| "Christmas With the Kranks (hmv Christmas Classics) - DVD" |
| "Festive comedy featuring an all-star cast, including Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd. The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), away from home on her Peace Corps assignment, Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther (Tim Allen) are suffering from empty nest syndrome and decide to skip Christmas in favour of a Caribbean cruise. But their neighbours, led by Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Akroyd), take Christmas very seriously and are none too happy about the Kranks' boycott. In this neighbourhood where every house is decorated to the hilt and has a Frosty on the roof, skipping Christmas is virtually a crime. And just as the Kranks are preparing for their Christmas Day departure, they get a call from their daughter who announces that she is coming home for Christmas after all. Suddenly, all systems are go for their annual Christmas Eve party and a normal highly-festive holiday. Will the Kranks be able to pull together a perfect Christmas for Blair in just a few hours, or will she discover their plan to skip Christmas?<br/><br/>"
Price: 5.00 |
| "Bad Santa - DVD" |
| "Outlandish Christmas comedy from director Terry Zwigoff. Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking Department Store Santa who can't help but be more naughty than nice. Underneath his ill-fitting red suit, Willie is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year - on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the mall, this Santa and his ingenious Elf - Willie's midget partner-in crime Marcus (Tony Cox) - crack the store safe and make off with their own holiday stash. But then comes Phoenix. Here Santa and his Elf find their annual heist endangered by a pesky store manager (John Ritter), a savvy mall detective (Bernie Mac), a sexy Santa fan (Lauren Graham) and an innocent but beleaguered 8-year-old misfit (Brett Kelly) who decides to believe that Willie - as intoxicated, acid-tongued and felonious as he seems to be - is the real Santa he's been seeking.<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.09 |
| "13 Going On 30 - DVD" |
| "Comic fantasy starring Jennifer Garner as Jenna Rink, who at the start of the film is a typical awkward adolescent, constantly dreaming of being popular and accepted as part of the in-crowd at school. During her thirteenth birthday party, she finds herself sitting alone and humiliated in a dark closet after being rejected during a teenage kissing game - and fervently wishes that there might be some way to avoid the trials and tribulations of the teenage years that stretch so cruelly and inevitably ahead of her. When she emerges, she gets the surprise of her life: she's popular, beautiful, successful - and days away from her 30th birthday. The only problem is, her mind has not matured to match her new womanly body, career or love-life.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Water Horse - Legend of the Deep - DVD" |
| "A young boy is left with a growing problem when he finds a mysterious egg on the shores of Loch Ness, in this big screen adaptation of Dick King-Smith's children's favourite. One day, while beachcombing beside his home on Loch Ness, Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) finds an egg that he's never seen before. After taking it home, the egg hatches, and Angus is amazed to find he is the proud owner of a 'Water-Horse', the loch's most famous, fabled inhabitant, which Angus decides to christen 'Crusoe'. But with his new friend growing ten times its own size every day, and some not too friendly locals to contend with, Angus soon has his hands full trying to keep Crusoe under wraps.<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.33 |
| "Hostel: Part II - DVD" |
| "Horror sequel directed by Eli Roth. While studying art in Rome for the summer, three young American women, Beth (Lauren German), Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) and Whitney (Bijou Phillips) are lured away to a Slovakian hostel by the beautiful Eastern European model from their life drawing class. What they find there is a living hell as they are forced into servitude by an exclusive club that sells them off to the highest bidder, a sick and depraved pervert who ties them up, tortures them in all kinds of unthinkable ways and gets his kicks from watching the young women die a slow and painful death.<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.00 |
| "Spider-Man 3 - DVD" |
| "Tobey Maguire returns for another outing as the eponymous superhero, set three years after 'Spider-Man 2' (2004). Peter Parker (Maguire) and his girl Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) are on the cusp of contentment - but not for long. His ex-friend Harry (James Franco), son of Norman Osborn aka the Green Goblin, becomes the New Goblin in his desire for revenge against Spider-Man. Fugitive Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), killer of Peter's Uncle Ben, has been transformed into the shape-shifting Sandman, possibly Spider-Man's toughest foe so far. To complicate matters further, a parasitic alien symbiote has attached itself to Peter's suit, giving him even greater powers but also bringing out the evil side of his personality. He has to struggle not only against two major adversaries but also against himself.<br/><br/>"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Surf's Up - DVD" |
