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• While You Were Sleeping | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £8.25   |  Saving you £6.74 (81.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. In a role that nicely emphasises her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancée, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is definitely mutual. How Lucy gets out of this amorous predicament is what makes this pleasant movie less predictable than its familiar ingredients would initially indicate. It's feel-good fluff, with characters and performances that keep you smiling through the drippy plot mechanics. --Jeff Shannon

• The Deuce: Season 2 | DVD | (04/02/2019) from £13.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Featuring an acclaimed ensemble cast led by James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and executive produced by David Simon, George Pelecanos, Nina K. Noble and Franco, Season 2 of The Deuce finds its protagonists living at the apex of the Golden Age of Porn: when the dream of a mainstream X-rated film business is a credible reality, and the free-for-all sex trade of Times Square is at its gaudy, unrestrained height. Picking up in late 1977 (five years after S1), the Deuce's backroom massage parlors and SRO hotels have exploded into sprawling sex emporiums featuring nude girls, live sex shows and peep booths for every imaginable fetish. The NY Mafia's grip on the porn business is beginning to slip as talent migrates to the West Coast but for now, the city is flush with movies, music and art as the drug-fueled party rages around the clock. Season 2 of The Deuce captures the disco era in all its excesses before developers, crack cocaine, AIDS and videotapes conspire to end the debauched glory of Times Square.

• Volcano | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-3.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Get mindless for awhile with this 1997 disaster flick, starring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as a funky place for lava to spew, plus Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche as the brave souls who know how to shut off the spout. Director Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) wastes no time getting to the good stuff--it's happening in Volcano even before opening credits are over--and neither should anyone in the mood for technical efficiency without the burden of art. --Tom Keogh

• The Weatherman | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £4.70   |  Saving you £13.29 (282.77%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Weatherman Dave Spritz has a shot at the big time when a national TV show calls him for an audition. But secretly his life is in turmoil.

• The Rum Diary | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £6.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (190.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Actor-producer Johnny Depp pays homage to his friend Hunter S. Thompson through this sprightly adaptation of the novelist's semi-autobiographical novel. Depp plays Paul Kemp, the booze-sozzled journalist who takes centre stage in Bruce Robinson's period comedy. Out of desperation, the New Yorker takes a job with a San Juan newspaper in 1960, where he reports to the cynical Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) and shares a squalid flat with laid-back photographer Sala (The Sopranos' Michael Rispoli) and the truly unhinged "crime and religion" reporter Moburg (a scene-stealing Giovanni Ribisi). The three Ugly Americans do their best to drain the island's rum supply until Kemp meets Aaron Eckhart's slick Sanderson, who recruits the writer to promote his real estate ventures, regardless as to the number of poverty-stricken Puerto Ricans his hotels will displace. Politically, Kemp leans left, but he needs the dough, so he accepts the offer, only to find the ultimate temptation in Sanderson's uninhibited fiancée, Chenault (the stunning Amber Heard). It's a tricky balancing act, but when the natives start getting restless, Kemp risks losing everything. If the conclusion feels anticlimactic, Robinson keeps the antic energy going through nerve-wracking car chases, balletic cock fights, and a hilarious acid excursion that recalls the hotel trip-out in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to which Robinson's film serves as a less surrealistic cousin. If it isn't as certain to become a cult classic, like the director's equally inebriated Withnail and I, Depp and company always remain true to Thompson's irascible spirit. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Invincible | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £14.56   |  Saving you £1.43 (8.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dreams are not lived on the sidelines. Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg) a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach (Greg Kinnear) of Papale's beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout the public consensus was that it was a waste of time - no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way. Certainly no one like Papale - a down-on-his-luck 30 year-old substitute teacher and part-time bartender who never even played college football. But against these odds Papale made the team and soon found himself living every fan's fantasy - moving from his cheap seats in the upper deck to standing on the field as a professional football player.

• Snake Eyes | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story featuresNicolasCage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defence is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives DePalma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma licence to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes but what style you're talking about.--Tom Keogh

• Summer Of Sam | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £6.36   |  Saving you £13.63 (214.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  New York City's infamous summer of 1977 was a scene of disco divas and the culture clash between fashionable patrons of Studio 54 and the new wave of punk rockers who invaded Manhattan.

• The Reunion | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The reward could save them if the mission doesn't kill them first. When estranged brothers Sam (WWE Superstar John Cena) Leo (Ethan Embry Eagle Eye) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook Milk) reluctantly reunite after the death of their father they learn that their promised inheritance has a catch - they must start a family business first. Desperate for cash the trio crosses the border for a quick score that turns into a dangerous search for a kidnapped billionaire - a journey that could turn deadly if they don't figure out a way to work together as a family. Amy Smart (Crank) and Michael Rispoli (Taking of Pelham 123) co-star in a story that proves some bonds are worth fighting for. Special Features: The Three Amigos Saddle Up 'n Giddy Up Rough Take Off Photo Gallery

• Rounders - Special Edition | DVD | (06/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In the game of life play the cards you're dealt... Dealt a painful lesson when he blows his hard-earned savings in a high-stakes underground card club master poker player Mike (Damon) thinks he's played his final hand when he gives up gambling for law school and a fresh start with his beautiful girlfriend (Gretchen Mol). But then his best buddy (Norton) gets out of prison and in over his head with a ruthless Russian card shark (John Malkovich). From there Mike's strong se

• The Rum Diary | Blu Ray | (05/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with corrupt D.A. Martin Hunter (Michael Douglas), ambitious reporter C.J. (Jesse Metcalfe) frames himself as a murder suspect to catch Hunter in the act!

• The Juror | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £14.82   |  Saving you £-8.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Of all the men and women in the jury he chose her. He knows everything about her what she's thinking what she's feeling but most of all; he knows what scares her. Demi Moore stars as Annie a single mother determined to set her son a good example by serving as a juror in the trial of a powerful mobster. During the jury selection procedure Annie is evaluated not only by the judge and attorneys but also by ""The Teacher"" a lethal onlooker. He has been hired by the Mafia to do

• The Juror | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Of all the men and women in the jury he chose her. He knows everything about her what she's thinking what she's feeling but most of all; he knows what scares her. Demi Moore stars as Annie a single mother determined to set her son a good example by serving as a juror in the trial of a powerful mobster. During the jury selection procedure Annie is evaluated not only by the judge and attorneys but also by ""The Teacher"" a lethal onlooker. He has been hired by the Mafia to d

• Death To Smoochy | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rainbow Randolph Smiley (Robin Williams) has it all - he's the clown star of the highest rating children's show on Kidnet and lives the celebrity champagne lifestyle. But there's something else Randolph has - a healthy taste for whisky and a weakness for taking bribes from parents who want their kids on the programme. His scheme works perfectly... until the Feds find out and Randolph is unceremoniously sacked! He is replaced Randolph by Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) whose stage persona is that of a big purple rhino named Smoochy! Sheldon believes he can do good with his show but it's not long before he gets an unsavoury behind-the-scenes look at the world of kids TV. Smoochy has even more to worry about as the now destitute Randolph will not sleep until Smoochy is dead!

• The Reunion | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The reward could save them if the mission doesn't kill them first. When estranged brothers Sam (WWE Superstar John Cena) Leo (Ethan Embry Eagle Eye) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook Milk) reluctantly reunite after the death of their father they learn that their promised inheritance has a catch - they must start a family business first. Desperate for cash the trio crosses the border for a quick score that turns into a dangerous search for a kidnapped billionaire - a journey that could turn deadly if they don't figure out a way to work together as a family. Amy Smart (Crank) and Michael Rispoli (Taking of Pelham 123) co-star in a story that proves some bonds are worth fighting for. Special Features: The Three Amigos Saddle Up 'n Giddy Up Rough Take Off Photo Gallery

• Scarred City | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-31.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Cop John Trace (Baldwin) walks a beat while his third on-the-job shooting is being investigated. He spots a drug dealer selling and gives chase. When the dealer reaches into his pocket John assumes he is going for a gun and shoots him dead. A quick patdown reveals he was only trying to dispose of the drugs...

• Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with Gary Sinise; Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-wideni

• Face/Off / Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Face Off (Dir. John Woo 1997): Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo. To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer undergoes a radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife and daughter! Brilliant performances and mind-numbing visual effects make Face/Off the explosive stylish action thriller you've got to see to believe! Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with big-screen favourite Gary Sinise. Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy intrigue and danger! Bringing Out The Dead (Dir. Martin Scorsese 1999): Nicholas Cage plays EMS paramedic Frank Pierce. It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years. Surrounded by the injured and the dying Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life - two days and three nights on the job - as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.

• Scarred City | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Cop John Trace (Baldwin) walks a beat while his third on-the-job shooting is being investigated. He spots a drug dealer selling and gives chase. When the dealer reaches into his pocket John assumes he is going for a gun and shoots him dead. A quick patdown reveals he was only trying to dispose of the drugs...

• Hacks | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £4.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (226.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  So you think you're funny do you? Well unfortunately so do these guys... For some unknown reason the Diamond and Hutz Talent Agency is sending deluded stand-up comics to venues all over New Jersey: bar-mitzvahs baby showers corporate team building days and well farms. Fortunately for us journalists from one of the nation's leading papers were assigned to document the Diamond and Hutz world of stand-up comedy in its natural habitat... Whether or not you're a fan of stand-up you'll love this brainchild of Glenn Rockowitz. Much like 'This Is Spinal Tap' and 'Best In Show' 'Hacks' is an hysterical mockumentary with killer performances that leave you wondering just how far from the truth this may actually be!