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• The Desperate Trail | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £12.26 (64.60%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Amiable con man Jack Cooper (Craig Sheffer) is on a westbound stagecoach headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake them for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke (Linda Fiorentino) rides the same coach handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes (Sam Elliott) and headed for the hangman. In a few hours all should reach their destinations. But the trail they travel takes an unexpected turn: Cooper and O'Rourke are soon off the stage and running for their lives. The law ends and the ch

• Big Brother - Uncut - The Official Video | DVD | (11/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Big Brother was the TV event of 2000. The set-up--put 10 members of the public in a specially constructed house, keep them under 24-hour surveillance and watch them sweat out the weekly evictions of one of their number, voted by us, the public--was derived from a hugely successful Dutch programme, and gripping, unmissable stuff it proved to be over here, too. Because you already know the outcome--and if you don't, where were you last summer--the game-show aspect of the programme doesn't really work on DVD or video. But that was never really the point. It was the personalities involved that made the show such compulsive viewing, and they remain as lively as ever.On Big Brother--Uncut and the DVD To add some spice, Channel 4 have included scenes that were "too hot" for television: when Nicola decides to do some nude body painting, we see a bit more flesh now; some of the conversations between the contestants are a bit saucier than the original broadcast versions; and there are some hilarious close-ups of a few of the housemates picking their nose. But the best thing about Big Brother: Uncut is what made the whole show such big news in the first place: Nasty Nick's downfall, here played out in all its excruciating detail.Given what we know about him, it's fun to see Nick try his hand at some team-building exercises the producers designed to select the 10 contestants before the programme aired. This scene is also included on "Inside Big Brother", a making-of documentary accompanying "Big Brother: Uncut". Made while the Big Brother show was still being broadcast, there's an agreeable urgency to this programme. The Channel 4 producers interviewed here seem a little bewildered by the show's success. John Del Mol, the co-creator of the Dutch show, hazards a guess that the British show was such a hit because it was so well cast, and there's a fascinating look into the design of the house--"penal chic" was the effect they were after. Also included in this package are profiles of the various contestants, but these feel a little redundant, if only because, over the course of the show, we learn a lot more about the housemates than what's on these skimpy resumes. The profiles do, however, tell us that most of the contestants harbour show-biz ambitions. Now, why is that not a surprise? --Edward Lawrenson

• Cake | Blu Ray | (29/06/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.93 (48.91%)   |  RRP £8.92

  Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston) is in pain. Her physical pain is evident in the scars that line her body and the way she carries herself wincing with each tentative step. She’s no good at hiding her emotional pain either. Blunt to the point of searing insult Claire’s anger seethes out of her with nearly every interaction. She has driven away her husband her friends— even her chronic-pain support group has kicked her out. The only one left in Claire’s otherwise solitary existence is her housekeeper- cum-caretaker Silvana (Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza) who barely tolerates her boss’ need for liquor and prescription pills. But the suicide of Nina (Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick) one of Claire’s fellow chronic-pain group members prompts another fixation. In pursuing questions about the death of a woman she barely knew Claire explores the boundaries between life and death abandonment and heartbreak danger and salvation. As she inserts herself into the lives of Nina’s husband (Sam Worthington) and the son Nina left behind Claire just might find salvation. From director Daniel Barnz CAKE stars Jennifer Aniston and Sam Worthington with Anna Kendrick.  Also starring are Adriana Barraza Felicity Huffman William H. Macy and Chris Messina.  The film is written by Patrick Tobin and produced by Ben Barnz Kristin Hahn Mark Canton and Courtney Solomon.  The executive producers are Jennifer Aniston Yu Wei-Chung 俞惟中 Patty Long and Shyam Madiraju with Stephanie Caleb Scott Karol Wayne Marc Godfrey and Liz Destro serving as co-producers.  Barnz’s creative behind-the-scenes team is led by director of photography Rachel Morrison production designer Joseph T. Garrity editors Kristina Boden ACE and Michelle Harrison and costume designer Karyn Wagner.  The music is by Christophe Beck with Linda Cohen serving as music supervisor. Bonus Features: The Many Layers of Cake: Learning To Live Again The Icing on the Cake: Meet The Cast UltraViolet Expiry Date: 29.06.2018 Click Images to Enlarge

