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• For The Love Of Mary | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £5.83   |  Saving you £7.16 (122.81%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A perkyt switchboard operator for the White House makes not one but three love connections and her attampts to keep each Romeo on the line leads to alot of crossed wires....

• Congo | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind "fourth Ghostbuster" Ernie Hudson's bizarre decision to speak with a British accent. While Marshall wants us to root for the human characters, they're all so obnoxious and unbelievable you can't help but feel lousy for the poor apes when they get chopped to bits just for defending their homes against these twerps. If you're not feeling enough environmentalist ire these days, watch this and get angry. --Tom Keogh

• Cocoon | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1985 Cocoon was a significant trend-bucker amongst summer blockbusters. Whereas other genre efforts were devised to lure a teenage audience into FX extravaganzas, this looked like one for their grandparents. Except that it turned out to be a gentle, affecting tale for all ages. Adapted from David Saperstein's novel, director Ron Howard took great delight in focusing on family relationships and the encroachment of old age (themes that reappeared in nearly all his work from here on). The plot is rather surreal in summary: a group of Florida OAPs befriend aliens in next-door's swimming pool and are rejuvenated to youthful well-being. It's in the FX and characterisations that the story comes alive. Both were acknowledged with Academy Awards; with Don Ameche's supporting role deserving praise for more than just the moment when he does some bodypopping on the dance floor. Wilford Brimley is the real star, a bluff old codger wanting to do right by everyone. Steve Guttenberg provides comic support and allows for a little non-wrinkly nudity with foxy space gal Kitty (Tahnee Welch). ILM's visuals remain polished and inspired, but never allowing us to lose sight of the characters basking in their dazzle. --Paul Tonks

• Rising Damp: The Works | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring all the episodes from Series 1 to 4 including: 'Rooksby' 'Black Magic' 'Charisma' 'Night Out' 'All Our Yesterdays' 'The Prowler' 'Permissive Society' 'Food Glorious Food' 'A Body Like Mine' 'The Perfect Gentleman' 'The Last Of The Big Spenders' 'Things That Go Bump In The Night' and 'Moonlight And Roses'. Includes the unreleased episode 'Stand Up And Be Counted'.

• Guilty As Sin | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Odd teaming of man-of-integrity A-list studio director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, The Verdict) with muckraking, lively independent screenwriter Larry Cohen (It's Alive, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent), the court-room drama Guilty As Sin relies rather heavily on the plot of Jagged Edge. Jack Warden reprises Robert Loggia's grumpy but decent private-eye role exactly, while ice-maiden lawyer Rebecca De Mornay is ensnared in a web of duplicity and violence by her client (Don Johnson), accused of murdering his wife. It hasn't got the gravitas of Lumet's best or the maniacal energy of top-rate Cohen film, but as a no-brain thriller it offers a couple of edgy, interesting star performances, with Johnson in particular cutting loose from his image with a display of razor-edged smiling charm as the killer gigolo. --Kim Newman

• The Angel Doll | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The Angel Doll' is a beautifully touching true story told through the eyes of ten-year-old boy Jerry. He tells of his carefree life in the 1950s with his friend Whitey. Whitey is devoted to his seriously ill four-year-old sister Sandy whose only comfort from her illness is her love for angels. Although Whitey has saved money from his paper round to buy her a special angel doll he cannot find one in the small town that they live in. Jerry and Whitey set out with single-minded determination to find a doll and along the way face fear prejudice and theft. They learn what is truly important as their lives and the lives of others are affected in a very unexpected way.

• Ocean's Twelve | DVD | (27/05/2005) from £5.18   |  Saving you £11.80 (538.81%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Like its predecessor Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve is a piffle of a caper, a preposterous plot given juice and vitality by a combination of movie star glamour and the exuberant filmmaking skill of director Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, The Limey). The heist hijinks of the first film come to roost for a team of eleven thieves (including the glossy mugs of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, and Don Cheadle), who find themselves pursued not only by the guy they robbed (silky Andy Garcia), but also by a top-notch detective (plush Catherine Zeta-Jones) and a jealous master thief (well-oiled Vincent Cassel) who wants to prove that team leader Danny Ocean (dapper George Clooney) isn't the best in the field. As if all that star power weren't enough--and the eternally coltish Julia Roberts also returns as Ocean's wife--one movie star cameo raises the movie's combined wattage to absurd proportions. But all these handsome faces are matched by Soderbergh's visual flash, cunning editing, and excellent use of Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome, among other highly decorative locations. The whole affair should collapse under the weight of its own silliness, but somehow it doesn't--the movie's raffish spirit and offhand wit soar along, providing lightweight but undeniable entertainment. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Second Chorus | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £9.62   |  Saving you £6.36 (95.93%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both however are keen rival

• Danielle Steel's Zoya | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Zoya's journey begins in Russia at the turn of the 20th Century when her royal upbringing is brought to a tragic end as her parents are killed in the revolution. She escapes with her life and is forced to flee to Paris with her Grandmother. Penniless and alone Zoya finds life hard for many years until she meets a handsome American soldier. Against her grandmother's wishes she marries him and moves to New York...

