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• Star Trek 1: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £6.26   |  Saving you £9.73 (155.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It was an event that every fan had waited a decade for: the first Star Trek movie. But after its cinema release in 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture was quickly dubbed "The Slow-Motion Picture". In the opinion of general audiences, fans and critics alike, the snail-like pace of the film was a crippling flaw. It bothered one person even more, though: but Robert Wise finally got to scratch that itch when preparing this Director's Edition. In an unprecedented display of confidence from a movie studio, Wise has been allowed to re-edit the film and commission new visual effects sequences that were planned but unrealised for the original release. The result is frankly mind-boggling. Finally we are now able to see how Vulcan was supposed to amaze and alienate us, how integral the B-crew's role was to the mission, and just how spectacular the V'ger ship was imagined to be. Is the pace problem addressed? Undoubtedly it is. Scenes are trimmed and a new "busier" effects soundtrack helps considerably. Does it look better? Definitely. The shades of beige and puce have never seemed more crisply defined. Does it sound better? Jerry Goldsmith's music score (arguably one of the best ever written) is as majestically represented as the Enterprise herself. On the DVD: Star Trek: The Motion Picture two-disc set has oodles of extra features, including a complete library of all scenes deleted from both the original and new versions. The picture quality varies throughout, but it's worth putting up with for the (Wise-ly) excised material such as the unfinished effects work. An audio commentary from Wise, special effects director John Dykstra, composer Jerry Goldsmith and Commander Decker himself (Stephen Collins) provides an appraisal for movie aficionados more than Trek fans: the latter will be far more interested in a text commentary from Trek author and scholar Mike Okuda, who points out endless amounts of in-trivia. Better even than all these are three new documentaries that chronicle the film's history from then to now. Each is brightly put together (they don't drag), informative without being overly technical, and exude a pride without bragging. --Paul Tonks

• The Fountain | Blu Ray | (28/05/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, "The Fountain" is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

• The Dragons of Camelot | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £3.13   |  Saving you £11.62 (848.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Kingdom of Camelot is plunged into darkness after the death of noble King Arthur, as the reign of his cruel sorceress sister, Morgan, begins. Commanding three deadly dragons with her dark magic, she hunts the remaining Knights of the Round Table to the ends of the Earth. Galahad realizes that in order to succeed, they must find his father, Lancelot, who's been in exile for years. Only then will they be able to journey back to Camelot, defeat Morgan and her dragons, and rescue the Lady Gui.

• The Grass Arena - BBC | DVD | (14/05/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Award-winning BBC adaptation, based on the bestselling autobiography by John Healy John Healy's powerful true story of his life and addiction became a bestselling autobiography. It was adapted in 1992 by the BBC into an award-winning Screen Two film. Born in London to poor Irish parents, brutalised at home and hardened on the streets by the age of 7, John Healy is consumed by alcoholism as a teenager. A promising career as a boxer is destroyed by drink as he enters The Grass Arena, a savage community of vagrant alcoholics, ruled by psychopaths and peopled by beggars - who will do anything to quench their thirst. They have nothing to lose. Ending up in prison, he faces a certain death until a fellow inmate shows him how to play chess, for which he displays a natural instinct. One addiction is about to replace another. Winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best Feature Film and the Grand Prix at the Dinard Film Festival in France. Starring, Mark Rylance, Pete Postlethwaite & Clive Russell.

• Children of God | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set on the sun-drenched Bahaman islands Children of God is an award-winning timeless and brave love story. Blond haired blue-eyed Jonny travels to the island of Eleuthera intent on finding some artistic inspiration. After arriving he meets the confident attractive black musician Romeo and it is instantly clear that there is a spark between them. Although Romeo has a fianc he has secretly played with the boys on the side before - but Johnny is not just any boy and soon their relationship becomes far more complex than a simple fling. Struggling to overcome rampant homophobia and anti-gay crusade erupting around them it is going to take more than wishful thinking for their love to last. A beautifully shot captivating romance Children of God paints a universally relevant portrait of desire sexual conflict tolerance and self-acceptance

• Sherlock Holmes | Blu Ray | (31/08/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law put memorable imprints on the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in a bold reimagining that makes the famed sleuth a daring man of action as well as a peerless man of intellect. Director Guy Ritchie helms the excitement, reintroducing the great detective to the world. Special Features: Sherlock Holmes Reinvented: See how Guy Ritchie and Robert Downey Jr. reinterpret the master sleuth and how Downey prepares for the role

