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• The War Bride | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marry in haste, repent at leisure, goes the old adage. Certainly, The War Bride sees the chirpy Cockney Lily (Anna Friel) with plenty of time to regret her lot. After a whirlwind romance in wartime Britain she marries her handsome Canadian hunk, Charlie (Aden Young). Finding herself pregnant and alone, Charlie having been sent back to the front, she jumps at the chance of a new life abroad when she receives a one-way ticket to Canada. Unfortunately Charlie's tales of his family ranch in Alberta are more fanciful than factual and when she gets there her natural ebullience is tested to the limit by a crumbling shack and a frostbite-inducing welcome from his widowed mother (Brenda Fricker, superbly dour) and his crippled sister (Molly Parker). They view her townie ways, her penchant for picture houses and scarlet lipstick, with deep suspicion. The only light in these dark days is derived from visits from her longstanding best friend Sophie (who also married a Canadian, but one with rather more to offer) and a burgeoning friendship with Joe, her sister-in-law's boyfriend. The film was inspired by the experiences of screenwriter Angela Workman's mother, one of 48,000 war brides who immigrated to Canada during World War II, and it vividly demonstrates that for the unlucky ones the future was far from rosy. The result could have been mawkish but it's saved by fine performances from Friel--who is increasingly showing herself to be an actress of some versatility--and the always splendid Brenda Fricker. --Harriet Smith

• Longtime Companion | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hailed as the first mainstream film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic Longtime Companion is a drama that takes an honest unflinching look at how this devastating disease changes everyone it touches. During the summer of 1981 a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumour about a mysterious ""gay cancer"" soon turns into a major crisis as one by one some of the friends begin to fall ill leaving the others

• Saturday Night Fever / Save The Last Dance / Footloose / Flashdance | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Definitive Dance Collection! 4 Discs of pure dancing magic... Footloose: Teenager Ren MacCormack sends ripples through Bomont a small Midwestern town that could stand some shaking up when he arrives from Chicago with his mother Ethel to settle with her relatives. The adults tend to view him with suspicion as a possible contaminant from the outer world. Some of his male peers eye him as a threat and most of the girls just plain eye him. It's a tough time for Ren

• Rebound | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A comedy where old school ...meets middle school In this irresistible family comedy hothead college basketball coach Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is more interested in endorsement deals than in winning games. And after an on-court meltdown Roy is about to lose everything unless he can prove he can win games without losing his cool. Enter the Smelters: a wise-cracking junior high squad that's never won a game. Reluctantly taking on the team of hapless hoopsters Roy uses

• Darkman 3 - Die Darkman Die | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Kiss Them For Me | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this light-hearted wartime comedy three WWII Navy men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperate to keep the men on the straight and narrow Lieutenant (Werner Klemperer) commits the trio to becoming spokesmen at a shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long the rowdy Cre

• Blue Manhattan | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £7.46   |  Saving you £-4.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  One of the most radical films of its time. Brian De Palma takes a preverse look at what goes on behind closed doors in post-Vietnam New York City.

• Carry On Jack | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £4.50   |  Saving you £11.49 (255.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's set after the Battle of Trafalgar and the sea is awash with Spanish galleons and pirates as the British navy sets about defending its shores with as much incompetence as possible. Sally, a barmaid at the Dirty Duck (Juliet Mills in feisty principal boy mode), knocks Bernard Cribbins on the head and steals his uniform so that she can go in search of her childhood sweetheart. He is promptly press-ganged and they end up on the same ship. Williams, on the brink of his ascendancy as a star turn, just about keeps the mannerisms under control enough to build the character of the naïve and neurotic captain. Familiar Carry On faces on top form include Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale, while Peter Gilmore--in his pre-Onedin Line days--appears as a pirate. Peter Rodgers' script is not quite vintage Carry On but the jokes keep coming and it's all good, clean fun. On the DVD: This was one of the first Carry On films to be made in colour. The print is in reasonable condition. The picture quality, apart from a couple of scratchy scenes of sailing ships that were probably drafted in from stock footage, is fair, as is the sound. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. --Piers Ford

• Strangers With Candy | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A dark satire of the moralistic after-school specials starring Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank a 47-year old former ""user boozer and loser"" who returns to high school after three decades of hard living. The film also includes co-creators Paul Dinello as Mr. Jellineck a narcissistic yet fragile art teacher and Stephen Colbert as Mr. Noblet a strict history teacher with a predilection for Hummel figurines.

• Kiss Them for Me | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  n this light-hearted wartime comedy, three WWII Nave men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore, they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperat to keep the men on the straight and narrow, Lieutenant Walter Wallace (Werner Klemperer) commits the shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long, the rowdy Crewson is courting the shipmaker's voluptous daughter (Jayne Mansfield) with hilarious results.

