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• Argo | Blu Ray | (04/03/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £-0.57 (-7.90%)   |  RRP £7.22

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Set against the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and 1980, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a nerve-jangling footnote to the birth of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic. The movie opens at the crest of the 1979 revolution--the storming of the US embassy in Tehran, and the escape of six diplomats to the precarious safety of the Canadian ambassador’s residence. To the rescue is Tony Mendez--a composed CIA agent whose heroism remained classified until 1997--and his state-approved plan to get the stranded embassy staff out of Iran under a brazen cover story: they’re an innocent film crew on a location hunt for the fake sci-fi blockbuster Argo. Hollywood is usually pressed into the service of the state in the name of comedy (either burying dictators in Team America: World Police or just bad news in Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog), but Argo is a true story, and the tone of Affleck's Oscar-winning script is carefully split, switching between mounting tension in consular Tehran and a satire of the Hollywood machine as fronted by Alan Arkin and John Goodman--two raffish producers hired by Mendez to reverse-engineer some convincing buzz for the Argo movie. Affleck himself takes the role of Mendez, the steady-eyed agent betting everything on Hollywood’s age-old efficiency at creating a media circus for a project long before it exists. ‘History starts out as farce and ends up a tragedy’, remarks Goodman, but Argo ends on a patriotic upbeat, and doesn’t reflect much on history. It politely nods at the context of Iran’s attitude to the West, and we’re told about but not shown--bar the blank rage of the revolutionary mob--Iran’s anger at the Westerly flow of resources under Shah Pahlavi. Instead, Argo concentrates on the eggshell complexities of deception in plain sight, including a climactic set-piece in which Mendez’ team must fend their way through layers of suspicious Iranian airport security--with imminent capture, execution and political calamity only on the other side of their paper-thin pretext. It may have the ring of historical escapism, but Argo holds its nerve as a great Hollywood escape. --Leo Batchelor /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}

• Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson | Blu Ray | (01/06/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor , screamed the 1995 headlines read around the world. But the truth behind the wild life of Al Adamson including the production of such low budget classics as SATAN'SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES and his grisly death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself BLOOD & FLESH is the award-winning chronicle of bikers, go-go dancers, porn stars, aging actors, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies and homicidal contractors that House Of Mortal Cinema calls brilliant stuff a superb documentary and one of the top films of the year.

• Q: The Winged Serpent | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £20.59   |  Saving you £-3.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  It's name is Quetzalcoatl... just call it Q that's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart! It's just another monstrous day in New York City where window washers have their heads bitten off topless sunbathers are plucked from rooftops bloody body parts rain down onto the streets and small-time crook Jimmy Quinn (Moriarty) discovers an enormous nest in the spire of the Chrysler building. Meanwhile an NYPD detective (Carradine) investigates a series of ritual

• Torchwood - Children of Earth | Blu Ray | (13/07/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £16.51 (122.48%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An ordinary day becomes a world of terror as every single child in the world stops. A message is sent to all the governments of Earth: 'We are coming'. But as a trap closes around Captain Jack sins of the past are returning as long-forgotten events from 1965 threaten to reveal an awful truth. Torchwood are forced underground as the government takes swift and brutal action. With members of the team being hunted down Britain risks becoming a rogue state with the mysterious and powerful 456 drawing ever closer. Captain Jack Gwen and Ianto are helpless as events escalate until mankind faces the end of civilisation itself.

• Futurama - Season 5 | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (49.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  You asked for more...and the Planet Express crew is delivering! Welcome back to Futurama, the light-years-ahead-of-its-time animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Join Fry, Bender, Leela and the rest of the gang for 13 hilarious new episodes that tackle some of the most controversial subjects in the galaxy...including evolution, mind exchange, feline intelligence and robosexual marriage. Hey, it could happen!Futurama has consistently received high critical acclaim, culminating in a Guinness World Record for Current Most Critically Acclaimed Animated Series in 2010. Season 5 includes all 13 new episodes and special features including Deleted Scenes, Full-length Audio Commentaries, The Prisoner of Benda Live Table Read and plenty more!

• The People That Time Forgot | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you like big fake dinosaurs--and who doesn't?--then The People That Time Forgot is the movie for you. The third in a loosely themed trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations from director Kevin Connor, all of which starred Doug McClure, this one also features Patrick Wayne (son of John) as the intrepid Major Ben McBride, searching the Arctic for his lost friend (McClure). Sarah Douglas is at his side as Charly, the spunky lady photographer with a dainty puckish streak. As luck would have it, they come across a tropical zone that is home to big fake dinosaurs, surly Neanderthals and nubile cavewomen with truly astonishing cleavages. Ah, but if only it were that simple. An evil rival tribe has been exterminating the gentle cave people and must be stopped. Whatever else you may want to say about producers Samuel Z Arkoff and John Dark, they simply do not skimp on explosions. The People That Time Forgot has a detonation-filled corker of an ending that leaves the cast absolutely showered with dirt clods. Highly entertaining. --Ali Davis

• Three Came Home | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The true story of one woman's confinement in a World War II Japanese prison camp from the account by Agnes Newton Kieth. She and her British husband were separated when the Japanese invaded Borneo during WWII. Though the camp commander took an interest in her he could not prevent her torture starvation or humiliation by the guards....

• JAG - Series 6 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £29.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (16.91%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Come aboard for more military justice and non-stop action a all 24 episodes of JAG's sixth season arrive on DVD for the very first time! Their search for the truth takes the JAG team of lawyers around the world but what happens at home this season rivals any investigation. Harm Robb (David James Elliot) considers leaving Mac (Catherine Bell) behind when his dream of becoming a pilot is realized just as Admiral Chegwidden (John M. Jackson) welcomes a new attorney to the JAG team. But it's Bud (Patrick Labyorteaux) and Harriet (Karri Turner) with the biggest news of all - the birth of their son! JAG is back and ready for action!

