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• She's The One | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's the One is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed The Brothers McMullen. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few stars-in-the-making (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and John Mahoney from Frasier) to jazz up his cast of relative unknowns. Burns himself plays Mickey, a cab-driver in the Big Apple, with Mike McGlone as his yuppie stockbroker brother, and Maxine Bahns as Hope, the girl Mickey falls for and impulsively marries, much to the romantic delight of Francis' neglected wife Renee (Aniston). Francis, meanwhile, is having a clandestine affair with Heather (Diaz), Mike's former girlfriend--something Mike has yet to learn. Dispensing flawed wisdom and generally muddying the waters yet further is the lads' blunt-spoken father (Mahoney). Plotwise that's about it. Burns relies on his appealing cast and some amiably barbed repartee to hold our interest in what's essentially a dialogue-driven movie. He makes shrewd and sometimes unexpected use of his New York locations, too--it's a fair bet most people's mental image of Brooklyn wouldn't include a waterfront fishing community. This is a good-natured, slightly old-fashioned movie whose benevolent view of the battle of the sexes (where the women are invariably smarter than the men) never digs too deep or hits too hard. On the DVD: She's the One is presented on disc in its original widescreen ratio (1.85:1) and Dolby 4.0 sound that does the movie fair justice. Along with the original trailer, we get a seven-minute "making-of" featurette and a music video of the title song "Walls" from Tom Petty, who composed the film's score. Burns provides an unpretentious voice-over commentary, dealing mainly with matters of casting and the problems of shooting on location. --Philip Kemp

• Once A Thief | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  They only stop to reload! A close-knit trio of dashing art thieves (Chow Yun-Fat Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung) undertake one last lucrative job before their planned retirement only to be torn apart when the heist goes awry as the result of a double-cross from their criminal mentor. Once reunited the team resolves to get revenge.

• Is Paris Burning? | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £12.88   |  Saving you £3.11 (24.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The explosive courage-filled story of the Allied Resistance and the Paris Liberation of 1944. As the Nazi jackboot marches through Europe the freedom fighters of Paris mount a brave resistance. An insane and desperate Hitler sends a top general to determine if the Nazis can hold the city. If not Paris will be burned. With a powerful script by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola this epic film boasts an international cast of screen legends including Jean-Paul Belmondo Kirk Douglas Yves Montand Leslie Caron Anthony Perkins and Orson Welles. Is Paris Burning? is a staggering portrait of heroism and brotherhood and one of the most riveting stories to come out of World War II.

• One Night In Miami... (2020) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (20/12/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adapted by Kemp Powers (Soul) from his acclaimed play, the feature directorial debut of Academy Awardwinning actor Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) puts viewers in a room with four icons at the forefront of Black American culture as they carouse, clash, bare their souls, and grapple with their places within the sweeping change of the civil rights movement. February 25, 1964, has gone down in history as the day that the brash young boxer Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) defeated Sonny Liston, but what happened after the fight was perhaps even more incredible: Ali (Race's Eli Goree), civil rights leader Malcolm X (High Fidelity's Kingsley Ben-Adir), NFL great Jim Brown (Hidden Figures' Aldis Hodge), and King of Soul Sam Cooke (Hamilton's Leslie Odom Jr.) all came together at a Miami motel. Electric with big ideas and activist spirit, One Night in Miami plunges us into the midst of an intimate, ongoing conversation - and a defining moment in American history. Special Edition Features: New 4K digital transfer, approved by director Regina King, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio New conversation between King and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons New conversation among King, screenwriter Kemp Powers, and critic Gil Robertson Conversation between King and filmmaker Barry Jenkins from a 2021 episode of The Director's Cut A DGA Podcast New program featuring King and actors Kingsley BenAdir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr. New program on the making of the film, featuring King, Powers, director of photography Tami Reiker, editor Tariq Anwar, producer Jody Klein, costume designer Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, and set decorator Janessa Hitsman New program on the film's sound design, featuring sound editor and mixer Andy Hay, sound mixer Paul Ledford, and music producer Nick Baxter English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by critic Gene Seymour

• Knocked Up | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An ambitious woman tries to make a go of it with the one-night-stand who got her pregnant in this new comedy.

