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• Groundhog Day | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bill Murray does warmth in Groundhog Day, a romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right. Snowed in during a road-trip expedition to watch the famous groundhog encounter his shadow, Murray falls into a time warp that is never explained but pays off so richly that it doesn't need to be. Director Harold Ramis (who co-starred with Murray in Ghostbusters) takes an absurd situation and explores its every imaginable comic possibility. The elaborate loop-the-loop plot structure cooked up by screenwriter Danny Rubin is crystal-clear every step of the way, but it is Murray's world-class reactive timing that makes the jokes explode, and we end up looking forward to each new variation. Because none of the other characters are aware that Groundhog Day is continually repeating itself, Murray goes through a repertoire of responses, from conniving lust for Rita (Andie MacDowell) to gleeful nihilism to a Zen resignation worthy of Buster Keaton. Groundhog Day manages the rare feat of producing belly laughs in abundance and also being genuinely wise about the human condition. --David Chute, Amazon.com On the DVD: the disc presents the movie in a 1.85:1 ratio and with Dolby surround sound. There are trailers for Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters and Multiplicity, along with filmographies for Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Andie McDowell and Chris Elliot. This remastered edition also comes with an extended documentary "The Weight of Time", which offers insights into the "European"-style script and production difficulties, but is a little over-lavish in its praise of the actors on set. Thought-provokingly, the documentary also touches upon the spiritual nature of the movie and what it has meant to an audience beyond being a simple comedy. Also included here is a director’s commentary by Ramis which, although informative, has too many long breaks and would surely have benefited from the addition of Bill Murray to the conversation. --Nikki Disney

• Valley Of The Dolls / Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Valley Of The Dolls: An adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's trashy novel telling the story of three remarkable women whose lives are affected by show-business celebrity. Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls: An uninhibited all-girl rock trio and their manager arrive in Hollywood to claim an inheritance due to one of the group. They meet Ronnie Barzell a strange personality but a gifted promoter who soon has the combo headed for the big time. During their ascent the girls beco

• Commando | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £6.86   |  Saving you £0.39 (6.96%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A massively underrated action thriller which kept Schwarzenegger occupied between blockbusters, Commando may be one of the last shoot-out films ever to have real characters in it. Not, of course, that they're anything other than stereotypes, but they're painted with such detailed, positive strokes that it's impossible not to relate to them. Arnie plays a retired military special-ops officer whose daughter (played with an expert balance of cute/feisty by Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by the baddest of bad guys, who'll only hand her back as and when he's assassinated a tiresome banana-republic president on their behalf. Needless to say, Arnie is deeply annoyed by this, rescues the moppet single-handed amid more bullets and explosions than you can shake a stuntman's pay cheque at, and... well, why spoil the fun by revealing any more? Co-star Rae Dawn Chong gets some nice one-liners as the innocent bystander who gets caught up in the mayhem. The DVD comes with no additional features at all, but who needs 'em anyway? --Roger Thomas

• Amityville Blu-Ray Collection | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £27.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The ultimate Blu-Ray collection of Amityville sequels includes four of the best from this blockbusting horror franchise: The Evil Escapes (1989), It's About Time (1992), A New Generation (1993) and Dollhouse (1996). This box set is enhanced by a wealth of extras, including brand new features and commentaries produced by Calum Waddell.Product FeaturesDisc 1 (includes a new 5000-word booklet on the AMITYVILLE franchise):Amityville The Evil Escapes / Amityville It's About Time:NEW: Audio commentary by Bryan Norton, author of For God's Sake, Get Out! The Amityville Horror at the Movies book, moderated by Calum WaddellNEW: Interview with producer Steve WhiteNEW: Interview with film historian David Del Valle on the life of legendary Evil Escapes actress Patty DukeNEW: Ocean Avenue Effective Interview with Especial Effects artist Richard StutsmanNEW: Interview with producer Steve WhiteNEW: Film critic Kim Newman on the Amityville Horror franchiseDisc 2 (4x post cards):Amityville A New Generation / Amityville DollhouseNEW: Interview with producer Steve WhiteNEW: Film critic Kim Newman on the ˜true haunting' horror film genre.NEW: Audio commentary with director/producer Daniel Farrands (Amityville: The Awakening, The Amityville Murders), moderated by Calum WaddellNEW: Interview with director Steve WhiteNEW: Interview with cinematographer Thomas L. Callaway

• Groundhog Day | DVD | (20/03/2000) from £6.04   |  Saving you £6.95 (115.07%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Decent, lighthearted and fully amusing slapstick is hard to come by these days, and 1993's Groundhog Day manages to also be genuinely wise about the human condition. All this and belly laughs too! Bill Murray stars as Phil, a bored, petulant news reporter, who is ordered to give his annual live report from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on February 2. Though desperate to get out of the one-horse town and the appallingly sentimental assignment, Phil finds himself reliving the same day over and over again until he finally mends his ways. The film takes an absurd situation and explores its every imaginable comic possibility. Because none of the other characters are aware that Groundhog Day is continually repeating itself, Phil goes through a repertoire of responses, from conniving lust for Rita (Andie MacDowell) to gleeful nihilism to a Zen resignation worthy of Buster Keaton. Murray is reliably good, and this flick gives him a chance to be warm (though never fuzzy).

• The Miracle Worker | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft had been playing their respective roles as Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, on Broadway for some time before director Arthur Penn (The Left-Handed Gun) built a mesmerisingly beautiful film around their layers-deep performances. Duke is astonishing as the deaf, blind, mute Keller, who awakens to an awareness of language under Sullivan's determined guidance. Bancroft is fascinating and focused. Penn wisely kept his adaptation unencumbered by cinematic indulgence. The black-and-white film is sparse and charged with the immediacy of the drama. The Miracle Worker's script is by William Gibson, who also wrote the original play. --Tom Keogh

• Valley Of The Dolls | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What a trip! An entertainingly psychedelic adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's splendidly trashy novel telling the story of three remarkable women whose lives are affected by show-business celebrity. Revered composer John Williams (Star Wars) won his very first Oscar - and nomination - for Best Music.

• Prelude To A Kiss | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Newlyweds Peter (Alec Baldwin) and Rita (Meg Ryan) find their promise to love each other forever is tested in a way they could never have imagined! Just moments after they exchange wedding vows an elderly man appears and asks if he may kiss the bride. Rita says yes and it is not long before Peter notices that his bride is no longer the girl he knew. When he realizes that Rita and the old man have somehow exchanged souls Peter knows he must find him to get back the woman he loves!

• Everybody's Baby - The Rescue Of Jessica McClure | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Jessica McClure was an ordinary everyday baby until she fell 20 feet down into an abandoned well shaft in her backyard in Odessa Texas. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die. As the day drags into night and rescue attempt after attempt fails tension reaches a fever pitch.

• You'll Like My Mother | Blu Ray | (24/07/2023) from £13.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar® winner* Patty Duke stars in the tense and claustrophobic psychological thriller, You'll Like My Mother. When her husband is killed in Vietnam, Francesca Kinsolving (Duke) finds herself alone...and pregnant. She makes her way to Minnesota in order to meet her late husband's mother, certain that she'll be greeted with open arms. But Francesca soon discovers that there may be more to the Kinsolving family than she ever imagined...and that this simple family reunion is only the beginning of a waking nightmare. Rosemary Murphy (To Kill A Mockingbird), Richard Thomas (The Waltons), and Sian Barbara Allen (who was nominated for a Golden Globe® for her performance) also star in this intriguing, tautly directed thriller [that delivers] a high level of terror and tension (TV Guide)!

• Amityville 4 - The Evil Escapes | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It is a cold dark and rainy night. A group of priests gather shivering outside a house. Silently each removes a crucifix and rosary beads from a large black bag and moves towards the front door. It is the final attempt to purge the evil from the house.... 3000 miles away and two weeks later recently widowed Nancy Evans and her three children have just moved into her mother Alice's house. The same day a package arrives from Alice's sister a birthday present containing a large and

• Alvarez Kelly | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £6.78   |  Saving you £6.21 (91.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alvarez Kelly (1966) doesn't really justify the description of "Western Classic" which Columbia Tristar attach to it, but it's a pleasant enough Western directed by Edward Dmytryk. The rather convoluted plot (adventurer plays one side off against the other on a cattle drive from Mexico during the Civil War) relies heavily on the charm of the two stars, William Holden and Richard Widmark, but the two prove as reliable as ever. There are some so-so action scenes, but it's the battle of wits between the two principals that supplies all the fireworks. By contrast Janice Rule is just adequate as the love interest. On the DVD: It's a good-looking DVD transfer, with a 1:2.35 aspect ratio and Dolby Digital sound. Subtitles are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Polish with dubbing into French, German, Italian and Spanish. For extras there are trailers and some filmographies, so partial as to be not much use. --Ed Buscombe

• Grave Secrets | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Shag and Jean Williams spend 20 years of savings to build the ideal suburban home only to find they're not the only ones living in it Their housing development was built on an old graveyard called Black Hope! Based on a true story.

• Conspiracy Theory / Payback | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Conspiracy Theory: New York cab driver and conspiracy buff Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) knows about the secret movers shakers and assassins who really control things. Trying to put Justice Department attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) in the know he's run out of her of office. Soon both will run for their lives. The two stars conspire for suspense romance and twists that click like a rush-hour taximeter. (Dir. Richard Donner 1997 Cert. 15) Payback: Mel Gibson po

• The Swarm | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Legendarily chintzy "event" producer Irwin Allen (The Towering Inferno) went out with a gargantuan buzz-on with this jaw-droppingly goofy disaster flick. No cliché is left unturned, as a hyperactive strain of hallucination-inducing killer bees get it into their microscopic brains to derail a commuter train, destroy a nuclear power plant and otherwise decimate a veritable cornucopia of washed-up actors (Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens and narcoleptic dreamboat Richard Chamberlain are just a few of the legendary has-beens to get fatally stung by what appears to be airborne coffee grounds). Be sure to stay tuned through the closing credits for a (lawsuit-preventing?) coda absolving the good ol' hardworking American honeybee of any and all sinister charges depicted herein. The Swarm is an irresistibly hilarious chunk of honey-roasted cheese--70s style. --Andrew Wright

• Amityville 4 - The Evil Escapes | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A demonic force lurking in Amityville for over 300 years once again comes to life and escapes to a remote California mansion where it craves the possession of an innocent young girl.

• Bigger Than The Sky | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £6.27   |  Saving you £13.72 (218.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Life has a role for everyone. Mike (Corbett) only wants to perform in great productions. So when a clueless amateur (Marcus Thomas) is given the lead in Cyrano de Bergerac Mike decides he must personally train him. But when real life begins to mimic the play's love triangle and his protg falls for the girl Mike loves but can't commit to (Smart) suddenly it's Mike's turn to learn - not how to act but how to live!

• A Matter of Justice | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A young soldier returns home with an older woman on his arm and announces that she is his wife. His mother bitterly disapproves of the relationship and the marriage soon fails. Before the divorce the young man is brutally murdered and his mother convinced of his wife's guilt embarks on a crusade to see justice done...

• One Woman's Courage | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  She must tell the courts what she saw... even if it kills her. Grace McKenna has an unfaithful husband a difficult family and a drinking problem. Then one fateful day she witnesses a woman being brutally murdered. She decides against all advice to testify to what she saw. Only her testimony can put the murderer behind bars. But despite her evidence the killer is let off. Now that he's free he wants to silence the only witness to his crime. Grace's life is on the line. Desperate to stay alive she prepares to come face to face with her pursuer and her own fears. Based on a true story.

• Swamp People: Season 10 | DVD | (12/07/2019) from £24.64   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A