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• Things Change (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/03/2021) from £15.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written and directed by David Mamet (Oleanna), the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright known for his intense dramas, Things Change is a charming, expertly crafted 'mistaken identity' comedy. The Mob force unassuming shoe-shine man Gino (Don Ameche, Trading Places) into taking the hit for a murder he didn't commit. The pay-off? A fishing boat in Sicily when he gets out. Small-time crook Jerry (Joe Mantegna, House of Games) takes Gino on one last jaunt to Lake Tahoe before his term begins, but, when Gino is mistaken for a major league gangster, the duo soon fall prey to local hoodlums An unexpected change of pace for Mamet, Things Change benefits from an intelligent, witty script and superb central performances from Ameche and Mantegna, who received Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festival for their efforts. Extras High Definition remaster Original stereo audio New interview with writer-director David Mamet New interview with actor Joe Mantegna New Interview with actor William H Macy New Interview with composer Alaric Jans Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Ellen Cheshire, an archival production report, extracts from interviews with David Mamet and Don Ameche, an overview of contemporary critical responses and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• The Inbetweeners Movie 1 & 2 | Blu Ray | (01/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  In this critically acclaimed and award winning duo of films The Inbetweeners boys Will Simon Jay & Neil go on a ‘lads’ holiday to Malia for two weeks of sun sea and who knows maybe even some sex. Then the guys travel to Australia to meet up with Jay on his mental gap year where there’s singing round the camp fire disgrace at a water park and a trip into the outback… will they survive? The Inbetweeners Movie: The Making Of Joe Thomas Dangerman Things We Did Instead of Rehearsing Commentaries with Cast Crew & Writers Deleted Scenes Bloopers London Premiere Skye Premiere Sims™ Parody The Inbetweeners 2: Audio Commentary with writer / directors Iain Morris & Damon Beesley Audio Commentary with Simon Bird James Buckley Blake Harrison & Joe Thomas Behind the Scenes Featurette Extended Deleted Scenes Blooper Reel East End to the Outback Featurette

• Midnight Run | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Martin Brest rocketed to the top of Hollywood's A list with the blockbuster success of Beverly Hills Cop, and this 1988 follow-up is even better. Midnight Run is a genuine rarity--an action comedy that's dramatically satisfying--thanks to a sharp script by George Gallo, the superb teaming of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, and Brest's consummate skill in combining suspense and humour with well-developed characters. De Niro plays a maverick bounty hunter whose latest assignment is Grodin, an accountant accused of embezzling from the Mob. De Niro thinks he's in for an easy job, transporting Grodin (who's afraid to fly) from New York to Los Angeles, but soon discovers that both the FBI and the Mafia are hot on Grodin's trail. Equal parts road trip, action thriller, and a quirky character study, Midnight Run moves at a breakneck pace but still gives De Niro and Grodin time to create rich, memorable performances as two men who seem to be opposites, but gradually develop mutual respect and admiration. Mainstream entertainment at its best. --Jeff Shannon

• The Godfather: Part III | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £8.72   |  Saving you £9.27 (51.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the greatest sagas in movie history continues! In this third film epic Corleone trilogy Al Pacino reprises the role of powerful family leader Micheal Corleone. Now in his sixties Micheal is dominated by two passions; freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable sucessor. That sucessor could be fiery Vincent (Andy Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hopes of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. Francis Ford Coppola directs P

• Poetic Justice | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After witnessing the murder of her first and only boyfriend young Justice decides to forget about college and become a South Central Los Angeles hairdresser. Avoiding friends the only way for her to cope with her depression is by composing beautiful poetry...

• Fresh Meat: Series 1-3 | DVD | (02/06/2014) from £29.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (7.15%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This box set includes all three series of the award-winning Fresh Meat. Public school boy JP (Jack Whitehall) charming and crushingly insecure Kingsley (Joe Thomas) Josie (Kimberley Nixon) who's seeking new experiences socially-awkward Howard (Greg McHugh) hard-living Vod (Zawe Ashton) and desperate to be cool Oregon (Charlotte Ritchie) are about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university! Thrown together as housemates they are on the brink of adult life and about to discover who they really are. Special Features: Series 1: Behind-the-Scenes Tour Including Cast Interviews and Outtakes Deleted Scenes Series 2: The Story Behind The Implodium Implodes

• WWE: NXT - From Secret to Sensation | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £15.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What began as a developmental brand for up and coming WWE Superstars turned into the third pillar of WWE TV, quickly establishing itself as a bonafide show in it s own rights with it s mix of top talent and 5 star matches, this is NXT!