• The Bling Ring | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £5.03   |  Saving you £12.96 (257.65%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Filmmaker Sofia Coppola has taken a few hits over the years for fixating on materially comfortable, yet emotionally vacuous protagonists. The Bling Ring, an adaption of a Vanity Fair exposé, doesn't flip the script, but there's a new-found buoyancy to her tale of lost kids in Los Angeles. When Marc (Israel Broussard, sweet and sympathetic), a middle-class student with "too many absences," enters a high school for wayward youth, everyone rebuffs him until he meets Rebecca (charismatic newcomer Katie Chang), who invites him to hang out, possibly because she pegs him as a willing accomplice. They proceed to bond over a fascination with fashion, tabloid stars, and entering unlocked cars to pilfer cash and cocaine. In short order, they're driving around Hollywood and singing along to songs by style-obsessed musicians, like M.I.A. When that thrill subsides, Becky suggests bigger game: the homes of careless celebrities, like Paris Hilton (who appears as herself). Their "shopping" excursions are so successful that they invite Chloe (Claire Julien), Sam (Taissa Farmiga), and Nicki (Emma Watson, miles away from Hermione Granger) to join them. In Coppola's conception, the teens have no goals other than to live like their materialistic idols, and by posting pictures to the Internet, they secured the fame they sought--but not without consequences. As a framing device, Coppola uses a journalist's interviews with the perpetrators, an unnecessary move, though it does allow Leslie Mann, who plays a clueless guardian, to do some of the most richly comedic work of her career. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Uncle Drew | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £2.95   |  Saving you £7.05 (238.98%)   |  RRP £10.00

  After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax (Lil Rel Howery) is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival (Nick Kroll). Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend UNCLE DREW (NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving) and convinces him to return to the court one more time. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew's old basketball squad (Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, and Lisa Leslie) and prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one.

• Police Academy 6 (DVD) | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A crime spree called Operation Chaos is plaguing the city. Time to call out our frontline defense. And when that defense is made up of Police Academy alumni it's also time to pray! Bubba Smith Michael Winslow David Graf Marion Ramsey Leslie Easterbrook G.W. Bailey George Gaynes and other returnees strap on laugh-riot gear for Police Academy 6: City Under Siege. A mysterious Mr. Big is the mastermind behind a gang that robs banks and jewelers. Cmdt. Lassard is suspected when it becomes clear that a police department information leak is keeping the bad guys one step ahead. Solving the case won't take a mastermind just an arsenal of gags and goofiness in the fun Police Academy tradition.

• Scary Movie - Collection | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-16.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Scary Movie: A year after disposing the body of a man they accidently killed a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer! Some of the send-ups include: Scream I Know What You Did Last Summer The Blair Witch Project The Sixth Sense and The Matrix. (Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans 2000) Scary Movie 2: All your favourite Scary Movie characters are back in a laugh-packed sequel that scares up even more irreverent fun than the original! Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans and Anna Faris lead a stellar cast that takes extreme pleasure in skewering Hollywood's most frightening feature films and spoofing popular culture. Also starring Regina Hall Christopher Kennedy Masterson Tori Spelling plus Tim Curry Chris Elliott and James Woods - nothing's sacred and anything goes in this outlandish must-see comedy... (Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans 2001) Scary Movie 3.5: 3.5 times the laughs! 3.5 times the terror! 3.5 times the stars! Charlie Sheen Anna Faris Eddie Griffin Queen Latifah Regina Hall and Denise Richards take Scary Movie 3.5 to new levels of twisted comedy. With the help of nonstop celebrity cameos - including Pamela Anderson Jenny McCarthy George Carlin Leslie Nielsen and a who's who of rap artists - thrillers blockbusters and pop culture get their best goosing yet. Rapid-fire jokes and funny bone-chilling suspense are sure signs this outrageous comedy will have you laughing your head off ... once you experience this longer funnier and more explicit unrated version! (Dir. David Zucker 2003) Scary Movie 4: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to watching films Scary Movie 4 rears its ugly head! It's an unsavoury hilarious treat for all comedy fans as the DVD release brings you The Uncut & Unsanitized Edition: different to the version seen in cinemas it's even ruder cruder and more fun! Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Just as an added challenge alien Tr-iPods are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.... (Dir. David Zucker 2006)

