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• The Tall Guy | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £64.99   |  Saving you £-52.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first feature to be directed by comedian Mel Smith, The Tall Guy is a blithely ramshackle comedy, essentially a vehicle for the gangling, geeky charms of Jeff Goldblum. He plays an American actor in London, living in a scruffy flat in Camden Town and stuck in a wretched job as sidekick to an obnoxious, egomaniac comedian (Rowan Atkinson). To compound his misery, he doesn't have a girlfriend--until, that is, he encounters a brisk, pretty nurse (Emma Thompson) with a refreshingly no-nonsense attitude to sex. Then, fired from his job, he lands the title role in a big-budget musical version of The Elephant Man (entitled Elephant!)--only to have his leading lady make a play for him. The Tall Guy, as you might gather, isn't long on originality and Smith's direction is serviceable at best. But it boasts an intelligent and intermittently witty script from Richard Curtis (his first for a feature film), and coasts through on the charm of the two leads, a ripely self-mocking performance from Atkinson and some diverting set-pieces--not least a spoof sex-scene where Goldblum and Thompson, in the urgency of their rampant lust, demolish the contents of an entire room. (This scene was replayed in deadly earnest in Chen Kaige's calamitous excursion into English-language thrillers, Killing Me Softly.) Smith and Curtis also have fun sending up various types of theatre: there's an audition for a Steven Berkoff production where the actors are required to scream "Fuck off" at each for minutes on end, and the musical (hit song "I'm Packing My Trunk") wickedly spoofs the Andrew Lloyd Webber school of composition. On the DVD: The Tall Guy offers no extras except the theatrical trailer. The transfer is full-width, and both sound and visual come up cleanly. --Philip Kemp

• Epoch | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Across the planet sudden increases in earthquake activity is causing massive damage and worldwide panic. Mason Rand (David Keith), a young nuclear weapons expert, is recruited by the President's science advisor to investigate some additional strange activity over the giant Himalayan mountains. With the Earth's life support system in the balance, Rand and his team fly to Bhutan to join a top secret U.S. task force. What they discover will change man's view of history forever...

• Years and Years | DVD | (29/07/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Years and Years follows the Lyons, a busy Manchester family. Daniel's getting married to Ralph. Stephen and Celeste worry about their kids. Rosie's chasing a new fella. Edith hasn't been home for years. All presided over by Gran, the imperial Muriel. But when their lives all converge on one crucial night in 2019, the story accelerates into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next 15 years. And what a world! Everything we fear, and everything we hope for, happening around this tight-knit family. Society gets hotter, faster, madder, with the turmoil of politics, technology and distant wars affecting the Lyons in their day-to-day lives. Set against this, the Lyons have to navigate their everyday hopes and fears, knowing that one ordinary family could never change the world. Or could they?

• How To Build A Girl | DVD | (02/11/2020) from £3.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself - which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music critic, Dolly Wilde. As she slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. She has finally figured out how to build a girl but is this the girl she wanted to build? Based on Caitlin Moran's book of the same name, HOW TO BUILD A GIRL is an irreverent coming of age comedy about what it's really like to be a girl. Extras: Building The Girl My Life In Wolverhampton The God Wall

• Doctor Who: The Space Museum/The Chase | DVD | (26/11/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gulliver Returns | DVD | (09/08/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The 355 | DVD | (31/12/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A dream team of formidable female stars come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre in The 355. When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mace will need to join forces with rival badass German agent Marie, former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah, and skilled Colombian psychologist Graziella on a lethal, breakneck mission to retrieve it, while also staying one-step ahead of a mysterious woman, who is tracking their every move. As the action rockets around the globe from the cafes of Paris to the markets of Morocco to the wealth and glamour of Shanghai, the quartet of women will forge a tenuous loyalty that could protect the worldor get them killed.

• The 355 | Blu Ray | (31/12/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A dream team of formidable female stars come together in a hard-driving original approach to the globe-trotting espionage genre in The 355. When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mace will need to join forces with rival badass German agent Marie, former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah, and skilled Colombian psychologist Graziella on a lethal, breakneck mission to retrieve it, while also staying one-step ahead of a mysterious woman, who is tracking their every move. As the action rockets around the globe from the cafes of Paris to the markets of Morocco to the wealth and glamour of Shanghai, the quartet of women will forge a tenuous loyalty that could protect the worldor get them killed.

• Emma | DVD | (16/08/2021) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This delightfully fun and lighthearted comedy is based on Jane Austen's classic novel. Dazzling Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare In Love) shines as Emma a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is...she's not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet (Toni Collette Knives Out) she makes a hilariously tangled mess of everyone's lives. You'll enjoy all the comic confusion... until Emma herself falls in love, finally freeing everyone from her outrageously misguided attempts at matchmaking!

• Reacher Season One | DVD | (12/12/2022) from £19.07   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy full of dirty cops, shady businessmen and scheming politicians. With nothing but his wits, he must figure out what is happening in Margrave, Georgia. The first season of REACHER is based on the international bestseller "Killing Floor" by Lee Child.

• Cruella | Blu Ray | (21/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hellfire | DVD | (23/02/2026) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A