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• Karen Pirie Series 2 | Unknown | (31/12/2099) from £20.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hocus Pocus | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £8.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (93.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This big, fat theatrical bomb has a lot going for it. There's the three leads, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker, playing three resurrected witches who wreak havoc on Salem, Massachusetts, 300 hundred years after they were hung. There's music, special effects, and magic. There's a surprisingly horror-filled plot. Whoops, hold up on that last one. It's probably the extremes that this film goes to (displaying a Disney label), such as the witches sucking the life out of a little girl in the first five minutes, that put the brakes on any success for Hocus Pocus. Older children, however, in the 8 and up range should get a kick out of all the weird goings-on. It's a good measure of Halloween thrills and chills. --Keith Simanton

• Uncle Buck | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (67.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Candy has one of his finest opportunities in this film by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) about a perpetual screw-up (Candy) who gets his act together enough to watch over his brother's kids effectively. The late actor scores big points resurrecting elements of his more decadent persona from SCTV days, but he also has some persuasively touching, sentimental moments. Hughes's direction is not as focused as it was only a few years before, but there's no mistaking his touch. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, production notes, biographies, Dolby sound, optional Spanish and French soundtracks. --Tom Keogh

• Taxi Driver | DVD | (22/11/1999) from £6.63   |  Saving you £13.36 (201.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film", Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realised characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon

• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | DVD | (02/11/2020) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE reunites fans with Jesse Pinkman (Emmy® Award-winner[i] Aaron Paul). In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future. This riveting thriller was written and directed by Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad.

• True Detective Season 3 (2019) | Blu Ray | (02/09/2019) from £16.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written and created by Nic Pizzolatto, the acclaimed HBO series True Detective returns after a three-and-a-half-year absence, this season focusing on a new case and featuring an impressive new cast. Mahershala Ali (Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for Moonlight) stars as Wayne Hays, a retired detective who has been tormented for 35 years by a case involving the 1980 disappearance of a 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister in the town of West Finger, Arkansas. As the aging Hays, his memory failing, ruminates on details of his investigation with the producer of a truecrime documentary, we learn about the case, and Hays' past, tracking stories in 1980, when the crime took place, and 1990, when a shocking discovery reignited interest in the case. Through these flashbacks, we get to know key characters like Roland West (Stephen Dorff), Wayne's partner at the time of the murder; Amelia Reardon (Carmen Ejogo), a schoolteacher and writer; as well as county officials, FBI agents, family members and suspects. Each of the eight episodes adds a new piece to the puzzle of what happened on that fateful night in 1980 and how that one event shaped the lives of so many people for so many years.

• Henry V | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules: Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the Bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an anti-war story in contrast to Olivier's patriotic spectacle. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and wilful eyes revealing much about the personal cost of war. Not that the director-star doesn't provide lighter moments: his scenes introducing the French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) trying to learn English quickly from her maid are delightful. What may be the crowning glory of Branagh's adaptation comes when the dazed leader wanders across the battlefield, not even sure who has won. As King Hal carries a dead boy (a young Christian Bale) over the hacked bodies of both the English and French, a panorama of blood and mud and death greet the viewer as Branagh opens up the scene and Patrick Doyle's rousing hymn "Non nobis, Domine" provides marvellous counterpoint (like the director, the composer was another filmic first-timer). A more potent expression of the price of victory could scarcely be imagined. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• True Detective Season 3 (2019) | DVD | (02/09/2019) from £9.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written and created by Nic Pizzolatto, the acclaimed HBO series True Detective returns after a three-and-a-half-year absence, this season focusing on a new case and featuring an impressive new cast. Mahershala Ali (Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for Moonlight) stars as Wayne Hays, a retired detective who has been tormented for 35 years by a case involving the 1980 disappearance of a 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister in the town of West Finger, Arkansas. As the aging Hays, his memory failing, ruminates on details of his investigation with the producer of a truecrime documentary, we learn about the case, and Hays' past, tracking stories in 1980, when the crime took place, and 1990, when a shocking discovery reignited interest in the case. Through these flashbacks, we get to know key characters like Roland West (Stephen Dorff), Wayne's partner at the time of the murder; Amelia Reardon (Carmen Ejogo), a schoolteacher and writer; as well as county officials, FBI agents, family members and suspects. Each of the eight episodes adds a new piece to the puzzle of what happened on that fateful night in 1980 and how that one event shaped the lives of so many people for so many years.

