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• Narrow Margin | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Los Angeles District Attorney (Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Acher) back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours as theitrain hurls through the beautiful but solated Canadian wilderness a deadly game of cat andmouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death...

• Blue Desert | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A woman tormented by a recent attack moves to the desert to get her life back together. There she befriends two men one of whom is playing maniacal tricks on her forcing her to decide which one to trust.

• Rebel Dread | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the story of the iconic Don Letts, the coolest cultural polymath - from his adventures in the UK's 1970s punk scene, through to his award-winning music video and film career. Narrated by the man himself and packed with extensive archive footage, this infectiously energetic documentary takes you so deep inside the life and world of Don Letts; you won't want to leave. Product Features Exclusive content from Andi Oliver, Chris Salewicz, Daddy G, Dennis Bovell, Desmond Coy, Grace Letts, Greg Roberts, Jazzie B O.B.E, Jeannette Lee, John Lydon, Leo Williams, Mick Jones, Norman Jay M.B.E and Paul Simonon, edited by Lois Warrington

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Vol. 5 and 6 | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £19.12   |  Saving you £-6.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episode titles: Notes From The Underground Parts One Two and Three The King Shredder Strikes Back Parts One and Two Tales of Leo.

• Kitaj... In the Picture | DVD | (23/07/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Though Kitaj was one of the most public of artists making some of the most immediate accessible and honest images of our age he was also a very private man determined to avoid the spontaneity of film. He finally relented in 1994 and the result is a remarkably candid look at his life and work. ""My pictures had and have secret lives and so there were things I did not tell a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now."" R. B. Kitaj The film transports us from the early years of baseball and girls in upstate New York to his years as a merchant seaman on the ""Romance Run"" through post war Vienna to London where he placed himself at the centre of ""The School of London"" with friends David Hockney Michael Andrews Frank Auerbach Leon Kossoff and Lucian Freud.

• SOUL POWER (Masters of Cinema) (DVD & BLU-RAY DUAL FORMAT) | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Soul Power" is a verite documentary, entirely composed of footage shot in 1974 at the legendary music festival (dubbed "Zaire '74"). It shows the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown and BB King among others.

• The Nutcracker And The Mouseking | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £5.04   |  Saving you £9.95 (197.42%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the Fairytale By E.T.A. Hoffman Christmas in Czarist Russia 1900. A spoiled prince lives in a magnificent palace with his magician uncle Drosselmeier. To test the young prince Drosselmeier gives him one of two magic nuts. Each one has the power to make a wish come true. The prince carelessly plays with the nut as he muses that life would be much more fun if everyone was a toy. In a flash the prince and his servants are turned into toy nutcrackers. The evil mouse king that lives within the palace walls hatches a plot to take over the kingdom. Drosselmeier persuades Clara a young girl who is enchanted by the nutcracker prince to set off on a mission to save the kingdom. Will they be able to reverse the magic spell and save the kingdom from tyranny?

• Final Destination 5 | Blu Ray | (05/03/2012) from £22.01   |  Saving you £2.98 (11.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In Final Destination 5, Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man's premonition saves a group of co-workers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse.

• Living Apart Together | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Thicker Than Water | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £12.43   |  Saving you £7.56 (60.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THICKER THAN WATER is a story of rival 'top dogs' from inner-city gangs who form an uneasy alliance during a bloody turf war and features a kicking soundtrack by some of rap's hottest stars. When DJ's (Mack 10) mixing equipment goes up in flames and a record company executive double-crosses Lonzo (Fat Joe) the two become allies to achieve their dream of becoming music producers. DJ and Lonzo turn to Gator (CJ MAC) a successful drug-lord living the high life in New Orleans to raise the money they need and for a while the partnership is a success. But when someone rats to the police their relationship falls apart as the old rivalry resurfaces and threatens to destroy everything they've worked for...