• WWE: John Cena - Iconic Matches | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.72   |  Saving you £-2.73 (-45.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Champ is here! For more than a decade, John Cena has been the top dog in WWE, setting up shop at the mountaintop and refusing to decamp, instituting an open-challenge policy to anyone who thought they could knock him off: You want some, come get some. Slowly but surely, Cena, preaching an ethos of Hustle, Loyalty, Respect, not only amassed a battalion of followers he dubbed The Cenation, but also accumulated enough hardware to fill a Home Depot as he became a 15-time World Champion and 5-time WWE United States Champion. Now relive 3 of John Cena's most iconic matches from recent years and discover why John Cena is the face that runs the place.

• One Million Years BC | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One Million Years B.C. might be about as palaeontologically accurate as The Flintstones, but it's still a lasting kitsch masterpiece, as much for Raquel Welch’s Amazonian presence in an abbreviated fur bikini as for Ray Harryhausen’s wonderful stop-motion dinosaurs. A rare big-budget venture from Hammer Films, this 1966 version of the 1940 Victor Mature classic One Million B.C. is set in a fantasised prehistory where Caucasian cavemen coexist with dinosaurs. Loana (Welch) of the Shell People teaches Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rock Tribe that harmonious cooperation on the beach is a better way of life than rule-of-the-mightiest savagery in caves. Every quarter of an hour, the gibberish-spouting ("Akita akita"), skin-wearing, remarkably clean cave folk are inconvenienced by special effects: a giant sea turtle, a hungry Allosaur, a Triceratops/Iguanodon battle, a Pterodactyl that wants to feed Raquel to its chicks, a major volcanic upheaval. Poster icon Welch gets stiff competition from a lithe Martine Beswick in a cat fight, and the camp goings-on are given real screen presence by gorgeous, primitive Canary Isles locations and an epic score from Mario Nascimbene. On the DVD: One Million Years B.C. arrives on DVD with minimal extras: a wonderfully ballyhoo-intensive trailer, plus nice little retrospective chats with Welch and Harryhausen. The picture is an anamorphic print of the original 1.85:1 ratio, and sound is Dolby mono.--Kim Newman

• Play | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (75.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set against the inner city backdrop in central Gothenburg Sweden Play is a frequently harrowing and thoughtful film about manipulation bullying identity race and customs. It is based on a series of real cases of bullying and robbery that occurred between 2006 and 2008 when a group of boys aged 12-14 rob other children on about 40 occasions.

• Penguins of Madagascar 3 | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £7.44   |  Saving you £5.55 (74.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Penguins are reporting back for duty and this time they're bringing along a few new friends. Meet Roger Skorca Jiggles and a whole cast more of new zoosters in this DVD packed with action and escapades.

• Secret City | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £12.93   |  Saving you £2.06 (13.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Secret City investigates the City of London, the Corporation that runs it and its role in the economic crisis. The film exposes the Corporation's anti-democratic constitution; the ancient laws which allow it function as a state within a state, and the power wielded by the Corporation over British economic policy, through which it sustains London's prime position at the hub of global finance capital, not least through control of the majority of the world's tax havens. But this film is not just for Londoners - the role of the City concerns everyone everywhere.

• Walking with Dinosaurs | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £6.49   |  Saving you £23.50 (362.10%)   |  RRP £29.99

  For the first time in movie history audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Walking With Dinosaurs is the ultimate immersive big screen adventure for families. Meet dinosaurs more real than you've ever seen as you take off on a thrilling prehistoric adventure where Patchi an underdog dinosaur triumphs against all odds to become a hero for the ages.

• The Seventh Sign | DVD | (26/06/2000) from £47.01   |  Saving you £-27.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seas boil, heavens fall, and Demi Moore takes a candlelit bath in this effective apocalyptic chiller. The prosthetic-enhanced Moore plays a pregnant non-believer whose baby may hold the key to impending Armageddon. Logic is not exactly the strong point in this well-acted, stylish, theological grab bag, but the random collection of horrific images manages to work more often than not in this acceptable time waster for fans of The Omen and The Exorcist. Also starring Michael Biehn (The Terminator), the always-welcome John Heard in a brief cameo and the exceptional Jürgen Prochnow as a mysterious stranger who could either be from the extreme North or way, way down South. --Andrew Wright

• 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'

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 4 | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete fourth series of the BBC detective drama based on the novels by David Cook starring Patricia Routledge as Hetty Wainthrope. Armed with little more than her pocketbook and her prodigious common-sense Hetty has proven that she can easily match wits with the best of them - even if she has to take the bus to get to the scene of a crime. Episodes are: 'Something to Treasure' 'Family Values' 'Digging for Dirt' 'Mind Over Muscle' 'Blood Relations' and 'For Love Nor Money'.

• The Lion Of The Desert | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The year is 1929 and dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 20 year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to combat Italian colonisation in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed) governor of Libya confidant that he can crush the rebellion and restore the glories of Imperial Rome. Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man - Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn). A teacher by profession guerilla

• The Animatrix | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Collection of nine short animated films telling the backstory of the Matrix.

• A Touch of Frost: Series 6 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £12.10   |  Saving you £12.89 (106.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. Featuring the complete series 6 of A Touch Of Frost. Episodes include: Appendix Man One Man's Meat Private Lives Keys To The Car.