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• G.I. Jane | DVD | (26/03/2001) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It seemed like a pretty good career move, and for the most part it was. Demi Moore will never top any rational list of great actresses, but as her career stalled in the mid-1990s she had enough internal fire and external physicality to be just right for her title role in G.I. Jane. Her character's name isn't Jane--it's Jordan O'Neil--but the fact that she lacks a penis makes her an immediate standout in her elite training squad of Navy SEALs. She's been recruited as the first female SEAL trainee through a series of backroom political manoeuvres and must prove her military staying power against formidable odds--not the least of which is the abuse of a tyrannical master chief (Viggo Mortensen) who puts her through hell to improve her chances of success. Within the limitations of a glossy star vehicle, director Ridley Scott manages to incorporate the women-in-military issue with considerable impact, and Moore--along with her conspicuous breast enhancements and that memorable head-shaving scene--jumps into the role with everything she's got. Not a great movie by any means, but definitely a rousing crowd pleaser and it's worth watching just to hear Demi shout the words "Suck my ----!!" (rhymes with "chick"). --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Erin Brockovich | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £6.02   |  Saving you £13.97 (232.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a world where heroes are often in short supply, the story of Erin Brockovich is an inspirational reminder of the power of the human spirit.

• Endeavour S9: Collector's Edition | DVD | (06/11/2023) from £13.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Little Women (2019) | DVD | (25/05/2020) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters four young women each determined to live life on their own terms is both timeless and timely.

• Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (299.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best selling novel by John Boyne. Berlin 1942 - Eight-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that his father was promoted and he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who like the other people there wears a uniform of striped pajamas Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation as their secret meetings result in a friendship that has startling and devastating consequences.

• Suffragette | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

• Quadrophenia | DVD | (20/09/1999) from £8.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (84.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Franc Roddam's terrifically energetic movie, set to music from the Who's Quadrophenia, is--at the very least, the best film ever based on a rock album (and, yes, that includes Tommy, Pink Floyd: The Wall, and Jesus Christ Superstar). Actually, this tale of the battle between two early 1960s youth subcultures--Mods and Rockers--in the seaside teenage wasteland of Brighton, isn't so much a cinematic "version" of the Who's 1979 double-record rock opera as it is a story based on the sequence of songs on the album. Quadrophenia is about that crucial time in teenhood when the lion's share of your sense of identity is tied up in the music you listen to, the clothes you wear, and the groups you hang out with. Jimmy (Phil Daniels) identifies himself with the sharp-dressing, scooter-riding Mods, who listen to American soul and British pop-rock. The Rockers, on the other hand, are leather-jacketed, black-booted, motorcycle-riding tough guys who listen primarily to classic American rock & roll. The film captures this minor pop-culture revolution perfectly. Look for Sting as a club-hopping slickster, who's shameful secret is that he's a hotel bellboy by day. --Jim Emerson

• Sweet Home Alabama | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £8.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (118.06%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Reese Witherspoon stars in this romantic comedy as a New York fashion designer with a past that holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her.

• Phoenix Nights 2 | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £9.90   |  Saving you £10.09 (101.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The beginning of the second series of Phoenix Nights sees Brian Potter's beloved Phoenix Club lying in ashes and the staff scattered to the four winds. Even club compere Jerry St Clair is reduced to singing "Come get your black bin bags" to the tune of Men in Black in the local supermarket. But not even being barred from having a licence for the rest of his natural life can deter the northern Svengali from reopening the club and making it bigger and better than before--even if that means making Jerry the licensee and offering up-market Chinese nosh. This second instalment of Peter Kay's cult sit-com is more upbeat than the first, with some genuine success coming to the characters and club, but it still has its hilariously subversive undertones: a botched hit job; an inflatable castle with an extra appendage; and Brian stuck on his stair lift for a day after a power cut, to take just three examples. The script remains brilliantly surreal and incredibly funny. All the favourite characters remain, with club bouncers Paddy and Max featuring in a couple of the meatier storylines (perhaps setting them up for their own spin-off series?) and Jerry continuing to wow the crowds with his original vocal stylings, the highlight being the grand Stars in Their Eyes final in which he offers his own unique clubland take on Eminem. It's brilliantly original stuff: roll on Series 3. --Kristen Bowditch

• La La Land | DVD | (15/05/2017) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this modern take on the Hollywood musical from Damien Chazelle, the Academy Award-nominated writer and director of 'Whiplash', Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love.