• Night of the Demon | Blu Ray | (21/02/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Amid the gush of early '80s low-budget backwoods horror, only one lost classic brought together softcore sex, hardcore violence, Satanic sex cults and a limb-tearing, gut-slinging, dick-ripping beast for the best and bloodiest Bigfoot movie ever made. (Buried.com): When a group of Anthropology students heads deep into the forest to investigate a series of Sasquatch attacks, they'll discover an immortal brain-blast of crazy hermits, mutilated Girl Scouts, interspecies copulation and one of the goriest final scenes in the whole history of splatter flicks (A Slash Above). Producer/co-writer Jim L. Ball and director James C. Wasson deliver an anti-masterpiece that moves like a bullet, unlike anything you've ever seen (Mondo Digital) now scanned in 4K from the recently discovered 35mm answer print with over 5½ hours of Special Features on two discs. Extras: DISC 1 Exclusive Slip Case Just A Little Green Kid Outta Waco, Texas - Interview With Producer Jim L. Ball The Demon Made Me Do It - Interview With Director James C. Wasson Eye Of The Demon - Interview With Cinematographer John Quick FRATERNITY OF HORROR - Previously Unreleased 1964 Feature Produced By Jim L. Ball And hot By John Quick Trailer DISC 2 Cryptid Currency: Transgression Aggression In Bigfoot Cinema - Video Essay By David Coleman, Author Of The Bigfoot Filmography Tales From The Cryptid - Interview With Stephen R. Bissette, Co-Author Of Cryptid Cinema Deconstructing Patty - Interview With William Munns, Author Of When Roger Met Patty Mondo Bigfoot - Interview With Lyle Blackburn, Author Of Boggy Creek Casebook BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS! BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS! PART 2 My Nasty Memories - Interview With BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS! Director David Gregory

• Hudson Hawk | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £12.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (-116.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bruce Willis's awful, 1991 vanity piece is an abuse of audience goodwill and a waste of a good cast and director (Michael Lehmann of Heathers). The story of Hudson Hawk, cowritten by Willis, concerns a cat burglar pressured into stealing precious art, including some from the Vatican. But the script is just a convenience upon which Willis piles his vaguely boorish brand of hip irony, assuming his audience will stay with him every step of the way. Certain, self-congratulatory scenes induce cringing--Willis and Danny Aiello, for instance, sing "Side by Side" (to brassy accompaniment on the soundtrack) every time they're working a job--but the overall effect is more irritating and baffling. Keep a good thought for Willis (an underrated actor better than the summer junk we usually see him in) by checking out his superior work in Pulp Fiction and his small but memorable role in Billy Bathgate. --Tom Keogh

• Evilspeak | Blu Ray | (25/01/2016) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-0.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Banned as a video nasty during the horror film purge of the early 1980s, EVILSPEAK returns to UK shelves remastered and uncut for BluRay! Starring genre legend Clint Howard (CARNOSAUR/ THE WRAITH) as a bullied military academy student who manages to tap into an ancient satanic ritual and unleash everything from flesh-hungry pigs to heart-tearing demonic forces, EVILSPEAK is a garish, gruesome rollercoaster romp that rarely pauses for breath. Also featuring a starring turn from veteran actor R.G. Armstrong (PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID), EVILSPEAK is first class genre cinema, from the golden era of VHS splatter, 88 Films is proud to present this colourful bout of carnage in HD!

• Boogie Nights | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.58%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

• Kansas City Confidential | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £9.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (6.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A tough action drama in the classic film noir vein. Released from jail for a crime he did not commit John Payne portrays a disgruntled ex-con who scours the underworld for the real theives behind a sophisticated armored car heist.

