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• Outbreak | DVD | (11/05/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying non-fiction book The Hot Zone (purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the US, added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) and produced an unusual thriller--a surprise hit--called Outbreak. The other picture, slated to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, fell through. The premise of Outbreak, which owes something to Elia Kazan's 1950 plague-scare movie, Panic in the Streets, is as terrifying as it is timely. As developers slash their way deeper into the previously unexplored tropical rainforests, they are exposed to radically new forms of life, including diseases, that in these days of commonplace international travel could turn into deadly epidemics almost before we know it. Hoffman's character and his estranged wife (Rene Russo) are disease experts called in to identify the unknown killer, which was carried into the country by an illegally smuggled monkey. The best sequence shows the disease spreading--through recycled air on a passenger jet or a sneeze in a crowded cinema. The final chase is pretty conventional but the cast is terrific, including Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr., J.T. Walsh and Zakes Mokae. --Jim Emerson

• JUDEX (Masters of Cinema) Two-disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bananas | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £10.96   |  Saving you £8.02 (100.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Woody Allen's second film as a director was a wild, unpredictable and unlikely comedy about a product-tester named Fielding Mellish (Allen), who can't quite connect with the woman of his dreams (Louise Lasser, Allen's ex-wife). He accidentally winds up in South America as a freedom fighter for a guerrilla leader who looks like Castro. Once he assumes power, the new dictator quickly goes insane--which leaves Fielding in charge to negotiate with the US. The film is chockfull of wonderfully bizarre gags, such as the dreams Fielding recounts to his shrink about dueling crucified messiahs, vying for a parking place near Wall Street. Look for an unknown Sylvester Stallone in a tiny role--but watch this film for Allen's surprisingly physical (and always verbally dexterous) humour. --Marshall Fine

• Batman Forever | DVD | (29/03/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When Tim Burton and Michael Keaton announced that they'd had enough of the Batman franchise, director JoelSchumacher stepped in (with Burton as coproducer) to make this action-packed extravaganza starring Val Kilmer as the capedcrusader. Batman is up against two of Gotham City's most colourful criminals, the Riddler (a role tailor-made for funnyman Jim Carrey) and the diabolical Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones), who join forces to conquer Gotham's population with a brain-draining device. Nicole Kidman plays the seductive psychologist who wants to know what makes Batman tick. Boasting a redesigned Batmobile and plenty of new Bat hardware, Batman Forever also introduces Robin the Boy Wonder (Chris O'Donnell) whose close alliance with Batman led more than afew critics to ponder the series' homoerotic subtext. No matter how you interpret it, Schumacher's take on the Batman legacy is simultaneously amusing, lavishly epic and prone to chronic sensory overload. --Jeff Shannon

• Certain Women | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £9.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winner of Best Film at the London Film Festival and Best Supporting Actress / Breakthrough Artist for Lily Gladstone at the Boston Society of Film Critics' Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and the Indiewire Critics' Poll. From award-winning director, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff) comes CERTAIN WOMEN, winner of Best Film at the London Film Festival. Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and Lily Gladstone star as four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest. Laura (Dern) is a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation. Gina (Williams) is a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life. And Beth (Stewart) is a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand (radiant newcomer Lily Gladstone). As their stories intersect in subtle but powerful ways, a portrait emerges of flawed yet strong-willed individuals in the process of defining themselves. Click Images to Enlarge

• M.A.S.H. | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ensemble drama from acclaimed director Robert Altman centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Neve Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.

• The Big Bus | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Bus of the title is the world's first nuclear-powered coach and this fabulous parody of early 70's disaster movies hits the mark with misfit stereotyped passengers rediscovering God sex and the will to live a saboteur from the oil companies and a cannibalistic driver all coming together for the maiden voyage of the block-long super-coach. The passengers on this fun-filled ride from New York to Denver including ensure that the one-liners come thick and fast in this very funn

• Midnight In St. Petersburg | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Having lost his intelligence job at the end of the Cold War former British secret agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) now travels East to find new outlets for his skills. Harry sets up a Private Investigation company in Russia and soon finds himself charged with rescuing his young assistant Nikolai's girlfriend Tatiana who has been kidnapped. The trail leads to St. Petersburg which Harry finds to be a city held in the iron grip of the violent Russian Mafia. The mafia does its best to stop Harry in his tracks but it may be easier said than done!