• Rome - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £28.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic Rome is the wealthiest city in the world a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people; epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now those foundations are crumbling eaten away by corruption and excess. A serialized drama of love and betrayal masters and slaves husbands and wives Rome chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of a republic and the birth of an empire.

• Our Friends In The North | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £11.98   |  Saving you £18.01 (150.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher Eccleston) is initially courting Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee) but the relationship cools when it takes second place to his campaigning for Harold Wilson's Labour Party. She weds Tory Tosker Cox instead, but their marriage is a miserable one, living in a rot-infested high rise block built following a dubious new housing scheme. Meanwhile, "Geordie" Peacock, finally tiring of his drunken, abusive father, headbutts him and hitches down to London, where he ends up working for a surrogate "family" led by Malcolm McDowell's flash Soho sex club baron. Over the years, the paths of these characters intertwine, diverge then cross again, albeit occasionally stretching the bounds of plausible coincidence. The drama takes place against the backdrop of local authority and police corruption in the 60s, the radical far-left militancy of the early 70s, Thatcher's election, the 1984 miner's strike and the subsequent "murder" of Northern communities. What's brilliant about Our Friends is its melding of the personal and the political, with the soap opera of family estrangement played out against a backdrop of social decline. Peter Vaughn, playing Nicky's Dad as a former Jarrow marcher stricken by Alzheimer's, is especially poignant. If you didn't see this the first time, do so now. On the DVD: Our Friends in the North has a bonus disc featuring a discussion with writer Peter Flannery and the producers and directors in which the making of the programme is revealed to have been as epic and protracted a saga as the drama itself. There are interviews also with stars Christopher Eccleston and Gina McKee. --David Stubbs

• The Devils (Special Edition) | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In seventeenth-century France, a promiscuous and divisive local priest, Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city of Loudon from destruction at the hands of the establishment. Soon, he stands accused of the demonic possession of Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave), whose erotic obsession with him fuels the hysterical fervour that sweeps through the convent. With its bold and brilliant direction by Ken Russell, magnificent performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, exquisite Derek Jarman sets and sublimely dissonant score by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, The Devils stands as a profound and sincere commentary on religious hysteria, political persecution and the corrupt marriage of church and state.

• Jane Eyre | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.48   |  Saving you £14.51 (264.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, the romantic drama stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) in the lead roles under the director of Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre).

• The History Boys | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A class of undisciplined, smart and funny history students actively pursue an undergraduate place at Oxbridge.

• Ben Hur | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £12.80 (178.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

• Pride and Prejudice | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Experience the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series Pride and Prejudice like never before as the magic of period drama is rekindled with state of the art technology. Returning to the original film negatives this stunning adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel has been painstakingly restored frame-by-frame to reveal the sumptuous costume and detail that makes Austen's world so enchanting. With its outstanding performances and stunning visuals Pride and Prejudice plunges the viewer into a 19th Century world of grand country estates eligible bachelors and exquisite soir''es. Elizabeth Bennett a spirited and independent young woman is the subject of her mother's obsessive goal to marry off her five daughters to the wealthiest gentlemen available. But Mrs Bennett's plan is compromised with the arrival of the proud and enigmatic Mr Darcy as he and Lizzie embark on one of the most famous and compelling romances in history. Adapted by acclaimed screenplay writer Andrew Davies Pride and Prejudice stars the hugely popular Colin Firth Jennifer Ehle Alison Steadman Julia Sawalha along with many other excellent performers.

• Mary Queen of Scots (DVD) | DVD | (20/05/2019) from £4.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mary Queen of Scots explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart (Academy Award® nominee Saoirse Ronan). Queen of France at 16, widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I (Academy Award® nominee Margot Robbie), who rules as the Queen of England. Determined to rule as much more than a figurehead, Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Rivals in power and in love, the two Queens make very different choices about marriage and children. Betrayal, rebellion and conspiracies within each court imperil both Queensdriving them apart, as each woman experiences the bitter cost of power. Bonus Features Include Feature Commentary with director Josie Rourke and Composer Max Richter An Epic Confrontation Tudor Feminism Something About Marys

• Casablanca | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.44   |  Saving you £6.55 (120.40%)   |  RRP £11.99

  World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz's classic love story. Colourful characters abound in "Casablanca", a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler's war-torn Europe.

• Tulsa King: Season One | DVD | (05/06/2023) from £21.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  TULSA KING follows New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi (Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone) just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realising that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a "crew" from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.