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• Angela's Ashes / Stepmom / Billy Elliott | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Angela's Ashes (Dir. Alan Parker 1999): Angela's Ashes the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir comes to life in this stirring film from acclaimed director Alan Parker (Evita) starring Academy Award-nominee Emily Watson (Breaking The Waves) and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty). Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt the oldest son in a tightly knit family. Living by his wits cheered by his irrepressible spirit and sustained by his mother's fierce love Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America. Stepmom (Dir. Chris Columbus 1998): Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is a divorced mother of two. Isabel (Julia Roberts) is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie's ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris) forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. It is the universal dilemma of the 'non-traditional family' they all love the children but the complex interplay between parents step-parents step-children ex-spouses and significant others is decidedly tricky. But when Jackie discovers she is ill both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest while they have the chance. Billy Elliot (Dir. Stephen Daldry 1998): Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams...

• Earth Girls are Easy | DVD | (15/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  After getting hurt one too many Julie a lonely hairdresser is ready to give up on romance. But when she runs into a wayward spaceship with a sexy alien captain and a lovesick crew it doesn't look like romance is ready to give up on her. After one mighty zany weekend Julie decides that maybe she should take a chance on love again.

• Birthrite | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As she celebrates her 18th birthday Rebecca meets Roman who is not only a warlock but also possesses magical powers. After he shows how her parents were killed he gives her a sacred amulet - Her birthrite. As she becomes involved in witchcraft her sister Erin sets out to save her soul from Roman's clutches....

• Catchfire | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman

• I Am A Camera | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In the early thirties Christopher Isherwood is a young aspiring writer living in pre World War II Berlin. Christopher meets the vivacious peniless singer Sally Bowles a young English woman who is performing in a cabaret and they soon develop a platonic relationship. Then Sally meets wealthy American Clive at a party who helps Sally and Christopher finacially and socially for a while and they have the time of their lives. Things begin to change as the increasing Nazism in the country

• Kings Row | DVD | (12/11/2014) from £16.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Air I Breathe | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £6.48   |  Saving you £10.77 (206.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four short fables in which characters collide with fate - and each other - comprise "The Air I Breathe" an ambitious and absorbing drama from debuting director/writer Jieho Lee.

• The Simpsons - Kiss And Tell | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Animated adventures with Springfield's first family the Simpsons. Featuring 4 loved-up blissed-out episodes some of which have never been released on DVD! Episodes Comprise: 1. Natural Born Kissers (Season 9) 2. Large Marge (Season 14) 3. Three Gays of the Condo (Season 14) 4. The Way We Weren't (Season 15)

• Paddington 2 Steelbook | Blu Ray | (12/03/2018) from £22.36   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The much-anticipated sequel finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief. Paddington's biggest adventure yet sees Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson joining the all-star returning cast of Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw as the voice of the beloved bear. Features: Director's Commentary ˜Rain on the Roof' with Phoenix Buchanan Full Screen Paddington 2: The Challenge of Making the Film BAFTA Q&A with David Heyman, Paul King, Simon Farnaby, Hugh Grant and Pablo Grillo

• The Simpsons - Classics - Raiders Of The Lost Fridge | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Guess Who Is Coming To Criticise Dinner (Season 11): The pen is mightier than the swordfish! As the new food critic fro the Springfield Shopper Homer's reviews enrage the local chefs who band together to plot his death. A tantalisingly gristly tale of venomous barbs and tasty lard wherein Homer discovers which is sweeter: revenge or a killer eclair? King-Size Homer (Season 7): Much ado about stuffing! By gleefully gorging himself into obesity Homer gets his Nuclear

• The Simpsons: On Your Marks, Get Set, D'Oh | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Four episodes of animated Springfield fun comprising: 'Dancin' Homer' 'Faith Off' 'Lisa On Ice' and 'The Homer They Fall'. In 'Faith Off' Homer crashes the car into a revival meeting and whilst there Bart finds himself converted. 'Homer They Fall' sees Homer dealing with the fathers of Bart's bullies. In 'Lisa On Ice' Lisa makes the hockey team and finds herself playing against Bart. 'Dancin' Homer' sees a drunken Homer cheering on the crowds which encourages the Springfield Isot

• Slap Her... She's French | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £7.17   |  Saving you £2.82 (39.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Starla Grady (Jane McGregor) an ultra girlie Texan babe is the most popular girl at Splendona High School. That is until French foreign-exchange student Genevieve LePlouff (Piper Perabo) comes to stay with Starla's family. When Genevieve first arrives she is a beret and glasses wearing plane Jane who seems to be in awe of Starla's amazing life and joins Starla's friends in praising her talent and beauty. However when Genevieve's story of misfortune and lost love is featured in

• The Simpsons: Sex, Lies and the Simpsons | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £5.87   |  Saving you £7.12 (121.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Last Temptation Of Homer: When Mindy a new female employee joins the plant Homer is instantly smitten. Will Homer be able to resist her temptations at the forthcoming Energy Convention in Capital City? Guest voice: Michelle Pfeiffer. Bart After Dark: When Bart damages property in the yard of a spooky house Homer makes him do chores for the proprietor. Later he discovers that the establishment is a burlesque house complete with showgirls and gambling tables!

