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• Casino | Blu Ray | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modeled after on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.) Through Rothstein, the picture tells the story of how the Mafia seized, and finally lost control of, Las Vegas gambling. The first hour plays like a fascinating documentary, intricately detailing the inner workings of Vegas casinos. Sharon Stone is the stand out among the actors; she nabbed an Oscar nomination for her role as the voracious Ginger, the glitzy call girl who becomes Rothstein's wife. The film is not as fast paced or gripping as Scorsese's earlier gangster pictures (Mean Streets and GoodFellas), but it's still absorbing. And, hey--it's Scorsese! --Jim Emerson

• The Colour Of Magic | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.00

  Rincewind (David Jason), an inept ex-student wizard is given the task of guiding Twoflower (Sean Astin) through the city state of Ankh Morpork in Terry Pratchet's Discworld odyssey

• A Family At War - Series 2 | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Featuring all the episodes from series 2 of A Family At War.

• Swingers | DVD | (06/12/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the Los Angeles "lounge" scene that was in vogue during the early and mid-1990s, here's the movie that virtually defined that brief but colourful nightlife milieu. As an added bonus, it just happens to be a very funny, observant story about love, loss and male bonding among a group of friends who struggle to find decent jobs by day, and lurk through Hollywood's hottest nightclubs by night. A sort of latter-day Rat Pack, they include Mike (writer-actor Jon Favreau) and his closest buddy, Trent (Vince Vaughn), who are waiting for the big show-biz break that seems to be eluding them. Mike's twisted up about the girlfriend he left back East to pursue his going-nowhere standup comedy career, and Trent uses the word "money" as an adjective ("Man, we look totally money tonight") with such frequency that you may find yourself slipping into lounge-lizard mode after watching the movie. One of the most noteworthy indie-film success stories of the 90s, Swingers is a time-capsule comedy that seized its moment in the spotlight, launched several promising careers and continues to maintain its lasting appeal. --Jeff Shannon

• Chato's Land | Blu Ray | (16/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Three Investigators - The Secret Of Terror Castle | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £17.30   |  Saving you £-7.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Finally, a new case for The Three Investigators! Justus, Peter and Bob are back and better than ever. It's Justus' birthday, and not by chance, a strange video falls into the hands of the friends. On it is footage of Justus' parents, who died many years ago, trying to give their son the answer to an especially difficult riddle. Of course, the boys immediately follow the clues to the abandoned - and seemingly haunted - house of a mad professor. With the town Sherriff getting in the way, and the threat of ghosts upon them, can the friends solve the riddle left to them by Justus' parents? This sounds like another case for The Three Investigators.

• Flame Trees Of Thika | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £14.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (33.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a young Edwardian family leaves the shores of England to build a home in the wilderness of East Africa what they encounter is beyond their imagination but forever remembered through the eyes of their 11-year-old daughter. Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley The Flame Trees of Thika brings to life the color and adventure of turn-of-the-century Kenya. In 1913 Robin (David Robb) and Tilly Grant (Hayley Mills) arrive in Kenya with the dream of transforming a barren plot

• A Night To Remember | DVD | (19/06/2007) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two years after 20th Century Fox released its melodramatic disaster film Titanic in 1953, Walter Lord's meticulously researched book A Night to Remember surprised its publishers by becoming a phenomenal bestseller. Lord had an intuition that readers craved the reality of the Titanic disaster and not the romantically mythologised translations (like Fox's film, starring Barbara Stanwyck), which relied on fictional characters to "enhance" the world's worst maritime disaster. Lord's book proved that the truth was far more compelling than fiction, outlining the many "if onlys" (if only the iceberg had been spotted a few minutes earlier, etc.) that lent sombre irony to the loss of 1,500 Titanic passengers. Three years after Lord's book appeared, it was brought to the screen with the kind of riveting authenticity that Lord had insisted upon in his own research. The 1958 British production of A Night to Remember remains a definitive dramatization of the disaster, adhering to the known facts of the time and achieving a documentary-like immediacy that matches (and in some ways surpasses) the James Cameron epic released 39 years later. The film erroneously perpetuates the once-common belief that the Titanic sunk in one piece (instead of breaking in half as its bow began to plunge), but many other misconceptions are accurately corrected, and the intelligent screenplay by thriller master Eric Ambler is a model of factual suspense. By making Titanic the star of the film, director Roy Baker emphasises the excessive confidence of the booming industrial age and creates an intense you-are-there realism that pays tribute to Walter Lord's tenacious quest for truth. --Jeff Shannon

• Any Given Sunday | Blu Ray | (02/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oliver Stone's tale of a fading American football coach (played by Al Pacino) and his conflicts with the businesswoman (played by Cameron Diaz) who buys the club.

• Cilla's World of Comedy - The Complete Series | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £8.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (55.01%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marking her phenomenally successful fifty years in showbiz, this DVD set celebrates the talents of Cilla Black, one of Britain's most charismatic and best-loved celebrities. In 1976, eighteen months after the legendary Liverpudlian's forst foray into comedy drama with the highly successful Cilla's Comedy Six, ATV engaged Cilla Black for another season of individual sitcoms. Showcasing her versatility and trademark mischievous humour, Cilla's World of Comedy presented a further ...

• Two Days In The Valley | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  L.A.'s San Fernando Valley is the setting for this chaotic multi-plotted comedy thriller featuring a murderous insurance scam perpetrated by sadistic double-crossers a bumbling love-struck hit man a kidnapped gallstone-suffering art dealer a washed-up suicidal screenwriter a pair of burnt-out undercover cops and one of the best catfights ever filmed...