| "Animated family comedy featuring the voice talents of Shia LeBeouf, Jeff Bridges and Zooey Deschanel. Cody Maverick (LeBeouf) is a young penguin who dreams of winning the biggest penguin surfing competition of the year: the Penguin World Surfing Championship. His pursuit of this goal becomes the chosen subject of a team of documentary makers who go behind the scenes of the competition and interview Cody, his friends and surfing fans along the way.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Burlesque - DVD" |
| "Feature musical starring Cher, Kristen Bell and Christina Aguilera. Small-town dreamer Ali Rose (Aguilera) leaves behind her home in rural Iowa and strikes out for Los Angeles in the hope of advancing her showbiz career. There she eventually finds work as a waitress in the faded but majestic Burlesque Lounge owned by retired dancer Tess (Cher), and quickly falls in love with the glitz and glamour of burlesque. Before long she takes to the stage as a singer and dancer, much to the consternation of envious fellow employee Nikki (Bell) - but will her talents be enough to revive the ailing venue?<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Straw Dogs - DVD" |
| "This remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1971 psychological thriller transposes the events of the first film from Cornwall to the American Deep South. James Marsden stars as David Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter who moves with his wife, Amy (Kate Bosworth), from LA to a house in his wife's small rural hometown to write his new script in peace and quiet. But tensions brew between the two amid the intense heat and isolation, and an escalating conflict with the locals eventually drives a naturally even-tempered David to violent and drastic measures.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Hotel Transylvania - DVD" |
| "Animated family comedy about a ghoulish five-star resort for the world's most famous monsters. Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) is the proprietor of Hotel Transylvania, a luxury hotel for monsters who need to relax and recover from their relentless persecution by human beings. To celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), Dracula invites a roster of A-list monsters, including Frankenstein (Kevin James) and Murray the Mummy (Cee-Lo), to the hotel. But when 21-year-old human, Jonathan (Andy Samberg), turns up unexpectedly, Dracula must do all he can to prevent Mavis from falling in love with him.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - DVD" |
| "Family animation featuring the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan and Mr T. Flint Lockwood (Hader) is a fairly unsuccessful amateur scientist who appears to have developed a device that will bring an end to world hunger. Unfortunately his invention, which causes food to rain out of the sky, ends up causing more trouble than good as his town is flooded with more food than people know what to do with. Flint and weather girl Sam (Faris) must try and figure out what has gone wrong and save their town from disaster.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Angels and Demons - DVD" |
| "Mystery thriller based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role from the 2006 film 'The Da Vinci Code' as Harvard symbologist and religious expert Robert Langdon, who works alongside Vittoria (Ayelet Zurer), the beautiful daughter of a murdered Italian physicist, to unravel the clues behind her father's murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican by resurgents of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati, the most powerful underground organisation in history.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Step Brothers - DVD" |
| "Will Ferrell co-writes and stars in this comedy about two losers, Brennan Huff (Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly), who become stepbrothers after Brennan's mother Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) marries Dale's father Robert (Richard Jenkins). Because neither man has ever got around to leaving home despite his advanced age, the two now find themselves living together. After taking an initial dislike to one another, they eventually become united in their hatred of Brennan's successful but mean older brother Derek (Adam Scott), and come up with ever more elaborate schemes to knock him off his perch.<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.00 |
| "District 9 - DVD" |
| "Sci-fi thriller based on the short film, 'Alive in Jo'berg' (2006), about the tense relationship that exists between a group of aliens who have been living on earth for 30 years and the humans who have been trying to keep them segregated and under their control. The aliens live in a place called District 9 in South Africa in squalid conditions and are now under the supervision of Multi-National United (MNU), a company who are solely interested in exploiting the aliens' superior technology to make money. However, the only way of getting the extraterrestrial technology to work is by using alien DNA, so when MNU worker Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) becomes infected with a DNA altering disease, giving him alien DNA, he becomes a very desirable commodity. Realising he is alone and in serious danger, and as relations between the aliens and humans intensify, van der Merwe must enter District 9 to escape.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Paul Blart - Mall Cop - DVD" |
