Cheap DVDs

Asda Bank Holiday Blowout DVD Sale

The Asda Bank Holiday Blowout DVD sale has just begun, adding to quite an impressive list of clearances that are running over this weekend.

The Aladdin Trilogy £17.93
Back To The Future Trilogy £4.93
Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, Mr Bean’s Holiday and Mr Bean: Volume One Triple Pack £3.93
Beethoven, Beethoven’s 2nd and Beethoven’s 3rd Triple Pack £4.93
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas £7.93
Classic Comedy Boxset £9.93
Essential Comedy Boxset £9.93
Fat Friends: Series One £4.93
The Flintstones and The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas Double Pack £3.93
The Grinch, Nanny McPhee and Peter Pan Triple Pack £4.93
High School Musical: Three Movie Collector’s Set £17.93
The Jane Austen Book Club £2.93
The Land Before Time, The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure and The Land Before Time III: The Time Of The Great Giving Triple Pack £4.93
My Girl and My Girl 2 Double Pack £4.93
Notting Hill and About A Boy Double Pack £3.93
The Nutty Professor and The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps Double Pack £3.93
RV £2.93
Young Hollywood Boxset £9.93

Elfen Lied: Complete Collection £16.99

Elfen Lied is an anime television series based on the manga series of the same name. Strangely, production started before the manga had been completed, so the plot differs between the two quite a bit – especially when it comes to the ending.

The Elfen Lied: Complete Collection boxset contains all 13 episodes across four discs. Sadly there are no extras to be found, but that’s usually the case when it comes to anime DVDs anyway!

Click here to buy this for £16.99 from HMV.

Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One £11.97

Even though Star Trek: Enterprise became the first series in the franchise since the original to be cancelled by its network instead of being finished by its producers, the show wasn’t as bad as that would suggest. It would, however, mark the end of an 18 year back-to-back run of new Star Trek programming.

Star Trek: Enterprise – Season One contains all 26 episodes from the first year, along with a ton of bonus material. This includes an audio commentary on the pilot, three text commentaries, 16 deleted scenes, eight featurettes, and some outtakes.

Amazon have this set available for £11.97 – for more information, click here.

Six Feet Under: The Complete Fifth Season £7.99

Six Feet Under is an American drama series that revolves around the Fisher family, who run a funeral home in Los Angeles, and their friends and lovers – over the course of five years, viewers traced their lives with many holding out hope that at some point in the future their may be some kind of one-off special.

Inside the four disc Six Feet Under: The Complete Fifth Season boxset, you’ll find the final 12 episodes of the series. Also included are audio commentaries on six installments, a two part documentary looking back at the series as a whole, a featurette titled "Life And Loss: The Impact Of Six Feet Under", and some bonus music from the soundtrack CD.

Click here to get this set for £7.99 from HMV. You may also be interested to know that the second season is still available for £9.99 as part of the HMV DVD Spring sale.

Argos Entertainment 10% Discount

To celebrate the fact that they’ve opened a new site (which joins the ever-growing list of companies turning to The Hut Group for help), there’s currently an Argos Entertainment 10% discount voucher available.

Prices are very similar to those at Asda, Tesco, The Hut, Sendit.com and all the other websites which look identical – I’m guessing "competition" is something very much missing from the world of online DVD retail.

Enter ARGOS10 at the checkout between now and Tuesday the 5th of May to get your saving – click here to see if they have anything of interest.

UPDATE: This discount has been extended to run until midnight on Tuesday the 5th of May 2009.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars £7.97

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an animated film that is set between the events of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith. This is the first movie in the franchise to not be live-action, and also serves as an introduction to the TV series of the same name.

Sadly there’s only one extra feature to be found on the DVD, in the form of an audio commentary. The Blu-Ray release comes with much more (including multiple featurettes and other goodies), which is a tad annoying.

Click here to get this for £7.97 from Amazon.

Hotel Rwanda £2.93

Hotel Rwanda is a historical drama about hotelier Paul Rusesabagina during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The film documents his acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees, by granting them shelter in the besieged Hôtel des Milles Collines.

The DVD comes with a feature-length audio commentary by writer, producer and director Terry George, the real Paul Rusesabagina, and songwriter Wyclef Jean. There’s also a commentary with star Don Cheadle on selected scenes, plus a couple of featurettes looking at the making of the movie.

Click here to buy this for only £2.93 from LOVEFiLM.

20th Century Fox Definitive Editions From £2.99

Some of the 20th Century Fox Definitive Editions are available from £2.99 each at Play.com.

These are supposed to be the final releases of each film on DVD, but the cynic inside me says this will probably be a load of rubbish – money talks, when it’s all said and done.

£2.99

Alien: Definitive Edition
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Definitive Edition
Master And Commander: Definitive Edition
Mr & Mrs Smith (2005): Definitive Edition
Predator: Definitive Edition
Raging Bull: Definitive Edition

£3.99

Aliens: Definitive Edition
Braveheart: Definitive Edition
Daredevil: Definitive Edition
The Day After Tomorrow: Definitive Edition
From Hell: Definitive Edition
I, Robot: Definitive Edition
Independence Day: Definitive Edition
Kingdom Of Heaven: Definitive Edition
Minority Report: Definitive Edition
Planet Of The Apes (2001): Definitive Edition
Platoon: Definitive Edition
Ronin: Definitive Edition
Speed: Definitive Edition
Windtalkers: Definitive Edition

Fight Club, The Usual Suspects And Memento Triple Pack £6.43

The common theme that links all of the films in the Fight Club, The Usual Suspects and Memento triple pack is that they all have surprising twists that are revealed right at the very end – I’m not going to spoil any of them, as each is well worth watching.

Of the three, it’s very difficult to choose which one is best. Memento is quite difficult to understand until you’ve seen it all the way through, but could be considered by some to be the most re-watchable of the lot based on this same fact.

To get this for £6.43 from The Hut, simply click here.

A Fish Called Wanda And Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Double Pack £3.99

While it’s nice to be able to pick up DVDs for incredibly cheap prices nowadays, it’s even better when you can get two or more films in one pack for an equally reasonable cost – such is the case with the A Fish Called Wanda and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels double pack.

The former is a comedy about a jewel heist and the aftermath of the crime, whilst Dirty Rotten Scoundrels focuses on two con artists who ply their trade on the French Riviera.

Click here to buy this for £3.99 from Play.com.