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• Jim Henson Collection: The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Storyteller | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £49.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen. Recalling the worlds of JRR. Tolkien, Henson tells the story of a race of grotesque birdlike lizards called the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. A prophecy tells of a Gelfling (a small elfin being) who will topple their empire, so in their reign of terror they have exterminated the race, or so they think. The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and restore the balance of the universe. Henson and codirector Frank Oz have pushed puppetry into a new direction: traditional puppets, marionettes, giant bodysuits, and mechanical constructions are mixed seamlessly in a fantasy world of towering castles, simple huts, dank caves, a giant clockwork observatory, and a magnificent landscape that seem to have leaped off the pages of a storybook. Muppet fans will recognise many of the voice actors--a few characters sound awfully close to familiar comic creations--but otherwise The Dark Crystal is a completely alien world made familiar by a mythic quest that resonates through stories over the ages. --Sean Axmaker

• I Am Legend | 4K UHD | (12/12/2016) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Smith stars in the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic science-fiction novel about a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by vampires. This new version somewhat alters Matheson’s central hook, i.e., the startling idea that an ordinary man, Robert Neville, spends his days roaming a desolated city and his nights in a house sealed off from longtime neighbours who have become bloodsucking fiends. In the new film, Smith’s Neville is a military scientist charged with finding a cure for a virus that turns people into crazed, hairless, flesh-eating zombies. Failing to complete his work in time, and after enduring a personal tragedy, Neville finds himself alone in Manhattan, his natural immunity to the virus keeping him alive. With an expressive German shepherd, his only companion, Neville is a hunter-gatherer in sunlight, hiding from the mutants at night in his Washington Square town house and methodically conducting experiments in his ceaseless quest to conquer the disease. The film’s first half almost suggests that I Am Legend could be one of the finest movies of 2007. Director Francis Lawrence’s extraordinary, computer-generated images of a decaying New York City reveal weeds growing through the cracks of familiar streets that are also overrun by deer and prowled by lions. It’s impossible not to be fascinated by such a realistically altered cityscape, reverting to a natural environment, through which Smith moves with a weirdly enviable freedom, offset by his wariness over whatever is lurking in the dark of bank vaults and parking garages. Lawrence and screenwriters Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman wisely build suspense by withholding images of the monsters until a peak scene of horror well into the story. It must be said, however, that the computer-enhanced creatures don’t look half as interesting as they might have had the filmmakers adhered more to Matheson’s vampire-nightmare vision. I Am Legend is ultimately noteworthy for Smith’s remarkable performance as a man so lonely he talks to mannequins in the shops he frequents. The film’s latter half goes too far in portraying Smith’s Neville as a pitiable man with a messianic mission, but this lapse into pathos does nothing to take away from the visual and dramatic accomplishments of its first hour. --Tom Keogh

• Time Bandits | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £9.07   |  Saving you £13.91 (228.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Time Bandits, only his second movie as director, Terry Gilliam's barbed humour and hyperactive visual imagination got themselves gloriously into full gear. Sketched out in a matter of weeks over Michael Palin's kitchen table while Gilliam struggled to get his dream project Brazil off the ground, this is a children's film made by a director who "hates kid films" and all the "mawkish sentimental crap" that goes with them. The 11-year-old hero, Kevin, finds himself lugged out of his suburban bedroom and off through a series of wormholes in time and space by a gang of rapacious, bickering midgets in search of loot, en route encountering (and casually despoiling) a gallery of eminent historical figures that include Agamemnon, Napoleon and Robin Hood, along with assorted ogres, giants and monsters. As co-screenwriters, Gilliam and Palin cheerfully filch ideas from everyone from Homer and Jonathan Swift to Lewis Carroll and Walt Disney, while the sets--as always with Gilliam--ingeniously work towering miracles on puny budgets. "The whole point of fairy tales", according to Gilliam, "is to frighten the kids" and Time Bandits taps into some archetypal nightmare imagery. But the whole farrago is much too good-humoured to be seriously scary. Not least of the movie's pleasures are a series of ripe cameos from the likes of Ian Holm as an irascible Bonaparte, Sean Connery good-humouredly spoofing his own image as Agamemnon, John Cleese's version of Robin Hood as inanely condescending minor royalty ("So you're a robber too! Jolly good!"), David Warner hamming it up gleefully as the Evil Genius, and the great Ralph Richardson playing the Supreme Being as a tetchy public-school headmaster. On the DVD: Time Bandits on disc comes with a generous wealth of extras. Along with the expected trailer--sent up Python-style by a disaffected voice-over--we get excerpts from Gilliam's storyboard and notated script, filmographies for Gilliam, Palin, Connery and David Rappaport (the leader of the vertically challenged gang), stills, production shots, a scrapbook with cast photos and drawings, notes on the film and plenty more background data, plus a cheerfully relaxed 27-minute interview with Gilliam and Palin. There's also an informative and appealingly unpretentious full-length commentary shared between Gilliam, Palin, Cleese, Warner and Craig Warnock, who played Kevin. The transfer, clean and crisp, is in the original full-width ratio, and there's a choice of Dolby Stereo or Dolby 5.1 sound. --Philip Kemp

• Wildest Dream | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.

• Nell | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young woman (Foster) is found hiding in the rafters of her Blue Ridge Mountain home after the death of her mother. She has been totally cut off from the outside world and has developed her own impenetrable language. A local doctor (Neeson) attempts to hide her from the outside world's prying eyes but she may have to be locked up in an institution for her own safety from hostile locals...

