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• Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £9.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (81.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg plays a Reno lounge singer who hides out as a nun when her villainous boyfriend (Harvey Keitel) goes gunning for her. Maggie Smith is the mother superior who has to cope with Whoopi's unorthodox behaviour, but the cute script turns the tables and shows the latter energising the stodgy convent with song and attitude. A real crowd-pleaser and a perfect vehicle for Goldberg, this is a happy experience all around. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Whoopi Goldberg returns in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, a gratuitous, poorly written sequel that contrives a reason to get her character back into Maggie Smith's convent. The "socially conscious" plot finds Goldberg being asked to relate to a bunch of street kids and pull them together into a choir. Since a bad guy is needed, the script grabs that old chestnut about a rich guy (James Coburn) preparing to close down the convent's school, and runs with it. The film is slow and unconvincing from start to finish, although co-stars Mary Wickes and Kathy Najimy get some good laughs, and the music is pretty spirited. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Animal Kingdom: Season 1 | DVD | (10/04/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All ten episodes from the first season of the US crime drama inspired by the 2010 Australian film of the same name. After his mother dies of a heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua 'J' Cody (Finn Cole) moves in with his grandmother Janine aka Smurf (Ellen Barkin), the matriarch of a powerful Californian crime family. Also sharing the lavish home are her sons Craig (Ben Robson), Deran (Jake Weary), Baz (Scott Speedman) and Pope (Shawn Hatosy), who's just finished a six-year prison sentence. J joins his uncles in their illicit exploits overseen by Smurf. However, the boys begin taking on their own jobs without Smurf's approval and attract even more attention from the eyes of the law. The episodes are: 'Pilot', 'We Don't Hurt People', 'Stay Close, Stick Together', 'Dead to Me', 'Flesh Is Weak', 'Child Care', 'Goddamn Animals', 'Man In', 'Judas Kiss' and 'What Have You Done?'.

• The Evil Dead (1983) (2 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £16.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Writer/Director Sam Raimi's relentless, gore-spattered debut is a landmark in horror cinema, a no-holds-barred onslaught of gruesome terror and nightmarish effects which has earned its rightful status as a legendary cult classic. Five college students travel to a remote cabin in the woods and unwittingly unleash a monstrous evil force hellbent on their total destruction. THE EVIL DEAD is truly the ultimate experience in grueling horror.

• Basic Instinct 2 (2006) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sharon Stone returns as novelist Catherine Tramell in this sequel to the iconic 1992 thriller.

• Richard III (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/06/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. Richard III is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerising portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. --Tom Keogh

• Walking Across Egypt | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Picking Up The Pieces: Tex (Woody Allen) a kosher butcher from New York under the witness protection program in Arizona has a problem. He has just killed his wife Candy (Sharon Stone) in a jealous rage after discovering she's having an affair with the local sheriff (Keifer Sutherland). He's cut her body into pieces and has taken them to the Mexican border but he's lost one of her hands! A blind old village woman stumbles upon the hand hits her head and miraculously regains her eyesight. Soon thousands are flocking to the local church to see the hand of the 'Madonna' and miracles are granted to all who ask. But the village priest (David Schwimmer) who is in love with the town hooker (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) senses that the hand's origin is not quite 'virginal'. Tex the Sherrif and the Priest all want something done with the hand and the unpredictable outcome proves to be both magical and hilarious. Miss Firecracker: Comedy about Carnelle (Hunter) a sexually-loose hellraiser who enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the very old-fashioned town where she was raised Yazoo City Mississippi. Carnelle's not the usual kind of contestant -- but her cousin is a famous winner -- and Carnelle's determined to equal her no matter what the obstacles.

• Wagons East! | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They came they saw they changed their minds! A group of disillusioned townsfolk living in the West renounce their settlemen and decide to return to their homes in the East. Hiring a grizzled and eccentric wagonmaster (Candy) they set off on the trail...

• Teachers Complete Series 1-4 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Set in the fictional Summerdown Comprehensive in Bristol Teachers is the hugely successful comedy drama following the chaotic lives of a group of perpetually juvenile teachers whose specialist subjects include beer-drinking kebab-eating and ineptness with members of the opposite sex. Set as much out of the classroom as in it this is a contemporary light-hearted series where the staff find their lives just as problematic after school. They are the teachers no parent would want teaching their kids specialising in immaturity rather than the traditional subjects. They have their own cliques gossips and bullies and their own idea of a practical joke. Follow them making friends breaking friends trying to figure out the opposite sex fighting in the playground... and dealing with lippy pupils. This box set includes all the episodes from series 1 2 3 and 4.

