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• Mask | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.17   |  Saving you £-1.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sometimes the most unlikely people become heroes. Based on the true story of a teenager with a facial deformity from a rare disorder that no child has been known to survive. Cher won Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance as Rocky's mother in this emotional and spirited drama.

• Soap - Series 1 | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The controversial sitcom that defined the late '70s and became an instant classic Soap took viewers into the homes of not one but two of the most dysfunctional families ever-and we couldn't help but embrace every eccentric one of them! This first season introduces us to teh quirky lives of the Tates and the Campbells. The unparalleled cast features Billy Crystal Richard Mulligan Robert Guillaume Emmy nominees Katherine Helmond and Cathryn Damon Robert Mandan Diana Canova Jimmy Baio and Arthur Peterson. The series' first season was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards and won for Outstanding Art Direction in a Comedy Series.

• The Sound Of Music - 2 disc Special Edition | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £12.82   |  Saving you £7.17 (55.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The most widely seen movie produced by a Hollywood studio, The Sound of Music grows fresher with each viewing. Though it was planned meticulously in pre-production (save for the scene where Maria and the children take a dipping in an Austrian lake that nearly cost a life), on each viewing one is struck anew by the spontaneous almost improvisatory air of the acting, notably of Julie Andrews under Robert Wise's direction. There are also the little human touches he brings to, for instance, the scene where Maria leads the children to the hills, over bridges and along tow paths where the smallest boy trips up and momentarily gets left behind: it creates a feeling that most of us have encountered. From the opening pre-credit sequence of muted excitement as the camera roves over the Austrian Alps (photographed in magnificent colour), where little phrases from the wind instruments on the soundtrack are flung as if on the breeze, foreshadowing the title song to follow, the production never puts a foot wrong. On the DVD: On the first disc the film itself has never looked or sounded better since its original presentation in Todd AO (prints of which are said to have disappeared forever). The disc also contains a separate audio guide that takes the viewer through the film sequence by sequence, with director Robert Wise commenting on the weather, the production design by Boris Leven, the sequences filmed on location and in Hollywood (like the interiors of the Von Trapp villa), and the naming of other actors who were eager for the lead roles, notably Doris Day and Yul Brynner. On the second disc there are the documentaries. "Salzburg Sight and Sound" was Charmian Carr's own record of her time on location in the summer of 1964, playing Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter. "From Fact to Fiction", running two hours, begins with the birth of Maria in 1905 who inspired the film, charts her subsequent marriage to Captain Von Trapp, their escape from Nazi Germany not across the Alps but via a train across the Italian boarder, their home in Vermont and thence to the German film of the family that was brought to the attention of Rodgers and Hammerstein as an ideal vehicle for a stage musical. A second group of documentaries covers previews, television and radio commercials and a 1973 interview with Wise and Andrews. Overall, this is a marathon package but in its way is as compelling as the film itself. --Adrian Edwards

• Shaft | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £2.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (453.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Samuel Jackson stars as "the cat who won’t cop out when’s there’s danger all about" in this new take on the blaxploitation classic.

• First Blood | Blu Ray | (04/08/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  He never fought a battle he couldn't win: except the conflict raging within his own soul. Academy Award winner Sylvester Stallone stars as war hero John Rambo. An ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam he was once the perfect killing machine. Now he's searching for peace but finds instead an over-zealous small-town sheriff who's spoiling for a fight. All hell breaks loose when an unjustly imprisoned Rambo escapes and becomes the target of a massive manhunt. Now he must use his cunning combat skills and weapons training to stay alive and outwit his pursuers. Co-starring Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna First Blood is an explosive action-thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final powerful frame.

• Jurassic Park Trilogy | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £13.93   |  Saving you £14.05 (128.43%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Own all three jaw dropping Jurassic Park films in this new collection now including Ultraviolet so that you'll never be far from the action. Jurassic ParkA millionaire builds a theme park on a remote Pacific island where real dinosaurs have been grown from long dormant DNA molecules. The millionaire's two grandchildren two dinosaur experts a mathematician and a lawyer discover the power of nature: but it's no longer a game when the dinosaurs run amok. Special Features: The Making of Jurassic Park Early Pre Production Meetings Location Scouting's Phil Tippet Animatics Raptors In The Kitchen Foley Artists Theatrical Trailers Dinosaur Encyclopaedia Storyboards Production Photographs Production Notes Talent Profiles Jurassic Park: The Lost WorldThe sequel to the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as the unconventional mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm. It's been four years since the secret disaster at John Hammond's Jurassic Park. On InGen's second Costa Rican island the dinosaur manufacturing and cloning facility code named Site B has been destroyed by a hurricane. Now Malcom finds himself with the terrifying realisation that not only has something survived but the animals now live and breed in the wild. Special Features: The Making of Deleted Scenes Trailers: Jurassic Park The Lost World Jurassic Park III Back to the Future Trilogy Jurassic Park Theatrical Trailer The Lost World Theatrical Trailer Jurassic Park III Theatrical Trailer ET Trailer Marketing: Posters and Toys Industrial Light and Magic The World of Jurassic Park Dinosaur Encyclopaedia Illustrations and conceptual drawings Models Storyboards Production Photos Production Notes Talent Profiles Jurassic Park IIIThe saga of genetically modified dinosaurs running amok continues. Special Features: The Making of Jurassic Park III New Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III Tour of the Stan Winston Studio A Visit to ILM (includes concepts/process/muscle/simulation/compositing) Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs Behind the Scenes (Spinosaurus Attacks the Plane/Raptors Attack Udesky/The Lake) Storyboards to Final Feature Comparison (Lake/The Aviary/Boat Attack) Jurassic Park III Archives (Production Photos and Poster Gallery) Dinosaur Turntables Feature Commentary

