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• The Big C: Seasons 1-4 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Season 1 Laura Linney stars in her Golden Globe winning role as Cathy Jamison a 42 year-old schoolteacher who has always played by the rules. That is until she receives a life-changing diagnosis. But instead of giving up - Cathy decides to live it up! Also starring Oliver Platt (TV’s “Huff”) and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious). Season 2 Laura Linney returns in her Golden Globe®-winning role as Cathy Jamison in “The Big C”. Following the medical diagnosis that rocked her safe world Cathy finally shares the news with her family and decides to pursue experimental treatment. She quickly bonds with her fellow patient Lee (Hugh Dancy) – and his wine collection – but isn’t so sure about her new doctor (Alan Alda). Season 3 Cathy’s cancer goes into remission and she gets a new lease on life toyinh with an alternate secret identity and trying to adopt a baby. Cathy’s husband Paul (Oliver Platt) survives his heart attack and becomes a motivational speaker with the help of a sketchy mentor (Susan Sarandon). Andrea (Gabourey Sidibe) embraces her African heritage while Cathy’s son Adam (Gabriel Basso) finds religion. Season 4 We’ve come full circle with Cathy’s story – from her desire to live life to the fullest to her realisation that she’s never felt more alive. Now more than ever with her friends and family at her side Cathy is up to the challenge of living every day as if it were her last.

• I Didn't Know You Cared: The Complete Collection | DVD | (28/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All four series' of the British television comedy about the feuding Brandon family. Uncle Mort (Robin Bailey) constantly argues with his sister Annie (Liz Smith), who in turn can't stand her husband Les (John Comer). The only thing that unites them is their determination to turn their laid-back son Carter (Stephen Rea) into a go-getting executive before he marries his fiancée Pat (Anita Carey).

• Smallville - The Complete Season 4 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £12.87   |  Saving you £44.12 (342.81%)   |  RRP £56.99

  Clark Kent will have plenty of reasons to remember his senior year! The thrilling reinterpretation of the Superman legend evolves in Season 4 whose 22 episodes include the quest for 3 Kryptonian crystals and Clark's bold attempt to keep those mysterious stones from destroying Earth. Clark also becomes a highly recruited football star. Lana gets a boyfriend. Lois Lane smart opinionated and entirely annoying to Clark comes to Smallville. Chloe learns the scoop of the century. Lione

• Kong: Skull Island | 4K UHD | (24/07/2017) from £21.85   |  Saving you £-1.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The producers of Godzilla reimagine the origins of one the most powerful monster myths of all in Kong: Skull Island, from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Tencent Pictures. A compelling, original adventure from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer), the film tells the story of a diverse team of scientists, soldiers and adventurers uniting to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific, as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, the team ventures into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong. Click Images to Enlarge

• Ice Cold In Alex | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (112.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The title Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer the heroes of this 1958 British World War Two classic plan to drink in Alexandria, once they have escaped from the Germans, negotiated minefields and survived both mechanical failure and the killing heat of the North African sands. The setting is Libya in 1942, at the height of the campaigns featured in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and a disparate group in a military ambulance--which include a Nazi agent to add tension of one kind and a beautiful nurse to add tension of another--must make an epic journey to safety. Staring John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews the terror and poignancy comes from our certainty that not everyone will survive, such that the suspense sometimes reaches near unbearable levels. Director J Lee-Thomson was clearly inspired by the then recent French masterpiece, The Wages of Fear (1952) and handles both the character drama and set-pieces with great skill. He would go on to make another great war adventure, The Guns of Navarone (1961), also starring Anthony Quayle, who then returned to the desert for the ultimate British war classic, Lawrence of Arabia (1962). --Gary S. Dalkin

• Tommy | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £19.23   |  Saving you £1.75 (10.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ken Russell's flamboyant treatment of The Who's rock opera about a deaf dumb and blind boy who develops an extraordinary ability at pinball. Under his sinister stepfather's influence he achieves fame and a cult following but his almost messianic status also spells the beginning of his destruction... Featuring musical contributions from a host of rock stars including Elton John Eric Clapton and Tina Turner.

• Blood Simple | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance) and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh

• Toomorrow | DVD | (16/10/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Musical comedy starring Olivia Newton-John as the lead singer of a band which is abducted by aliens. Olivia (Newton-John) is the sole female member of a band called Toomorrow, who attempt to pay their way through college with their music. Unknowingly, the musicians stumble across a form of vocal harmonising that produces the precise vibrations an alien race needs to survive. Olivia and her fellow band members are consequently abducted by the aliens and find themselves playing to an even more intimidating crowd than their contemporaries at the student union...

