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• State and Main | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A big-budget movie crew descends upon the sleepy town of Waterford Vermont. Soon money will change hands careers will be jeopardised and love will bloom. Pity the poor film director (William H. Macy) who's arrive only to discover that the local mill - a crucial location for his movie The Old Mill - burned down in 1960. On top of this he is faced with a problematic cast and crew. The idealistic screenwriter (Philip Seymour Hoffman) would rather pursue a pure-hearted local girl (Rebecca Pidgeon) than do a last-minute rewrite; the bimbo starlet (Sarah Jessica Parker) is now baulking at her contractual nude scene; and a local teenager (Julia Stiles) is only too willing to exploit the indiscretions of the film's skirt-chasing star (Alec Baldwin). And of course the power-wielding producer (David Paymer) is panicking about everything. David Mamet's State and Main is a hilarious screwball comedy and movie satire.

• Goosebumps: The Complete Collection | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  All four seasons of the child-friendly horror based on the books by R.L. Stine. Each episode finds a normal kid faced with a scary, paranormal situation.

• The Flamingo Kid | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As The Flamingo Kid amply demonstrates, there's always room for one more rites of passage film if it's made with care and affection. Garry Marshall's 1984 study of a young Brooklyn poker player who thinks the grass is greener at a Long Island beach club, nails the bad guy, realises he got it wrong and returns to the bosom of his "humble" family certainly satisfies on both counts. It also has a strong cast: Matt Dillon as Jeffrey, whose niggling aspirations create the inevitable barrier between himself and his parents; Richard Crenna as his prospective role model who turns out to have feet of clay; and Hector Elizondo as his bemused father. But Jessica Walter (Clint Eastwood's stalker from hell in Play Misty for Me) almost steals the show as an acid-tongued beach-club wife. If the whole thing lacks the depth and warmth of, say, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, it succeeds on its own merits as an homage to a more innocent time when a young man didn't need to stray far from his own tenement block in order to find himself, with the help of a suitably nostalgic early-1960s soundtrack of course. On the DVD: As far as extras go, this is a budget offering. There are detailed actor biographies but precious little on the film itself, apart from the snippet that Richard Crenna earned a Golden Globe award nomination. There is an adequate scene index and, for those who want to study Dillon in detail, a reasonable stills gallery. The picture is presented in standard format, and hardly distinguishable from ordinary VHS or telecast quality, but the stereo audio certainly helps pump out the period soundtrack. --Piers Ford

• Stretch | Blu Ray | (01/06/2015) from £11.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Director of Smokin’ Aces brings you into the world of Kevin Stretch a Hollywood Limo driver with a dark past. When Stretch is in need of quick cash to pay back his debts to a notorious gangster he takes a job with a billionaire client in hopes of a big payday. His client’s eccentricities soon escalate into a wild night of adventure sex and danger which begins to make the fate of returning to the mob empty-handed seem reasonable. With an all-star cast featuring Patrick Wilson Ed Helms James Badge Dale Brooklyn Decker and Jessica Alba you won’t want to miss out on the ride of a lifetime.

• Extreme Measures | DVD | (12/06/2000) from £7.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (99.00%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Extreme Measures loses credibility near the climax when it sacrifices its hold on reality, but this entertaining, intelligent thriller effectively applies a formulaic plot to the complicated ethics of medical research. It also gives Hugh Grant an opportunity to break free from lightweight comedy by playing an emergency room surgeon who discovers that a renowned neurologist (Gene Hackman) has been conducting secret experiments on patients. When Grant fails to save a patient whose body later mysteriously disappears from the morgue, his investigation leads to an underground community of healthy homeless people, some of whom have been test subjects in Hackman's revolutionary, but criminal research toward a cure for paralysis. Co-produced by actor-model Elizabeth Hurley and capably directed by Michael Apted, this otherwise conventional thriller rises above its limitations by asking morally complex questions that give its far-fetched plot an extra kick of dramatic impact. --Jeff Shannon

• Supernatural: S1-12 (BD/S) | Blu Ray | (04/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every episode from the first to twelfth seasons of the American fantasy drama about two brothers who battle supernatural forces. Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) were raised to fight the paranormal by their father, John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), after their mother was killed by a malevolent demon. Bound together by blood and tragedy, the brothers spend their lives battling a host of spirits, demons and other dark forces.

• Redwood | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young couple head out to a secluded national park in search of some R&R. However, they get more than they bargained for when they venture off the trail and come face to face with The Redwood's legendary, blood thirsty, wildlife.

• Valentine's Day | Blu Ray | (12/07/2010) from £8.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (194.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A love story. More or less.Valentine's Day follows the intertwining storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine's Day.Directed by veteran film maker Garry Marshall, the film features a star studded ensemble cast.

