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• Cast Away (2 Disc Set) | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £12.76   |  Saving you £13.22 (135.31%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Cast Away reunites star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in their first collaboration since the heavy-handed sentimentality of Forrest Gump. Thankfully, this time their film's life-affirming message is delivered with more subtlety, attributable both to an extraordinarily committed, physically demanding central performance from Hanks and to Zemeckis' technically masterful but carefully understated direction. It's also a film with three distinct "acts" or, to be old-fashioned about it, a proper beginning, middle and end. The story follows schedule-obsessed but fulfilled FedEx supervisor Chuck Noland (Act 1) on a personal journey into the bleakest, most solitary despair (Act 2), before Helen Hunt, in the thankless role of ex-girlfriend, unwittingly allows him to glimpse an optimistic future full of untapped possibilities (Act 3). Hanks' sojourn on the island is the centrepiece, but this is no tropical island idyll: following a terrifying plane crash (the one sequence in the film where Zemeckis shows off his uncanny ability to choreograph action), life on the island is seen to be a depressing and bitter experience filled with disappointment, danger and suicidal despair. Having lost all hope of rescue, ultimately Noland's greatest test is not to survive, but to find a reason to survive. He has no Man Friday for company, just a volleyball named "Wilson" that is both a narrative device allowing Hanks to deliver dialogue and an intriguingly pagan personification of the island's spirit under whose protection Noland is finally able to summon fire (significantly, and heartbreakingly, Wilson leaves him as he regains contact with the world). In an era of MTV-style film editing, Zemeckis and Hanks fearlessly take their time establishing with total conviction the grim realities of Noland's situation, his devastating loss of hope and the means by which he achieves his escape. Like Contact before it, Cast Away is a refreshingly thoughtful piece of mainstream cinema that explores weighty existential issues but retains a warm human intimacy. On the DVD: The luminous anamorphic print with vivid Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is accompanied on the first disc by a technical commentary from Zemeckis and key crew personnel. It's plenty insightful for budding filmmakers, although for pure listening pleasure one might have preferred a more relaxed piece with just the director and Tom Hanks. The second disc includes a 30-minute making-of documentary in which the director sums up the moral of the movie--"Surviving is easy but living is difficult". This draws on material from the three other mini-documentaries about survival skills, Wilson the volleyball and the Fijian island location of Monu Riki respectively. There's also a section on the sometimes surprising use of CGI effects and a storyboard-to-film comparison sequence. Tom Hanks chats with American TV host Charlie Rose about this movie and his career in the extensive 50-minute interview. Trailers, artwork and stills round out a valuable two-disc set. --Mark Walker

• Cast Away | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the director of "Forrest Gump" comes a contemporary drama about a man in isolation who is forced to transform himself both physically and emotionally in order to survive.

• Ambulance | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), in desperate need of money asks for help from his career-criminal brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal), who instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop and ace EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit, Will and Danny must evade a massive law enforcement response and keep their hostages alive, while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.

• Tonight She Comes | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Yesterday she was chosen, at midnight she was sacrificed, this morning she was buried. And tonight she comes. After a young woman goes missing, two of her closest friends and a mysterious set of strangers find themselves drawn to the isolated cabin in the woods where she disappeared. As the sun sets, they drink, laugh and flirt, enjoying the privacy of the empty woods. However, as midnight approaches, little do they realise that death is not far away

• Ambulance | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), in desperate need of money asks for help from his career-criminal brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal), who instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop and ace EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit, Will and Danny must evade a massive law enforcement response and keep their hostages alive, while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.

• The Terminal / Catch Me If You Can / Cast Away | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes the following films:The Terminal:Starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones. Viktor Navorski (Hanks) gets caught in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him to return to his home country to enter the U.S. Now, caught up in the richly complex and amusing world inside J.F.K. airport, Viktor makes friends, gets a job, finds romance and ultimately discovers America itself.Catch Me If You Can:Inspired by the true story of a brilliant master of deception and the FBI agent, hot on his trail, Catch Me If You Can stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in one of the year's most acclaimed hits! From director Steven Spielberg, Catch Me If You Can follows Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. as he successfully passes himself off as a pilot, a lawyer and a doctor - all before his 21st birthday!Cast Away:Tom Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun...

• Cast Away | Blu Ray | (02/07/2012) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moments notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up--never turn your back on the clock. When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) drives him to the airport. They have their Christmas in the car--and Chuck plunks an engagement ring into her lap right before he gets on the plane, telling her, I'll be right back. But an unexpected storm cuts the plane's crew off from radio contact and blows them off course. Chuck is the sole survivor of the resulting crash, and washes up on a completely deserted island. Stranded there, he must give up everything that he once took for granted and learn how to survive all alone in the wilderness. From director Robert Zemeckis, CAST AWAY is a story of adventure and discovery surrounding one man's will to stay alive.

• The Unholy | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  More controversial than The Exorcist; more terrifying than The Omen... Ben Cross Hal Holbrook Ned Beatty and the legendary Trevor Howard star in 'The Unholy' a supernatural thriller of demonic proportions. After a miraculous recovery from a seventeen-storey fall Father Michael (Cross) is appointed pastor of St. Agnes church which has been closed for three years following the mysterious and violent deaths of his predecessors. When the young priest is told he is the Chosen One Father Michael sets out on a search for the answer to these mysteries... but what he encounters is a life and death battle with the demon of desire The Unholy.

• The Cruel Deep | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £6.88   |  Saving you £-0.89 (-14.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  To safeguard a priceless national treasure the Greek government has requisitioned the luxury cruise liner Argo Theti for use as an undercover cargo carrier.The plan falls apart when the cruise ship is attacked by a submarine belonging to a fanatical billionaire art collector Elgin Bates.During the assault a fuel tank is ignited blasting a gaping hole in the ship's hull.Oxygen is now the most valuable commodity for the surviving passengers and crew trapped in an airtight compartment below decks. As the oxygen decreases the massive ship succumbs to the pull of the ocean dropping ninety feet down and crashing onto a ledge overhanging one of the deepest tracts in the Aegean Sea.As the ship teeters over the gaping mouth of the abyss the pressure causes the hatches to blow. One after the other decks corridors and cabins are rapidly flooded.Underwater under pressure they're fighting for their lives in the cruel deep.

• The Unholy | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Ambulance | DVD | (27/06/2022) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), in desperate need of money asks for help from his career-criminal brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal), who instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million. But when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate brothers hijack an ambulance with a wounded cop and ace EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González) onboard. In a high-speed pursuit, Will and Danny must evade a massive law enforcement response and keep their hostages alive, while executing the most insane escape L.A. has ever seen.