"Actor: Carlos"

• The Negotiator | DVD | (14/06/1999) from £8.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (59.34%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Although it eventually runs out of smart ideas and resorts to a typically explosive finale, this above-average thriller rises above its formulaic limitations on the strength of powerful performances by Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey. Both play Chicago police negotiators with hotshot reputations, but when Jackson's character finds himself falsely accused of embezzling funds from a police pension fund, he's so thoroughly framed that he must take extreme measures to prove his innocence. He takes hostages in police headquarters to buy time and plan his strategy, demanding that Spacey be brought in to mediate with him as an army of cops threatens to attack, and a media circus ensues. Both negotiators know how to get into the other man's thoughts, and this intellectual showdown allows both Spacey and Jackson to ignite the screen with a burst of volatile intensity. Director F Gary Gray is disadvantaged by an otherwise predictable screenplay, but he has a knack for building suspense and is generous to a fine supporting cast, including Paul Giamatti as one of Jackson's high-strung hostages, and the late JT Walsh in what would sadly be his final big-screen role. The Negotiator should have trusted its compelling characters a little more, probing their psyches more intensely to give the suspense a deeper dramatic foundation, but it's good enough to give two great actors a chance to strut their stuff. --Jeff Shannon

• Asteroid | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £16.58   |  Saving you £-10.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A two-part US TV miniseries here edited into a 122-minute feature, Asteroid was originally rushed onto (television) screens in 1996, well before the one-two big screen punch of Deep Impact and Armageddon. Single mum-cum-astronomy boffin Dr Lily McKee (Annabella Sciorra) works out that a comet is about to divert a meteor shower towards Earth ("at its present rate, Helios would hit with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas and the heat of the Sun") and spends the first half of the film alerting the authorities to the danger, and the second half helping rugged rescue guy Jack Wallach (Michael Biehn) haul survivors out from under the rubble caused when a bunch of minor asteroids collide with the planet (well, America); all while as the usual shenanigans go on to cope with the big, preventable chunk. The script explains everything in children's science lecture terms ("Mom, are we going to die like the dinosaurs?" "I don't think so, honey, we're much smarter than the dinosaurs") and is written in pure comforting cliché-speak ("I'm sure she's serious, but is she for real?"). With its hymn to the quick-thinking authorities and intently cooperating heroes, this may be the most pro-Establishment disaster film ever made: only a few panicky civilians cause any trouble, and we need plot contrivances to get made-for-TV he-man Biehn into danger as he outruns a flood in Kansas City or searches for the heroine's missing kid (Zachary B Charles) in the burning wreckage of Dallas. A large supporting cast of no-name labcoats, uniforms and victims clutter up the screen between the effects. Of course, this can't compete with its big-screen counterparts, but it did get there first, coopting the CGI and modelwork techniques of Independence Day to the rock-from-space sub-genre (cf: Meteor) as cities are smashed, crowds submerged, the planet battered and multitudes saved to order. --Kim Newman

• The Flash: Season 4 | Blu Ray | (24/09/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Barry Allen lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry's life changed when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive The Flash. But Barry wasn't the only person who was given extraordinary abilities that night. The dark matter also created meta-humans, many of whom have wreaked havoc on the city. New threats also arrived from parallel earths and dimensional breaches, under the direction of evil speedsters Zoom and Savitar. With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West, his fiancée Iris West, and scientist friends at S.T.A.R Labs, Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon and Julian Albert, as well as Harrison Wells from an alternate Earth, Barry races to protect the people of Central City from these powerful threats.

• The Echo | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £5.85   |  Saving you £10.14 (173.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Yam Laranas directs this horror following an ex-con as he attempts to readjust to life on the outside. Bobby (Jesse Bradford) has just been released from prison having served the sentence he was given for murdering a man who tried to rape his girlfriend Alyssa (Amelia Warner). He returns to his mother's apartment in New York City, which has been vacant since her death. Bobby finds the apartment strange. He discovers drops of blood that appear to be fresh and hears continual arguments from the...

• The Undefeated | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the tumultuous aftermath of the Civil War Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) takes his heroic men West while Southerner James Langdon (Rock Hudson) takes his soldiers to Mexico. When their paths cross they forge an uneasy friendship that is quickly tested as they get caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces and find themselves fighting side by side.