• Rita, Sue And Bob Too | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  British films about sex are fairly rare, and mostly embarrassing: from the painfully anxious (Brief Encounter) to the hopelessly naff (the Carry On films). What a treat then is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke's filming of a stage play by young Andrea Dunbar. It's an unsentimental, gleefully lewd comedy about shagging. Tagged for its cinema release in 1987 as "Thatcher's Britain with its knickers down", it even provoked a minor moral hullabaloo in the newspapers. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two giggly Bradford lasses stuck on a ramshackle housing estate. They keep themselves in fags by occasional baby-sitting for nouveau riche couple Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Bob fancies himself rotten, but Michelle has ruled that sex is off the menu. So one night, driving Rita and Sue home, Bob detours to the Yorkshire moors and offers the girls a little something extra in his front seat. Rita and Sue decide to grab it while they can. Alan Clarke's cult following is founded on his bleak, brilliant films about violent young men (Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain). But Rita, Sue is a tribute to Clarkey's ribald sense of humour. It even sports a cameo from novelty pop-act Black Lace, performing their non-hit "Gang-Bang". Teenage debutantes Holmes and Finneran are terrific--just watch them dancing lustily around Bob's red leather sofa to Bananarama. In support, Clarke wisely cast skilled northern comedians like Patti Nicholls and Willie Ross, as Sue's foul-mouthed mum and dad. Amid the laughs, Clarke as usual doesn't stint from showing us the harsh, unlovely side of life. He shot the film on location at Bradford's Buttershaw estate, where Andrea Dunbar grew up and where, tragically, she died of a brain haemorrhage only a few years after the film's release. --Richard Kelly

• Henry VIII | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.52   |  Saving you £6.47 (99.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At the heart of Henry VIII stands a towering performance by Ray Winstone, who literally grows into the role, impressively doubling in size and ageing 40 years over the course of two feature-length episodes. Focusing on Henry's relationships with his six wives, this lavish mini-series also makes a good job of explaining the complex court intrigues of the period, detailing Henry's split with Rome and the political crisis following the creation of the Church of England. Winstone initially seems to play the King as little more than a London gangster, but he gradually unfolds a complex, brutal, manipulative, romantic, dedicated and driven man with great skill. In a role which harks back to Lady Jane (1986), Helena Bonham Carter makes an intelligent and sardonic Anne Boleyn, her bold performance contrasting strongly with Geneviève Bujold in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). Emily Blunt impresses as the sexpot Katherine Howard, and Emilia Fox is compelling as Henry's greatest love, Jane Seymour. There's fine support from an all-star cast, including Sean Bean, Charles Dance and David Suchet. The production is unflinching, with burnings, torture, marital violence and executions graphically portrayed. If there's a weakness it lies in too-modern dialogue and an uncertain visual style, with noticeable borrowings from John Boorman's Excalibur and Ridley Scott's Gladiator, as well as setting Shakespeare in Love-style elegance against the ugly colours and graininess of reality TV. Ultimately Henry VIII plays most like a prequel to Elizabeth (1999)--right down to using the same piece of Elgar to underscore the finale--and has most of the same faults and virtues as that Oscar-winning film. --Gary S Dalkin

• John Carpenter's Village Of The Damned | Blu Ray | (27/04/2015) from £14.78   |  Saving you £1.97 (15.13%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From the master of suspense, John Carpenter, comes a chilling new version of the sci-fi classic. Something is terribly wrong in the tiny village of Midwich. After an unseen force invades a quiet coastal town, ten woman find themselves pregnant. Local physician Dr. Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve-Superman) and government scientist Dr. Susan Verner (Kirstie Ally) join forces when the woman simultaneously give birth...and the reign of terror begins. The people of Midwich must try to find a way to stop the children in the Village of the Damned. Also starring, Mark Hamill (Star Wars)

• Father Brown Series 5-8 | DVD | (10/02/2020) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Series inspired by the stories of GK Chesterton; a Catholic priest has a knack for solving mysteries in his English village.