• Wycliffe:The Complete Series | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set amid the windswept beauty of Cornwall, this massively popular, highly acclaimed series stars Jack Shepherd as the quietly charismatic Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe, who leads a team investigating the region's most serious and challenging cases. Running for five years, Wycliffe became one of the nineties' most successful crime series with compelling storylines often highlighting the social and economic difficulties faced by the local community. Jimmy Yuill and Helen Masters co-star as Detective Inspectors Doug Kersey and Lucy Lane, Wycliffe's dependable but fallible colleagues. Guest stars include Louise Jameson, Bill Nighy, Tamsin Greig, Eleanor Bron, Leslie Grantham, Philip Glenister, Gwen Taylor and Brian Croucher. This complete-series set contains every episode transmitted, including the pilot episode from 1993 and the feature-length 1997 Christmas Special.

• Karen Pirie Series 1&2 | Unknown | (31/12/2099) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Last Picture Show | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. This aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtrys novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybill Shepherd)and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman lonely housewife and Ben Johnson grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal work in the career of invaluable film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich. Product Features 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 4K digital restoration of the directors cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall Two documentaries about the making of the film QA with Bogdanovich from 2009 Screen tests and location footage Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker Francois Truffaut about the New Hollywood Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller Cover by F. Ron Miller

• Disney's Hocus Pocus UHD | Blu Ray | (05/10/2020) from £18.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Disney's Hocus Pocus, pranksters conjure up three wild witches from seventeenth-century Salem for a night of zany fun and comic chaos, now in bewitching 4k Ultra HD! 140 MINS OF BONUS We ♥ Hocus Pocus: Trivia And Treats Edition Original Production Featurette

• BAIT | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £10.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Contemporary Cornwall. Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has re-purposed their father's vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world. Special Features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Q&A with the director (2019): director Mark Jenkin in conversation with film critic Mark Kermode after a screening of Bait at BFI Southbank Dear Marianne (2016, 6 mins): a Cornishman's travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar The Essential Cornishman (2016, 6 mins): short film by Mark Jenkin The Road to Zennor (2017, 3 mins): short film by Mark Jenkin Original theatrical trailer **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing by Jason Wood and full film credits Other extras TBC

• Uncle Buck | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £10.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (23.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Candy has one of his finest opportunities in this film by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) about a perpetual screw-up (Candy) who gets his act together enough to watch over his brother's kids effectively. The late actor scores big points resurrecting elements of his more decadent persona from SCTV days, but he also has some persuasively touching, sentimental moments. Hughes's direction is not as focused as it was only a few years before, but there's no mistaking his touch. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, production notes, biographies, Dolby sound, optional Spanish and French soundtracks. --Tom Keogh

• The Tomb of Ligeia | Blu Ray | (23/02/2015) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For the last of his cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations Roger Corman asked screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown) to turn Poe s story Ligeia into another vehicle for Vincent Price who once again plays a man so haunted by his past that he is unable to function in the present. In this case the past comes in the form of his now-deceased first wife Ligeia who casts a long shadow over an ill-advised second marriage to a woman who resembles her (Elizabeth Shepherd) particularly when he becomes convinced that Ligeia s spirit is returning to him in the form of a black cat. But is this actually a delusion on his part? Although the doom-laden narrative and Price s tormented performance had become well established ingredients in the Corman Poe cycle the film looks strikingly different from the earlier films with much of it taking place in broad daylight and shot in actual English locations (notably Stonehenge and Norfolk s Castle Acre Priory) instead of Hollywood

• Lolita | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From one of the most celebrated novels of the Twentieth Century comes a tragic comedy of obsession - ""Lolita"" the hilarious disturbing suspenseful and profoundly moving story of a forbidden love affair and its shattering consequences. Humbert (Jeremy Irons) is a remarkable man with a poisonous wound: the indelible memory of a fated childhood love and a haunting urge to rediscover its lost passion. When he encounters Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith) a voluptuous widow with roma

• Taxi Driver Steelbook 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (02/09/2024) from £29.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in a tour-de-force performance), a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan.

• Fearless | DVD | (24/07/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emma Banville, a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell, who was convicted for the murder of a school girl 14 years earlier.

• Taxi Driver: Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film", Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realised characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon

• God On Trial | DVD | (31/10/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in notorious killing factory of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Southern Poland during World War II. A group of Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz; some of whom are awaiting execution, the others unsure of their fate are driven to debate the meaning of God's supposed covenant with the Jewish people. The circumstances of their current existence lead them to put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is whether God has broken his covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Germans to commit genocide on a scale beyond human comprehension. This drama confronts one of the central issues of human existence - the basis of faith - and sets it in a time and place that has become a by-word for inhumanity.