• Speed / Speed 2 - Cruise Control | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £12.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (19.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Speed: Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will expl

• Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed In At The House Of Mouse | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £4.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (182.12%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Though promoted as a "full-length holiday movie", Mickey's Magical Christmas is more of a Christmas special spin-off from Disney's House of Mouse TV series. The premise is something like an animated Muppet Show: Mickey, Goofy and Donald run a nightclub for an audience of Disney characters, with plenty of songs, skits and cartoons. There's not much story to this holiday special--Mickey whips up an impromptu party for stranded guests and instils a "Humbug" quacking Donald with the holiday spirit--but it's full of sight gags and comic bits with dozens of Disney characters, from Ludwig von Duck to Pumba and Timmon. The special begins with the short Pluto's Christmas Tree and ends with the entire 1983 short film Mickey's Christmas Carol. However, the highlight is a comic retelling of The Nutcracker with Donald as a reluctant Mouse King (complete with phony Mickey Mouse ears) and John Cleese as the exasperated narrator. The special is utterly unmemorable as a whole, but nonetheless bright, light, cute and sure to keep the attentions of young tots. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Phantom of the Monastery (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (20/03/2023) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Made in the wake of La Llorona's success and directed with flair by Fernando de Fuentes (regarded as one of the masters of early Mexican cinema), The Phantom of the Monastery (El fantasma del convento) tells the macabre tale of a troupe of hikers who become lost in a forest and take refuge in a haunted monastery. There, they encounter shape-shifting shadows, ominous sealed doorways, and a cellar crowded with coffins... An expressionistic Gothic triumph which has tragically languished in obscurity outside of Mexico, The Phantom of the Monastery has now been lovingly restored and is presented on Blu-ray at long last in a world debut edition, along with a selection of illuminating extras. Product Features New 4K restoration from the original negative by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with the Film Foundation's World Cinema Project Original mono audio Audio commentary with genre-film experts, critics and authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2022) The Devil in the Detail (2022, 18 mins): Abraham Castillo Flores, head programmer of Mexico's Mórbido Film Fest, considers the impact of this early horror classic Optional English translation subtitles Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Sleeping With Other People | DVD | (22/02/2016) from £2.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (401.54%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jason Sudekis (We're The Millers, Horrible Bosses) and Alison Brie (Community, How To Be Single) star as Jake and Lainey, ex-lovers who reunite and strike up a friendship after a string of disastrous sexual encounters. Their single years of infidelity and self-sabotage have led them to swear that their new relationship with each other will remain strictly platonic. But can love bloom when you're sleeping with other people? Written and directed by Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), and co-starring Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is The New Black). Sleeping With Other People hits all the right spots, both hilarious and heartfelt, it's a romantic-comedy for the ages

• Jiminy Glick In La La Wood | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (73.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How a legend was born! Ruthless. Shameless. Clueless! Celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) tackles the big screen with his first feature film: a wildly irreverent laugh-till-it-hurts movie experience. Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere the small-time journalist with big aspirations and an even bigger appetite drags his wife and kids across the country to the star-studded Toronto Film Festival. But in between t

• La Llorona (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (20/03/2023) from £13.62   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An early horror classic drawn from Mexico's rich tradition of folklore, La Llorona recounts the chilling tale of the ˜wailing woman' who kills herself and her child before returning to haunt the living. Expressionistic, lyrical and atmospheric, Ramón Peón's film draws on the influence of Universal Pictures' contemporaneous horror cycle and incorporates elements of period melodrama and romance. This landmark production in the evolution of Mexican cinema has been newly restored from the only surviving film elements, and is presented here with a selection of essential extras. Product Features New 2K restoration from the only surviving film element by the Cinema Preservation Alliance Original mono audio Audio commentary with genre-film experts, critics and authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2022) ˜La Llorona': Ghosts of the Past (2021, 17 mins): documentary by Viviana García Besné, the producer's great granddaughter, relaying a personal history of the film Transcending Time (2022, 18 mins): Abraham Castillo Flores, head programmer of Mexico's Mórbido Film Fest, explores the myth and the film Lunas y estrellas (2022, 2 mins): short compilation of the source print's distinctive cue marks, which were removed during the restoration Optional English translation subtitles Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Just My Luck | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £6.95   |  Saving you £12.03 (303.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young professional woman's life turns to a living hell when she swaps her normally brilliant luck with a handsome man who has horribly bad luck.

• In America | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £4.17   |  Saving you £13.08 (449.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A coming-of-age story about an Irish couple and their two kids trying to find their way "In America."

• Fools Rush In | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £7.07   |  Saving you £-1.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Opposites attract in Fools Rush In, a conventional but refreshingly unpredictable romantic comedy. New York nightclub designer (Matthew Perry, from television's Friends) is in Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a new project when he meets a fiery Mexican beauty (Salma Hayek). It's lust at first sight, and their one-night stand takes an unexpected turn when she shows up three months later to announce that she's pregnant. They're determined to do right for each other, so they get married in a Vegas chapel with an Elvis impersonator as their witness. Then comes the hard part--trying to figure out if they're actually compatible. The plot complications are mostly familiar, but Perry and Hayek throw some bright sparks as their initial bliss turns to more realistic concerns for family and future. Along the way there's some sharp dialogue and a few good laughs to give this all-too-human comedy an enjoyable spin. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• How To Lose Friends And Alienate People / Ghost Town | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  How To Lose Friends And Alienate People: How To Lose Friends And Alienate People Stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity fame and glamour. His alternative magazine Post Modern Review pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen that will either make him or break him. Ghost Town: Deadpan hilarity and quirky charm come alive in Ghost Town starring Britain's favourite comedian Ricky Gervais (The Office) as social reject Bertram Pincus. Emmy award winner and seven times Bafta winner Gervais proves his Hollywood worth in this transatlantic feel good love story about a man a woman and a ghost. Pincus is a New York City dentist with horrendous people skills. When a routine surgery goes awry Pincus is pronounced dead but is miraculously revived seven minutes later. The ill-mannered Manhattanite suffers only one lasting after-effect; the ability to see and speak with the dead. Word soon gets out in the spirit community and Pincus is irritated to discover he's the go-to-guy for every phantom with unfinished business in the city. At the forefront of the ghostly mob is recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear - Little Miss Sunshine Baby Mama) who is determined to stop the remarriage of his widow Gwen (Ta Leoni - Spanglish Fun with Dick and Jane). The laughs unfold when the prickly and romantically inexperienced Pincus smitten with Gwen tries to woo her away from her betrothed - with hysterically awkward results. With sharp performances and beautifully dry Gervais execution Ghost Town won't fail to make viewers laugh out loud. With a host of special features including commentary from renowned director David Koepp and 'making Ghost Town' this is one DVD that should be in the collection of every Ricky Gervais fan.

