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• How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £3.94   |  Saving you £14.05 (356.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A single man (McConaughey) who likes to play the field makes a bet that he can stay in a relationship for more than 10 days. However, he picks the wrong woman (Hudson), seeing as she desperately wants rid of him almost as soon as they meet!

• In And Out | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Writer Paul Rudnick knows a good idea when he hears one. When Tom Hanks talked about his openly gay high school drama teacher after winning the Oscar for Philadelphia, Hanks had already warned the teacher about the prime-time speech. For Rudnick's comedy, golden-boy star Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) announces at the Oscars (in a great lampoon of the ceremony) that his high school teacher was his inspiration, and by the way, he's gay. It's a shock to Howard Brackett's (Kevin Kline) small world in the corn belt. That includes his students, parents, coworkers and most importantly, his soon to be bride (Joan Cusack). Rudnick, the most successful and outspoken gay screenwriter-playwright (Jeffrey, The Addams Family) working today has hit cinematic gold. Besides Brackett's running around in crisis control, Rudnick allows a great deal of time to what others think. A typical line: "Mr Brackett's not gay! He just likes poetry and Shakespeare and uses his napkin!" In & Out is a screwball comedy first, a banter of how society deals with homosexuality second. Kline is at the top of his comedic talents here; a weaker actor would permit Joan Cusack to steal the entire movie as the bemused bride. Cusack, an Oscar nominee for the role, nails some of the funniest moments from any film that year. Seemingly forgotten as a cinematic presence, a clean-shaven Tom Selleck and his 24-carat gold personality is something to reckon with again. As a Hollywood reporter on the case, Selleck, without moustache, comes off more as George Clooney's older brother than as Magnum PI. The movie is helmed by Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy, who has quietly put together a very impressive list of comedies: Little Shop of Horrors, Housesitter and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. --Doug Thomas

• Vanilla Sky | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £3.47   |  Saving you £16.52 (476.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz star in this mysterious thriller based on the Spanish film "Abre los Ojos."

• Head Over Heels | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (32.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Take Hollywood romantic comedy at its fluffiest, stir in a few Farrelly Brothers-style bodily-function jokes, season with pratfalls, add a soupcon of Hitchcock and you've got Head Over Heels, the perfect way to while away 85 minutes without putting the least strain on your brain cells. Our heroine, Amanda, is a shy retiring young lady with a dusty museum job and a non-existent love-life. (She's played by the dishy blonde Monica Potter, which gives you a fair idea of this movie's grip on reality). Having moved into a palatial Manhattan apartment (yeah, right) shared with four wannabe supermodels she meets--via a randy Great Dane--the handsome guy from across the courtyard. But it seems he has a deep, dark secret in his life. Mark Waters' film gets a lot of mileage out of poking fun at the bubble-headed attitudes of the model girls, which might well provoke mutterings about pots and kettles in more censorious quarters. But the whole confection's so innocuous and eager to please that it's hard to stay as irritated with it as it deserves. Potter (or occasionally her body double) executes her pratfalls gamely, her flatmates pose elegantly, and Mr Maybe-Right Freddie Prinze Jr grins boyishly--even if his subsequent metamorphosis into an action hero takes a bit of swallowing. Waters' direction keeps things moving briskly enough to prevent us musing on the idiocy of the whole enterprise. The insert inside the box suggests that "if you enjoyed this title" you should try Taxi Driver or Being John Malkovich. Could someone at Columbia TriStar be having a little joke? On the DVD: not much to mention. There's a trailer, brief cast and director biogs, production notes and a 12-minute shooting-of featurette in which, as usual, everybody was just wonderful and they all adored each other from the get-go. Anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound ensure a suitably glossy presentation. --Philip Kemp

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• Failure To Launch/How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (46.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Failure To Launch (Dir. Tom Dey 2006): Matthew McConaughey is Tripp a 35 year old who still lives with his parents. And who can blame him? It's free he's got a great room and mom (Kathy Bates) does the laundry. Desperate to get him out of the house his parents hire a gorgeous woman Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) to give him a little...push. They just didn't expect Tripp would push back! In this romantic battle of wills there's no place like home... How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (Dir. Donald Petrie 2003): Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days. Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now the clock is ticking-and the year's most wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex lies and outrageous romantic fireworks!

• I Love Your Work | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £8.77   |  Saving you £-2.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Movie star Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is at the top of his game: a seemingly endless supply of money celebrity friends parties a beautiful wife...and his name and image known all around the world. But with fame and fortune comes sometimes unwanted attention. Convinced that the 'chance' encounters that the has been having with fans are not all coincidental he looks to his bodyguard and a video store clerk for help - despite the protests of those around him. Is he truly paranoid as they suggest? Or has he found himself in the crosshairs of an obsessed fan...or someone much closer to him?

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