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• Class | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-6.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class (1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother. Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity. On the DVD: Class is presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford

• Wayne's World - STEELBOOK | Blu Ray | (07/02/2022) from £23.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wayne's World celebrates 30 years with this limited edition (schwing! ) steelbook. The party-on movie of the '90s never gets old with its rockin' tunes, radical babes and your excellent hosts, Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey), making their big-screen debut in this hysterical send-up of pop culture. Directed by Penelope Spheeris (SUBURBIA) and featuring Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere and (we're not worthy! ) Alice Cooper. Bonus Features Commentary By Director Penelope Spheeris Wayne's World Extreme Close-up: Exclusive Cast & Crew Interviews

• Parks & Recreation Season Three UK RELEASE | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £27.00 (337.92%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Dedicated government employee Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live) and her fellow colleagues return for big laughs from the small town of Pawnee, Indiana, in the hilarious third season of Parks and Recreation. Their funny antics continue as they ramp up for their most important project yet: The Harvest Festival. As Leslie Knope plans, prepares and publicises, her co-workers take on other challenges such as a crippling flu, the statewide softball tournament and the sad demise of a l...

• Oxford Blues | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Las Vegas wise-guy Nick D Angelo (Rob Lowe) has plans to move to England and pursue the woman of his dreams, Lady Victoria - the IT girl royal who is the darling of the British press and public alike. When the dice role his way and he comes into some money, he pays a hacker to change his school records so he can con his way into Oxford University, where Lady Victoria just happens to be studying. When Nick arrives in Oxford, he finds that not only does he have to change to meet the standards of this old English institution, but that the only way to catch Victoria's eye is by joining the college rowing team - a plan that brings him into conflict with his own ideals and her well-connected fianc! It's a hysterical sprint to the finish for the two suitors and there can be only one winner!

• Frank And Jesse | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  With the Civil War over Frank and Jesse James (Bill Paxton and Rob Lowe) retreat to the family farm where they witness the murder of their younger brother while Yankee soldiers turn their backs. The James boys feel they have no choice but to seek their own justice. They join the younger brothers to form a gang of rebels that wage a bloody war against its corrupt enemies in robbing their banks stagecoaches and train. In retaliation their adversaries hire famed detective Allan Pinkerton (William Atherton) to stop them. When his nephew is gunned down by the James Gang Pinkerton vows he will not rest until the day the notorious brothers are brought to justice at the end of a rope.

• Horrible Histories - Complete Series 1-3 Box Set | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Children's BBC comedy series based on the best selling books written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown

• Behind the Candelabra | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Before Elvis before Elton John Madonna and Lady Gaga there was Liberace - infamous pianist outrageous entertainer and flamboyant star of stage and television. A name synonymous with showmanship and extravagance he lit up every stage he performed on as bright as his candelabras and with a unique flair that gained him millions of devoted fans across the globe. In the summer of 1977 handsome young stranger Scott Thorson walked into Liberace's dressing room and despite their age difference and seemingly different worlds the two embarked on a secretive five-year love affair. To the outside world Scott was an employee at most a friend but behind closed doors his life with Liberace was an intense rollercoaster of hedonistic fun flamboyance and excess. Starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson Behind The Candelabra tells the fascinating true story of their glamorous life together and their tempestuous relationship - from the glitz and glamour of the early days in Las Vegas to their very bitter and public break-up.

• About Last Night | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Rob Lowe doesn't want to get serious. Demi Moore doesn't want to get used. Together they're an unforgettable couple in the sexy contemporary comedy. After drinks at a favourite Chicago hangout Danny Martin (Lowe) and Debbie Sullivan (Moore) head to Danny's place to indulge in the predictable single's quest - the one-night stand. Their affair is casual sensual and supposedly over until something surprising happens. They want to see each other again. It's the start of an intense relationship that irritates Danny's rowdy best friend (James Belushi) and astounds Debbie's cynical buddy/roomie (Elizabeth Perkins) who do everything possible to break them up. But Danny and Debbie wind up living together and midst the daily drudge of domestic life they begin to realise that making love is easy saying ""I love you"" more difficult and being in love the hardest of all.

