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• Moonstruck | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (80.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Remember the outfit Cher wore to the Oscars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay of Moonstruck, by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano), is a wonderful, gently satirical tale of an Italian-American family dealing with repression and dissatisfaction against a backdrop of cultural expectations. Cher is focused and funny as a widow who feels she should marry an older fellow (Danny Aiello), but then falls for his black-sheep brother (Nicolas Cage). Olympia Dukakis and Vincent Gardenia are perfect as her parents, and John Mahoney (of TV's Frasier) has a memorable, small role as a middle-aged man on the make who gets a lecture from Dukakis's character. Shanley's dialogue is comically stylised in a way that makes one appreciate how much words can inform an actor's performance. Taking its cues from him and director Norman Jewison (And Justice for All), the cast immerse themselves in a pool of hilariously operatic emotion. --Tom Keogh

• Aces - Iron Eagle III | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Unofficial Mission. Unconventional Tactics. Unbelievable Courage. Lou Gossett Jr. returns to his role as leader of a unique brand of international war aces in this spectacular conclusion to the high-flying Iron Eagle series. Gossett and his aces team up with the beautiful and courageous Anna (two-time Miss Olympia Rachel McLish) to save her Peruvian village held hostage by a Latin American drug cartel led by a German madman (Paul Freeman).

• Veep The Complete Series | DVD | (13/01/2020) from £43.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Politics is about people, former Sen. Selina Meyer is fond of saying. Unfortunately, the people Meyer, a charismatic leader and rising star in her party, meets after becoming vice president are nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. Veep follows the VP as she puts out political fires, juggles her public schedule and private life, and does everything within her limited powers to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the chief executive. Meyer's trusted, and some not-so-trusted, sidekicks include chief of staff Amy, one-time spokesperson Mike, and right-hand man Gary.

• Troy: Fall of a City (BBC) | DVD | (23/04/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £5.70 (95.16%)   |  RRP £11.69

  This eight-part retelling of the fall of Troy sweeps back to the judgement of Paris, his scandalous love affair with Helen and the ill-starred prophecy surrounding his birth. When the baby Paris is born, the omens foretell that he will bring about the downfall of the city. Queen Hecuba and King Priam are forced to choose whether to abandon their newborn son to the wolves or save him, but risk the safety of their kingdom. Their choice will decide not only the fate of their child, but the very existence of Troy. Told from the perspective of the Trojan royal family at the heart of the siege, the story's main themes are love, intrigue, betrayal and belonging. Louis Hunter(The Fosters) and Bella Dayne (Humans) will star as Paris and Helen, the lovers whose passionate affair plunges Greece and Troy into war. David Threlfall (Shameless) is Paris father, King Priam of Troy, alongside Frances O Connor (The Missing) as Hecuba, Queen of Troy, and Tom Weston-Jones (Dickensian) as their eldest son Hector. Game Of Thrones Joseph Mawle plays as Odysseus; Chloe Pirrie (War & Peace) is Andromache; Johnny Harris (This Is England 86-90) is Agamemnon; David Gyasi (Interstellar) is Achilles; and Jonas Armstrong (Ripper Street) plays Menelaos, the King of Sparta whose marriage to Helen is destroyed when Paris arrives in his city. Includes subtitles for the Hard of Hearing

• The Animal | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £6.45   |  Saving you £13.54 (209.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This comedy stars Rob Schneider ("Deuce Bigalow")as a police cadet who, after nearly dying in a car accident while driving through a remote area, is rescued by a strange beast who performs surgery on him in a barn, using animal parts as transplants.

• JUDEX (Masters of Cinema) Two-disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Operation Blood Hunt | DVD | (07/04/2025) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hello Dolly | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.25   |  Saving you £6.74 (107.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Glittering stage numbers showcase a commanding Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levy a New York matchmaker who can find a mate for anyone. Anyone but herself that is. Determined to marry wealthy Walter Matthau she lures him out of Yonkers and sets about wooing him.

• Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1964-1974 (Blu-ray Box Set) | Blu Ray | (30/06/2014) from £29.98   |  Saving you £32.00 (114.33%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Resnais' classic cine-conundrum Last Year of Marienbad, Alain Robbe-Grillet was also the director a number of stylish, controversial and erotic films which starred such icons of French cinema as Jean-Louis Trinignant (Haneke's Amour, Bertolucci's The Conformist), Marie-France Pisier (Truffaut's Stolen Kisses and Bed and Board) and Isabelle Huppert (Claire Denis' White Material, Haneke's Amour). Impossible to see for decades, these enigmatic, sexually.

