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• Great Expectations | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £7.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (20.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The key ingredient in this modern-day version of Charles Dickens's classic is director Alfonso Cuarón, who made the glowing, estimable A Little Princess. If you saw that (and you should), understand that Expectations has those ingredients (great sense of time, place, and timing) but adds modern music and sex appeal; the latter personified by the long-legged Gwyneth Paltrow. Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke as an adult, Jeremy James Kissner at age 10) is the new version of Dickens's Pip. He's a child wise beyond his years, befriending an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) in the warm waters of Florida's Gulf Coast. Finn is also the plaything for Estella (Paltrow as an adult, Raquel Beaudene at age 10), the niece of the coast's richest and most eccentric lady, Ms. Dinsmoor (a fun and flamboyant Anne Bancroft). The prudish Estella likes Finn (catch the best first kiss scene in many a moon) but has been brought up to disdain men; she'll break hearts. As the object of Finn's desires, Estella unfortunately is a one-dimensional character, yet what a dimension! Clad in Donna Karan dresses and her long, sun-kissed hair, Paltrow is luminous. She and Hawke make a very sexy couple. Mitch Glazer's script does better by Finn. He's a blue-collar worker with a gift for drawing (artwork by Francesco Clemente). Following his Uncle Joe's (Chris Cooper) honest ways, Finn grows up as a fisherman, thoughts of Estella and art drifting away in the hard work. When a mysterious benefactor allows him to follow his dream, Finn finds himself in New York, preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime art exhibit--and in the arms of the engaged Estella. Filled with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's golden-drenched light, the film has an irresistible, wildly romantic look. Dinsmoor's place is certainly gothic, Estella and Finn's longing encounters glamorous. Cuarón uses an MTV-friendly soundtrack with a confident touch. Songs by Tori Amos and the band Pulp--along with Patrick Doyle's silky score--create passionate scenes. It all ends far too swiftly with a seemingly tacked-on ending (reflecting the book, as it happens) but the film is splendid storytelling. It's a stylish, sweet valentine. --Doug Thomas

• Delgo | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £6.11   |  Saving you £13.88 (69.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a divided land a troubled youth and some unlikely friends must save the world from itself. Delgo an adventurous but naive teenager must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.

• Demetrius And The Gladiators | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £23.41   |  Saving you £-10.42 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Crammed with astonishing action and fight sequences this enormously successful sequel to The Robe continues the story of Demetrius (Victor Mature) the Greek slave who after the death of his master is sentenced to train as a gladiator in the Roman arena. There his newfound Christian faith is put to the test when he has to contend not only with the swordsmen and wild beasts of the arena but also the evil and sensuous Messalina (Susan Hayward) and the mad emperor Caligula (Ja

• Garbo Talks | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £11.49   |  Saving you £-5.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As a middle aged protestor faces a terminal illness her one desire is to meet Greta Garbo. The search for this reclusive star proves to be an hilarious quest.

• The Graduate | Blu Ray | (13/09/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In his first major film role Dustin Hoffman plays an ultra-na''ve college graduate who's seduced by a middle-aged woman played by the scintillating Anne Bancroft and then falls in love with her daughter. With the sharpest of scripts and a perfect soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel this film was deservedly nominated for 6 Oscars and won Nichols an Academy Award for Best Director.

• Mary Higgins Clark - He Sees You While You're Sleeping | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When high-flying stockbroker Sterling Brooks encounters a little divine intervention on the golf course he is given a second shot at redeeming his selfish existence. The problem is he has to prove his worth to his beautiful ex Annie Campbell (Erika Eleniak) and the feisty young daughter Marissa he never knew he had... Mystery based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.

• Most Vertical Primate | DVD | (14/09/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After being ousted from his hockey team the Seattle Simians having been falsely accused of misconduct Jack hits the road and ends up in the city. After making friends with a homeless skateboarder Jack proves equally adept at mastering the half-pipe as he is at delivering a slap shot!

