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• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £5.85   |  Saving you £9.14 (156.24%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. --Doug Thomas

• They Came From Beyond Space | DVD | (08/03/2021) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mysterious meteor shower occurs above a field in Cornwall, and a team of scientists led by Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) is sent in to investigate. The scientists and local bystanders soon find themselves possessed by an alien force which wants to enslave them. No one is immune from the invasion except for Dr. Temple, who is shielded from the meteor's influence by a metal plate that was inserted to protect his skull after a recent accident. He discovers that an alien race on the moon seeks to use the manipulated scientists for secret purposes. But, as Temple learns more about the invaders, he realises that they may not be as evil as he once thought. Extras: Audio commentary with Film Historian David Del Valle and Filmmaker David DeCoteau Original UK Theatrical trailer

• Dr Willoughby: The Complete Series | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Joanna Lumley stars as a brittle scheming soap diva in this hilarious sitcom following the lives of the cast of a daytime medical drama and the production team battling to make the show on a shoestring. Jealousy insecurity egotism and mental instability: the off-screen melodrama of Dr Willoughby is revealed in all its ugliness in this complete series now available for the first time in home-video format! After five successful years the Dr Willoughby actors are wont to confuse reality and fiction. Can Donna Sinclair star of the show really heal the sick and perform open-heart surgery? Some of the viewers think she can. Is she really as saintly and composed as her character? Not quite. To put it mildly she's a highly strung prima donna an implacable control freak and a monstrous megalomaniac. Which cast members will be axed by the producers - or by Donna? Who do the studio execs want to bring in - and why? And will producer Emma ever get off the show?

• Danielle Steel's The Ring | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £8.60   |  Saving you £-2.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This incredible epic follows the tragic yet inspirational life of Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) a woman who gains strength and courage as a young girl coming of age in pre-war Germany. As the daughter of an upper-class Berlin family Ariana watches her family and her country torn apart at the hands of impending war. Aware of the dangerous political climate her father helps Ariana's brother to escape to Switzerland. He returns to rescue Ariana but he is killed as a traitor. Unsure of her father and brothers fate Ariana is now truly alone. She seeks comfort in the arms of a German soldier but the harsh war claims him as yet another victim. Pregnant with his child Ariana realizes she has nothing left from her past but her late mother's signet ring. She decides to flee to America to start her life again...

• The Jennifer Aniston Collection | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £7.90   |  Saving you £27.09 (342.91%)   |  RRP £34.99

  An excellent collection of 5 films featuring Jennifer Aniston. The Object of My Affection (Dir. Nicholas Hytner 1998): A romantic comedy-drama that pushes the very tender line between love sex and friendship! Nina a social worker shares a cozy flat with her dear friend George who happens to be gay. When Nina becomes pregnant by her overbearing boyfriend she begs George to step into the breach - but is he ready to be a surrogate dad? Picture Perfect (Dir. Glenn Gordon Caron 1997): As adorable as she is ambitious Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control... She's The One (Dir. Edward Burns 1996): Filmmaker and star Edward Burns follows his acclaimed debut The Brothers McMullen with this equally fresh funny and wry romantic comedy about two brothers wrestling their preposterous approaches to life and love. Mickey (Burns) a free-spirited New York cabbie and Francis (Mike McGlone) a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence. Though they disagree about nearly everything they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston) Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected results. Office Space (Dir. Mike Judge 1999): Fasten your ergonomic seat belt you're in for a hilarious ride through the inner workings of Office Space the outrageous hit comedy that will strike fear into the little hearts of bosses everywhere! Unable to endure another mind-numbing day at Initech Corporation cubicle slave Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) gets fired up and decides to get fired. Armed with a leisurely new attitude and a sexy new girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston) he soon masters the art of neglecting his job which quickly propels him into the ranks of upper management! The Good Girl (Dir. Miguel Arteta 2002): Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...

• The Asphyx | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Victorian scientist and philanthropist Sir Hugo Cunningham (Robert Stephens) believes his experiments in photographing the dying at the very moment of their passing have somehow captured images of the victims' souls leaving their bodies. But when he unfortunately records on moving film the accidental death of his son and his fiance he discovers the apparition he has captured on film is moving toward the victims rather than away from them. Sir Hugo theorizes that it must be the m

• She's Having a Baby | Blu Ray | (14/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pauly Shore Is Dead | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hollywood will never be the same again... So many stars...so little sympathy! Leave it to legendary Hollywood ""weasel"" Pauly Shore to fake his own death and chronicle the hilarious reactions from dozens of A-list celebrities in this outrageous dark comedy that raises the eternal show business question: is it better to be a dead genius or a living idiot?