• Tigerland | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £4.87   |  Saving you £14.38 (398.34%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Director Joel Schumacher's acclaimed story of a group of young US infantry men in 1971, in training for Viet Nam, at a time when not even many of the soldiers themselves believed in what they were doing.

• Curfew | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £12.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When day turns to night, ordinary people compete for freedom in the world's deadliest street race. When dusk falls, ordinary people compete for freedom in the world's deadliest street race. Over one long, crazy, unforgettable night they will compete for the ultimate prize liberation from the curfew that controls their lives. Get ready for Curfew an audacious and exhilarating new drama from the award-winning producers of Peaky Blinders. Starring an ensemble cast including Sean Bean, Billy Zane, Miranda Richardson, Adrian Lester, Adam Brody, Phoebe Fox and Malachi Kirby. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• The House | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After Scott and Kate Johansen (Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler) lose their daughter Alex's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank (Jason Mantzoukas), they decide to start an illegal casino in his house. Click Images to Enlarge

• Bulldog Drummond Double Bill | DVD | (26/08/2019) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Repo Man | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Otto (Emilio Estevez) a young L.A. punk becomes the protege of Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) a crusty car repossessor. Otto soon comes to challenge his mentor for a 20 000 repo prize - a '64 Chevy Malibu driven by J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris) a lobotomized nuclear scientist. The Malibu is being madly pursued by ruthless government agents UFO cultists and the infamous Rodriguez Brothers. In the trunk is an unthinkable glowing object that could change the course of our civilisation -

• Maybe Baby | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £6.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (110.38%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ben Elton adapts his own novel for the big screen in this comedy about a couple (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) who become more & more desperate as they try to conceive a child.

• The Harsh Light of Day | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Occult writer Daniel, suffers a brutal attack in which his wife is murdered and he is left paralyzed. When the Police fail to find his attackers, Daniel is offered a unique but terrifying chance of revenge when he encounters a mysterious stranger - but at a great cost. If Daniel wants to take revenge on his wife's murderers, he will have to leave behind his humanity and turn to the supernatural. Starring Dan Richardson and Giles Alderson (I Want Candy, The Damned United), THE HARSH LIGHT OF DAY is a revenge vampire film like no other, full of action, emotional conflict and tragedy, from the point of view of a heart-broken man forced to extreme action. Just 23-years-old when he began making THE HARSH LIGHT OF DAY, British writer/director OLIVER S. MILBURN is a new talent to watch.

• Girlfriends (ITV Drama) | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  'Girlfriends' follows Linda, Sue and Gail as they struggle with the changes and responsibilities that come with being a modern woman of a certain age.

• The Patriot | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mel Gibson stars in this action packed tale of the Amercan war of independence.

• Sherlock Holmes - The Sign Of Four | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £14.23   |  Saving you £-5.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This riveting mystery is a whodunit at its best. The legendary British sleuth Sherlock Holmes accompanied by his loyal sidekick Watson become wrapped up in yet another jewel-centered mystery when a beautiful young woman finds herself the surprised recipient of the world's second largest diamond. The master detective is summoned to figure out just who sent her the jewel and why.

• A Town Called Eureka - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £10.49   |  Saving you £19.50 (185.89%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes all 13 episodes from the second season of the hit TV show A Town Called Eureka! Step into the quirky and seemingly perfect small town of Eureka where the hidden work of America's brightest scientists can lead to innovation or utter chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.

• Richard III (Laurence Olivier) | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A classic adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Richard III has helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England. But jealousy and resentment cause Richard to seek the crown for himself and he conceives a lengthy and carefully calculated plan using deception manipulation and outright murder to achieve his goal. His plotting soon had tumultuous consequences both for himself and for England when after Edward IV is murdered - drowned in a vat of wine - Richard finds his kingdom in dire peril and must defend his realm at the battle of Bosworth.

• Face Of An Angel | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £7.35   |  Saving you £-1.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  She was everything America wanted a movie star to be...except white Actress dancer singer. Here was a woman with talent beauty and ambition. Dorothy Dandridge owed it to herself to make it to the top. And make it she would. An acclaimed stage performer Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of Carmen Jones becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved abused cheated glorified undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

• Mindgame Saga | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From the pen of DOCTOR WHO writer TERRANCE DICKS! MINDGAME A Human a Draconian a Sontaran trapped in a prison cell. Who will survive when they are forced to fight for their lives? MINDGAME TRILOGY - Having escaped their fate in MINDGAME, the three warriors return to their respective timelines a battlefield, a prison cell and a dying spaceship. Far more deadly situations than the one they just escaped from! Will any of them survive? MINDGAME SAGA stars SOPHIE ALDRED (Ace in DOCTOR WHO) and brings together two classic monsters from DOCTOR WHO for the first and only time!

• Watership Down | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £8.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (78.46%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Much like Richard Adams' wonderful novel this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. It is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just below par; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of doom from a runt named Fiver (voiced by Richard Briers). In search of a place safe from humans and predators, they face all kinds of dangers, including a warren that has made a sick bargain with humankind, and a warren that is basically a fascist state. Allegories aside, Down is engaging and satisfying, and pulls off the same amazing trick that the novel did--you'll forget that this is a story about rabbits. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com