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• Railway Walks with Julia Bradbury | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £5.63   |  Saving you £11.36 (201.78%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Railroad walks With Julia Bradbury

• Jam | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Jam, the TV follow-up to his Radio 1 series Blue Jam, Chris Morris focuses more on unease more than the satire of Brass Eye. Indeed, it's a moot point whether Jam can actually be categorised as comedy at all. Each sketch is steeped in a heavy brine of dark, ambient music (including Bark Psychosis, David Sylvian and Brian Eno), grainy imagery, fast-cut editing and slo-motion. Its mirthless, Kafka-esque scenarios feel like an attempt to morph into some new species of post-comedy that is more like the stuff of nightmares. The credits, in which Morris stalks the moving camera, uttering Lear-esque words of foreboding immediately announce that this "sketch show" is a galaxy apart from The Two Ronnies. The appalled look on actor Kevin Eldon's face in the opening sketch of the series, as a young couple invite him to endure being buggered by a mutual acquaintance ("I need a break"), sets the tone. Rape, chemotherapy, wanton urination--as a naked "Robert Kilroy-Silk" goes insane in a sketch full of detestation for the oleaginous TV presenter--and recurring sketches involving callously authoritarian NHS doctors, all go to make up these annals of the bizarre and perverse. Ultimately, Jam doesn't quite work, not on TV anyway. The repetition of the same, small cast over and over, broken up too briefly by Morris' own appearances (as a "country gentleman" living outside his house, for instance), coupled with the gruelling treatment of the sketch material makes for a psyche-probing, jaw-dropping experience--but in parts also a nullifying and strangely predictable one. Morris's "failures" are far more interesting than most people's successes. --David Stubbs

• Island at War | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Island at War is set in Saint Gregory a fictitious island in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. It tells the harrowing story of how three families are affected by the German occupation and how they managed to live and work alongside the enemy for five years. The three families are; the Dorrs whose son is at war but unexpectedly returns the Mahys shopkeepers recovering from both the loss of the head of their family Mr Mahy and their shop. The third family is the simple fishing famly called the Jonases who are very tight-knit and endeavour to make the best of a bad situation. Heart-stopping suspense and an unexpected romance unfold in an atmosphere steeped in the ambiguity and senselessness of war.

• Miss Kobayashi s Dragon Maid: The Complete Series - Blu-ray + Free Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (17/08/2020) from £19.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid contains anime episodes 1-13 of the anime directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto. What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That's Miss Kobayashi's new reality when Tohru, her new maid-slash-dragon appears in her life! And if one wasn't enough, in comes Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Soon, Kobayashi has a house full of adorable dragons - one serving tail and the other serving serious moe.

• Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1 | Blu Ray | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This ten-part adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic novel tells the story of two Oxfordshire communities at the end of the 19th century. The birth of a new baby brings financial hardship to the Timmins household obliging eldest daughter Laura (Olivia Hallinan) to leave her home in the quiet hamlet of Lark Rise and embark on a new life in the busy neighbouring market town of Candleford. Her adventurous cousin postmistress Dorcas Lane (Julia Sawalha) takes Laura under her wing and they soon become firm friends experiencing together the romances rivalries and comedies of close-knit rural life.

• Silver Linings Playbook | Blu Ray | (01/04/2013) from £6.97   |  Saving you £18.02 (258.54%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In lesser hands than director David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook could have been a typically cringe-inducing throwaway Hollywood rom-com. As it is, this unusual and deeply affecting story of crazy love is a bold observation about the joys and tragedy of life lived by deeply flawed characters facing triumph and adversity against a backdrop of painfully familiar family dysfunction. It's also a tremendous achievement in formal structure, with a flair for storytelling that's as moving as it is delightful. Bradley Cooper plays Pat, an until-recently undiagnosed bipolar person who's just home from a lengthy stay in a mental institution and doing his darnedest to get his head and his life back on track. His concerned parents, vividly embodied by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver, have plenty of troubles of their own when they warily take him in and tiptoe around the eggshells of a psyche that still veers wildly from seeming self-control to scary bouts of mania. Pat has a plan to win back the unfaithful wife whose restraining order is still in force because of the violent episode that sent him away after he nearly killed her lover. Interjected into this wobbly family scenario is Tiffany, a friend of a friend who is embroiled in her own turmoil of mental instability following the recent death of her husband. Jennifer Lawrence is a charming revelation as Tiffany, flexing sensitive acting muscles that are as toned as her lithe form. She throws herself into the role of a depressed, promiscuous young woman who needs Pat in her life about as much as she needs another personal tornado to rip her apart. But the movie magically reveals that these two disturbed souls have a destiny that's never really in doubt; although the whirlwind turns the movie takes to get them there are often breathtaking. Russell liberally adapted the movie from Matthew Quick's 2008 novel, and he deftly imbues the story with a vibrant sense of place (suburban, blue-collar Philadelphia) and each character, no matter how tangential to Pat and Tiffany's journey, with quirks and nuances that brilliantly reveal their essence. The subject of mental illness has rarely been portrayed with such honesty and candid respect. Constantly keeping us off guard, Silver Linings Playbook soars from darkness to a kind of screwball comedy that is as tender and touching as it is unpredictable. There are several tour-de-force moments that Russell constructs with the surest hand of direction, dialogue, and the talents of his cast. A key scene unfolds in a small living room where eight people are crammed together, each adding important pieces to the whole, and which thrums with a masterfully rhythmic pace. Another sequence follows the buildup to one of Pat's manic outbursts with a dizzying and increasingly stressful manifestation of the madness careening around in his head. It seems hard to believe that a love story with real humour, real pain, and genuine resonance that gets from point A to point B--it begins with a lone figure mumbling to himself and ends with a jubilantly staged ballroom dance--can succeed with so few missteps. But Silver Linings Playbook turns it all into an absorbing reality wherein life stumbles heartwarmingly toward what real love is all about. --Ted Fry

