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• The Blue Lagoon | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1980, Randal Kleiser's remake of The Blue Lagoon had its critics well and truly divided. On the one hand adolescent nudity, however tasteful, was enough to give the censors the vapours. On the other, the story--essentially a reworking of Robinson Crusoe based on Stacpoole's Edwardian adventure novel with two young children as the castaways growing up on a desert island--seemed just too removed from reality. Kleiser set out to make "the ultimate South Seas film", and indeed the location shooting is a richly beautiful complement to the intimate tale of two young people coming to terms with their own adulthood. He teases out touching performances from Brooke Shields (Emmeline) and Christopher Atkins (Richard) as the marooned pair, and a nicely ambivalent cameo from Leo McKern as Paddy, the ship's cook who gets them set up on the island before rum gets the better of him. A stilted script helps none of them. But the moments of awkward self-discovery and dawning sexuality are handled with a tenderness which ultimately triumphs over some of the more implausible elements: Shields' perpetually manicured nails, for example, or the fact that she unexpectedly gives birth without breaking sweat. To say nothing of the pair's extraordinary home-building skills, which would have been beyond the remit of the average Edwardian governess to teach. Today, for all its efforts to be taken seriously as a tale of preserved innocence and discovery, it succeeds best as a good old-fashioned adventure. On the DVD: This widescreen presentation positively bulges with extras. A choice of director's commentaries means that you can hear Randal Kaiser (who had previously directed Grease) reminiscing in fine detail with writer Douglas Day Stewart, and both Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. Some might think this overkill for a non-landmark film, but the discussions are genuinely interesting. The film was clearly a formative experience in Shields' adolescent career --she has also provided an album of personal snapshots as another extra--and it is fascinating to hear her talk about it from her current position as a star of sophisticated television sitcom. The crystal-clear digital remastering and anamorphic stereo picture and sound quality of the main film don't extend to this scratchy, sometimes inaudible documentary. --Piers Ford

• King Frat | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Move over Animal House and American Pie because no film rocks like King Frat. You won't believe the riotous x-rated antics of fat funny and flatulent John DiSanti and the rest of the Pi Kappa Delta crew in the outrageous comedy.

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Now digitally restored and remastered with state of the art technology The Nightmare Before Christmas is deeper darker and more brilliant than ever - just as Tim Burton originally envisioned it. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare and scream routine Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere!

• Sgt. Bilko | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. But at Fort Baxter, there s one unit that can t even form a straight line... Steve Martin stars with Dan Aykroyd and Phil Hartman in an outrageous comedy from Imagine Entertainment. Martin is the inexplicable, the incorrigible, the invincible Sgt. Bilko, leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces. Instead of training his troops for battle, he passes on his legacy of gambling and shunning responsibility. Times get tough however, when the base is threatened with a shutdown, and a by-the-book adversary, Major Thorn (Hartman), is intent on taking Bilko s reputation down with it. Now, all bets are on Bilko to drum up his biggest scheme yet to save Fort Baxter...and clear his name!

• A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951 | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £10.18   |  Saving you £5.81 (57.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Joshua Tree 1951 follows James Dean (the handsome James Preston) on his first steps to becoming the international icon of youth and rebellion. The film is a series of revealing and sometimes dreamlike vignettes that blend autobiographical and fictionalised elements to present a pivotal moment in a remarkable life. We follow Jimmy Dean during two periods of his life prior to becoming the international star that we all know today. In 1949, he joins UCLA as an acting major, a decision which ultimately estranged him from his father. Whilst there he wrestles with the mental and sexual constraints and boundaries of society and while demonstrating great acting skills he rebels against the system he finds himself within. Whilst in California he also starts to experiment with his sexuality, and finds solace in the beds of both men and women. The film's 'present tense' is in 1951, as Dean drives to the desert of Joshua Tree, California. Along for the ride is The Roommate (Dan Glenn), a struggling actor who lived and loved with Dean whilst at college. The friendship and intimacy he provides gives Dean a sense of security before embarking on his own path. Matthew Mishory presents his first feature; a brutal and honest exploration of Dean's complicated sexuality and formative relationships; Joshua Tree, 1951 redefines the boy behind the image for a new generation. Special Features: Short Film - Delphinium: A childhood portrait of Derek Jarman

• Wing And A Prayer | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £5.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (145.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of eager young Navy pilots become frustrated when their superiors enact a non-combat strategy against the Japanese. To make matters worse the pilots must answer to a rigid unyielding commander (Ameche). Against all odds the men fly into action in the decisive Battle of Midway. Nominated for a 1944 Best Original Screenplay Oscar'' this stunning war drama uses actual combat footage to tell its engrossing story.

