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• Better Than Chocolate | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookshop, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother. Even when she tries, Lila steamrollers through the conversation, as if she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookshop's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-coloured lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give it some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savour. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Disney & Pixar's Toy Story 4 | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £6.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Bonnie takes the toys on her family's road trip, Woody ends up on an unexpected detour that includes a reunion with his long-lost friend Bo Peep, whose adventurous spirit and life on the road belie her delicate porcelain exterior. Woody and Bo are worlds apart when it comes to life as a toy, and they soon realise that that's the least of their worries.

• Blue Bloods: The Seventh Season | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-3.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.34

  All 22 episodes from the seventh season of the US drama series following a family of New York cops headed by Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck). As well as the head of the family, Frank is the New York City Police Commissioner, following in the footsteps of his father, Henry (Len Cariou). Frank's children also share his passion for law and order: Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) is an NYC detective, Erin (Bridget Moynahan) works in the District Attorney's office and Frank's youngest son Jamie (Will Estes) works undercover. In this season, Danny is shocked when new evidence is brought against him in his self-defence shooting case and Frank is forced to deal with a whistle-blower in the NYPD. The episodes are: 'The Greater Good', 'Good Cop Bad Cop', 'The Price of Justice', 'Mob Rules', 'For the Community', 'Whistleblowers', 'Guilt of Association', 'Personal Business', 'Confessions', 'Unbearable Loss', 'Genetics', 'Not Fade Away', 'The One That Got Away', 'In and Out', 'Lost Souls', 'Hard Bargain', 'Shadow of a Doubt', 'A Deep Blue Goodbye', 'Love Lost', 'No Retreat No Surrender', 'Foreign Interference' and 'The Thin Blue Line'.

• This Is Spinal Tap (30th Anniversary Steelbook Edition) | Blu Ray | (03/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A true cult classic and frequently named as one of the funniest films ever made This Is Spinal Tap is a fly-on-the-wall look at the world's loudest heavy metal band filmed by documentarian Marty Di Bergi (real life director Rob Reiner Stand By Me When Harry Met Sally). Opening with the band's sold out New York gig (venue capacity -100) and ending with their riveting performance at a Santa Monica amusement park puppet gallery This is Spinal Tap combines interviews backstage footage and live performances - including classic Tap tunes like 'Big Bottom' and 'Hell Hole' - in a film that is nothing short of phenomenal. Along the way you'll get acquainted with core members David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest Best in Show) Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) and every drummer who ever lived - and died - for this renowned rock band. Reiner's first film This Is Spinal Tap will live in history for future generations as the best rock 'n roll spoof ever made.

• Dracula 2001 | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £7.16   |  Saving you £8.83 (123.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abraham Van Helsing, a London antiques dealer, travels to America to find his daughter and save her from his longtime nemesis, Dracula.

• Dead or Alive Trilogy | Blu Ray | (27/03/2017) from £24.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the Dead or Alive films cemented Miike's reputation overseas as one of the most provocative enfants terrible of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers. In Dead or Alive, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnically Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. But he meets his match in detective Jojima (Show Aikawa), who will do everything to stop them. Dead or Alive 2: Birds casts Aikawa and Takeuchi together again, but as new characters, a pair of rival yakuza assassins who turn out to be childhood friends; after a botched hit, they flee together to the island where they grew up, and decide to devote their deadly skills to a more humanitarian cause. And in Dead or Alive: Final, Takeuchi and Aikawa are catapulted into a future Yokohama ruled by multilingual gangs and cyborg soldiers, where they once again butt heads in the action-packed and cyberpunk-tinged finale to the trilogy. Each of them unique in theme and tone, the Dead or Alive films showcase Miike at the peak of his strengths, creating three very distinct movies connected only by their two popular main actors, each film a separate yet superb example of crime drama, character study, and action filmmaking. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition digital transfers of all three films Original uncompressed stereo audio Optional English subtitles for all three films New interview with actor Riki Takeuchi New interview with actor Sho Aikawa New interview with producer and screenwriter Toshiki Kimura New audio commentary for Dead or Alive by Miike biographer Tom Mes Archive interviews with cast and crew Archive making-of featurettes for DOA2: Birds and DOA: Final Original theatrical trailers for all three films Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Orlando Arocena

• French Connection | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £7.93   |  Saving you £10.06 (126.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A milestone film from 1971 and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, The French Connection transformed the crime thriller with its gritty, authentic story about New York City police detectives on the trail of a large shipment of heroin. Based on an actual police case and the illustrious career of New York cop Eddie Egan, the film stars Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, whose unorthodox methods of crime fighting are anything but diplomatic. With his partner (Roy Scheider), Popeye investigates the international shipment of heroin masterminded by the suave Frenchman (Fernando Rey) who eludes Popeye throughout an escalating series of pursuits. The obsessive tension of Doyle's investigation reaches peak intensity during the film's breathtaking car chase, in which Doyle races under New York's elevated train tracks in a borrowed sedan--a sequence that earned an Oscar for editing and was instantly hailed as one of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed. Produced on location, The French Connection had an immediate influence on dozens of movies and TV shows to follow, virtually redefining the crime thriller with its combination of brutal realism and high-octane craftsmanship. Boosted by the film's phenomenal success, director William Friedkin gained even more attention with his follow-up film, The Exorcist. --Jeff Shannon