• Mission: Impossible - 2 Disc Box Set | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mission: Impossible was one of the best action blockbusters of the 1990s, deriving a quality unique among its peers from the tension between Brian De Palma's directorial stylisation and the overriding presence of its star and producer, Tom Cruise. The original 1960s television series provides not only the wonderful musical motif, but also the layered complexity of false realities and masked identities, which are revealed with the playful conjuring of a Russian doll. De Palma's trademark set pieces include a giant exploding fishtank in Prague, a helicopter chase through the Channel Tunnel, and, most notably, a break-in to steal a vital disc from CIA headquarters in Langley. The moment in the latter when, in almost complete silence, Cruise dangles precariously from a cable is as sublimely exhilarating as any in American movies of recent years. --Steve NapletonVisually stunning, and a likely must for John Woo aficionados, the second Mission: Impossible outing from megastar Tom Cruise suffers from an inconsistent tone and tired plot devices--not only recycled from other films, but also repeated throughout the film. Despite remarkable cinematography and awe-inspiring, trademark Woo photography, the movie offers a tepid story from legendary screenwriter-director Robert Towne (Chinatown) and a host of other writers, most uncredited. Woo's famed mythic film-making is far from subtle, with heroic Hunt frequently slow-motion walking through fire, smoke or other similar devices, replete with a white dove among pigeons to signal his presence. The emphasis on romance is an attempt to develop character and a more human side to superspy Hunt, but still the story proves a distraction from the exciting action sequences. --NF Mendoza, Amazon.com

• Sweet Dreams | DVD | (12/06/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents' apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds...

• The X Files: Existence | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £6.55   |  Saving you £9.44 (59.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pretentiously titled Existence is another two-part X-Files yarn glued together to make a feature-length episode. Here the story concerns the birth of Scully's perhaps-alien-tinged child and proves the old maxim that you should stop watching any series when the characters start having babies. By now, newbie Robert Patrick is settled into the role of Agent Doggett, Scully's new partner on the X-Files, but David Duchovny's contract negotiations have enabled Fox Mulder, no longer in the FBI, to come back and hang about the delivery, clashing and then bonding with his replacement. The action content comes from a mild-mannered alien abductee transformed into an unstoppable killing machine, ripping through everything as he tries to prevent the upcoming nativity for reasons that (as ever) don't quite become clear. Also in the support cast are semi-regular Nicholas Lea as lurking plot-explaining conspirator Alex Krycek, and the more welcome Annabeth Gish, whose interestingly spiritual Agent Monica Reyes is being worked up as a replacement for Scully when Gillian Anderson gets out of her contract. Weirdly, The X-Files is in pretty good shape for a show that's been running this long--the performances and the direction are still strong, and outside the "continuing story" shows individual episodes hold up well. But this dreary muddle of running about (plus the odd decapitation) and agonised rumination (blathery philosophical musings about the miracle of life and childbirth) does not represent the series' strengths, suggesting that the best thing that could happen would be to get shot of the long-time stars and their played-out characters to make room for a revitalised show starring Patrick and Gish. On the DVD: The full-screen print, with the extra detail of the DVD image and Dolby Digital, allow you to pick up a lot more than from the murky telecasts. "Alex Krycek Revealed" Parts 1 and 2, a couple of character profiles, turn out to be very snippet-like Fox TV promo pieces, with some interview footage and behind-the-scenes stuff amid the usual teaser clips.--Kim Newman

• Lucifer: Staffel 5 | DVD | (28/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Body Double | DVD | (07/02/2000) from £12.49   |  Saving you £-6.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Even Brian De Palma's staunchest defenders had to swallow hard with this gaudily gory bauble of a thriller that is built around a gruesome (yet surprisingly wittily staged) stalking and murder involving a female victim and a killer with a giant power drill. This is De Palma at his most sensational, in a story about a B-movie actor (Craig Wasson) with career problems and a habit as a voyeur. He witnesses the aforementioned murder, then teams up with a porn actress (Melanie Griffith) to try and find the killer. De Palma has a blast going inside the porn film industry, and even films a pseudo rock video with one-hit wonders Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Wasson is an unlikely leading man, bland and pasty, but he is perfect in the role of a decidedly imperfect hero. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• September | Blu Ray | (06/03/2017) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston and Elaine Stritch star in this drama written and directed by Woody Allen. The film follows Lane (Farrow), who is staying at her childhood home in Vermont as she recovers from a nervous breakdown. She has been having an affair with Peter (Waterston), a writer who lives nearby, but now relations between them seem to have inexplicably cooled. When Lane's mother Diane (Stritch) arrives with unexpected news, and the fate of her relationship with Peter becomes clear, Lane's emotional world is thrown into turmoil once again.

• Stiletto | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• The X-Files: The Truth | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The guest cast list for The X-Files: The Truth runs almost to the first commercial break, suggesting how many plot strands this season-and-series finale needs to make room for, with many old characters (including ghostly appearances for the dead ones) popping up. Mulder (David Duchovny), teasingly absent for the final season, is suddenly back, accused of murdering a super-soldier who isn't supposed to be able to die. He faces a military tribunal, defended by AD Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), as guest stars trot out testimony that fills the double-length episode with explanations recapping nine years of confusion as creator Chris Carter tries to spatchcock his impromptu conspiracy theories into a real plot. Last-season regulars Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish are shunted aside as Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder get to dodge a last-scene explosion and wind up in a pretty silly clinch-with-philosophy in the face of vaguely imminent apocalypse. Seriously, if the franchise is to continue on the big screen, how about ditching the embarrassing alien conspiracy mess and doing a monster story? On the DVD: The X-Files: The Truth comes to disc with a lovely widescreen transfer, a 13-minute "Reflections on the Truth" featurette that, though it hits the self-congratulation button a couple too many times, has a little more meat than the puff pieces included on previous releases, and a bonus episode ("William") that is unfortunately another of the maudlin ones, this time resolving the plotline about Scully's super-baby. --Kim Newman

• The X Files: Season 5 | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £22.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (34.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The fifth season of The X-Files is the one in which the ongoing alien conspiracy arc really takes over, building towards box-office glory for the inevitable cinematic leap in The X-Files Movie (1998). The series opener "Redux" begins with Mulder having been framed for everything going. Scully finally sees a UFO ("The Red and the Black") before being presented with a potential daughter (the two-part "Christmas Carol" and "Emily"). By "The End", there's an enormous tangle of threads for the big-screen adaptation to unravel (or not, as it turned out). Cigarette Smoking Man is being hunted, playing every side against the middle, as well as chasing after information on Mulder's sister. Krycek is back, too, as is an old flame for Mulder in the shape of Agent Diana Fowley. If that wasn't enough to goad viewers into the cinema, there was the Lone Gunmen's 1989-set back story ("Unusual Suspects", with Richard Belzer playing his Homicide: Life on the Streets character), a musical number in the black and white Frankenstein homage "Post Modern Prometheus", and scripts co-written by Stephen King ("Chinga"), William Gibson ("Kill Switch"), and even Darren McGavin (who had inspired the show as Kolchak: The Night Stalker) in "Travellers". On the DVD: The X-Files, Season 5 extras include Chris Carter's commentary over "Post Modern Prometheus", which reveals the decision making behind shooting in black and white as well as the problems it caused. A second commentary is from writer/coproducer John Shiban on "Pine Bluff Variant", where he openly admits the influence of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Across the six discs (only 20 episodes because of the movie of course) you get credits for every episode, their TV promo spots, deleted and international versions of several scenes (some with commentary from Carter), and a couple of TV featurettes. The best of these is "The Truth About Season 5", talking to an excited Dean Haglund (Langly) amongst other crew members.--Paul Tonks

• The Final Days | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  How could a U.S. President recognised as one of the most accomplished international statesmen in world history allow the presidency to be bought to it's knees by such a seemingly insignificant incident. In 1974 President Richard Nixon pressured by public scrutiny ordered a federal investigation of the Watergate scandal. The ordeal blew open a covert operation and cover-up which eventually led to charges bought against members of the Nixon administration for obstructing justice including allegations against the President.This compelling drama traces the activities of Nixon's final days in the office as he and his aids try desperately to repair the damages and clear up all allegations charged. But due to congress' successful investigation which directly implicated Nixon in the cover-up the feat of impeachment forces him to resign. On the night before his resignation the fallen president asks a stunned Henry Kissinger his secretary of state to kneel down beside him and pray. Struggling with mental anguish and helplessness he knew there was no chance to escape his ultimate fate.