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• Brassed Off | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Take The Full Monty, add a sharper emotional edge and replace the strutting strippers with a dignified British band. That's the essence of Brassed Off, a bittersweet gem released in 1996, a year before its more popular (and Oscar-nominated) counterpart. In the Yorkshire town of Grimley, there has always been a coal mine, just as for the last 111 years there has been a brass band and it seems that Danny (the wondrous Pete Postlethwaite) has been the director for every one of those years. Tory economic policies, however, are closing coal mines around the country in favour of nuclear power and Grimley appears to be next on the list. Danny is unfazed by the threat, claiming, "It's music that matters." But some of the men are about to quit the band until the appearance of Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald at her most radiant), who dazzles the all-male group (including old flame Andy, played by Ewan McGregor) first with her beauty, then with her flügelhorn playing. The new member gives the band a boost as they continue to perform and compete but closure remains very real, as director Mark Herman (Little Voice) accompanies the band's performances (played with gusto by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band) with scenes of angry labour-management confrontations and family strife. In this context, some of the characters claim that the music is an irresponsible form of escapism. It becomes clear, however, from a touching performance of "Danny Boy" to the stirring conclusion at Royal Albert Hall, that music is an expression of the human spirit, a bit of beauty and sanity in a harsh world. With defiance, the band can play "Land of Hope and Glory" even when the land offers them neither. --David Horiuchi

• Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (84.75%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is ample proof that not all sequels suck. Sometimes they're even better than the original. It is the future. Society has at last solved all its major problems, thanks to amiable lunkheads Bill and Ted and the inspiring music of their band, Wyld Stallyns. Only one man is dissatisfied with the way things have turned out, the evil De Nomolos (Joss Ackland). In an effort to change the future, De Nomolos sends evil Bill and Ted robots back in time to prevent the real Bill and Ted from winning a pivotal Battle of the Bands. What follows is a spirited journey through the afterlife as Bill and Ted try to rescue their girlfriends, save the future, and, oh, yeah, learn how to play the guitar. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey swings easily between childish and clever humour, and is good at both: a Bergman reference is quickly followed by an equally funny bit about Death's stinky feet. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter seem happy to be reprising their roles and even manage to add funny spins on Evil Robot Bill and Ted. William Sadler very nearly steals the movie as Death, playing both his wounded dignity and budding desire to be funky to a T. As if that weren't enough, George Carlin returns as Rufus and Pam Grier does a cameo just for the hell of it. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

• Paul, Apostle of Christ | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £8.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paul (Faulkner), who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ's most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke(Caviezel), his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Paul is under the watchful eye of Mauritius (Martinez), the prisons prefect, who seeks to understand how this broken old man can pose such a threat. But before Paul's death sentence can be enacted, Luke resolves to write another book, one that details the beginnings of The Way and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. Their faith challenged an empire. But their words changed the world.

• Goofy Movie - Double Pack | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Now you can enjoy all the outrageous fun and laughter of Disney's most loveable character as he stars in his very first full-length motion picture - A Goofy Movie. This rockin' and rollin' modern-day tale finds Goofy and his teenage son Max up to their floppy ears in misadventure as they blaze a cross-country trail to their favourite fishing spot. While goofy struggles to bridge the generation gap. Max faces a dilemma of adolescent proportions: keep a secret from his dad or risk losing the girl of his dreams.

• Pride | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £8.83   |  Saving you £7.16 (81.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on real lion behaviour - and starring real lions - Pride is an emotional high-impact drama. The storyline is the work of Simon Nye the comic genius behind Men Behaving Badly and the extraordinary film is captured by the BBC's Natural History Unit. Mischievious young lion cub Suki enjoys life in the Serengeti and it seems nothing can disturb the harmony of her peaceful pride. Then tragedy strikes testing her courage and exposing the laws and forces of nature in her struggle

• Confetti | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Confetti" follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year."

• Frank Sinatra | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-0.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.40

  Tony Rome: Tony Rome a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD. The Detective: A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland 'The Detective' was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-conn

• The Majestic | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set during the 1950s blacklist a young Hollywood screenwriter (Jim Carrey) loses his job and memory after a car accident, only to fall in love with a new woman in the heart of a small town.

• Brassed Off | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's 1992 and the miners of Grimley Colliery are facing uncertainty. Not only is their pit under threat but the Grimley Colliery Band is on the verge of breaking up - that is until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives. As the only female member of the band she somehow manages to rekindle their enthusiasm for the forthcoming National Championship as well as rekindling a childhood romance with Andy (Ewan McGregor).

