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• Shooting Fish | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shooting Fish is the kind of movie that evaporates once the end credits roll, but it's lightweight fun while it lasts. An amusing prologue sets the tone: two young orphan boys--one in America, one in England--demonstrate their precocious ability to subvert the strict rules of society. Eighteen years later, the clever Yankee schemer Dylan (Dan Futterman) and techno-geek Jez (Stuart Townsend) are fast friends in London, pulling off a series of royal scams to finance their dream of building a luxurious home for orphans--of course, it's a selfish cause since they're the orphans. Their newly hired secretary Georgie (played by the delightful Kate Beckinsale) goes along with their con games in the belief that their intentions are good, and when she discovers their selfish motivations... well, let's just say the boys (who are both smitten with the charming medical student Georgie) manage to rise to the occasion and do the right thing. Despite a few clever twists, this frothy plot meanders too much to be very involving, but the three young co-stars make it all worthwhile. (Futterman had already played Robin Williams's son in The Birdcage and Beckinsale made a strong impression in The Last Days of Disco.) It's one of those featherweight British comedies that's so good-natured you feel Scroogey if you resist it, and director and co-writer Stefan Schwartz has made the movie just smart enough to hold its own against a wall-to-wall soundtrack of kitschy pop songs. If you don't consider "cute" a derogatory term, this movie will offer an agreeable diversion. --Jeff Shannon

• Executive Stress: The Complete Series | DVD | (13/08/2018) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sitcom legend Penelope Keith reunites with The Good Life producer John Howard Davies in this cleverly written and immensely popular comedy from writer/actor George Layton. Co-starring Butterflies' Geoffrey Palmer and Keith's To the Manor Born co-star Peter Bowles, this set contains all three series. Caroline Fairchild has resumed her former career in publishing much against the wishes of husband Donald, who also works in the same industry. When her publisher's parent company also takes over Donald's employer, they learn that their megalomaniacal director takes a harsh line on married couples working together. Sneakily they devise an unorthodox solution and become an undercover couple! The ploy seems to work, but there is one unpalatable aspect for Donald: he now finds himself taking orders from his wife...

• Top Secret | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In between the disaster movie satire Airplane! in 1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked Gun in 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker put together a picture that's almost as funny as their better-known hits. Top Secret! sends up spy movies and cheesy teen rock 'n' roll musicals. Val Kilmer stars as swivel-hipped American rocker Nick Rivers, a sort of blonde Elvis whose secret weapon is Little Richard's tune "Tutti Fruitti." On tour behind the Iron Curtain, Nick strikes blows for democracy overtly and covertly, with his music as well as his espionage skills. In short, this is a very, very silly motion picture. Some great gags, including a subtitled scene in a Swedish book shop, and an inspired bit with a Ford Pinto that not everybody may get anymore. (The Pinto, you may or may not recall, was notoriously prone to gas tank explosions when rear-ended.) --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• Executive Stress - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £7.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (73.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  With the children grown up Caroline Fairchild has resumed her former career assuming the role of Editorial Director for her old company Oasis Publishing – against the wishes of husband Donald who also works in the industry.

• Executive Stress - Series 1 | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £6.18   |  Saving you £6.81 (110.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Executive Stress: Series 1

• Back In The USSR | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An American tourist is trapped in Moscow accused of murder and the theft of a priceless icon. When the US Embassy and the Russian police refuse to help he is forced to seek assistance from members of the Moscow underworld...

• Archangel | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Maverick academic and Soviet historian Fluke Kelso is expecting to leave Russia for good. That is until a surprise visit from Papu Rapava a former NKVD officer reveals some information that could lead him to uncover one of Russia's most closely guarded and unimaginable national secrets. Starring Daniel Craig (Layer Cake Road To Perdition Enduring Love) in the lead role of Fluke Kelso this is a BBC adaptation of the best selling novel by Robert Harris

• It's All About Love | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes star as two lovers attempting to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse.