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• The Barbra Streisand Collection -- What's Up Doc / Up The Sandbox / Nuts / The Main Event | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £15.69   |  Saving you £20.30 (129.38%)   |  RRP £35.99

  The Barbra Streisand Collection consists of four movies: What's Up, Doc? (1972), Up the Sandbox (1972), The Main Event (1979) and Nuts (1987) In What's Up, Doc?, director Peter Bogdanovich tipped his hat to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and especially the most glorious of them all, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby. Barbra Streisand plays a charming flake who distracts a self-absorbed musicologist (Ryan O'Neal). He's engaged to be married, but soon Streisand's character has him chasing after stolen jewellery and getting into one madcap fix after another. --Tom Keogh Up the Sandbox springs from the early 1970s, when Streisand's career was in full stride. She stars as Margaret, a stay-at-home mum in the middle of New York who's feeling the strain of her narrow life. Frustrated by her self-involved husband and the mentally unstimulating tasks of motherhood, she escapes into fantasies--such as being chatted up by a cross-gendered Fidel Castro, bombing the Statue of Liberty with black militants and having a furious catfight with her overbearing mother. The movie's strength lies in these fantasies' slippery nature; some are over the top, but others are so subtle you're not always sure where they start and stop, making the portrait of Margaret's psyche intriguingly complex. --Bret Fetzer The Main Event is a comedic misfire from the mid-1970s, a futile attempt to bottle the same lightning that struck when Streisand teamed with Ryan O'Neal in What's Up, Doc? Here, Streisand plays a spoiled rich girl, the head of a bankrupt cosmetics company, who discovers she's lost everything--except her ownership of the contract of a washed-up boxer (O'Neal). So she tries to rally this dispirited pug into a comeback that will earn the kinds of purses that will put her back on her feet. Naturally, in the process, romantic sparks are kindled. But despite a loud and energetic performance by Streisand, the comedy doesn't add up to much. --Marshall Fine In Nuts Streisand is a mad high-priced "escort" accused of murder, but whether she's mad as hell or mad as a hatter is the question in this courtroom drama, adapted from the play by Tom Topor. While her doting, wilfully uncomprehending mother (Maureen Stapleton) and stepdad with a secret (Karl Malden) try to have her judged incompetent and sent to an asylum, she fights for her day in court with the help of a hapless legal aid attorney (a refreshingly understated Richard Dreyfuss). James Whitmore presides over the hearing with a compassion and sense of justice that gives one faith in the system, and la Streisand (who developed and produced the project) sinks her teeth into the tempestuous role like a starving actress. The plot holds few surprises, but the drama lies in the characters; veteran director Martin Ritt brings out the best in a top-flight cast. --Sean Axmaker

• Bilitis | Blu Ray | (06/09/2021) from £15.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A coming of age story centring on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.

• The Fan | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Denzel Washington is a disillisioned soldier of fortune who grows close to a child he is paid to protect. When she is abducted, his fiery rage is unleashed on those he feels responsible, and he stops at nothing to save her.

• Big Wednesday | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  John Milius charts a decade of social change as three surfing buddies use the sport as a personal touchstone for their lives whilst growing up in the turbulent 1960s. Irresponsible hot-dogging legend Matt (Jan-Michael Vincent),serious and stable Jack (William Katt) and mad misfit Leroy, aka "Masochist" (Gary Busey), are teenage surf bums in 1963, living at the beach in a perpetual summer under the sway of surfboard-maker Bear (Sam Melville), guru, mentor, and keeper of the lore. But times are changing and boys grow up in the shadow of Vietnam while adulthood pushes them into hard decisions. John Milius mixes the nostalgia of American Graffiti with the reverence of a John Ford cavalry drama. Surfing becomes a kind of spiritual quest spoken of in awed mythic tones and photographed with the epic grandeur of a rite of passage. Milius's heavy-handed direction andr everent attitude slows the films and will turn off some viewers but Milius fans will appreciate his macho stylings and philosophical musings, and surfing fans will love the spectacular surfing footage, including the dazzling stylings of world champion Gerry Lopez (who Milius later cast in Conan the Barbarian). Lee Purcell costars as Matt's supportive wife, with Patti D'Arbanville, Barbara Hale and Robert Englund in supporting roles. Look for Ford stock player Hank Worden in a small role and Milius himself in a cameo role selling marijuana in Tijuana. --Sean Axmaker

• Perfect Stranger | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Halle Berry and Bruce Willis star in this thriller about a reporter investigating the unsolved murder of one of her childhood friends.

