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• Tulsa King: Season Two | DVD | (17/03/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Anastasia | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £2.83   |  Saving you £3.16 (111.66%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stomping out their usual cuteness and carbon copying Disney's grand animation style to a tee, directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (An American Tail) create a successful musical comedy from the story of the lost Russian princess. Adapting the story of imperialism and revolution is tricky, and subsequently the film's opening is weak. Once Anya (voiced by Meg Ryan, sung by Liz Callaway) is a teenager and on her own (suffering from some degree of amnesia), Anastasia is quite pleasing though never refreshingly new. 20th Century Fox's big-money gamble to horn in on Disney's realm is worthy. The songs, especially the recurrent "Once Upon a December" by Broadway team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, are better than Disney's recent efforts. It's worth picking up the soundtrack. The mix of cell animation and computer work is vivid. The collection of vocal talent is also strong, from John Cusack (as Dimitri, who wants to earn the reward by bringing Anya to Paris) to Hank Azaria as an amusing albino bat. Kelsey Grammer helps turn a roly-poly sidekick into a warm and strong supporting character. The biggest drawback is Bluth/Goldman's insistence on having a typical villain. Surprisingly, the story would be strong enough without one and the undead corpse of Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd) is unneeded and unoriginal. --Doug Thomas

• Tulsa King: Season One | DVD | (05/06/2023) from £17.99   |  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.

• Tulsa King: Season Two | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE BOSS IS BACK IN SEASON 2! Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) and his crew continue to build up and defend their growing empire in Tulsa, but just as they get their bearings, they realise that they're not the only ones who want to stake their claim. With looming threats from the Kansas City Mob and a very powerful local businessman, Dwight struggles to keep his family and crew safe while keeping track of all his affairs. Get a fresh look behind the scenes with two exclusive featurettes, including candid interviews; hear Stallone's tribute to fellow cast and crew; and explore the creative process for writing the dynamic storylines of Season 2. Special Features: ¢ The Boss Is Back ¢ Mob Rules: Writing a Season of Crime ¢ Who Said It? ¢ Meet the Rivals ¢ Best in Crew

• Tulsa King: Season One Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (05/06/2023) from £19.98   |  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. This Season 1 release includes all 9 episodes with over 90 minutes of bonus content that goes behind the scenes with the cast and crew in 6 never-before-seen making-of featurettes. Special Features Stranger in a Strange Land: Genesis Carpe D.M.: Stallone Mercy and Malice: The Cast Haberdashery: Costume Design Outthink Your Enemy: Stunts The Here and Now: On Location in Tulsa Plus, Behind the Story For Every Episode

• The Producers | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A down on his luck producer and his accountant plan to get rich quick in this remake.

• Wag The Dog | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £19.85   |  Saving you £0.14 (0.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wag the Dog (1997) is a rarity: an intelligent, sophisticated and very funny film about American politics. Just before an election the President--in an uncanny anticipation of real life--gets sexually involved with a young woman, leaving spin-doctor Robert De Niro to think of something quick. He enlists Hollywood producer Dustin Hoffman to help him concoct a war against Albania to take the public's mind off the President's peccadilloes. Both stars are in top form, with Hoffman particularly funny as the larger than life producer. Scripted by David Mamet (House of Games, Glengarry Glen Ross) and directed by Barry Levinson, (whose previous comedies include Good Morning, Vietnam with Robin Williams and Tin Men with Danny De Vito) Wag the Dog manages to make you laugh even while you're thinking about how true the insights are, and how politics is getting more like the media every day. On the DVD: The so-called platinum DVD is packed with features. There is a series of production shots, assembled in no particular order, some showing the director watching filming on his monitor. There are interview clips with Hoffman, De Niro, Anne Heche, William H Macy and Barry Levinson talking about the film, plus scrolled filmographies. There's an audio commentary on the whole film by Levinson and Hoffman, occasionally rambling but with some interesting insights. In another feature, Macy talks at some length about David Mamet. There are extensive scroll-down production notes giving useful information (such as the film's budget), and finally a 50-minute documentary in which producer Jane Rosenthal talks about the relationship between the film and real-life politics. Her comments are supplemented by such luminaries as writer Budd Schulberg, director John Frankenheimer, newscaster Tom Brokaw and Dee Dee Myers, former White House press secretary. The Dolby Digital soundtrack is good quality, as is the image in 16:9 ratio. --Ed Buscombe

• Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This new CGI comedy tells the simple story of a 10 year-old boy... his robot dog... battling evil... rescuing his parents... saving the Earth... and returning home in time for dinner!

