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• Drone | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ideologies collide with fatal results when a military drone contractor meets an enigmatic Pakistani businessman.

• About a Boy - Box Set : DVD, CD & Book | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £19.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.04%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes--how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will--by far his best performance since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the "Countdown" sequence. About a Boy is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. --Richard Whitehouse

• Kingdom Of Gladiators | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £4.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In an ancient world where magic is common and mighty warriors roam a King faced by merciless opponents enters into a pact with a demon to ensure his victory at all costs. After ruling for many years the mysterious demon reappears to the King at a Royal Tournament and claims his settlement - the lives of the court's descendants and eventually the destruction of mankind. Three powerful gladiators are chosen from the competitors to hunt down the demon break his spell and protect the realm. But as the forces of darkness prepare to rise can the gladiators overcome their differences and undertake an incredible adventure that may end in the ultimate sacrifice? The warriors are ready let the final battle commence.

• Barbie - Blu-ray - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (26/10/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ray / Genius - A Night For Ray Charles | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Ray (Dir. Taylor Hackford 2004): Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004. Despite a few dramatic embellishments of actual incidents (such as the suggestion that the accidental drowning of Charles's younger brother caused all the

• Deep Blue Sea / Space Cowboys / Sphere | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  With a voracious trio of mako sharks wreaking havoc, Deep Blue Sea dares to up the ante on Jaws, but director Renny Harlin trades the nuanced suspense of Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster for the trickery of the digital age. In other words, why build genuine terror when you can show ill-fated humans getting torn into bloody chunks? It's inevitable that Saffron Burrows should end up in her underwear like Sigourney Weaver in Alien, but even then the movie offers a credible reason for the strip-down; that Deep Blue Sea can be simultaneously ridiculous and sensible is just another one of its shlocky charms. Space Cowboys is a slice of cornball Americana that's so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one--a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. From yet another derivative science fiction novel by Michael Crichton comes the equally derivative and flaccid movie Sphere, in which three top Hollywood stars struggle to squeeze tension and excitement out of material that doesn't match their talents. There are moments of high intensity and psychological suspense, and the stellar cast works hard to boost the talky screenplay. But it's clear that this was a hurried production (Hoffman and director Barry Levinson made Wag the Dog during an extended production delay), and as a result Sphere's look and feel is like a film that wasn't quite ready for the cameras. Though it's by no means a waste of time, it's undeniably disappointing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Teseo - Handel | DVD | (20/07/2005) from £22.71   |  Saving you £3.54 (16.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

• H.R. Pufnstuf - Vol. 2 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  H. R.Puff 'n' Stuff stars Jack Wild as Jimmy a young boy who comes into the possession of a magical talking flute named Freddy. When Jimmy is kidnapped and taken off to Living Island by the evil witch Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) it is down to the local town mayor a six-foot tall dragon named H.R. Pufnstuf (Roberto Gamonet) and his deputies Cling and Clang to save the day. This release features episodes 8 to 14 of Sid and Marty Krofft's much loved and phenomenally successful TV sh

• Bringing It All Back Home - Influence of Irish Music (1992) | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-64.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Footage from the BBC TV series featuring: Hothouse Flowers, Mary Black, The Everly Brothers, Dolores Keane, Sharon Shannon, The Clancy Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, The Voice Squad and many more.

• 12 Action DVD Movies | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  12 Action DVD MoviesThe Lawnmower Man:Stephen King's virtual reality thriller stars Pierce Brosnan as a scientist with a dangerous vision.Grand Theft Auto:Ron Howard's directorial debut sees teenage carnappers go wild in the funniest car movie ever!Who Dares Wins:Lewis Collins stars as an undercover SAS officer infiltrating a deadly terrorist organisation.Year Of The Gun:Sharon Stone plays a photographer caught up in the violent turmoil of terrorist-threatened Rome.Fire On The Amazon:Sandra Bullock is an activist helping a photojournalist investigate the assassination of an environmentalist.Kickboxer:One of Jean-Claude Van Damme's signature roles as a vengeance-crazed martial arts champion.The Jigsaw Man:Michael Caine as a spy given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB.Train To Hell:Hugh Grant and Malcolm McDowell as mysterious passengers on board the Orient Express.Revelation:Is the new supreme leader of Earth the true messiah or The Antichrist?Total Reality:A deadly mission to travel back in time and prevent the destruction of the Earth!The Last Patrol:Dolph Lundgren stars as a soldier determined to restore order in the aftermath of a huge earthquake.I'm Still Waiting For You:A psychiatrist has spent 13 years keeping a killer behind bars but now he's escaped!

• Werewolf Shadow | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  International horror star Paul Naschy [Jacinto Molina Alvarez] stars as the immortal Waldemar Daninsky a man cursed for eternity with the mark of the werewolf. But when he rescues two young women researching the legend of a vampire queen they unleash a ferocious rampage of bloodlust lycanthropy and lesbianism. In the final battle to the death can a werewolf in love destroy the depraved desires of the undead? Werewolf Shadow has been painstakingly restored from original vault elements and is now presented completely uncut and uncensored for the first time ever including full restoration of its long-rumoured scenes of sex and violence.

