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• The Green Mile - 15th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of films. The Green Mile is Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Shawshank Redemption was the first) and is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying (in the electric chair, masterfully and grippingly staged) on the mile. As with King's book, Darabont takes plenty of time to show us Edgecomb's world before delving into John Coffey's mystery. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his film brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. The running time may try patience, but those who want a story, as opposed to quick-fix entertainment, will be rewarded by this finely tailored tale. --Doug Thomas

• The Green Mile | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £3.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (393.25%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, The Green Mile is the remarkable story of the cell block's head guard, who develops a poignant, unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous.

• Brother Bear (Disney) | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £3.70   |  Saving you £2.80 (75.68%)   |  RRP £6.50

  A young Native American hunter seeks vengence against a bear, only to find himself magically changed into the beast he hates with his own brother hot on his trail.

• Brother Bear and Brother Bear 2 | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £12.55   |  Saving you £-0.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Brother bear: Disney proudly presents Brother bear, an epic animated adventure full of comedy and heart. With five great new songs from Academy Award winner Phil Collins, it's an entertainment experience the whole family will enjoy. In this spectacular coming-of-age story based on ancient myths, an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear. He has no choice but to see the world through another's eyes while he learns some valuable life lessons and strives to regain his human form.Unable to communicate with his human brother, Kenai teams up with Koda, an irrepressible bear cub, and sets out on a courageous journey of self-discovery. Amidst breathtaking, beautifully animated scenery, they encounter a forest full of wildlife, including hilarious moose brothers Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths, rambunctious rams and more! Brother Bear is an unforgettable tale that explores the true meaning of brotherhood and what it means to walk in the footsteps of another.Brother Bear 2: Kenai is back, and he is off to the picturesque Pacific Northwest at the end of the Ice Age. During his adventures, he still dreams of his previous life as a human, before he transformed into a bear. As a human child, he befriended Nita, the daughter of a tribal elder and the pair's past friendship collides with the present as Kenai and Nita embark on an epic journey together.

• The Green Mile | Blu Ray | (28/03/2022) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar Winner Tom Hanks Stars in Stephen King's Magical, Epic Drama. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this emotional, touching film about miracles and the power of redemption stars Tom Hanks as prison guard Paul Edgecomb. When a giant of a man is brought to death row, Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about their new charge, John Coffey (Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan). Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost childlike himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards' sense of humanity is awakened in this astonishing adaptation of Stephen King's compelling novel.

• Brother Bear | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Disney proudly presents, Brother Bear, an epic animated adventure full of comedy and heart. When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, wooly mammoths, rambunctious rams and more! Special Features: Paths of Discovery: The Making of Brother Bear Deleted Scenes Koda's Outtakes Fishing Song Transformation Song with Original Phil Collins Lyrics Look Through My Eyes Music Video Bear Legends: Native American Tales Making Noise: The Art of Foley Art Review Rutt and Tuke's Commentary

• The Whole Nine Yards | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Have a little patience with The Whole Nine Yards, an agreeably convoluted caper, and in the end you'll find it a modestly entertaining yarn. But forbearance is necessary because, truthfully, the first half-hour of the movie promises a train wreck of epic proportions. Matthew Perry stars as a mild-mannered Montreal dentist, married to a French-Canadian shrew (Rosanna Arquette), whose new next-door neighbour (Bruce Willis) just happens to be a notorious mob hit-man out on parole. The wife, catching the whiff of easy money and probably just hoping to put hubby in harms way, orders her hen pecked spouse to rat out the gunman to his former employers, who have many compelling reasons to want him dead. Needless to say, complications--and plenty of them--ensue. Perry is serviceably harried as the beleaguered Everyman whom, as nice as everyone around him agrees that he is the person, just about everyone, wants to kill. Willis, much as he did in The Sixth Sense, gets better mileage out of not trying so hard; his irksome smirk is almost held in check. Amanda Peet has some funny scenes as a hit-man groupie—it's when her true role in the proceedings is revealed that the film finally kicks into comic gear. Michael Clarke Duncan is fine as yet another hit man to cross Perry's path; however, Arquette seems to be in a contest with Kevin Pollak (playing a mob boss) to see who can uncork both the most ludicrous accent and the most obvious performance. That kind of unevenness ensures that the pleasures that do exist within The Whole Nine Yards remain fairly minor. --David Kronke, Amazon.com

• Sin City | UMD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Frank Miller's acclaimed comic book comes to the screen courtesy of director Robert Rodriguez.