• Night Patrol | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £22.50   |  Saving you £-16.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Melvin has a problem. As a rookie cop he ranks among the best... of the worst. Inept hapless and shy his daily routine takes him from misadventure to misadventure. but by night the normally bungling bobby transforms into ;The Unknown Comic'. Disguised only with a paper bag over his head Melvin has audiences eating out of his hand if only the same were true of the voluptuous lady in the front row. A loony psychiatrist a police captain who is a pathalogical liar a playboy partner

• Rocky - Special Edition | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £9.35   |  Saving you £13.63 (214.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1976 Best Picture Award-winner Rocky has the look of a contemporary on-the-streets movie like Taxi Driver, but the heart of a fairytale. For the Bicentennial Year, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), a Muhammad Ali-like stars-and-stripes blowhard, cynically offers a title shot to an unknown over-the-hill Philadelphia club fighter, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). Unlike the sequels, Rocky is a rare American sports movie to realise there's more drama and emotional resonance in losing than winning. The unique finale suggests that going the distance against the odds is more of a triumph than a conventional victory. Stallone, then an unknown as actor and writer, crafts the script to his own strengths--mumbling, Brando-like sincerity combined with explosive physicality expressed in his use of a side of beef as a punch-bag or wintery jogs around Philly. Surprisingly little of the film is taken up with ring action, as we follow Rocky's awkward courtship of pet-store minion Adrian (Talia Shire) and uneasy relationship with her slobbish brother (Burt Young), while Burgess Meredith provides the old pro licks as the curmudgeonly trainer. Though it led to a slick, steroid-fuelled franchise, it has a pleasing roughness, exemplified by the memorable funk/brass band score and the array of fidgety, credible method acting tics. On the DVD: 1.85:1 16x9 print, which represents the sometimes-slick, sometimes rough look of the cinematography; feature commentary with supporting cast and crew (Burt Young admits to rubbing vermouth into his neck to make himself repulsive), video interview with Stallone, a retrospective featurette (which includes news footage of the Ali fight that inspired the story), 8mm test fight footage with a flabbier Stallone, tributes to Burgess Meredith and cameraman James Crabe, trailers for Rocky and all the sequels (which makes a solid précis of the whole series). All this and a "special hidden feature" (a comic sketch with Sly meeting Rocky).--Kim Newman

• The Infiltrator | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £6.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  U.S. Customs agent Robert 'Bob' Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's blood-soaked drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1985 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella.

• The Final Countdown | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  With a tantalising "what-if?" scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. It's really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 1980 release, but there's still some life remaining in the movie's basic premise: what if a modern-era navy aircraft carrier--in this case the real-life nuclear-powered USS Nimitz--was caught in an anomalous storm and thrust 40 years backwards in time to the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor? Will the ship's commander (Kirk Douglas) interfere with history? Will the visiting systems analyst (Martin Sheen) convince him not to? Will a rescued senator from 1941 (Charles Durning) play an unexpected role in the future of American politics? Veteran TV director Don Taylor doesn't do much with the ideas posed by this potentially intriguing plot; he seems more interested in satisfying aviation buffs with loving footage of F-14 "Jolly Roger" fighter jets, made possible by the navy's generous cooperation. That makes The Final Countdown a better navy film than a fully fledged time-travel fantasy, but there's a nice little twist at the end, and the plot holes are easy to ignore. James Cameron would've done it better, but this popcorn thriller makes an enjoyable double bill with The Philadelphia Experiment. --Jeff Shannon

• The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £9.85   |  Saving you £8.14 (82.64%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From Belgian directors H l ne Cattet and Bruno Forzani comes this thriller starring Klaus Tange. When Dan (Tange) returns home to find his apartment locked from the inside and his wife missing he begins frantically searching the building. When he visits Dora (Birgit Yew), the old, rather eccentric lady upstairs to find out what might have happened, Dora tells Dan the story of when her husband disappeared through a hole in the ceiling. Could the building really have taken his wife? Dan vows no.

• The Upper Hand - The Complete Seventh Series | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When high-flying executive Caroline Wheatley advertised for a live-in home help Charlie Burrows a footballer with a career curtailed by injury was the last person she expected to find applying for the job at her luxurious country home. But the good-looking resourceful Charlie met with approval both from Caroline's vivacious mother Laura and her son Tom. Before long a romance bloomed - one that has taken the pair all the way up the wedding aisle. But there are still surprises ahead for the couple... This engaging sitcom stars Joe McGann as Charlie and Diana Weston as Caroline with Avengers siren Honor Blackman as Laura and future Bad Girls star Kellie Bright as Charlie's streetwise daughter Joanna. The Upper Hand based on scripts for the hugely popular US series Who's the Boss? was a major success for Central and ran for seven series. Presented here is the final series also featuring guest appearances by Millicent Martin Milton Johns Louise Jameson and Denis Lill.

