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• Barabbas | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £6.03   |  Saving you £13.96 (231.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Anthony Quinn in the title role Barabbas was released in 1961 in the midst of a wave of widescreen epics based on Biblical characters. "It begins where the other big ones leave off", declaims the trailer. The screenplay, by playwright Christopher Fry (who also contributed to Ben-Hur), is an unusually intelligent one: listen out for Barabbas' final encounter with the Apostle Thomas, for example. Further assets are the imaginative, sparingly orchestrated score by Mario Nascimbene and a handsome production design by art director Mario Chiari that is so rewarding to the eye in Aldo Tonti's often dazzling cinematography. Like the other Biblical epics of the day, in its original theatrical incarnation Barabbas had an intermission and orchestral intermezzo which is sadly missing from this version. (It occurred at the point where Barabbas emerges from a 20 years exile in the sulphur mines in Sicily, allowing the audience to dwell on his recuperation before we next encounter him. He now appears muscled and bronzed ploughing the verdant fields outside Rome in all too quick a fashion!). Many scenes, such as Christ's crucifixion, are shot and staged like tableaux in a style reminiscent of the great masters of art. And in Fleischer's hands this film surpasses anything Ridley Scott achieved years later in Gladiator: he fills the huge arena--a vast Roman amphitheatre--with a gladiatorial school of hand-to-hand combat, a parade of elephants and a den of lions, and then caps his production with a riveting and thrillingly mounted duel between Jack Palance, careering round the circumference of the arena in his chariot, and Barabbas dodging him on foot. The supporting cast, who sport a variety of accents call for some tolerance, however. On the DVD: Barabbas on disc comes devoid of any extra features other than trailers for it and another contemporaneous blockbuster, The Guns of Navarone. --Adrian Edwards

• Shazam! | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's (Angel) case, by shouting out one wordSHAZAM!this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heartinside a ripped, godlike bodyShazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he'll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana.

• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1942: British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives at a Japanese POW camp run by the disciplinarian Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto) who believes the prisoners are cowards because they have chosen to surrender instead of honourably committing seppuku (ritual suicide). When Yonoi meets Celliers he believes he is an evil spirit and a battle of wills begins between the two men.... This is not your average war movie and the performances by Bowie Sakamoto Tom Conti (who plays Mr Lawr

• The Green Green Grass - Series 3 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (102.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. But Is It Art? 2. The Lonely Herdsman 3. If You Go Down to the Woods 4. Sweet Sorrow 5. Fifteen Minutes 6. The Final Curtain 7. Lust in Translation 8. The Special Relationship

• Vampire Hunter D | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The long-awaited re-release of the original animated horror classic is finally here on DVD! In the year 12 090 A.D. the Earth has fallen into the clutches of ruthless Vampires. Humans are enslaved by a corrupted feudal system prey to the whims of Vampiric aristocrats. Only one being has dared to challenge the cruel authority of these arrogant immortals -- the mysterious Vampire Hunter called ""D"". Cult classic by any standard the sophisticated blend of horror and futuristic science fiction distinguishes Vampire Hunter D as a strikingly original gothic thriller. The darkly fantastic imagery and exotic characters help to fully realize the potency of the film confirming its status as an exceptional accomplishment in animation. Warning: Contains Extreme Violence And Nudity.

• Deadly Heroes | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A group of terrorists take control of a commercial airline demanding the safe release of their leader Carlos. The President meanwhile despatches a former Navy SEAL to transport Carlos to his 'final' destination...

• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2-Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's a grand tour of the Nightmare legacy and the people who helped to make it real Wes Craven.Murderer. Dream Demon. The bastard son of a hundred maniacs. Any way you slice it, there can be only one man-one monster-who epitomises those words; Freddy Kruger.For Decades, he has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters and shows no signs of ever resting in peace. A Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp is your dream guide in this thrilling shockumentary that takes you deeper into Freddy Kruger's realm than ever before, featuring exciting clips, never-before-seen photos, behind-the-scenes footage, conceptual art, publicity materials and exclusive new interviews with over 100 key cast and crew from every Nightmare, including Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Jack Sholder, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Chuck Russell, Jennifer Rubin, Renny Harlin, Lisa Wilcox, Tuesday Knight, Stephen Hopkins, Kelly Jo Minter, Rachel Talalay, Lisa Zane, Alice Cooper, Patrick Lussier, Miko Hughes, Monica Keena, Brendan Fletcher, Ronny Yu and many more.So get ready for Freddy, in the definitive account of modern cinema's eternal bogeyman and what has been called the most frightening and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history.

• The Bad Education Movie | Blu Ray | (14/12/2015) from £4.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alfie Wickers is probably the worst teacher to (dis)grace the English education system, but no one cares about their pupils quite as much as Alfie does. Having completed their GCSEs, Alfie is keen for his class to join him on one last hurrah.

• The Tim Burton Collection | Blu Ray | (30/04/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Contains: Sweeney Todd (2007) Corpse Bride (2005) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Mars Attacks! (1996) Batman Returns (1992) Batman (1989) Beetlejuice (1988) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Bonus Disc

• To Be Or Not To Be | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An elegant comedic story of a Polish acting troupe who help in their small way to resist the Nazi occupation. When it is discovered that a Polish hero residing in Britain is actually a German agent a Polish RAF officer is deployed to stop him. Upon arriving in Poland the RAF officer together with the already forewarned actors concoct a convoluted charade designed to collect the information from the spy kill him and pass on the false information to the Gestapo.

• Dead And Buried | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed then brutally murdered! Even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal friendly citizens around town... Now the local sheriff and an eccentric mortician must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well: no one is ever truly dead and buried!

• The Fortune (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/04/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This high-concept, big-budget screwball comedy directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Wolf) stars Warren Beatty (Mickey One, Bonnie and Clyde) as a slick con man and Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Border) as his dim-witted sidekick trying to get their hands on the fortune of a hapless young heiress played by Stockard Channing (Grease, The West Wing). A commercial failure on its initial release, this buoyant and beautifully staged madcap comedy is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with critic and film historian Nick Pinkerton (2017) Mike Nichols and Elaine May in Conversation (2006, 69 mins): the two friends and collaborators discuss many aspects of filmmaking after a screening of May's Ishtar at New York's Walter Reade Theater Professor Kyle Stevens on 'The Fortune' (2017, 6 mins): appreciation by the author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism Isolated music and effects track Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution - 12 To 14 | DVD | (27/12/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (23.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From BAFTA-winning writer Lynda La Plante comes one of the most innovative and long-running crime series on television. Chief Superintendent Mike Walker (David Hayman) is an old-school detective with a dubious past working with the career-driven DCI Roisin Connor (Victoria Smurfit). Packed with gripping plots and riveting characters Trial & Retribution takes you on the incredible often shocking journey from crime scene to courtroom and beyond. Paradise Lost The rape and murder of a young white schoolteacher leads to the arrest of her black boyfriend Milton Jones. But as accusations of racism begin to fly new evidence establishes Milton''s innocence turning him from suspect to witness. Now the team must infiltrate a hostile and suspicious community to catch the real killer. Curriculum Vitae A working mother arrives home to find her baby girl dead and her nanny missing. The nanny is on the run so it seems cut and dried. But the deeper they look the more complex it becomes. With the discovery of identity theft babies sedated with cannabis and skeletons in family closets it becomes hard to separate the innocent from the guilty. Mirror Image The high profile murder of a Metropolitan Police Commander and his wealthy wife puts Walker Connor and the team under pressure to get a fast result. Missing jewellery indicates a burglary gone wrong but with relatives set to profit from their deaths the police focus is on the family; in particular identical twin sons Michael and Rory.

