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• The Beverly Hillbillies - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  12 classic episodes on three discs. The story of the newly wealthy Clampett family and their escapades through Beverly Hills has enchanted viewers for many decades since its initial showing in 1962. After Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) discovered oil on the family property he moved his blue collar clan to the lush surroundings of Beverly Hills to the significant horror of the locals. Unable to fit in the Clampett's simply live their life in the style to which they've become accustomed

• Green Mile, The / Pay It Forward / Proof Of Life | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying on the mile. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his movie brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comPay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitises the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. One may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humour, clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. --Jim Gay, Amazon.comWhen someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging", you can bet they're going to be left hanging. There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long March to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Russell Crowe (the soldier-turned-"K&R") and Meg Ryan adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to David Morse's captivity. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favouring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Top Gun | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• My Spy | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After a three year assignment in the field FBI agent Henry Durand (Colin Hanks) returns home with his fianc''e (Selma Blair) only to find his once dowdy over weight mother Martha has transformed into the highly attractive enlightened Marty (Meg Ryan) who dates every night of the week! When Marty meets the mysterious Tommy (Antonio Banderas) Henry is ordered to spy on his mother after learning that Tommy may be involved in an international art theft ring.

• The Sleepover Club - Series 1 - Episodes 9-12 | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There's not much sleeping going on in the beachside suburb of Crescent Bay. Come and meet Fliss Lyndz Kenny Rosie & Frankie; all members of a secret society called 'The Sleepover Club' - no boys or parents allowed! Constantly in conflict with their arch rivals - three boys called the M&Ms - life couldn't be more serious... or more funny! The Sleepover Club has a bit of everything for everyone... You'll laugh... You'll cry... But most of all you'll love The Sleepover Club; It's seriously cool!

• Keeping Mum | UMD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Reverend, his wife, and their two children, await the arrival of their new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins. But is Grace all she seems?

• Bionic Woman - Pilot Episode | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A re-make of the popular 1970's television series Bionic Woman revolves around Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan) a bartender who is saved from death after receiving experimental medical implants. While adjusting to her new bionic powers and raising a rebellious younger sister Jaime agrees to work for the Berkut Group a quasi-governmental private organization that performed her surgery.

• Wagner: Gotterdammerung (Gotterdammerung Staged By La Fura Dels Baus) | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £28.55   |  Saving you £6.44 (18.40%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Crepuscolo Degli Dei (Il) / Gotterdammerung (2 Dvd)

• Juno/ Win Win Double Pack | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  JunoSomewhere between the sharp satire of Election and the rich human comedy of You Can Count On Me lies Juno, a sardonic but ultimately compassionate story of a pregnant teenage girl who wants to give her baby up for adoption. Social misfit Juno (Ellen Page, Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) protects herself with a caustic wit, but when she gets pregnant by her friend Paulie (Michael Cera, Superbad), Juno finds herself unwilling to terminate the pregnancy. When she chooses a couple who place a classified ad looking to adopt, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated. But Juno is much more than its plot; the stylised dialogue (by screenwriter Diablo Cody) seems forced at first, but soon creates a richly textured world, greatly aided by superb performances by Page, Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the prospective parents, and J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Allison Janney as Juno's father and stepmother. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) deftly keeps the movie from slipping into easy, shallow sarcasm or foundering in sentimentality. The result is smarter and funnier than you might expect from the subject matter, and warmer and more touching than you might expect from the cocky attitude. Page's performance is deceptively simple; she never asks the audience to love her, yet she effortlessly carries a movie in which she's in almost every scene. That's star power. -- Bret FetzerWin WinWriter-director Tom McCarthy excels at tales about men who feel isolated from their surroundings. In Win Win, it's Kyle (Alex Shaffer, recalling the young Sean Penn), a teenager who enters the life of New Jersey attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti). Flaherty's journey begins when he represents Kyle's grandfather, Leo (Burt Young), who suffers from dementia. When Flaherty finds out about the substantial fee, he signs up as Leo's guardian, because he's been having trouble paying his bills. He and his wife, Jackie (Amy Ryan), meet Kyle when the kid shows up on his grandfather's doorstep. Kyle's mother (Melanie Lynskey) is in rehab and her boyfriend is abusive, so Kyle wants to live with Leo. Because Mike placed him in a retirement home--against the man's wishes--he agrees to host Kyle for a few weeks, during which Mike learns about his wrestling skills and invites him to join the high-school team he coaches with Stephen (Jeffrey Tambor). His best friend, Terry (Bobby Cannavale), offers to assist the duo to get his mind off his ex (the one plot line that doesn't work). When Kyle's mother shows up to collect her son and cash in on her father's situation, Mike risks losing everything he has gained. Win Win doesn't surprise as much as The Station Agent, which featured Cannavale, or cut as deep as The Visitor, but Giamatti and Ryan make for a believable suburban couple, doing their best to make ends meet in the face of an unsympathetic economy. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Hell's Kitchen NYC | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £11.61   |  Saving you £-1.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a drug deal goes bad three friends make a fatal judgement that puts one behind bars for a crime he did not commit. When Johnny is finally paroled he finds himself back in his old neighbourhood where battles are fought and drugs provide the only escape. Certain that there has to be a better way he tries to turn his life around. But old gruges die hard Gloria has sworn she will kill him for the murder of her brother and she will not rest till he is dead. This gritty urban tale of violent revenge and sexual exploitation features incredible performances and disturbing scenes as lives intersect in the underbelly of New York.

