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• In And Out | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Writer Paul Rudnick knows a good idea when he hears one. When Tom Hanks talked about his openly gay high school drama teacher after winning the Oscar for Philadelphia, Hanks had already warned the teacher about the prime-time speech. For Rudnick's comedy, golden-boy star Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) announces at the Oscars (in a great lampoon of the ceremony) that his high school teacher was his inspiration, and by the way, he's gay. It's a shock to Howard Brackett's (Kevin Kline) small world in the corn belt. That includes his students, parents, coworkers and most importantly, his soon to be bride (Joan Cusack). Rudnick, the most successful and outspoken gay screenwriter-playwright (Jeffrey, The Addams Family) working today has hit cinematic gold. Besides Brackett's running around in crisis control, Rudnick allows a great deal of time to what others think. A typical line: "Mr Brackett's not gay! He just likes poetry and Shakespeare and uses his napkin!" In & Out is a screwball comedy first, a banter of how society deals with homosexuality second. Kline is at the top of his comedic talents here; a weaker actor would permit Joan Cusack to steal the entire movie as the bemused bride. Cusack, an Oscar nominee for the role, nails some of the funniest moments from any film that year. Seemingly forgotten as a cinematic presence, a clean-shaven Tom Selleck and his 24-carat gold personality is something to reckon with again. As a Hollywood reporter on the case, Selleck, without moustache, comes off more as George Clooney's older brother than as Magnum PI. The movie is helmed by Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy, who has quietly put together a very impressive list of comedies: Little Shop of Horrors, Housesitter and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. --Doug Thomas

• The Lost Weekend | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £11.27   |  Saving you £-1.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don Birnam long-time alcoholic has been ""on the wagon"" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Actor Best Screenplay Best Director and Best Film.

• Mozart - Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Bohm, Gruberova) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Lost World - Underground | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £25.14   |  Saving you £-19.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of an incredible expedition through a world untouched by time and civilisation a voyage to a land where humans are the species at risk of extinction!

• The Lost World - Land Of The Apes | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In this world humans are the endangered species! An indigenous girl remains all that stands between a lost group of explorers and a tribe of half-human apes...

• Loser | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £7.25   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the director of "Clueless", a comedy about a college student (Jason Biggs), branded a loser by his roommates, who falls for a fellow student (Mena Suvari), who has eyes for their professor (Greg Kinnear).

• When Trumpets Fade | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Heroes are born when bullets fly when the earth explodes when cannons roar.... When Trumpets Fade tells the story of one of the most harrowing battles of WW2; the Battle of Hurtgen in the fall of 1944. Hundreds of lives have been lost and four renegade soldiers desperately fight to stay alive. When Trumpets Fade takes you onto the fields of valor deep into the mud and madness of battle. American forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down from the sky. Hundreds of lives have been lost and the surviving troops are bloodied and shell-shocked. Now it's down to four renegade soldiers: a frightened private promoted to captain a strong-willed medic an angry young sergeant and an inexperienced new recruit. They have only one thing in common a desperate will to stay alive. But war can make unlikely heroes out of men who refuse to die.

• Prime | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £2.29   |  Saving you £15.70 (87.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan falls for a talented 23-year-old artist.

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This dark melodrama based on the John Patrick story 'Love Lies Bleeding' stars Barbara Stanwyck as the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers a wealthy and domineering woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune. She lives with her weakling husband a district attorney running for mayor played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut - a role that's an unusual departure from his later work. What no one in the town knows however is that Stanwyck and Douglas are bound by a dark secret involving murder. Gripping and suspenseful this film noir classic also stars Van Heflin as Martha's old love who returns to town after an 18-year absence whom Douglas thinks is there for one reason: blackmail.

• When Trumpets Fade | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £5.54   |  Saving you £0.45 (8.12%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the post D-Day euphoria American troops fighting in Europe hoped to be home by Christmas but many wouldn't make it. Still to come was one of WWII's most senseless and savage conflicts - the largely forgotten Battle of Hurtgen Forest dubbed The Death Factory where three months of carnage left 24 000 American troops dead or wounded. After one particularly vicious skirmish a shattered and scared Private David Manning stumbles through the muddy forest carrying a critically wounded comrade. Promoted for his bravery and reluctantly put in charge of raw recruits Manning's troop is rapidly plunged into the horror and heroism of battle. Desperate to escape the slaughter of the front line Manning embarks on an almost suicidal death-or-glory mission. But will his luck hold out or will someone else trudge out of the forest carrying back his broken body? Directed by John Irvin and featuring a cast of hot young Hollywood talent When Trumpets Fade matches Saving Private Ryan in its passionate portrayal of the terrors and futility of warfare... and its reluctant heroes.

• Rose Hill - Der Traum vom Wilden Westen | DVD | (12/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Down To You | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £9.95   |  Saving you £3.03 (43.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A new comedy about narrowing it down to the one you love.

• Mozart - The Magic Flute | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  With Wolfgang Sawallisch leading a starry cast featuring Lucia Popp Kurt Moll and Edita Gruberova this acclaimed 1983 live recording of August Everding's classic production of The Magic Flute is Mozart at his most inventive and inviting.

• The Lost Weekend | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £31.98   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  "I'm not a drinker--I'm a drunk." These words, and the serious message behind them, were still potent enough in 1945 to shock audiences flocking to The Lost Weekend. The speaker is Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a handsome, talented, articulate alcoholic. The writing team of producer Charles Brackett and director Billy Wilder pull no punches in their depiction of Birnam's massive weekend bender, a tailspin that finds him reeling from his favorite watering hole to Bellevue Hospital. Location shooting in New York helps the street-level atmosphere, especially a sequence in which Birnam, a budding writer, tries to hock his typewriter for booze money. He desperately staggers past shuttered storefronts--it's Yom Kippur, and the pawnshops are closed. Milland, previously known as a lightweight leading man (he'd starred in Wilder's hilarious The Major and the Minor three years earlier), burrows convincingly under the skin of the character, whether waxing poetic about the escape of drinking or screaming his lungs out in the D.T.'s sequence. Wilder, having just made the ultra-noir Double Indemnity, brought a new kind of frankness and darkness to Hollywood's treatment of a social problem. At first the film may have seemed too bold; Paramount Pictures nearly killed the release of the picture after it tested poorly with preview audiences. But once in release, The Lost Weekend became a substantial hit, and won four Oscars: for picture, director, screenplay, and actor. --Robert Horton

• His Girl Friday | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £9.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson--the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• The Doctor | DVD | (13/07/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A heart surgeon gets to experience firsthand exactly the kind of treatment that his patients receive. Through it all Jack learns that compassion and caring are a physician's most important skills and he ultimately becomes an extraordinary doctor....

• Dracula's Fiancée | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While searching for the earthly remains of Count Dracula, a professor an his young assistant are thrown into a surreal parallel universe of darkness and decay when they encounter supernatural creatures- a jester and his vampire lover, a she-wolf, sorcerers and a sensuous baby-eating ogress! Ultimately, the professor's quest leads him to confrontation with the beautiful but evil Isabelle who has the power to decide his fate!

• The Lost World - Gladiator | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  It's the ultimate spectacle! A group of lost explorers are captured by a sadistic lizard-like race of creatures. Selecting one from their group he is expected to fight to the death in gladiatorial combat to secure the lives of his compatriots...

• Down to You | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £8.48   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A new comedy about narrowing it down to the one you love.

• The Baxter | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £12.94   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meet Elliot Sherman a conservative risk-averse guy played by Michael Showalter. In this charming romantic comedy Elliot is more anxious than ever before his wedding to Caroline (Elizabeth Banks) the girl of his dreams and the arrival of Caroline's hunky ex-boyfriend (Justin Theroux) does nothing to ease his fears. But this time Elliot meets someone who can help: His eccentric temp who's wild at heart and full of romantic advice (Michele Williams). Along with the help of his friend Ed (Michael Ian Black) maybe Elliot will finally avoid being The Baxter and get himself a bride.