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• Jackie | Blu Ray | (29/05/2017) from £9.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of Camelot that they created and loved so well.

• Lawn Dogs | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  No review of Lawn Dogs can adequately describe this extraordinary movie, nor can the title or any simple synopsis. In fact, there's no way of knowing what Lawn Dogs is really about until the very end when the last 90-minutes takes on a whole new significance. The basic story follows the formation and fruition of a simple friendship. Devon (astounding newcomer Mischa Barton) is a 10-year-old girl born to glamour magazine identikit parents who live in the plush US suburban Camelot Gardens Estate. Trent (Sam Rockwell) is a 20-something lawnmower man whom everyone considers trash and who lives in a forest trailer. As secret friends they fill the holes in one another's lives. She has no other friends because she thinks "other kids smell like TV". It's all perfectly sweet and innocent. But naturally there's no way the uptight neighbourhood would perceive it that way. A creeping sense of doom begins to overtake events; but it is where this seemingly obvious tale twists at the end that makes the community's darker quirks a revelation. On the DVD: Lawn Dogs on disc comes in a 16:9 transfer that retains the superb cinematography of endlessly stretching flat horizons. The three-channel sound is equally of benefit to a subtle bluesy score. Regrettably the only extra is a trailer. As a winner at numerous International Film Festivals, this picture really deserved something more. --Paul Tonks

• Sordid Lives | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This uproariously funny white trash campfest takes a wicked peek into an extended family of Texas rednecks who've come together for the funeral of their adulterous matriarch. Attending the funeral are her dueling big-haired daughters LaVonda (Ann Walker) and Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia); sister Sissy (Beth Grant) who picked the wrong time to quit smoking; a revengeful neighbor (Delta Burke); brother Earl (Leslie Jordan) a Tammy Wynette-obsessed drag queen; hunky Ty (Kirk Geiger) Latrelle's estranged gay son; and Bitsy Mae (Olivia Newton-John) a country music-singing ex-con lesbian. The tantrums gossips and revelations spill all over the linoleum floor in this film that deliriously revels at its chitin-loving beer-guzzling gun-totting same sex-loving pill-popping eccentrics.

• The January Man | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The January Man is an odd comedy-thriller about the hunt for a serial killer that could just be a case of too many stars spoil the movie. The screenplay is by John Patrick Shanley, who won an Oscar for Moonstruck. The plot goes like this: a serial killer is terrorising Manhattan, targeting one woman a month, much to the horror of the mayor (a rabid Rod Steiger, more foam than substance) and the police commissioner Frank Starkey (Harvey Keitel). There's only one man to save their bacon: enter Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), brother of Frank, who had been a cop but was kicked out of the force for his unorthodox ways. Being a heroic kind of guy, his next career move was as a firefighter and we first see him leaping out of a burning building, carrying a child under his arm. Kline agrees to go back on one condition: that he cooks dinner for his brother's wife (the fantastically haughty Susan Sarandon), a former girlfriend for whom he still holds a candle. The pace hots up, Nick finds himself a new girlfriend, the mayor's daughter Bernadette (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), whose main claim to fame is that her best friend was murdered by the serial killer. Oh, and of course he gets the guy, in the nick of time (literally). Confused? You won't be. The plot is an improbable potion of coincidences and divine inspiration but it's not complicated. Kline overcomes the shortcomings of the script with a charmer of a performance, but the real star is the funny, sly Alan Rickman. The January Man is worth seeing for some very fine individual turns (Sarandon is terrific), but in all honesty, it doesn't add up to a great movie, mainly because it can't quite decide what it wants to be, genre-wise, settling on an uneasy compromise of comedy and thriller. On the DVD: The January Man disc has absolutely no-frills. Picture and sound are perfectly adequate without being anything to write home about. And if you're looking for extra goodies, you'll be disappointed: there's the original theatrical trailer and a wide array of subtitle languages, but that's it. --Harriet Smith

• The Mindy Project - Season 2 | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £21.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (12.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The optimistic Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) is about to learn that fantasy doesn’t always mesh with reality. After a stint in Haiti with her pastor boyfriend Mindy returns to New York City only to find that her relationship with Dr. Danny Castellano (Chris Messina) is more complicated than ever before. In this surprising second season Mindy struggles to get in shape fast-track her career and find love in the most unexpected places. Watch all 22 hilarious episodes uninterrupted featuring major guest stars like James Franco (This Is the End ) Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live) Chlöe Sevigny (TV’s Those Who Kill) and more.