• Jurassic Park | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Flight | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (350.58%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Few directors can meld high-tech whiz-bang with solid narrative values like Robert Zemeckis, a filmmaker whose best work (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Back to the Future trilogy, Cast Away) stands tall among the blockbusters. Although there have been times when Zemeckis's insistence on pushing the special effects envelope can end up overshadowing the story being told (as in his animated version of A Christmas Carol), his innate gifts persist: when he's in the groove, he can show you something you've never seen before, as well as a reason to care about it. Flight, the director's first wholly live-action film in over a decade, serves as a reminder of just how good he can be, featuring both an exquisitely terrifying crash sequence and a fearless central performance from Denzel Washington. John Gatins's script serves as a bizarro inversion of the Sully Sullenberger tale: when a routine flight over Atlanta goes terrifyingly wrong, the aircraft's pilot (Washington) saves his passengers with a near-miraculous display of skill. As the investigation into the disaster begins, however, it becomes apparent that its hero's impromptu bravery hides a multitude of bad habits. Washington does a brilliant job as a man who is all too aware of his feet of clay, subverting his innate nobility to shattering effect. (As in the earlier Training Day, when he goes to the dark side, the shock ripples the screen.) The strength of his central performance is only amplified by some outstanding supporting work from Kelly Reilly (as a recovering heroin addict), Don Cheadle, Bruce Greenwood, and a scene-stealing John Goodman, who gets a few lines crass enough to remind you that yes, Zemeckis is the same person who once made the low-taste classic Used Cars. Impressive as the cast is, though, it's unlikely that things would work nearly as well without the director's grasp of the material, which shifts between horror, black comedy, and uplifting pathos without missing a beat. In his hands, this potential sap story makes for a smart, worldly addiction saga that blessedly refuses to stay within the usual melodramatic lines. Just don't ever, ever expect to see it as the in-flight entertainment. --Andrew Wright

• Blue Lagoon/Only You/Endless Love | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Endless Love: Directed by Franco Zeffirelli this timeless romance stars Brooke Shields as Jade who becomes the true love and obsession of the boy next door David. However their young love is so overwhelming that they loose touch with everything else forcing the parents of these star-crossed lovers to try to seperate them with disastrous effects. Now David has to win back their approval but can he do it before they are seperated forever? The Blue Lagoon: The lush beauty and splendor of a South Pacific paradise is vividly captured in this version of Henry DeVere Stacpoole's 1903 novel. Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon however the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. As time passes the kids enter puberty and begin to discover their sexuality. Without realizing what's happening to her Em becomes pregnant and gives birth. With the baby comes responsibility and the wonder of discovery as the parents themselves still children learn what it means to have another human life dependent on them... Only You: From the Oscar Winning Director of 'Moonstruck' comes a star studded irresistibly romantic comedy about a once-in-a-lifetime date with destiny. Faith (Marisa Tomei) is looking for her soul mate but he's not the man she's about to marry! She's known his name - Damon Bradley - since childhood but that's all the Ouija board ever told her. Now following a slim lead and with her best friend Kate (Bonnie Hunt) in tow Faith takes off to Italy in a last-ditch attempt to find her destiny. Here she stumbles into Peter (Robert Downey Jr.) who doesn't need a Ouija Board to tell him that Faith is his soul mate. The only trouble is his name doesn't fit the bill - and Faith is determined that her romantic quest must continue. From the stunning Adriatic to the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast Faith chases her destiny and Peter chases Faith ever hopeful that her ""Mr Wrong"" can eventually become ""Mr Right"".

• Ironside: Season 4 | DVD | (28/11/2016) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  No disability will stop his war on crime. Police veteran Chief Robert T. Ironside returns for the sensational fourth season of the hit series Ironside. With the help of his special police unit - Sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), ex- con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) and policewoman Eve Whit eld (Barbara Anderson) - the squad tackles rogue ex-cops, addicts, radical Quebec separatists, terrorists and more! Set during the turbulent '60s, Ironside confronted the hottest issues of its time and gave television its first detective in a wheelchair. Enjoy all 26 season 4 episodes for the first time on DVD and featuring guest appearances from an array of stars including William Shatner, Martin Sheen, David Carradine, David Soul and many more.

• Tall in the Saddle (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (44.16%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered. Further most of the townsfolk seem to be at each other's throats and the newcomer has soon run contrariwise to most of them...

• THX 1138 | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The visionary first film from George Lucas in a director's cut A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas's THX 1138, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government. THX makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime. The real excitement of THX 1138 is not really the message but the medium the use of film not to tell a story so much as to convey an experience. Stunning dazzling chilling and terribly powerful (Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times). SPECIAL FEATURES Commentary by George Lucas and Walter Murch Theatre of Noise Experience: Isolated Sound Effects Track Master Sessions: Docupod Gallery Showcasing Murch's Pioneering Work 2 Documentaries: A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope and Artifact from the Future: The Making of THX 1138 Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB: Lucas' Original Student Film Vintage Production Featurette Bald Theatrical Trailers