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• Amityville II - The Possession | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Amityville II: The Possession tells the 'true' story of the Montelli's, a dysfunctional Catholic family who arrive in the Amityville house two years before the Lutz's of the first film. Sonny, the eldest son, is horrifically possessed by a sinister supernatural presence rising up from a secret basement room. Instructed by a voice through his Walkman, Sonny seduces his younger sister before brutally slaughtering his entire family. Local priest, Father Adamski, tries to rescue Sonny's soul and returns to the sinister Amityville house to face the demon...

• Commando: Director's Cut | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Now on Blu-ray™ for the first time ever experience every awesome moment of Commando the way it was intended! In time for the 30th Anniversary this special edition Director’s Cut includes amazing action extensive special features and all the Arnold you could ask for. Retired Delta Force operative Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) lives a secluded life with his daughter (Alyssa Milano). When she is kidnapped by a brutal former team member seeking revenge Matrix must travel to South America and get her back. Somewhere… somehow… someone’s going to pay!

• Underworld: Blood Wars | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the next installment of the blockbuster franchise, UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS follows Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David (Theo James) and his father Thomas (Charles Dance), she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice. Special Features: Evolution of Selene (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Building A Blood War (Exclusive to Blu-ray) Old & New Blood Evil Evolved

• Commando | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £6.86   |  Saving you £0.39 (6.96%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A massively underrated action thriller which kept Schwarzenegger occupied between blockbusters, Commando may be one of the last shoot-out films ever to have real characters in it. Not, of course, that they're anything other than stereotypes, but they're painted with such detailed, positive strokes that it's impossible not to relate to them. Arnie plays a retired military special-ops officer whose daughter (played with an expert balance of cute/feisty by Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by the baddest of bad guys, who'll only hand her back as and when he's assassinated a tiresome banana-republic president on their behalf. Needless to say, Arnie is deeply annoyed by this, rescues the moppet single-handed amid more bullets and explosions than you can shake a stuntman's pay cheque at, and... well, why spoil the fun by revealing any more? Co-star Rae Dawn Chong gets some nice one-liners as the innocent bystander who gets caught up in the mayhem. The DVD comes with no additional features at all, but who needs 'em anyway? --Roger Thomas

• The Andromeda Strain | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Directed with clinical precision by Academy Award winner Robert Wise this compelling account of the Earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most chillingly realistic science fiction thriller ever made. After an errant satellite crashes to earth near a remote New Mexico village the recovery team discovers that almost everyone in the town are victims of a horrible death with the mysterious exception of an infant and an old homeless man. The survivors are brought to a state-of-the-art laboratory descending five stories beneath the ground where the puzzled scientists race against time to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it wreaks worldwide havoc. A trailblazer in the areas of special effects and inventive sets The Andromeda Strain is based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing.

• Ragtime | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A portrait of America in the early part of the twentieth century based on a bestselling novel by E.L. Doctorow and directed by Oscar winning film maker Milos Forman.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Collection - Predator/Commando/Terminator/Conan The Barbarian | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £8.84   |  Saving you £-2.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.24

  Titles Comprise: Predator:In a place without rules - the hunter has become the hunted. Deep inside the jungles of Latin America Schwarzenegger's team of elite commandos are being slaughtered by a mysterious predator. No longer are they hunters - they are the prey... of an alien whose only instinct is to kill. One by one it strikes with inhuman ferocity. Now to survive with the jungle as their only ally they face their greatest challenge: to stay alive. Commando:In this early action classic that features his unique blend of thrills and offbeat humor Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as retired Colonel John Matrix. The ex-head of a special commando strike team he's forced back into action when his daughter (Milano) is kidnapped. With the help of a feisty stewardess (Chong) Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she gets killed... Terminator:In 2029 giant super-computers dominate the planet hell-bent on exterminating the human race! And to destroy man's future by changing the past they send an indestructible cyborg - a Terminator - back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) the woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace to save the life of her unborn child? Or will the human race be extinguished by one mean hunk of mutant metal? Conan The Barbarian:Cimmeran Conan is captured as a child after his parents' savage murder by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom head also of the snake-cult of Set. Fifteen years of agony first chained to the Wheel Of Pain grinding grain and then enslaved as a pit fighter forge a magnificent body and indominitable spirit. Freed miraculously one day by his owner Conan with his companions Subotai the Mongol and Valeria the Queen of Thieves sets forth upon his quest to learn ""the riddle of steel"" which his father has prophesied will confer ultimate power; and to kill the arch-villian Thulsa Doom...

