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• Drop Dead Fred | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This not-quite-black comedy was probably a laugh riot on paper. The translation almost works, but the execution is flawed. Phoebe Cates is a recently separated young woman who suddenly begins to see her supposedly imagined childhood friend (the titular Drop Dead Fred) after moving back into her mother's home. Is he a manifestation of her secret desires to ditch the boorish spouse? Or was he real all along? Rik Mayall is a limber, carrot-topped comic with the lamentable assignment of trying to make us laugh with vulgar, sophomoric trickery. He is supposedly the repository of Cates's fastidious repression but is more annoying than cathartic. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Hart Of Dixie - Season 1-4 | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-45.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Rachel Bilson (The O.C.) leads a stellar ensemble cast in this fish-out-of-water comedic drama about small-town living, big-city attitudes and complicated love triangles. Currently in its second season, HART OF DIXIE follows the story of New York surgeon Dr. Zoe Hart (Bilson) who unexpectedly finds herself a general practitioner in tiny BlueBell, Alabama -- a place where she will learn to be a better doctor, a better person and maybe even fall in love.

• Tess of the D'urbervilles | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.12   |  Saving you £18.87 (308.33%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A passionate sensual and very modern version of Thomas Hardy's infamous novel combining young upcoming acting talent with recognisable and much-loved faces. When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune meeting the manipulative Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man Angel Clare seems to offer her love and salvation but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent... Whilst unstintingly gorgeous and romantic this new adaptation is an intense moving and provocative depiction of the tragically beautiful story.

• Still Crazy | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £12.12   |  Saving you £2.13 (19.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This gently satirical British comedy chronicles the quixotic reunion of a late, arguably not-so-great and unlamented 70s rock band, Strange Fruit, with a winning mix of humour and poignancy. The "Fruits", as the survivors call themselves without irony, had disbanded after the tragic loss of one member, the mysterious disappearance of another and the aftershocks of internal rivalries, but 20 years later they warily reassemble for a Dutch club tour, a warm-up for a proposed festival appearance. Between that seemingly hare-brained proposal and the fateful festival, director Brian Gibson, working from a sharp script by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, captures the absurdities of middle-aged rockers trying to recapture that lost cockiness.Breathing life into the band is a terrific cast, including Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall and Bill Nighy, each managing to juggle deft archetype with believable character traits: Spall's cheerfully crass, flatulent drummer and Nighy's preening, slow-witted lead singer exemplify the approach, grabbing chuckles yet making you actually care about them. Equally impressive is Billy Connolly as the wily roadie, Hughie, at once pragmatic and devoted to his charges. All are well-served by production details and script points that get the group's lost world of late 60s and early 70s rock exactly right, from costuming and stage moves to the long-forgotten bands they name-check--Blodwyn Pig, anybody?The band's music likewise benefits from inspired insiders, cowriters Mick Jones (Spooky Tooth, Foreigner) and Chris Difford (Squeeze), who hit a nifty combination of bombast (for the silly scenes) and earnestness. When Gibson and his cast risk the story's amiable glow on a darker, more dramatic final act, the music rises to the challenge and the whole project, like its fictional subject, achieves an unexpectedly touching victory. --Sam Sutherland

• Hart Of Dixie - Season 3 | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It's been nearly two years since fast-talking New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart (series star Rachel Bilson) moved to BlueBell, Alabama, and shook up life in this small town. Now Zoe navigates between bad boy Wade Kinsella (series star Wilson Bethel) and good-hearted George Tucker (series star Scott Porter), while Lemon Breeland (series star Jaime King) achieves her dream of being a business owner - even if that business is the local bar and grill, The Rammer Jammer. Zoe's best friend and landlord, Mayor Lavon Hayes (series star Cress Williams), has finally gotten over Lemon and found happiness with AnnaBeth Nass (series star Kaityn Black), complicated by the fact that Lemon and AnnaBeth are best friends. Zoe's love life is still a mess, and she's not sure what the future holds in store for her, but we know it will be juicy and full of fun. In the third season, after spending the summer in New York City, Zoe is ready to make her move more permanent, but first she must return to BlueBell for one last thing. Upon her return, Zoe discovers that no one in town is very happy to see her, except for Lavon. Desperate for Brick to give her a good reference, she agrees to help him track down George and get him to resurrect the Founders Day parade that has been cancelled. Needing to find George quickly, Zoe enlists Lemon's help, but accidentally discovers Lemon is hiding a dirty little secret. Meanwhile, Lemon devises a plan to help Wade save face in front of Zoe.