• Joint Concert - Tel Aviv | DVD | (17/07/2001) from £13.31   |  Saving you £6.68 (50.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some concerts are important simply as occasions: The Joint Concert--Tel Aviv was a celebration of reconciliation, a performance shared by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic that would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Zubin Mehta takes a massive band consisting of both orchestras through performances of Ben Haim's fascinating Psalm, Ravel's La Valse and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The Ravel is particularly impressive--a work that can often slip into feyness or the too overtly sinister--here has a depth of complexity to its sound that saves it from either, and the sheer volume of the harps in a couple of passages gives the performance an interesting and individual strangeness. The Beethoven is monumental in its scale--rarely has the transition between the "Scherzo" and the "Finale" sounded so like Forster's goblins walking across the universe. Young and promising soloists--Viviane Hagner (violin) and Sharon Kam (clarinet)--play the Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Israel Philharmonic and the Weber Concertino with the Berlin Philharmonic; we grow so rapidly used to the sound of the orchestras playing together that their individual sounds strike us as almost delicate.On the DVD: The DVD has menus in English, French, German and Spanish and is presented in 4:3 screen ratio with PCM stereo sound, relegating a description of the importance of the event to the booklet. --Roz Kaveney

• The Hollywood Comedy Box Set | DVD | (30/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five great comedy films in one amazing value box set! I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore The heartwarming story of an unlikely romance between a quiet shy and somewhat overweight shoe salesman and the outgoing beautiful psychology student whose initial interest in him is purely academic. Or is it? When The Party's Over It's a non-stop party for a group of beautiful teens living it up in a posh area of Los Angeles. And one very sexy lady M.J. has found a congenial way to capitalize on her friendships and advance her position. But when the music stops and the mad whirl starts to slow down M.J. must suddenly face up to a void in her life. Picking Up The Pieces Tex (Woody Allen) a kosher butcher from New York under the witness protection program in Arizona has a problem. He has just killed his wife Candy (Sharon Stone) in a jealous rage after discovering she's having an affair with the local sheriff (Keifer Sutherland). He's cut her body into pieces and has taken them to the Mexican border but he's lost one of her hands! A blind old village woman stumbles upon the hand hits her head and miraculously regains her eyesight. Soon thousands are flocking to the local church to see the hand of the 'Madonna' and miracles are granted to all who ask. But the village priest (David Schwimmer) who is in love with the town hooker (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) senses that the hand's origin is not quite 'virginal'. Tex the Sherrif and the Priest all want something done with the hand and the unpredictable outcome proves to be both magical and hilarious! Combat Academy A wise-cracking hipster and a nerd are sent to a military academy to be straightened out. But the two manage to turn the academy inside out with their comic capers and war games! Better Living Nora (Olympia Dukakis) and her three grown daughters living in the suburbs of New York City are stunned when Tom (Roy Scheider) Nora's husband and the father of the girls comes back after 15 years and reunites their family. But he has changed. He insists that the family build a shelter underneath their house in which to live. 'Better Living' is an intrigueing psychological family portrait that is at once funny and frightening.

• Total Recall | HD DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In a futuristic world construction worker Doug Quaid obsesses about taking a vacation on the planet Mars. His wife objects so Doug instead opts to have an artificial memory of a Martian holiday implanted into his mind. The trouble is during the implantation procedure Quaid suffers a strange reaction. Why? It seems as though he has already been to Mars but his memories of his journey have been wiped... Now secret agents and the cohorts of a megalomaniacal industrialist are out to get him. Can Quaid experience total recall and finally figure out just why everyone is trying to stop him from reaching the red planet?

• The Line | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

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• Stolen Youth / Separate Lives | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Stolen Youth: When Abby's 18-year-old son Paul becomes passionately involved with her best friend Nina emotions and passions run high. Separate Lives: Ex-homicide detective Tom Beckwith (James Belushi) is hired by psychologist Lauren Porter (Linda Hamilton) to watch her every move. Haunted by a secret fear that she is leading a dangerous double life Lauren confronts a dark incident from her past.

• When A Man Falls In The Forest | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bill (Dylan Baker): a lonely middle-aged man who has never been able to interact with the world around him keeps his distance and prefers to exist in a lackluster state of self-imposed exile. Karen (Sharon Stone): finds salvation in thrills that she knows are forbidden - acts that are empowering and taboo. Gary (Timothy Hutton): has a habit of falling asleep at his desk rather than go home to deal with his loveless marriage to Karen. Travis (Pruitt Taylor Vince): frozen in time bears the guilt for a terrible tragedy from his past which has scarred him for life. This powerful drama embraces the stories of these four unlikely heroes each consumed by a personal struggle to make sense of their lives.

• Nightmare In A Damaged Brain / Demonium | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nightmare In A Damaged Brain: In this former Video Nasty title escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida a prowler stalks a babysitter - when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs... George begins a journey of brutal murder death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life! Dem

• Ice-T's Pimpin' 101 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Host Ice T takes you on an instructional pornographic journey on how to make it as a pimp on the Las Vegas Strip. The result is one scorching movie teaming with XXX booty and hardcore hip hop action.

• Beautiful Joe | DVD | (24/12/2007) from £4.84   |  Saving you £1.15 (19.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Having left the Big Apple after a string of startling personal revelations Joe (Billy Connolly) washes up in Louisville Kentucky where he happens upon a sultry ex-stripper named Hush (Sharon Stone) who is in serious debt to local crime czar George the Geek. Soon enough Joe's fallen in love and he and Hush are on the lam in Vegas staying just one step ahead of George's henchmen. But is Hush really to be trusted?