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• St Elmo's Fire | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £0.99 (19.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Billy: life has changed since school but has Billy noticed? Wendy: respectable hardworking and a virgin. Daddy says ""marry a nice boy"" but she has other ideas! Alec: success wealth and a wife. He knows what he wants but can he have it? Kevin: what's his secret? Scared of Women? Gay? Or is it something that'll really shock his best friend? Jules: life is one high-powered party. Sex drugs and really pushing life to the limit. Leslie: she loves her work and she loves her boyfriend...

• Mighty Joe Young | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Charlize Theron is the latest stunning blonde to be hanging around some big ape in a Hollywood movie, this one a remake of the 1949 semi-classic with echoes of the superior King Kong. Theron plays the daughter of an American researcher killed by poachers in Africa. The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen named Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary (Bill Paxton) from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the LA facility. The transition is not without discomfort but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands. Director Ron Underwood (City Slickers) uses a combination of special-effects techniques to give Joe life and personality, and he succeeds quite effectively. The requisite giant-ape-goes-amok scenes are all in place-a couple of them pretty intense--as is a conclusion that finds the simian hero performing a stunning feat of escalation. Underwood attempts to give a little modern spin to some classic Hollywood conventions regarding wild hearts lost in civilization and the results are pretty agreeable family fare. --Tom Keogh

• Stepmom | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Although Stepmom was dismissed as a contender in the 1998 Oscar race, it's worth giving a second chance to this rather cogent, sharp-tongued look at second chances. Susan Sarandon's performance as a mum about to be replaced by her ex-husband's new girlfriend (played by Julia Roberts) has a lot of bite, and it's a shame the script opted to trivialise her plight in its final reel. Initially, the rancour that passes between divorced mum Jackie (Sarandon) and trendy fashion photographer Isabel (Roberts) rings true, aided by the sincerity of Jackie's ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris) and the emotional plight of their children, who have the most to lose in their parents' divorce. As the drama makes clear, the children are the real victims in the agony that ensues between old and new love. Director Chris Columbus, who is adept at showing familial chaos (he directed Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone) with a sanitised minimum of lingering emotional damage, actually manages to dig a trifle deeper than usual in exploring the jealousy and hurt that occur when the baton is passed between a birth mum and the younger wife who steps into her shoes. Stepmom fortunately manages to touch on that chord--showing how an ambitious woman might feel hampered by the responsibility of children just because she's fallen in love with their dad--as well as the haunting grief that it causes their birth mum. It's an issue that haunts millions of second wives everywhere, and while Roberts conveys the confusion of being taken for granted in the melee that follows, it's Sarandon who walks off with the film. She's relentless in her fury, and everyone else in the film--the generally excellent Harris included--is sideswiped. It's just a shame that Hollywood once again wimps out in the end, solving the problem by giving Sarandon a terminal illness. Instead of allowing Jackie and Isabel's relationship to unfold on something less than a high note, the movie has to quell its best thing with a false payoff because it doesn't know what to do with real life. --Paula Nechak, Amazon.com

• Erin Brockovich / Stepmom / Steel Magnolias | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2000): Erin Brockovich was never trained or indeed meant to work in a lawyers office. Circumstances take this down-on-her-luck twice-divorced mother of three into a legal practice. Here she discovers some legal files that don't add up... On investigation she discovers an injustice and decides against the odds to take on the bad guys on behalf of a poor and very ill community. Stepmom (Dir. Chris Columbus 1998): Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is a divorced mother of two. Isabel (Julia Roberts) is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie's ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris) forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. It is the universal dilemma of the 'non-traditional family' they all love the children but the complex interplay between parents step-parents step-children ex-spouses and significant others is decidedly tricky. But when Jackie discovers she is ill both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest while they have the chance. Steel Magnolias (Dir. Herbert Ross 1989): A beautiful bittersweet comedy set in deep south Louisiana Steel Magnolias unites talents of America's finest actresses as six very special friends bonded together by mutual triumphs and tragedies. Despite their differences beautiful Shelby (Julia Roberts) her strong-willed mother M'Lynn (Sally Field) beauty parlour owner Truvy (Dolly Parton) elegant wealthy widow Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) sharp tongued Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) and mousey newcomer Anelle (Daryl Hannah) enjoy a friendship that spans the boundaries of age and status. Sharing each other's strength and loyalty they face their greatest fears and highest hopes with dry wit and a self-deprecating style...

• Somersault | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £5.68   |  Saving you £14.31 (251.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A visually haunting film, set at the foot of the Australian ski fields, this is the story of a young girl's sensory journey.

• The Vengeance Of She | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When beautiful young Carol is taken over by the spirit of Ayesha queen of the lost city of Kuma an eccentric millionaire gives her refuge unaware that she brings the dark shadow of death to everything she touches...

• Just The Ticket | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £5.57   |  Saving you £0.42 (7.54%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Irresponsible. Unpredictable. Totally irresistible! Gary Starke (Garcia) can get his hands on just about anything: floor level seats at a Knick's basketball game entrance to an exclusive art gallery or first-row concert tickets. But the one thing Gary can't seem to get is the girl of his dreams... Longtime New York con man Gary is a king among scam artists but a loser in life. The only thing he has going for him is Linda (MacDowell) a stunning chef-in-the-making with a soft sp

• Naked Boys Singing | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Naked Boys Singing! The title says it all! Caution - and costumes - are thrown to the wind in this musical revue featuring an original score and a handful of hunks displaying their special charms as they celebrate the splendors of male nudity in comedy song and dance. Naked Boys Singing! went 'full-frontal' at Los Angeles' Celebration Theatre in 1998. Since it's raucous debut the revealing review has dropped its drawers for eager audiences around the world.

• The Other Brother | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Martin (Phifer) has spent his life being a good son a good brother and a good friend but his luck with women is all bad. The softly spoken art columnist hasn't had a date in three years since losing his fiance to bi-curiosity and when he meets Paula (Miller) the pretty young art professor who lives upstairs Martin's lack of experience is all too apparent. Enter brother Junnie (Andre B. Blake) an expert in scamming and scheming. This ultimate 'player' intends to teach Martin how

• Devious Beings | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Casey. Arrow. Jackson. They've been buddies since they were kids. They're the rave crowd who can get any illicit drug for the right price. No way these guys could get played right? Wrong. When their latest deal goes south their entire world may go up in smoke. They're up against the wall and they're running out of options. In the tradition of Go and Pulp Fiction Devious Beings is a wild ride you'll never forget.

• The Other Brother | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Martin (Phifer) has spent his life being a good son a good brother and a good friend but his luck with women is all bad. The softly spoken art columnist hasn't had a date in three years since losing his fianc''e to bi-curiosity and when he meets Paula (Miller) the pretty young art professor who lives upstairs Martin's lack of experience is all too apparent. Enter brother Junnie (Andre B. Blake) an expert in scamming and scheming. This ultimate 'player' intends to teach Martin how to get any woman he wants. Sporting a new look and attitude Martin is becoming a regular Casanovaias he spends every night on the prowl with Junnie. But it isn't long before reality closes in. A missed deadline places his job in jeopardy he's losing the respect of his best friend and worst of all Paula is under the impression that he's a womanizer. Do nice guys really finish last? Is responsibility a blessing or a curse? And when is being a player just too much work?