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• Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £11.67   |  Saving you £4.32 (37.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phoney happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, another worldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates. The cast also includes Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah Rutger Hauer and M Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson

• Bamboozled | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spike Lee's latest is a biting comedy about a black US TV writer whose plans to get sacked by creating a TV show reviving old time minstrel shows doesn't go at all as planned!

• JAG Season 3 | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The men and women of the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps are back for 24 more action-packed episodes in the third season of the long-running hit series JAG. Commander Harm Rabb (David James Elliot) and Major Mac MacKenzie (Catherine Bell) both find romance this season but also suffer heartache. And while they might take on Cuban terrorists they still manage to make it to the wedding between Bud (Patrick Labyorteaux) and Harriet (Karri Turner)! Co-starring John M. Jackson as Admiral A.J. Chegwidden JAG digs deep to portray the human side of the military experience and show the bravery of those who give all for their country!

• Blade Runner | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  To call this cut of Blade Runner ‘long awaited’ would be a heavy, heavy understatement. It’s taken 25 years since the first release of one of the science-fiction genre’s flagship films to get this far, and understandably, Blade Runner: The Final Cut has proved to be one of the most eagerly awaited DVD releases of all time. And it’s been well worth the wait. Director Ridley Scott’s decision to head back to the edit suite and cut together one last version of his flat-out classic film has been heavily rewarded, with a genuinely definitive version of an iconic, visually stunning and downright intelligent piece of cinema. Make no mistake: this is by distance the best version of Blade Runner. And it’s never looked better, either. The core of Blade Runner, of course, remains the same, with Harrison Ford’s Deckard (the Blade Runner of the title) on the trail of four ‘replicants’, cloned humans that are now illegal. And he does so across an amazing cityscape that’s proven to be well ahead of its time, with astounding visuals that defied the supposed limits of special effects back in 1982. Backed up with a staggering extra features package that varies depending on which version of this Blade Runner release you opt for (two-, four- and five-disc versions are available), the highlight nonetheless remains the stunning film itself. Remastered and restored, it remains a testament to a number of creative people whose thinking was simply a country mile in advance of that of their contemporaries. An unmissable purchase. --Jon Foster

• American Pie 7: Book Of Love | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jim (Jason Biggs) is just Like any other healthy, red-blooded guy -- who is also a virgin -- he's desperate.

• Delta Force / Delta Force 2 / Missing In Action | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Delta Force (Dir. Menahem Golan 1986): Political extremists have taken innocent people hostage and only super-soldiers Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin can rescue them in this astounding mix of fact fantasy and heavy-duty adventure (Variety). Co-starring Martin Balsam and Shelley Winters The Delta Force is wall-to-wall action! When a U.S. passenger plane is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut the President calls in The Delta Force - a crack team of commandos led by Colonel Nick Alexander (Marvin) and Major Scott McCoy (Norris). Against all odds the men blast into the compound and - taking no prisoners - rescue the hostages. But the mission is not yet over. A few remaining passengers are being 'escorted' to Teheran initiating a desperate race against time as Alexander and McCoy try to save them - and avenge America's honor - before it's too late. Delta Force 2 (Dir. Aaron Norris 1990): When notorious drug lord Ramon Cota captures a team of American narcotics agents as well as a member of Colonel Scott McCoy's elite Delta Force commando unit and imprisons them in his remote San Carlos compound the Delta Force charges into action waging war against Cota's powerful cocaine empire. Against all odds McCoy and his squad must fight their way to a blistering final battle to free the hostages and destroy the ruthless criminal mastermind in this lightning-paced and outrageously exciting (Video Movie Guide) turbo charged adventure! Missing In Action (Dir. Joseph Zito 1984): American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam - and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering fast-paced action-adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs. Aided by a beautiful State Department official (Lenore Kasdorf) and a former Army buddy (M. Emmet Walsh) Braddock amasses top-secret information and state-of-the-art weaponry. Now this one-man army is prepared to blast his way into Vietnam...but will he be able to blast his way back out?

• Inventing The Abbotts | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Forbidden love and impossible dreams intertwine when the handsome working class Holt brothers are drawn to the beautiful and wealthy Abbott sisters. Sparks fly passions flare and family loyalties are suddenly torn and tested against a small town backdrop of social boundaries and dark secrets...

