"Director: Nick Gomez"

• Drowning Mona | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Small quirky comedy thrillers such as Drowning Mona are one of the things that American cinema does best and far too rarely. Peter Steinfeld's appealing script attracted a solid cast of stars under the direction of newcomer Nick Gomez (whose previous work includes episodes of The Sopranos). It seems that someone has cut Mona's brake cables and she drove to her death by drowning. Bette Midler's Mona manages to make it entirely plausible that almost everyone might have wanted to kill her: from her son's business partner Eddie (Casey Affleck) to her husband's mistress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis). The local police chief (Danny DeVito), already burdened with subordinates who refer to running away from danger as "securing the perimeter" and the impending marriage of his daughter (Neve Campbell) to the sweet but unreliable Eddie, has to make sense of the farrago of lies and half-truths which is all anyone will tell him. This is an ingenious tightly plotted film which is never too busy to scatter odd little gags at its margins; it's a tall tale, whose complicated telling is half the fun. On the DVD The DVD comes with the theatrical trailer, a director's commentary, interviews with the stars and four deleted scenes. The picture is 1.85:1 anamorphic and the sound is Dolby Surround. --Roz Kaveney

• The 4400 - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £30.00 (300.30%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The complete second season of The 4400 a complex and consistently challenging exploration of the lives of some of the 4400 abductees inexplicably returned to earth... Episodes Comprise: 1. Wake Up Call (Part 1) 2. Wake Up Call (Part 2) 3. Voices Carry 4. Weight Of The World 5. Suffer The Children 6. As Fate Would Have It 7. Life Interrupted 8. Carrier 9. Rebirth 10. Hidden 11. Lockdown 12. The Fifth Page 13. Mommy's Bosses

• The 4400 - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £13.50 (117.49%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Over the past fifty years thousands of people disappeared. On July 11 they're back... Suddenly and inexplicably 4400 missing people are returned all at once exactly as they were on the day they vanished. Unnerved and unsure of the implications of this event the government investigates the 4400 to uncover where they've been and why they've been returned. It becomes apparent that the individuals have not aged or been harmed in any way and have assumed paranormal skills that they did not previously possess. The 4400 is a thought provoking and superbly constructed series of stories following the 'returnees' as they attempt to resume normal life once more. The dramatic content of each beautifully filmed plotline is enhanced as the discovery of abnormal powers in some of the people begin to generate widespread and unwanted interest resulting in further alienation and trauma. A young man has the power to restore life or bring about the onset of death in people ; a young girl has the ability to see in to the future and a pregnant woman carries an unborn child that may unlock the secret to the universe...