• Sin City | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £16.29   |  Saving you £-0.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Available for the first time the complete 3rd series of this classic BBC comedy. Includes the episodes: Moving House Wendy House Scottish Dancing Men As Women Motorbike Australia House

• Planet 51 | Blu Ray | (29/03/2010) from £8.75   |  Saving you £16.24 (185.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion and their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship to try and return home.

• Urban Legends 2 - Final Cut | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £6.31   |  Saving you £-0.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut' the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine University someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. 'Urban Legends: Final Cut' is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking climax.

• One Night | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £10.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (87.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set over one blisteringly hot summer's night when nerves are frayed and tensions ride high, One Night is the story of four ordinary people whose fates are linked by a seemingly inconsequential event. In each episode the events of the night are re-told from a different character's point of view asking the question: how well do we really know each other?

• A Banquet: Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £28.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Widowed mother Holly is pushed to breaking point when her daughter Betsey claims she has experienced a profound enlightenment. She believes she has been chosen to serve a higher power and that a new dawn is coming. Refusing to eat, yet losing no weight, Betsey's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic and her family are torn between love and fear. Product Features Deformity of the Flesh: An Interview with Ruth Paxton Improvised Exorcism: An interview with Jessica Alexander Produced in a Pandemic: An interview with Leonora Darby Dark Edges: An interview with David Liddell Glasgow Film Festival Q&A with Ruth Paxton, Jessica Alexander & Sienna Guillory Family Disorder: The Making of a Banquet Limited Edition Contents Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Jen Davies Soft cover book with new essays by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Jennie Kermode & Anya Stanley 6 collectors' art cards

• Barely Lethal | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £5.85   |  Saving you £14.14 (241.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Megan Walsh (Hailee Steinfeld, Ender's Game) is a teenage special ops agent who yearns for a normal adolescence. After faking her own death she assumes the role of an exchange student and quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of a typical American high school can be even more difficult than international espionage. Jam-packed with action from the cafeteria to the battleground, and with hilarious performances from Samuel L. Jackson (Iron Man), Jessica Alba (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) and Sophie Turner (TV's Game of Thrones), Barely Lethal is the unmissalbe action comedy that shows just how hard surviving high school really is!

• Urban Legends 2 - Final Cut | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £9.16   |  Saving you £-3.17 (-52.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  While Urban Legends: Final Cut is not nearly as terrifying or inventive as its predecessor, the film does offer up a fairly suspenseful whodunit that fans of the teen-horror genre will likely appreciate. Amy Mayfield, the film's heroine (played by fresh-faced Jennifer Morrison), the daughter of an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a name for herself at Alpine University, "the greatest film school that ever existed". Along with several other students she is competing for the coveted Hitchcock award, which virtually guarantees the winner a successful career in Hollywood. When the film school's resident genius and likely winner of the award is found dead, suspicions arise. As other film students are killed off one by one, everyone becomes a suspect. Would someone kill to win the prestigious award? While striving to be Hitchcockian in theme (as evidenced by its multiple references to the director himself), the film never quite moves beyond cliché. Many scenes are a little too reminiscent of other popular teen-horror flicks such as Scream (the anonymous masked killer, though not nearly as frightening), The Blair Witch Project (Amy is chased through desolate woods by her stalker), and Friday the 13th (Amy hides from the killer in a lake setting eerily similar to the one where Jason lurked so many years ago). These elements seem just a little worn out. Morrison gives a serviceable performance, and Loretta Devine, from the original Urban Legend, adds humour as a Foxy Brown-worshiping security guard. The film manages to keep you guessing until its conclusion, and a sequence set in an abandoned amusement park is truly creepy. But ultimately Urban Legends: Final Cut lacks the originality to make a name for itself among the many films of its genre. --Mindy Ruehmann, Amazon.com

• The Dinner Party | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jealous and unstable Angela plans a dinner party for her student friends - what they don't know is that the night's deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder! Determined to end her life after the final course Angela's friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death. Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone - the question is: who is she going to take with her? Accepting an invite to dinner has never been more deadly as drugs murder and suicide will make you think twice before returning that RSVP!

• Big Fish | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tim Burton brings his inimitable imagination to a story about an adventurous story-telling father and his estranged son.

• Stealth | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three military pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control... before it initiates the next world war.

• Sex And The City 2 (Blu-ray + DVD Combi) | Blu Ray | (29/11/2010) from £8.57   |  Saving you £21.41 (383.69%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of the Big Apple in the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster. Returning in their starring roles, as the four great friends are Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.