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  • Soul Food [1998]Soul Food | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £13.82   |  Saving you £-0.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production and it has got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 million budget he succeeded where similar films (including Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell short: he depicts his many characters with such depth and sympathy that, by the time they have weathered several family crises, we've come to care and feel for them and the powerful ties that bind them together. As seen through the eyes of Tillman's young alter ego Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. Fox) and her two sisters (Vanessa L. Williams and Nia Long). Through them, and through the weekly Sunday dinners cooked with love by their mother, Big Mama (Irma P. Hall), we witness marital bliss and distress, infidelity, success, failure ... in short, the spices of life both bitter and sweet. But when Big Mama falls into a diabetic coma, Ahmad watches as his family begins to fall apart without the stability and love that Big Mama provided with every Sunday meal. Tillman's touch can be overly nostalgic, melodramatic and cloyingly sentimental, but never so much that the movie loses its firm grip on reality. As a universal portrait of family life, Soul Food ranks among the very best films of its kind--believable, funny, emotional and always approaching its characters (well-played by a uniformly excellent cast) with a generous spirit of forgiveness and understanding. As satisfying as one of Big Mama's delicious dinners, Soul Food is the kind of movie that keeps you coming back for more. --Jeff Shannon

  • John Hughes CollectionJohn Hughes Collection | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Featuring 3 of the best movies from the master of the 80s teen movie John Hughes. Fans of the 'Brat Pack' need look no further! The Breakfast Club (1985): They only met once but it changed their lives forever. Without doubt John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest teen movies of all-time if not the best. They were five teenage students with nothing in common faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their High School librar

  • Gridiron Gang  [2007]Gridiron Gang | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £4.74   |  Saving you £11.25 (237.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

    A detention camp probation officer tries to build a winning team from a ragtag group of dangerous teenage inmates.

  • Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1 [Blu-ray] [2008]Lark Rise to Candleford: Series 1 | Blu Ray | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

    This ten-part adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic novel tells the story of two Oxfordshire communities at the end of the 19th century. The birth of a new baby brings financial hardship to the Timmins household obliging eldest daughter Laura (Olivia Hallinan) to leave her home in the quiet hamlet of Lark Rise and embark on a new life in the busy neighbouring market town of Candleford. Her adventurous cousin postmistress Dorcas Lane (Julia Sawalha) takes Laura under her wing and they soon become firm friends experiencing together the romances rivalries and comedies of close-knit rural life.

  • Lady Bird (Blu-Ray Plus Digital Download)Lady Bird (Blu-Ray Plus Digital Download) | Blu Ray | (02/07/2018) from £9.59   |  Saving you £0.40 (4.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

    In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine Lady Bird McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

  • The Queen's Corgi [Blu-ray] [2019]The Queen's Corgi | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £4.88   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty's heart. His arrogance can be quite irritating. When he causes a diplomatic incident during an official dinner with the President of the United States, he falls into disgrace. Betrayed by one of his peers, Rex becomes a stray dog in the streets of London. How can he redeem himself? In love, he will find the resources to surpass himself in the face of great danger...

  • Weird Science [1985]Weird Science | DVD | (01/04/2006) from £4.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (138.43%)   |  RRP £9.99

    It's all in the name of science. Weird Science. The Frankenstein legend takes an uproarious twist in this outrageous special effects - laden comedy from the writer/director of Sixteen Candles and the Breakfast Club. Critically acclaimed filmmaker John Hughes is at it again giving nerdy computer whiz Ilan Mitchell - Smith and best friend Anthony Michael Hall power to create the ""perfect woman"" (the tantalizing Kelly Le Brock). Like a computer gene

  • 6 Degrees Of Separation [1993]6 Degrees Of Separation | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Paul a streetwise young black man talks his way into the home of Ouisa and Flan Kettredge claiming to be a friend of their children and the illegitimate son of Sidney Poitier. They soon learn that this is not the case but find getting rid of him a little difficult...

  • Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen [2004]Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £4.74   |  Saving you £11.25 (237.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

    When a teenager is forced to leave behind her beloved Big Apple in a family move, she has problems adjusting to life in surburban New Jersey.