• Wicked | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Residing within a wealthy green gated community in California the Christiansens are not your usual nuclear family. Ben Christiansen (William R. Moses) and his wife Karen (Chelsea Field) have two daughters an open marriage and a handful of lovers each. When Karen announces that she wants a divorce she winds up dead and there are several suspects. Their fifteen year-old daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles) never cared much for her mother anyway. She quickly steps into her mothers role cooking all the meals wearing her mother's clothes and sharing a bed with her father. Meanwhile the murder investigation is gaining momentum. Karen had her share of enemies. Is Ellie too obvious a suspect? This dark comedy which was a hit at several festivals combines elements of the best of Hitchcock with some heavy doses of Greek tragedy for a uniquely sinister stew with a strong bite!

• Orphan: First Kill | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  She will kill to be part of the family. Esther's terrifying saga continues in this thrilling prequel to the original and shocking horror hit Orphan. Esther's (Isabelle Fuhrman, Orphan) secret may be out but this time around there's more to this psychotic young girl than meets the eye. Escaping from the psychiatric facility that housed her, Esther hides in plain sight by assuming the identity of a missing American child whose mother (Julia Stiles, Dexter) is matriarch to one of the wealthiest families in the United States. Will Esther's thirst for blood destroy the strong family ties or will she discover that even a mother will cross the line to protect her family? Produced by eOne and Dark Castle Entertainment, the prequel stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Rossif Sutherland (Possessor) and Julia Stiles.

• Mona Lisa Smile/Tea With Mussolini/Legends of the Fall | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £6.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mona Lisa Smile: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.Tea With Mussolini: Florence, 1934. A diverse group of cultured ladies meet for tea each afternoon: Lady Hester Random, widow of the British Ambassador to Italy, Arabella, an artist and singer, Georgie, the exuberant American archaeologist, and the brash and uninhibited Elsa. One of their fold, Mary, becomes surrogate mother to a young boy, Luca, and he is soon virtually adopted and brought up by the group of ladies. But the shifting political climate begins to have serious consequences for this unconventional community and the maturing Luca must face up to a personal challenge of independence.Legends Of The Fall: Colonel William Ludlow (Sir Anthony Hopkins) built a ranch in the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies where he brought up his three sons away from the carnage of the Indian wars. Alfred (Aidan Quinn) the eldest, is dutiful and reserved, Samuel (Henry Thomas) the beloved youngest, is compassionate and idealistic, while the middle brother Tristan (Brad Pitt) has a wild untameable spirit. Into this masculine world enters Susannah Finncannon (Julia Ormond), a beautiful intelligent woman who stirs a passion and rivalry in all three brothers that will change the course of their lives and shape their destinies forever. From the rugged prairie lands of 19th Century America to the trenches of World War I and the changing world beyond, 'Legends of the Fall' is a sweeping, star-studded epic - a passionate journey into the darkest secrets of love, betrayal and the unbreakable bonds of blood.

• Ocean's Eleven | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (250.63%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Danny Ocean and his hand-picked crew of specialists gather in Las Vegas to attempt the most extravagant casino heist ever.

