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• Jumanji DVD with Board Game | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the success of Jurassic Park in 1993, the floodgates opened for digital special effects, and Jumanji is nothing if not a showcase for computer-generated creepiness guaranteed to give young children a nightmare or two. Whether that was the filmmakers' intention is up for debate, since this is a PG-rated adventure revolving around a mysterious board game that unleashes a terrifying jungle world upon its players, including gigantic spiders, huge mosquitoes, a stampede of rhinos, elephants, and every other jungle beast you can imagine. Robin Williams plays a man-child who's been trapped in the world of "Jumanji" for 26 years until he's freed by two kids who've discovered the game and released its parade of dangerous horrors. A chaotic and misguided attempt at family entertainment, the movie does offer a few good laughs, and the effects are frequently impressive, if not entirely convincing to the eye. --Jeff Shannon

• Bewitched | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman star in this comedy based on the beloved '60s sitcom.

• Zathura / Jumanji | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (100.29%)   |  RRP £6.99

  A double bill of family adventure films based on novels by Chris Van Allsburg. Zathura (Dir. Jon Favreau 2005): Actor-turned-director Jon Favreau (Elf) delivers another work of intelligent charming family fare with this space adventure. Older brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and the younger Danny (Jonah Bobo) are constantly at war with one another bickering over the mediating voice of their long-suffering father (Tim Robbins). When he has to go to the office to replace so

• Clifford The Big Red Dog | DVD | (14/03/2022) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size.

• Jumanji | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When young Alan Parrish and his friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) begin to play a mysterious board game they don't realise its unimaginable powers until Alan is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji. Twenty-six years later Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) discover the dusty board and reawaken the game as they begin to play. Instantly the forces of Jumanji release a fully-grown bewildered Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) into their world. With each roll of

• Stuart Little | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The smallest member of The Little family returns in this blockbusting sequel. Alongside fellow family pet Snowbell the cat he sets of on a journey through the streets of New York in search of a missing friend.

• Muppets - The Wizard of Oz | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £12.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (17.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Everyone's favourite story becomes one twisted tale! Dorothy Gale (Ashanti) lives with her Auntie Em (Queen Latifah) and Uncle Henry (David Alan Grier) in a trailer park in Kansas. Dorothy has dreams of becoming a famous singer but when a tornado hits Kansas and Dorothy rushes to save Toto her prawn (she couldn't afford a dog) she is whisked away to Oz where she meets the four witches (all played by Miss Piggy) and the Munchkins of Oz (the rats). On her way to see the Wiz

• Boomerang | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £9.16   |  Saving you £6.82 (110.54%)   |  RRP £12.99

  New York marketing exec Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy) is a wolf in chic clothing a ladies' man dedicated to life liberty and the happiness of pursuit. But he's about to find out that what goes around comes around in this smash-hit romantic comedy!

• Baad Asssss! | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A father. A son. A revolution. In the spirit of his legendary father Melvin Mario Van Peebles directs Baadasssss! a docudrama about the making of the notorious Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. In 1971 when he was on the verge of becoming one of the first major black Hollywood directors Melvin opted to take a risk go against audience expectations and shoot a controversial film instead. He wound up making one of the first truly ""independent""

• Tales From the Hood I & II (2-disc Blu-ray Set) | Blu Ray | (02/11/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror meets the hood in Rusty Cundieff's politicallycharged horrorcomedy anthology series. Stories of abuse, corruption and racism towards the AfricanAmerican community are given the horror film treatment, as an eccentric funeral director attempts to deter a gang of drug dealers from a life of crime. Executiveproduced by Spike Lee, this cult horror favourite is presented alongside its 2018 sequel, which reunites the original creative team for more tales of terror.

• Jumanji (4K + Blu-Ray) | 4K UHD | (11/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.77

  When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of JUMANJI! 26 years later, Alan (Robin Williams) reunites with Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), and together with Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), tries to outwit the game's powerful forces! Features: First look at JUMANJI: Welcome To The Jungle NeverBeforeSeen Deleted Scenes Hilarious Gag Reel with Robin Williams and the Cast!

• Return To Me (2000) | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Life can change in an instant and certainly does for the two lead characters in this romantic comedy, starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver.

