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• The Da Vinci Code 10th Anniversary | 4K UHD | (17/10/2016) from £24.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (20.49%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book. So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher." Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. --Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com

• Wish Upon The Pleiades Complete Season 1 Collection Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £16.98   |  Saving you £25.00 (166.78%)   |  RRP £39.99

  **Special Edition Combo Pack incl. 2 x Blu-ray, 3 x DVD and a limited edition o-card cover** When Subaru goes to her local observatory to prepare for an upcoming meteor shower, she ends up seeing far more of the stars than she expected. Instead of a simulated viewing of astronomical phenomena, she gets recruited to take part in a fantastic adventure with a mysterious young man, a bizarre alien creature, and a group of girls dressed in cute, magical garb. Together with the other girls (who are suddenly and strangely members of Subaru's school), Subaru becomes part of a clandestine effort to retrieve fragments of an alien spaceship! However, the fragments are being scattered all over the universe. Time is limited, and the girls face a nemesis who is seeking to gather all the parts for himself! The space race is on, and the sky is no longer the limit as the legendary animation studio GAINAX sets Subaru's eyes on the stars in WISH UPON THE PLEIADES! Special Features: Clean Opening and Closing Animations.

• Luther: Series 1-4 | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £6.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Clan | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In an affluent suburb of Buenos Aires in the early-80s, a seemingly normal family makes its living off kidnapping and murder. Welcome to the home of the Puccios - and the astonishing true story of Argentina's most notorious crime family. Patriarch and former secret service agent Arquímedes (a terrifying, icy performance from Guillermo Francella) plans and heads up the gruesome operations. His eldest sun Alejandro, a star rugby player with rising hopes for Argentina's national team, gives in to his father's will and helps identify possible candidates for abduction. Slowly but surely, the other family members all become accomplices as they either support or turn a blind eye to the terrible crimes, living off the large ransoms paid by their victims' families in the process. Winner of the 2015 Venice Silver Lion for Best Director and five Argentine Academy Awards, Pablo Trapero's thrilling new film is a true-life tale of corruption and manipulation, riddled with shocking intrigue and nail-biting suspense - taking place in the final years of the Argentine military dictatorship and incipient return to democracy.

• Looking for Richard | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £13.59   |  Saving you £-3.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Looking for Richard, a strange and charming documentary by Al Pacino in which he also stars, is an exploration of several topics: Shakespeare and his humpbacked villain, the impulse to act, the way actors work--and Pacino's single-minded effort to make the Bard accessible to all audiences and not just the effete few. Over the course of the film, Pacino alternately discusses the role and the text, roams Manhattan talking about Shakespeare with everyone from scholars to street people and re-creates scenes from the play in a production staged at the Cloisters, an evocative castle-like museum on the north end of Manhattan. He assembles a cast that includes Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, Estelle Parsons and Alec Baldwin to perform the scenes, slipping back and forth between text and discussion of the play in a way that makes Shakespeare comprehensible and fascinating to viewers who know or care nothing about his writing. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Three Amigos! | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short travel a dusty road to adventure in this zany mix of sharp one-liners and clever sight gags. The Three Amigos are a silent screen comedy act who have seen better days. So has a remote Mexican hamlet which is being terrorized by a fierce bandit gang. In desperation a naïve villager sends the actors a telegram asking for their help. Thinking they're being offered a fortune for a personal appearance, the hapless trio arrives in Mexico, only to discover this time they're dodging real bullets. Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Trading Places), here is a comedy about three loveable bumblers who are in way over their heads but come what may, they'll always remain the THREE AMIGOS!

• Preacher: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  When Texas preacher Jesse Custer is inhabited by the renegade spawn of an angel and a demon, he gains the power to control people with just a word. Now Jesse, his badass ex Tulip, and his friend Cassidy (who happens to be a vampire) are thrust into a twisted battle spanning Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.

• Ouija - The Devil's Game | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Off Piste | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An ex-SAS recluse, living in the mountains of France to escape a traumatic past, is hunted down by those whose lives he has destroyed.

• Tiger Raid | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £8.05   |  Saving you £4.94 (61.37%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two mercenaries are given a mission to kidnap the daughter of a rich Jordaanian. The two cold-blooded mercenaries form an unlikely bond as they race across the desert in the dead of night. When their violent and desperate world implodes, past atrocities come to the surface threatening to tear each of them apart. As the true nature of their mission becomes clear, betrayals accumulate and no one emerges innocent and as the body count grows they discover their greatest enemy may be each other.

• The Angry Bird Movie - Blu-ray Steelbook | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £11.95   |  Saving you £16.04 (134.23%)   |  RRP £27.99

  In this animated adventure comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we'll finally find out why the birds are so angry. The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to. Click Images to Enlarge

• The Little Ghost | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Little Ghost lives in the castle and he awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Despite the warnings of a friend, Mr. Tu-Whit Tu-Whoo, the ghost would like to see the world by daylight once. Meanwhile, Karl, Hannes and Sophie go on a nightly excursion to the castle, where they have their first encounter with the ghost.