• The Island | UMD | (09/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson lead an all-star cast as residents of an isolated high-tech compound. But when they discover they're actually clones and worth more dead than alive they stage a daring escape. Battling an unfamiliar environment and an armed team of mercenaries in hot pursuit they'll risk their lives and freedom to save those they left behind - and reveal the truth about The Island.

• D.E.B.S. | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The famous VW Beetle is back in this family adventure which co-stars Lindsay Lohan.

• Armageddon | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This 1998 testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continued Hollywood's millennium-fuelled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understand what mainstream audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid-fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but, of course, lovable) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's fetishising of technology, even though it's apparent he doesn't understand it as anything more than flashing lights and shiny gadgets. Smartly, the duo also try to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable to populate the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humour and charisma. When Bay applies his sledgehammer aesthetics to the action portions of the film, it's mindless fun; it's only when Armageddon tackles humanity that it becomes truly offensive. Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly--African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims, French ... if it's not white and American, Bay simplifies it. Or, make that white male America; the film features only three notable female characters--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'". Sadly, she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than all the other women characters combined. Sure, Bay's film creates some tension and contains some visceral moments, but if he can't create any redeemable characters outside of those in space, what's the point of saving the planet? --Dave McCoy

• Frank Miller's Sin City | Blu Ray | (01/02/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An amazing cast of big-screen favourites is directed by Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn), Frank Miller and special guest director Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill 1 and 2, Pulp Fiction) in an acclaimed and visually stunning hit that's the coolest movie of the year! Straight from the pages of Miller's hip series of Sin City graphic novels, Bruce Willis stars as a cop with a bum ticker and a vow to protect a sexy stripper (Jessica Alba Fantastic Four); Mickey Rourke (Man On Fire) as an outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love. (Jaime King Pearl Harbor); and Clive Owen (King Arthur) as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shellie (Brittany Murphy Little Black Book), who spends his night defending Gail (Rosario Dawson The Devil's Rejects) and her Old Town girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from a tough guy (Benicio Del Toro 21 Grams) with a penchant for violence. Also starring Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Madsen, Carla Gugino and Michael Clarke Duncan.

• See Spot Run | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £2.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (367.89%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A mailman adopts a dog that, unbeknown to him, is an FBI drug-sniffing dog who has escaped from the witness relocatio programme. Mayhem ensues when a hit man is sent to destroy the dog.

• Kim Possible: A Stitch In Time | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £9.95   |  Saving you £5.03 (72.27%)   |  RRP £11.99

  When Shego and her evil henchmen capture the all-powerful Time Monkey and start monkeying around with time a visitor from the future Rufus 3000 (a buffed up talking descendent of everyone's favourite naked mole rat) alerts Kim to the plan. Kim along with her faithful sidekick Ron Stoppable and Rufus must triumph in the present and the past or the future will be history!

• The Finder - The Complete Series (4 disc set) | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £15.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (88.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the creator of the hit series BONES comes the spin off series THE FINDER, a quirky new show centering on a remarkable man with an eccentric personality and a unique gift to help others recover what they have lost. Iraq war veteran Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults) gained a reputation in his army days as being the go-to-guy for tracking down insurgents and deserters and finding improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Unfortunately one IED found Walter before he could find it, resulting in severe brain damage with a lasting and unexpected effect. Walter's brother-in arms Leo Knox (Michael Clarke Duncan) is a philosopher as well as Walter's legal adviser and keeps a close eye on unruly teenager Willa Monday (Maddie Hasson). Walter has an on-again off-again relationship with Deputy U.S Marshal Isabel Zambada (Mercedes Mason), a beautiful and focused cop-on-the rise who is using her career in law enforcement to climb to the top of the heap in life. Thanks to the help and guidance of Leo, as well as a patchwork of indebted connections, he ultimately finds meaning in his own life by finding someone or something other people have lost.

• Planet Of The Apes | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.19   |  Saving you £7.80 (150.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!

• George And The Dragon | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £10.14   |  Saving you £2.85 (28.11%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A princess a dragon and a knight to remember!

• The Whole Nine Yards | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £4.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (65.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There goes the neighborhood - in a pine box. When hit man Jimmy The Tulip Tudeski moves into a comfy suburb everyone's suddenly in danger of pushing up daisies. And it's not all Jimmy's doing either. Jonathan Lynn directs and a top cast packs heat in this manic comedy about life love and plenty of ammo. Bruce Willis is Jimmy whose arrival sparks a chain reaction in which just about everybody wants to clip somebody else...

• The Scorpion King | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £5.95   |  Saving you £7.03 (237.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wrestling superstar The Rock reprises his role from "The Mummy Returns" as a deadly assassin in ancient times, destined to become The Scorpion King.

• Planet of the Apes | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!