• Les Paladins - Rameau | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work blending reality and surreal on several levels.This passionate new production by Jose Montalvo stunningly choreographed by Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu sets new standards in entertainment charm and ingenuity. The sharp and spectacular multimedia staging does full justice to Rameau's dazzling burlesque confirming Olivier Rouviere statement that 'Les Paladins is the last laugh of a witty 77-year old composer'. Recorded live in 2004 at the Paris Theatre du Chatelet in true surround sound both the virtuoso cast and Les Arts Florissants are in top form clearly enjoying themselves in the masterful hands of William Christie.

• Boston Legal: Season 1 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £11.99   |  Saving you £28.00 (70.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the courtroom... Created by TV genius David E. Kelley and led by an Emmy Award-winning cast Boston Legal tells the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Fast-paced and darkly comedic the series confronts social and moral issues while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law. This spin-off of The Practice features all the episo

• Boston Legal - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £12.91   |  Saving you £22.08 (171.03%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Boston Legal is back with Season 4 Created by TV genius David E. Kelley and led by an Emmy Award-winning cast Boston Legal tells the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Fast-paced and darkly comedic the series confronts social and moral issues while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.

• Inspector Gadget | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Strictly for kids, this 1999 live-action feature version of the popular cartoon series seems long even at 80 minutes. As a video, it's easier to take and appreciate for what works best in the story: the special effects. Matthew Broderick plays the security guard who is physically transformed into a multi-use cyborg with a zillion attachments, from stilts to helicopter blades to skis. A crime fighter in raincoat and fedora, and equipped with a nifty Gadgetmobile, the hero investigates the death of a man linked to the villainous Sanford Scolex (Rupert Everett). Scolex, who blames Gadget for having to wear a prosthetic hand, develops an evil robot twin of the good inspector, causing much mischief and giving Broderick an opportunity to poke fun at his own performance of the virtuous Inspector. The action is shaky, the script plods along and the effects soon take over; Everett has to go to the extremes of overacting just to be seen above it. But children of a certain age will almost certainly engage with the more clever stuff and forgive the rest. --Tom Keogh

• Get Shorty | Blu Ray | (19/03/2012) from £8.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (14.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Drug smuggling. Racketeering. Loan sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! Golden Globe winner John Travolta leads an all-star cast in the hysterical comedy that insists it doesn't take much to make it in the movies...just a background with the Mob.Loan shark Chili Palmer (Travolta) is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), Chili talks tough...and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir (Danny DeVito), romances B-movie queen Karen Flores (Rene Russo) and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. In fact, all would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and the angry mobster who won't leave him alone!

• Thor | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £6.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (200.60%)   |  RRP £15.00

  The world has many heroes... but only one is a god. When the arrogant warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth Star Trek) is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero. Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Anthony Hopkins (Beowulf ) also star in the blockbuster adventure critics are calling 10/10 (Daily Star) and Brilliant! (Daily Mirror). Special Features: Commentary by Director Kenneth Branagh Road to the Avengers HD Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant HD Deleted Scenes HD 7 Featurettes HD

• Boston Legal - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £7.98   |  Saving you £27.01 (338.47%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Created by TV genius David E. Kelley and led by an Emmy Award-winning cast Boston Legal tells the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Fast-paced and darkly comedic the series confronts social and moral issues while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law. Episodes Comprise: 1: Can't We All Get a Lung? 2: New Kids on the Block 3: Desperately Seeking Shirley 4: Fine Young Cannibal 5: Whose God Is It Anyway? 6: The Verdict 7: Trick or Treat 8: Lincoln: Part 1 9: On the Ledge: Part 2 10: The Nutcrackers 11: Angel of Death 12: Nuts 13: Dumping Bella 14: Selling Sickness 15: Fat Burner 16: The Good Lawyer 17: The Bride Wore Blood 18: Son of the Defender 19: Brotherly Love 20: Guise 'n Dolls 21: Tea and Sympathy 22: Guantanamo by the Bay 23: Duck and Cover 24: Trial of the Century

• In The Line Of Fire | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £7.09   |  Saving you £5.90 (83.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This smart, tautly directed thriller from Wolfgang Petersen is about the cat-and-mouse games between a Secret Service agent named Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) and the brilliant, psychopathic assassin (John Malkovich) who's itching to get the President in his cross hairs. In the Line of Fire's back-story--Horrigan is haunted by his inability to prevent John Kennedy's assassination (Eastwood is computer-generated into archival footage)--is more than a little hokey, but the plotting itself is smartly, even ingeniously, constructed. Petersen manages a vice-like grip on the tension and Eastwood even gets to deliver an ever-more-timely lecture on the diminished nature of the office of President. Eastwood's as gruff and as infuriating to the by-the-book Powers That Be as ever and Malkovich oozes delightful menace. Rene Russo capably co-stars as a colleague with whom Horrigan gets friendly. --David Kronke