  • The Best Of Spike MilliganThe Best Of Spike Milligan | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Some remember him from the Goons some through his army autobiographies or his poems but it is his work on television that has stamped Spike Milligan's surreal chaotic and devastatingly funny humour on the nations imagination. This compilation features classic moments such as The Lost Forever in the Bermuda Triangle Holiday the Eurovision Joke Contest Michael Parkinson at the Soldierama Massage Parlour Spike as the singing Viking Maiden and loads more assorted lunacy from the

  • Trespass Against Us [DVD] [2017]Trespass Against Us | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £5.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    Starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. Directed by Adam Smith. Three generations of the notorious Cutler family live as outlaws in the Cotswolds, the heart of Britain's richest countryside. The Cutlers live by their own rules, practising their own way of lifepoaching, pilfering and provoking the police. Chad (Michael Fassbender) finds himself torn between respect for his archaic father, Colby (Brendan Gleeson), and a desire to forge a better life for his children. When Colby coerces him into a major robbery one night, Chad is faced with a choice that will change his life forever. Should he follow tradition and do his father's bidding as his rightful son and heir, or should he break the chain and set out on a new path? With the law cracking down on the clan, Colby tightening his grip on the family, and prejudices among the local populace becoming ever more hostile, Chad discovers that his destiny may no longer lie in his own hands.

  • Men In Black [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray] [Region Free]Men In Black | 4K UHD | (27/11/2017) from £22.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    After chasing a fugitive with an advanced alien weapon, New York cop James Edwards (Will Smith) finds himself recruited to the MiB, a top secret agency in charge of alien immigration on Earth. He is partnered with K (Tommy Lee Jones), and sent to investigate an alien prediction of the end of the world. They have to track down a hostile alien life form currently wearing the human skin of a country hick named Edgar.

  • X-Men - Seasons 4 & 5 Boxset [DVD]X-Men - Seasons 4 & 5 Boxset | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

    Episodes Comprise: Season 4: 1. Nightcrawler 2. One Man's Worth Part I 3. One Man's Worth Part II 4. Proteus Part I 5. Proteus Part II 6. Family Ties 7. Bloodlines 8. Weapon X Lies and Video Tape 9. Lotus and the Steel 10. Love in Vain 11. Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas 12. Beyond Good and Evil Part 1 13. Beyond Good and Evil Part 2 14. Beyond Good and Evil Part 3 15. Beyond Good and Evil Part 4 Season 5: 1. Phalanx Covenant Part I 2. Phalanx Covenant Part II 3. Storm Front Part I 4. Storm Front Part II 5. The Fifth Horseman 6. Jubilee's Fairytale Theatre 7. Old Soldiers 8. Hidden Agendas 9. Descent 10. Graduation Day

  • Lawless Heart [2002]Lawless Heart | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (77.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

    "Lawless Heart" takes a journey through the comedy of love, with three friends facing life, death, sex and misadventure when, shocked by the death of a friend, they decide to take their lives in hand.

  • Weird Science 4K UHD [Blu-ray] [Region Free]Weird Science 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (10/02/2025) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    They Went From Zeroes To Heroes In One Fantastic Weekend. If you can't get a date make one! After proving himself the king of heartfelt teen flicks with Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, writer-director John Hughes infused the genre with a hefty dose of wacked-out sci-fi comedy in Weird Science, a film where every teenage boy's wildest fantasies come to life. Perennially picked-on high school nerds Gary (Anthony Michael Hall, Sixteen Candles) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are sick of their status at the bottom of the social food chain. Using Wyatt's computer, the two hatch a plan to create their dream woman - and following a massive power surge, that woman unexpectedly appears in the form of Lisa (Kelly LeBrock). Gorgeous, intelligent, and blessed with limitless magic powers, Lisa makes the boys' dreams come true but what about Wyatt's gun-toting psycho older brother Chet (Bill Paxton), and the two bullies (Robert Downey Jr and Vamp's Robert Rusler) determined to put them back in their place? Inspired by Ec Comics and boosted by a killer soundtrack (including the classic title theme by Oingo Boingo), Weird Science has never looked better than in this 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray edition, including an extended version of the film and hours of bonus content. ¢ Restoration by Arrow Films from a 4K scan of the original negative ¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDr10 compatible) of the original Theatrical Version of the film (94 mins), plus seamlessly-branched Extended Version (97 mins), featuring two additional scenes ¢ Original lossless stereo audio, plus 5.1 Dts-HD Ma surround option (theatrical version only) ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Edited-for-TV version of the film (sd only, 94 mins), plus comparison featurette highlighting the alternate dubs and edits ¢ Casting ˜Weird Science', an interview with casting director Jackie Burch ¢ Dino The Greek, an interview with supporting actor John Kapelos ¢ Chet Happens, an interview with special makeup creator Craig Reardon ¢ Fantasy and Microchips, an interview with editor Chris Lebenzon ¢ Ira Newborn Makes The Score, an interview with the composer ¢ It's Alive! Resurrecting Weird Science, an archive documentary featuring interviews with cast, crew and admirers, including star Anthony Michael Hall ¢ Theatrical trailers, Tv spots and radio spots ¢ Image galleries ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tracie Ching