• The Great Train Robbery | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country's history. A train has been hijacked and robbed 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid? A Robber's TaleThis is the story of how one group of criminals became the most wanted men in Britain. They got lucky. And that piece of luck would destroy their lives forever. A Copper's TaleDetective Tommy Butler and his elite team of brilliant idiosyncratic investigators in a race against time to identify the robbers and put them behind bars before they flee the country. But what's happened to the money itself?

• Black Gunn Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (14/10/2019) from £9.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The film stars cult legends Jim Brown (He Got Game, I m Gonna Git You Sucka), Brenda Sykes (Mandingo, Cleopatra Jones) Oscar® winner Martin Landau (Best Supporting Actor, Ed Wood), Luciana Paluzzi (Thunderball), Bernie Casey (Brian s Song) and Bruce Glover (Ghost World, Diamonds Are Forever) with a cameo by pro football star Vida Blue. When a group of revolutionaries rob a Mafia-run gambling operation, nightclub owner Gunn tries to protect his politically radical brother Scotty from the mobsters and the police come looking for him. After Scotty is violently murdered, Gunn hits the streets looking for revenge. Chasing down the killer in his white Rolls Royce, Gunn hooks up with his brother s revolutionary friends and the cops for an explosive showdown with the mob boss and his gang.

• A Goofy Movie | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Even as Disney has revelled in the success of its high-end animated features, it occasionally sneaks a lesser effort into cinemas, based on one of the many TV shows with which it dominates daytime TV. This one is based on perennial Disney favourite Goofy's adventures in domesticated bliss. Goofy is now a single dad; when son Max gets blamed for a prank gone wrong at school, Goofy blames himself and decides that, for his vacation, he's going to get away with Max alone. Of course, this is no treat for Max, who has just met the girl of his dreams and harbours no wish to spend the summer touring America with his square dad. The vacation is one disaster after another, though they aren't particularly funny disasters; the culmination involves Goofy's efforts to get Max backstage at a big rock concert. --Marshall Fine

• The Hallelujah Trail | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director John Sturges turns the west upside down in this rip-roaring Western comedy about the year Denver was nearly devastated by a drought (of whiskey) and had to have forty wagonloads imported through very harsh (and very thirsty) territory!

• The Muppet Show - Series 2 | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £10.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (181.98%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Kermit the Frog is the manager of a cabaret-style theatre house which invariably has more drama behind the stage than actually on it! He has to contend with wannabe-comedian bears the smothering advances of Miss Piggy crabby regular theatre patrons homicidal chefs livestock not to mention making the weekly guest star feel welcome.

• Taz and Friends | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £3.59   |  Saving you £4.40 (55.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  More affectionately known as Taz he's an absolutely unstoppable whirling twirling hurling landscape-eating perpetual motion machine. Impulsive full of mischief and always hungry.

• Sleepwalkers | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £7.19   |  Saving you £-1.20 (N/A%)   |  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

• Taz and Friends (DVD + Digital Copy) | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £6.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (17.67%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Tasmanian Devil more affectionately known as Taz, he's an absolutely unstoppable, whirling, twirling, hurtling, landscape-eating, perpetual motion machine. Impulsive, full of mischief and always hungry.

• Black Gunn | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £7.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The film stars cult legends Jim Brown (He Got Game, I m Gonna Git You Sucka), Brenda Sykes (Mandingo, Cleopatra Jones) Oscar® winner Martin Landau (Best Supporting Actor, Ed Wood), Luciana Paluzzi (Thunderball), Bernie Casey (Brian s Song) and Bruce Glover (Ghost World, Diamonds Are Forever) with a cameo by pro football star Vida Blue. When a group of revolutionaries rob a Mafia-run gambling operation, nightclub owner Gunn tries to protect his politically radical brother Scotty from the mobsters and the police come looking for him. After Scotty is violently murdered, Gunn hits the streets looking for revenge. Chasing down the killer in his white Rolls Royce, Gunn hooks up with his brother s revolutionary friends and the cops for an explosive showdown with the mob boss and his gang.

• Across The Universe | Blu Ray | (11/02/2008) from £19.80   |  Saving you £5.19 (26.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll.

• A Month In The Country | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on J L Carr's novel two young soldiers fresh from the trauma of World War I meet in a tranquil Yorkshire village and form an unusual bond. Birkin has come to spend a month restoring a church mural whilst Moon who is still suffering nightmares from the horrors of war has come to excavate a forgotten chapel. Set against the background of an idyllic summer passion and forbidden love are uncovered as Birkin falls for the rector's beautiful wife and Moon has to face his own inner desires. As the men become drawn into their work they find reassurance and escape from their experiences and can begin a personal journey to recovery.