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• The Princess and the Frog Superset (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £18.04   |  Saving you £7.95 (44.07%)   |  RRP £25.99

  After the visual bombast of many contemporary CGI and motion-capture features, the drawn characters in The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Studio's eagerly awaited return to traditional animation, feel doubly welcome. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin), The Princess and the Frog moves the classic fairy tale to a snazzy version of 1920s New Orleans. Tiana (voice by Anika Noni Rose), the first African-American Disney heroine, is not a princess, but a young woman who hopes to fulfill her father's dream of opening a restaurant to serve food that will bring together people from all walks of life. Tiana may wish upon a star, but she believes that hard work is the way to fulfill your aspirations. Her dedication clashes with the cheerful idleness of the visiting prince Naveen (Bruno Campos). A voodoo spell cast by Dr. Facilier (Keith David) in a showstopping number by composer Randy Newman initiates the events that will bring the mismatched hero and heroine together. However, the animation of three supporting characters--Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley), a jazz-playing alligator; Ray (Jim Cummings), a Cajun firefly; and 197-year-old voodoo priestess Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis)--is so outstanding, it nearly steals the film. Alternately funny, touching, and dramatic, The Princess and the Frog is an all-too-rare example of a movie a family can enjoy together, with the most and least sophisticated members appreciating different elements. The film is also a welcome sign that the beleaguered Disney Feature Animation Studio has turned away from such disasters as Home on the Range, Chicken Little, and Meet the Robinsons and is once again moving in the right direction. --Charles Solomon Stills from Princess and the Frog (Click for larger image)

• The Day Of The Triffids | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All reports confirm that the world is witnessing an unprecedented shower of meteorites - a once in a lifetime spectacle that must be seen.' Bill Masen lies in his hospital bed and listens to the radio broadcast in frustration - the bandages on his eyes are not meant to be removed until the following morning. When the time comes he is relieved to find he can see perfectly. But is soon to discover that he is one of the few people left in the world that can. The previous night's light show has blinded all those who watched. With the meteorites have come the spores of a man-eating alien plant form - Triffidus Celestus. Multiplying quickly they uproot themselves in search of a prey that stumbles helplessly in the dark. The fate of the world is in the hands of a few as the Triffids threaten the future of mankind in this classic adaptation of John Wyndham's sci-fi chiller.

• Rudy - The Rudolph Giuliani Story | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With an outstanding performance by James Woods, Rudy: The Rudolph Giuliani Story is a warts-and-all portrait of New York City's lame-duck mayor, who rose from political disfavour to unexpected heights of heroism and leadership in the wake of September 11, 2001. Originally broadcast on the USA Network and based on Wayne Barrett's muckraking biography, it's a condensed, Cliff's Notes rendition of Giuliani's political career, with each commercial break serving as a chapter stop, beginning on the eve of 9/11 and alternating past and present highlights from Giuliani's rise to power. The film offers an unflinching portrait of a devoted public servant who's as fallible as he is competent: his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) understandably suffers while extramarital affairs and political fearlessness are all seen as by-products of Giuliani's compulsion to improve the city he loves. As Robert Dornhelm's clunky direction combines actual news footage with exacting recreations of 9/11 and its aftermath, Woods' charismatic performance wisely avoids mimicry to show us a flawed but noble man who, in the final analysis, deserves our conditional respect. --Jeff Shannon

• Criterion Collection: Slacker | Blu Ray | (17/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the autumn of 2000 Wilco entered the studio to record a highly anticipated fourth album. How was it that merely one year later that with completed record in hand the band found itself rejected by its corporate label and missing two of its members? First time filmmaker and award-winning photographer Sam Jones was on hand to chronicle this turbulent chapter in Wilco's history as it unfolded. Throughout the film Jones tempers the backstage drama and unfathomable corporate shenani

• Nijmegen - Market Garden Collection | DVD | (19/07/2012) from £12.41   |  Saving you £4.58 (36.91%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Documentary which looks at the attempts by allied forces in WWII to gain control over a bridge in Nijmegen. With the help of archive footage as well as newly filmed re-enactments, the film gives a detailed account of the battle, drawing on information from historians and an eyewitness account from Lord Peter Carrington who crossed the Nijmegen bridge with British tanks.

• Love The Hard Way | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £9.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Claire a brilliant student is searching for life's answers in the quiet logic of her biology laboratory. One day at the local cinema she meets the mysterious Jack and becomes intrigued by the sense of danger than surrounds him. Jack is in fact a bona-fide con artist. With his loyal partner Charlie and two struggling actresses he runs a regular scam conning foreign businessmen. An unlikely romance begins between innocent Claire and hardboiled Jack but Jack won't allow anyone

• Born And Bred - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James Bolam and Michael French star as father and son doctors in the second series of Born And Bred. GP Arthur Gilder is enjoying having his family around him especially now he has moved in with his son Tom Tom's wife Deborah and his four grandchildren. It's all part of making Arthur feel one of the family but Arthur can't resist interfering from time to time.