• Fletch | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.03   |  Saving you £0.96 (19.09%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fletch is a fairly sarcastic and occasionally very funny Chevy Chase vehicle scripted by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles, The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas) from Gregory McDonald's lightweight mystery novel about an undercover newspaper reporter cracking a police drug ring. Enjoyment of the film pivots on whether you find Chase's flippant, smart-ass brand of verbal humour funny, or merely egocentric. If you don't like Chase, there's really no one else worth watching (Geena Davis is sadly underused). Chase seems born to play IM "Fletch" Fletcher, a disillusioned investigative reporter whose cynicism and detached view on life mirrors the actor's understated approach to comedy. Fletcher offers Chase the opportunity to adopt numerous personas, as his job requires numerous (bad) physical disguises, and much of film's humour centres on the ridiculous idea that any of these phoney accents or bad hairpieces could fool anyone. These not-so-clever disguises are put to use when Fletch becomes involved in the film's smart but continually self-mocking two-part mystery. As well as trying to gather drug-smuggling evidence against the LAPD for a long-overdue newspaper story, a rich and apparently terminally ill stranger also offers Fletch a large payoff to kill him. While the film does a fairly good job juggling both of these plots, not to mention tossing in a love interest as well, they're subservient, for better or worse, to Chase's memorable one-liners and disguises. Followed by two forgettable sequels that lack both the original's wit and Chase's attention span.--Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• Inglourious Basterds Blu-ray | Unknown | (05/05/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ONCE UPON A TIME IN NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCE One of the most celebrated filmmakers of our time harnesses the power of cinema itself to rewrite history in this electrifying WWII thriller. Narrowly escaping the massacre of her entire family by the SS, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) flees to Paris and forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Meanwhile, a guerilla band of Jewish-American soldiers known as The Basterds led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), are waging a bloody war of attrition behind enemy lines but Europe remains beneath Nazi bootheels. Believing themselves unstoppable, the leaders of the Third Reich assemble in Paris for the premiere of propaganda epic Nation's Pride. The location? Shosanna's cinema. With all the rotten eggs in one basket, The Basterds join forces with British Commando Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) and German film star/undercover allied agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) to infiltrate the premiere. Their plan? Blow up the basket Brim-filled with shocking violence, thrilling action and excruciating suspense, Inglourious Basterds was a box office smash around the world garnering eight Academy Award™ (2009) nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, with Christoph Waltz winning Best Supporting Actor for his star-making turn as the chilling SS Col. Hans Landa. Witness the war as it might have been in this stunning edition, packed with explosive extras! 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS DISC 1 FEATURE ¢ High-Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation ¢ Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Audio commentary by film critic and author Tim Lucas DISC 2 EXTRAS ¢ What Would Sally Do?, an interview with editor Fred Raskin ¢ Blood Fiction, an interview with special make-up effects supervisor Greg Nicotero ¢ Doomstruck, an interview with actor Omar Doom ¢ Making it Right, a visual essay by film critic Walter Chaw, author of A Walter Hill Film ¢ Film History on Fire, a visual essay by film scholar Pamela Hutchinson, author of BFI Film Classics Pandora's Box ¢ Filmmaking in Occupied France, an interview with film scholar Christine Leteux, author of Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control ¢ Extended and alternate scenes ¢ Nation's Pride ¢ The Making of Nation's Pride, an archival featurette ¢ Roundtable Discussion, an archival interview with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and Elvis Mitchell ¢ The Original Inglorious Bastards, archival featurette ¢ A Conversation with Rod Taylor, archival featurette ¢ Rod Taylor on Victoria Bitter, archival featurette ¢ Quentin Tarantino's Camera Angel, archival featurette ¢ Hi Sallys, archival featurette ¢ Film Poster Gallery Tour with Elvis Mitchell, archival featurette ¢ Trailers ¢ Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Dare Creative