• John Wick 1/2/3 Triple Boxset | DVD | (16/09/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a retired hit man is forced back into action by a brutal Russian mobster, he hunts down his adversaries with the ruthlessness that made him a crime underworld legend in John Wick, a stylish tale of revenge and redemption. After the sudden death of his beloved wife, John Wick receives one last gift from her, a beagle puppy named Daisy, and a note imploring him not to forget how to love. But John's mourning is interrupted when his 1969 Boss Mustang catches the eye of sadistic thug Iosef Tarasov who breaks into his house and steals it, beating John unconscious and leaving Daisy dead. Unwittingly, they have just reawakened one of the most brutal assassins the underworld has ever seen. John's search for his stolen vehicle takes him to a side of New York City that tourists never see, a hyper-real, super-secret criminal community, where John Wick was once the baddest guy of all.

• The Long Firm | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.43   |  Saving you £13.56 (210.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the swinging sixties in London there was only one crime boss in Soho that mattered: the indomitable Harry Starks. With a reputation for savagery and generosity in equal measure Starks ruled central London with a coercive fist and his favourite implement of torture: the red-hot poker. Based on Jake Arnott's best selling novel which combines fact with fiction this is a retrospective tale of criminality in the 1960s through to the 1980s; told from the view of four characters a

• Mister Corbett's Ghost | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mr. Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night just before Christmas Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master were dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls. This film is based on Leon Garfield's classic tale about the apprentice who wishes for nothing more than the death of his hated master, as he wants to spend New Years Eve with his friends, but finds the burden of the man's ghost too great to bear.

• To Write Love On Her Arms | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £6.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (158.85%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a true story this musical drama tells the story of how artistic fantasy music and friendships helped teenager Renee embark on a courageous journey towards recovery.

• Xmoor | DVD | (09/05/2016) from £3.76   |  Saving you £12.99 (649.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A £25,000 reward offered by a local newspaper brings documentary makers Matt and his girlfriend Georgia to the remote North Devon moor in a bid to capture the fabled Beast purported to be a wild cat, like a panther or a puma on film.

• Black Beauty | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £19.20   |  Saving you £2.79 (14.53%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Black Beauty, a magnificent stallion, is born on a rundown family farm and loved by young Joe Evans (Mark Lester - Oliver!). Growing up together, the boy and his horse are inseparable - until the wicked new squire (Patrick Mower) forces the Evans family from the farm and steals Black Beauty away from Joe. Escaping from his cruel new master, Black Beauty finds himself caught up in a series of adventures - racing with gypsies, performing at the circus and even going to war. Back home, Joe has never given up hope of being reunited with Beauty, and is determined to find the great love of his childhood days once more...

• Thor Ragnarok UHD (Including 2D Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £21.98   |  Saving you £3.51 (17.56%)   |  RRP £23.50

  In Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarokthe destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilizationat the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avengerthe Incredible Hulk! Thor: Ragnarok thunders into U.K. theaters on October 24th, 2017.

• Dracula | Blu Ray | (03/02/2020) from £8.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New BBC drama from the creators of Sherlock, including over 20 minutes of bonus content. 1897. English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet a new client - and a legend is about to get fresh blood... From the snow-capped Carpathians to a death-haunted ship to the beating heart of London, the makers of ˜Sherlock' bring you a brand new take on the most famous vampire of them all: the magnificent, brooding, deliciously deadly Count Dracula. Starring Claes Bang and Dolly Wells. Co-created and written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. Based on the novel by Bram Stoker. Special Features: Who is Dracula? Styling Dracula The Score Building Castle Dracula The Beast Within Arwel's Set Tour Audio Commentary (Episode 3) with Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sue Vertur and Arwel Wyn Jones

• Cage Dive | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £4.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this intense thriller, three friends from California head to the rugged Australian coast for a cage-dive encounter with deadly great white sharks. But after attracting a swarm of vicious sharks, their tour boat is destroyed by a massive rogue wave. As clouds gather and darkness descends, the three friends find themselves alone and defenceless, afloat in the chilly ocean as hungry man-eaters begin to circle. With little hope of rescue, they must fight to survive using only their courage.

• John Carter (Blu-ray 3D | Blu Ray | (02/07/2012) from £24.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (20.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From Academy award-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton (Best Animated Film, WALL-E, 2008) comes John Carter - a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic novel, John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands. Stunning special effects, great characters and villains - and complete with extraordinary bonus features - John Carter is a heroic and inspirational adventure that will thrill you beyond imagination.