• Desert Saints | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate hitman is about to meet his match. When clients need a flawless assassin to take out their high profile targets they call on a mysterious hitman know only as Banks. But deep in the heart of the desert this cunning killer is about to make the biggest mistake of his life. He's teaming up with a sexy hitchhiker who seems like the perfect accomplice...for the right price.

• Child's Play 2 | Blu Ray | (16/08/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Point Pleasant - The Complete Series | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £38.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The peaceful existence of a small seaside community will change forever when Christina Nickson (Elisabeth Harnois) is rescued from the ocean by local lifeguard Jesse Parker (Sam Page) and brought to the home of local doctor Ben Kramer (Richard Burgi). The Kramers including Ben's wife Meg (Susan Walters) and daughter Judy (Aubrey Dollar) take an instant liking to Christina and invite her to stay with them as she searches for clues to her past and attempts to find her mother - a Point

• 13 Ghosts / Darkness Falls / The Haunting | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  13 Ghosts (Dir. Steve Beck 2001): The family may have moved in but the ghosts aren't moving out in this special-effects spectacular update of William Castle's classic 1960s shocker! When the Kriticos family inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle (F. Murray Abraham) they know nothing of its own dangerous agenda. Trapped in their new home by shifting walls a father and daughter (Tony Shalhoub Shannon Elizabeth) encounter powerful and vengeful ghosts that threaten to destroy anyone in their path. Soon the family is joined by an offbeat ghost hunter (Matthew Lillard) who is determined to free the spirits imprisoned in the house. Caught in a frantic race to save themselves before it is too late the human inhabitants realise the house is a riddle which contains the key to their imminent salvation...or destruction. Darkness Falls (Dir. Johnathan Liebesman 2003): A young man Kyle (Kley) is considered insane by everyone in town with the exception of his childhood girlfriend Caitlin (Caufield) and her younger brother Michael (Cormie). Kyle must confront his fears and his past to save Michael from the hands of a small town's legendary evil the Tooth Fairy. The Haunting (Dir. Jan de Bont 1999): In this edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller featuring Hollywood's hottest stars a study in fear escalates into a heart-stopping nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion. For over a century the dark and forbidding Hill House has sat alone and abandoned...or so it seemed. Intrigued by the mansion's storied past Dr. Marrow (Liam Neeson) lures his three subjects -Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones) Nell (Lili Taylor) and Luke (Owen Wilson) - to the site for a seemingly harmless experiment. But from the moment of their arrival Nell seems mysteriously drawn to the house...and the attraction is frighteningly mutual. When night descends the study goes horrifyingly awry as the subjects discover the haunting secrets that live within the walls of Hill House.

• The Rookie | Blu Ray | (10/03/2008) from £11.45   |  Saving you £12.54 (109.52%)   |  RRP £23.99

  A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

• White Sands | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Red-hot stars ignite the white-hot thriller 'White Sands' a volatile mix of action and suspense directed by Roger Donaldson (Species) and filmed in an around New Mexico's glistening White Sands National Park. Willem Dafoe plays Sheriff Ray Dolezal a small-town lawman in big-time trouble. To untangle a mystery he assumes the identity of a murdered FBI agent and goes undercover inside a global crime ring. This precarious new life steers him toward a sinister weapons runner (Mickey R

