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• Lady Bird (DVD Plus Digital download) | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £4.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (41.21%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine Lady Bird McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

• Lady Bird (Blu-Ray Plus Digital Download) | Blu Ray | (02/07/2018) from £9.59   |  Saving you £0.40 (4.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine Lady Bird McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

• Lost River | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £5.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (259.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ryan Gosling (Drive The Place Beyond The Pines) directs an all-star cast in this gripping thriller about love family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned town of Lost River Billy (Christina Hendricks- Drive TV’s ‘Mad Men’) a single mother of two is swept into a dark and macabre underworld in a desperate quest to save her home and hold her family together. Meanwhile her teenage son Bones (Iain De Caestecker – ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’) discovers a mystery about the origins of the town that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves. Featuring stand out supporting performances from Matt Smith (TV’s ‘Doctor Who’) Eva Mendes (The Place Beyond The Pines) and Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel) LOST RIVER is both a dark crime thriller and a stylish and atmospheric depiction of the destruction of small-town America.

• Black Beauty | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £14.25   |  Saving you £-8.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It would be easy to pass by this movie, based on Anna Sewell's famous novel Black Beauty, on the assumption that it's dated and twee. Well, perhaps it is a little, but the sheer quality of the whole enterprise places it in the front rank of children's cinema classics. Screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz's ability to harness both literary and popular techniques in the same work (also true of his written fiction) remains unsurpassed in this captivating tale of Beauty's eventful life, from being raised as a foal by the devoted Joe (Lester), then passing through the hands of various owners before being purchased by, supposedly, Miss Sewell herself, to be once more cared for by a now-adult Joe who is in her employ. Along the way, Beauty passes through the hands of gypsies, a circus owner, a family of aristocrats and is even ridden into war, with each episode being expertly cast (Mower is in particularly fine form as a mad, bad and dangerous army officer) and produced to the highest cinematic standards--even the exterior lighting is perfect. Absolutely recommended. The 4:3 DVD is a transfer of exceptionally high quality and includes the cinema trailer, an image gallery of stills and collector-enthusing promotional ephemera (presented in a thumb-saving slideshow format) and, rather incongruously, a trailer for Help! I'm a Fish!--Roger Thomas