• Screen Legends - Starring Anthony Hopkins | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Meet Joe Black: Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) has it all success wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger Joe Black (Brad Pitt) who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani)? (Dir. Martin Brest 1998) Legends Of The Fall: Colonel William Ludlow (Sir Anthony Hopkins) built a ranch in the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies where he brought up his three sons away from the carnage of the Indian wars. Alfred (Aidan Quinn) the eldest is dutiful and reserved Samuel (Henry Thomas) the beloved youngest is compassionate and idealistic while the middle brother Tristan (Brad Pitt) has a wild untameable spirit. Into this masculine world enters Susannah Finncannon (Julia Ormond) a beautiful intelligent woman who stirs a passion and rivalry in all three brothers that will change the course of their lives and shape their destinies forever. From the rugged prairie lands of 19th Century America to the trenches of World War I and the changing world beyond 'Legends of the Fall' is a sweeping star-studded epic - a passionate journey into the darkest secrets of love betrayal and the unbreakable bonds of blood. (Dir. Edward Zwick 1994) The Remains Of The Day: Stevens is the perfect English butler. Now employed by Mr Lewis the new American owner of Darlington Hall Stevens has spent the best part of his working life serving Lord Darlington the host of many prestigious international conferences in the 1930s. It was only when war broke out in 1939 that Lord Darlington's involvement with the Nazi party was uncovered. Now twenty years later Stevens realizes that his unquestioning faith and dedication to duty were misplaced and cost him dearly in his own personal life. Over several years he carried on an intense relationship with the Estate's attractive young housekeeper Miss Kenton. But his unwavering sense of duty led Stevens to deny his emotions - and eventually drive away the one woman he loved. Now he wants to make amends... An extraordinary story of blind emotion and repressed love The Remains Of The Day achieved an astounding 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Actress. Anthony Hopkins received the BAFTA Award for the Best Performance by an actor in a leading role. (Dir. James Ivory 1993) 84 Charing Cross Road: A heart-warming drama in which Anne Bancroft stars as a New York collector of rare books. Little does she know that a letter to a small bookshop in London will lead to a 20 year love affair with the staff and the city... Selected as the 1987 Royal Film Performance. (Dir. David Hugh Jones 1986)

• New York Confidential | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of the gang battle that blasted a city!The kill-or-be-killed world of organised crime is the focus of this hard-hitting expose from the Oscar-nominated writing team of Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. Broderick Crawford is the NYC mob boss dealing out death as the answer to every crisis-from a minor member of his own syndicate, to a Washington lobbyist, to his own hired killers!

• Deep In My Heart | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  She must face the future, heal the past and find that place in her heart called home. A trio of great actresses - Oscar-winner Anne Bancroft (The Elephant Man, The Graduate), Emmy Award-winner Lynn Whitfield (Stepmom) and Gloria Reuben (who received multiple Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Jeanie Boulet in TV's ER) - unite their talents for this powerful true story of one woman's search, against all the odds, for her emotional roots. Deep In My Heart starts in Boston in 1961, an era of very different racial and social attitudes. A white woman, Gerry Cummins (Bancroft, who won an Emmy Award for her performance) is raped by a black man - an attack that leaves her pregnant. The resulting child of mixed race, Barbara Ann (Reuben), now faces a life of confusion, prejudice and isolation. Given up for adoption and initially raised by Corrine Burrell (Whitfield), a loving foster mother in a black neighbourhood, Barbara Ann is suddenly torn from this happy existence and placed with Annalise Jurgenson (Alice Krige, Chariots Of Fire) and her husband, a white middle-class couple. Although Annalise has acted from the best of motives, her stance is hopelessly idealistic and for Barbara Ann it means a world with no friends, no joy and no sense of family. But Barbara Ann survives and grows up to marry a man she loves deeply and to become the mother of five children. Only then does she find the courage to face up to the hidden traumas of her past, meet with the woman who gave birth to her all those years ago - and find that place in her heart called home. Deep In My Heart is written by the award-winning Ronni Kern (Homeless to Harvard, Guinevere) and directed by Anita W. Addison (Sirens).

• Night Mother | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (35.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft star in this taut emotional study about a mother's attempt to stop her distraught daughter from committing suicide. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by author Marsha Norman the moving production casts Spacek as an epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son who decides to take control the only way she can - by taking her own life. Bancroft as the widowed mother with whom she lives is oblivious to her daughter's depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans. The give-and-take between Spacek and Bancroft makes for a searing family drama which brings to the surface all the love resentment and understanding that exists between every parent and child.

