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• The Siege | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A high-profile action/exploitation thriller set in the late 20th century, The Siege is really a fantasy that extrapolates from major terrorist bombings, such as the one at the World Trade Centre. Denzel Washington is FBI special agent Hubbard, "Hub" to his friends, whose anti-terrorist task force must track down the terrorist cells responsible for a spate of bombings in New York. His partner is an FBI agent of Arabian extraction (played convincingly by Tony Shalhoub), proving not all Arabs are bad guys--a point the film should be lauded for making again and again. Thrown into the mix is a CIA spy (played almost kittenish at times by Annette Bening), whose ties to the terrorists appear to be at the centre of the conflicts. When the bombings escalate out of control, the President institutes martial law, sending in General Devereaux (played with impenetrable countenance by Bruce Willis) with tanks and troops to ferret out the terrorists. Echoes of Japanese-Americans in internment camps ring out as Arabs, including the son of the Arab-American FBI agent, are herded into a stadium. Periodic audio-montages of "man in the street" sentiments anchor the material in the present and show how serious and relevant the material is. But finally what we have is a taut and entertaining popcorn movie, giving itself the humanistic nod when it can. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Hannibal | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £6.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (56.34%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anthony Hopkins Oscar winning pyschopath Hannibal Lector comes back into the life of FBI Agent Clarice Starling in this long awaited sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs.

• The Big Red One - The Reconstruction | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £16.89   |  Saving you £-3.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg depicts the D-day landings with a realism lauded by veterans. The Big Red One depicts the D-day landings, too, and it was made by a veteran. Writer-director Samuel Fuller, who served in the First Infantry Division from North Africa to Czechoslovakia (including the Normandy landings), made a career out of swift, punchy B movies, such as Pickup on South Street and The Naked Kiss. The Big Red One became Fuller's nod to A-movie filmmaking, yet it has the solid, matter-of-fact perspective of the ground-level infantryman. The episodic action ranges all over Europe, as a tough squad of American GIs (including Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine) follow their hard-bitten sergeant (Lee Marvin, at his best) and try to stay alive. Filmed mostly in Israel, the film delivers on the requisite war-movie conventions and tough-guy humour but also introduces notes of poetry. Fuller's D-day doesn't match the pyrotechnics of Spielberg's version, but it creates power from the simple image of a dead soldier's watch, ticking away in blood-soaked surf. A fine and memorable picture, The Big Red One might have been even greater had it been released in Fuller's full-length cut--someday perhaps a restoration will allow the director's vision to be seen for the first time. --Robert Horton

• Capote | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £5.11   |  Saving you £14.88 (291.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in this look at US literary legend Truman Capote.

• Village Of The Damned | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £12.94   |  Saving you £6.04 (60.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The original 1960 version of Village of the Damned is regarded as a classic of science fiction and horror, and it remains one of the creepiest movies of its kind. Directed with occasional flair by John Carpenter, this 1995 remake trades subtlety for more explicit chills and violence, but the basic premise remains effectively eerie. In the tiny, idyllic town of Midwich, a strange mist causes the entire population to fall asleep, and when everyone awakes the town physician (Christopher Reeve) discovers that 10 women--including his wife and a local teenage virgin--have mysteriously become pregnant. Their children are all born on the same day, with matching white hair and strange, glowing eyes, grow at an accelerated rate and thus raise Reeve's suspicion that they are not of earthly origin. These demonic brats can control minds and wreak havoc with the power of their thoughts, so of course they must be destroyed. Only Reeve knows how to get the job done, and his performance (the actor's last big-screen role before his paralysing accident in 1995) grounds this otherwise superfluous remake with enough credibility to hold the viewer's attention. But for the real chills, definitely check out the original version--it's 20 minutes shorter but twice as spooky. --Jeff Shannon

• Keeping Faith - Series 1-2 Box Set | DVD | (02/09/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Faith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.

• The Only Way is Essex - Series 3 | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The third series from the hugely popular 'The Only Way Is Essex' is finally here and there are some new faces in town, including muscle bound twins Dino and Georgio and Lucy's Italian stallion, Mario. Our old favourites are back too and whilst Lydia and Arg are back on, Mark and Lauren are off. But is this really it for Lauren and her Mr Wright? Speaking of which, will single ladies Chloe and Gemma ever find their Mr Right? Of course, with romance comes bromance and as well as Marg, we had Joey and Kirk, or Jirk. The tans that you see may be fake but the people are real and their lives are more emotional, more dramatic and more hilarious than ever. The Only Way Is Essex, where looking Reem, smelling Reem and being Reem isn't just a saying, it's a way of life.