• Class Of 1999 | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Even though Class of 1999 has "exploitation" stamped all over it--with its gratuitous car chases, shoot-outs, and anarchistic characters--it is a guilty pleasure. Unfolding in the future--well, at least at the time of its release it was a decade ahead of schedule--this movie shows how our urban schools have deteriorated to the point that gangs run the classroom and the police, scared to even go near these educational wastelands, use hired goons to keep law and order there. (In fact, the US government now has a Department of Educational Defense.) In Class of 1999, a corporate representative (Stacy Keach), eager to rake in potential billions in government contracts, convinces a Seattle-area school principal (Malcolm McDowell) to test out three lifelike android teachers (including Pam Grier). This technological trio possess intelligence and superhuman strength, which enable them to both educate and discipline the bad apples at school. Unfortunately, the androids quickly move from harsh discipline such as spankings and beatings to murder, and Keach's corporate scumbag convinces McDowell's educator that despite this, the programme needs to stay its course. Thus it is up to a newly paroled ex-gangbanger (Bradley Gregg) and the principal's daughter (Traci Lind) to uncover the teachers' identities and alert students and rival gangs to the impending danger. Despite its formulaic approach and some plot implausibilities, Mark Lester's film is entertaining to watch, especially with such exchanges as: "So they've been waging war with my students". "Well, isn't that what all teachers do?"--Bryan Reesman, Amazon.com

• The Who: The Kids Are Alright | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Who: The Kids Are Alright

• X - The Unheard Music | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £18.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  X: The Unheard Music takes long, detailed, and often funny look at the LA music scene of the late 70s and 80s and focuses on the group that critics had singled out as the leader of the underground pack. The Unheard Music is a documentary that combines live footage of the band and interviews with the four members (as well as their friends and families) with surreal music videos and montages of newsreel footage and vintage television commercials which help to illustrate X's uphill struggle against the music industry. Their story rings true even today. Bonus interviews and more. First time ever on Blu-ray!

• Cars Combi Pack (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (02/11/2009) from £15.29   |  Saving you £11.69 (95.04%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Few would put up too much of a convincing argument that Cars is Pixar’s best film. But when merchandising is brought into the equation, it’s easily its most lucrative, and it certainly has a legion of fans. With good reason too. If you can forgive the very flabby second act, the story of Lightning McQueen as he attempts to race his way to glory is really good fun, complete with some very clever characterisations of the cars themselves. It’s also a stunning looking film, and that’s where the Blu-ray disc comes in. For even if you’re one of those who believes that Cars is the weakest Pixar movie, there’s little doubting just how wonderful it looks in high definition. Take the race sequence at the start. It’s a scene that could sell a thousand 1080p television sets on the spot, so amazing does it look. It’s matched by a cinema-standard surround sound mix that rewards every penny invested in home cinema hardware. And, to be fair, the film itself is still pretty good. Cars is too long, certainly, and it’s lacking some of the charms of Pixar’s other movies. But it’s rollicking good fun, and perhaps has been harshly treated by some reviewers simply by comparison to other Pixar features. For compared with much of what everyone else is putting out, Cars is both superior family entertainment, and one of the best looking Blu-ray discs on the market. It’s hard to grumble too much about that. --Jon Foster

• Johnny English / Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie: When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster! Within days of his arrival Mr. Bean destroys virtually everything he comes into contact with be it the career and marriage of his host or America's greatest painting. Forget volcanoes and alien invasions - horror now has a human face. Johnny English: Rowan Atkinson plays bumbling Johnny English the last remaining British spy and Brtain's last hope. With the assistant of his sidekick Bough he must investigate the mysterious theft of The Crown Jewels. The prime suspects are Pascal Sauvage a mysterious French entrepeneur and the enticing Lorna Campbell. Johnny must get to the truth without denting the nation's pride... or his Aston Martin!

• Lassie - Vol. 6 - Neeka / The Adventures Of Neeka | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Join Lassie the ever-faithful companion and her friends in their exciting adventures. The courageous canine will always be there in times of trouble and strife helping those in need. Lassie truly is everyone's best friend!

• The Shadow Of The Eagle | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £10.58   |  Saving you £-4.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation, with Nathan Gregory, the owner of a travelling fairground thought to be The Eagle. When Gregory goes missing, Pilot Craig McCoy goes looking for both him and the Eagle.

• Gung Ho | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a Japanese car company buys an American plant the American liason (Keaton) must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labour...

• From the Footplate - Yorkshire Moors | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £27.51   |  Saving you £0.48 (1.70%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Join driver John Middleditch and fireman Ian Pearson on the footplate of Standard Tank Engine No. 80135 for a spectacular journey along the length of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.It's an 18-mile steam excursion through some of the most beautiful scenery in Britain. With a dozen cameras on the engine From the Footplate brings you new and exciting views of No. 80135 in action... as well as the stunning countryside on the route.Departing from Pickering the journey takes you north - calling at Levisham and Goatland... before arriving at historic Grosmont Station.With a running commentary as they work John and Ian show just how they manage to drive the fifty-year-old engine up and down some of the steepest rail gradients in Britain. There's stories and tales too about this glorious line - and the people who work it.With an introduction to the route that includes unique aerial footage of the railway it's an entrancing journey for all those who love steam trains and the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire.

• Trapped Ashes | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

• The Four Deuces | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £4.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (11.14%)   |  RRP £4.99

  At the height of the great depression in the early 1930's a full scale gang war is underway. On revenge killing follows another in the battle for supremecy...

• The One And Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Was