• Steve Martin Collection - Bowfinger/Sgt. Bilko/Housesitter/Parenthood/The Lonely Guy/Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid/The Jerk | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Bowfinger:How does Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) Hollywood's least successful director get Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) Hollywood's biggest star in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme and the help of the eager nerd Jiff an ambitious and sexy wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski) Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit Ramsey into the performance of a lifetime. Enjoy the fun with Eddie Murphy

• King Frat | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Move over 'Animal House' and 'American Pie' because no film rocks like 'King Frat'! You won't believe the riotous x-rated antics of fat funny and flatulent John DiSanti and the rest of the Pi Kappa Delta crew in the outrageous comedy!

• Speed -- Two-Disc Special Edition | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The movie that transformed Keanu Reeves into a bona fide action hero, Speed was also former cinematographer Jan De Bont’s assured directorial debut. It’s an almost perfect high-concept movie that lives up to its title both in the adroit choreography of the action set-pieces and Graham Yost’s taut screenplay, which is admirably stripped of all padding. De Bont further heightens the excitement by his use of authentic locations as the out-of-control bus travels through, across and--in one unforgettable scene--a few feet in the air above the urban sprawl of LA. And instead of relegating the love interest to a dull subplot, here Sandra Bullock is an integral part of the action as she and her bus career around the city at 50-plus miles an hour. Even the opening credits neatly illustrate the film’s title, as does composer Mark Mancina’s pulsing score. Sensibly, Reeves passed on the ill-advised sequel and took on The Matrix instead; both screenwriter and director have yet to do anything better than this. On the DVD: Speed is the kind of movie that was made for the DVD format, and this two-disc special edition does it full justice. The feature is presented anamorphically in its original 2.35:1 ratio with spectacularly vivid Dolby 5.1 or DTS 5.1 options. Jan De Bont provides a commentary, though his solo effort is less engaging than that of chatty producer Mark Gordon and writer Graham Yost who enjoy constantly interrupting each other. Disc 2 has lots of goodies, including mini-documentaries on the key action set-pieces with storyboards and multi-angle views of the major stunts. "Inside Speed" looks at various aspects of the production, from locations to stunts; production design and visual effects, plus reproducing all of Graham Yost’s original screenplay. There are individual interviews with the director and principal stars, a short selection of extended scenes and a brief deleted one; a photo gallery, plus a promotional menu in which there is a HBO "making of" featurette, TV spots, trailers, a press kit and Billy Idol’s music video. In all, a satisfyingly extensive package.--Mark Walker

• Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £35.90   |  Saving you £34.09 (94.96%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Episodes comprise: 1. Amok Time 2. Who Mourns For Adonais? 3. The Changeling 4. Mirror Mirror 5. The Apple 6. The Doomsday Machine 7. Catspaw 8. I Mudd 9. Metamorphosis 10. Journey To Babel 11. Friday's Child 12. The Deadly Years 13. Obsession 14. Wolf In The Fold 15. The Trouble With Tribbles 16. The Gamesters Of Triskelion 17. A Piece Of The Action 18. The Immunity Syndrome 19. A Private Little War 20. Return To Tomorrow 21. Patterns Of Force 22. By Any Other Name 23. The O

• Sergeant Bilko / Housesitter / Roxanne | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sgt. Bilko: Sgt. Bilko is back and up to his old tricks. The arrival of Major Thorn threatens to put a stop to the casino under-the-table deals and Bilko's other illicit businesses... Housesitter: When architect Newton Davis' girlfriend Becky (Dana Delany) turns down his marriage proposal his newly-built dream house suddenly becomes nothing more than an empty monument to her rejection. That is until a chance encounter with Gwen (Hawn) turns his life upside-down. Intrigued by Newton's story Gwen visits the house and decides to move in on her own. Resourceful and creative Gwen is soon fixing up the house and charming Newton's family and neighbors - all the while passing herself off as his new wife! Gwen even befriends Becky who begins to see a Newton she never knew existed. Horrified at the deception yet unable to stop it Newton finds himself playing along with her preposterous stories her attempts at reconciling differences within his family and her campaign for his promotion at work. Finally he convinces Gwen to fabricate their 'divorce' so he can still get married to Becky - until he has a change of heart... Roxanne: Small town fire chief CD Bales (Steve Martin) falls madly in love with the new girl in town a gorgeous astronomer (Daryl Hannah). But there's an enormous problem - CD has an amazingly big nose and is convinced that such a beauty could never love a man with such a gargantuan appendage. Roxanne proves him right when she falls for Chris a hunky and good looking fireman. The mayhem continues when CD agrees to ghost-write Chris's love letters in which he pours out his own secret feelings. In this charming modersnisation of the Cyrano de Bergerac story will CD's nose (and Chris's body) come between him and true love?

• Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) - 4K Mondo Edition - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (24/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pool Girl | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £19.24   |  Saving you £-14.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Pool Girl' is the quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner (Alyssa Milano) who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's disease....

• The Nightmare Before Christmas - 2 Disc Super Premium Edition | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £179.53   |  Saving you £-61.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £117.99

  Now digitally restored and remastered with state of the art technology The Nightmare Before Christmas is deeper darker and more brilliant than ever - just as Tim Burton originally envisioned it. Can Christmas be saved? Bored with the same old scare and scream routine Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town longs to spread the joy of Christmas. But his merry mission puts Santa in jeopardy and creates a nightmare for good little boys and girls everywhere!

• Stephen King's Sleepwalkers | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-16.99 (-283.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stephen King's Sleepwalkers is about a half-human, half-cat race of shape shifters called, for no apparent reason, sleepwalkers. Hunky Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his incestuous mother (Alice Krige) are sleepwalkers, and they've come to the small town of Travis, Indiana, where they've somehow acquired a nice house and false identities. They need virgin souls to survive and have fixated on local beauty Tanya (Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks). That's about it for the story--from then on it's a series of chase scenes full of badly done gore. King must have been sleepwalking himself when he wrote this screenplay: the dialogue is terrible, the characters are cardboard, and the plotting is clumsy. Combine that with mediocre acting, thoughtless direction, slapdash editing, and cheesy special effects, and you have Sleepwalkers. Amick comes off reasonably well and there are cameos by King, Clive Barker, and horror directors John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Joe Dante (Gremlins), and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). But really, if you're interested in were-cats, see the original Cat People, starring Simone Simon; it's both sexier and scarier. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Psycho Cop | DVD | (13/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Six college students spend a weekend at a country resort completely unaware that they are being stalked by a devil worship cult.

• Pool Girl | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet Hugo Dugay (Alyssa Milano) a lonely disenfranchised female pool cleaner. She has 44 pools to clean today her mother Minerva (Cathy Moriarty) is a chronic gambler and her father Henry (Malcolm McDowell) is a lost soul trying to kick a menu of addictions. These are the least of her problems as today's clients range from a film director who shot and killed a movie extra for over acting (Robert Downey JR) to a bully who flouts the law to have his pool filled by 6:30pm. Through all this she picks up a mysterious hitchhiker (Sean Penn) and a new customer suffering from ALS (Lou Gaehrig's Disease) which keeps him trapped in a wheelchair.Through Hugo's day begins with threats from a menacing customer confrontations with her dysfunctional parents and the promise of too much hard work this magical person who comes into her life makes all that wrong turn right.

• Sergeant Bilko | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Fletch / Sergeant Bilko / King Ralph | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  King Ralph: This heart warming comedy starring John Goodman as the unlikliest king ever.... A freak accident kills off the whole Royal Family and a new heir must be found. The last person anyone expects it to be is lounge singer Ralph Jones who goes from one disaster to another as he reluctantly becomes King Ralph.... Sgt. Bilko: Sgt. Bilko is back and up to his old tricks. The arrival of Major Thorn threatens to put a stop to the casino under-the-table deals and Bilko's other illicit businesses... Fletch: Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best in this suspense-packed comedy thriller based on Gregory McDonald's novel. Fletch is an investigative reporter who's constantly changing his identity. While working on a drug expose Fletch attracts the attention of a strange business man (Tim Matheson) who wants to be killed so his wife will inherit more insurance. The wily Fletch senses a scam and soon he's up to his byline in frame-ups murder police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year if he can stay alive to meet his deadline!

• Phoenix | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £6.55   |  Saving you £-0.56 (-9.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this town the heat can kill you. These days it seems like everybody's addicted to something and for Detective Harry Collins gambling is his drug. He'll bet on anything no matter the odds just for the rush. But this time he's in over his head. Caught between a brutal bookie a lethal loan shark and a murderous heist gone wrong Harry has a daring plan to settle his debts once and for all.