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• Forces Of Nature | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £8.14   |  Saving you £11.11 (161.48%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Plane crashes, pickpockets, hurricanes--heaven and hell is moving to prevent our able hero Ben (Ben Affleck) from marrying his sweetie (Maura Tierney) in Savannah. At every turn he runs into someone else despairing about the woes of married life. And of course, temptation proves overwhelming in the face of travelling companion Sarah (Sandra Bullock), the wild woman whom he can't seem--or doesn't want--to lose. After a wayward bird flies into the engine of his aeroplane, Ben is forced to find another way to his wedding. He finds himself stuck with Sarah, whom he carried from the plane after she was whacked in the head by his laptop. The heat between them is unmistakable, and the drama in the film comes from the "will he or won't he", both in terms of sleeping with Sarah and meeting up with his bride. Forces of Nature is a fun and sentimental road-trip film, but Ben is so straight-laced, you can't help but want him to fall flat on his face just a little. Bullock is the life of this film, although her free-spirited ways get a bit tired (responsibility is not all bad). The highlight of this movie, though, is definitely the cinematography. The beautiful rain shots and the colours of the scenes lend to the unsettling mood. While the jokes are not rip-roaring, Forces of Nature is to be reckoned with for those times when a light-hearted film is what you need. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com

• Firefly - The Complete Series | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Much praised and much missed after its premature cancellation, Firefly is the first SF TV series to be conceived by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and cocreator of Angel. Set five centuries in the future, it is a show where the mysterious personal pasts of the crew of the tramp spaceship Serenity continually surface. In fact, it's a Western in space where the losers in a Civil War are heading out to a barren frontier. Mal Reynolds is a man embittered by the war, yet whose love of his comrades perpetually dents his cynicism--even in the 14 episodes that exist we see him warm to the bubbly young mechanic Kaylee, the preacher Book, the idealistic doctor Simon, even to the often demented River, Simon's sister, the psychic result of malign experiments. Firefly is also about adult emotional relationships, for example Kaylee's crush on Simon, the happy marriage of Mal's second officer Zoe and the pilot Wash, the disastrous erotic stalemate between Mal and the courtesan Inara. Individual episodes deal with capers going vaguely wrong, or threats narrowly circumvented; character and plot arcs were starting to emerge when the show was cancelled. Fortunately, the spin-off movie Serenity is planned; and in the meantime, what there is of Firefly is a show to marvel at, both for its tight writing and ensemble acting, and the idiocy of the executives who cancelled it. On the DVD: Firefly on DVD is presented in anamorphic 1.78:1 with Dolby Surround Sound. It includes commentaries on six episodes by various writers, directors, designers and cast members as well as featurettes on the conception of the show and the design of the spaceship Serenity, four deleted scenes, a gag reel, and Joss Whedon singing the show's theme tune, more or less. One of the things that emerges from all of this is how committed to the project everyone involved with it was, and is--unusually, you end up caring as much for the cast and crew as for the characters. The discs have subtitles in English and Spanish and the option of listening to the soundtrack dubbed into Spanish or French. --Roz Kaveney

• Anatomy Of An Illness | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Features eight movies. In 'Texan' a retired pilot grows suspicious of his wife's actions when he discovers that she is meeting with another man and withdrawing money from the bank... Also features: 'The Investigator' 'Teach 109' 'Another Round' 'Hogg's Heaven' 'Museum Of Love' 'Once In A Blue Moon' and 'Hearts Of Stone'.

• Fallen Angels | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abandoned after a fatal fire and filled with a mysterious past The Holy Angel School for Girls is about to reveal its dark and sinister secret. Rumours of hauntings coupled with the painful memories of the tragedy five years earlier have kept the truth buried with many victims. But now a ruthless Hollywood agent is determind to exploit the buildings mystery. She takes a few crew to the now derelict school. However unlocking the secrets in the scattered ashes could have disasterous consequences as betrayal vengeance and jealousy haunt the corridors and classrooms...

• Fallen Angels | DVD | (30/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Fallen Angels

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Investigator - Starring Vincent D'Onofrio (thumbsucker) and Anne Heche (Birth). An insurance investigator encounter's a mysterious woman. Was it fate or mere circumstance? Suspense.Teach 109 - Starring Jason Patric (Narc) Elizabeth Perkins (Cats and Dogs) and James Earl Jones (Summer's End). Based on an idea by Isaac Asimov. A young medical intern must perform a risky operation on a robot. Science Fiction.Another Round - Starring Alison Elliot (Birth) and Brett Cullen (National Security). A young waitress learns she will have to spend Valentine's Day alone while her boyfriend plays cards with his friends. Romantic Comedy.Hogg's Heaven - Starring Keith Gordon (Delivering Milo) and Shirley Knight (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya-Sisterhood). A man decides to give his parents a second chance. Dramatic Comedy.Texan - Starring Dana Delany (Final Jeopardy) and directed by Treat Williams (Hollywood Endings). A retired fighter pilot suspects his beautiful young wife of adultery and other wrongdoings. Suspense.Museum Of Love - Starring Samantha Mathis (The Punisher) and directed by Christian Slater (Windtalkers). A young man deserted by his girlfriend turns himself and his home into a museum - a painful remembrance of lost love. Drama.Once In A Blue Moon - Starring Fisher Stevens (Undisputed) Jeff Silverman (Holy Smoke) and Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy). Surrealist twist of fate in someone's life when a pregnant fallen angel must be confronted. Drama.Hearts Of Stone - Starring Glen Plummer (The Day After Tomorrow). Two rival Los Angeles gangs decide to settle their differences with a one-on-one game of Russian roulette. Action.

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99