• LOUIS FEUILLADE: THE COMPLETE CRIME SERIALS (1913-1918) (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Ten-disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (11/11/2024) from £77.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An early cinematic pioneer with an undeniably pervasive influence, Louis Feuillade made hundreds of films in a short career spanning only a few decades. Today, he is best remembered for his landmark serials Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex and Tih Minh, four crime epics that have had an immeasurable impact on popular culture around the globe. The Masters of Cinema series is honoured to present these silent masterworks on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from astonishing 4K restorations.Adapted from a series of popular novels by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas stars René Navarre as the eponymous criminal mastermind. Across the serial's five episodes, Fantômas is pursued by Inspector Juve (Edmund Breon) and newspaper reporter Jérôme Fandor (Georges Melchior) as he carries out his nefarious schemes. In Les Vampires, journalist Philippe Guérande (Édouard Mathé) attempts to investigate an enigmatic criminal gang operating in the Parisian underworld - a group known only as the Vampires. In Judex, a mysterious vigilante (René Cresté) sets out to bring down a corrupt banker named Favraux (Louis Leubas). Finally, in Tih Minh, a young man (Cresté) returning from an expedition in Indochina becomes embroiled in a game of espionage and thievery with a gang of mysterious jewel thieves.Feuillade's crime serials had an enormous impact on some of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century, chiefly Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock. They also played an important role in the development of the criminal mastermind and masked vigilante characters that would proliferate in pulp magazines, film, television, radio and comic books over the next few decades, including Dr Mabuse, The Shadow and Diabolik. Feuillade's celebrated serials are collected here in their entirety alongside a wealth of special features.Limited Edition boxed set includes all four serials across 10 Blu-ray Discs, all presented in 1080p HD from stunning 4K restorations courtesy of Gaumont Film Company | Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio on all serials, including scores by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and Patrick Laviosa | Brand new audio commentaries on select serial chapters | Brand new interviews with film critics and historians | Archival interviews and featurettes | PLUS: A book featuring new and archival writing on Louis Feuillade and the serials included in this set* More TBC, extras subject to change

• In America | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £4.17   |  Saving you £13.08 (449.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A coming-of-age story about an Irish couple and their two kids trying to find their way "In America."

• Batman Forever (2 Disc) | DVD | (21/10/2005) from £19.26   |  Saving you £-3.27 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Riddle me this; riddle me that you'll find adventure on the wings of a bat! Brace for excitement as Val Kilmer (Batman) Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face) Jim Carrey (The Riddler) Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian) and Chris O'Donnell (Robin) star in the third spectacular film in the Warner Bros. Batman series. Joel Schumacher directs and Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile Batwing Batboat Batsub and bold heroics. Hang on!

• Boston Legal : Season 2 | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £29.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (33.30%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Everyone deserves their day in court. In fact some people deserve more than one. Take the attorneys of Crane Poole & Schmidt whose unquestionable legal brilliance is matched only by the outrageous instability of their personal lives. It's a chaotic world where sexual harassment extortion kidnapping and attempted murder all come with the territory... and those are just the attorneys! Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal The Practice Picket Fences) and featuring an Emmy Award-winning cast including William Shatner Candice Bergen and James Spader Season Two of Boston Legal is socially relevant wickedly funny and infectiously fresh... It's an open and shut case! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Black Widow 2. Schadenfreude 3. Finding Nimmo 4. A Whiff and a Prayer 5. Men to Boys 6. Witches of Mass Destruction 7. Truly Madly Deeply 8. The Ass Fat Jungle 9. Gone 10. Legal Deficits 11. The Cancer Man Can 12. Helping Hands 13. Too Much Information 14. Breast in Show 15. Smile 16. Live Big 17. ...There's Fire! 18. Shock and Owww! 19. Stick It 20. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 21. Word Salad Days 22. Ivan the Incorrigible 23. Race Ipsa 24. Deep End of the Poole 25. Squid Pro Quo 26. Spring Fever 27. BL: Los Angeles