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• Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - 2 disc Special Edition | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £9.77   |  Saving you £9.22 (94.37%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves reinvented the legend for contemporary cinema audiences, and in doing so far outstripped at the box office even Kevin Costner's own infinitely superior Dances with Wolves to become the biggest hit of 1991. It's an entertaining enough family adventure film, but plays like a big-budget TV movie with no distinctive flair for action or romance. (Director Kevin Reynolds would reunite with Costner four years later for the equally stodgy Waterworld). If the accents are all over the place, at least Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio makes a Maid Marion of ravishing Pre-Raphaelite beauty. Morgan Freeman is fine as Robin's Moorish sidekick, though, other than to expand the demographic, his character has no business being in the story. Realising that the whole enterprise has the credibility of a pantomime, Alan Rickman outrageously camps up his Sheriff of Nottingham, stealing the film in the process. Costner makes an acceptable hero, though he will never replace Errol Flynn in the definitive The Adventures of Robin Hood. If you can accept explosives in 13th-century England, that the approach to Sherwood Forest is a modern conifer plantation and that the 170 miles from Dover to Nottingham is a matter of a few hours ride via Northumberland, then you may find much to enjoy here. Otherwise an already overlong film has been extended to an excessive 148 minutes in this special edition, making far too much of a not very good thing. On the DVD: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is presented as a two-disc set, with a 1.78:1 anamorphic transfer that is generally good looking but with an occasionally soft picture and some evidence of dirt and minor print damage. The Dolby Digital 5.1 remix of the original stereo soundtrack is atmospheric and powerful and shows off Michael Kamen's score to its best. Though presented with 12 minutes of footage not seen in the cinema version, the film still suffers most of the cuts (amounting to 28 seconds) imposed by the BBFC over the years. The main extras are a pair of commentaries: Costner and Reynolds discuss the film in frank and enthusiastic detail, while on a second track Freeman, Slater, writer/producer Pen Densham and cowriter/producer John Watson offer a great deal of insight plus a fair bit of stating the obvious, backslapping and critic bashing. Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (31 mins) is a cut version of a 45-minute TV special originally broadcast in America the night before the premiere, and offers an interesting if brief look at the Robin Hood story plus some routine making-of material. Finally, there is a video of Bryan Adams performing "Everything I Do, I Do It for You" live at Slane Castle and 18 minutes worth of bland electronic presskit-style archive interviews with Costner, Freeman, Mastrantonio, Slater and Alan Rickman, plus the original American trailer, a stills gallery and cast and crew list. --Gary S Dalkin

• Kneecap | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue. INCLUDES:- Interview with Kneecap and director Rich Peppiatt- Claymation Promo- Claymation Cinema Intro- Trailers Read our interview with the director (click) > here

• Blood And Bone | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.80   |  Saving you £8.19 (105.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Ben Ramsey and writer Michael Andrews team for this martial-arts action thriller concerning a mysterious drifter (Michael Jai White) who becomes ensnared in the seedy world of underground street-fighting. In the back alleys of Los Angeles life is cheap and to go against the grain is to take on the most powerful criminal organisation on the West Coast.

• Sorted | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £7.66   |  Saving you £-1.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young man travels to London to investigate his brother's mysterious death and throws himself into the hedonistic world of club culture.

• Lazer Team 2 | DVD | (01/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Founder | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The incredible true story of how Ray Kroc (Academy Award nominee Michael Keaton, Spotlight, Birdman), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac (John Carroll Lynch, Jackie) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman, 22 Jump Street), who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. So impressed by the brothers' 'speedy system' Kroc risked his marriage, bankruptcy and his reputation to create a billion-dollar empire that revolutionised the world. From director John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks, The Blind Side) and writer Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler) comes a stunning and shocking portrayal of the man whose hunger for the American Dream ate away everything he knew.

• Stuart Little / Stuart Little 2 / Stuart Little 3 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Stuart Little: Join the fun when the Little family adopts an adorably spunky boy named Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) who looks a lot like a mouse. Mr. and Mrs. Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis) fall in love with Stuart right away but their older son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) isn't so sure what to make of his new brother and the family's white cat Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane) devises a dastardly plan to get Stuart out of the house...permanently. Stuart Littl

• Death on the Nile Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (13/04/2022) from £7.12   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Although Belgium's premiere sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) plans a spectacular Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer, the trip turns into a terrifying search for a murderer after a picture-perfect couple's honeymoon is cut tragically short. Set against a sweeping landscape of pyramids and desert vistas, DEATH ON THE NILE features a stunning ensemble cast. Based on Agatha Christie's beloved novel, this tale of unbridled passion and jealousy is filled with wicked twists and turns that will have you guessing until the shocking finale. Product Features Death on the Nile: Novel to Film Agatha Christie: Travel Can Be Murder Design on the Nile Branagh/Poirot Deleted Scenes x 8 Official Trailer

• Farewell To The King | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £6.22   |  Saving you £0.77 (12.38%)   |  RRP £6.99

  During World War II a British Army officer is despatched to Borneo to train the local tribesmen to fight the Japanese and is surprised to discover the tribal king is an American. The two train the tribe and fight in a series of battles but both are sadly aware that their destruction is imminent...

