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• Father of the Bride | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £4.58   |  Saving you £10.41 (227.29%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Father of the Bride is the feel-good smash-hit comedy about the outrageous trials and tribulations a well-intentioned father goes through trying to prepare for his only daughter's wedding. The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement setting off on an outrageous chain of events including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm. Starring Steve Martin Diane Keaton and Martin Short this remake of the 1950 comedy classic is warm wacky look at a daughter's dream come true... and a father's proudest moment!

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme-makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include the hapless efforts by Chris (Michael Imperioli) to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme-makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, and devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• The Big Short | Blu Ray | (23/05/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £1.99 (24.91%)   |  RRP £9.98

  The true story of several remarkable contrarian investors who, recognizing just how insane the housing bubble and subprime mortgage market had become, figured out how to short the market and make a killing during the financial collapse of 2008.

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On its original release in 1988, the pairing of Steve Martin and Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was seen as something of a dream ticket. Viewing the film many years later, that assessment still proves completely accurate: the casting is perfect. American Freddy Benson and Briton Lawrence Jamieson are con men who work the French Riviera--at first as colleagues, later as rivals--praying on rich, gullible women before finally meeting their match. Having spent the decade veering between popular rubbish and low-key quality, for once Caine was able to find a populist vehicle that did justice to his talents. Steve Martin is, well, very Steve Martin but there are few better suited to the visual comedy of his character. The film has an old-fashioned feel (no sex, violence or bad language) and owes much to the earlier period of film humour--it really doesn't take that much imagination to see this as an Ealing comedy. All round, it's a stylish, charming, witty film. On the DVD: Extras are few, limited to scene selection, subtitles and the very funny trailer. Picture quality is superb, allowing the film's exotic setting to sparkle and there are many scenes of breathtaking beauty. Given that the film is full of fantastic comedy set pieces, the ability to select scenes is a real plus, allowing to the viewer to locate that classic Martin pratfall at the push of a button. --Phil Udell

• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Alan's radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

• The Big Short | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (16.69%)   |  RRP £6.99

  The true story of several remarkable contrarian investors who, recognizing just how insane the housing bubble and subprime mortgage market had become, figured out how to short the market and make a killing during the financial collapse of 2008.

• Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Box Set Blu-ray (Episodes 1-3) | Blu Ray | (02/05/2022) from £22.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Star Wars: The Phantom Menance See the first fateful steps in the journey of Anakin Skywalker. Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn rescue Queen Amidala, ruler of a peaceful planet invaded by dark forces. On their escape, they discover nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker, a child prodigy who is unusually strong in The Force. Star Wars: Attack of The Clones Watch the seeds of Anakin Skywalker transformation take root. When Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect Senator Padmé Amidala, he discovers his love for her and his own darker side. Obi-Wan Kenobi uncovers a secret clone army as the galaxy marches towards full-scale war. Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith Discover the true power of the dark side. Clone Wars rage across the galaxy. The sinister Sith Lord seizes control of the Republic and corrupts Anakin Skywalker to be his dark apprentice, Darth Vader. Obi-Wan Kenobi must confront his fallen friend in an epic lightsaber duel. Product Features Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Filmmaker And Cast Audio Commentary Cast And Crew Archival Audio Commentary Conversations: Doug Chiang Looks Back Discoveries From Inside: Models & Miniatures Documentary: The Beginning Extended And Deleted Scenes And Much More! Star Wars: Attack of The Clones Filmmaker And Cast Audio Commentary Cast And Crew Archival Audio Commentary Conversations: Sounds In Space Discoveries From Inside: Costumes Revealed From Puppets To Pixels: Digital Characters In Episode II Cast And Crew Interviews Extended And Deleted Scenes And Much More! Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith Filmmaker And Cast Audio Commentary Cast And Crew Archival Audio Commentary Conversations: The Star Wars That Almost Was Discoveries From Inside: Holograms & Bloopers Within A Minute: The Making Of Episode III Filmmaker And Cast Interviews Extended And Deleted Scenes And Much More!