• United We Fall | DVD | (18/02/2019) from £4.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A hilarious, entirely improvised mockumentary on the beautiful game from cult film-maker Gary Sinyor (Leon the Pig Farmer, Stiff Upper Lips), United We Fall tells the story of five overpaid, overbranded and oversexed footie mates who play for the biggest football club in the world . On the brink of making history, all they had to do was win the last three games of the 2010 season... and they failed - totally and utterly! Homophobia, racism, adultery, corruption and plain old stupidity all share some of the blame - and a formal lunch with all five players and their partners to work out what went wrong seems very likely to be the worst thing they could possibly do! Features: Jump for Ghana Deleted Scenes Dangers of Improvisation

• The Unforgiving | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £6.21   |  Saving you £-1.22 (-24.40%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Like watching Saw or Hostel and flips those expectations on its head On the outskirts of Johannesburg a spate of killings has plagued a desolate highway. With no leads and nowhere to turn authorities focus all their attention when two survivors turn up alive. Caught in a labyrinth of an investigation Detective Hirsch tries to piece the puzzle together through Alice an ex-drug addict and Rex a traumatised victim. What follows is a brutal account of what happened to these to survivors. Told in an unconventional narrative structure The Unforgiving tosses and turns between points of views and character perceptions as the film builds to its terrifying climax. Crossing all moral boundaries the film will leave the audience questioning what they would do to survive if their lives were in the hands of one of the most grotesque serial killers imaginable.

• Kingslayer | DVD | (26/09/2022) from £1.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The true story of a fearless British legend: days away from his coronation, the future King of England, Richard the Lionheart, faces an impossible choice between true love and the crown, when a secret meeting with the woman he loves turns into a life and death fight for survival.Ambushed by hired mercenaries, and with no one left he can trust, the young prince is forced to face not only his enemies, but the harsh responsibilities of leadership.

• Safe House/American Gangster | Blu Ray | (05/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Safe House (212)American GangsterAcademy Award winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful epic story. Armed with ruthless streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honour crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire it plunges both men an into a legendary confrontation.

• Goosebumps | Blu Ray | (14/08/2017) from £16.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  special edition only 1000 made this item includes bluray and dvd and uv After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbour Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. Stine is very mysterious and a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and he protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their manuscripts. When the monsters are accidentally unleashed and begin to terrorize the town, it's up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get them back in their books where they belong.

• Buried | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £21.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook - Ultra Limited Print Run. 170,000 SQ miles of desert. 90 minutes of Oxygen. No way out. Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a fairly average, American truck driver, he works as a contractor in Iraq and leads a fairly average life, he doesn't know what's about to hit him! While working his usual deliveries he is taken hostage, knocked unconscious and awakens in a deep, dark coffin! He soon realises he is in real trouble. With little oxygen, a lighter and a mobile phone to help him, he tries whatever he can to escape his terrifying tomb. Paul contacts everyone he knows that could possibly help him, but to no avail; he could be buried anywhere in an enormous Iraqi desert. Paul realises that only one man can help him out of this impossible situation; himself! He'd better do it fast!

• Blue Valentine | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Love blooms and dies at the same time in the delicate dance between Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain). Gosling's Dean, a high-school dropout, works for a New York moving company. While relocating a frail widower into a retirement home, he spots Cindy, a nursing student who's visiting her grandmother, but the film actually begins six years later. Married with a daughter, they live in rural Pennsylvania. Heavy drinker Dean's looks are fading, while Cindy still turns heads. In his elegantly constructed second feature, writer-director Derek Cianfrance pirouettes between past and present, with each scene commenting on the next (set to the bittersweet tones of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear). The Dean of the early years pursues Cindy, who resists at first, but a spontaneous date ends with her tap dancing (badly) and him singing (not so badly). She leaves her domineering boyfriend (Mike Vogel) for this attentive stranger, leading to scenes of intimacy that are far more suggestive than pornographic--even if the MPAA briefly rated the film NC-17. Later, when the family dog goes missing, the cracks in their marriage intensify, so Dean arranges for a night of romance, which plays out like a negative image of their first date. If the two actors, who are very good, are meant to carry equal weight, Gosling has the more difficult task. It's harder to like the clingy, insecure Dean, who loves more intensely and less wisely, but that makes Gosling's the braver performance. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Sleepless Nights | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Those lips at your throat... might not be your lover's. Mankind is being attacked by a growing vampire population led by the powerful and ruthless Lord Malgaard. The sinister and blood thirsty villain has come up with an evil plan to transform humans into a race of blood donors. Dr. Jacob Slone who is the proud leader of the war against vampire rule is sidetracked when his trusty assistant is bitten by none other than his own wife. Christian Grey the doctor's protege has t

• 199 Lives - The Travis Pastrana Story | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Known as one of the friendliest most approachable guys in the Pro ranks Travis Pastrana's accomplishments on both two and four wheels are legendary. His list of achievements makes for incredible reading - World Freestyle Champion at 14 five-time US Amateur Motocross Champion Pro National Outdoor Champion East Supercross Series Champion three-time Rally America Series champion most successful competitor in the history of X Games Freestyle Motocross and first athlete to complete a double backflip on a dirt bike! As Pastrana says himself: 'Every day I push myself to redefine the limits of our sport.' 199 Lives is the incredible story of an action sports hero. His motorcycle ride at the age of four building a backyard foam pit base jumping the Grand Canyon at 18 it's all here. Filled with rare footage from his childhood personal interviews with Pastrana and his family and with all the stunts crashes and high jinks he is famous for 199 Lives delivers an inside perspective on what it takes to be a living legend.

• Dracula 2001 / Dracula 2 - Ascension | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dracula (Dir. Patrick Lussier 2001): A gang of high-tech thieves led by Marcus (Omar Epps) and Solina (Jennifer Esposito) break into a vault buried deep in the heart of London hoping to find treasure. Instead they succeed in reviving an ancient evil - the legendary Count Dracula himself (Gerard Butler) - who terrorized England a century earlier until he was stopped by Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. Now Dracula makes his way to modern New Orleans to track down Mary Heller (Justine Waddell) an innocent young woman haunted by dreams she doesn't understand. Matthew Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer) Dracula's current keeper must track the Count down with the help of his assistant Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) but they also have to deal with the vampire's new victims who soon return from the dead thirsty for blood. Can Dracula be stopped before he seduces Mary and begins a new reign of terror or do secrets from his past hold the key to destroying him forever? Dracula II: Ascension (Dir. Patrick Lussier 2003): An ancient evil is once again unleashed in the 21st century as fright master Wes Craven presents this terrifying and suspenseful sequel to the big-screen hit Dracula 2001! Ascension is the riveting story of a group of medical students who come across the body of the world's most notorious vampire! When a mysterious stranger appears and offers the students $30 million to harvest the body and steal its blood for auction it's an offer they can hardly refuse! But as the lure of riches collides with unimaginable terror the students also find themselves relentlessly pursued by a vampire killer from the Vatican!