• Rachel, Rachel | Blu Ray | (11/09/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron's life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something-anything-to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents in this powerfully human movie, with Newman making his directorial debut and Woodward giving one of her hallmark screen performances. Both won New York Film Critics and Golden Globe awards for their work, and the film garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The Newmans teamed afterward on other masterful films (The Glass Menagerie, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge and the TV miniseries Empire Falls). But for tenderness, insight and artistry, none surpasses Rachel, Rachel.

• Amityville 2 - The Possession | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £10.24   |  Saving you £-4.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The living nightmare of the Lutz family. They got out alive! but another family wasn't as lucky. They lived at 112 Ocean Avenue Amityville before the luckless Lutz family and what is the real history of this desirable family residence? In a sequel to the original film The Amityville Horror which tells the true story of the Lutz family's chilling supernatural encounter Amityville: The Possession dramatises other terrifying events which took place at the same house. Not for the faint hearted this is a tale of satanic possession that leads to cold blooded murder on a massive scale - you have been warned!

• Commando | Blu Ray | (17/03/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £10.99 (122.25%)   |  RRP £19.98

  In this early action classic that features his unique blend of thrills and offbeat humor Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as retired Colonel John Matrix. The ex-head of a special commando strike team he's forced back into action when his daughter (Milano) is kidnapped. With the help of a feisty stewardess (Chong) Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she gets killed... Please note: some edits regarding violence and profanity have been made to this DVD print by the studio (20th Century Fox) which were not required by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

• The Longest Yard | Blu Ray | (16/05/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Andromeda Strain | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. Many years prior to this incident, a group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill) advocated for the construction of a secure laboratory facility that would serve as a base in the event an alien biological life form was returned to Earth from a space mission. Stone and his team - Drs. Dutton, Leavitt and Hall (David Wayne, Kate Reid, and (James Olson, respectively)- go to the facility, known as Wildfire, and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont (an old wino and a six-month-old baby) survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device should it manage to escape.

• Stanley Kubrick | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This superb nine-disc Stanley Kubrick Box Set contains all the late director's work from 1962's Lolita to Kubrick's final film, the highly controversial Eyes Wide Shut (1999). There's also the excellent and highly informative two-hour documentary: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, narrated (a little drably) by Tom Cruise. It isn't exactly a warts-and-all portrait of Stan the Man, which is not surprising, really, given that it's directed and produced by Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan, and that Kubrick's widow Christine was closely involved in the making of it. But it does give a detailed and revealing portrait of a brilliant, demanding and often infuriating man, airing rare footage that goes right back to his earliest years as a brash youngster in the Bronx, already playing to camera with a frightening degree of self-awareness. Six of the eight movies (all but Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) have been digitally restored and remastered, and almost all (barring Strangelove again and Lolita) now boast Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo sound remixes. For some bizarre reason, Kubrick insisted on mono sound for the 1999 set, which he approved shortly before his death. Visually the improvement over the often grainy, scratchy prints previously on offer--The Shining (1980) was notoriously messy--is immense. All the features are presented in their original ratios, which in the case of Strangelove means the changing ratios in which it was originally shot, and for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the full glorious 2.21:1 expanse of the Cinerama screen.So what don't you get? Essentially, the early Kubrick--the work of the young, hungry director before he moved to England and started to gather all the controlling strings into his own hand: most notably the tough, taut thriller The Killing (1956) and the icily furious war film Paths of Glory (1957). Too bad Warners couldn't have negotiated the rights for those too. But what we have here is the culminating phase of Kubrick's filmmaking career--the final 27 years of one of the great masters of cinema. On the DVDs: Besides the visual and sonic improvements mentioned above, each of the eight features includes the original theatrical trailer and multiple-language subtitles. The DVD of Dr Strangelove also gives us filmographies of the principal players, plus theatrical posters and a photo gallery, while Eyes Wide Shut includes interviews (taped after Kubrick's death) with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, plus a couple of 30-second TV spots. And with The Shining we get a fascinating 34-minute documentary made by Kubrick's then 17-year-old daughter Vivian, plus--just to add a further layer--Vivian's present-day voice-over commentary on her film. --Philip Kemp