• Against The Law | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £11.14   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Daniel Mays stars in this powerful dramatisation of the Montagu Trial one of the most sensational and controversial court cases of the 1950s and the catalyst for a campaign that paved the way for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain. Against the Law follows the affair between celebrated Fleet Street journalist Peter Wildeblood and serviceman Eddy McNally. The exposure of their relationship had devastating consequences, leading to public vilification and prison sentences for Wildeblood and his friends Michael Pitt-Rivers and Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. Enduring a year-long incarceration that involved attempts to alter his sexual orientation, Wildeblood emerged with a determination to challenge the draconian laws that shattered the lives of generations of gay men. Also starring Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss, Charlie Creed-Miles and newcomer Richard Gadd, Against the Law is based on Wildeblood's best-selling autobiography, and scripted by BAFTA-nominated Brian Fillis.

• Juliet Bravo - Series 4 | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Inspector Kate Longton (Anna Carteret) takes up the mantel from Inspector Jean Darblay (Stephanie Turner) in the fourth series of Juliet Bravo Episodes Comprise: 1.Teamwork 2.Teacher's Pet 3.Retribution 4.Solvent Solution 5.Who's Your Friend 6.Mates 7.Bad Seed 8.Doors 9.Guilt 10.John The Lad 11.Who Says The War Is Over? 12.Off Duty 13.Simple Simon 14.Backtrack

• Lost After Dark | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £7.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (92.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A group of stranded teens turn to an abandoned farmhouse for shelter from the elements but soon find a far greater danger lies inside. When one of the friends is brutally murdered, the group begin to fear they are being stalked by a vicious cannibalistic murderer. As the students are picked off one by one, a deadly game of survival begins that only the lucky ones will survive.

• The Road To Guantanamo | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Road To Guantanamo is the story of four friends who set off from the Midlands in September 2001 for an innocent wedding and holiday in Pakistan. Two and a half years later only three of them returned home. Through their epic journey we hear the story of their misunderstandings ignorance confusions and friendships as step by step they go from the safety of their small-town teenage existence to the heart of the ""war on terror"". Through a series of interviews dramatised

• The Purple Rose Of Cairo | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £11.16   |  Saving you £4.83 (43.28%)   |  RRP £15.99

  I've just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything." So says Cecilia (Mia Farrow), the central figure in Woody Allen's lyrically humorous Purple Rose of Cairo. The era is the Great Depression, and she is the bullied wife who finds escape in romantic movies, falling in love with the explorer hero, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), of the eponymous film. So far, nothing remarkable. But Allen has Baxter spot her in the audience, fall in love with her, and desert the picture, much to the irritation of the other characters. The surreal quality of the situation develops further when Gil Shepherd--the actor who played Baxter (Daniels again)--seeks out his fictional alter ego to persuade him back into the film and thus save both their reputations. Naturally Shepherd, too, falls in love with Cecilia, and she's left to choose between fiction and reality, chooses the latter and is then cruelly jilted. The message seems clear: fairytales are just that, make-believe. There's no such thing as a happy ending. Dating from 1985 (after Broadway Danny Rose and immediately before Hannah and her Sisters), this is one of the few movies in which Allen doesn't actually appear, though he's recognisable in every line of Farrow's character. It's also a nostalgic tribute to the era that defined movie glamour, the close-up of Cecilia's face at the end a moment of pure Hollywood. At 81 minutes, this is a small but brilliant gem. On the DVD: Aside from the technological improvement of DVD over video, the new format adds little by way of features: you can view the original trailer, scan the film scene by scene, and there's a choice of subtitles in eight languages.--Harriet Smith

• Coast Series 9 | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Coast continues to uncover the secrets of our shores through untold tales of explorers from as far apart as Cornwall and Australia; it reveals little-known gems including a coastal walk that takes in the history of Britain; investigates the clandestine sex trade that scandalised Victorian Britain and decimated the Royal Navy; discovers how Greenwich became the global centre of sea navigation and reveals what becomes of our coast in winter. Coast also crosses the Atlantic to find out why Nova Scotia in Canada appealed to its Scottish settlers and it ventures to the French channel coast to unearth its connection with the birth of Britain's Ordnance Survey maps. Nick Crane is joined by a multitude of experts including Neil Oliver Tessa Dunlop Mark Horton Andy Torbet Ruth Goodman Adam McIntosh Helen Arney Miranda Krestovnikoff and Nick Hewitt as they explore the rapport past and present between land and sea. Features: The Channel Secret Paths to Hidden Treasure The Explorers' Coast Offshore! Sea and the City Winter

• Fear | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Together forever. Or else. First love can be innocent or intense intoxicating or insatiable. Mark Wahlberg Reese Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano star in this riveting suspense-thriller about a passionate romance that soon becomes a deadly obsession. Nicole Walker (Witherspoon) always dreamed of being swept away by someone special someone strong sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David (Wahlberg) is all that and more: a modern day