• Real Genius | Blu Ray | (13/09/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Time After Time | Blu Ray | (15/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fathers' Day | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £5.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (60.80%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Billy Crystal plays the straight man to neurotic Robin Williams when these two very different individuals join forces to find a runaway teenager. Both, you see, have been told they are the boy's father by Nastassja Kinski, with whom each had once been involved. This Disney production is based on the more humorous French farce, Les Compères, by Francis Veber (who cowrote this adaptation). It has its moments as breezy entertainment, but the plot is sloppy enough to seem more like slapstick than sophisticated comedy. The gags are contrived, and it fails to unfold with believability, or grace. More interesting than the writing are the performances, as Crystal brings surprising depth to his cynical lawyer and Williams is exceptionally fine-tuned as a suicidal and dippy writer with a very kind heart. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• Real Genius | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An underrated little picture, Real Genius offers a rare college comedy that doesn't rely on gross-out humour as well as a look at Val Kilmer before he turned into a star. A high school whiz kid (Gabriel Jarret) arrives at a brainy college, where the crème de la crème of the science students are marshalled under an ambitious professor (expert villain William Atherton). Unbeknown to them, the kids are working on a weapons system that the prof. plans on selling to the government. The star student and chief rabble-rouser is played by Kilmer, in good early form as a cocky genius who hasn't lost touch with his goofy side. The director is Martha Coolidge, whose Valley Girl was one of the brightest (and most unexpected) of 1980s comedies; she keeps the movie perking along and never worries about dumbing down a film that just happens to be about smart people. --Robert Horton

• Bilitis | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £9.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (40.32%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The story takes place in England around the beginning of the 20th Century. Sensually exploring a young schoolgirl's awakening to love during her summer vacation. The young girl, Bilitis, is shocked when she witnesses her friend Melissa and her husband making love. Melissa encourages Bilitis to discover the aspect of love by seeing a young photographer, Lucas. He tries to make love to Bilitis, and she rebuffs him and runs to Melissa, who in comforting Bilitis finds herself responding to her kisses. But she tells Bilitis there must be nothing more between them. Bilitis discovers Melissa's husband is with another woman, so she decides to find another man for Melissa. Doing so Bilitis is realising she is not yet ready herself for adulthood.The English photographer David Hamilton has achieved unusual visual beauty in making his first motion picture enhanced by the music of Francis Lai.

• Personal Velocity | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A collection of stories about three women who all came from an unstable family background. There's Delia who was abandoned by her mother and was left to be brought up by her drug-addict father. Greta left home when she was young because she couldn't cope with her mother's criticism and Paula who lived on the streets for a year after running away from home.

• Flesh / Trash / Heat | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This box set features three films all directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol using his 'factory' actors. The films loosely form a trilogy designed to encapsulate the 60's generation. Flesh (1968): Joe 'the hustler' earns money to pay for his girlfriend's abortion. Taking to the streets he meets an artist obsessed with body worship a couple of transvestites an ex-girlfriend working as a topless dancer and a friend whose arm-pits have been torched with a fla

• Fresh Horses | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Love doesn't have to last a lifetime. A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiance after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old but he learns that she's actually just 16 and already married. Available for the first time on DVD!

• Rancho Deluxe | DVD | (16/08/2005) from £17.66   |  Saving you £-1.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This cult send-up of the pretensions of the American west stars Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston as Jack McKee and Cecil Colson; two cattle rustlers who use a panel truck and chainsaws in their work instead of a lariat. Henry Beige (Slim Pickens) is hired by the recently arrived ranchers to investigate the losses and brings a touch of the old West to the story and the solution of the crime. Rancho Deluxe's script was written by cult author (and sometimes script-writer) Thomas McGu

• You Belong to Me | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (46.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An eccentric landlady becomes obsessed with her new tenant Jeffrey a young New York architect who has moved into the building in order to be closer to his partner Rene.

• Bilitis | Blu Ray | (29/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fresh Horses | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Love doesn't have to last a lifetime. A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fianc''e after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old but he learns that she's actually just 16 and already married.