• The Mean Machine (aka The Longest Yard) | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £19.19   |  Saving you £3.79 (23.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  First Down...And Ten Years To Go. In this rough-and-tumble yarn actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship. Reynolds plays one time pro quarterback Paul Crewe now behind bars for leading State Police on a wild chase in a ""borrowed"" car. He agrees to organize a prisoners'

• Incident On A Dark Street | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Ally McBeal - Season 5 (M-Lock Packaging) | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £8.18   |  Saving you £11.81 (59.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring all the episodes from the final season of Ally McBeal spread over 6 discs! Episodes comprise: 1. Friends and Lovers 2. Judge Ling 3. Neutral Corners 4. Fear of Flirting 5. I Want Love 6. Lost and Found 7. Playing With Matches 8. Blowin' in the Wind 9. One Hundred Tears 10. A Kick in the Head'. 11. The New Day 12. Woman 13. Home Coming 14. Heart and Soul 15. Love is all Around 16. Tom Dooley 17. Another One Bites the Dust 18. Reality Bites 19. All of Me 20. Bygones

• Ally McBeal - Season 4 (M-Lock Packaging) | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £14.53   |  Saving you £5.46 (37.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ally McBeal is back...and this time she has company in the shape of Robert Downey Jr. ! Heralded as the best season yet Ally McBeal Season 4 is packed with hilarious and touching antics and with the arrival of the gorgeous Larry Paul (Robert Downey Jr.) could Ally have FINALLY found her true love? Episodes Featured: 1. Sex Lies and Second Thoughts 2. Two's a Crowd 3. Girls Night Out 4. Without a Net 5. The Last Virgin 6. 'Tis the Season 7. Love on Holiday 8. The Man with the Bag 9. Reasons to Believe 10. The Ex-Files 11. Mr.Bo 12. Hats Off to Larry 13. Reach Out and Touch 14. Boys Town 15. Falling Up 16. The Getaway 17. The Pursuit Of Unhappiness 18. The Obstacle Course 19. In Search Of Barry White 20. Cloudy Skies 21. Queen Bee 22. Home Again 23. The Wedding 24. Chance Of Parade

• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra -- Metropolitan Opera/Levine | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A performance of the Verdi opera 'Simon Boccanegra'. Conducted by James Levine.

• Replicant | DVD | (07/01/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (66.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Claude Van Damme plays two roles in Replicant, a surprisingly good action thriller that also stars Michael Rooker as Jake Riley, a cop who's been tracking a serial killer called "The Torch" (Van Damme). Frustrated, Riley decides to retire--and the National Security Department makes him an offer: they've cloned "The Torch" as part of a programme to track down terrorists; they'll turn this replicant (Van Damme again, of course) over to Riley as a sort of test run for the programme. The idea is that the replicant will slowly recall the original person's memories and lead the cops to the original. It's ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than the setup for the highly successful Face/Off, and it works just as well as the engine for an effective action flick. What makes Replicant more unusual is that the writers actually put some thought into the relationship between Riley and the replicant, which starts to mirror parent-child relationships in emotionally complex ways. Furthermore, while it's no surprise that Rooker gives a solid performance, it is surprising that Van Damme does just as good a job in both of his roles--he's perfectly creepy as the serial killer and genuinely affecting as the quickly developing replicant, projecting a mixture of innocence and turmoil. Replicant was directed by Hong Kong director Ringo Lam, the man behind Full Contact and City on Fire. He was clearly working on a limited budget, but the movie looks good, moves with lean efficiency, and has some riveting action sequences and good quality effects--the scenes where Van Damme (inevitably!) fights himself are completely convincing. A satisfying movie.--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Commando: Theatrical Cut | DVD | (04/05/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Retired Delta Force operative Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) lives a secluded life with his daughter (Alyssa Milano). When she is kidnapped by a brutal former team member seeking revenge Matrix must travel to South America and get her back.