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• All Or Nothing | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (191.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A 2002 Mike Leigh drama, All or Nothing is at times almost unbearably bleak and poignant, yet funny, truthful and richly rewarding. The film's revolves around Timothy Spall's mini-cab driver, his family and the various characters and acquaintances on the South-east London estate where he lives. It's perhaps even better than Secrets and Lies, in which Spall also starred, which was marred a little by some of the tearful excesses of Brenda Blethyn's bravura performance. It's evidence that Leigh has matured and improved with age, rather than mellowed and softened. He's developed into a highly distinctive but rounded and humane filmmaker. Spall's cabbie is too gentle and thoughtful to be described as a slob, but his lack of even the most basic ambition and stoic non-resistance to life has created an unspoken rift between him and wife Penny (Lesley Manville). Working on a supermarket checkout, she must cook dinner and fend off insults from her fat, frustrated, obnoxious 18-year-old son Rory. She receives only passive sympathy from her older daughter Rachel. Only when Rory is taken ill is Phil snapped out of his torpor as the family pull together. A host of minor characters also feature; fatuous cabbie Ron (Paul Jesson) his alcoholic wife and sluttish daughter, as well as the wonderfully good-humoured and resilient Maureen, Penny's best friend, concerned at her daughter's relationship with a violent boyfriend. Once accused of caricaturing his "lower class" characters, here Leigh (with the collaborative assistance of his actors) exhibits them in all their authentic complexity, neither idealising nor sentimentalising them. On the DVD: All or Nothing's extras include the original trailer, as well as interviews with several members of the cast. Timothy Spall is interesting on the unnerving process of collaboration favoured by Leigh, whereby characters are "built from zero" by the actors. The smart and rather posh Lesley Manville strikes quite a contrast in real life with her mousey, put-upon character. There's also a meticulous and absorbing commentary from Mike Leigh, who talks about filming in Greenwich and how he has moved away from some of the more dogmatic ideas about filmmaking of his earlier, avant-garde days. --David Stubbs

• Spontaneous Combustion | DVD | (29/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  1955 The Nevada Desert. A young couple Brian and Peggy become known as America's First Nuclear Family after miraculously surviving an atomic weapons experiment. Soon after the test Peggy gives birth to a baby boy with a small red perfectly circular birthmark on his hand. Only a few days later Brian and Peggy spontaneously erupt in flames - melting plastic but leaving everything else in the room untouched. Thirty four years later Sam Kramer - his red circular birthmark now more pronounced is finding out that the results have had some unexpected effects on him....

• Roadie | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bands make it rock but roadies make it roll! Texas boy Travis W. Redfish (Meat Loaf) falls hard for Lola a glitter-spangled groupie determined to lose her virginity to Alice Cooper. Hoping to woo her Travis signs on with a traveling rock band and soon finds himself celebrated as the ""greatest roadie of all time""! But Lola's date with destiny (and Cooper) looms. Can true love survive rock'n'roll?

• Byzantium | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £21.10   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Limited-edition blu-ray steelbook. Directed by Neil Jordan (Interview With The Vampire, The Company of Wolves) and starring Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Saoirse Ronan (The Host), Byzantium is a horror fantasy that takes vampire mythology to a new level of modern terror. Upon the wind swept shores of a desolate coastal town stands the Byzantium guesthouse. After years of being abandoned, its doors are about to be opened again by the predatory and seductive Clara (Arterton), who plans on turning the hotel into a brothel, and her young and introverted daughter Eleanor (Ronan). But these mysterious women have a dark secret that goes back 200 years and is about to reach its ungodly and deathly climax.

• Epic Movie/Date Movie | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £2.29   |  Saving you £20.70 (90.00%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Epic Movie:Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer set their parodic sights on the largest genre of them all Hollywood's big-budget special effects-laden blockbuster franchise films. The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one reared by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks); another a refugee from Mexican ""libre"" wrestling; the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane; and the fourth a ""normal"" resident of a mutant ""X""-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a silent ""G""). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with among others a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia. Date Movie:From the writers of Scary Movie comes a hilarious spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on the mishaps of the improbably named Grant Funkyerdoder (Adam Campbell) as he pursues his paramour Julia (Alyson Hannigan) to the concern of her parents...