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• Candyman | DVD | (14/07/2000) from £5.86   |  Saving you £10.13 (172.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a story by Clive Barker and skilfully written and directed by Bernard Rose, Candyman rises above most horror films by eerily suggesting that some urban legends--in this case a particularly frightening one--have a spooky basis in reality. The legend of the Candyman is a potent one around the high-rise tenements of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing complex, where the residents speak of a dark, ominous figure who appears when his victims say his name five times in front of a mirror, then mercilessly slashes them to death. Upon learning that the Candyman is rumoured to live in one of the vacant tenements, a University of Illinois researcher (Virginia Madsen) investigates a recent murder at Cabrini-Green. She learns that the Candyman (played by Tony Todd) is both unreal and chillingly real--a supernatural force of evil empowered by those who believe in his legend. He is a killer made flesh by the belief of others, and the young researcher's investigation is a threat to his existence. What happens next? We wouldn't dare spoil the chills, but rest assured that writer-director Rose has tapped into a wellspring of urban angst and fear, and Candyman serves up its gruesome frights with a refreshing dose of intelligence. --Jeff Shannon

• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit Journey to the Center of the Earth, the new 3D family adventure Journey 2: The Mysterious Island begins when young Sean Anderson receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island.

• Spring Breakers | DVD | (12/08/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (345.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brit (Ashley Benson) Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) have been best friends since grade school trying to save enough money for spring break. Still short of cash three of them hold up a restaurant using toy guns in order to get to Florida for two weeks of fun. After a few days of partying the girls get arrested during a police raid and land up in jail. Bailed out by local drug dealer Alien (James Franco) they soon find themselves in over their heads when their mentor introduces them to the wonders of an addictively dangerous spring break they will never forget. Special Features: Making of Theatrical Trailer Four Featurettes: Behind the Scenes The Girls Harmony Korine AVPs

• Soul Food | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £13.82   |  Saving you £-0.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production and it has got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 million budget he succeeded where similar films (including Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell short: he depicts his many characters with such depth and sympathy that, by the time they have weathered several family crises, we've come to care and feel for them and the powerful ties that bind them together. As seen through the eyes of Tillman's young alter ego Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. Fox) and her two sisters (Vanessa L. Williams and Nia Long). Through them, and through the weekly Sunday dinners cooked with love by their mother, Big Mama (Irma P. Hall), we witness marital bliss and distress, infidelity, success, failure ... in short, the spices of life both bitter and sweet. But when Big Mama falls into a diabetic coma, Ahmad watches as his family begins to fall apart without the stability and love that Big Mama provided with every Sunday meal. Tillman's touch can be overly nostalgic, melodramatic and cloyingly sentimental, but never so much that the movie loses its firm grip on reality. As a universal portrait of family life, Soul Food ranks among the very best films of its kind--believable, funny, emotional and always approaching its characters (well-played by a uniformly excellent cast) with a generous spirit of forgiveness and understanding. As satisfying as one of Big Mama's delicious dinners, Soul Food is the kind of movie that keeps you coming back for more. --Jeff Shannon

• The Rise | Blu Ray | (30/09/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Released after a short prison sentence Harvey (Luke Treadaway) wants revenge on local crime boss Roper (Neil Maskell) who framed him for the crime that put him away. With the help of his loyal friends Dempsey (Iwan Rheon) Charlie (Gerard Kearns) and Dodd (Mathew Lewis) Harvey plans to settle the score with Roper by stealing his fortune from a seemingly impossible crack safe.

• District 9 (2 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science-fiction thriller. With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the aliens have landed only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extra-terrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet.

• New Jack City | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorised drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in cinemas. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. However you interpret it, New Jack City is still one of the first and best films of the 1990s to crack open the underworld of cocaine and peer inside with its eyes wide open. It's also the film that established Wesley Snipes as an actor to watch, with enough charisma to bring an insidious quality of seduction to his role as coke-lord Nino Brown, and enough intelligence to portray a character deluded by his own sense of indestructible power. Director Mario Van Peebles stretched his otherwise-limited talent to bring vivid authenticity and urgency to this crime story, and subplots involving a pair of tenacious cops (Ice-T, Judd Nelson) and a recovering coke addict (Chris Rock) provide additional dramatic tension. Although some critics may hesitate to admit it, New Jack City deserves mention in any serious discussion about African American filmmakers and influential films. --Jeff Shannon

• NCIS: New Orleans: The Sixth Season | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This 5-disc collection contains all 20 episodes of NCIS: New Orleans, Season 6, including unforgettable moments that shocked every fan. For Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride (Scott Bakula) and his team at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, kidnappers, cults, traffickers and murderers are business as usual. But with the tragic loss of one of their own, these agents suddenly find themselves driven by more than duty; now it's personal. Will Pride stay loyal to the law, or will vengeance push him over the edge? Experience every stunning surprise, dramatic reveal, and breathtaking cliffhanger in the most suspenseful season of NCIS: New Orleans yet.

• Prick Up Your Ears | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £6.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (54.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Prick Up Your Ears is a celebration of outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina) which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Orton was one of the 1960s golden boys from working class Leicester lad to national celebrity from sexual innocent to grinning satyr from penniless student to icon of Swinging London. He became a star by breaking the rules - sexual and theatrical. But while his plays including Loo

• The Odyssey | DVD | (30/05/2007) from £14.13   |  Saving you £-11.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

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• Wilde | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £16.66   |  Saving you £-6.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wilde could easily have been nothing more than another well-dressed literary film from the British costume drama stable, but thanks to a richly textured performance from Stephen Fry in the title role, it becomes something deeper--a moving study of how the conflict between individual desires and social expectations can ruin lives. Oscar Wilde's writing may be justifiably legendary for its sly, barbed wit, but Wilde the film is far from a comedy, even though Fry relishes delivering the great man's famous quips. It takes on tragic dimensions as soon as Wilde meets Lord Alfred Douglas, known as Bosie, the strikingly beautiful but viciously selfish young aristocrat who wins Oscar's heart but loses him his reputation, marriage and freedom. Fry is brilliant at capturing how the intensity of Wilde's love for Bosie threw him off balance, becoming an all-consuming force he was unable to resist. Jude Law expertly depicts both Bosie's allure and his spitefully destructive side, there are subtle supporting performances from Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle and Zoe Wanamaker, and the period trappings are lavishly trowelled on. But this is Fry's show all the way: from Oscar the darling of theatrical London to Wilde the prisoner broken on the wheel of Victorian moralism, he doesn't put a foot wrong. It feels like the role he was born to play. --Andy Medhurst

• Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks: Season 1 Volume 2 - Back To School | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £5.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (92.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The new animated series, ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks, created by Janice Karman, takes us on a roller coaster ride of music, laughter and stories. Featuring international super stars Alvin, Simon and Theodore and the sassy Chipettes Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor, the series encounters the trials and tribulations of a single parent, David Seville, trying to raise six hyper-active Chipmunks. Like most parents, Dave's patience will be pushed to the limit, forcing him to end most sentences in ALVINNN!!! Episode listing: Talking Teddy Principal Interest Albrittina Simon for President To Serve and Protect Kickin' It Old School Clowning Around Bully For You The Tree House Saving Simon Back To School Bromance Theozilla Doggone It

• Little Britain - Complete Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Little Britain was the injection that the British comedy sketch-show needed. Matt Lucas and David Walliams have created a host of bizarre characters on a surreal but hilarious tour of the British Isles and its curious inhabitants. Narrator Tom Baker adds insightful and eloquent comments throughout the odyssey! All of modern Britain is here including favourites such as Daffyd the only gay in the village; Jason the teenager with an unhealthy attraction to his best friend's granny; Marjorie Dawes the terrifying Fat-fighter group leader and Emily Howard the rubbish transvestite who likes doing 'ladies things'.

• The Pledge | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Jack Nicholson plays a retiring police officer who promises to track down a murderer.

• Evening | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £4.61   |  Saving you £1.38 (29.93%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A dying woman remembers her romantic past while her daughters face their emotional present.

• Girl, Interrupted | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  GIRL, INTERRUPTED is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen, a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for troubled young women

• Harriet The Spy | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (197.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Harriet M. Welsch (Michelle Trachtenberg) is probably the world's most accomplished 11-year-old spy. Harriet dreams of being a writer and her nanny and best friend Golly (Rosie O'Donnell) told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun until Harriet's friends find her secret spy notebook. They don't like what Harriet's written. And they don't like Harriet that much either. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be an outsider a rejected wr

• John Q. | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (181.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.

• Jurassic Park / The Lost World / Jurassic Park 3 | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Jurassic Park (Dir. Steven Spielberg 1993): Director Steven Spielberg presents a masterpiece of imagination suspense science and cinematic magic that quickly became one the most successful film in worldwide box-office history. On a remote island a wealthy entrepreneur (Richard Attenborough) secretly creates a theme park featuring live dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric D.N.A. Before opening it to the public he invites a top palaeontologist (Sam Neill) and his paleobotanist g

• Stick It | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An ex-gymnastics star is forced back into the sport after one-too many arrests.