• Black Christmas | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The few remaining residents of a Canadian sorority house are celebrating the onset of Christmas vacation when a thirteen year-old girl is found dead in the park. Soon it is discovered that one of the sorority sisters is missing which triggers a terrifying chain of murders within the house... Director Bob Clark's tense effective film is a precursor to the 'slasher' films Friday 13th and Halloween that would come a half decade later.

• New York Minute | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £8.61 (160.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  US teenage stars Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen hit the big-screen as two very different 17-year-old twins who have to pull together when a trip to the Big Apple goes awry.

• Bartok The Magnificent | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £3.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (74.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's no secret that the popular animated feature release Anastasia played fast and loose with Russian Imperialist history. Never mind that the movie's debut coincided with DNA proof--provided by Britain's Prince Phillip, no less--that Anna Andersen was not Tsar Nicholas II's daughter Anastasia and that Russian-discovered bones were indeed that of the Tsar and his brutally murdered family. Anastasia's made-for-video sequel, Bartok the Magnificent, doesn't let historical fact get in its way either. Still, the animated adventure, which features Bartok the excitable albino bat (voiced again by Hank Azaria), is cute and funny, thanks to clever writing and great voice work. Bartok and his sidekick bear friend (an excellent Kelsey Grammer, who voiced Vlad in the original) have become street performers and become embroiled in the evil Ludmilla's plot to get rid of the next heir, a prince. While it's not a particularly fresh tale, Bartok the Magnificent is kept alive through Azaria and Grammer's well-timed and well-executed voiceovers. --N.F. Mendoza

• Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  This new CGI comedy tells the simple story of a 10 year-old boy... his robot dog... battling evil... rescuing his parents... saving the Earth... and returning home in time for dinner!

• Hedwig And The Angry Inch | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, Hedwig and The Angry Inch tells the story of an "internationally ignored" rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love.

• Challenge, The / New York Minute | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Challenge: Estranged teen sisters who live on opposite sides of the country are brought together as teammates in the TV show ""The Challenge"" much to their surprise. In order to win the grand prize - college scholarships - they'll need to reconcile their differences work together and keep their romances a secret from the producers all at the same time! (Dir. Craig Shapiro 2003 Cert. PG) New York Minute: This action comedy follows one monumental day in the lives

• All I Want For Christmas | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £0.96 (16.10%)   |  RRP £5.95

  In this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, she and Ethan (Sweet Home Alabama's Ethan Embry) come up with a plan to strand their parents alone together on Christmas Eve. Hallie even asks Santa (Leslie Nielsen) to help them out. All I Want for Christmas doesn't pack any surprises, but it's suitable for all ages and features lively cameos from Andrea Martin as Lillian's housekeeper and Renée Taylor as Catherine's rodent-fearing wedding planner. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• My Big Fat Greek Life | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £6.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (187.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Although My Big Fat Greek Life doesn't capture the same relaxed, storytelling rhythm of the phenomenally successful My Big Fat Greek Wedding, almost the entire acting ensemble from the movie returned for this small-screen spin-off (only John Corbett, due to other obligations, was ably replaced by Steve Eckholdt as Nia's non-Greek husband), and their skilled interplay makes for a satisfying show. So it's a shame that the sitcom was cancelled after half a season. Like the movie, most of the episodes are concerned with family issues, playing with the contrasting tugs of family obligation and the desire for independence, all anchored by writer-star Nia Vardalos's smart, engaging presence. --Bret Fetzer

• Stepping Out | DVD | (12/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Frivolous Lola | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the sunniest of Tinto Brass's erotic comedies, this sets its breezy tone from the opening scene in which Lola (Anna Ammirati) cycles around a small Po Valley town in a flapping skirt that leaves nothing to the imagination. But it's the 1950s, and her baker fiancée Masetto (Max Parodi) is determined that Lola remains a virgin until their wedding night. However, she is equally set on establishing whether or not he's a good lover before they tie the knot. His dough-kneading technique seems promising, but how can she be sure without an expert to compare him with? In short, can Masetto live up to the erotic ideals professed by Lola's mother's lover (Patrick Mower)? Fortunately, the outwardly innocent town turns out to be a hotbed of licentiousness, with opportunities for voyeurism and maybe more around every corner - all in the interests of self-improving research, of course.

• Cannibal Girls | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £11.05   |  Saving you £3.94 (35.66%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young couple spends the night in a restaurant only to find out that it is occupied by three women who hunger for human flesh in this this horror film from the director of classic comedy Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters Stripes Meatballs). This 1973 long sought-after cult movie was known for a warning bell gimmick which rang in cinemas to warn the more squeamish members of the audience of impending gory or erotic scenes. Mastered from the original negatives in High-Definition this cult-classic comes to DVD at long last in a definitive release!

• Prince Charming | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Prince Charming