• Tony Benn: Will And Testament | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £7.02   |  Saving you £8.97 (127.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tony Benn: 1925 - 2014 Politician, rebel, national treasure, activist, madman, genius. All these words and more have been used to describe Labour's longest-serving MP, Tony Benn. Now, in this feature-length documentary, the great man finally attempts to set the record straight, once and for all. Filmed in the last years of Benn's life, Will and Testament expertly examines the controversial events that shaped his long career, for both good and bad. Tracing Britain's political landscape - from the post-war years of Benn's youth, through the 1980s miner's strikes and all the way to 2003's Iraq war - Will and Testament serves as both biography and history lesson, all filtered through the prism of Tony Benn's singular world view. Drawing on both archive footage and brand-new interviews, this deeply personal and moving film gets closer than ever to understanding the real Tony Benn not just the politician but the committed family man with a big heart, forever striving to marry intellect with social conscience. Regardless of personal politics, Will and Testament is essential viewing - providing the definitive tribute to one of Britain's most distinctive and distinguished public figures.

• Father Ted - The Complete 1st Series | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £6.07   |  Saving you £13.92 (229.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From its very beginning in 1995, Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews' affable sitcom Father Ted occupied a previously undiscovered niche in TV comedy: by turns endearing and surreal, it was always effortlessly hilarious. Ted's the almost normal one, fighting the good fight to keep his sanity amid the chaos of his own household, where he lives with "poor idiot boy" Father Dougal, psychotically devoted housekeeper Mrs Doyle and foul-mouthed Father Jack, who doesn't need an excuse to hit the bottle (or smash one over someone's head) in any episode and whose vocabulary consists of just three immortal words: "Drink, Feck, Girls!"The first series opens with "Good Luck, Father Ted" as we learn just how dreary life on Craggy Island really is when Funland arrives (which boasts such attractions as Freak Pointing and the Spinning Cat!). Everyone's patience is tested further when "Entertaining Father Stone"--quite possibly the most boring man on Earth--in the second episode. Proving bad publicity can be good publicity, Ted and Dougal then accidentally manage to attract audiences to the blasphemous film "The Passion of St Tibulus". Their ingenuity is tested to the limit in "Competition Time" as they become "The Three Ages of Elvis". Dermot Morgan's Ted is at his most sympathetic in "And God Created Women" when he gets the wrong end of the stick about the intentions of romantic novelist Polly Clarke. Then, lastly, in " Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest", everyone rallies round at Father Jack's "funeral" to reminisce about what a fine priest and good-natured fellow he was! These six episodes made for a wonderful series debut; catchphrases were born ("Drink!"), as were regular characters (Jim Norton's sinister Bishop Brennan); and like Mrs Doyle's ever-wandering facial mole, audiences wanted it to "go on go on go on".On the DVD: the only extra is an exceedingly self-deprecatory commentary from co-writer Graham Linehan, who explains the origins of the characters and how he wrote in collaboration with Arthur Matthews. He frequently and hilariously compares himself with others (chiefly Mel Brooks on Young Frankensteinand The Producers). Fans will be delighted to hear many jokes that nearly made it into the show, but will undoubtedly end up somewhere else! --Paul Tonks

• Scandal: The Complete Sixth & Seventh Season | DVD | (28/08/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Angel And The Soldier Boy | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  On her Birthday a little girl is given a piggy bank with a shiny new coin to go in it a picture book about pirates and best of all - two dolls an angel and a solider boy small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. She goes to bed with the angel and the solder boy safe on her pillow. But while they are sleeping pirates jump out of the picture book and steal the coin from her piggy bank. The noise wakes the soldier boy who chases after them. But his sword is useless against the pirate Captain's pistol and he is soon taken prisoner. When the Angel wakes and finds him gone she realises something is wrong and sets off bravely to rescue him.

• Scotch And Wry | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £4.00   |  Saving you £3.25 (118.61%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD a collection of sketches from the hugely successful Scotch & Wry. All the old favourites are here - Supercop Dickie Dandruff Last Call and many more. Rikki Fulton and Co. provide the laughs with their unique brand of humour in this hilarious blast from the past. From vampires to aliens office parties to tenement parties it's political incorrectness gone mad! And watch out for the Frankenstein sketch - it's good to see that a good use has been found for Francie's old hairpiece! 90 minutes of classic Scottish comedy at it's best.

• Trapeze | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Burt Lancaster Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida star as a triangle of lovers in this powerful drama set against the magnificent background of a European circus. Filmed on location in Paris Carol Reed's Trapeze is one of the most spectacular and authentic circus movies ever made.