• Drop Dead Fred (DVD) | DVD | (29/08/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Her marriage on the rocks, Lizzie Cronin (Phoebe Cates) is forced to return to her domineering mother. In desperation, Lizzie calls upon Fred (Rik Mayall), the imaginary friend of her childhood, to help her through this difficult period. But Fred proves to be more hindrance than help - the effects of his actions are far from imaginary and Lizzie must take the blame.

• National Lampoon's Animal House | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Solar Crisis | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-15.98 (-803.00%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The crew of the Helios are on a high-risk mission to investigate a massive solar flare that is threatening the very existence of the Earth in this super-charged sci-fi adventure that's packed with dazzling special effects and deep space suspense. The ship is carrying a probe loaded with an anti-matter bomb that has to be shot into the heart of the Sun and if successful will trigger the mega-flare in a direction safely away from the Earth. It's a high risk undertaking to disturb a galactic body as powerful as the Sun a risk increased by saboteurs who are determined to thwart the mission by planting a traitor on the spacecraft.

• Van Wilder: Party Liaison | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.64   |  Saving you £9.35 (140.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) has managed to spend a decade loafing at college by deliberately failing his finals each year. When his dad wakes up and pulls his funding, Van turns to his party-organising skills and big-man-on-campus image to pay his way. Complications arise when an aspiring college-rag journo (Tara Reid--the girlfriend of the wimpy one in American Pie) shows an interest, and Van begins to question his bachelor-boy lifestyle. Though Van Wilder: Party Liaison contains the occasional clever line ("at least Ms Pacman swallows") and a nice self-referential appearance from Tim Matheson--the original college lothario from the archetypal (and still the best) frat-kids movie, Animal House--it's still fundamentally flawed. It's difficult, for one thing, to believe in the appalling central character's great popularity with his peers--the Fonze he ain't. It's also evident that Reynolds has watched one too many Jim Carrey performances, while Reid's role reduces her to being little more than insubstantial eye-candy. The film's makers have been so anxious to get in all the required references (pot-smoking, bodily functions and nudity) that they've forgotten to make it any good. Worse, along the way it takes cheap gratuitous pot shots at the disabled, the ugly, the old and the obese. Though it purports to be a "party-on" parable, then, its predictably corny denouement and the conventional values it ultimately espouses reek of Republican morality. There are probably worse ways to spend an hour-and-a-half, but it would be hard to call them to mind when watching this execrable, formulaic drivel--do yourself a favour and enjoy American Pie again instead. --Paul Eisinger

• May To December - Series 1 | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £35.90   |  Saving you £-10.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Anton Rodgers stars as middle aged solicitor Alec Callender - a partner in Semple Callender and Henty - who pines for Perry Mason style cases however seldom is faced with anything more taxing than a simple house conveyancing. Through his work Alec meets Zoe Angell played by Eve Matheson a 26 year old PE teacher befuddled by her impending divorce although neither is looking for romance there is an unmistakable spark and soon they embark on the rocky road of a 'spring and autumn'

• Magnum Force | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £11.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (16.68%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This first sequel to Dirty Harry was written by a couple of strong voices, writer-directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and John Milius (Farewell to the King). But that doesn't mean the film is particularly good. After Don Siegel's ferociously dark style in the first movie, Ted Post's blocky, television-ish direction in Magnum Force is a huge letdown. The story doesn't win any prizes, either. Eastwood's San Francisco detective Harry Callahan (apparently having retrieved his badge after throwing it away at the end of Dirty Harry) takes on a vigilante squad within the city's police force. David Soul is pretty convincing as the major spokesman for these right-wing avengers. Eastwood, on the other hand, had already turned Callahan from fascinating outsider in Siegel's film to purveyor of tough-guy shtick in this one. --Tom Keogh

• Waiting/Van Wilder Party Liaison/Just Friends | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Waiting: No one's gonna make it big here. Always remember the cardinal rule of eating out: Never mess with people who handle your food! Ryan Reynolds (The Amityville Horror) Anna Faris (Scary Movie) and Justin Long (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) star in this hilarious comedy about the band of mischievous waiters waitresses and cooks just waiting to show guests how extraordinary the service at ShenaniganZ restaurant can be. Just Friends: Some friends are just friends. Others you get to see naked. When Chris a likable high-school loser finally gathers the courage to reveal his love to Jamie - the girl of his dreams and a super cool cheerleader - she rejects him saying she just wants to be friends. So he moves across the country and transforms himself into a selfish womanizing and successful music executive. But 10 years later circumstances bring him back to his home town and fate reconnects him with the ""just friends"" girl of his dreams. Suddenly Chris has the chance to undo the past but unbelievably he finds it more difficult to romance Jamie than it was 10 years ago. Can one escape the clutches of the ""friend zone?"" Is it possible to go from ""just friend"" to boyfriend? Chris is about to find out the hard way. Van Wilder: Ryan Reynolds gives a charismatic performance as a seventh year senior Van Wilder who wants nothing more than to continue his cushy life at Coolidge College as ""Campus Legend."" With a personal assistant and a panache for throwing parties graduation is the furthest thing from his mind. But when Gwen Pearson (Tara Reid) enters his life could his priorities start changing?

• Land Of The Giants The Complete Collection | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £20.99   |  Saving you £29.00 (138.16%)   |  RRP £49.99

  From the unchallenged master of 1960s small screen sci-fi, Irwin Allen presents his boldest and most expensive show, Land of the Giants. Premiering in 1968, Giants has built up a devoted fan base over the past four decades, thanks to its heady mix of mind-blowing special effects, suspense and pure escapism. It’s 1983 and sub-orbital spaceship the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London. Mid-flight, the craft is drawn into a terrifying space storm, forcing it to crash on a hostile planet where ‘little people’ are hunted down by giants. Join Captain Steve Burton and his crew and passengers as they battle for their lives in this complete collection of all 51 episodes of Land of the Giants! Special features The crash with cast commentary Commentary outtakes Unpaired version of the Pilot episode (The Crash) presentation reel Special effects shots (no audio) Stills and photo galleries Cast interviews MAD Magazine parody Original US broadcast information Booklets and limited edition Art Cards

• The Story Of Us | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £10.31   |  Saving you £6.67 (91.12%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Vows. They're like New Year's resolutions- easy to make and impossible to live up to.

• Banacek: Season 2 | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £27.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek (George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team), Boston's leading insurance investigator. Banacek is called in to investigate the most baffling and ingenious of crimes which have exhausted the minds of all others. Using logic and with the aid of his chauffeur, his chess-playing associate and a bevy of beautiful women, Banacek launches intricate investigations to reveal, like a magician, the solution to in...

• Banacek: Season 1 | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £27.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek (George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team), Boston's leading insurance investigator. Banacek is called in to investigate the most baffling and ingenious of crimes which have exhausted the minds of all others. Using logic and with the aid of his chauffeur, his chess-playing associate and a bevy of beautiful women, Banacek launches intricate investigations to reveal, like a magician, the solution to in...

• Hart Of Dixie: The Complete Fourth Season | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Take a trip to quirky BlueBell, Alabama, as Hart of Dixie continues for a fourth fun-filled season. At the end of season three, Zoe finally admits that she loves Wade but does he return her feelings? Meanwhile, George and Lavon each realize they are in love with Lemon who has just set sail on a singles cruise. So set your course for season four of this dramedy, because any outcome is possible!

• Jericho | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £3.95   |  Saving you £21.04 (532.66%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Yorkshire, 1874. Penniless following the death of her husband, Annie Quaintain and her two children are turfed out of their village home and forced to start a new life in Jericho, a remote shanty town in the expansive and rugged Yorkshire dales. Jericho is home to a community of navvies and pioneers, prostitutes and vagabonds who will live and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build. Rough and rustic, yet with a wild west, carnival-like atmosphere, it's a place where people with secrets can hide, and where love can flourish against all odds. Set against a visually striking frontier landscape, this epic, eight-part drama series follows the creation of a community from nothing and the human stories and heroic struggles of survival that emerge.

• Doctor Zhivago | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (168.16%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stunning adaptation of Boris Pasternak's most celebrated novel scripted by acclaimed dramatist Andrew Davies (Pride And Prejudice Bridget Jones's Diary Othello). The sweep and scale of the Russian Revolution acts as the backdrop for the intense and ultimately heart-breaking love story of Doctor Yury Zhivago the physician and poet who wrestles with the anguish of being torn between the love of two women Tonya and Lara. Starring Sam Neill Keira Knightley and Hans Matheson. Now the winner of 4 major awards from the New York Film Festivals 2004.

• Fantasia | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are simply glorious, such as "Night on Bald Mountain", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "The Nutcracker Suite". The animation ranges from subtly delicate to fiercely bold. The screen bursts with colour and action as creatures transmute and convention is thrust aside. The painstaking detail and saturated hues are unique to this film, unmatched even by more advanced technology. --Rochelle O'GormanFantasia and Fantasia 2000 are also available together in the 3-disc DVD Fantasia Collection.