• Frankie | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £7.48   |  Saving you £12.51 (167.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A heroine for the modern age, district nurse Frankie Maddox looks life and death in the eye on a daily basis; her mission is to make a difference. Heart warming and funny Frankie follows the eclectic team as they visit their patients at home and takes a look at ordinary lives, which are often in huge domestic crises. The nurses enjoy their work; it may infuriate, frustrate and even bore them at times, but they turn up day in and day out and wouldn't choose to do anything else - even when missed birthday parties and emotionally neglected kids are the order of the day. All that matters, whatever their flaws, is that they do a good day's work, and make life better for their patients.

• Wonder | Blu Ray | (01/01/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

• Amityville Blu-Ray Collection | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £27.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The ultimate Blu-Ray collection of Amityville sequels includes four of the best from this blockbusting horror franchise: The Evil Escapes (1989), It's About Time (1992), A New Generation (1993) and Dollhouse (1996). This box set is enhanced by a wealth of extras, including brand new features and commentaries produced by Calum Waddell.Product FeaturesDisc 1 (includes a new 5000-word booklet on the AMITYVILLE franchise):Amityville The Evil Escapes / Amityville It's About Time:NEW: Audio commentary by Bryan Norton, author of For God's Sake, Get Out! The Amityville Horror at the Movies book, moderated by Calum WaddellNEW: Interview with producer Steve WhiteNEW: Interview with film historian David Del Valle on the life of legendary Evil Escapes actress Patty DukeNEW: Ocean Avenue Effective Interview with Especial Effects artist Richard StutsmanNEW: Interview with producer Steve WhiteNEW: Film critic Kim Newman on the Amityville Horror franchiseDisc 2 (4x post cards):Amityville A New Generation / Amityville DollhouseNEW: Interview with producer Steve WhiteNEW: Film critic Kim Newman on the ˜true haunting' horror film genre.NEW: Audio commentary with director/producer Daniel Farrands (Amityville: The Awakening, The Amityville Murders), moderated by Calum WaddellNEW: Interview with director Steve WhiteNEW: Interview with cinematographer Thomas L. Callaway

• Mona Lisa Smile | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £3.34   |  Saving you £16.65 (498.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Julia Roberts stars as a idealistic young professor keen to inspire her students to rebel against the strict codes of their 1950s all-female college.

• Legends of the Fall | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £5.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (5.27%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Colonel William Ludlow (Sir Anthony Hopkins) built a ranch in the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies where he brought up his three sons away from the carnage of the Indian wars. Alfred (Aidan Quinn) the eldest is dutiful and reserved Samuel (Henry Thomas) the beloved youngest is compassionate and idealistic while the middle brother Tristan (Brad Pitt) has a wild untameable spirit. Into this masculine world enters Susannah Finncannon (Julia Ormond) a beautiful intelligent woman who stirs a passion and rivalry in all three brothers that will change the course of their lives and shape their destinies forever. From the rugged prairie lands of 19th Century America to the trenches of World War I and the changing world beyond 'Legends of the Fall' is a sweeping star-studded epic - a passionate journey into the darkest secrets of love betrayal and the unbreakable bonds of blood.

• Eismayer | DVD | (20/11/2023) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by true events, David Wagner's acclaimed drama EISMAYER tells the story of a secretly gay Military officer whose tough facade conceals a clandestine double life. Sergeant Major Charles Eismayer (Gerhard Liebmann) is known and feared as the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, ruthless with recruits and unwavering in his discipline, order and machismo. But when he unexpectedly starts to fall in love with Falak, a recruit who unashamedly embraces his homosexuality, Eismayer's closeted existence is shaken to the core as he is forced to reconcile his fierce masculine identity with desire for another man.

• Mary Reilly | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £7.51   |  Saving you £-1.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Evil loves innocence. The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is given a new twist when seen through the innocent eyes of Dr Jekyll's housemaid Mary Reilly. Mary (Julia Roberts) is sensitive to the needs and weaknesses of her master Dr Henry Jekyll (John Malkovich) and is prepared to do almost anything for him. Her trust is a blessing as the doctor embarks on a new dangerous experiment - one that will bring about a meeting between Mary and Dr Jekyll's sinister assistant Mr Hyd

• Mirror Mirror (Single Disc) | Blu Ray | (13/09/2012) from £3.85   |  Saving you £19.14 (497.14%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Mirror Mirror is a fresh and funny retelling of the Snow White legend, a family adventure for all ages, starring Oscar-winner Julia Roberts as the evil Queen who ruthlessly rules her captured kingdom and Lily Collins (The Blind Side) as Snow White, the princess in exile, plus Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as the Prince.

• Romantic Comedy | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Pride And Prejudice: The five Bennet sisters have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry. When Mrs Bennet hears the exciting news that a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends are to take up summer residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz with the hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. Obligingly the newcomer Mr Charles Bingl

• Misconduct | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £4.86   |  Saving you £11.13 (229.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.