• Hi Mom! | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in New York a youthful Robert De Niro stars in one of Director Brian De Palma's early successes. Returning to New York's Greenwich Village down and out filmmaker VIetnam Vet Jon Rubin takes his telephoto lens and becomes the ultimate peeping tom. Spying on a voluptuous young woman and a black revolutionary group his life turns into a comic nightmare as the line between the real world and the 'reel' world blurs. Hi Mom! combines urban violence and voyeurism to make it a prov

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1965 (Box Set 2) | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Swingingly stylish adventures with super spies John Steed and Mrs Peel! Flashback to the Sixties with the coolest duo in crimefighting! Episode titles include: The Murder Market: In which Steed gets a wife and Emma gets buried. A surfeit of H2O: In which Steed plans a boat trip and Emma gets very wet. The Hour That Never Was: In which Steed has to face the music and Emma disappears. Dial A Deadly Number: In which Steed plays Bulls and Bears and Emma has no option. Man-Eater Of Surrey Green: In which Steed kills a climber and Emma becomes a vegetable. Two's A Crowd: In which Steed is single-minded and Emma sees double.

• Children's Christmas Classics - Snow Queen/The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe/Box Of Delight | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Snow Queen: The dark and complex tale of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen is brought to life in this stunning and magical mix of music and song animation and 'live' drama. The tale of how innocence and love in the shape of the heroine Gerda can overcome the evil power of their nemesis The Snow Queen takes us on a journey through the Enchanted Flower Garden on a flight through the Northern Lights and into the palace of the Snow Queen herself - a figure powerful enough to 'tie all the winds of the world together'. We meet talking flowers the helpful raven and reindeer the Finland woman and the Lapland woman a band of robbers and a whole royal family. And finally Gerda's tears bring the hero Kay back to warmth and life and Spring returns to the countryside. And all the while we are reminded that splinters of an ancient broken enchanted looking glass are in the air around us waiting to fly into an unsuspecting eye like Kay's and turn a good heart to a lump of ice - and a good person into a gift for the Snow Queen. The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe: The first published and arguably best loved tale in C.S. Lewis' acclaimed ""Chronicles of Narnia"" 'The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe' is the adventure-filled tale of two brothers and two sisters who cross through an enchanted wardrobe into the magical world of Narnia land of talking animals and mythical creatures. They discover that Narnia is under the evil power of the White Witch who brings eternal winter to the land. It is up to the children to join the noble lion Aslan and bring Springtime and happiness back to Narnia! The Box Of Delights: Based on the classic children's novel by John Masefield this tale follows the adventures of Kay Harker a young boy who finds himself lured into a world of fantasy and danger after a chance encounter with an old Punch and Judy man. A magical mix of animation and live-action this spectacular production is guaranteed to thrill the fantasies of children and adults alike. Seldom is a story so sophisticated as to draw its audience spellbound into a series of such enchanting adventures as those we share with young Kay Harker. As he travels home on the train for the Christmas holidays Kay Harker has the strangest feeling something very mysterious is about to happen... there is snow on the wind and wild dogs are roaming the countryside. Then a chance meeting with an old Punch and Judy man Cole Hawlins the guardian of the elixir of life and a shabby box of powers pulls Kay into an array of fantastic worlds where he encounters ancient heroes wolves Romans rats flashing rings and flying ponies. This memorable production was first shown just before Christmas 1984. The enchanting adventures and magical atmosphere hold fond memories for many and are sure to delight a new generation of children. Now available for the first time on DVD with a myriad of special features you can enjoy this very special production for years to come.

• Darkman 3 - Die Darkman Die | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Darkman pits himself against a drug dealer as he attempts to protect his research and his team.

• Biloxi Blues | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £7.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (27.26%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Excess Baggage / Biloxi Blues / Go | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Excess Baggage: Brazen yet emotionally neglected Emily T. Hope (Alicia Silverstone) desperate for her father's attention stages her own kidnapping. But before she can enjoy a happy reunion with her father her car gets stolen with Emily still inside and professional car thief Vincent Roche (Benicio Del Toro) is about to find out that he's stolen a lot more than he bargained for! And when Emily's sinister ex-CIA 'uncle' (Christopher Walken) starts tracking them down the heat can only get hotter in this hilariously romantic adventure! Biloxi Blues: In this semi-autobiographical screenplay Neil Simon's private memoirs in the US Army are made public. Set in 1943 at an army base in Biloxi Mississippi a lowly recruit (Broderick) comes under the command of a very weird drill sergeant (Walken)... Go: Ronna needs to make some extra cash. Simon wants to escape to Vegas for the weekend. Adam and Zack want to stay out of trouble. But it's not just another night in the life of these unusual characters. They're about to embark on a wild ride that won't end until the sun comes up.

• Strangers With Candy | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is the hysterical tale of Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) a 47 year old ex-con junkie who decides to return home after 32 years to find her father has slipped into a self-induced coma brought on by her disappearance. With hopes of jarring her father from his eternal slumber Jerri decides to turn her life around by picking up exactly where she left off - at high school. Seeking to find that 'special thing' that will erase 32 years of debauchery Jerri stumbles upon the school State Science Fair. Convinced that winning the fair will resurrect her father she signs up expecting an easy stroll down the road to victory. Not surprisingly she finds that the path is fraught with the many adolescent problems and temptations that plague all teenagers but especially this 47 year old former boozer user and loser. From the cult classic Comedy Central series Strangers With Candy is the most gut-burstingly hilarious and wildly debauched comedy of the year!

• Road House | UMD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99