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• Adam's Rib | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Adam's Rib, released in 1949, was one of the on-screen peaks for the matchless pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. George Cukor's instinctively light touch on the director's tiller, the wittiest of Garson Kanin scripts and apparently effortless acting from the stars, merge for 100 minutes of sophisticated comic perfection. It's tempting to think that, as the sparring husband and wife lawyers, Hepburn and Tracy drew on aspects of their now legendary real-life love affair. Screen chemistry alone can't account for the endless nuances, sidelong looks and timing which make Adam's Rib such a delight. There's also a generosity to their fellow actors that few major stars, then or now, would be confident enough to indulge in. Judy Holliday, playing the wife accused of shooting her philandering husband, had still not secured the lead in the film of her Broadway hit, Born Yesterday. Aware that anything else would have been a travesty, Hepburn as her defence lawyer ensured that Holliday was favoured in their scenes together and she duly got the part. In all the best ways, Adam's Rib is a quick-fire battle-of-the-sexes comedy, with Hepburn's brittle feminism striking sparks off Tracy's bemused chauvinism. The verdict might be a victory for Hepburn, but the real winner is an underlying love and respect which made this partnership one of the all time greats. On the DVD: Adam's Rib is presented in standard 4:3 format from a decent print, with a picture quality and mono soundtrack to please anyone who knows the film primarily from TV matinees. The lack of extras, apart from a scene index, is disappointing for a film of this stature. --Piers Ford

• Dawn Anna | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A True-Life Story Of Love Loss And Triumph. Based on the life of Dawn Anna Townsend the mother of one of the students killed in the Columbine High School massacre. Times have been stormy but single mother Dawn Anna finally sees blue skies. She has four loving kids meets a wonderful new man and finds an ideal job teaching math and coaching volleyball. Then illness strikes threatening not only Dawn's new way of life but life itself. Following harrowing brain surgery Da

• The Chaos Theory | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Fat Cats bring you the hottest UK boaters going big in 11 countries. The film that will resurrect the UK Kayaking scene.

• He's Dead | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-0.08 (-1.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Brian Parker a wealthy businessman is vacationing in the Bahamas when his boat is torched by an arsonist. He survives. but is faced with the realization that someone is trying to murder him. Parker teams up with the police to find whoever is responsible for the attempt on his life. A meeting is quickly called at the Parker estate for the reading of Brian's will. In attendance are his four business partners his lawyer and the family butler who plays a videotaped message recorded by Brian Parker shortly before his death. The recording reveals that Brian made the tape because he suspected that someone was trying to kill him and that someone in their group is systematically stealing millions of dollars from his company. The videotape drops the 'bombshell' that if the thief is not caught and the stolen money returned to the Parker estate Nobody would inherit a dime. Matters are further complicated when a mysterious woman shows up to claim the entire estate saying that she is Brian Parker's daughter. She becomes a target for murder and is rescued at the last moment by police who had been recording the meeting with hidden cameras.