• Men In Black II (4K + Blu-Ray) | 4K UHD | (27/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.39

  Agent J and Agent K are back! Agent J (Will Smith) needs help with a new breed of alien terror intent on destroying the planet. He is sent to find Agent K (Jones), restore his memory and enlist him in the fight of a lifetime.

• Ugly Betty Season 4 | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (210.21%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Some TV series end too soon, leaving us panting for more, while others overstay their welcome, leaving a bad taste (and possibly a jumped shark or two) in their wake. Fortunately, ABC's Ugly Betty has done neither, bowing out just right with this fourth and final season (with 20 episodes, plus bonus material, on four discs) chronicling the adventures of young Betty Suarez (America Ferrera) as she navigates the world of high fashion in New York. When the third season concluded, one wondered if the show would continue to spotlight Betty's cutesy, quirky ways, including a fashion sense so extreme it could scare a blind person, and thus risk becoming redundant--or would we see her blossom into some version of grown-up normality? As it turns out, the answer is a bit of both. Betty is still well-meaning but often tactless and klutzy, someone who's adored by her family, pursued by boyfriends old and new, and, because she's honest and agenda-free, resented by her covetous, conniving colleagues at Mode, the magazine that employs her. But the character became steadily more confident and assertive through the years; she's an editor now, and by the end of season 4 she has made some major moves in her personal and professional lives. Other changes, though more superficial, are also more dramatic, including an extreme (and permanent) fashion makeover in the second episode and (warning: spoiler alert) the removal of her braces toward the end of the season. The people responsible for the show knew the end was coming, so while various story lines come and go in the course of this final season (as do guests stars like Shakira and Brooklyn Decker), most of the major characters' fates are resolved by the end, including the power struggle between Claire (Judith Light) and Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams); the future of Mode and its editor, Daniel (Eric Mabius); the dispositions of Betty's "frenemies" Amanda (Becki Newton) and Marc (Michael Urie); the romantic lives of Betty's family members; and more. As before, virtually every aspect of Ugly Betty--the sets, the props, the lighting, the clothes (of course), even the writing--is almost cartoonishly bright and colourful, sometimes quite beautifully so. --Sam Graham

• Spartacus (Blu-ray + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2015) from £5.90   |  Saving you £14.09 (238.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stanley Kubrick's star-studded, historical epic concerns the efforts of the slave-gladiator Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) to lead the slaves of the Roman Empire in a rebellion against their masters. The ranks quickly swell as the slave army makes its way across Italy towards the coast. But the despotic Roman senator Crassus (Laurence Olivier) determines to quell the revolt for his own selfish ends, and the stage is thus set for a tremendous battle.Based on: The novel by Howard Fast Technical Specs: Languages(s): English, Spanish, French, German, ItalianHard of Hearing Subtitles: EnglishSubtitles: Arabic, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, SwedishInteractive MenuScene AccessScreen ratio 1:2.20DTS 5.1, DTS 5.1 Extras included: Behind the ScenesBonus FootageDocumentaries: 'I Am Spartacus: A Conversation with Kirk Douglas', 'Restoring Spartacus'Image GalleryInterviews: Archival interviews - Peter Ustinov, Jean SimmonsVintage newsreelsTrailers

• District 13 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £3.25   |  Saving you £14.74 (453.54%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An elite policeman and an ex convict have to diffuse a bomb that's fallen into the wrong hands.

• The 6th Day | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £4.80   |  Saving you £1.19 (24.79%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a pilot presumed dead who returns home only to find he has been replaced by a clone and his life is in danger.

• Insignificance | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £14.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An artistic tour de force from multi-award-winning director Nicolas Roeg, Insignificance remains one of Roeg's most compelling and idiosyncratic films. A distinctive adaptation of Terry Johnson's acclaimed play, it features bravura performances from Theresa Russell, Michael Emil, Gary Busey and Tony Curtis and is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. On a hot night in 1954, a professor, an actress, a senator and a ballplayer converge in a New York hotel, their interactions moving fluidly through time in a post-war fable that can only end in destruction. Or does it?

• Sweet Smell of Success | Blu Ray | (30/03/2015) from £18.72   |  Saving you £2.53 (14.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A classic from the late 1950s, The Sweet Smell of Success looks at the string-pulling behind-the-scenes action between desperate press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) and the ultimate power broker in that long-ago showbiz Manhattan, gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster). Written by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets (who based the Hunsecker character on the similarly brutal and power-mad Walter Winchell), the film follows Falco's attempts to promote a client through Hunsecker's column--until he is forced to make a deal with the devil and help Hunsecker ruin a jazz musician who has the nerve to date Hunsecker's sister. Shooting on location, mostly at night, director Alexander MacKendrick and cinematographer James Wong Howe capture this New York demi-monde in silky black and white, in which neon and shadows share a scarily symbiotic relationship--a near-match for the poisonous give-and-take between the edgy Curtis and the dismissive Lancaster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com