• WWE: Brock Lesnar - Eat. Sleep. Conquer. Repeat. Steelbook | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £15.98   |  Saving you £24.01 (60.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Since day one, Brock Lesnar has conquered every obstacle in his path of destruction. He has claimed championships, taken opponents to Suplex City, and put an end to Undertaker s undefeated WrestleMania streak. Witness Brock Lesnar s greatest matches and moments and see why he lives by the mantra of EAT. SLEEP. CONQUER. REPEAT. Featuring 14 of The Beast s biggest matches since his return to WWE in 2012, and classic (and previously unseen) matches from his original run with the company and his OVW tenure before it.

• The Horror Collection Vol II: British | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £9.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Matchbox Films presents 'The Horror Collection Vol II: British' THE MIRROR Jemma Dallender (Community, I Spit on Your Grave 2) stars in Edward Boase's sophomore feature The Mirror, a headline-grabbing British horror triggered by a widely reported news story that set Twitter and Facebook alight in 2013 when an allegedly haunted mirror appeared for sale on eBay. In the film, the three intrepid flatmates (Dallender, Joshua Dickinson, Nate Fallows) who purchased the supposedly haunted antique set up round-the-clock cameras in the hope of capturing evidence of paranormal activity. From footage recovered by police, their terrifying ordeal is slowly pieced together. COMMUNITY The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. Even the police won't go there. Enter two naive student filmmakers, Isabelle (Dallender) and Will (Jordan), with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. The unlucky duo quickly discovers that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. This is a community which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror - turning their final project into their darkest nightmare. SIREN A group of friends escaping the city for a weekend away have a simple plan, to tour the coast for a relaxing weekend. Things hit a snag when one of the friends spots a seductive, sultry young woman waving for help off the shore of one of many secluded islands along the coast. Reaching out to rescue her turns deadly and they risk everything to get off the island alive.

• Frankenstein: Day of the Beast | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On a foggy winters morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Seven armed and dangerous mercenary soldiers have been hired to protect her against something huge that hides in the woods. Victor is the only one who knows the truth about their enemy. His secret will be paid with the life of his private army, whose men will die one by one, as the creature gets closer to his target: the bride .

• The Horror Collection Vol III: Zombies | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £4.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (401.34%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Matchbox Films Presents 'The Horror Collection Vol III: Zombies' STALLED It's Christmas Eve. A down-on-his-luck janitor is cleaning cubicles in an office block. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper, he becomes trapped in the washroom the very second a zombie outbreak occurs. Will he be able to hit the emergency alarm with severed fingers and a catapult bra? Has he met his Waterloo? Will he just go potty? Or will he simply remain...Stalled? Consistently hilarious, brilliantly executed, cleverly constructed and visually imaginative, director Christian James' remarkable comedy horror is The Evil Dead meets Phone Booth in a toilet. I SURVIVED A ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST The crew of the New Zealand low budget Zombie film Tonight They Come! are filming in the middle of nowhere. The troubled shoot goes from bad to worse when key cast and crew are stuck down by a mystery illness. The replacement runner, WESLEY PENNINGTON arrives on set fresh out of film school and bubbling with enthusiasm just in time for the mystery illness to start turning zombie extras into REAL, shuffling, un-dead Zombies. Of course the crew are too busy to notice, after all they re very behind schedule. Wesley is the first to discover that the Zombies are real, and he tries to escape the now deadly film set with a small group of survivors. ME AND MY MATES VS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE The zombie apocalypse has just hit blue collar Australia. Darryl gets trapped in a telephone exchange with several of his co-workers. Although the world has gone to ruin, Darryl is still trying to convince his bosses Roy and Joel to let him join his prestigious indoor cricket team. Two things stand in his way: the current zombie apocalypse and the fact that Darryl has killed Roy s now-zombie wife and had sex with his daughter, Emma. Darryl finds himself stuck in a situation that only has two outcomes: life and death, both of which come with an ever present lack of beer.

• The Horror Collection Vol I | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £15.15   |  Saving you £-0.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A chilling anthology of five horror tales, enough to strike fear into any viewer. A woman is terrorised by an unknown caller in the middle of the night. A man wakes up with blood on his hands and his therapist tries to unlock the secrets of his troubled mind. A schoolgirl is followed home in a frightening game of cat and mouse. A mother and her child are trapped in an unspeakable cycle of domestic abuse. A sick serial killer preys on a teenager he befriends. Tune in to the Horror Network for all these horrific sights and terrifying tales.

• Two-Bit Waltz | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £3.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (552.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the wonderfully dysfunctional tradition of The Royal Tenenbaums, teenage years are always messy... but for Maude, things couldn't seem more tragic. Within one week just prior to her 18th birthday, she is suspended from school, stranded by her best friend, dumped by the boy she loves , and Granny just died leaving her an enormous amount of money under one condition: Maude must go to college which she does not want to do and her wildly eccentric family is no help at all. Of course... It's a comedy!

• Above Suspicion | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A