• Cabin Fever | Blu Ray | (22/02/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Off-beat horror about a group of college friends who go on holiday in the forest and catch a flesh-eating virus.

• Revenge Of The Nerds | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They've been laughed at picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! Their time has come! Anthony Edwards (Top Gun E.R) stars with Robert Carradine in this hilarious satire on college life; about a group of outcasts who start their own fraternity after being rejected by every house on campus. It's a brains vs. brawn battle when the football team jocks try to crush their misfit counterparts but the nerds have the perfect plan to gain the upper-hand...

• The Mummy | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £4.18   |  Saving you £5.81 (139.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Boris Karloff's legendary performance has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. As The Mummy Im-Ho-Tep he is accidentally revived after 3 700 years by a team of British archaeologists. It is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest embalmed alive for trying to revive the vestal virgin whom he loved after she had been sacrificed. Alive again he sets out to find his lost love. Today over 50 years after The Mummy was first released this brooding dream-like film remains a masterpiece not only of the genre but for all time.

• The Wedding Date/My Big Fat Greek Wedding/The Wedding Singer | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Wedding Date (Dir. Clare Kilner 2005): In this sparkling romantic comedy Debra Messing plays Kat a never-married New Yorker who is invited to her parents' London home for her younger sister's wedding. What should be a joyous occasion bodes disaster for Kat however when she discovers that the best man will be none other than her ex-fianc who two years before inexplicably dumped her. In a desperate attempt to face the ordeal with dignity Kat hires Nick (Dermot Mulroney) a charming and handsome professional male escort to pose as her new boyfriend and escort her to the wedding. Even more valuable to Kat than Nick's good looks and charisma is his keen insight into human behavior--a well-learned trick of his trade. Over the course of the weekend Nick takes on the role of the bride's therapist the father's ideal son-in-law the groom's new best friend and the object of every woman's affection. For Kat what starts out as a pretend relationship with Nick begins to turn into something entirely unexpected: a second chance at love. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Dir. Joel Zwick 2002): In this hit ethnic comedy Toula (Nia Vardalos) is a thirty-year-old ugly duckling whose life is going nowhere while she works long hours in her family's Greek diner (called Dancing Zorba's). She then decides to give herself a radical makeover lands a new job in her aunt's travel agency and falls for a hunky sensitive vegetarian teacher (John Corbett). They soon decide to get married but her family have a history of getting hitched exclusively to other Greeks. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a warm funny comedy adapted by writer/star Vardalos from her own one-woman show. The Wedding Singer (Dir. Frank Coraci 1998): It's 1985 and Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is the ultimate master of ceremonies until he is left at the altar at his own wedding. Devastated he becomes a newlywed's worst nightmare - an entertainer who can do nothing but destroy other people's weddings. It's not until he meets a warm-hearted waitress named Julia (Drew Barrymore) that he starts to pick up the pieces of his heart. The only problem is Julia's about to have a wedding of her own and unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a lifetime the girl of his dreams will be gone forever...

• The Final Countdown | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  With a tantalising "what-if?" scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. It's really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 1980 release, but there's still some life remaining in the movie's basic premise: what if a modern-era navy aircraft carrier--in this case the real-life nuclear-powered USS Nimitz--was caught in an anomalous storm and thrust 40 years backwards in time to the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor? Will the ship's commander (Kirk Douglas) interfere with history? Will the visiting systems analyst (Martin Sheen) convince him not to? Will a rescued senator from 1941 (Charles Durning) play an unexpected role in the future of American politics? Veteran TV director Don Taylor doesn't do much with the ideas posed by this potentially intriguing plot; he seems more interested in satisfying aviation buffs with loving footage of F-14 "Jolly Roger" fighter jets, made possible by the navy's generous cooperation. That makes The Final Countdown a better navy film than a fully fledged time-travel fantasy, but there's a nice little twist at the end, and the plot holes are easy to ignore. James Cameron would've done it better, but this popcorn thriller makes an enjoyable double bill with The Philadelphia Experiment. --Jeff Shannon

• The Queen & I | DVD | (30/09/2019) from £4.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Made-for-TV comedy drama based on the novel by Sue Townsend. Following the election of the Republican Party, the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister, Jack Barker (David Walliams), carries out his campaign promise to abolish the country's monarchy. Stripped of their vast wealth, the Royal Family is forced to relocate to a council estate in the Midlands, where they struggle to fit in and adjust to their new surroundings.

• Mighty, The | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With his loving and supportive mother 13-year-old Kevin moves in next door to another teen Max. Though both have problems that label them as outcasts Kevin and Max discover that by proudly combining their strengths and uniting as one they can overcome their individual limitations and triumph over any adversity! As the two set out on a series of courageous adventures they find the mightiest treasure of all: Friendship!

• Dr Seuss' The Lorax / Despicable Me / Hop (Triple Pack) | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  3 Disc Family Fun Box Set including 3 films Hop Dr. Seuss' The Lorax and Despicable Me. Hop Special Features: The World of Hop Featurette The Lorax Special Features: 2D Feature Seuss to Screen Seuss it Up Despicable Me Special Features: Gru's Rocket Builder Game Super Silly Fun Land Games

• Cold Sweat | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mark Cahill is a professional assassin with a real problem. He's so strung up about a job that went wrong he can't figure out whether he's going nuts or if he really is being tormented by forces from beyond the grave.