• Jumanji | Blu Ray | (03/10/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After the success of Jurassic Park in 1993, the floodgates opened for digital special effects, and Jumanji is nothing if not a showcase for computer-generated creepiness guaranteed to give young children a nightmare or two. Whether that was the filmmakers' intention is up for debate, since this is a PG-rated adventure revolving around a mysterious board game that unleashes a terrifying jungle world upon its players, including gigantic spiders, huge mosquitoes, a stampede of rhinos, elephants, and every other jungle beast you can imagine. Robin Williams plays a man-child who's been trapped in the world of "Jumanji" for 26 years until he's freed by two kids who've discovered the game and released its parade of dangerous horrors. A chaotic and misguided attempt at family entertainment, the movie does offer a few good laughs, and the effects are frequently impressive, if not entirely convincing to the eye. --Jeff Shannon

• Clifford The Big Red Dog | Blu Ray | (14/03/2022) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size.

• Fifteen Minutes | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £5.55   |  Saving you £14.44 (260.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fifteen Minutes partners Robert De Niro and Saving Private Ryan's Edward Burns in a thriller satire on America's "reality TV" industry. De Niro plays celebrity detective Eddie Fleming, who must reluctantly work with arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) when a grisly fire is discovered to conceal a murder. This is the work of Emil (Karel Roden) and Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), East European psychos bent on a maniacal spree of killings. All of these are videotaped by Emil, who renames himself after his hero Frank Capra, in a perverse tribute to the US of A, where "no one is responsible for what they do!". Soon the duo decide to sell their footage to Kelsey Grammer's creepily shameless frontline TV journalist. As a pair of loons whose scariness is just the right side of cardboard villainy, Roden and Taktarov steal the movie as well as their camcorder. However, the central theme of voyeurism and video murder was dealt with far more effectively in the 1992 Belgian movie Man Bites Dog and, while the action tears along in explosive fashion, it does so at the expense of both plausibility and the anti-media satire, which seems hitched crudely onto the bumper of what is essentially a satisfying but conventional blockbuster thriller. --David Stubbs

• A Soldier's Story | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford

• The American Society of Magical Negroes | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a little girl is brutally slain by a vampire in a tiny 19th century European village, the townspeople invade the foreboding castle of Count Mitterhaus and kill him for the crime. As the Count dies, he curses the villagers and vows that their children will all die so that he may someday return to life. Fifteen years later, as the village is ravaged by the plague, a travelling circus comes to town and distracts the villagers from their current hardships. Little do they know that their troubles are only beginning...

• Jumanji | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £11.10   |  Saving you £4.88 (60.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's a jungle in there! When young Alan Parrish and his friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) begin to play a mysterious board game they don't realise its unimaginable powers until Alan is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji. Twenty-six years later Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) discover the dusty board and reawaken the game as they begin to play. Instantly the forces of Jumanji release a fully-grown bewildered Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) into

• The Woodsman | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kevin Bacon gives one of the best, most nuanced performances of his career in The Woodsman, a daring and thought-provoking drama he co-produced with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick. In portraying a convicted pedophile named Walter, recently released from prison and struggling to rebuild his life, Bacon and writer-director Nicole Kassell (making her feature-film debut) do a remarkable job of exploring all facets of this troubling yet very human character, from his continuing criminal impulses to the despair he feels over having to conceal his horrible past. Sedgwick costars as the one woman who appears willing to accept Walter, secrets and all, and while The Woodsman takes a few regrettable shortcuts in illustrating Walter's quest for the good man he can be, the film deserves to be seen and discussed as a provocative yet admirably humane study of an individual whom society may too quickly label a "monster." The film allows for different interpretations, and that complexity--along with Bacon's performance--makes it worthy of a wide and hopefully understanding audience. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Streamers | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this adaptation of David Rabe's savage play Robert Altman offers an intense dramatic film in which a group of young recruits in desolate Vietnam-era barracks come to terms with their prejudices. Billy and Roger have learnt to ignore their racial differences and have become good friends. Richie's obviously effeminate personality alarms the others but it is not until Carlyle an angry black man arrives that these tensions boil over. This film is brimming with anger violence confusion and fear.