• The Jackal | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £16.04   |  Saving you £3.95 (19.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Jackal is filmmaking by numbers: take two huge stars, Richard Gere and Bruce Willis, and pit them opposite each other in a plot that's already been audience tested. That director Michael Caton Jones' film is based not on Frederick Forsyth's novel but on the script for the 1973 original starring James Fox is the first clue that something here is amiss. Fred Zinneman's The Day of the Jackal was a genuinely taut and claustrophobic thriller; the remake is like a Rocky & Bullwinkle take on international terrorism disguised as an action movie. Dashing IRA terrorist, Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), is sprung from jail to help the FBI Deputy Director Carton Preston (Sidney Poitier) track down The Jackal, an amoral international terrorist who is a master of disguise. The FBI believes he is about to assassinate a US political bigwig and is engaged in a race against time to discover exactly who the target is and where they will be felled. Throughout the film Gere sports an Irish accent as ill-fitting and phoney as the bushy lip-wig that Willis adopts at one point as a disguise. The usually warm-hearted Willis plays the steel-jawed terrorist with a cool reserve, but he doesn't have much character development to work with (apart from a misguided attempt to introduce a gay subtext). At over two hours of running time with plenty of exposition and precious few action sequences, this film is a test of will for the audience as well as the protagonists.On the DVD: The DVD includes a lengthy "making of" featurette, several deleted scenes and an alternate ending with some small dialogue changes. There is also an exceedingly dry director's commentary by Michael Caton Jones which muses on such mind-numbingly dull details as the colour of the subway platform in the film's climactic sequence. The film is presented in a clear print in 2.35:1 anamorphic format with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. --Chris Campion

• The Devils Rejects - Special Edition | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Rob Zombie's horrific creations return for more blood-soaked mayhem.

• The Smoking Room: Series 1 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £5.35   |  Saving you £14.64 (273.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Smoking Room continues the rich vein of comedy that's being shown on BBC3 - fast becoming the channel for British comedy. In the world of work there is only one place where seniority counts for nothing where shop-talk is banned and where the last bastions against fresh air and desk-based massage gather regularly to discuss the minutiae of their lives: the smoking room. Here in this protected environment crossword addict Barry; lazy chav lothario Clint;

• Casanova '73 | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Britain's greatest comedy icons, Leslie Phillips, stars in the recently uncovered TV comedy classic, Casanova '73 as footloose - if not fancy free - Henry Newhouse, alongside Jan Holden as his long-suffering wife. Taking advantage of the sexual revolution, Henry happily philanders, or attempts to philander, at every opportunity, sometimes successfully - never without a price. Whether it's an air hostess or beauty pageant contestant, a stripper turned fire-eater or a niece in need of advice, what Henry sees, Henry can't resist. Written by the acclaimed team of Galton and Simpson (Hancock, Steptoe and Son, Citizen James), the series was inspired by Dennis Potter’s more-serious, if more naked, Casanova. Little did they realise the scandal that would result when TV watchdog Mary Whitehouse rallied her troops. Casanova '73 would not see '74. Now, for the first time on DVD, audiences can once again enjoy Leslie Phillips at the top of his form, bringing his theatrically-honed skills to Casanova '73, filmed before a live audience, with all the hilarity of 70's British Farce at its height. Special Features: Exclusive Leslie Phillips Interview Galton and Simpson on Casanova '73 Cast Filmographies Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Police Academy 5 (DVD) | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £6.96   |  Saving you £4.02 (101.26%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Sun fun and babes in shades. Where else but Miami Beach? Buffoons blockheads and party-hearty animals. Who else but the Police Academy gang? Put them all together for Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach the caper that takes our klutzy cops on the road. Our badge-carrying bunglers are in Miami for a convention honoring Cmdt. Lassard. But crime doesn't take a vacation even if our heroes do. Lassard is kidnapped. And not even the lure of limbo beach parties will stop the intrepid troopers' uproarious rescue attempts. So join your armed and hilarious favorites. If there's a Most Wanted List for laughter these loony coppers have just gotta be on it.