• The Simpsons - Classics - The Last Temptation Of Homer | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Simpson & Delilah (Season 2): Gone today. Hair tomorrow! A fraudulent insurance claim nets Homer hair replacement treatments at Mr. Burns' expense and a promotion to junior executive - with washroom privileges! Karl a very personal assitant protects Homer from Smithers' raging jealousy but inevitably the truth comes out along with Homer's new hair! One Fish Two Fish Blowfish Blue Fish (Season 2): When the Simpons abandon Pork Chop Night for a evening of sushi

• Defiance - Season 1-2 | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £15.00   |  Saving you £1.49 (9.00%)   |  RRP £16.49

  Season 1 Defiance is the story of courage and survival in a place unlike any other you could imagine. Set in the wake of an alien conflict a completely transformed planet Earth is inhabited by human and alien survivors forced to live and work together in the aftermath of this global catastrophe. Mysterious drifter Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler; True Blood Lost) a former military lieutenant and his lone companion Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas; Whitechapel) settle in the frontier town of Defiance where they join up with other inhabitants struggling to build a new society in this dangerous new world. Now they must stand together against outside forces that threaten their existence. United they stand. Divided they fall. It’s do or die in the town of Defiance. Season 2 As Defiance’s second action-packed season begins the lives of the townspeople remain in turmoil as Nolan (Grant Bowler) searches for Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) Amanda (Julie Benz) deals with a personal loss and Stahma (Jaime Murray) plots to take over Datak’s criminal empire. Meanwhile Earth Republic’s control of Defiance brings changes with far-reaching consequences including a scheming new mayor (James Murray) whose secret agendas push the town towards its breaking point. Watch every Season Two episode back-to-back and uninterrupted and experience the thrilling intrigue and suspense of this Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated series from the producers of Battlestar Galactica Caprica and Farscape! Bonus Features: Season 1 Alternate Ending Deleted Scenes Minisodes Jesse Does Defiance Gag Reels

• She | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £16.13   |  Saving you £-0.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hammer's She might be a travesty of Rider Haggard's epic adventure novel, scaling things down to fit into a budget lavish only by the studio's low standards. At least the film opens with the unexpected sight of Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins in a dive in Palestine in 1919, shimmying with belly-dancers and brawling with the locals John Ford-style. Less entertainingly the film then switches attention to blonde clod John Richardson who is dreamily visited by blonde goddess Ursula Andress--her eerie beauty enhanced by the usual Hammer trick of dubbing the foreign crumpet with a posh voice.Our adventurers are given a map which leads them through deserts and mountains to the lost city of Kuma, an Egyptian-style civilisation ruled by Ayesha. This immortal She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed has been unaccountably waiting for Richardson to be reincarnated ever since she pettishly killed him thousands of years ago. In this reading, She is an Aryan fascist given to tipping those who displease her into a pit of molten lava. Her final comeuppance--as she bathes again in the blue flame of immortality and finds the process reversed so she suffers one of Hammer's patented Dracula dissolves to dust--takes place during a native uprising which overthrows her whole corrupt regime.The leads look terrific but can't act for beans so it's a mercy that stalwarts Cushing and Christopher Lee (as the treacherous High Priest) are on hand, not to mention Cribbins (comedy servant in bowler hat), Andre Morell and Rosenda Monteros.The James Bernard music is enchanting in a way Robert Day's direction sadly isn't, but the sets and (especially) costumes are splendid and the film has its moments of magic and terror: as the centurion pours out the remains of Morell's daughter from a jar, as the flame burns blue and the lovers bathe in it.On the DVD: the 2.35:1 widescreen print is in very good shape. Otherwise, there's not even a trailer. --Kim Newman

• Charlie Jade - Complete Season 1 Box Set (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £37.01 (285.13%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Charlie Jade is a science fiction television drama set in Cape Town South Africa in three parallel universes named Alpha Beta amd Gamma (or Alphaverse Betaverse and Gammaverse). The series revolves around Charlie Jade a private detective from Alpha. While on an investigation Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (Alpha) to a strange parallel universe (Beta). Soon Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (Gamma).

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £19.87   |  Saving you £-6.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt Troy (Terrence Stamp), who dresses as if he's Flashman and breaks women's hearts for a hobby.Thanks to cameraman Nic Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a biscuit tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplay the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free-spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Demon Seed | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A woman depressed over the recent death of her child and estranged from her scientist husband finds herself stuck in her home with an incredibly sophisticated computer. Unfortunately this machine called the Proteus IV and developed by her husband has become virtually a sentient being with human desires -- including the desire to reproduce. And it has decided that the scientist's wife would make the perfect mother for its offspring...

• With Or Without You | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With or Without You works as an above-average television drama; but that's about the height of its ambition. It's strange that Michael Winterbottom, director of the hard-edged, bitter Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and the grandiose snowy western The Claim (2000) should have bothered with anything as routine and undemanding. Perhaps its greatest distinction is that it's set in present-day Belfast without so much as a mention of the Troubles. The plot is a bog-standard romantic triangle. Rosie and Vincent, who have been married five years or so, want a baby, but nothing's happening. It doesn't help that Rosie's older sister has sprogs burgeoning like mushrooms wherever you look. Then up pops a figure from Rosie's past--Benoît, her pen-pal from before she met Vincent. And being French, he's naturally charming, witty, romantic and everything poor old Vincent isn't. Think you can guess what's coming? Well, most likely you can--right down to the all-too-pat happy ending. Still, the actors (Christopher Ecclestone, Dervla Kirwan and Yvan Attal are the leads) are accomplished and watchable, the dialogue stays the right side of banal and it's refreshing to see Belfast shown as a civilised, cultured place to live. With or Without You passes an hour and a half pleasantly enough and may even raise the odd chuckle, but it covers well-trodden territory without much new to say. On the DVD: aptly routine stuff--the theatrical trailer, a bland "making of" featurette and some interviews with the three principal players. Widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) and Dolby Surround Sound give the material the best possible showcase. --Philip Kemp