• As I Lay Dying | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (65.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Speed -- Two-Disc Special Edition | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The movie that transformed Keanu Reeves into a bona fide action hero, Speed was also former cinematographer Jan De Bont’s assured directorial debut. It’s an almost perfect high-concept movie that lives up to its title both in the adroit choreography of the action set-pieces and Graham Yost’s taut screenplay, which is admirably stripped of all padding. De Bont further heightens the excitement by his use of authentic locations as the out-of-control bus travels through, across and--in one unforgettable scene--a few feet in the air above the urban sprawl of LA. And instead of relegating the love interest to a dull subplot, here Sandra Bullock is an integral part of the action as she and her bus career around the city at 50-plus miles an hour. Even the opening credits neatly illustrate the film’s title, as does composer Mark Mancina’s pulsing score. Sensibly, Reeves passed on the ill-advised sequel and took on The Matrix instead; both screenwriter and director have yet to do anything better than this. On the DVD: Speed is the kind of movie that was made for the DVD format, and this two-disc special edition does it full justice. The feature is presented anamorphically in its original 2.35:1 ratio with spectacularly vivid Dolby 5.1 or DTS 5.1 options. Jan De Bont provides a commentary, though his solo effort is less engaging than that of chatty producer Mark Gordon and writer Graham Yost who enjoy constantly interrupting each other. Disc 2 has lots of goodies, including mini-documentaries on the key action set-pieces with storyboards and multi-angle views of the major stunts. "Inside Speed" looks at various aspects of the production, from locations to stunts; production design and visual effects, plus reproducing all of Graham Yost’s original screenplay. There are individual interviews with the director and principal stars, a short selection of extended scenes and a brief deleted one; a photo gallery, plus a promotional menu in which there is a HBO "making of" featurette, TV spots, trailers, a press kit and Billy Idol’s music video. In all, a satisfyingly extensive package.--Mark Walker

• Dolly Parton - Blue Valley Songbird | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a totally unexpected piece of casting, Blue Valley Songbird stars Dolly Parton as a country singer/songwriter with big hair, large breasts and lots of lippy. The comparison ends there, though, because here she plays Leana Taylor, a talented performer hampered by her provincial background (and unpleasant manager/boyfriend) who realises she must escape her small-town roots in order to achieve her true potential. This isn't the most taxing of narratives, but it's the music that counts here. This movie is of the "musical drama" genre--take a star musical performer, give them the lead role in a movie, then furnish them with every excuse to perform therein so long as it can be done as a realistic element within the overall story--and as such it's highly agreeable. Parton not only has buckets of musical talent but also has plausible acting skills, even if the viewer is bound to think that these are mainly to do with being Dolly Parton. In any event, the songs are excellent, so this is well worth watching even if you find yourself fast-forwarding until you see someone picking a guitar up.--Roger Thomas

• Love Field | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett (Pfeiffer) feels such a strong personal connection to her idol Jackie Kennedy that when JFK is assassinated she defies her husband and boards an eastbound bus determined to 'be there' for Jackie at the funeral. On board she meets a mysterious black man (Haysbert) travelling with a sad silent little girl. But when Lurene realises he's given her a false name she fears that she has uncovered a kidnapping plot. As a result of her well-intentioned medd

• There's Something About Mary / Rat Race / Austin Powers / Nine Months / Dude, Where's My Car? | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  There's Something About Mary Still suffering from a High School crush on Mary (Cameron Diaz) the nerdy angst-driven Ted (Ben Stiller) tracks her down thirteen years later with the help of a sleazy private investigator (Matt Dillon) who also falls for her. Unfortunately both men discover that virtually every man who sets his eyes on the dazzling Mary finds himself head over heels in love and determined to win her hand. Rat Race Donald Sinclair owns the biggest snazzi

• Dynasty (2017): Season One | DVD | (25/09/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• As I Lay Dying | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Speed | UMD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Trader Hornee | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Twenty-one years after two zoologists disapperaed in the jungle detective Hamilton Hornee leads an expedition into daftest Africa to search for their missing daughter Algona heiress to her father's fortune. Joining him are 'Sultry' Sommer a lesbian journalist Tender Lee two of Algona's greedy S & M loving relatives and Stanley Livingston on the lookout for Nabucco a legendary white gorilla. But Algona just so happens to be the magnificent blonde she-goddess worshipped by the Meshpokas 'the most feared humans in all Africa' while Nabucco turns out out to be an escaped Nazi in an ape suit.