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• Eyes Wide Shut | DVD | (10/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Visually beautiful, Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in the occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to and the stand-out performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: The DVD is presented in a lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Stephen Spielberg to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney

• The Dead Zone - Season 1 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £11.98   |  Saving you £35.00 (350.35%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Johnny Smith's life is interrupted by a near fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma for six years. When he regains consciousness he discovers that he now possesses amazing psychic powers; powers that allow him to see into the life of anyone he touches... Based on the characters and story from the best-selling book by Stephen King 'The Dead Zone' is a unique psychological thriller that combines a rich mix of action the paranormal and a continuing quest for peace. Episodes

• BuddhaBellies - Yoga for Pregnancy DVD | DVD | (15/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Featuring Active Birth Associate Nicole Croft at 6 months pregnant whose classes and workshops have been called 'the quiet revolution' amongst pregnant mothers ""Buddhabellies - Yoga for Pregnancy"" answers the calls from class members who wished to take the sequences home. Nicole enlisted music video specialists Mine Films Ltd to create a modem clean and posture focused production devoid of the background distractions so prevalent amongst comparable titles. The DVD also contains a valuable 'Introduction to Yoga and Birth and an ambient soundtrack courtesy of Jackalope Records. Time-poor expectant mothers can prepare for birth in the comfort of their own home secure in the knowledge that they are being guided by a qualified instructor with l2 years yoga experience. There is a choice of 3 possible sequences of varying length and difficulry making it suitable for everyone regardless of experience or stage of pregnancy. Yoga is the perfect tool for birth preparation as it strengthens the body enhances flexibility calms the mind and explores Active Birth positions. Inspired by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli the yoga in this DVD emphasises the breath gravity and spinal alignment all of which are essential for a comfortable pregnancy and positive labour.

• Five Children And It | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Written by E.Nesbit author of 'The Railway Children' this story for children is brought to life in this BBC production. Five children chance upon 'The Psammead': who has the ability to make wishes come true. This DVD presents all six episodes in their entirety digitally remastered.

• Marathon Man | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In New York City the brother of infamous Nazi war criminal Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) is killed in a car accident. Shortly thereafter members of a covert US government group called 'The Division' who are investigating the incident begin to be murdered one by one. When Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) a 'Division' agent is the latest to be attacked his brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman) witnesses his death and unwittingly becomes the pawn in a deadly game in which former SS denti

• Far and Away | Blu Ray | (17/06/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star in this sweeping saga of romance and adventure directed by Ron Howard. A young man s battle to change his destiny and make his fortune. A privileged young woman's struggle for independence and freedom. Their passion and spirit must see them through countless hardships and adversity as they battle to keep their dreams alive.

• Birthday Girl | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Ouija Haunting | DVD | (20/04/2015) from £6.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (149.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When a group of explorers become trapped inside a creaky, decaying building, a fun-filled weekend quickly becomes a deadly encounter. With the mysterious appearance of a Ouija board, echoing screams begin to fill the empty corridors as a ravenous spirit is resurrected and unleashed by the dark powers of the ancient magic. The group are left with no choice: they must confront their most terrifying fears and destroy the merciless wraith before it finds and kills them first.

• Le Silence de la mer | Blu Ray | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Le Silence De La Mer - Jean-Pierre Melville's debut film - is an adaptation of the novella of the same title by celebrated French Resistance author Vercors (the pen name of Jean Bruller). Clandestinely written in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of France and furtively distributed, it captured the spirit of the moment, and quickly became a staple of the Resistance.Melville's cinematic adaptation - partly shot in Vercors' own house - tells the story of a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon), who is billeted to the house of an elderly man (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stphane) in occupied France.One of the most important French films to deal with World War II, and a landmark in Melville's distinguished oeuvre, Le Silence De La Mer is a lyrical, timeless depiction of the experiences and struggles of occupation and resistance.

• Sound of My Voice | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £7.46 (42.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Synopsis- Brit Marling is intoxicating (The Huffington Post) and stirring (People) in the year's most talked-about psychological thriller. A filmmaker (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius) set out to expose the beautiful leader of a cult (Marling), who claims to be from the future. But the more they explore, the more danger they face in this intricate and taut thriller (USA Today). Special Features: Making of Sound of My Voice Maggie Featurette

• Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £9.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Canadian horror co-directed by David Amito and Michael Laicini. A documentary crew find a 1970s film about teenage siblings Oralee (Nicole Tompkins) and Nathan (Rowan Smyth) who attempt to revive their pet dog which they believe is suffering in Hell and their efforts result in a portal being opened to the underworld. However, when the film is screened the audiences are confronted by evil and the blurring of fiction and reality could be the difference between life and death.

• The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £7.68   |  Saving you £28.31 (368.62%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The issues broached in the first series have striking, often prescient contemporary relevance. We see the President having to be talked down from a "disproportionate response" when terrorists shoot down a plane carrying his personal doctor, or acting as broker in a dangerous stand-off between India and Pakistan. Gun control laws, gays in the military, Fundamentalist pressure groups are all addressed--the latter in a most satisfying manner ("Get your fat asses out of the White House!")--while the episode "Take This Sabbath Day" is a superb dramatic meditation on Capital punishment. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. This is wonderful and addictive viewing.--David Stubbs

• Human Stain | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How far would you go to escape the past? Coleman Silk (Hopkins) is a respectable college professor whose life is thrown into turmoil when his affair with a janitor (Kidman) is discovered...

• Atlantic Rim | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the US Government is forced to trust experimental mech bots, piloted by inexperienced airmen. When the first defense fails, it's up to the three pilots to prove their worth by saving New York from the monsters.

• Portrait of a Lady | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £13.67   |  Saving you £-3.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.

• Checkpoint | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £4.87   |  Saving you £8.12 (166.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Canada, near the US Border, Jalil, Leslie, Michelle, Gab, and Tom are driving back home after a wedding. A car blocks the road and forces them to stop. It's the Border Police. The officers check their IDs. They seem suspicious and their questioning slowly intensifies. In particular, the origins of Jalil seem to intrigue the officers. As good citizens, the group stays calm. After all, they've done nothing wrong... Except that broken light... Except that pot found in the car...

• The Day Of The Triffids | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £16.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All reports confirm that the world is witnessing an unprecedented shower of meteorites - a once in a lifetime spectacle that must be seen. And seen it is by most of the world's population. Bill Masen lies in his hospital bed in frustration with his eyes bandaged. When he finally gets to remove them the following morning he discovers the previous nights' light show has blinded all those who saw it. He is one of the few people to still have their sight. But worse is to come. With the meteorite shower has come the spores of a man-eating alien plant form Triffidus Celestus. The fate of mankind is in the hands of a few in this classic 1962 adaptation of the John Wyndham novel.

• The West Wing - Complete Seasons 1 and 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £79.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (2.50%)   |  RRP £81.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental US patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman makes up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The second series of The West Wing takes up where the first one left off and, a few moments of slightly toe-curling patriotic sentimentalism apart, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. With Aaron Sorkin's dialogue ranging as ever from dry, staccato mirth to almost biblical gravitas, an ensemble of overworked (and curiously undersexed) characters and an overall depiction of the workings of government that's both gratifyingly idealised yet chasteningly realistic, The West Wing is one of the all-time great American TV dramas. --David Stubbs

• Stanley Kubrick | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This superb nine-disc Stanley Kubrick Box Set contains all the late director's work from 1962's Lolita to Kubrick's final film, the highly controversial Eyes Wide Shut (1999). There's also the excellent and highly informative two-hour documentary: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, narrated (a little drably) by Tom Cruise. It isn't exactly a warts-and-all portrait of Stan the Man, which is not surprising, really, given that it's directed and produced by Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan, and that Kubrick's widow Christine was closely involved in the making of it. But it does give a detailed and revealing portrait of a brilliant, demanding and often infuriating man, airing rare footage that goes right back to his earliest years as a brash youngster in the Bronx, already playing to camera with a frightening degree of self-awareness. Six of the eight movies (all but Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) have been digitally restored and remastered, and almost all (barring Strangelove again and Lolita) now boast Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo sound remixes. For some bizarre reason, Kubrick insisted on mono sound for the 1999 set, which he approved shortly before his death. Visually the improvement over the often grainy, scratchy prints previously on offer--The Shining (1980) was notoriously messy--is immense. All the features are presented in their original ratios, which in the case of Strangelove means the changing ratios in which it was originally shot, and for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the full glorious 2.21:1 expanse of the Cinerama screen.So what don't you get? Essentially, the early Kubrick--the work of the young, hungry director before he moved to England and started to gather all the controlling strings into his own hand: most notably the tough, taut thriller The Killing (1956) and the icily furious war film Paths of Glory (1957). Too bad Warners couldn't have negotiated the rights for those too. But what we have here is the culminating phase of Kubrick's filmmaking career--the final 27 years of one of the great masters of cinema. On the DVDs: Besides the visual and sonic improvements mentioned above, each of the eight features includes the original theatrical trailer and multiple-language subtitles. The DVD of Dr Strangelove also gives us filmographies of the principal players, plus theatrical posters and a photo gallery, while Eyes Wide Shut includes interviews (taped after Kubrick's death) with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, plus a couple of 30-second TV spots. And with The Shining we get a fascinating 34-minute documentary made by Kubrick's then 17-year-old daughter Vivian, plus--just to add a further layer--Vivian's present-day voice-over commentary on her film. --Philip Kemp

• Rabbit Hole | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £4.86   |  Saving you £15.13 (311.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award Rabbit Hole is the new film from John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus Hedwig and the Angry Itch) based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay Abaire. Rabbit Hole features a triumphant return to the screen by Nicole Kidman starring alongside Aaron Eckhart two-time Oscar winner Dianne Wiest Sandra Oh and newcomer Miles Teller. Set in the suburbs of America Rabbit Hole tells the story of Becca and Howie Corbett a married couple struggling to return to their everyday existence several months after the loss of their child. With their world tilted off of its axis Becca and Howie embark on separate journeys making increasingly unexpected choices that threaten to pull them apart. But as a series of events unfold that offer to bring new meaning into their lives the couple must decide whether to allow their personal journeys to bring them back together. Rabbit Hole is a vivid honest and occasionally funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.