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• The Bachelor | DVD | (14/08/2000) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Bachelor got critically slammed when it played in cinemas, probably because reviewers couldn't help comparing it with the movie on which it's based, the brilliant Buster Keaton comedy Seven Chances. But on its own terms, The Bachelor is a modest and enjoyable picture about Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell), a happily single young man who suddenly gets an ultimatum from his grandfather's will: marry by his 30th birthday or lose an inheritance of 100 million US dollars. This is revealed the day before that very birthday. Unfortunately, Jimmie had already proposed to his girlfriend Anne (Renee Zellweger) and been turned down; she can see in his eyes that he isn't ready to get married and refuses to accept him until he is. So Jimmie needs to find a bride--fast. Though the commitment-shy man is a hoary clichè, The Bachelor successfully exaggerates Jimmie's fears to comic proportions. O'Donnell is his usual affable self, but it's Zellweger who seizes every scene she's in and makes something really enjoyable out it. The movie's greatest weakness is that she's such a small part of the second half. Still, there's good supporting performances from Hal Holbrook, Ed Asner, James Cromwell and Marley Shelton (as Zellweger's sister), and Peter Ustinov and Brooke Shields both have very funny scenes. The Bachelor skirts some dangerously chauvinistic territory at times, but by and large it's a pleasant comedy with some genuine good humour. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• The Last Patrol | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £5.71   |  Saving you £3.27 (120.22%)   |  RRP £5.99

  California - or rather what's left of it after a massive earthquake has spilt the state from the mainland and changed the face of America forever. The 'Golden State' has gone and the old way of life is over a new order has begun. From out of this ghostly island state rides a group of high speed nomads defenders of an old world saviours of the new and determined to survive. They are Army Captain Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren) Airforce Captain Sarah McBride and Marine Sergent Lucky Simcoe. Three branches of the military three different philosophies one mission: to restore order in the aftermath of the great earthquake.