• Basic Instinct 1 And 2 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Basic Instinct: A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger. Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell a cold calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. Has she been set up by a jealous rival or is she guilty? Obsessed with cracking the case Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount bodies fall and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival. (Dir. Paul Verhoeven 1992) Basic Instinct 2: Everything interesting begins in the mind. Dr. Michael Glass (Morrissey) a respected London criminal psychiatrist is brought in by Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (Thewlis) to perform a psychiatric profile and evaluation of novelist Catherine Tramell (Stone) following the mysterious death of a top sports star. Physically drawn to Tramell and mentally intrigued by her Glass is quickly sucked into her web of lies and seduction. The professional boundaries between Glass and Tramell are obliterated when she uncovers his basic instincts... (Dir. Michael Caton-Jones 2006)

• Richard III | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-4.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. Richard III is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerising portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. --Tom Keogh

• South West 9 | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £8.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (61.55%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in Brixton, SW9, land of yuppies, clubbers, anarchists, guns and riots, this new Britsh drama follows five very different characters through a single extraordinary day.

• Teachers: Series 3 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £5.92   |  Saving you £24.07 (406.59%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Kurt Brian Penny Matt and Lindsay are the teachers no parent would want teaching their kids and they're back for a new 13 part series that sees them making friends falling out trying to figure out the opposite sex smoking in the playground and dealing with lippy pupils. It's business as usual for the young teachers specialising in immaturity rather than the traditional subjects. Brian and Kurt are still dreaming of getting laid and they've met their match with new biology teacher Lindsay - she can drink a pint in 1.3 seconds she likes curry and she can out-blunt any of the boys! Back in the photocopier room Matt (married with kids) and Penny have managed to find the perfect work/play balance and are enjoying some extra curricular activity of their own. And what of everyone's favourite teacher who quit teaching to go travelling in the last series? Andrew Lincoln returns as Simon and he doesn't receive the welcome he had hoped for when he surprises his old mates.

• Teachers: Series 1 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Depending on where you get your recommendations, you'll see Teachers described as a comedy, a drama, an irresponsible depiction of the teaching profession and a (fairly) sympathetic reminder of how teachers are expected to be morally unimpeachable despite being ordinary human beings like the rest of us. In fact, it's all of the above, which perhaps does more for the show's realism than all its supposedly controversial elements put together. The series stars Andrew (This Life) Lincoln as the feckless Simon, who, like several of his colleagues, is no more mature or advanced in terms of his ability to manage his own life than his pupils. The staff at the fictitious Bristol school are given to in-fighting, petty factionalism, bad behaviour, inappropriate nookie and dishonesty, both on and off-duty. That said, they also have to wrestle with professional and moral dilemmas and deal with their dysfunctional relationships: sometimes they succeed, often they don't. It makes for a superb, bittersweet concoction. If you want yet more social comment, it's worth noting that the series was filmed in a disused, empty LEA school. On the DVD: Teachers, Series 1 bucks the take-it-or-leave-it convention of many television series releases by actually providing some interview material as part of this two-disc set. Simple extras such as this cost little enough to include and do at least add some value to the package. --Roger Thomas

• Teachers - Series 4 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Channel 4's most successful ever drama series returns to DVD for an unprecedented fourth series. Following the lives loves and timetables of a group of hapless teachers that no sane parent would want teaching their children this irreverent comedy drama continues to steer clear of anything remotely educational or politically correct! Starring Tamzin Malleson as the manipulative sex kitten Penny; Vicky Hall as lardy Lindsay the biology teacher with a healthy disregard for her pupils

• The Evil Dead - Book of the Dead | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Available uncut for the first time in the UK, The Evil Dead is a classic cult horror film that tells of five college friends who journey to the woods and wake the spirits of demons who want their bodies!

• Teachers: Series 2 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £4.75   |  Saving you £26.50 (759.31%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The lives and lifestyles of a group of young comprehensive school teachers in Bristol forms the backdrop for the second series of this original drama series. Starring Andrew Lincoln 'Teachers' is set in the fictional Summerdown Comprehensive where a mix of seasoned and young teachers and some raucous pupils makes for some humorous incidents. Set as much out of the classroom as in it this is a contemporary light-hearted series where the staff find their lives just as problematic after school.

• Teachers: Series 1-3 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £10.78   |  Saving you £52.20 (670.09%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Set in the fictional Summerdown Comprehensive in Bristol Teachers is the hugely successful comedy drama following the chaotic lives of a group of perpetually juvenile teachers whose specialist subjects include beer-drinking kebab-eating and ineptness with members of the opposite sex. Set as much out of the classroom as in it this is a contemporary light-hearted series where the staff find their lives just as problematic after school. They are the teachers no parent would want teaching their kids specialising in immaturity rather than the traditional subjects. They have their own cliques gossips and bullies and their own idea of a practical joke. Follow them making friends breaking friends trying to figure out the opposite sex fighting in the playground...and dealing with lippy pupils. This box set includes the complete series 1 2 and 3.

• Faces Of Death | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Animal Kingdom - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua J Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty is J's manipulative grandmother, Janine Smurf Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons: adopted right-hand man Barry Baz; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled baby, Deran. As J copes with losing his mom, aggressive rivalry between his uncles, and a helpful high school teacher, his new family incites more danger, excitement and trouble than he's ever known. Emmy® Award winner* Ellen Barkin rules over a fiercely talented ensemble cast in all 10 episodes of this edgy, crime-fueled series based on the award-winning Australian film of the same name.

• Faces Of Death | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and satanic orgies using dead bodi