the gang are back! Adam, Pete, Jenny, Karen and David have returned all singing and dancing. Adam has won Tina's heart, the question is, can he keep it? Pete's come a long way since teetering on the edge and his new outlook on life has given Jenny the chance to embrace hers, but at what cost? On the surface Karen appears to have it all and the gang look on in envy as she hosts a lavish party to launch her new publishing house. It's a bittersweet moment for David who's reduced to going door-to-door selling insurance to unsuspecting pensioners. Surely there's a better way to make ends meet? Laced with comedy and tragedy, the big stories and daily minutiae of life are observed and tackled in a way that only Cold Feet can.

• Anthropoid | Blu Ray | (16/01/2017) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  'Anthropoid' is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich.

• Casino 4K | Blu Ray | (09/09/2019) from £21.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas, 1973, is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multimillion-dollar casino operation, where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice. Disc 1 / 4k Ultra HD Movie For The Ultimate Movie Watching Experience, This Disc Features: 4X Sharper Picture Than Hd Hdr (High Dynamic Range) For Brilliant Brights And Deepest Darks Immersive Audio For A Multi-Dimensional Sound Experience Moments With Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi And More! Disc 2 / Blu-Ray Movie™ + Bonus Features Moments With Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi And More! Deleted Scenes Vegas And The Mob History Alive: True Crime Authors: Casino With Nicholas Pileggi

• Archive | Blu Ray | (12/07/2021) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready, an android version of his wife who died in a car crash. Is this romantic or something much more sinister? George is playing God, creating a woman not from a rib but from electrical components, This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs. The plot certainly has elements of Bride of Frankenstein as Theo James's George seeks to bring his wife back from the dead. Transferring her consciousness from an Archive unit to a A.I. humanoid.

• Vera: Series 5 | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vera Series 5 (DVD)

• Victoria Series 3 | DVD | (13/05/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Conan the Barbarian | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.68   |  Saving you £-0.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The film that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger's international career, Conan the Barbarian is still regarded by many as his finest hour. Limited to a mere handful of lines and expertly directed to play up the Nietzschean strength of the character by John Milius, the Austrian Oak has never looked more suited to a role, his muscle flexing and sword twirling apparently effortless. The extraordinarily finely detailed production design ensures that the barren Spanish countryside perfectly suits the Hyborean-era backdrop envisioned by author Robert E Howard. Whether dressed in rags or riches, Schwarzenegger and companions Subotai (Gerry Lopez) and Valeria (Sandahl Bergman) look believably born to their surroundings. Backing their own very fine performances are brilliant supporting roles from James Earl Jones as serpentine baddie Thulsa Doom and Max Von Sydow as doomed King Osric. Plot-wise the film is simply the transformation of a wild barbarian into a worldly-wise king who, via a quest for revenge, finally learns the riddle of steel. The script is highly regarded for its dazzling set-pieces (the opening village raid, the orgy of body parts) and quotable dialogue ("They shall all drown in lakes of blood"), and it comes complete with an anti-peace movement reactionary subtext for anyone who cares to look close enough. One other element deserving mention is the extraordinary score by Basil Poledouris, which inspires the film with a sense of operatic grandeur. On the DVD: Conan the Barbarian appears as a suitably mythic special edition DVD. Sadly the magnificent score can only be heard in a mono mix, but the very fine picture is presented in 2.35:1. The extras package is phenomenal, too. Several deleted scenes have been re-edited into the film, but are available to view independently as well. There's a quick split-screen special effects feature showing how the ghostly spirits were added to Conan's resurrection. "The Conan Archives" is an 11-minute slide show of drawings, costumes and advertising. Best of all is the fantastic 53-minute "Conan Unchained" documentary interviewing every conceivable contributor who all reminisce with great fondness. It's slightly better seeing Schwarzenegger and Milius than hearing them talk in their commentary, which inevitably re-tells many of the same anecdotes in between puffs of Arnie's stogies. --Paul Tonks

• 24 - Season 8 | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Bauer races to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader a terrorist threat against New York City builds to an explosive climax. Relive the electrifying eighth season of TV's most ground-breaking series ever - 24 - including a surprise ending you simply must see.