  • Once Upon A Forest [1993]Once Upon A Forest | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    A magical animated world based on the story by Rae Lambert which follows the antics of Abigail the Woodmouse Edgar the Mole and Russell the Hedgehog.

  • Eve's Bayou (1997) (Criterion Collection) UK Only [Blu-ray]Eve's Bayou (1997) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £32.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old . . . So begins this spellbinding feature debut by KASI LEMMONS (Harriet), an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl (Friday Night Lights' JURNEE SMOLLETT) sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father (Pulp Fiction's SAMUEL L. JACKSON)setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted in Creole history, folklore, and mysticism, Eve's Bayou is a scintillating showcase for a powerhouse ensemble of Black actressesincluding LYNN WHITFIELD (Madea's Family Reunion), DEBBI MORGAN (Roots), and the legendary DIAHANN CARROLL (Claudine) as a voodoo priestess as well as a profoundly cathartic exploration of trauma, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of truth. Product Features New 4K digital restoration of the director's cut, supervised by director Kasi Lemmons and cinematographer Amy Vincent, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Original 108-minute theatrical-release version Audio commentary on the director's cut featuring Lemmons, Vincent, producer Caldecot Chubb, and editor Terilyn A. Shropshire Dr. Hugo (1996), a short film Lemmons made as a proof of concept for Eve's Bayou, in a new 4K digital transfer New interview with Lemmons Cast reunion footage Interview with composer Terence Blanchard New program showcasing black-and-white Polaroids that Vincent took during production Cast and crew photographs by William Eggleston Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film scholar Kara Keeling

  • X-Men  - Season One Part One (Marvel Originals Series - 90s) [1992]X-Men - Season One Part One (Marvel Originals Series - 90s) | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £18.75   |  Saving you £-5.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Born into a world that hates and fears them the X-Men are mutants genetically gifted human beings with superpowers - The next link in human evolution and the world's newest and most persecuted minority. The X-Men are an elite team comprised of Cyclops Jean Grey Beast Rogue Gambit Jubilee Storm and Wolverine - Sworn to fight for mutant rights against hostile Government agencies whilst at the same time protecting mankind from mutant supremacist Magneto who seeks to destroy the human race in return for the atrocities committed against mutant kind. Released for the first time in chronological order this release is the starting point to building the first ever complete X-Men series on DVD. This DVD contains the first seven episodes from Season One of the unstoppable X-Men making it an essential purchase for any cartoon or comic book fan. Episodes Comprise: 1. Night of the Sentinels (Part 1) 2. Night of the Sentinels (Part 2) 3. Enter Magneto 4. Deadly Reunions 5. Captive Hearts 6. Cold Vengeance 7. Slave Island

  • Truth or Dare (Blu-ray + digital download) [2018] [Region Free]Truth or Dare (Blu-ray + digital download) | Blu Ray | (20/08/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) and Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) lead the cast of Truth or Dare, a supernatural thriller from Blumhouse Productions (Happy Death Day, Get Out, Split). A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someoneor somethingbegins to punish those who tell a lieor refuse the dare. Bonus Features Feature Commentary with Jeff Wadlow and Lucy Hale Game On: The Making of Truth or Dare Directing the Deaths

  • Ally McBeal - Season 3Ally McBeal - Season 3 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    What's a girl to do when she's about to turn 30? If you're Ally you'll have a sexual encounter with a stranger kiss Ling get sued defend Santa date a homeless guy and then decide that John Cage is ""the one"". Meanwhile John loses touch with his inner Barry White. Billy goes blonde and dumps Georgia. Ling gets arrested for pimping Richard and Ling breakup Nelle and John kiss and make up while Elaine tries to adopt a baby. Features the entire collection of Season 3 episodes.

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