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• Terminal Velocity | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £7.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (94.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  While investigating the mysterious circumstances of a beautiful student's demise, a maverick skydiving instructor finds himself entangled in a murderous conspiracy involving Soviet spies and a lost shipment of gold. Logical it ain't, but this entertainingly daft thriller does offer some good-natured satiric riffs on standard action star conventions. Charlie Sheen (throughout most of the film, this not-especially-heroic hero displays the approximate intelligence of a bag of doorknobs) stars along with Nastassja Kinski in a welcome return after a long absence from the screen. Terminal Velocity is good fun for adrenaline junkies, with a boffo climax involving a midair escape attempt from a free-falling convertible. Writer David Twohy went on to direct Sheen in the considerably more accomplished The Arrival. --Andrew Wright

• Hinterland | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £12.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the windswept sand dunes of the coastline to the badlands of the hinterland Aberystwyth is the setting for this brand new 4 part drama series as seen on the BBC. Into this world steps DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington). On the run from his London past a brilliant but troubled man he isolates himself on the outskirts of town a town filled with secrets as dark and destructive as his own. Partnered with the intelligent and complex Di Mared Rhys they form an engaging relationship as they embark on solving cases that involve the ultimate anti-social crime murder.

• Cry of the City (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A masterpiece of law and disorder, Robert Siodmak's film noir classic depicts a timeless battle of good versus evil on the streets of New York. Childhood friends Martin Rome (Richard Conte), a charismatic and ruthless criminal, and Lieutenant Candella (Victor Mature), a dogged and tireless cop, go head-to-head as Rome attempts to forge an alibi through intimidation and menace. Seductively callous and threatening, Rome's travails reveal an underworld of corruption and criminality at the heart of the Big Apple. Candella's persistence and resourcefulness keeps his nemesis looking over his shoulder as a tense game of cat and mouse plays out to an inevitably dramatic climax. Offering a vivid depiction of life in Little Italy, Siodmak's fast-paced crime thriller is beautifully shot and is a key work in the genre. Extras Original theatrical trailer Audio commentary with Adrian Martin Fully illustrated booklet Other extras TBC

• Pie in the Sky | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £46.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe (Richard Griffiths) plans to retire after 25 years on The Force and open his own restaurant - Pie in the Sky - much to the dismay of his superiors. After being shot on duty in his last case, his decision is reaffirmed; however when his conduct on that case is called into question he is forced to continue on a part-time basis by the duplicitous Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair), who is fully aware that Henry is the main reason why so many crimes get solved. How will Henry cope combining running a restaurant with his detective work? Includes all five series of this much-loved police drama series. Special Features: Interview with Maggie Steed Filmographies Production Notes Picture Gallery

• The Thing | Blu Ray | (20/09/2021) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Exclusive Art by Matt Ferguson Horror-meister John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Once unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them. Collectors Edition Includes 1 x 4K UHD Disc of The Thing (1982) 1 x Blu-Ray Disc of The Thing (2011); 1 x Official Motion Picture Soundtrack Disc by Ennio Morricone 1x Matt Ferguson's The Thing Poster 1x Art Booklet (includes production notes, excerpt of the script, behind the scenes photos, early concepts) Bonus Content Feature Commentary with Director John Carpenter and Kurt Russell John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape Outtakes Theatrical Trailer

• Silent Night, Deadly Night 3-Film Collection | Blu Ray | (13/12/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Babylon 5 Movie Box Set - Thirdspace/River of Souls/A Call to Arms | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £44.29   |  Saving you £-9.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Three full-length feature films from the popular 'Babylon 5' science fiction series. Third Space (1998) When a mysterious artefact found discarded in hyperspace is recovered and brought back to the station for analysis the crew aboard Babylon 5 face an unexpected threat. Sinister mind altering thoughts take hold through foreboding dreams of a towering structure and giant ships as questions fly surrounding the origin of their discovery. Scientists battle against the clock to

• Hinterland Season 2 (Y Gwyll) | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the coastal lowlands to the mountainous hinterland, Aberystwyth is the setting for this brand new 4 part drama series, as seen on S4C and the BBC. Into this remote corner of West Wales steps DCI Tom Mathias (Richard Harrington), a brilliant but troubled man, solving crimes in a town full of secrets as dark and destructive as his own. Blood, soil and belonging this is Hinterland. This edition contains the hybrid version of Hinterland (English with small snippets of Welsh). Special Features: Locations characters Interviews Design

• Boom | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Rebus: Series 1 | DVD | (19/08/2024) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Scully | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £19.92   |  Saving you £-6.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BBC comedy series from 1984 about a 15 year old boy and his dreams to play for his beloved Liverpool F.C. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the two novels 'Scully '(1975) and 'Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed' the show regularly features Kenny Dalglish and other several other famous Liverpool players.

