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• State of Play | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A tense conspiracy thriller that twists deeper and deeper into the hostile twilight world where politics meets the press, from Emmy-winning writer Paul Abbot (Cracker) and director David Yates (Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts). Featuring an all-star cast including David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy, James McAvoy and Kelly Macdonald. Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before rumours of an affair between Stephen and the assistant hit the headlines. Meanwhile a suspected teenage drug dealer is shot dead. Revelation upon revelation pile up in the aftermath of these two seemingly unconnected events, ultimately bringing to light shady dealings between the government and major corporate powers. Friendships are tested and lives are put on the line as an intricate web of lies unfolds.

• Cardinal Season 1 | DVD | (02/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The hit show broadcast on BBC Four. In this atmospheric thriller, demoted Detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) is brought back into Homicide when the hunch he wouldn't let go is proven correct. Now, as he relentlessly tracks a serial killer, he must keep a watchful eye on his new partner, Detective Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), who he believes may have a secret agenda, while managing issues of his own.

• The Debt Collector | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.57   |  Saving you £-0.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Billy Connolly has made the transition from comedy to straight dramatic roles with a great deal more success than most. In The Debt Collector he plays Nicky Dryden, a violent debt collector who has served 18 grim years in prison, only to have found rehabilitation on the outside as a successful sculptor and respectability in marriage to Francesca Annis. However, Keltie (Ken Stott) the policeman who originally arrested him is disgusted at this ex-con's social elevation and undertakes an obsessive campaign of stalking and harassment, refusing to allow him to bury his past. It is Keltie, in a sense, who is the true debt collector of the title--he doesn't believe Dryden either has or ever can repay society. Furthermore, Dryden is idolised by a young thug (Iain Robertson) who bases his psychotic lifestyle on Dryden's past exploits. Stott and Connolly make excellent, craggy adversaries, with the frustrated, embittered ex-cop cutting a menacing, though at times pathetic character, while Connolly's Dryden knows that his past, violent side is capable of erupting at any time. This gloomily compelling drama has moments of sickeningly concussive impact as it winds its way down to its tragic conclusion. Annette Crosbie as Keltie's vulnerable yet curiously strong Mother, turns in a fine supporting performance. --David Stubbs

• The Girl In The Cafe | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £13.23   |  Saving you £6.76 (51.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Award-winning screenwriter Richard Curtis combines his unique comedic touch with a powerful humanitarian message in his first film since Love Actually. The film stars Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald and follows the story of a very hard-working shy civil servant Lawrence and his life-changing relationship with a mysterious girl who he meets in a caf opposite Downing Street. Lawrence (Bill Nighy) works for the Chancellor of the Exchequer and barely has time to lace his

• The Corruptor | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £6.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (188.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is not your average New York cop. Working in Chinatown has its multifarious cultural nuances and its fair share of ubiquitous enticement, both of which are reflected in detective Chen's weary face. He had to get into bed with the highest echelons of the Chinese Mafia as a way of augmenting his own career, while maintaining a semblance of control over the dime-a-dozen hoods who proliferate on this turf. To make matters worse, he now has to break in rookie detective Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), who has asked to be assigned to the Chinatown division. Apparently Wallace is infatuated with all things Chinese, or is suffering from "Yellow Fever," as his fellow colleagues would have us believe. Chen, not one to suffer fools gladly, takes young Wallace under his protective wing, oft-warning the shady powers of the neighbourhood not to sink Danny into their sordid pool of corruption. But before he knows it, both he and Wallace are caught in a deadly ring of double-crosses, shady-dealings, murders, and car chases. And all of this under the suspicious eye of Internal Affairs. Part Serpico and part Hard Boiled, this film seems at first to be a major departure from director James Foley's previous work. However, Foley has frequently revealed a keen eye and understanding for emotionally complex relationships, especially between teacher and pupil (Glengarry Glen Ross) or father and son (At Close Range). This movie is no different. In fact, Foley's meticulous attention to the relationship between the wise, morally burdened Chen, and the naove, innocent Wallace morphs this otherwise tedious plot into a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Hats off to Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg, whose sympathetic chemistry creates an authentic and deeply personal connection, a factor that proves crucial to the film's poignant, disturbing finale. --Jeremy Storey

• Deceived (2002) | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  While the Pentagon are experimenting with a new type of top secret paranormal weapon an observatory deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains receives a confirmed extra-terrestrial signal. With evidence that the two are somehow connected Colonel David Garrett (Lou Gossett Jr.) scrambles a team of commandos to the observatory. But as this edge of your seat thriller unfolds it becomes clear that the signal has a dark secret....

• Triggermen | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £6.96   |  Saving you £9.02 (227.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A high-strung yet winning crime comedy, Triggermen features an appealing cast in the story of two British con artists mistaken for a pair of seasoned assassins. Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey play displaced, small-time thieves rotting away in Chicago and desperate to get home to the U.K. Morrissey's character has a solution: He takes a briefcase full of cash left in a hotel lobby for a pair of laidback, Yankee killers (Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Rapaport) hired through a second party to murder a Windy City crime boss (Pete Postlethwaite). The client (Louis Di Bianco) pressures the Brits to get the job done, while the real hitmen figure out they've been supplanted. It all makes for an enjoyable (and violent) lark, but an interesting angle finds Wahlberg's soft-spoken criminal anxious to get out of his trade (he falls for Postlethwaite's gorgeous daughter, played by Claire Forlani) while Morrissey becomes increasingly convincing as a gangster. --Tom Keogh

• Deceived | DVD | (16/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the producers of Left Behind: The Movie comes DECEIVED a chilling 21st century supernatural thriller that will appeal to all conspiracy theorists and fans of the X-files.While the Pentagon are experimenting with a new type of top secret paranormal weapon an observatory deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains receives a confirmed extra-terrestrial signal.With evidence that the two are somehow connected Colonel David Garret (Lous Gossett Jr) scrambles a team of commandos to the observatory. But as this edge of your seat thriller unfolds it becomes clear that the signal has a dark secret.