• Lethal Weapon 2 | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (133.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. --Tom Keogh

• Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs And Englishmen | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Joe Cocker live at the Fillmore East and Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 1970. Tracklisting: Albion Intro. from the Anglo-Saxophone / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Delta Lady / Feelin' Alright / Change In Louise / Darlin' Be Home Soon / Going To New York City / Dallas Texas / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window / Let It Be / The Letter / Sticks And Stones / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Bird On A Wire / Mad Dogs & Englishmen Theme / Honky Tonk Woman / Space Captain / Something / With A Little Help From My Friends / Please Give Peace A Chance / The Ballad Of Mad Dogs & Englishmen

• Long Time Dead | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young Londoner and his friends use a Ouija board to hold a seance, triggering a chain of mysterious deaths that may be caused by an otherwordly force.

• Billy Elliot/ Steel Magnolias/Erin Brockovich | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Billy Elliot: Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it. Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams... Billy Elliot received plenty of recognition at the Academy Awards picking up nominations for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay. (Dir. Stephen Daldry 2000) Steel Magnolia's: 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... (Dir. Herbert Ross 1989) Erin Brockovich: She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community. (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2000)

• Shallow Hal | Blu Ray | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After a succession of hugely successfully movies of a lower brow nature, Shallow Hal finds the Farrelly Brothers attempting a slightly more thoughtful film, albeit still tied up in their trademark toilet humour. It's an approach that is not unproblematic but not unsuccessful either, resulting in a film that engages the emotions in a manner that the likes of Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There's Something About Mary never suggested possible. Jack Black is the Hal of the title, a man whose less than commendable attitude to women is suddenly altered by the rather credibility-stretching plot device of a chance meeting with a hypnotist. Henceforth Hal is only capable of seeing the beauty within, a development that allows for much humour at the expense of the less fortunate in the name of some sort of social comment. From it all, however, emerges a quite touching love story with Paltrow's character Rosemary and proof that the Farrellys do have something of a sensitive side--no matter how deep it may be buried. The ending may be woefully predictable, but such is the deftness of touch with which the story is told, that it is still the one we are all rooting for. This is a sickly sweet film in the truest terms. On the DVD: Shallow Hal comes with a plethora of extras on disc, including a series of mini-documentaries and TV specials, all of which plug the film but offer very little insight. That does come, however, from the handily subtitled directors' commentary, which demonstrates clearly the clash of cultures occurring in the movie. As well as commenting on the physical appearance of every female cast member who passes before the camera, the brothers also pay touching tribute to a colleague who passed away during the shoot and seem to know the name of every single extra and crew member who worked on the project, surely a rarity in these days of big budgets and faceless studios. There is also a large selection of deleted scenes, also with added commentary, a perfunctory music video from Shelby Lynne and a documentary on some of the technical aspects of the film. --Phil Udell

• Rabid | Blu Ray | (26/08/2019) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Rabid (1977), an enduringly tense and gruesome horror that marked a landmark in David Cronenberg's early career. Title 009 on 101 Films' Black Label, this double Blu-ray is stacked with extras, including Part 1 of a new feature length documentary on Canadian horror film. When Rose suffers terrible injuries in a motorcycle crash, she is taken to a nearby clinic run by Dr Keloid for experimental skin-graft surgery. At first, the revolutionary procedure proves successful, but it soon leaves Rose with a strange orifice protruding from her armpit and an insatiable thirst for human blood. Hell-bent on satisfying her bloodlust, Rose leaves a trail of insane and uncontrollably aggressive victims, as the unknown virus engulfs North America in an orgy of frenetic violence. Starring: Marilyn Chambers, Howard Ryshpan, Frank Moore and Patricia Gage (American Psycho). Rabid is written and directed by David Cronenberg (Videodrome) and produced by John Dunning, Ivan Reitman and Don Carmody. Extras: The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film Part One: Gimme Shelter: Cinepix and the Birth of the Canadian Horror Film, a brand new feature-length documentary exploring the social contexts behind Canadian horror cinema from filmmaker and author Xavier Mendik Audio commentary with filmmakers Jen & Sylvia Soska Limited edition booklet: Includes ˜The Birth of Rabid' by Greg Dunning and ˜Stunned. Shocked. Exhilarated': Horror in the Early Films of David Cronenberg by Alex Morris Additional Extras Audio commentary with writer-director David Cronenberg Audio commentary with William Beard, author of ˜The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg' Audio interview with Jill C. Nelson, author of ˜Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women Of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985' and Marilyn Chambers' Personal Appearances Manager Ken Leicht Young And Rabid An interview with actress Susan Roman Archive interview with David Cronenberg The Directors: David Cronenberg a 1999 documentary on the filmmaker Radio spots Trailer

• Thumbelina (1994) | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ranking just behind the best of animator Don Bluth's films (Anastasia and The Secret of NIMH), Thumbelina is a bubble-light version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. The finger-sized heroine goes about the old-fashioned trials of trying to find a good man, but the film is clever enough to make it endearing for the 3-6 set and more than passable for adult viewers. Barry Manilow provides much of the song score, which helps immensely. The ballad "Let Me Be Your Wings" is as good as Disney's best. Carol Channing and Charo have a good ol' time with their songs too. The voice of Thumbelina is none other than Jodi Benson, who gave voice to Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com