• Space Chimps 1 & 2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Space Chimps: Space Chimps is a computer animated comedy adventure starring Jeff Daniels Stanley Tucci Cheryl Hines and Andy Samber. When an expensive NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole the agency recruits Ham III (Andy Samberg) grandson of the first chimpanzee in space to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates the fearless Lt. Luna (Cheryl Hines) and their uptight commander Titan (Patrick Warburton) risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog (Jeff Daniels). Space Chimps: Blast off for an out-of-this-world animated adventure the whole family will love! When Ham III the grandson of the Space Agency's legendary chimpanzee astronaut is recruited to help retrieve a lost space probe he has a close encounter of the hilarious kind as he teams up with the lovely Lieutenant Luna and their by-the-book commander Titan. But when the ship crash-lands on a strange planet can this mismatched chimp crew work together to save the mission without driving each other bananas?

• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £7.96   |  Saving you £15.02 (302.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deuce is tricked again into man-whoring in Amsterdam while other man-whores are being murdered in his midst.

• The Golden Dream | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Diego Quemada-Diez's astounding and gripping debut feature is a piercing and poetic road movie that follows the fortunes of four Guatemalan teenagers on a dangerous journey across the Mexican border into America.

• The Pride And The Passion | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £14.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Napoleonic forces are sweeping across Europe and Spain is on the brink of falling to the mighty invasion. Standing alone against the onslaught is one brave fighter and his ragtag band of guerillas. Seizing a gigantic cannon Spanish fighter Miguel (Sinatra) plans to attack Napoleon's army by battering the walls of French-occupied Avila. But because he's untrained in complex weaponry he must rely on the expertise of Captain Trumbell (Grant) a British naval officer. Allies on the

• The Woody Allen Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £34.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (42.87%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Annie Hall (1977): Starring Allen as New York comedian Alvy Singer and Diane Keaton (in a Best Actress Oscar-winning role) as Annie the film weaves flashbacks flash forwards monologues a parade of classic Allen one-liners and even animation into an alternately uproarious and wistful comedy about a witty and wacky on-again off-again romance. Manhattan (1979): 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates a seventeen-year-old girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) he doesn't love and a lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage... and whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress Mary (Diane Keaton) Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy bedding Mary and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake - and the gate to true love... is a revolving door. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) (1972): Woody Allen pushes the frontiers of comedy by consolidating his madcap sensibility and wickedly funny irreverence with his developing penchant for visually arresting humor. Giving complete indulgence to the zany eccentricity of his medium Allen revels himself as a filmmaker of wit sophistication and comic insight rising to the occasion with several hysterical vignettes that probe sexuality's stickiest issues! Aphrodisiacs prove effective for a court jester (Allen) who finds the key to the Queen's (Lynn Redgrave) heart but learns that the key to her chastity belt might be more useful... Sleeper (1973): When cryogenically preserved Miles Monroe (Allen) is awakened 200 years after a hospital mishap he discovers the future's not so bright: all women are frigid all men are impotent and the world is ruled by an evil dictator: a disembodied nose! Pursued by the secret police and recruited by anti-government rebels with a plan to kidnap the dictator's snout before it can be cloned Miles falls for the beautiful - but untalented - poet Luna (Diane Keaton). But when Miles is captured and reprogrammed by the government to believe he's Miss America it's up to Luna to save Miles lead the rebels and cut off the nose just to spite its face. Love And Death (1975): Woody Allen reinvents himself again with the epic historical satire Love and Death. A wonderfully funny and eclectic distillation of the Russian literary soul the film represents a bridge between Allen's early slapstick farces and his darker autobiographical comedies. One of his most visual philosophical and elaborately conceived films 'Love And Death' demonstrates again that Allen is an authentic comic genius. Bananas (1971): When bumbling product-tester Fielding Mellish (Allen) is jilted by his girlfriend Nancy (Louise Lasser) he heads to the tiny republic of San Marcos for a vacation only to become kidnapped by rebels!