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• Boogie Nights | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

• Broken City | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (350.88%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When disgraced cop turned private detective Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is hired by NYC's mayor (Russell Crowe) to tail his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), he uncovers a city-wide conspiracy of corruption, sex, and murder.

• Lark Rise To Candleford - Series 1-2 | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Lark Rise To Candleford: Seasons 1 & 2 Box Set

• Body Farm | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £34.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tara Fitzgerald plays Eve Lockhart from 'Waking The Dead' in this original six-part series made by BBC Drama Production. Eve Lockhart leads us into her other world on The Body Farm a private forensics facility that is pushing back the boundaries of scientific research and solving crimes - it's unchartered territory. Here no horror is taken for granted and murder is seen to be what it is - visceral and shocking. Eve is an exceptional forensic pathologist who leads a brilliant and ambitious team of scientists at a private facility where human remains are donated for scientific experiment. They are called upon by police forces all over the world to provide expert knowledge to help solve crimes.

• Batman: The Killing Joke | Blu Ray | (30/09/2024) from £38.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Alan Moore's 1988 graphic novel of the same name, Batman: The Killing Joke traces the rise of the Joker from his early days as a struggling stand-up comic to his eventual evolution into the Clown Prince of Crime after a fateful encounter with Batman that changes both of their lives. Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, who terrorizes Commissioner Gordon and Barbara Gordon to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

• Adam And Paul | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £7.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (32.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adam & Paul

• Brass Eye | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £11.93   |  Saving you £8.06 (67.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chris Morris' Brass Eye is a brilliantly funny spoof on current affairs media that carries on where his previous The Day Today left off. The show ran for one single, contentious series in 1997, to be followed by an even more controversial one-off in 2001. While these episodes might cause offence to those not versed in Morris' satirical methods, and while one occasionally suspects his work is informed by a dark seam of malice and loathing rather than a desire to educate, Brass Eye remains vital satire, magnificently hilarious and, in its own way, fiercely moral viewing. Brass Eye satirises a media far too interested in generating dramatic heat and urgency for its own sake than in shedding light on serious issues. Morris mimics perfectly the house style of programmes such as Newsnight and Crimewatch, with their spurious props and love of gimmickry. Meanwhile his presenter--an uncanny composite of Jeremy Paxman, Michael Buerk and Richard Madeley among others--delivers absurd items about man-fighting weasels in the East End and Lear-esque lines such as "the twisted brain wrong of a one-off man mental" with preposterously solemn authority. Much as the media itself is wont to do, each programme works itself up into a ridiculous fever of moral panic. Most telling is the "drugs" episode, in which, as ever, real-life celebrities, including Jimmy Greaves and Sir Bernard Ingham, are persuaded to lend their name to a campaign against a new drug from Eastern Europe entitled Cake. The satirist's aim here isn't to trivialise concern about drugs but to point up the media's lack of attention to content. A response to the ill-conceived News of the World witch-hunt, in the wake of the Sarah Payne affair, the 2001 "paedophilia" special was the most supremely controversial of the series. It followed the usual formula--duping celebs such as Phil Collins into endorsing a campaign entitled "Nonce Sense", urging parents to send their children to football stadiums for the night for their own safety and mooting the possibility of "roboplegic" paedophiles--and prompted the sort of hysterical and predictable Pavlovian response from the media that Brass Eye lampoons so tellingly. On the DVD: Brass Eye on DVD includes brief outtakes, such as "David Jatt" interviewing celebrities about breeding hippos for domestic purposes, an hilarious exchange with Jeffrey Archer's PA ("He's a very wicked little man") as well as trailers for the paedophilia special.--David Stubbs

• Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi | Blu Ray | (24/08/2020) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks new mysteries of the Force. Special Features: Score-Only Version of the Movie Audio Commentary By Writer/Director Rian Johnson Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Bonus Disc The Director and the Jedi Balance of the Force Andy Serkis Live! (One Night Only) Meet The Porgs Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle Snoke and Mirrors Showdown on Crait Introduction From Rian Johnson Alternate Opening Paige's Gun Jams Luke Has A Moment Poe: Not Much of a Sewer It's Kind of Weird That You Recorded That The Caretaker Sizes Up Rey Extended Fathier Chase Mega Destroyer Incursion - Extended Version Rose Bites the Hand That Taunts Her Phasma Squealed Like a Whoop Hog Rose & Finn Go to Where They Belong Rey & Chewie in the Falcon The Costumes and Creatures of Canto Bright Caretaker Village Sequence Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Writer/Director Rian Johnson

• The Lawnmower Man - The 10th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In this sci-fi thriller The lawnmower Man Pierce Brosnan plays Dr Lawrence Angelo a brilliant scientist obsessed with perfecting a revolutionary Virtual reality computer software. When his experiments on animals fail he finds the ideal substitute : Jobe Smith a slow witted gardener - The Lawnmower Man. Dr Angelo's goal is to benefit his human guinea pig and ultimately mankind itself. But evil lurks in the guise of The Shop a shadowy group that seeks to use the technology to create an invincible war machine. When the experiments change the simple Lawnmower Man into a superhuman being the stage is set for a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde struggle for the control of Jobe's mind and the future of the world.

