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• Gothika | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £7.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (25.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller The Crimson Rivers, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl--dead for four years--sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything--including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)--in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but Gothika serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. --Jeff Shannon

• Echo in the Canyon | Blu Ray | (10/09/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gypsy Fighter | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £5.85   |  Saving you £4.14 (70.77%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Plunged into a world of kidnap murder and bare knuckle boxing four young friends on a weekend adventure find themselves in the middle of a nightmare. After setting up camp in a farmer's field they notice an ominous looking caravan and decide to investigate. Within minutes a foolish prank leads to a series of brutal events and a deadly race for survival. Gypsy Fighter is a gritty British action thriller that will have you questioning who the villains really are. Special Features: Behind the Scenes Interviews

• Cold Feet - Series 4 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The future looks uncertain for the three couples in the fourth series of Cold Feet. Adam (James Nesbitt) and Rachel (Helen Baxendale) desperately want to be parents and face rigorous adoption procedures however unknown to Rachel Adam's first love is back on the scene to win him back. David (Robert Bathurst) is battling to keep his marriage together after his short-lived affair but Karen (Hermione Norris) is not warming to his efforts and her drinking spirals out of control. F

• Hit Me | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sonny (Koteas) who has worked in the same job at the Stillwell Hotel for eight years tries to re-evaluate his increasingly complex life... Based on the acclaimed novel 'A Swell Looking Babe' by Jim Thompson.

• Ilsa The Wicked Warden | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Greta del Pino is the sadistic warden of a female concentration camp thinly disguised as an asylum somewhere in South America. This terrible place is the last destination of the undesirable elements in an obviously fascist state. Protected by the government Greta is unassailable and has absolute power over the lives of her prisoners. A girl almost manages to escape but at the last moment her pursuers catch her on the porch of the humanitarian Dr. Arcos who is disturbed by the obvi

• Stargate SG-1 :Series 8 - Vol. 43 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £17.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Join Colonel Jack O'Neill and the SG-1 team as they return for the latest exciting season of Stargate SG-1. Continuing it's blend of sharp wit and cool adventure with award winning special effects Stargate delivers all the action adventure you desire as the crew battle against old foes and face new dangers in amazing but ever more hostile worlds. Episodes comprise: 1. Citizen Joe 2. Moebius (Part 1) 3. Moebius (Part 2)

• The Godfather 4K UHD - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  No movie changed Hollywood more than THE GODFATHER. From the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo to box office blockbuster, its influential legacy endures to this day. Starring Marlon Brando in his Oscar®-winning performance as the patriarch of the Corleone family, this first installment in the three-movie saga paints a dramatic portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America. Balanced between the Corleones' commitment to family and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged, it features career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. This searing and brilliant masterpiece garnered ten Oscar® nominations and won three, including Best Picture. Product Features Commentary by Francis Ford Coppola Introduction from Francis Ford Coppola

• Round The Twist - Series 3 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete third series available on DVD for the first time! First screened in 1990 Round The Twist soon became a much loved children's show when it was first aired on in the UK on the BBC. Adapted from the stories of Paul Jennings Round The Twist became renowned for its weird mysteries and was broadcast to over 70 countries. This complete series release tells the story of the Twist family Tony Twist (Dad) and his three children - 14 year old twins Pete and Linda and eight yea

• We Could Be Kings | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Tracklist: 1. The La's - There She Goes 2. Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train 3. Vic Reeves / Wonderstuff - Dizzy 4. Longpigs - She Said 5. Wonderstuff - The Size Of A Cow 6. Beautiful South - You Keep It All In 7. Cast - Free Me 8. Charlatans - Forever 9. Big Country - Fields Of Fire 10. Oui 3 - For What It's Worth 11. Shed 7 - Going For Gold 12. Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens 13. The Jam - That's Entertainment 14. Gene - We Could Be Kings 15. Cast - Flying 16. James - Sit Down

• Alien 3 | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161 a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the Alien a realisation that may compel Ripley to try destroying not only the horrific creature but herself as well.

• The Challenger | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £5.64   |  Saving you £7.35 (130.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Midwest Obsession | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An obsessive small town beauty queen goes to great lengths to keep the love of her life from reconciling with his ex-girlfriend.

• Eccentricities of a Blonde Hai | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Macrio spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job he falls madly in love with a young blonde who lives across the road. No sooner does he meet her than he wants to marry her. His uncle totally opposed to the match kicks him out of the house and Macrio departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle's approval to marry his beloved he discovers the singularity of his fiance's character.

• The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  By coincidence rather than by design the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. In the year the Atom bomb was built, this substance- LSD - was to become an A-bomb of the mind. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down and ultimately change the modern world. Told using previously unreleased archive footage, with interviews from principal witnesses and Hofmann himself; The Substance is a fascinating investigation into our troubled relation with LSD.

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• The King's Singers - Live at the BBC Proms | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £15.55   |  Saving you £-0.56 (-3.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

• War Collection - Between Heaven And Hell/Guadalcanal Diary/To The Shores Of Tripoli | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Between Heaven And Hell (Dir. Richard Fleischer 1956): Sam Gifford (Wagner) is a young successful cotton planter who lacks compassion for others especially his own sharecroppers. But once in combat he answers a sadistic officer (Crawford) and must rely on the friendship of a ""cropper"" (Ebsen). Nominated for a 1956 Oscarifor Best Music 'Between Heaven And Hell' is an action-packed story of men in battle - sometimes with themselves... Guadalcanal Diary (Dir. Lewis Seiler 1943): Based on the best seller of the same name Guadalcanal Diary is one of the greatest war movies of all time. This strikingly realistic film follows a devoted platoon of Marines through the terrors of war in the South Pacific. The all-star cast includes Lloyd Nolan William Bendix Preston Foster and Anthony Quinn as soldiers battling disease treacherous terrain and unrelenting weather as well as a human enemy. Poignantly narrated and with explosive action rooted in a solid historical context 'Guadalcanal Diary' is action-packed entertainment from beginning to end. To The Shores Of Tripoli (Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone 1942): When a carefree playboy (John Payne) joins the Marine Corps he tests the skill and patience of the tough veteran sergeant (Randolph Scott) who tries to whip him into a real Marine. But as his training proceeds the recruit's cocky selfishness is replaced by selfless valour and he eventually earns the love of a beautiful Navy nurse (Maureen O'Hara). Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography 'To The Shores Of Tripoli' was shot with the co-operation of the US Marine Corps and contains authentic scenes of Marine combat training and ground drills.

• In All Innocence | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cecile (Virginie Ledoyen) fresh faced and free spirited has arrived in Paris looking for adventure and excitement. In trouble after an attempted armed robbery goes wrong Cecile meets hard-nosed and respectable Michel (Gerard Lanvin) a distinguished lawyer who enjoys the millionaire lifestyle that his success has afforded him. To the bemusement of his wife (Carole Bouquet) and colleagues he agrees to represent her in court a decision that turns his life upside down. After using

• Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 9 - Vol. 4 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (73.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Step through the stargate with SG-1 a team of soldiers and scientists as they travel instantaneously to other planets to explore forge alliances defuse crises establish trade investigate ancient mysteries and defend Earth from such hostile forces as the Goa'uld and the Replicators. Episodes comprise: 12. Collateral Damage 13. Ripple Effect 14. Stronghold