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• My Best Friend's Wedding | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £7.20   |  Saving you £5.79 (80.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realises she's loved all along. With potential heartbreak waiting in the wings, she'll either get what she wants or pay the price for her selfish behaviour, and Ronald Bass's cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his scene-stealing performance as Robert's gay friend who goes along with her scheming (but only so far), and even as she makes her character's needy desperation disarmingly appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalise on her charming time in the spotlight. As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is held in a state of giddy suspense, and director PJ Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes (like a restaurant full of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little Prayer") that could easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented filmmaker. It's no surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997. --Jeff Shannon

• Mercury Rising | DVD | (04/10/1999) from £5.32   |  Saving you £4.67 (87.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Take off your thinking caps and toss 'em in a corner, 'cos you won't need 'em when you're watching this deliriously dumb thriller from 1997. Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy whose mind holds a potentially deadly secret. It seems that by gazing on a puzzle magazine and making order out of a hidden system of numbers, the 9-year-old autistic boy (Miko Hughes) has accidentally deciphered a sophisticated top-secret government code. This makes him the prime target of the ruthless bureaucrat (Alec Baldwin, in one of his silliest roles) and Willis comes to the rescue. This formulaic thriller sets up this plot with a lot of entertaining urgency but you can't give any thought to Mercury Rising or the whole movie collapses under the weight of its own illogic and nonsense. The redeeming values are the performances of Willis, young Hughes and newcomer Kim Dickens as a woman who agrees (perhaps too easily, it seems) to aid Willis in his plot to out manoeuvre the bad guys. Mercury Rising is not a waste of time compared to other formulaic thrillers but its entertainment value depends on how much you enjoy being smarter than the movie. --Jeff Shannon

• My Best Friend's Wedding | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £4.80   |  Saving you £8.19 (170.62%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. She plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realises she's loved all along. With potential heartbreak waiting in the wings, she'll either get what she wants or pay the price for her selfish behaviour, and Ronald Bass' cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us guessing to the very end. It's no surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com On the DVD: My Best Friend's Wedding is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and there is very little grain or noise, the only blurring coming from those soft focus moments. There are two "making-of" documentaries, one produced by HBO and the other a general behind the scenes mix of fly on the wall footage and interviews with cast and crew. Masquerading as helpful hints for the soon to be wed there's also a short featurette called "Wedding Do's and Don'ts". You can also sing along with one of the film's more bizarre moments; the fish restaurant rendition of "Say a Little Prayer", check out the pictures in the wedding album and read the filmographies. --Kristen Bowditch

• Ruth & Alex | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £4.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (73.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When Ruth (Academy Award Winner Diane Keaton, The Godfather) and Alex (Academy Award Winner Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption) first moved to Brooklyn, it was the 1970s years before gentrification, and years before they would realise that they won't always be physically able to climb several flights of stairs just to get home. Still highly active, yet feeling the undeniable effects of age, the couple opts to put their apartment on the market and over one crazy weekend, they discover that finding a new apartment is not about winding down but starting a whole new adventure! Directed by Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) and with hilarious performances from the brilliant cast, also including Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) and Carrie Preston (TV's True Blood), Ruth & Alex is a heartwarming coming of age story about life, love and real estate!

• 30 Miles from Nowhere (DVD) | DVD | (27/05/2019) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Duplicity | Blu Ray | (27/07/2009) from £5.50   |  Saving you £19.49 (354.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Oscar winner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite for "Duplicity", from writer/director Tony Gilroy (seven-time Oscar-nominated for "Michael Clayton").

• For Richer For Poorer | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brad (Tim Allen) and Caroline Sexton (Kirstie Alley) were incredibly rich and incredibly miserable. Until something unbelievable happened... their accountant robbed them dry. Now they're on the run from the IRS and hiding out in the one place no one will ever look for them... Amish country. While their lawyer sorts things out in New York they've got to do their best to blend in and are failing miserably! Hard work may prove to be more difficult than hard time as the Sextons are learning how to milk cows plow fields and fall in love all over again.

• One of These Days | DVD | (16/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Straight Jacket | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Writer/director Richard Day (Girls Will Be Girls) pokes gleeful fun at McCarthy-era Red-baiting and the hypocrisy of the celluloid closet . Hunky screen idol Guy Stone (played with crackling comic timing by Matt Letscher) is the dreamboat of every woman in America and the secret lover of every hot stud in Hollywood. A rock-solid manly man without the slightest little wiggle in his walk Guy is the top choice for the lead in Ben Hur. But when a few homo-criminating photos pop

• Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £3.82   |  Saving you £13.93 (676.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Anna is a charismatic but struggling filmmaker facing a midlife crisis having turned 40; she lives in her friend's garage in L.A. dances in a vagina costume for money and has neither job nor girlfriend. Just when she's about to give up on both she meets sexy post-feminist Katia. To impress her new muse Anna decides to write and direct an all-female remake of 'whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf?' casting Katia and her best friends Chloe and Penelope in the film. Along the way with the help of those around her she discovers some home truths with hilarious results. From director Anna Margarita Albelo (A Lez in Wonderland Hooters) comes this eccentric semi-autobiographical romantic comedy with Albelo in her first feature fiction film alongside Guinevere Turner (Go Fish The L Word) in a show-stopping and award-winning performance Carrie Preston (True Blood) and Janina Gavankar (True Blood).

• Lovely By Surprise (DVD) | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £10.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A truly unique and visually stunning take on meta-fiction, Lovely By Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer's block, novelist Marian Walker (Carrie Preston) turns to her mentor and ex-lover, Jackson (Austin Pendleton). But his seemingly innocent advice to kill the book's protagonist unexpectedly leads one of her wilful characters (Michael Chernus) to escape from the novel and stir up the unresolved issues in her life. At turns funny, lyrical, dark and mysterious, this enigmatic and visually striking film festival favourite film explores past and present, art and reality, and the meaning of life and death, ultimately revealing the strength and beauty of the human heart.