• The Age Of Adaline | Blu Ray | (11/01/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having miraculously remained 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman) reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents (Harrison Ford and Kathy Baker) threatens to expose the truth, Adaline makes a decision that will change her life forever.

• UFO Conspiracies: The Hidden Truth | DVD | (05/10/2020) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  American documentary directed by Steve Lawson. Magazine editor Gary Heseltine looks at historical cases from the 1950s and '60s of suspected UFO sightings and offers a critique of the United States Air Force's responses to such sightings.

• Friday Night Dinner: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £24.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (2.92%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Series 1Twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny return to the family home each week for a Jewish Friday night dinner of soup chicken and crumble - plus massive side-orders of wind-ups and bickering. With a Master chef-obsessed Mum; Dad eating from the rubbish bin; Grandma wearing her new bikini around the house and Jim the neighbour who's terrified of his own dog it's a feat of endurance. And that's before the concerns about Jonny's 'made-up' girlfriend and Dad's non-stop requests for Adam to find a 'female' on the Internet. Of course every family has its foibles its rituals and its eccentricities. It's just that the Goodman's have made something of an art form of theirs... Series 2Each week twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny go back to Mum and Dad's house for Friday night dinner and each week Mum and Dad get ready for an evening of domestic squabbling food-related pranking and lashings of 'crimble crumble'. In this series Adam goes out with a girl who smells like Mum Jonny gets a girlfriend who's twice his age Dad dries fish in the downstairs cupboard Mum is forced out the house by a mouse neighbour Jim makes a birthday cake for his dog Grandma gets a new boyfriend who tries to fight Dad and we meet Dad's mother - 'Horrible Grandma'.

• Babylon Ad - 1 Disc Edition | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £3.79   |  Saving you £16.20 (427.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.

• Black Beauty | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £5.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This faithful adaptation of Anna Sewell's children's classic tells the adventures of a young boy and a spirited horse. Beginning life on a country estate the young cold Beauty is given away to cruel squire Sam Greene when he takes possession of the farm on which he lived. The horse then starts on an adventurous journey where he experiences the best and worst in human nature before finally being reunited with the boy who was his first friend. This is a classic and beautiful adaptation which the whole family will enjoy.

• Rock Star | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £15.89   |  Saving you £-1.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mark Wahlberg stars in the tale of the lead singer in a heavy metal tribute band who is recruited by his idols to replace their departed frontman!

• Patriots Day | 4K UHD | (26/06/2017) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor), PATRIOTS DAY is an account of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the everyday heroes who inspired the world in the extraordinary hours that followed. In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant TOMMY SAUNDERS (Mark Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the bombers before they strike again. Weaving together the stories of Special Agent RICHARD DESLAURIERS (Kevin Bacon), Police Commissioner ED DAVIS (John Goodman), Sergeant JEFFREY PUGLIESE (J.K. Simmons) and nurse CAROL SAUNDERS (Michelle Monaghan) this visceral and unflinching chronicle captures the suspense of the most sophisticated manhunt in law enforcement history and the strength of the people of Boston.

• Zabriski Point | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As a postcard from a bygone era, Michelangelo Antonioni's sole American movie is amazing to look at. This was the Italian director's first film since his English-language breakthrough Blowup (1966), which had been a masterpiece that captivated general and art-house audiences alike. Expectations understandably ran high, and as a visual experience Zabriskie Point delivered. Here was this foreigner's eye, among the most distinctive in world cinema, looking at city and desert, streets and backroads, office towers, mini-marts, police cars, airfields, and nonstop signage--the textures of U.S. life transliterated into something alien and askew. Revisited decades later, that's the aspect of Zabriskie Point that comes fascinatingly to the fore.

• Rumour Has It | Blu Ray | (20/11/2006) from £8.95   |  Saving you £16.04 (179.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A woman learns that her family was the inspiration for "The Graduate" - and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.

• The Prince's Trust Rock Gala - Vol. 1 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £115.99   |  Saving you £-106.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  God Save The Queen ; Big Country - In The Big Country ; Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall ; Level 42 - Hot Water ; Elton John - Your Song ; Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight ; Tina Turner - Better Be Good To Me ; Eric Clapton And Tina Turner - Tearing Us Apart ; Midge Ure - Call Of The Wild ; Mark Knopfler and Sting - Money For Nothing ; Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away ; Joan Armatrading - Reach Out ; Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame ; Rod Stewart - Sailing ; Elton John - I'm Still Standing ; Paul Young And George Michael - Every Time You Go Away ; Paul McCartney And Ensemble - Long Tall Sally ; Paul McCartney And Ensemble - Get Back.

• Last Of The Dogmen | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £15.00   |  Saving you £-9.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought necessary to make sense of the story (it isn't), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barbara Hershey) search for the descendants of a Cheyenne tribe who disappeared in the 1870s. What the two find in a remote mountain stretch is an entire community of Cheyenne who have kept themselves cut off from the modern world. A Dances with Wolves parallel emerges as the white outsiders gradually fit in, but Last of the Dogmen stands up just fine without comparison to any other films. As in Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning movie, however, there are ways in which this film captures a similar sense of yearning, mystery and loss--not least being David Arnold's fine John Barry-esque score. --Tom Keogh