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• The American President | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £7.96   |  Saving you £11.02 (221.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What sounds like a high-concept romantic comedy pitch from hell--widower president falls for smart lobbyist while the world watches--is actually intelligent, charming, touching and quite funny. Granted, it's wish fulfilment all the way (when was the last time you saw a president who was truly presidential?) but in the capable hands of writer Aaron Sorkin (TV's Sports Night) and director Rob Reiner, TheAmerican President is incredibly enjoyable entertainment with quite a few ideas about both romance and the government. Michael Douglas stars as the president, who after three years in office starts thinking about the possibility of dating. When he auspiciously encounters cutthroat environmental lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening), sparks begin to crackle and the two begin a tentative but heartfelt romance. Of course, his job gets in the way--their first kiss is interrupted by a Libyan bombing--but darn it if these two kids aren't going to try and make it work! However, they hadn't counted on the president's Republican antagonist (Richard Dreyfuss), who starts carping about family values. The predictable plot--Douglas finally goes to bat for his lady and his country--is leavened by Sorkin's wonderful, snappy dialogue and a light touch from the usually subtle-as-a-sledgehammer Reiner. Both manage to create a believable White House-office atmosphere (with a crack staff including Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Anna Deavere Smith and Samantha Mathis) as well as a plausible and funny dating scenario. The true success of the movie, though, rides squarely on Douglas and Bening; this is unequivocally Douglas's best comedic performance (ergo his best performance, period) and Bening, usually such a good bad girl, takes a standard career-woman role and fleshes it out magnificently. You can see in an instant why Douglas would fall for her. One of the best unsung romantic comedies of the 90s. --Mark Englehart

• Airheads | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.77   |  Saving you £1.48 (32.82%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The amps are on but nobody's home. In this hilarious spoof of the music industry three intelligently challenged rock 'n' rollers (Brendan Fraser Steve Buscemi Adam Sandler) decide to take drastic action after their music continually falls on deaf ears. They break into a radio station hoping to get their demo played on the air. But when the deejay (Joe Mantegna) and station manager (Michael McKean) refuse to play their song the boys have no choice but to take the entire r

• More Tales Of The City | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best selling and ground-breaking Armistead Maupin books that started life as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976 the small screen adaptation of 'Tales of the City' wonderfully evoked a unique time and place - the freewheeling San Francisco of the 1970s and forever changed the landscape of television.

• The Darkling | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A man is offered anything he wants for the sum total of his soul. But the price is too much when his daughter's life is at stake.

• Runaway Car | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Nursing student Jenny Cole collects her car from the garage where it has just been serviced. On her way to visit her mother she picks up her infant niece and offers a ride to Ed an executive who is rushing to the airport and Dex a skateboarder whose skateboard was broken in a near collision with her car. Soon after entering onto the freeway Jenny realises that her accelerator has become stuck trapping them in the speeding car with no way to stop...they're out of control and on the

• Little Noises | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £1.26 (15.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Little Noises is a superb comedy drama film of a young entrepreneur who craves success fame and fortune in the literary world. He also wants love and approval from his beautiful best friend and he's just created a masterpiece that his agent loves. Crispin Glover plays an awkward and unsuccessful writer (Joey) who dates a playwright Stella (Tatum O'Neal) while sharing a room with an unsuccessful actor Timmy Smith (Steven Schub). He steals the poems of Marty a mute friend (Mat

• Power Of Attorney | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Runaway Car | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Jenny is the helpless victim, in rush-hour traffic, at the wheel of a runaway car which cannot stop. Along with two total strangers she fights to keep her nerve.