• The Originals: The Complete Fourth Season | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £11.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 13 episodes from the fourth season of the American fantasy TV show. This spin-off from 'The Vampire Diaries' follows the Mikaelson vampire siblings, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies) and Rebekah (Claire Holt), as they battle to retake control of New Orleans, the city they helped to build. In this season, five years on from the Mikaelson's worst defeat, Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) has become the sole vampire king of the city and holds Klaus captive, while his siblings remain in a state of slumber. When they are revived by Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin), the Mikaelsons race to rescue Klaus but find they also have other ancient threats to face. The episodes are: 'Gather Up the Killers', 'No Quarter', 'Haunter of Ruins', 'Keepers of the House', 'I Hear You Knocking', 'Bag of Cobras', 'High Water and a Devil's Daughter', 'Voodoo in My Blood', 'Queen Death', 'Phantomesque', 'A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken', 'Voodoo Child' and 'The Feast of All Sinners'.

• A Chorus Line | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Under the stark white lights of an empty Broadway theatre, a stream of hopefuls audition before Zach, the harsh and critical director of a new musical. There is tension in the air as sixteen are singled out for further auditioning, and as the director and his assistant put the dancers through their paces, they begin to relay their lives into word and song. Suddenly an unexpected latecomer arrives. It is Cassie, a beautiful and talented dancer who used to be a star, returned to ask Zach, her former lover, for a job. Passions run high, but he allows her to audition. Over the course of the day, the dancers, all desperate for the job, reveal more and more about themselves to the ever watchful director, as he searches for his chosen Chorus Line. Starring Michael Douglas, and directed by Richard Attenborough, A CHORUS LINE is based on the hugely successful and award winning Broadway musical of the same name.

• Thomas & Friends: The Complete Series 15 | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Thomas and his friends return in the Complete Series 15 with all episodes on DVD together for the first time ever! With the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre up and running the race is on to become the 'Sodor Search and Rescue Engine'. Thomas takes Bertie on a rail adventure and soon runs into trouble on the Shake Shake Bridge. There are twitters and tweets clanging bells and wonky whistles giant escaping balloons and sticky magnets. Percy makes some new friends and the engines are rewarded for being Really Useful.

• The Shield - Series 1-7 | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £52.95   |  Saving you £47.04 (88.84%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The complete collection of the drama series set in an inner city L.A. police precinct where detective Vic Mackey leads a corrupt but highly effective strike team in a tough morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed every day...

• Luther - Series 4 | DVD | (04/01/2016) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Best Of Riverdance | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £10.10   |  Saving you £9.89 (97.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Of all the performances to emerge from Ireland in the past decade - in rock music theatre and film - nothing has carried the energy the sensuality and the spectacle of Riverdance. See Riverdance journey from its extraordinary beginnings at the Point Theatre Dublin with original stars Michael Flatley and Jean Butler through its phenomenal success in Radio City Music Hall New York to its latest live recording in Geneva. With an international cast fea

• Highlander 2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this labyrinthine sequel the Immortal MacLeod saves the people of Earth from immanent ozone layer-related destruction by building a shield that deflects sunlight. But the people of Earth aren't especially grateful as the constant state of night has made them cranky and prone to criminal sprees. Moreover bounty hunters from the Immortals' home planet Zeist have given chase and it could mean curtains for us all unless MacLeod and an ecologist can liberate the Earth and banish t

• Messiah of Evil | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sleepy Hollow | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £7.42   |  Saving you £12.57 (169.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tim Burton's unique take on the tale of the headless horseman, with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.

• If Beale Street Could Talk | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings us his highly anticipated next feature, an adaptation of James Baldwin's stunning novel, If Beale Street Could Talk. In early 1970's Harlem, Tish, a nineteen-year old girl, is in love with a young sculptor, Fonny, the father of her unborn child. When Fonny is falsely accused of rape and imprisoned, Tish and their families race to clear his name before the baby is born. A story about love persisting in the face of racial oppression and injustice, Jenkins brings together a talented young cast which includes Stephan James (Selma, Race) as Fonny and newcomer Kiki Layne as Tish.

• Michael Bentine's Potty Time - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £7.86   |  Saving you £8.13 (103.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pages of the great Potty Encyclopaedia are opened once more with 13 classic episodes of this marvellously madcap puppet series - a favourite of children and adults alike. Created written and presented by the multi-talented Michael Bentine (The Goons) Potty Time ran for a total of seven years between 1973 and 1980 and was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows poll of 2001. Watch re-enactments of some of the world's greatest historical events with a unique Potty slant and learn little-known facts from the venerable Professor Potsworthy - the source of all Potty knowledge. Who really won the Battle of Waterloo? Why was Troy rebuilt thirteen times? Who made the first attempts at flight? And who was Viva Zapotti? Enter the parallel Potty universe and all will be revealed!