• Maniacts | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £4.28   |  Saving you £9.97 (330.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ever wondered what happens when two serial killers fall in love? This outrageous jet-black comedy takes a twisted look at a love that breaks all the rules! Joe (Fahey) and Beth (Waymire) both multiple murderers meet in a corrupt institute for the criminally insane. Despite their less than romantic surroundings the two killers develop a strong bond and fall for each other. When Joe escapes the staff torture Beth for information. Realising that he can't live without her Joe retu

• The Graduate | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Don't Bother to Knock | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £24.21   |  Saving you £-14.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An airline pilot, dumped by his girlfriend, pursues a baby-sitter in his hotel...and gradually realizes she's dangerous.

• Deep In My Heart | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.23   |  Saving you £3.75 (167.41%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Given up for adoption as a baby Barbara Ann (Gloria Reuben) a child of mixed race is facing a life of confusion prejudice and isolation. Raised by a loving foster mother in a black neighbourhood she is suddenly torn from this happy existence and placed in a world with no friends no joy and no sense of family. But she survives and grows up to become the mother of five children. And it is then that Barbara Ann finds the courage to face her past to meet with the woman who gave birth to her all those years ago and to find that place in her heart called home...

• Garbo Talks | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anne Bancroft stars in this Sidney Lumet drama about a son who will go to great lengths to fulfil his dying mother's last wish. When Estelle (Bancroft) receives the news that she has an inoperable brain tumour, she decides that she is not going to waste another day and sets about ticking things off her to-do list. Estelle's son Gilbert (Ron Silver), a rather unambitious accountant, is something of a disappointment to his mother, but when he learns she is dying he does everything in his power to fulfil her last wish to meet her life-long idol Greta Garbo.

• JESUS VON NAZARETH - VARIOUS | DVD | (09/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A documentary charting the rise and fall of the Enron company from the perspective of employee Brian Cruver.

• Elephant Man | HD DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Lynch creator of Twin Peaks and acclaimed director of 'Eraserhead' 'Blue Velvet' and 'Wild At Heart' directs this bizarre but true story of courage and human dignity. John Hurt gives the performance of a lifetime as John Merrick the worst freak known to Victorian medical science a man whose body is hideously distorted into a grotesque parody of an elephant. Rescued from a travelling freak show by Sir Frederick Treves Merrick gradually reveals himself to be a strangely sweet and gentle man remarkably unembittered by the degradation and torment he suffered at the circus. Beautifully shot by Freddie Francis and with an excellent supporting cast including Sir John Gielgud Anne Bancroft and Dame Wendy Hiller The Elephant Man is a compelling moving and enchanting story. The film was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor.

• Carnal Knowledge / The Graduate / The Elephant Man | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carnal Knowledge: One of the most controversial movies of its time this thought-provoking (Leonard Maltin) comedy-drama from legendary director Mike Nichols is a funny yet poignant look at relationships as seen through the eyes of two friends over a 20-year period. Superbly crafted by playwright Jules Feiffer Carnal Knowledge is brimming with touching insights sexy banter and powerful performances by three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson Ann-Margaret Candice Bergen and pop music icon Arthur Garfunkel. Jonathan (Nicholson) and Sandy (Garfunkel) are college roommates who share an endless fascination - and obsession - with women. As time goes by their relentless pursuit for the joys of the flesh becomes more competitive. And more damaging. Soon Jonathan and Sandy's lives become a vicious circle of girls booze and unfulfillment and they realize only too late that in the war of the sexes they are their own worst enemy... The Graduate: In his first major film role Dustin Hoffman plays an ultra-na''ve college graduate who's seduced by a middle-aged woman played by the scintillating Anne Bancroft and then falls in love with her daughter. With the sharpest of scripts and a perfect soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel this film was deservedly nominated for 6 Oscars and won Nichols an Academy Award for Best Director. The Elephant Man: David Lynch creator of Twin Peaks and acclaimed director of 'Eraserhead' 'Blue Velvet' and 'Wild At Heart' directs this bizarre but true story of courage and human dignity. John Hurt gives the performance of a lifetime as John Merrick the worst freak known to Victorian medical science a man whose body is hideously distorted into a grotesque parody of an elephant. Rescued from a travelling freak show by Sir Frederick Treves Merrick gradually reveals himself to be a strangely sweet and gentle man remarkably unembittered by the degradation and torment he suffered at the circus. Beautifully shot by Freddie Francis and with an excellent supporting cast including Sir John Gielgud Anne Bancroft and Dame Wendy Hiller 'The Elephant Man' is a compelling moving and enchanting story. The film was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor.