"Director: Edward Burns"

• She's the One | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-8.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's the One is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed The Brothers McMullen. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few stars-in-the-making (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and John Mahoney from Frasier) to jazz up his cast of relative unknowns. Burns himself plays Mickey, a cab-driver in the Big Apple, with Mike McGlone as his yuppie stockbroker brother, and Maxine Bahns as Hope, the girl Mickey falls for and impulsively marries, much to the romantic delight of Francis' neglected wife Renee (Aniston). Francis, meanwhile, is having a clandestine affair with Heather (Diaz), Mike's former girlfriend--something Mike has yet to learn. Dispensing flawed wisdom and generally muddying the waters yet further is the lads' blunt-spoken father (Mahoney). Plotwise that's about it. Burns relies on his appealing cast and some amiably barbed repartee to hold our interest in what's essentially a dialogue-driven movie. He makes shrewd and sometimes unexpected use of his New York locations, too--it's a fair bet most people's mental image of Brooklyn wouldn't include a waterfront fishing community. This is a good-natured, slightly old-fashioned movie whose benevolent view of the battle of the sexes (where the women are invariably smarter than the men) never digs too deep or hits too hard. On the DVD: She's the One is presented on disc in its original widescreen ratio (1.85:1) and Dolby 4.0 sound that does the movie fair justice. Along with the original trailer, we get a seven-minute "making-of" featurette and a music video of the title song "Walls" from Tom Petty, who composed the film's score. Burns provides an unpretentious voice-over commentary, dealing mainly with matters of casting and the problems of shooting on location. --Philip Kemp

• She's The One | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's the One is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed The Brothers McMullen. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few stars-in-the-making (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and John Mahoney from Frasier) to jazz up his cast of relative unknowns. Burns himself plays Mickey, a cab-driver in the Big Apple, with Mike McGlone as his yuppie stockbroker brother, and Maxine Bahns as Hope, the girl Mickey falls for and impulsively marries, much to the romantic delight of Francis' neglected wife Renee (Aniston). Francis, meanwhile, is having a clandestine affair with Heather (Diaz), Mike's former girlfriend--something Mike has yet to learn. Dispensing flawed wisdom and generally muddying the waters yet further is the lads' blunt-spoken father (Mahoney). Plotwise that's about it. Burns relies on his appealing cast and some amiably barbed repartee to hold our interest in what's essentially a dialogue-driven movie. He makes shrewd and sometimes unexpected use of his New York locations, too--it's a fair bet most people's mental image of Brooklyn wouldn't include a waterfront fishing community. This is a good-natured, slightly old-fashioned movie whose benevolent view of the battle of the sexes (where the women are invariably smarter than the men) never digs too deep or hits too hard. On the DVD: She's the One is presented on disc in its original widescreen ratio (1.85:1) and Dolby 4.0 sound that does the movie fair justice. Along with the original trailer, we get a seven-minute "making-of" featurette and a music video of the title song "Walls" from Tom Petty, who composed the film's score. Burns provides an unpretentious voice-over commentary, dealing mainly with matters of casting and the problems of shooting on location. --Philip Kemp

• Jennifer Aniston 5 Movie Collection | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (29.69%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprise:Marley & Me: Marley And Me is an adaptation of John Grogan's bestselling memoir about an incorrigible Labrador retriever, and stars Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and Alan Arkin!Marley is the yellow lab adopted by Grogan (Owen Wilson), a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and his wife. Their idea was to give them a taste of parenthood, but the dog proved to be a hyperactive handful. He wreaks havoc everywhere he goes, gets kicked out of obedience school and gets even worse when the children begin to arrive, yet becomes an indispensable part of the family.The Good Girl: Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...The Object Of My Affection: A romantic comedy-drama that pushes the very tender line between love, sex and friendship!Nina, a social worker, shares a cozy flat with her dear friend George, who happens to be gay. When Nina becomes pregnant by her overbearing boyfriend, she begs George to step into the breach - but is he ready to be a surrogate dad?She's The One: Mickey (Burns), a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis (Mike McGlone), a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence.Though they disagree about nearly everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston), Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected results.Picture Perfect: As adorable as she is ambitious, Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam, the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick, a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick, sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control...

• The Jennifer Aniston Collection | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £7.90   |  Saving you £27.09 (342.91%)   |  RRP £34.99

  An excellent collection of 5 films featuring Jennifer Aniston. The Object of My Affection (Dir. Nicholas Hytner 1998): A romantic comedy-drama that pushes the very tender line between love sex and friendship! Nina a social worker shares a cozy flat with her dear friend George who happens to be gay. When Nina becomes pregnant by her overbearing boyfriend she begs George to step into the breach - but is he ready to be a surrogate dad? Picture Perfect (Dir. Glenn Gordon Caron 1997): As adorable as she is ambitious Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control... She's The One (Dir. Edward Burns 1996): Filmmaker and star Edward Burns follows his acclaimed debut The Brothers McMullen with this equally fresh funny and wry romantic comedy about two brothers wrestling their preposterous approaches to life and love. Mickey (Burns) a free-spirited New York cabbie and Francis (Mike McGlone) a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence. Though they disagree about nearly everything they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston) Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected results. Office Space (Dir. Mike Judge 1999): Fasten your ergonomic seat belt you're in for a hilarious ride through the inner workings of Office Space the outrageous hit comedy that will strike fear into the little hearts of bosses everywhere! Unable to endure another mind-numbing day at Initech Corporation cubicle slave Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) gets fired up and decides to get fired. Armed with a leisurely new attitude and a sexy new girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston) he soon masters the art of neglecting his job which quickly propels him into the ranks of upper management! The Good Girl (Dir. Miguel Arteta 2002): Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...

• Concert For New York City | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Concert for New York City took place at New York's Madison Square Gardens six weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As presented here, with about five hours of musical performances and celebrity cameos, it was a frequently awkward affair: the traditional fatuous jollity of American show business ceremonies is not, perhaps, the ideal medium for articulating the feelings engendered by the kind of tragedy America had just suffered. It is often evident--and actually quite endearingly so--that the film and television stars who appear here feel somewhat foolish accepting applause while standing alongside the members of New York's Police and Fire departments who take the stage to offer brief tributes to fallen comrades (it would be nice, but naïve, to believe that September 11 caused our celebrity-obsessed culture to redraft its parameters of heroism). The performances captured here are mostly pretty good, though David Bowie's opening, with an eerie and affecting take on Paul Simon's "America", followed by a rumbustious "Heroes", sets a standard not subsequently matched. The short films by New York directors are also worth seeing, especially Kevin Smith's daringly funny New Jersey perspective (the concert's only other overt attempts at humour misfire woefully--especially the toe-curling George W Bush impersonator). However, the concert is principally of interest as a document of a moment in history, rather than as a musical artefact. All of what America felt, for better and for worse, in the immediate wake of September 11, is on view here: sorrow, defiance, pride and, as Richard Gere famously discovered when he suggested that perhaps there were more constructive responses than carpet-bombing Third World basket-cases, anger. On the DVD: The Concert for New York Cityhas a viewing option which screens out everything except the musical performances. Sound is available in Dolby 5.1 Surround and PCM Stereo. --Andrew Mueller

• The Brothers McMullen | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Three brothers from Long Island try to reconcile their lives and loves in this charming romantic comedy (written starring and directed by Edward Burns) which won Best Picture at the Sundance Film Festival. After their good-for-nothing father dies and their mother leaves to be with the man she really loves brothers Jack Barry and Patrick are left with only each other as they struggle with their own relationships. Married Jack is tempted to have an affair Patrick isn't sure his fia

• Ash Wednesday | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £6.38   |  Saving you £2.61 (29.00%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Ash Wednesday 1980. Hell's Kitchen New York City. Exactly three years ago while tending bar Sean Sullivan (Elijah Wood) overhears some mobsters who speak of a plan to murder his older brother Francis (Edward Burns). Sean pulls a gun and shot at them. Soon thereafter he goes missing and only his arm is found. Three years later Francis who has given up his crime-ridden lifestyle and is now looking after Sean's widow (Rosario Dawson) and child receives word that Sean may not be dead after all. Burns also wrote and directed this moody crime drama following on from his earlier efforts such as The Brothers McMullen and No Looking Back.

• No Looking Back | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Claudia (Lauren Holly) is a small town girl trapped in a small town. She's got a man who loves her (Jon Bon Jovi) and a family who needs her. But somewhere inside is a voice that says -- it could have been different -- a voice that gets louder when Charlie (Edward Burns) comes home. What can you do when the lover who left you walks back in the door? What can you feel when your mind says one thing and your body says another? Where can you turn in a small town where everybody knows you but nobody knows about what you want? There's passion in the past and there's danger. For some people life is built like a house of cards and it only takes an open door to blow it all away. But once that door is open there is No Looking Back.

• Jennifer Aniston Box Set | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.04%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Marley & Me:Marley & Me is an adaptation of John Grogan's bestselling memoir about an incorrigible Labrador retriever, and stars Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and Alan Arkin!Marley is the yellow lab adopted by Grogan (Owen Wilson), a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and his wife. Their idea was to give them a taste of parenthood, but the dog proved to be a hyperactive handful. He wreaks havoc everywhere he goes, gets kicked out of obedience school and gets even worse when the children begin to arrive, yet becomes an indispensable part of the family.Picture Perfect:As adorable as she is ambitious, Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam, the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick, a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick, sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control...She's The One:Filmmaker and star Edward Burns follows his acclaimed debut The Brothers McMullen, with this equally fresh, funny and wry romantic comedy about two brothers wrestling their preposterous approaches to life and love.Mickey (Burns), a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis (Mike McGlone), a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence.Though they disagree about nearly everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston), Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected resultsThe Good Girl:Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...The Object Of My Affection:A romantic comedy-drama that pushes the very tender line between love, sex and friendship!Nina, a social worker, shares a cozy flat with her dear friend George, who happens to be gay. When Nina becomes pregnant by her overbearing boyfriend, she begs George to step into the breach - but is he ready to be a surrogate dad?

• Sidewalks Of New York | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £7.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (53.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This new romantic comedy from writer, director and actor Ed Burns tells of six people in New York and how their romantic liasons all intertwine.

• She's The One / Picture Perfect / The Good Girl | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  She's The One: Mickey (Burns) a free-spirited New York cabbie and Francis (Mike McGlone) a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence. Though they disagree about nearly everything they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc'' Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston) Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected results. Picture Perfect: As adorable as she is ambitious Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control... The Good Girl: Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...

• The Groomsmen | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A groom (Ed Burns) and his four attendants wrestle with issues related to friendship and maturity a week before the big day.