• Octopussy | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £5.04   |  Saving you £14.95 (296.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roger Moore was nearing the end of his reign as James Bond when he made Octopussy, and he looks a little worn out. But the movie itself infuses some new blood into the old franchise, with a frisky pace and a pair of sturdy villains. Maud Adams--who'd also been in The Man with the Golden Gun--plays the improbably named Octopussy, while old smoothie Louis Jourdan is her crafty partner in crime. There's an island populated only by women, as well as a fantastic sequence with a hand-to-hand fight on a plane--and on top of a plane. The film even has an extra emotional punch, since this time 007 is not only following the orders of Her Majesty's Secret Service, but he is also exacting a personal revenge: a fellow double-0 agent has been killed. Two Bond films were actually released in 1983 within a few months of each other, as Octopussy was followed by Sean Connery's comeback in Never Say Never Again. The success of both pictures proved that there was still plenty of mileage left in the old licence to kill, though Moore had one more workout--A View to a Kill--before hanging it up. And that title? The franchise had already used up the titles to Ian Fleming's novels, so Octopussy was taken from a lesser-known Fleming short story. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com On the DVD: The high standard of these 007 discs is maintained here, with another extra-packed selection. The "Inside Octopussy" documentary details the making of the movie, which faced competition from Sean Connery's Never Say Never Again, as well as being handicapped by a potentially risible title. The initial story was developed by George Macdonald Fraser, author of the "Flashman" books, whose knowledge of Indian history and locales proved invaluable. Roger Moore prevaricated about signing on as Bond, so American James Brolin was screen-tested instead. The movie also produced the worst accident of the series while filming the train sequence and the stuntman involved was hospitalised for six months. Director John Glen provides a solo commentary that reveals a wealth of technical detail and also that this is one of his favourite Bond movies. Rita Coolidge performs "All Time High", and there are also some storyboard sequences and trailers. --Mark Walker

• Saw 4 | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £4.97   |  Saving you £15.02 (302.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's time for some more murderous games from Jigsaw and his apprentice.

• Trop Belle Pour Toi | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A man's infidelity with his secretary causes an intriguing love triangle in this lauded French black comedy.

• Paris Blues (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ram Bowen (Paul Newman The Hustler) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night) are jazz musicians who live for music. Their Paris is one of underground, smoke-filled Jazz bars and the rain-drenched streets of the Left Bank at night. However their carefree idyll is disturbed when two American tourists (Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll) enter their lives, and against the backdrop of music and moonlight, they find themselves falling in love. All too soon however, romance is put to the test, as the men find themselves torn between their love for the women, and their passion for music. Featuring the legendary Louis Armstrong as Wild Man Moore, the film's score by the incomparable Jazz musician Duke Ellington was Oscar nominated in 1962. Extras Original trailer Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film

• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 1-2 | Blu Ray | (16/12/2024) from £34.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Walking Dead spin-off series. Season 1 Following his departure from The Commonwealth, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) washes ashore in France, raising the ire of a splintered but growing autocratic regime centred in Paris and endangering a young boy at the heart of a benevolent religious movemenT. Season 2 Picks up where Season 1 left off, following fan-favorite characters Daryl Dixon (Reedus) and Carol Peletier (McBride).

• Shooting Dogs | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £8.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (142.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hugh Dancy stars in this moving drama about the Rwandan genocide.

• The François Truffaut Collection | Blu Ray | (08/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Features SHOOT THE PIANIST, JULES ET JIM, THE SOFT SKIN, ANNE & MURIEL, A GORGEOUS GIRL LIKE ME, THE LAST METRO, THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR, FINALLY SUNDAY.

• Count Dracula | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £6.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (139.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Regarded as one of the best adaptations of the classic Bram Stoker tale Count Dracula benefits from a critically-acclaimed performance from Louis Jourdan as the title character. A cult classic from the seventies the film faithfully recreates Stoker's characters and prose.

• An Officer and a Gentleman | DVD | (01/11/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot, and in thirteen tortuous weeks, he discovers what it means to be a man of honour. Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Oscar® for his portrayal of Foley, the drill instructor who teaches Zack that no one can make it alone. While Foley tries to warn the young officer about the local girls trying to land themselves pilot husbands, he finds himself caught by one (Debra Winger). His fellow candidate and friend Sid (David Keith), struggles with a very different fate.

• Motive - Season 1 | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.00

  Feisty female homicide detective Angie Flynn matches wits with killers in this deadly cerebral game of cat-and-mouse. Her team with the help of the Coroner's Office must find their way through twisted complicated and at times diabolical mazes on a quest to analyse the evidence and ultimately to discover... the Motive. Includes 13 gripping episodes from Season One.

• The Gate (Vestron) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £11.04   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1987 The Gate was at the forefront of what came and went as a purely 80s genre: Kiddie Horror. Just like The Lost Boys or The Monster Squad of the same year, the idea was to let a couple of younger-than-teenage kids loose in a well-worn horror scenario and play it for as many laughs as scares. Its 15 certificate (PG-13 in the States) meant The Gate had an enormous opening weekend, and a considerable shelf life. The kids in question here are a very young Stephen (Blade) Dorff as Glen and his best friend Terry. After some tree felling in Glen's seemingly miles-square back yard they discover a hole full of precious rock. This is of course the Gate to a demonic dimension. As things start levitating, Glen's dog dies and moths get into the most awkward of places, it becomes obvious that the Gate is open! A teenage sister does little to help early on, but naturally the story develops into one about banding together under extreme circumstances. The make-up and stop-motion animation effects remain impressive in scope and there are a couple of frights still just on the right side of cliché. Since it was so successful, the writer and director went on to make an inferior sequel some years later. On the DVD: Viewers should note this is a very murky transfer that's in an unspecified widescreen ratio. There's also an unspectacular (equally unspecified) sound mix. But a gallery of 10 photos and the theatrical trailer makes up for that, right? --Paul Tonks