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• Sleepless in Seattle | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.26   |  Saving you £7.73 (146.96%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they are destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• A Bug's Life (Disney Pixar) | DVD | (08/01/2001) from £3.75   |  Saving you £2.65 (70.67%)   |  RRP £6.40

  There was a rare magic on the big screen in 1995, when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story, and their second feature film, A Bug's Life, may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty that it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible. Brighter and more colourful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 (Antz), A Bug's Life is the sweetly told story of Flik (voiced by David Foley), an ant searching for better ways to be a bug. His colony unfortunately revolves around feeding and fearing the local grasshoppers (lead by Hopper, voiced with gleeful menace by Kevin Spacey). When Flik accidentally destroys the seasonal food supply for the grasshoppers he decides to look for help ("We need bigger bugs!"). The ants, led by Princess Atta (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), are eager to dispose of the troublesome Flik. Yet he finds help--a hearty bunch of bug warriors--and brings them back to the colony. Unfortunately they are just travelling performers, afraid of conflict. As with Toy Story, the ensemble of creatures and voices is remarkable and often inspired. Highlights include wiseacre comedian Denis Leary as an un-ladylike ladybird, Joe Ranft as the German-accented caterpillar, David Hyde Pierce as a stick insect and Michael McShane as a pair of unintelligible woodlice. The scene-stealer is Atta's squeaky-voiced sister, baby Dot (Hayden Panettiere), who has a big soft spot for Flik. More gentle and kid-friendly than Antz, A Bug Life's still has some good suspense and a wonderful demise in store for the villain. However, the film--a worldwide hit--will be remembered for its most creative touch: "outtakes" over the end credits à la many live-action comedy films. These dozen or so scenes (both "editions" of outtakes are contained here) are brilliant and deserve a special place in film history right along with 1998's other most talked-about sequence: the opening Normandy invasion in Saving Private Ryan. --Doug Thomas

• Wedding Planner, The / Down With Love / One Fine Day | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £9.70   |  Saving you £10.29 (106.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Wedding Planner While celebrating her newest and most lucrative account - the wedding of Internet tycoon Fran Donelly (Bridgette Wilson)- Mary is rescued from a near-fatal collision with a runaway dumpster by handsome pediatrician Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey). After spending the most enchanting evening of their lives together Mary thinks she's finally found a reason to believe in love. What she doesn't know is that cupid and her career are about to collide head-on... Down With Love When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor) the sparks they generate will fly you to the moon and back! Set in the early sixties every frame pops with 60's technicolour. One Fine Day Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a school field trip Melanie and Jack agree to take shifts babysitting for the day resulting in twelve hours of hilarious misadventures with one unexpected twist.

• A Bug's Life - 2 Disc Deluxe Edition | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £10.73   |  Saving you £17.25 (222.87%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Journey inside the miniature world of bugs for larger-than-life fun and adventure under every leaf! Crawling with imaginative characters hilarious laughs and colourful lifelike computer animation Disney and Pixor's A Bug's Life is a masterpiece terrific entertainment for all ages. (The Daily Mail). On behalf of 'oppressed bugs everywhere' an inventive ant named Flik hires 'warrior bugs' to defend his colony from a horde of greedy grasshoppers led by Hopper. But when Flik's cavalry turns out to be a motley group of flea circus performers the stage is set for comic confusion as well as unlikely heroes! Featuring a star-studded voice cast. A Bug's Life presents an amazing new perspective on teamwork and determination! Plus this DVD edition has been created directly from Pixar's digital source producing the clearest picture possible and two viewing formats: original wide-screen and special full-frame digitally recomposed to retain the entire image.

• The Crash Reel | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (44.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Film-maker Lucy Walker's documentary about snowboarder Kevin Pearce and his fight back from a career-threatening injury. Spurred on to try out ever more intricate manoeuvres by his fierce rivalry with Shaun White in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kevin Pearce is left with a life-threatening brain injury when he suffers a training accident at Park City, Utah, in 2009. Determined to help him through the tortuous recovery period, Kevin's family wastes no time in rallying round to help h...

• Basket Case | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Duane Bradley’s brother is very small very twisted very mad and he lives in a basket… until night comes! After a difficult birth which their mother didn’t survive Duane was born with a monstrously deformed conjoined twin Belial attached to his side. Embittered by the death of his wife and unable to accept his hideous son the boys’ father orders the twins to be separated surgically. Surviving the operation but deeply resentful of his enforced removal from his brother’s side Belial plans to get even with his father and the doctors responsible. Duane normal-looking but sympathetic to his brother’s plight moves to New York carrying with him a large basket in which his grotesque twin hides. Together they seek the surgeons responsible for their violent separation and Belial wreaks his gruesomely bloody revenge…

• Cheaper By The Dozen / Mrs Doubtfire | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mrs Doubtfire: How far would an ordinary father go to spend more time with his children? Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) is no ordinary father so when he learns his ex-wife (Sally Field) needs a housekeeper he applies for the job. With the perfect wig a little makeup and a dress for all occasions he becomes Mrs Doubtfire a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot. Free to be the 'woman' he never knew he could be the disguised Daniel creates a whole new life