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  • Arlington Road [1999]Arlington Road | DVD | (15/01/2008) from £7.44   |  Saving you £-1.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) and his 10 year old son Grant (Spencer Treat Clark) are both trying to come to terms with the loss two years earlier of Michael's wife Grant's mother. When they befriend a family from across the road things seem to get a little better for them. However as the families become closer Michael starts having misgivings about Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins Joan Cusack) and begins investigating them. He soon realises that the Langs are definitely no

  • Arlington Road [DVD] [Blu-ray]Arlington Road | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  • Arlington Road [1999]Arlington Road | DVD | (20/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    It's easy to understand why Arlington Road sat on the studio shelf for nearly a year. No, the film isn't awful; rather, it's an extremely edgy and ultimately bleak thriller that offers no clear-cut heroes or villains. In other words, Hollywood had no idea how to sell it. Director Mark Pellington's underrated directorial debut, Going All the Way, suffered the same fate, essentially because the film-maker's presentation of suburban America often shifts dramatically within the same film. Characters are usually miserable and bordering on meltdown, no situation is straightforward and things usually end badly. Arlington Road begins as an astute study of suburban paranoia. Michael Faraday (a face-pinched Jeff Bridges, who spends most of the film on the brink of tears) is a college professor who teaches American history courses on terrorism. He's been a conspiracy freak since his wife, an FBI agent, was killed during a botched raid that feels like a thinly fictionalised reference to the Waco tragedy. After saving the life of his next-door neighbour's child, he initially befriends the family (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), but soon believes the husband is a terrorist. The first half of the film mocks Faraday: he has no real evidence and is not the most stable of protagonists. Despite the fact that it was government paranoia that got his wife killed, Faraday repeats the same type of behaviour. Pellington shifts gears in the second half, however, and for a while, it seems that the film has simultaneously sunk into a cheap, high-octane brand of Hollywood entertainment and undermined its own point. But Arlington Road possesses a stunning ending that's a real gut punch, one that may leave you needing a second viewing to catch all of its smartly executed setup. --Dave McCoy

  • Press Gang - Complete Series 1 [1990]Press Gang - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Written by Steven Moffatt the series is set in the fictional offices of the Junior Gazette a student newspaper ran with an iron fist by its editor Linda Day (Julia Sawalha)...

  • Press Gang - Complete Series 2 [1990]Press Gang - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Series 2 of the BAFTA award-winning children's series from 1990. A family drama which follows the lives of the teenagers who run the 'Junior Gazette' a newspaper for the kids written by the kids under the iron-fist of the Editor Linda Day.

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