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• Barton Fink | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from the Coen brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple) gleefully attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it, portraying the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro (Miller's Crossing, Jungle Fever) plays the title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie for palooka actor Wallace Beery. Fink thinks the job is beneath him, but his desire for acceptance gets the better of him, and he suddenly finds himself holed up in a fleabag hotel in Los Angeles, where he is almost immediately afflicted with writer's block. Various distractions begin to enter his life, first in the form of a famous southern writer (John Mahoney) whom Fink idolises, and then his neighbour in the hotel, a seemingly amiable salesman played by John Goodman (Sea of Love, Raising Arizona). The writer turns out to be a self-loathing drunk whose secretary (Judy Davis) is the one actually doing the writing. And the neighbour, the working-class hero who Fink made his reputation writing about, may have a horrifying secret of his own. Equal parts social commentary and hilarious farce, and winner of the Best Picture, Actor, and Director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Barton Fink is a visionary and original comic masterpiece not to be missed. --Robert Lane

• Mr And Mrs Smith / Life Or Something Like It | DVD | (25/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mr And Mrs Smith (Dir. Doug Liman 2005): A sexy action packed thrill ride about a bored married couple who discover that they are enemy assassins... Life Or Something like It:(Dir. Stephen Herek 2002): Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is a beautiful blonde reporter for a Seattle news station. With a baseball-superstar boyfriend a wonderful apartment and a job opportunity with a national network in New York Lanie's life is all going according to plan. The only thorn in her side is the cameraman and ex-lover she's been teamed with called Pete (Burns). Pete is funny charming and utterly disinterested in a career much to Lanie's disbelief but the pair have an undeniable chemistry that Pete exploits at every turn. Everything changes for Lanie in an instant when she meets homeless Prophet Jack (Shalhoub) for an interview. After he gives her routine predications about the weather and football scores he breaks the ominous news that she will be dead in seven days...