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• In Treatment - Complete HBO Season 3 | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £16.19   |  Saving you £0.81 (5.00%)   |  RRP £17.00

  Rumours of In Treatment's death have been greatly exaggerated. The half-hour HBO drama that was originally adapted from an Israeli TV show has continued to flourish among devoted fans in spite of wide-ranging critical opinion about its integrity and entertainment value. Nevertheless, season three is an absorbing continuation of the life and practice of psychotherapist Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne), and the tortured processes he undertakes with patients and with himself. Continuing the format of episodes that focus on individual patients--only three this time--then concluding each week with his own therapy session, season three is the first based on original scripts rather than adaptations of episodes from the hit Israeli series Be' Tipul. The new show runners, Anya Epstein and Dan Futterman, follow the previous design in assigning the same writer to script for each patient. The only other major thematic difference is the absence of Dianne Wiest, whose Emmy-winning performance as Paul's mentor, supervisor, and therapist was the highlight of seasons one and two. Fortunately her replacement, Amy Ryan, is as capable an actor and strong a foil to give Paul's panoply of problems a whole new arena for discussion (TV vets Epstein and Futterman were responsible for writing the Amy Ryan "Adele" scripts). Anyone who has experienced the psychotherapeutic process cannot help but be instantly drawn in to the show's eloquent design of talk-and-listen, as secrets are told or held back, fears and desires explored or repressed. Even those who are perfectly adjusted and scoff at the value of psychological treatment should be fascinated by the twists and turns that mostly seem entirely naturalistic, and better yet, unexpected. The 50-minute hour that is shortened to 20-something for dramatic purposes may sometimes play against the realistic portrayal of the professional dynamic, but after all, this isn't reality. Even so, the episodes crackle in their basic form as one-act plays that thrive on nothing but two people trading razor-sharp dialogue about who they are and what they're thinking. Paul is still listening, and he's entirely engaged. The flow of each session reflects the depth of his perception as he leads himself and his patient back to points, gestures, and remarks that may have been made in passing, yet which represent the basic spectacle of the therapeutic process and the essential role the therapist has in that relationship. We understand that what goes on in his office affects him as much as his patients. That's where Amy Ryan comes in as the young, brilliant psychiatrist who Paul sees at the end of each week to bare his own tortured soul. He's still terribly depressed. His ex-wife is remarrying, he's plagued with guilt over his 12-year-old son, and he has terrorized himself into believing that he's becoming his father, even to the point of being convinced that he'll die of the same disease (Parkinson's). At first Ryan comes off as the perfect psychiatric ice queen. But as their connection deepens with knowledge, insight, transference, counter-transference, and enthralling exchanges of actorly acrobatics (their butts never leave their seats!), she becomes perhaps the show's most compelling character. She's in great company with Debra Winger as a patient who plays an aging actress (though decidedly not typecast) who finds work elusive and is facing some ordinary family struggles as well. Not only does she look terrific, Winger brings the best game she has to her sparring-match scenes with Byrne. As an anguished gay teen, Dane DeHaan is the weakest character. He's saddled with annoying sexual and adolescent stereotypes that seem to be thrown into the show's mix just for a proper portrayal of patient demographics. Best of all is the Indian actor Irrfan Khan (best known for The Namesake and Slumdog Millionaire) as a maladjusted immigrant whose inscrutable nature fascinates Paul. As the most glaring example of how Paul's relationships with his patients sometimes slip into the inappropriate, the two become friends of sorts, even into the ultimate and unforeseen conclusion of this sensational seasonal thread. In all, In Treatment continues to be an engrossing dramatization of psychotherapy, made human by excellent writing and gripping characterizations. --Ted Fry

• Anywhere But Here | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £4.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (189.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ""Funny and poignant. Sarandon and Portman sparkle!"" -Jami Bernard NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Adele is a flashy flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet no-nonsense realist. On the surface they're like oil and water but deep down they're two of a kind. ""Susan Sarandon makes magic"" (Chicago Tribune) and ""Natalie Portman soars"" (NY-1) in this funny and touching story about a mother who knows best...and a daughter who knows better!

• Addicted To Love | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £6.06   |  Saving you £7.93 (130.86%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Actor-director Griffin Dunne made his filmmaking debut with this ethically ambiguous and not-very-funny movie about a pair of jilted lovers (Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick) who conspire to break up a relationship between their ex-sweethearts (Tchéky Karyo and Kelly Preston). Part classic screwball comedy, part nightmare along the lines of Martin Scorsese's After Hours (in which Dunne starred), part tribute to Hitchcock's Rear Window, Addicted to Love is all over the map and seriously hampered by the sheer, unwarranted nastiness aimed at the innocent characters played by Karyo and Preston. The DVD release includes production notes, original theatrical trailer, optional widescreen and standard formats, and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Boys And Girls | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Behind the generic title of Boys and Girls lies a surprisingly enjoyable and nuanced romantic comedy. Teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr plays Ryan, a dorky, emotionally sincere young guy who keeps crossing paths with Jennifer (Claire Forlani), an independent and wilfully unattached young woman. Their chance meetings coincide with relationship traumas and they start to confide in each other, which leads to a more genuine friendship and, in the midst of their college years, a romance. It's a bit of a stock plot line to have their friendship threatened by sexual attraction, but Boys and Girls has just enough genuine feeling to make it compelling. Meanwhile, Jason Biggs (from American Pie) plays Ryan's roommate, a compulsive liar and would-be scam artist, who carries off some pretty funny scenes. Forlani and Prinze work together quite well. Their performances hearken back to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, with the repressed male simultaneously attracted and horrified by a footloose dame. Some kooky moments are a little strained, but at other times the movie has a refreshing realism about human emotions. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Highlights (La Fura Dels Baus) | Blu Ray | (22/11/2010) from £8.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eat And Run | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £8.89   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A comedy with taste! This is the story of a 400lb alien who eats Italian..... Not the food though.... The People.... A humanoid alien lands on earth and soon discovers he likes to eat Italian. Italian people that is. Incompetent detective McSorely is the only one with a clue about what's going on and even his grasp of the situation isn't too firm. The rest of the police force thinks he's crazy while the alien continues sampling the Italian cuisine of New York City.

• La La Land | DVD | (24/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ghost Ship / Eight Legged Freaks / Queen Of The Damned | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Ghost Ship: In a remote region of the Bering Sea a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner thought lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard the crew must confront the ship's horrific past and face the ultimate fight for their lives. Eight Legged Freaks: What do you get when you cross toxic waste with a bunch of exotic spiders? Eaten!!! Mutated ravenous arachnids the size of SUVs invade a tiny Arizona town in this gleeful comedy mon

• Kermit's Swamp Years | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (5.27%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kermit's Swamp Years is the full-length version of a one-off American cable television feature that sets out to show us the formative years of the future host of The Muppet Show. Its focus is a childhood adventure involving Kermit and his two best friends: a somewhat delinquent frog called Croaker, and a tremulous toad named Goggles. Though the film was, obviously, made some years after the death of Kermit's creator, Jim Henson, the wit, spirit and joy that informed Sesame Street and The Muppet Show are all discernible here. Henson's resounding genius was to understand that children can tell when they are being treated like idiots, and that they don't much care for it, which is why The Muppet Show is still enjoyed by adults who grew up with the programme, and why none of those adults will object to sitting through Kermit's Swamp Years with their children. On the DVD: Kermit's Swamp Years is presented anamorphically in 1.78:1 widescreen. Extras include behind-the-scenes footage, which reinforces the fact that the human magic necessary to animate the muppet characters is far more interesting and impressive than any amount of the computer wizardry now favoured by most similar films. There are also some quite well-done muppet pastiches of the common DVD special features, interviews with, and commentary from, the stars, and a collection of bloopers and out-takes. --Andrew Mueller

• True Blood - Season 1-4 Complete (HBO) | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £29.99   |  Saving you £50.00 (166.72%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Vampires have come out of the coffin and are now living among us. Surviving on synthetic blood, they no longer need human blood to survive. Or so it seems...The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colourful locals. Meet Sookie Stackhouse (Academy Award winner Anna Paquin, a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds; Bill Compton (British actor Stephen Moyer), a 173-year-old vampire who's just moved back to town; Sookie's brother Jason (Aussie hearthrob Ryan Kwanten - Vinnie Patterson from Home And Away), a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble; tough-as-nails Tara, Sookie's loyal best friend; Sam, the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie to himself; Lafayette, a man about town who's always cooking up something illicit and off the menu, and a quirky cast of characters who each hide their dark secrets in the shadows of night in this series that's like no other.

• Cold Creek Manor | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £8.07   |  Saving you £8.18 (120.12%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A city family relocate to an old mansion in the sticks and soon discover what dark secrets are hidden inside.

• True Blue | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £17.08   |  Saving you £-7.09 (-71.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On one level, True Blue is a distillation of the brutal physicality and unique focus demanded of participants in the annual University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge. Based on legendary oarsman and Oxford coach Dan Topolksi's book about the 1987 race, it is also a tale of revenge; dominant Oxford had been defeated the year before and wanted the title back. More than that, though, it is a story of sporting obsession and the Machiavellian resources required to last the course in an event shrouded in ritual. When a clutch of lantern-jawed American international rowers muscle in on the Oxford team and threaten, quite literally, to rock the boat with their disregard for any of the tradition surrounding the race or Topolski's coaching methods, the fragile concept of team spirit is splintered. Ferdinand Fairfax's film, full of fine performances, builds the tension through a series of confrontations and a constantly shifting balance of power over the year leading up to the race. The intuitive relationship between the besieged Topolski (the excellent Johan Leysen) and the President of the College Captains, Donald McDonald (the quietly impassioned Dominic West) is particularly well drawn. With more than a hint of Chariots of Fire, not least in the Vangelis-like soundtrack, this is a moving and beautifully observed film about sporting passion.On the DVD: True Blue is presented in widescreen with a 16:9 anamorphic video aspect ratio that makes excellent use of the sweeping vistas of the Thames for the racing and training scenes which dominate the film. Stanislas Syrewicz's brooding score underpins the action at every stage and, thanks to the quality of the Dolby Surround soundtrack, helps to bring an appropriately epic, theatrical feel to your home viewing. --Piers Ford

• Peter Kosminsky Collection | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprise: The Government Inspector The Promise Britz

• Mean Creek | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £8.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (89.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A river trip turns sinister for a gang of teens in this drama from director Jacob Aaron Estes.

• The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (11/10/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The world's most lethal odd couple bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek). As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman (Antonio Banderas). Joining in the fun and deadly mayhem is Morgan Freeman as well, you'll have to see. Special Features Ryan, Sam, Salma: One F'd Up Family Gone Soft: The New Michael Bryce The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard: #stuntlife On the Set of The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard Gag Reel

• The Boy With Green Hair | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Peter Fry (Dean Stockwell - Quantum Leap) is a boy with no hair who refuses to speak to child psychologist Dr Evans (Robert Ryan) as to why he has been found lost and completely bald. But when the doctor shares his hamburger with him Peter tells his incredible story expect doubting that the doctor will believe him. Peter a typical American boy is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. With no one wishing to tell him of his parents' fate Peter is shuttled from one selfish relative to the next ending with Gramp (Pat O'Brien) a kindly ex-vaudevillian. Peter learns from his teacher Miss Brand (Barbara Hale) that he is a war orphan and the very next morning his hair turns green! But other kids jeer at him; adults are perturbed and even the kindly milkman turns against him. The absurd over-reactions of stupid people make his life a misery and drive him away. The Boy With Green Hair is Joseph Losey's film parable of tolerance and pacifism that was way ahead of its time.

• The Hi-Line | DVD | (11/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vera Johnson (Rachael Leigh Cook) is two years out of high school but still lives with her parents. Wasting time with meaningless jobs she dreams of life beyond the limits of her small Montana town. When a young stranger walks into her life bearing a horrible dark secret it will turn her world upside down forever!

• Body of Proof Season 2 | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £4.97   |  Saving you £20.28 (546.63%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Dr Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) Is back with 16 riveting new cases in ABC's Body of Proof: The complete second season. It's a season filled with unique medical mysteries and shocking twists and turns. The team pulls together when a 6-year old child is kidnapped, a lottery winner's luck takes an unfortunate turn, one of Philadelphia's most despised citizens turns up dead, and a new bride's fatal fall could be an act of suicide... or murder. Meanwhile, Megan must also navigate the complicated new dynamic with Kate and her ex-husband while continuing to rebuild her once-strained relationship with Lacey. Relive every astonishing case from season two in this 4-disc collection, complete with exclusive bonus features. It's a gripping medical drama you'll want to watch over and over again! Special Features: Design of Body of Proof: Living Spaces Bodies of Body of Proof The Fashion of Body of Proof Body of Goofs The stunt work of Body of Proof: Taking the plunge, prepping the stunt and collision course The effects of Body of Proof: Playing with fire Outbreak:Webisodes 1 to 5

• Chances Are | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Chances Are the irresistible romantic comedy of two lifetimes Cybill Shepherd stars as Corinne Jeffries a beautiful young woman whose picture-perfect marriage comes to a shattering halt when her husband Louie dies unexpectedly. Fortunately Louie gets a second shot at life when he agrees to be ""recycled"" back to earth as the newborn Alex Finch. But fate crosses Alex's path twenty-three years later when he meets Corinne's daughter Miranda and is suddenly flooded wi

• The Change-Up | Blu Ray | (23/01/2012) from £9.32   |  Saving you £15.67 (168.13%)   |  RRP £24.99

  New in original packaging, Free Delivery, CHANGE-UP BLURAY SINGLE DISC