• Robin Hood Men In Tights | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Legend that had it coming, Robin Hood: Men in Tights wipes away the mystery and the dignity of Englands most infamous stocking-filler as Robin of Loxley and his merry men bring a dose of sheer mayhem to Sherwood Forest. Throwing away their titles and their trousers, Robin and his nylon clad crew battle to bring down the evil Prince John and his hideous sidekick the Sheriff of Rottingham to procure the key to Maid Marians heart.and her chastity belt!

• The Double | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £5.68   |  Saving you £10.31 (64.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  CIA operative Paul Shepherdson spent his career hunting legendary Soviet assassin Cassius. Now retired, he's sure that Cassius is dead, but when a US senator's murder bears the signature of the notorious killer, Shepherdson is forced back into service.

• Blue Lights | DVD | (08/05/2023) from £11.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home / Rosamunde Pilcher's Nancherrow | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £20.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (42.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home: When Judith Dunbar is sent to boarding school she makes friends with the wild and carefree Loveday Carey-Lewis. Loveday introduces Judith to her wealthy and glamorous family and their glorious ancestral home of Nancherrow. The next few years are glorious joyful halcyon days of passion fun and romance as the friends remain blissfully unaware of the spectre of war which is about to overshadow their lives... Nancherrow: Joanna Lumley

• Zombie High | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The incredible story of a hard-working student and the warped way of life that made her go wacky! Virginia Madsen (Candyman, Sideways) and Richard Cox (Cruising) star in this humorous thriller about the bizarre happenings that occur in a prestigious boarding school. It seems to Andrea Miller (Madsen) that the upperclassmen act like robots. They're the perfect students dedicated, involved and loyal. Their clothes are perfectly pressed and their hair is perfectly styled. It seems that the teachers have something to do with this ingratiating behaviour. And when Andrea, the new kid at school, sees her friends turning into clones, she starts to suspect the worst. The film features a great supporting cast including Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks, Ray Donovan), Scott Coffey (Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway) and Paul Feig, who would go on to create the TV series Freaks And Geeks and direct such films as Spy, Bridsmaids and the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters.

• The Pianist | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A talented musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps of World War II.

• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Single Disc Edition) | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Russell Crowe stars as "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, who pits his crew of the HMS Surprise against a much better armed and ruthless enemy in a chase that takes him all the way to the far side of the world.

• Peppa Pig Peppa s Circus | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £4.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (104.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Grandpa Pig puts up a tent in the garden so Peppa and her friends decide to stage a circus inside it. 10 all new episodes!

• Double Indemnity | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £17.25   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard) and writer Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck: kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But, of course, in these plots things never quite go as planned, and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out. From the opening scene you know Neff is doomed, as the story is told in flashback; yet, to the film's credit, this doesn't diminish any of the tension of the movie. This early film noir flick is wonderfully campy by today's standards, and the dialogue is snappy ("I thought you were smarter than the rest, Walter. But I was wrong. You're not smarter, just a little taller"), filled with lots of "dame"s and "baby"s. Stanwyck is the ultimate femme fatale, and MacMurray, despite a career largely defined by roles as a softy (notably in the TV series My Three Sons and the movie The Shaggy Dog), is convincingly cast against type as the hapless, love-struck sap. --Jenny Brown