• The Camp on Blood Island (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of Hammer's most controversial features, Val Guest's The Camp on Blood Island was a huge box-office hit, despite drawing the wrath of critics who accused the film of sensationalising and exploiting the sufferings of soldiers and civilians imprisoned and abused by the Japanese during the Second World War. Certainly, the film's brutal representation of life for Allied captives in a Malayan prisoner-of-war camp is unusually grim and graphic for the time, but is buoyed by Guest's sharp and naturalistic direction, and a terrific cast is headed by André Morell (Cash on Demand, Ben-Hur), Carl Möhner (Rififi) and the late, great Hammer icon Barbara Shelley (The Gorgon, The Shadow of the Cat). Special Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with Hammer icon Barbara Shelley and horror novelist Stephen Laws The Brutal Truth: Inside ˜The Camp on Blood Island' (2018, 29 mins): documentary written and directed by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, narrated by Claire Louise Amias, and featuring film historians Alan Barnes and Jonathan Rigby Hammer's Women: Mary Merrall (2018, 11 mins): Diabolique magazine's editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger explores the life and career of the prolific English film, stage and television actress From Light to Dark (2018, 18 mins): Steve Chibnall, author of British Horror Cinema, takes a look at Val Guest's career and the making of The Camp on Blood Island Return to Blood Island (2018, 4 mins): interview with the film's script supervisor Renée Glynne Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Cunning Little Vixen - Janacek | DVD | (15/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen is a real charmer of an opera, a tale that shows the natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith

• Meet The Deedles | DVD | (22/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Errant brain-dead millionaire twins Stew and Phil Deedle are sent by their father from the paradise of the North Shore to the woebegone wilderness of Camp Broken Spirit where their tender malleable selves will be transformed from ""surf bums"" into corporate-friendly high achievers. Heinous! They bail but a case of mistaken identity soon finds our heroes saving Old Faithful from a disgruntled Ranger's plan to re-route the geyser's flow onto his

• Cold Skin | DVD | (30/04/2018) from £17.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

• Last Light | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £3.97   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Denver Bayliss (Kiefer Sutherland) is a cold-blooded killer who has been sentenced to death and is awaiting execution. Fred Whitmore (Forest Whitaker) is the haunted prison guard who befriends him: two men forced to live with the violence and degradation of death row. This is the story of one man who chooses to defy it until death and the shattering effect that struggle has on everyone close to him: the stone-hearted cell-block lieutenant (Clancy Brown) Denver's estranged sister (Amanda Plummer) and his ex-attorney (Kathleen Quinlan).

• Wonder Egg Priority | Blu Ray | (05/02/2022) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the story of Ai, an introverted girl whose fate is forever changed after acquiring a mysterious Wonder Egg from a deserted arcade.

• Skyscraper (4KUHD + Blu-ray + Digital Download) | 4K UHD | (19/11/2018) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (122.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary's Skyscraper as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he's been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building...above the fire line.

• GPO Vol.1 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £22.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (9.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The BFI National Archive in partnership with BT Royal Mail and The British Postal Museum & Archive has curated and restored the legendary output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit from 1933-1940.

• The Cooler | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £4.45   |  Saving you £-2.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love which throws the situation into reverse.

• The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air - Season 1 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Philadelphia resident Will (Will Smith) is sent to live with his exceedingly wealthy Bel-Air cousins and finds that his street sensibilities cause havoc with the well-ordered lives of his distant family! Season 1 episodes: 1. The Fresh Prince Project 2. Bang The Drum Ashley 3. Clubba Hubba 4. Not With My Pig You Don't 5. Homeboy Sweet Homeboy 6. Mistaken Identity 7. Def Poet's Society 8. Someday Your Prince Will Be In Effect (Part 1) 9. Someday Your Prince Will Be In Effect

• Wild Wild West (widescreen version) | DVD | (21/02/2000) from £12.88   |  Saving you £1.11 (8.62%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Wild Wild West, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Get Shorty), was one of the box-office smashes of the summer of 1999 but was raked by critics and embraced by audiences. Based on the 1960s TV adventure show that starred Robert Conrad, this film re-imagined Secret Service agent James West as Will Smith, adding Oscar-winner Kevin Kline as his sidekick, agent-inventor Artemus Gordon. President Ulysses S. Grant puts West and Gordon on the trail of malign genius (and former Confederate soldier) Dr. Arliss Loveless (Kenneth Branagh) in a story about racism, partnership and world domination. The special effects are lavish, even garish, but not all that special; they're not enough to elevate a mundane and familiar plot. Even Branagh, playing a man who only exists from the waist up--literally--can't find the juice in this lumbering affair. Still, the fast-talking team of Smith and Kline is a nimble one. Smith's affable charm and Kline's subversive wit win many points, though not nearly enough.--Marshall Fine