• Rabbit Proof Fence | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the true story of Molly Craig, a young black Australian girl who leads her younger sister and cousin in an escape from a camp set up as part of an official government policy to train them as domestic workers and integrate them into white society.

• Elf on The Shelf Double | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £8.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An Elf's Story is the inspirational tale of Chippey, the young Scout Elf who is assigned by Santa to restore Taylor's belief in Christmas magic. When the boy breaks the number one The Elf on the Shelf rule, Chippey loses his Christmas magic, the entire McTuttle family loses their Scout Elf, and both Taylor and Chippey lose their self-respect. Through the power of love and forgiveness, both of them learn the most important lesson of all: true belief cannot be taught. What happens when an entire twon forgets the true spirit of the Christmas Season? In this festive tale, Santa discovers there is not enough Christmas Spirit for him to make Christmas magical. Thankfully, The Elf on the Shelf Scout Elves, a slew of Saint Bernard pups and a big-hearted family join forces to change their community for the better and ensure Santa's yuletide mission always succeeds!

• Not Now Darling | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £8.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on Ray Cooney's record-breaking stage farce, Not Now Darling follows the misadventures of insatiable womaniser Gilbert Bodley (Leslie Phillips), the boss of an exclusive West End fur salon. In order to give his mistress Janie (Julie Ege, Up Pompeii!) an expensive mink coat without upsetting her jealous husband, Gilbert agrees to sell it to her cheap. However things don't go to plan and the tricky transaction creates a hilarious and chaotic chain of events. Co-directed by David Croft (Are You Being Served?), this quick-witted British comedy also features rib-tickling performances from 'Carry On' stars Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims and Peter Butterworth.

• All I Want For Christmas | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £0.96 (16.10%)   |  RRP £5.95

  In this family-friendly holiday film, all Ethan and Hallie want for Christmas is for their parents to get back together. Catherine (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Chicago Hope's Jamey Sheridan) have been divorced for a year and now Catherine's dating a guy no one can stand, including her mother Lillian (Lauren Bacall). Michael, meanwhile, has opened a successful diner, but he misses Catherine. When Hallie (Thora Birch, years before American Beauty) overhears Catherine tell Lillian she and Tony (Kevin Nealon) are planning to marry, she and Ethan (Sweet Home Alabama's Ethan Embry) come up with a plan to strand their parents alone together on Christmas Eve. Hallie even asks Santa (Leslie Nielsen) to help them out. All I Want for Christmas doesn't pack any surprises, but it's suitable for all ages and features lively cameos from Andrea Martin as Lillian's housekeeper and Renée Taylor as Catherine's rodent-fearing wedding planner. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Tammy and the Bachelor | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After Tammy (Debbie Reynolds - Singin' in the Rain) and her Grandpa (Walter Brennan - Rio Bravo) find Peter Brent (Leslie Nielsen - Naked Gun) alone and unconscious near their Mississippi home they take him in and restore him to health. But when Grandpa is arrested for bootlegging Tammy is forced to leave their riverside shack and goes to stay with Peter and his family in luxurious new surroundings. But will Tammy ever feel at home in high society and how will she cope with the first stirrings of love? This beloved romantic comedy (originally released in the UK as Tammy) was a huge hit on its original release along with its chart-topping title song. Tammy and the Bachelor is a delightful classic for all generations and is now available for the first time for home viewing in the UK.

• We Dive At Dawn | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £6.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (7.20%)   |  RRP £6.99

  We Dive at Dawn (1943) tells of the encounter between a British submarine and a German warship in the Baltic Sea. John Mills gives a dependable performance as the submarine commander, with Eric Portman the pick of a strong supporting cast. Director Anthony Asquith finds the balance between action sequences and "in situ" dialogue, and there's an evocative score from Louis Levy. The film has long been underrated and deserves reappraisal.--Richard Whitehouse