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• Patch Adams | Blu Ray | (11/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: there are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others--a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who feel manipulated by this feel-good story, who want to smack the young medical student every time he begins his silly antics. Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners the nickname "Patch" but learns the joy in helping others. To this end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humour and humanity into his treatment of the patients ("We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease", he declares throughout the film). Robin Williams, in the title role, is as charming as ever, although someone should tell him to broaden his range--the ever-cheerful, do-gooder à la Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is getting a little old. His sidekick Truman (Daniel London) steals the show with his gawky allure and eyebrows that threaten to overtake his lean face--he seems more real, which is odd considering that Patch Adams does exist and this film is based on his life. Monica Potter is the coolly reluctant love interest and she makes the most of her one-dimensional part. While moments of true heartfelt emotion do come through, the major flaw of this film is that the good guys are just so gosh-darn good and the bad ones are just big meanies with no character development. Patch Adams, though, does provide the tears, the giggles and the kooky folks who will keep you smiling at the end. --Jenny Brown

• My Hero Academia: Season Three Part Two Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (09/09/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Deku and his fellow classmates take on the Provisional Hero License Exam in Season 3 Part 2.

• Bram Stoker's Dracula: 25th Anniversary (2 Disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray) | 4K UHD | (09/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as the Count and Mina Murray, are quite a pair of star-crossed lovers. She's betrothed to another man; he can't kick the habit of feeding off the living. Anthony Hopkins plays Van Helsing, the vampire slayer, with tongue firmly in cheek. Tom Waits is great fun as Renfield, the hapless slave of Dracula who craves the blood of insects and cats. Sadie Frost is a sexy Lucy Westenra. And poor Keanu Reeves, as Jonathan Harker, has the misfortune to be seduced by Dracula's three half-naked wives. There's a little bit of everything in this version of Dracula: gore, high-speed horseback chases, passion and longing.

• Combatants Will Be Dispatched!:The Complete Season | DVD | (05/09/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As a chief operative of the villainous Kisaragi Corporation, Sentouin Roku-gou receives orders to help the organization conquer the entire known universe. Tasked with infiltrating the kingdom of Gracea mission that could change the fate of the worldRoku-gou mistakenly believes that his skills as a combatant are superb, fuelling his arrogant attitude. To ensure the success of the mission, Alice Kisaragi, an exceptional android with a youthful appearance named after the company itself, is assigned to be Roku-gou's travel companion.

• Saw Steelbook | Blu Ray | (27/09/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With its story of a morally obsessed serial killer who forces his victims to play horrific games of torture and survival, SAW shocked audiences, redefined the horror genre, and spawned one of the most successful franchises of all time. Now, experience the unhinged depravity of the Jigsaw Killer in an eye-popping 4K transfer that will chill your blood and disturb your dreams. Special Features Audio Commentary by director James Wan, writer/actor Leigh Whannell, and Cary Elwes Audio Commentary by producers Mark Burg, Gregg Hoffman and Oren Koules Game Changer: The Legacy of Saw

• Chicago Fire Season 1-7 | DVD | (23/09/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Primetime Emmy® Award-winning executive producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order) comes seven compelling seasons of the hit-series CHICAGO FIRE the adrenaline fuelled view of the courageous men and women who forge head first into danger when everyone else is running the other way. Step inside Chicago's Firehouse 51, where firefighters, rescue squads and paramedics push their abilities to the limit, and put their personal feelings in the firing line, to save lives at any cost. This is an extended family and everyone inside Firehouse 51 knows no other way than to lay it all on the line for each other. Lt. Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) leads the truck company and brash Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) runs the rescue squad. This season, major changes are in store for Firehouse 51 with the departure of a beloved member of the crew and the addition of a replacement who struggles to acclimate to life within the tightknit firehouse family. The drama quickly heats up when one firefighter's life hangs in the balance after being injured in a fire. The firehouse crew includes Battalion Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker, Oz), and Paramedic Sylvie Brett (Kara Kilmer, If I Can Dream). Also returning for SEASON SEVEN are firefighters Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso), Brian Otis Zvonecek (Yuri Sardarov), Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), and season veterans Randy Mouch McHolland (Christian Stolte) and Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg, Sex & The City). Bonus features: Cross-Over Episodes

• Repulsion | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Carol a young girl living in Sixties' London is repelled yet fascinated by men. Her radiant beauty attracts the opposite sex but she shrinks from their advances. Her days are spent in an intensely feminine atmosphere: working in a beauty salon and clinging to her sister Helen for love. But as she incarcerates herself in her sinister shadowy flat men begin to invade her dreams night and day mixing her terror with delight as bizarre hallucinations take hold of her mind. The

• Robin Hood/Dumbo (Disney) | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Robin Hood: The Special Edition (Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman 1973): The legend of Robin Hood one of the most popular stories of all time is brought magically to life in this full length animated Disney classic. The spirit of fun and romance abounds as Robin Hood the swashbuckling hero of Sherwood Forest and his valiant sidekick Little John plot one daring adventure over another. Dumbo: The Special Edition (Dir. Ben Sharpsteen 1941): Dumbo remains one of Disney's greatest animated treasures - a heart-warming and inspiring tale overflowing with charm and memorable songs. When a slow stork finally delivers Mrs. Jumbo's pint-sized baby elephant he's the talk of the circus. But with a pair of oversized ears baby Dumbo is laughed at and ridiculed. With remarkable courage and the help of his loyal friend Timothy Mouse Dumbo overcomes all odds in a triumphant celebration of love and determination!

• My Hero Academia - Season Three Part One Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £18.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Summer is here, and the heroes of Class 1-A and 1-B are in for the toughest training camp of their lives! Braving the elements in this secret location becomes the least of their worries when routine training turns into a critical struggle for survival.

• The Bible - Joseph | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £12.39   |  Saving you £-4.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Joseph is the perennial Biblical classic story of the young 'favourite' of his father Jacob who is abused and sold into slavery by his jealous brothers.

• Genova | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £3.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (50.13%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Colin Firth stars as Joe, a father and a recent widow, who decides to make a fresh start with his two daughters by moving to the Italian town of Genova.

• Bram Stoker's Dracula 30th Anniversary SteelBook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital | Blu Ray | (04/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The King | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The devil made me do it. After being honourably discharged from the Navy Elvis Valderez returns to him hometown of Corpus Christi in Texas in the hope of finding his father whom he has never met. He soon discovers that he is the pastor of a local Baptist church and married with children. Serving as a reminder of his wayward past Elvis' father rejects him. However Elvis' half-sister and he begin a relationship that leads to tragic consequences.

• Tears of the Sun | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bruce Willis plays a Special-Ops commander who leads his team into the jungle of Nigeria to rescue a doctor (Monica Belluci) who will only go with them if they also agree to rescue 70 refugees.

• The Road To Wellville | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-35.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This wrong-headed adaptation of the very funny (and scatological) novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle was written and directed by Alan Parker, who doesn't seem to have much of a clue. It's not a botch, just a movie that hammers its efforts at humour too hard. The focus is split between three storylines: the life of cereal tycoon John Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins with buck teeth), who has created a health spa for the wealthy that focuses on regular cleansing of the digestive tract (as well as applications of electricity); the troubles of an unhappy young couple (Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda), who come to the spa hoping to cure their marital ills (Broderick gets the worst of the deal); and the efforts of a young hustler (John Cusack), who is trying to break into the breakfast-cereal business but gets taken by an even bigger hustler (Michael Lerner). There are subplots about Kellogg's children but they add little. For all the excrement and enema jokes, the joys of this movie are distinctly scattered. --Marshall Fine

• Malena | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £16.18   |  Saving you £8.81 (54.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The latest triumph from Giuseppe Tornatore, the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning Cinema Paradiso, Malena is an utterly unforgettable story of a boy's journey into manhood amid the chaos and intolerance of World War II.In a sleepy Italian village, the most beautiful woman in town, Malena (Monica Bellucci), becomes the subject of increasingly malicious gossip among the lustful townsmen and their jealous wives. But only her most ardent admirer, young Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe Sulfaro), will learn the untold true story of the mysterious and elusive Malena! In a captivating motion picture nominated for two Academy Awards, the eventual struggles and hardships that Malena must bravely endure serve to inspire Renato to new heights of compassion, courage and independence.

• L'Eclisse | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  L’Eclisse was the final film in Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’Avventura and La Notte), a series of films that redefined the concept of narrative cinema. Filmed in sumptuous black and white, and full of scenes of lush, strange beauty, it tells the story of Vittoria (the beautiful Monica Vitti - Red Desert - Antonioni’s partner at the time), a young woman who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal – Viridiana), then drifts into a relationship with a confident, ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon – Le Cercle Rouge). But this base narrative is the starting point for much, much more, including an analysis of the city as a place of estrangement and alienation and an implicit critique of colonialism. Using the architecture of Rome - old and new - as a backdrop for this doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of forming true connections amidst the meaninglessness of the modern world. The final shot remains one of the greatest endings in cinema.

• Tears Of The Sun | Blu Ray | (08/04/2007) from £7.42   |  Saving you £12.57 (169.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruce Willis plays a Special-Ops commander who leads his team into the jungle of Nigeria to rescue a doctor (Monica Belluci) who will only go with them if they also agree to rescue 70 refugees.

• Brotherhood Of The Wolf | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

• Irreversible | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £11.29   |  Saving you £-4.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Irreversible begins with the closing credits running backwards before the film begins (or ends) with Marcus (Vincent Cassell) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) being escorted out of a gay s/m club by the cops, Marcus with his arm broken and Pierre in handcuffs. The "story" proceeds to unwind in a series of single-take scenes that unfold Memento-style, with each scene giving more context to what we have seen previously. Each scenario depicts actions, dialogue, incident, behaviour and circumstance that the lead characters might have wished didn't happen, ranging from extreme violence through awkward social situations to mild embarrassment. The central character (and possible dreamer of this whole what-if story) emerges as Alex (Monica Bellucci), who suffers the worst in a very hard-to-watch rape sequence in an underpass. Semi-improvised, the scenes all have attack and power as themes, with later/earlier conversational sequences that suggest life isn't all sexual assaults in the dark, showing equal cinematic imagination with the horrors. Arguably, this is not a film most would subject themselves to twice, but it is something that stays in the mind for days after viewing, sparking far more ideas and emotions than most wallow-in-nastiness pictures. --Kim Newman