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• My Dog Skip (2000) | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £5.16   |  Saving you £8.83 (171.12%)   |  RRP £13.99

  My Dog Skip, a nonpareil family film, is, as one of the characters so aptly puts it, "a heartbreak waiting to happen". Frankie Muniz, winning over audiences in the TV series Malcolm in the Middle, has competition in My Dog Skip--Skip himself (adorably played by a total of six Jack Russell terriers). Muniz, an inveterate charmer, stars as Willie Morris (from whose memoir the film is adapted), a gawky, awkward boy growing up during World War II under an overly protective father (Kevin Bacon). When his mom (Diane Lane) gives him Skip on his ninth birthday, his life is changed in every way for the better. Previously disinterested peers become pals, and he experiences puppy love with a girl named Rivers (Caitlin Wachs). There are plenty of high jinks and rah-rah touches of Americana, and the film also attempts to deal with sophisticated emotions--Willie's boyhood hero turns out to be less than heroic--but its devastating emotional core comes, simply and obviously, with Skip's eventual ageing and demise. Dog lovers will be wiped out; those who don't care for canines shouldn't even be bothering to read this review. (Ages 8 and older) --David Kronke, Amazon.com

• A Letter From Death Row | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A gritty suspense thriller 'A Letter from Death Row' takes you through the mind of convicted murderer found guilty of killing his girlfriend Michael Raine (Bret Michaels lead singer of rock group Poison) as he writes his memoirs whilst on Death Row telling his side of the story. Whilst on Death Row Raine is befriended by the Governor's assistant Jessica Foster who claims to be writing a book about Death Row inmates. As she gains Raine's trust he realises that she is the only person that holds the secret to his life or death.