• Always | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Considered by many to represent a low point in Steven Spielberg's career, 1990's Always did suggest something of a temporary drift in the director's sensibility. A remake of the classic Spencer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, Always stars Richard Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pilot who takes great risks with his own life to douse wildfires from a plane. After promising his frightened fiancée (Holly Hunter) to keep his feet on the ground and go into teaching, Dreyfuss's character is killed during one last flight. But his spirit wanders restlessly, hopelessly attached to and possessive of Hunter, who can't see or hear him. Then the real conflict begins: a trainee pilot (Brad Johnson), a likeable doofus, begins wooing a not-unappreciative Hunter--and it becomes Dreyfuss's heavenly mandate to accept, and even assist in, their budding romance. The trouble with the film is a certain airlessness, a hyper-inventiveness in every scene and sequence that screams of Spielberg's self-education in Hollywood classicism. Unlike the masters he is constantly quoting and emulating in Always, he forgets to back off and let the movie breathe on its own sometimes, which would better serve his clockwork orchestration of suspense and comedy elsewhere. Still, there are lovely passages in this film, such as the unforgettable look on Dreyfuss's face a half-second before fate claims him. John Goodman contributes good supporting work and Audrey Hepburn makes her final screen appearance as an angel. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Rambo: First Blood | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When small town Washington sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy) detains a vagrant drifter for resisting arrest, little does he realise that he has set in motion a series of events that bring mayhem and bloody reckoning to his community. The shabby vagrant is in fact former Green Beret John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), a hero of the Vietnam War who has returned home to find America no longer wants him. Responding to brutal treatment from Teasle's Deputies with sudden ferociousness, Rambo makes a daring escape from the town jail, steals a motorcycle and roars off towards the wilderness with the sheriffs not far behind Based on the bestselling novel by David Morrell, filmed during a brutal winter in British Columbia, First Blood is a breathtaking portrayal of America at odds with itself. Features: Rambo takes the '80s Part 1 Drawing First Blood - Making Of Alternate Ending Outtake Deleted scene: Dream in Saigon Original Trailer Sylvester Stallone Audio commentary Screenwriter David Morell Audio commentary

• Cleopatra -- Three-Disc Special Edition | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £24.94   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Still the most expensive movie ever made, Cleopatra nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox. It also scandalised the world with the very public affair of its two major stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. But Joseph L Mankiewicz's 1963 epic deserves to be remembered for more than its off-screen troubles. An extravagantly elaborate production, the sets and costumes alone are awe-inspiring; Mankiewicz's own literate screenplay draws heavily on the classics and Shakespeare; while the supporting cast, led by Rex Harrison as Caesar and Roddy McDowall as his nephew (and future emperor) Octavian, are all first-rate thespians and generally put in more convincing performances than either of the two leads. Mankiewicz's original intention was to make two three-hour films: the first being Caesar and Cleopatra, the second Antony and Cleopatra. But before the film’s completion, and following a boardroom coup worthy of Ancient Rome itself, legendary mogul Darryl F Zanuck took back control of Fox and insisted that Cleopatra be cut to a more economical length. A heartbroken Mankiewicz was forced to trim his six-hour vision down to four. This was the "roadshow" version shown at the film’s premiere and now restored here for the first time. Then following adverse criticism and pressure from cinema chains Zanuck demanded more cuts, and the final released version ran a mere three hours--half the original length. Capitalising on the feverish publicity surrounding Burton and Taylor, the shortened version played up both their on- and off-screen romance. This longer four-hour roadshow version allows for a broader view of the film, adding some depth to the politics and manipulation of the characters. But the director’s original six-hour edit has been lost. Perhaps one day it will be rediscovered in the vaults and Mankiewicz’s much-maligned movie will finally be seen the way it was meant to be. Until then, Cleopatra remains an epic curiosity rather than the complete spectacle it should be. On the DVD: this handsome three-disc set spreads the restored four-hour print of the movie across two discs. The anamorphic widescreen print looks quite magnificent and Alex North’s wondrous score comes up like new in Dolby 5.1 sound. There’s a patchy and only intermittently revealing commentary from Chris Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Martin Landau and Jack Brodsky. Much better is the comprehensive two-hour documentary that occupies disc three, which tells in hair-raising detail the extraordinary story of a film production that became totally out of control. This is accompanied by some short archival material, but the documentary alone is a compelling reason to acquire this set. --Mark Walker

• Clint Eastwood Westerns Collection (3 Discs) | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £16.15   |  Saving you £23.84 (147.62%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Classic westerns collection of 3 Blu-ray discs starring Clint Eastwood in 1080p High Definition.

• Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection (Limited Edition 3 - disc Blu-ray set) | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This essential collection brings together three of acclaimed director Otto Preminger's greatest film noirs for the first time on Blu-ray, delivering a unique combination of intrigue, moral ambiguity and stylish black and white photography, which truly defines this much loved genre. In Fallen Angel, Dana Andrews stars as a down-on-his-luck press agent turned amateur sleuth, investigating the murder of a sultry waitress, Stella (Linda Darnell). Whirlpool is a fascinating blend of noir and woman’s picture starring the beautiful Gene Tierney as a troubled socialite who falls prey to the machinations of a sinister hypnotist (José Ferrer). Whilst in the downbeat Where the Sidewalk Ends Dana Andrews again stars, as a tough cop whose brutal methods leave a trail of murder, deceit and cover-ups. Extras: Original trailers Film commentaries