• Parks & Recreation - Seasons 1-5 (15 disc box set) | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £49.99   |  Saving you £70.00 (140.03%)   |  RRP £119.99

  From the people who brought you the The Office - An American Workplace - comes Parks and Recreation, the hit BBC FOUR comedy series. Golden Globe winner & Emmy nominated comedy superstar Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live, Baby Mama)stars as Leslie Knope,Deputy Director of the Parks & Pecreation Department in Pawnee,Indiana - it's most enthusiastic public servant - whose dreams are way bigger than her political talents! She ambitiously tries to solve all of her town's problems turning a neighbourhood hole in the ground into a new public park, hosting a local telethon, ridding the golf course of possums and getting unhealthy energy bars out of park vending machines. The funny antics continue as they ramp up for their most important civic project yet: The Harvest Festival. As Leslie Knope plans, prepares and publicises, her co-workers take on other challenges such as a crippling flu, the state-wide softball tournament and the sad demise of a local icon: a miniature horse named Li'l Sebastian. By her side - but not necessarily doing anything - are her friends and colleagues: lady-killer Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari); disinterested intern April (Aubrey Plaza); best gal pal Ann (Rashida Jones); shoe-shine extraordinaire Andy (Chris Pratt); charismatic city-planner Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider); their anti- government boss Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) Also featuring an array of guest stars including Rob Lowe (The West Wing), Will Arnett (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock), Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live), Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Will Forte (Saturday Night Live). Enjoy all 90 episodes from Seasons 1-5 of this hilarious series. BONUS FEATURES: EPISODE COMMENTARIES DELETED SCENES EXTENDED CUT EPISODES PROMOS BLOOPER REEL GAG REEL WEBISODES CAMPAIGN ADS PATTON OSWALT'S SCI-FI FILIBUSTERAND MUCH, MUCH MORE...

• Hotel New Hampshire | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the novel by John Irving comes this darkly comic tale of an eccentric New England family. As the father moves them from one place to the next setting up a new hotel each time the assortment of oddball characters seem to become involved in ever more bizarre situations. Frannie becomes obsessed with the boy who attacks her John becomes obsessed with Frannie his sister and both of them fall for a girl who is so insecure she hides in a bear outfit Frank is coming to terms with his homosexuality and the youngest Lilly is convinced she isn't growing. The family pet is a flatulent dog that ends up stuffed and causes more trouble than when it was alive...

• The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The issues broached in the first series have striking, often prescient contemporary relevance. We see the President having to be talked down from a "disproportionate response" when terrorists shoot down a plane carrying his personal doctor, or acting as broker in a dangerous stand-off between India and Pakistan. Gun control laws, gays in the military, Fundamentalist pressure groups are all addressed--the latter in a most satisfying manner ("Get your fat asses out of the White House!")--while the episode "Take This Sabbath Day" is a superb dramatic meditation on Capital punishment. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. This is wonderful and addictive viewing.--David Stubbs

• The West Wing - Complete Seasons 1 and 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £79.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (2.50%)   |  RRP £81.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental US patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman makes up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The second series of The West Wing takes up where the first one left off and, a few moments of slightly toe-curling patriotic sentimentalism apart, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. With Aaron Sorkin's dialogue ranging as ever from dry, staccato mirth to almost biblical gravitas, an ensemble of overworked (and curiously undersexed) characters and an overall depiction of the workings of government that's both gratifyingly idealised yet chasteningly realistic, The West Wing is one of the all-time great American TV dramas. --David Stubbs

• Stephen King's The Stand | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £19.74   |  Saving you £3.24 (19.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A deadly virus is unleashed by a military lab wiping out almost the entire population of Earth. A few terrified individuals set out on a desperate race to find other survivors...

• The Hotel New Hampshire | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Hotel New Hampshire

• Atomic Train | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A train headed for Denver carrying nuclear waste and toxic materials is en route for disaster when it becomes a runaway. Renegade investigator and train enthusiast John Seger jumps on board in a bid to save thousand of innocent lives...