• Wwe: Royal Rumble 2015 | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £4.58   |  Saving you £13.41 (74.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  30 WWE SUPERSTARS - 1 RING - 1 CHANCE AT IMMORTALITY! The road to WrestleMania begins at Royal Rumble. “The Beast Incarnate” Brock Lesnar has destroyed every obstacle in his path and will put his WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the line against challengers John Cena and Seth Rollins in a Triple Threat Match. And 30 WWE Superstars will enter the Royal Rumble Match for the opportunity to compete for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the grandest stage of them all. Which Superstar will survive and headline WrestleMania? Find out at WWE’s most unpredictable event of the year…. Royal Rumble.

• Sleeper | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £13.04   |  Saving you £4.95 (27.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  If Interiors was Woody Allen's Bergman movie, and Stardust Memories was his Fellini movie, then you could say that Sleeper is his Buster Keaton movie. Relying more on visual/conceptual/slapstick gags than his trademark verbal wit, Sleeper is probably the funniest of what would become known as Allen's "early, funny films" and a milestone in his development as a director. Allen plays Miles Monroe, cryogenically frozen in 1973 (he went into the hospital for an ulcer operation) and thawed 200 years later. Society has become a sterile, Big Brother-controlled dystopia, and Miles joins the underground resistance--joined by a pampered rich woman (Diane Keaton at her bubbliest). Among the most famous gags are Miles' attempt to impersonate a domestic-servant robot; the Orgasmatron, a futuristic home appliance that provides instant pleasure; a McDonald's sign boasting how many trillions the chain has served; and an inflatable suit that provides the means for a quick getaway. The kooky thawing scenes were later blatantly (and admittedly) ripped off by Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. --Jim Emerson

• Simon Sez | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Les Miserables | DVD | (13/06/2022) from £12.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan), convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert (Anthony Perkins).

• Voodoo Man | Blu Ray | (24/06/2019) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion to attempt to revivify his beautiful, but long-dead wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion.

• The Silent Enemy (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (11/04/2022) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey. In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline. A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side. Product Features The Real Commander Crabb: Interview with author Tim Binding Commander Crabb Mystery (1956) Behind the Scenes stills gallery

• The Prince And Me | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £9.16   |  Saving you £9.83 (107.31%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Julia Stiles stars as a medical student who falls for an incognito student prince in this modern take on a fairy tale love story.

• Class | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-6.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class (1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother. Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity. On the DVD: Class is presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford

• Freaky Friday | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Annabel isn't herself today - neither is her mother this morning. They became each other! When a mother and her teenage daughter both wish at the same time that they could switch places for one day each has to live the life of the other on one seriously freaky Friday...

• Wolf Creek 2 | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seeking to experience the real Australia backpackers Rutger and Katarina venture from the main tourist trail to visit the awe-inspiring Wolf Creek crater. Unfortunately for them it's also the hunting ground of psychopathic pig-shooter Mick Taylor: the last man any outback traveller wants to meet. After a chilling attack in the dead of night the crazed bushman pursues his prey in an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland. The long awaited sequel to the seminal horror classic that gave us one of the most iconic horror villains of the modern era.

• The Reunion | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The reward could save them if the mission doesn't kill them first. When estranged brothers Sam (WWE Superstar John Cena) Leo (Ethan Embry Eagle Eye) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook Milk) reluctantly reunite after the death of their father they learn that their promised inheritance has a catch - they must start a family business first. Desperate for cash the trio crosses the border for a quick score that turns into a dangerous search for a kidnapped billionaire - a journey that could turn deadly if they don't figure out a way to work together as a family. Amy Smart (Crank) and Michael Rispoli (Taking of Pelham 123) co-star in a story that proves some bonds are worth fighting for. Special Features: The Three Amigos Saddle Up 'n Giddy Up Rough Take Off Photo Gallery

• The Secret Of My Success | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derivative fluff from 1987, The Secret of My Success is made tolerable by its bawdy exuberance and an appealing performance by Michael J Fox, who was still enjoying TV stardom and the career momentum he earned by travelling Back to the Future. Here he plays a Kansas farm boy who dreams of scoring big in New York City... but reality turns out to be brutal to his ambition. When his uncle (Richard Jordan) gives him a mail-room job in the high-rise headquarters of a major corporation, Fox occupies an empty office and poses as a young executive, winning the attention of a lovely young colleague (Helen Slater) and having an affair with his boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). Sporadically amusing as a yuppie comedy and rather off-putting as a wannabe sex farce, the film's still recommendable for its lively cast and a breezy style that almost succeeds in updating the conventions of vintage screwball comedy. Whitton is a standout performer here, so you may wonder why her comedic talent has been underrated, apart from a good role in the first two Major League movies. This may be little more than a big-screen sitcom, but it's not without its charms. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com