• A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge was a quick follow-up no one was exactly happy with. However this deserves some credit for trying to extend rather than repeat the original storyline. As opposed to the resourceful heroines of all the other Elm Street films, this is the one about the troubled male teenager worried that Freddy is out to possess his body and make his way back to reality. It's shot through with a heavy handed gay subtext, with male bodies ogled and sliced (for a change), stuck with a few truly ridiculous moments (the exploding budgie) and lapses into incoherence, but it opens with a great school bus sequence and makes the most of the infernal boiler room of Freddy's soul. With Clu Gulager and Hope Lange. Directed by Jack Sholder (The Hidden). -- Kim Newman

• Lone Survivor (4K UHD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + UV Copy) | 4K UHD | (26/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Lone Survivor on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray is 4 times sharper than HD. Brilliant brights and deepest darks with HDR (High Dynamic Range) and wider colour spectrum adding dazzling colours to your viewing experience. Also includes Blu-ray copy and Digital Download to watch anywhere on all your devices. Based on The New York Times bestselling true story of heroism, courage and resilience, Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative who are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan. Faced with an impossible moral decision, the small band is isolated from help and surrounded by a much larger force of Taliban ready for war. As they confront unthinkable odds together, the four men find reserves of strength and bravery as they stay in the fight to the finish. Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter, Contraband) leads the cast as Marcus Luttrell, the author of the first-person memoir Lone Survivor, whose book has become a motivational resource for its lessons on how the power of the human spirit is tested when we are pushed beyond our mental and physical limits. Starring alongside Wahlberg as the other members of the elite team who gave everything for their brothers-in-arms are Taylor Kitsch (Savages, Friday Night Lights) as Michael Murphy, Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, television's Bonnie and Clyde) as Danny Dietz and Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, Kill Your Darlings) as Matthew Axe Axelson. Eric Bana (Star Trek, Hanna) joins the core team as Erik Kristensen, their commanding officer in Afghanistan. Bonus Features: Will Of The Warrior Bringing The Story To Light Recreating The Firefight Learning The Basics The Fallen Heroes Of Operation Red Wings The Pashtun Code Of Life

• Foxcatcher | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £3.62   |  Saving you £16.37 (452.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When wealthy John du Pont (Steve Carell) invites Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) to move to his estate and help form a wrestling team for the 1988 Seoul Olympics Mark sees a way to step out of the shadow of his charismatic and revered brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and instantly accepts his offer. However du Pont begins to lead Mark down a dark path causing the athlete’s self-esteem to slip and meanwhile becomes fixated on recruiting Dave to ‘Team Foxcatcher’. Throughout their constant power struggles in the pursuit of victory tensions and paranoia run high and all three men are propelled towards an unforeseen tragedy that will change their lives forever.

• Star Trek 4 : The Voyage Home | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £10.50   |  Saving you £9.49 (90.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The most popular movie in the "classic Trek" series of feature films, Star Trek IV was a box-office smash that satisfied mainstream audiences and hardcore fans alike. The Voyage Home returns to one of the favourite themes of the original TV series--time travel--to bring Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov from the 23rd century to present-day (ie, mid-1980s) San Francisco. In their own time, the Starfleet heroes encounter an alien probe emitting a mysterious message--a message delivered in the song of the now-extinct Earth species of humpback whales. Failure to respond to the probe will result in Earth's destruction, so Kirk and company time-travel to 20th-century Earth--in their captured Klingon starship--to transport a humpback whale to the future in an effort to communicate peacefully with the alien probe. The plot sounds somewhat absurd in description, but as executed by returning director Leonard Nimoy, this turned out to be a crowd-pleasing adventure, filled with a great deal of humour derived from the clash of future heroes and contemporary urban realities, and much lively interaction among the favourite Trek characters. Catherine Hicks plays the 20th-century whale expert who is finally convinced of Kirk's and Spock's benevolent intentions. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Chewin' The Fat - Complete Collection | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes: 'Chewin' The Fat - Series 1' 'Chewin' The Fat - Series 2' Chewin' The Fat - Series 3' and 'Chewin' The Fat - Series 4'.

• Stella: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £12.46 (71.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The fictional town of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys is home to Stella Morris - a vivacious 40-something single divorcee making a living doing the locals' washing and ironing. But what Stella does best is juggle the ups and downs of her family, ex-husbands, lovers and friends. And that's a full-time job... Her eldest son Luke is in jail and her teenage daughter Emma is heading off the rails. Her best friend Paula is a functioning alcoholic funeral director with a vigorous sex life, her shallow-as-a puddle ex has taken up with a 28-year old and the lollipop man has been in love with her since 1984. And then there's the tricky issue of love which takes her totally by surprise.. Oh, and the neighbours across the road keep a horse outside the front door. Special Features: Behind the Scenes Deleted Scenes