• Beauty & the Beast | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £6.71   |  Saving you £17.28 (257.53%)   |  RRP £23.99

  The film that officially signalled Disney's animation renaissance and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman, (winning the 1991 Oscar for Best Song and Menken's score won a trophy as well). The downright funniest song is "Gaston", a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication and pure joy. --David Kronke, Amazon.comOn the DVD: Beauty and the Beast's regular DVD release still offers some special features, but doesn't hold a candle to the Collector's Edition. The "making-of" featurette is informative charting the production from Walt Disney's original idea to the final musical version. "The Story Behind the Story" shows the origins of many of Disney's adapted fairy tales. The two games are fun, if a little slow to load. Celine Dion's original video is slightly on the dull side, but Jump 5's remixed version of "Tale as Old as Time" is just ridiculous. As always the sing-along track is great fun for all budding Belles or Beasts in the house. The transfer is as pristine as could be expected from a 1991 release. On the DVD: Beauty and the Beast's two-disc Collector's Edition really is the stuff of fairy tales. Disc 1 has three versions of the movie, the best being the "Work in Progress" edition which offers the unfinished film, sketch lines and all. The theatrical cut has a pristine transfer and the sound is immaculate. The director's commentary relies on a lot on name-dropping and you'll find more interesting insight in the "making-of" feature on the second disc. The sing-a-long track (as with all Disney releases) is fantastic, particularly for such a well-loved score. Disc 2 is packed full of information, fun and games. The best of the informative features is "Animation Magic", an intelligent look into the production of Disney cartoons. In the games section you'll need to head straight for the West Wing to continue an adventure with Chip (Tip: finish the game "Maurice's Workshop" first), but get your fingers warmed up as it needs a little remote control action. This disc only really falls down on the slowness of some of its games and the appalling remix video of "Tale as Old as Time". --Nikki Disney

• Monarch of the Glen: The Complete Series 1-7 | DVD | (16/10/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• South Pacific | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One ocean 25 000 islands half the water on Earth. The Pacific includes some of the most remote spots on the planet - yet there's not a single island that has avoided colonizers whether it be plants animals or humans - and generally all three. Go beyond clich''d images of swaying palms and idyllic beaches to explore this immense and surprising ocean as it has never been seen before.

• How Stella Got Her Groove Back | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £6.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (113.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --Tom Keogh

• Joan Of Arc: The Messenger | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Over the years, many film directors have attempted to tell the story of legendary 15th-century heroine Joan of Arc, a simple country girl who claimed she was inspired by God to lead the French troops in a victorious assault on the mighty English army. Luc Besson's 1999 epic might not be the best version of her life, but it's certainly the biggest. The movie cost a reported $60 million. Even if you are terminally unimpressed by the scale of such recent blockbusters as Gladiator, your eyes will pop out at the sheer number of bodies (living and dead) that Besson has assembled for the dynamic battle scenes. The lavish sets and costumes are almost equally gobsmacking, though neither will show to maximum advantage on the small screen. That's a pity because size is the only thing Joan of Arc really has going for it--as a human drama, it falls completely flat.The historical Joan was eventually made a saint by the Catholic Church, and earlier biopics tended to treat her celestial visions as literal fact. It was probably a mistake for Besson and his co-screenwriter Andrew Birkin to take a more psychological approach and present them as figments of her hysterical imagination. It makes it hard to work up the necessary empathy when the spectacle revolves around a confused and neurotic babe who couldn't organise a Tupperware party, let alone a vast military campaign. Milla Jovovich (the star of Besson's previous The Fifth Element and formerly his wife) doesn't help matters with her shrill and amateurish performance. But a couple of the supporting players are passably amusing--John Malkovich camps it up energetically as Charles, the dispossessed French king whom Joan reinstates, while Faye Dunaway wears outlandish headgear and carries on like a science-fiction creation in the role of his scheming mother-in-law. (The less said the better about Dustin Hoffman's pompous turn as Joan's personified conscience.) Besson keeps to the same glossy visual style even when the Maid is burning at the stake, but it isn't enough to prevent this empty shell of a movie from being a colossal yawn. --Peter Matthews

• The Dirty Dozen - The Deadly Mission | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Telly Savalas assumes the role of the leader of the Dirty Dozen from Lee Marvin as he and the twelve are charged to destroy a nerve gas manufacturing plant before the Germans can make enough to use against the Allied invasion...

• Donkey Kong Country - I Spy With Hairy Eye | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  More fun and adventures with Donkey Kong and his friends.

• The Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paris 1792. Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine. They are trapped in the capital: there is no escape. But rumours whisper of a league of young English gentlemen of unparalleled daring who risk their lives to spirit aristocrats across the Channel. They leave no trace behind them except a note from the ""Scarlett Pimpernel"" (Anthony Andrews). The ruthless spy master Chauvelin (Ian McKellen) is determined to stop the rescuers by fair means or foul - and desperately outnumbered the Scarlet Pimpernel and his men must use all their wits to evade capture and stay alive. With a dazzling all-British cast this glorious production of Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel is one of the largest single television productions ever made - winning critical acclaim on its release and wowing generations of viewers for over two decades. Nominated for three Academy awards and winner of an Emmy award for Outstanding Costume Design.

• Jurassic Park / The Lost World / Jurassic Park 3 | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Jurassic Park (Dir. Steven Spielberg 1993): Director Steven Spielberg presents a masterpiece of imagination suspense science and cinematic magic that quickly became one the most successful film in worldwide box-office history. On a remote island a wealthy entrepreneur (Richard Attenborough) secretly creates a theme park featuring live dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric D.N.A. Before opening it to the public he invites a top palaeontologist (Sam Neill) and his paleobotanist g