• Monster House | DVD | (11/12/2006) from £4.38   |  Saving you £13.61 (310.73%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three kids who must do battle with a mysterious and spooky house in this animated adventure.

• The Office - An American Workplace - Season 1-9 Complete | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £75.69   |  Saving you £-39.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.95

  The complete boxset of The Office: Seasons 1 to 9

• Digimon: Digital Monsters Season 2 | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £16.55   |  Saving you £23.44 (141.63%)   |  RRP £39.99

  By popular demand, the anime fan-favourite released for the first time on DVD! Four years after Tai, Mimi and the rest of the Digidestined brought peace to the digital world and found their way back home, the Digimon Emperor - a new villain - threatens the world and its Digital Monsters. With some the original kids off to junior high, a new generation is chosen to defend and save the world from evil. Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken join T.K and Kari to form the new Digidestined team. Together they journey back to the Digital World to battle the Digimon Emperor and free all the Digital Monsters from his control. Special Features: Original Japanese opening

• League of Gentlemen - Complete Collection | DVD | (15/01/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes All 3 Series, The Christmas Special & New Anniversary Specials Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss play the dozens of bizarre and darkly comic inhabitants of the fictional town of Royston Vasey, located in a remote part of the North of England. This complete box set contains the previously released individual titles (Series 1, Series 2, Series 3 and The Christmas Specials) together with the three new Anniversary Specials, celebrating the League's twentieth anniversary at the BBC. Features: Series One: Character Biographies Cast and Director Commentary Photo Gallery and over 20 minutes of Unseen Material Series Two: Character Biographies Cast Commentary ¢ Photo Gallery and over 20 minutes of Unseen Material Series Three: Over two hours of Bonus Material Local Gossip (commentary) Interview with Costume Designer, Yves Barre Dean's magic Teach-In Local Out-takes & Deleted Scene Photo Gallery Isolated Music Cues New Video Diaries The Making of Series 3 SFX Footage Character Biographies Christmas Special Stocking Fillers: Documentary Tales From Behind The Crypt ¢ Character Biographies Interview with composer Joby Talbot Jackanory: The Curse of Karrit Poor Photo Gallery Out-takes The League in Conversation with Paul Jackson - Full Version Commentary by the League FX Shots

• Phoenix Nights: Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created by and starring Bolton-born comic Peter Kay, Phoenix Nights is one of those rare gems that few saw on first showing but that everyone was soon talking about. The first series introduces wheelchair-bound Brian Potter (Kay), who runs the titular Phoenix, a shabby social club populated by an assortment of wonderfully observed characters. It's grim up North and despite the best efforts of the staff to inject life into the proceedings--be it an alternative comedy night, a version of Robot Wars in Potter's beloved Pennine Suite or a Wild West extravaganza--each evening's entertainment always ends badly. Undaunted, the Phoenix denizens continue to strive for their dream: a world in which "clubland never dies". The beginning of the second series sees Brian Potter's beloved Phoenix Club lying in ashes and the staff scattered to the four winds. Even club compere Jerry St Clair is reduced to singing "Come get your black bin bags" to the tune of Men in Black in the local supermarket. But not even being barred from having a licence for the rest of his natural life can deter the northern Svengali from reopening the club and making it bigger and better than before--even if that means making Jerry the licensee and offering up-market Chinese nosh. --Kristen Bowditch

• Night at the Museum 1-3 | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £14.35   |  Saving you £-8.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night at the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) spans the globe uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

• You've Got Mail | DVD | (23/08/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot. The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner, to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks) is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller, more specialized shops such as the children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighbourhood yet they first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes. It's no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous soufflé, this time around there's a slow leak that considerably deflates the affair. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe's logic in prolonging the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at Ephron's reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and colour co-ordinates their wardrobes for cocktail parties. --Sam Sutherland

• Chicken Little | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £9.15   |  Saving you £-2.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.96

  Zach Braff lends his voice to the hero of Disney's take on the classic fable.