• Snow White Tale of Terror | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From its dark and complex themes to its archetypal imagery, the Grimm fable of the innocent and beautiful Snow White has captured readers for centuries, but it has not often been given accurate treatment on film. Snow White: A Tale of Terror attempts to do this with magnificent performances, stunning Gothic scenery and costumes, and a well-crafted script that brings out the nuances in the original story. Seven years after a tragic accident has killed his wife just as she is giving birth, Frederick Hoffman (Sam Neill) who alone cares for their daughter Lilli (Taryn Davis as the younger and Monica Keena as the older) remarries Lady Claudia (Sigourney Weaver). Claudia arrives at his estate, bringing with her a creepy, intricately carved mirror. She has also brought along her mute brother (Miroslav Taborsky). It is not long before this eager stepmother and the wary daughter are locked in an endless cycle of jealously and hurt feelings. Reading into the deeper, psychological implications of this complex family situation, and the story's many symbolic elements (the poison apple, the outcast hermitlike woodsmen), the film is both visually graphic and emotionally subtle. Not for children, this Snow White is for thinking adults who enjoy more than one good scare. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

• Ex-Drummer | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £6.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (187.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three drug-addled punk rock misfits are looking for a drummer. They approach Dries a well known writer. His problem is that he can't play the drums which appeals to the band's punk sensibility. Fascinated by these dysfunctional characters Dries joins the group but his arrival awakens the personal disputes and the family feuds latent in the band. A shocking hardcore blood-splattered depiction of small time rock musicians losing the plot rather than living the dream.

• Bucky O'Hare - Complete Series | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £85.00   |  Saving you £-72.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Wars' started as a comic book about the aforementioned individual and his crew who fought toads in an intergalactic space war. In 1989 it became a TV show and in 1991 Hasbro released a series of 10 figures. Bucky returned to his original medium as a member of the Continuity stable of comics around the same time. He's had a Nintendo game based on him and an Arcade game based on the cartoon (see below) which even used some of the voices from the series. B

• Die Hard Trilogy (Six Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £5.29   |  Saving you £29.70 (561.44%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Die Hard New York cop John McClane facing Christmas alone flies to Los Angeles to see his estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and their kids in an attempt to patch things up. He arrives at his wife's high tech office building in the middle of their Christmas party just as it is gatecrashed by the ruthless master criminal Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and a dozen fellow activists intent on relieving the Nakatomi Corporation of six hundred million dollars in negotiable bonds...

• On The Road | Blu Ray | (25/02/2013) from £13.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (64.33%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a young and dangerously seductive ex-con, they hit it off immediately. Determined not to get trapped in a narrow life, they burn their bridges and hit the road: thirsting for freedom.

• Kidnapping Freddy Heineken | DVD | (08/06/2015) from £4.25   |  Saving you £13.74 (323.29%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas, One Day), Sam Worthington (Avatar, Sabotage) and Anthony Hopkins (Thor: The Dark World, The Silence Of The Lambs) star in this double-barrelled, killer combination of gripping heist movie and tense psychological thriller, Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. When they're turned down for a bank loan, low-level career criminals (Sturgess and Worthington) embark upon one of the most audacious and infamous crimes in recent history, the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken (Hopkins), heir to the brewing empire and one of the wealthiest men in the Netherlands. But once the deed is done, the reality of life on the run and the pressures of guilt soon begin to infect the kidnappers as they start to unravel from within. Click Images to Enlarge

• The Contender | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £5.44   |  Saving you £0.55 (10.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A political thriller starring Joan Allen as a Senator chosen by the President (Jeff Bridges) to become Vice President. However her potentially scandalous past comes back to haunt her when it is exploited by her political enemies.

• Love Don't Cost A Thing | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (179.80%)   |  RRP £13.99

  High-school senior Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon) a brilliant but likable outcast has come to regret the years of intellectual endeavors that prevented him and his un-hip friends from socializing getting girlfriends and hanging out with the super-cool 'Elite' kids. When queen of the 'Elite' crew Paris Morgan (Christina Milian) wrecks her mother's car Alvin steps in and mortgages his future to help her out. The catch: in exchange for $1500 in car parts and Alvin's automotive expertise

• Freight | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £4.24   |  Saving you £8.75 (206.37%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Russian gang operating in Leeds with no respect for the laws of England traffic Eastern Europeans in containers then enslave them the women to sex the men to illegal fights. They cross local businessman Gabe Taylor and a war escalates but when his daughter is taken to be sold into the sex trade Gabe fights back.

• Angel | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Last Embrace | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mr Majestyk (Bronson) is an ex-con and Vietnam vet whose efforts to run a normal life as a farmer are thwarted by narrow-minded locals and corrupts cops. When a Mafia hitman destroys Majestyk's crop, the farmer snaps. Taking his rifle in hand, he goes after the syndicate assassin, refusing to stop until his work is done. Written for the screen by Elmore Leonard (Out of Sight, Get Shorty), directed by Richard Fleischer (10 Rillington Place, Soylent Green) and starring cinema tough guy Charles Bronson (The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish), Mr Majestyk is a gritty action film full of car chases, shoot-outs and bare-knuckle brawls.

• The First Grader | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £13.66   |  Saving you £4.33 (31.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

• All The Pretty Horses | DVD | (19/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Matt Damon and Henry Thomas star as John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, two young cowboys in 1949 who ride from Texas into Mexico in search of what may be left of the Old West.

• Under the Mountain | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Teenage twins Rachel (Sophie McBride) and Theo (Tom Cameron) travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Staying with their Aunt Kay (Michaela Rooney) and Uncle Cliff (Matt Chamberlain) on Lake Pupuke the twins are fascinated by the volcanic lake and the creepy old Wilberforce house around the shore. They visit Mt Eden where Theo sees Mr Jones (Sam Neill) a strange old man from whose hands fire seems to glow...

• Alcatraz - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  From executive producer J.J. Abrams (Fringe, Lost, Star Trek) comes Alcatraz, a chilling new drama revolving around America's most infamous prison, the one-time home to the nation's worst murderers, rapists, kidnappers, thieves and arsonists.When San Francisco Police Department detective Rebecca Madsen is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: Jack Sylvane, an Alcatraz inmate who died over 30 years ago. Given her family history -- both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer, were guards at the prison -- Madsen's interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser tries to impede her investigation, she's doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast Dr. Diego Doc Soto to piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The two discover that Sylvane is not only alive, but he's loose on the streets of San Francisco, exacting decades-old revenge and leaving bodies in his wake. And, strangely, he hasn't aged a day since 1963 when Alcatraz was ruled by the iron-fisted Warden Edwin James and the sadistic Associate Warden E.B. Tiller.Madsen and Soto reluctantly team with Hauser and his technician, Lucy Banerjee, to stop Sylvane's vengeful killing spree. By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Madsen's own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that Sylvane is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. For while he may be the first to reappear from Alcatraz, it quickly becomes clear that Sylvane won't be the last.Through the course of the investigation, Madsen and Soto will learn that Hauser has been awaiting the prisoners' return for nearly 50 years. Soto will witness his life's work -- the history of Alcatraz -- come alive. Madsen will be forced to keep her supportive San Francisco cop fianc, Jimmy Dickens, at arm's length from the highly classified assignment as she sees everything she thought she knew about her family's past shattered, all while fighting to keep the country safe from history's most dangerous criminals.

• In The Soup | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Aspiring filmmaker Adolpho has written a script but in order to pay the rent has to sell to the highest bidder. In walks Joe a warm-hearted mobster who doesn't just want the script he wants to produce the film. Nave and desperate to see his work finally on the screen Adolpho is taken under his producer's wing as they embark on a hilarious mission to raise finance as only Joe knows how! Grand Jury prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Clash of the Titans | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £12.88   |  Saving you £12.11 (94.02%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Release the Kraken!" Ah, it could only be Clash of the Titans, the 2010 remake that retains the instruction to unleash the great beastie from the sea. The 1981 original boasted Ray Harryhausen's legendary stop-motion technique of animating various mythological creatures--it was his final feature project--and given the cornball approach of the movie in general, that was the main draw. The remake supplies new state-of-the-art special effects (released theatrically in 3-D) and a nicely muscular sense of momentum. Sam Worthington (the Avatar guy) plays Perseus, a demigod who doesn't know that Zeus (Liam Neeson) is his father. Perseus is selected to lead an expedition to find and slay the Medusa, lest Zeus's evil brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes, in fine slinking mode) rain down misery upon a seaport--and you just know that means the Kraken is coming. Ye gods, it's a mess, and we haven't even mentioned the witches and the harpies and the giant scorpions. But if we did, it would be clear that Clash of the Titans is a perfectly dandy popcorn epic, unpretentious and punchy. Director Louis Leterrier (Transporter 2) gets a fine rhythm going during Perseus's trek, and you can even forgive the hokey shafts-of-light-through-clouds look of Olympus. Leterrier also had the good sense to import the marvelous Danish star Mads Mikkelsen to provide mentoring duties to Perseus; Gemma Arterton and Alexa Davalos fulfill the eye-candy roles. It's up to individual viewers to choose which they prefer--Harryhausen's magically hand-wrought creations (his Medusa sequence is an absolute killer) or the 21st century's slick computer-generated variations. But nostalgia aside, it would be hard to deny that this is one case where the remake tops the original. --Robert Horton