| "Comedy starring Kevin James as Paul Blart, a good-natured, quiet-living man working as a security guard at a shopping mall having failed in his ambition to become a state trooper owing to his weight problem. When a gang of criminals disguised as Santa's helpers put the mall under siege and take hostages - including Paul's young daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) and the long-time object of his affections, Amy (Jayma Mays) - Paul takes matters into his own hands and becomes the unlikely hero of the day.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Green Hornet - DVD" |
| "Michel Gondry directs this mega-budget superhero action film starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, based on the 1960s television series starring Bruce Lee. Britt Reid (Rogen), son and heir to the biggest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has hitherto led a charmed but directionless existence. But after the death of his father (Tom Wilkinson), Britt joins forces with company employee and martial arts expert Kato (Jay Chou) to fight crime across the city as masked superhero The Green Hornet. Armed with their super-powered automobile The Black Beauty, the pair set out to take down the dastardly Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz), a kingpin of the criminal underworld who plans to unite the various gangs of the city in an attempt to eliminate The Green Hornet.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Taking of Pelham 123 - DVD" |
| "Tony Scott directs this remake of the 1974 crime thriller 'The Taking of Pelham One Two Three' which starred Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Denzel Washington takes over Matthau's role as Lieutenant Garber, a dispatcher for the New York City Transit Police who finds himself in a face-off with criminal mastermind Ryder (John Travolta, in the role originally played by Shaw) after an armed gang hijacks a subway train and takes its passengers hostage, threatening to start executing them one by one if they are not paid a hefty ransom within the space of one hour.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Back-up Plan - DVD" |
| "Romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez. After years of directionless dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has finally decided that the wait for the perfect man has been too long. Determined to become a mother before it is too late, she decides to go it alone and signs up to conceive a baby through artificial insemination. But when she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) on the same day as successfully conceiving twins, a comedy of errors ensues as Zoe tries to keep her new relationship alive while struggling with the early stages of pregnancy.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Open Season 3 - DVD" |
| "Straight-to-video third instalment of the animated children's comedies. Boog (voice of Mike Epps), feeling let down by his friends who are all busy with their families, decides to run away with a Russian travelling circus. There he makes some interesting new friends and falls in love with Ursa (Gina Torres), a Russian-born grizzly bear. But when Boog's friends discover that he has dropped out of their circle, they mount a rescue mission to bring him home and show him just how much he matters to them.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Karate Kid - DVD" |
| "Remake of the 1984 film starring Ralph Macchio. Jaden Smith stars this time round as 12-year-old Dre Parker, who moves from his childhood home in Detroit to Beijing, China with his single mother Sherry (Taraji P. Henson). There he falls victim to the class bully at his new school, Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), after falling for his pretty classmate Mei Ying (Wenwen Han). Friendless and alienated in a strange new culture, Dre finds an unlikely ally in maintenance man and martial arts master Mr Han (Jackie Chan), who instructs Dre in the principles of Kung Fu, giving him the skills and confidence he needs to take on the bullies who are making his life a misery.<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.00 |
| "The Evil Dead - DVD" |
| "Low-budget horror about a group of American teenagers on holiday in a remote cabin in the Tennessee mountains. They discover an old book which, once they have read it, summons up all kinds of horrors: the trees come alive and so do the dead, who take over the bodies of the living...<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "White Chicks - DVD" |
| "Cross-dressing comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and starring Marlon and Shawn Wayans as brothers and fellow FBI agents Marcus and Kevin Copeland. The brothers are assigned as escorts to two wealthy socialite sisters, Brittany and Tiffany Wilton (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek), who the FBI believe are the targets of a serial kidnapper. But the young heiresses get wind of the FBI's elaborate - and risky - scheme to use them as bait to lure the kidnapper, and refuse to have anything to do with it. What option do the brothers have but to enlist the help of an FBI lab scientist to transform them into Wilton sister lookalikes and go all-out to catch their man?<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.00 |
| "The Prince and the Pauper - The Movie - DVD" |
| "Modern day re-telling of the classic Mark Twain novel. While visiting a local film studio in search of a job, teenager Tom Canty (Dylan Sprouse) accidentally meets popular teen actor Eddie Tutor (Cole Sprouse) and discovers they share an uncanny resemblance. As Eddie secretly longs to be an ordinary teen, they both decide to trade places for the afternoon. Events take a sudden turn for the worse however, when Eddie's film company decide to pack up and move on, with nobody believing the boys' stories.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Social Network - DVD" |
| "Directed by David Fincher, this award-winning drama is based on the story of the creation of Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg who, in 2003, developed the social networking site while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Six years later Zuckerberg is a millionaire but his success is proving to be problematic to his personal life and he finds himself undergoing multiple legal battles. Justin Timberlake also stars as Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster. The film won three Golden Globe awards, three Academy Awards and Fincher won the 2011 BAFTA for Achievement in Direction.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "21 Jump Street (with UltraViolet Copy) - DVD" |
| "Fast-paced feature following the adventures of a team of young police officers sent into schools undercover to tackle youth crime. Police officers Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) are an unlikely pairing, with vastly different personalities and outlooks on life. However, their police unit is attempting to bust a drug ring they believe to be run out of a local high school and Jenko and Schmidt are the youngest-looking members of the force. The pair are duly sent into the school, disguised as students. Can they successfully pass themselves off as peers of their fellow pupils and infiltrate the drug ring? Johnny Depp, the star of the 1980s TV series that inspired the film, makes a cameo appearance.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Amazing Spider-Man (with UltraViolet Copy) - DVD" |
| "Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans star in this superhero action adventure film based on characters from Stan Lee's Marvel comic strip. Gawky teenager Peter Parker (Garfield) lives with his aunt and uncle in New York City. Aware that there is some mystery surrounding his history and his parentage, Peter does his best to make sense of the few murky clues he has about his past - until one day he discovers the shocking secret that will change his life forever.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Arthur Christmas (with UltraViolet Copy) - DVD" |
| "Animated seasonal family comedy featuring the voice talents of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Laurie. Santa (Broadbent), along with his family and helpers, work hard every year to get presents out to everyone in the world on Christmas Eve. While people sleep soundly in their beds, they are unaware of the high-tech operation run at the North Pole that exists so that they can get their presents. Behind this slick and efficient machine however, are the disparate and dysfunctional members of Santa's family, including his cranky 136-year-old father Grandsanta (Bill Nighy), his devoted wife Mrs Santa (Imelda Staunton), and his poles-apart sons, Steve (Laurie) and Arthur (McAvoy). Can they all work together for the sake of Christmas?<br/><br/>"
Price: 4.05 |
| "Men in Black 3 (with UltraViolet Copy) - DVD" |
| "Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles as Agents J and K in this third instalment of the sci-fi action comedy. Agent J (Smith) has long been every bit as perplexed by the perpetually-surly countenance of his older partner, Agent K (Jones), as he has been by the variety of aliens the pair are charged with keeping under control. However, when alien forces assassinate K with such extraterrestrial efficiency Agent J seems to be the only person to believe that K hasn't been dead for 40 years, the younger man is at a loss and determines to get his partner back. With the aid of a terrifying 'time jump', Agent J travels back to MIB's early years in the 1960s. Here he hooks up with a younger Agent K (Josh Brolin) and attempts to prevent his death and change the course of history. Will he also learn a thing or two about the secrets of the universe the older K kept so close to his chest?<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Resident Evil: Damnation (with UltraViolet Copy) - DVD" |
| "The second feature-length animation spin-off from the popular series of computer games and films. Following on from the events of the first animated feature, 'Resident Evil: Degeneration' (2008), the film opens with an agent of the US government, Leon Kennedy (voice of Matthew Mercer), sent on a mission to an Eastern European country torn apart by civil war. Kennedy's mission is to investigate the rumour that Bio Organic Weapons are being used in the conflict. Though he is ordered to withdraw from the country shortly after his arrival, the agent is horrified by what he discovers and is determined to see his assignment through to its conclusion.<br/><br/>"
Price: 3.78 |
| "Jerry Maguire (Widescreen) - DVD" |
| "Cameron Crowe directs this drama starring Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger. Top sports manager Jerry Maguire (Cruise) is fired from his job when he suggests to his employers that they concentrate on caring more for fewer clients. He starts up his own company, with only two clients - one of whom double-crosses him by returning to his former company. However, Jerry still has American football player Ron Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), plus the unlikely support of fellow former SMI employee Dorothy Boyd (Zellweger), a single mother who Jerry begins dating.<br/><br/>"
Price: 2.99 |