• The West Wing - Season 2 Part 1 | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £28.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (33.35%)   |  RRP £35.99

  The second series of The West Wing takes up literally where the first series left off and, after a few moments of slightly toe-curling patriotic sentimentalism, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. The two-part opener covers the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), switching between the anxious wait on the injured and flashbacks to Bartlet's campaign for the Presidency. Other peaks in a series exceedingly short on troughs include "Noel", the episode in which Alan Arkin's psychiatrist forces Josh Lynam to confront his post-traumatic stress disorder and the concluding episodes in which President Bartlet, having lost his secretary Mrs Landingham in a tragic car accident, rails angrily against God in Latin. Other new features of this series include the introduction of Ainsley Hayes, a young Republican counsel hired after she beats communications deputy Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) in a TV debate ("Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!" crow his colleagues), as well as the revelation (to us first, then later his staff) that the President has been suffering from multiple sclerosis. Meanwhile, the White House must move heaven and earth to make incremental political gains as well as deal with a host difficulties abroad, demonstrating, some might argue, more compassion, skill and restraint than that exercised by the real-life US administration. With Aaron Sorkin's dialogue ranging as ever from dry, staccato mirth to almost biblical gravitas, an ensemble of overworked (and curiously undersexed) characters and an overall depiction of the workings of government that's both gratifyingly idealised yet chasteningly realistic, The West Wing is one of the all-time great American TV dramas. --David Stubbs

• Wayne's World/Wayne's World 2 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £17.93   |  Saving you £-1.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wayne's World: Wayne and Garth the horny heavy metal-loving teenage heroes of the popular ""Saturday Night Live"" skit hit the big screen. They're still doing their cable-access show out of the Wayne's basement in Aurora Illinois; only now a sleazy TV executive named Benjamin Oliver wants a piece of the action. As the babe 'n' band obsessed adolescents negotiate the shark-infested waters of network television Wayne finds 'amore' in the form of a heavy metal femme fatale wit

• Parks & Recreation - Seasons 1-4 Box Set: 12 Discs | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £54.99   |  Saving you £35.00 (63.65%)   |  RRP £89.99

  From the people who brought you the The Office - An American Workplace - comes Parks and Recreation, the hit BBC FOUR comedy series. Golden Globe winner & Emmy nominated comedy superstar Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live, Baby Mama)stars as Leslie Knope,Deputy Director of the Parks & Pecreation Department in Pawnee,Indiana - it's most enthusiastic public servant - whose dreams are way bigger than her political talents! She ambitiously tries to solve all of her town's problems turning a neigh...

• Days of the Bagnold Summer | DVD | (25/04/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel, DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER is a funny yet sweet coming-of-age story about single motherhood and Metallica. Daniel was supposed to spend the summer with his dad and his dad's new wife in Florida, but when his dad cancels the trip Daniel and his mom suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in their suburban home as Daniel just wants to listen to heavy metal and start a band while his mom hopes to rekindle the fun times they used to have together. Featuring original songs by Belle and Sebastian. Product Features Exclusive 'Making of' Featurette Trailer Hard-of-hearing subs

• The Founding of America (6 DVD Box Set) | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Review for Founding Brothers:The political wrangles of a fledgling country may sound dull compared to the drama of a war, but the early history of the United States only gets more fascinating as the Revolutionary War is left behind. Founding Brothers, a documentary from the History Channel, examines the struggle to not only establish democracy, but to give it the economic strength and governmental structure that will allow it to survive and thrive. George Washington grappled not only with politics, but with questions of style and propriety--how should a president, as opposed to a king, behave? Understanding the conflicts between Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson will illuminate ideas that have shaped the government of the U.S. ever since. Founding Brothers provides a wealth of portraits and illustrations from the time, as well as discreet dramatizations, that bring the rise of party politics to life, humanizing these historical figures with tales of the scandals and squabbles they faced as well as their political achievements. An excellent introduction to the roots of the American experiment, and a bracing illustration of what Jefferson meant when he said of the presidency, "No man will bring out of that office the reputation which carried him into it." --Bret Fetzer