• Shameless - Series 1-5 - Complete | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £15.08   |  Saving you £54.91 (364.12%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Blisteringly funny offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids... The real head of the family is big sister Fiona (20) who looks after Carl (11) Debbie (9) and baby Liam (3). She is occasionally helped more often hindered by reluctant virgin 'Lip' (16) and the actively gay but very private Ian (15). Welcome to a hectic world of sexual adventures triumphs love scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen.

• Talk of a Million | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception from director John Paddy Carstairs! Featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, this highly engaging comedy stars Dixon of Dock Green star Jack Warner as Bartley Murnahan, a likeable loafer who manages to give the impression that a large inheritance is due to his family. Bartley uses his wiliness to settle some scores and secure a future for his children, but this new-found prosperity comes at a price he may not be willing to pay!

• Johnny You're Wanted | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A gripping crime drama with a healthy dose of humour Johnny You're Wanted features Cockney character star John Slater as a luckless long-distance lorry driver who finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation. Co-starring Alfred Marks this marvellously entertaining feature directed by British B-movie stalwart Vernon Sewell is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Returning late to London Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny's hitchhiker and she's dead... SPECIAL FEATURE [] Promotional Material PDF

• Gulliver's Travels | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gulliver's Travels is about as marginal as the trailers suggest; it's a tepidly entertaining, irreverent, and sometimes crass comedy starring Jack Black that takes some gigantic liberties with Jonathan Swift's classic story about the land of Lilliput and its tiny inhabitants. Mailroom loser Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) is stuck in a dead-end job and living a dead-end life until the promotion of a fellow employee spurs him to speak up and take action. While a trip to the Bermuda Triangle may not be the date with crush Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) that Gulliver had envisioned, the voyage promises to take his career in a new direction, and it eventually delivers him to a kingdom known as Lilliput, which is populated by miniature people. After initially being captured and locked away in a dungeon, Gulliver wins the hearts of the Lilliputian people by saving their princess (Emily Blunt) from being kidnapped and rescuing their king (Billy Connolly) from a fire in a most unorthodox and unsavoury way, and he quickly finds himself in a position of gigantic influence. Problem is, Gulliver is completely unprepared and unqualified for his new leadership roles, both on the personal and professional levels, and his ineptitude puts himself and all of Lilliput in extreme danger. Grade-school humour abounds in this fairly mindless film, something Jack Black always excels at, but viewers will find that the chuckles and the message about the power of believing in oneself fade equally as fast as the credits roll. (Ages 9 and older) --Tami Horiuchi

• The Getaway | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  It's better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As always, Peckinpah rises to the occasion with some audacious scenes of action and suspense, including a memorable chase on a train that still grabs the viewer's attention. Getaway is not a great film, but a must for McQueen and Peckinpah fans. --Jeff Shannon

• The Wizard Of Oz | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £8.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (11.62%)   |  RRP £9.99

  "The Wizard of Oz" has charmed and thrilled audiences for seven decades with its timeless music and truly heart-warming story. The unforgettable songs and characters come to life in a sing-along extravaganza that all the family can enjoy time and again.

• The Passenger - Limited Edition Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (19/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In one of the most acclaimed films of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-up, Zabriskie Point) directed international star Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, The Border, Wolf) and Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) in an elliptical and fascinating thriller about alienation and lost identities. Now finally making its Blu-ray debut in the UK, this essential work from one of cinema's most renowned and celebrated film artists is accompanied by an array of fascinating and insightful extra features. Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor Jack Nicholson Audio commentary with screenwriter Mark Peploe and journalist Aurora Irvine New interview with actor Steven Berkoff (2018) New interview with actor Jenny Runacre (2018) Antonioni: 'Profession Reporter' (1975, 4 mins): the director interviewed about the film at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Michelangelo Antonioni à propos du cinéma (1975, 5 mins): Antonioni discusses his philosophy of cinema Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Amy Simmons, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and historic articles on the film UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change