• That Thing You Do! | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (9.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tom Hanks's debut as a writer and director is a lively, affectionate account of the shooting-star career of a forgotten (fictional) 1960s pop-rock band called The Wonders--as in "one-hit wonders". Hanks plays the manager of the group, which includes drummer Guy "Sticks" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) who works the floor at his parents' appliance store in Erie, Pennsylvania; Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), the talented and temperamental lead singer and songwriter; Lenny (Steve Zahn), the goofy guitarist; and Ethan Embry as a geeky little fellow identified in the cast list only as "The Bass Player". The movie traces their meteoric rise and fall, from cutting their first record, to going on tour with a Phil Spector/Motown-type revue, to the internal tensions that lead to the band's disintegration, which comes when they fail to follow up their smash hit single, "That Thing You Do!" And that song, by the way, is so catchy it would definitely have been a hit in 1964--and deserves to be one today. This delightful movie would make a great double-bill with Allison Anders's wonderful Grace of My Heart. --Jim Emerson

• Father Of The Bride/Father Of The Bride 2 | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Father Of The Bride: the feel-good smash-hit comedy about the outrageous trials and tribulations of a well-intentioned father going through the - mental and physical - preparations for his only daughter's wedding. The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement setting off on an outrageous chain of events including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm. Starring Steve Martin Diane Keaton and Martin Short this remake of the 1950 comedy classic is warm wacky look at a daughter's dream come true... and a father's proudest moment! Father Of The Bride 2: George Banks (Steve Martin) feels far too young to be a grandfather and way too old to become a father again. So when his recently married daughter Annie and his wife Nina (Diane Keaton) both announce they're pregnant the news sends George headlong into a wacky mid-life crisis as he desperately tries to recapture his youth. But the fun only doubles as the Banks household gets turned completely upside down by party planner extraordinary Frank Egglehoffer (Martin Short) who returns to throw the baby shower of the century just as everyone is anxiously awaiting the delightful double delivery!

• Captain Fantastic | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father (Viggo Mortensen) devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world.

• Armageddon | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £5.94   |  Saving you £12.05 (202.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This 1998 testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continued Hollywood's millennium-fuelled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understand what mainstream audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid-fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but, of course, lovable) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's fetishising of technology, even though it's apparent he doesn't understand it as anything more than flashing lights and shiny gadgets. Smartly, the duo also try to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable to populate the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humour and charisma. When Bay applies his sledgehammer aesthetics to the action portions of the film, it's mindless fun; it's only when Armageddon tackles humanity that it becomes truly offensive. Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly--African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims, French ... if it's not white and American, Bay simplifies it. Or, make that white male America; the film features only three notable female characters--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'". Sadly, she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than all the other women characters combined. Sure, Bay's film creates some tension and contains some visceral moments, but if he can't create any redeemable characters outside of those in space, what's the point of saving the planet? --Dave McCoy

• Benidorm - Complete Boxset | DVD | (08/10/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WELCOME TO BENIDORM! This all-inclusive package features 10 glorious seasons at The Solana Hotel bringing you a laugh-out-loud mix of hilarious holiday makers and hapless holiday staff. Benidorm is Britain's favourite holiday resort and it's certainly been a British comedy phenomenon for over a decade, winning countless awards and attracting guest stars such as Joan Collins, Cilla Black, Sheridan Smith, Shane Richie, Uri Gellar and The Chuckle Brothers! Not forgetting musical legends Bananarama, Madness and Holly Johnson. Enjoy this classic series again and again with exclusive content including outtakes, Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday documentary special, and Benidorm's infamous 2017 Royal Variety Performance. RELEASED IN SPECIAL SUITCASE PACKAGING WITH 4 POST CARDS Extras: Series 1: Cast Interviews, Photo Album Series 2: Outtakes, Behind the Scenes, Audio Commentaries, Photo Album 2009 Special: Behind the Scenes, Photo Album Series 3: Outtakes, Behind the Scenes, Audio Commentaries, Photo Album, Deleted Scenes 2010 Xmas Special: Making Of including Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery Series 4: Behind the Scenes, Outtakes, Audio Commentaries Series 5: Behind the Scenes, Outtakes, Audio Commentaries Series 6: Outtakes Series 7: Outtakes Series 10: Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday, Royal Variety Performance Sketch, Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery