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• The Story Of Adele H | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Story of Adele H is Francois Truffaut's dramatisation of the true story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of French author-in-exile Victor Hugo, and her romantic obsession with a young French officer. It's a cinematically beautiful and emotionally wrenching portrait of a headstrong but unstable young woman. Adele (Isabelle Adjani, whose pale face gives her the quality of a cameo portrait) travels under a false name and spins half-a-dozen false stories about herself and her relationship to Lieutenant Pinson (Bruce Robinson), the Hussar she follows to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pinson no longer loves her, but she refuses to accept his rejection. Sinking further and further into her own internal world, she passes herself off as his wife and pours out her stormy emotions into a personal journal filled with delusional descriptions of her fantasy life. Beautifully shot by Nestor Almendros in vivid colour, Truffaut's re-creation of the 1860s is accomplished not merely in impressive sets and locations but in the very style of the film: narration and voiceovers, written journal entries and letters, journeys and locations established with map reproductions, and a judicious use of stills mixing old-fashioned cinematic technique with poetic flourishes. The result is one of Truffaut's most haunting portraits, all the more powerful because it's true. --Sean Axmaker

• The Way Of The Dragon - Thirtieth Anniversary Tribute | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in modern Rome the only full length feature ever directed by Bruce Lee is a fast-moving Kung Fu story of how a country boy attempts to outsmart big-city gangsters. This digitally re-mastered and restored anamorphic version is now totally uncut after years of censorship with the legendary double nunchaku sequences now re-instated and the full length Colosseum fight between Bruce Lee and karate legend Chuck Norris.

• Die Hard 4.0 | Blu Ray | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.98

  Bruce Willis is back as supercop John McClane in this, the fourth instalment of the smash action franchise.

• Queen of the Damned | Blu Ray | (11/06/2024) from £11.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Die Hard | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £10.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (19.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bruce Willis is John McClane, a New York cop who flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company’s lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this heart-stopping action thriller. Includes DVD bonus disc featuring over 90 minutes of all new content in the Decoding Die Hard.

• Die Hard With A Vengeance (Two Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £7.96   |  Saving you £13.02 (261.97%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This time New York cop John McClane (Willis) is the personal target of the mysterious Simon (Jeremy Irons) a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner (Samuel L. Jackson) McClane careens wildly from one end of New York City to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a real

• The Water Horse - Legend Of The Deep | Blu Ray | (30/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend that enchants and mystifies to this day.

• Twenty Four Seven | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the poverty and despair of a small industrial town one man with a dream forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers self-respect and a fighting chance. But amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives tragedy strikes. The hard lesson learned is that anything is possible but only if you believe in yourself.

• Hudson Hawk | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £12.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (-116.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bruce Willis's awful, 1991 vanity piece is an abuse of audience goodwill and a waste of a good cast and director (Michael Lehmann of Heathers). The story of Hudson Hawk, cowritten by Willis, concerns a cat burglar pressured into stealing precious art, including some from the Vatican. But the script is just a convenience upon which Willis piles his vaguely boorish brand of hip irony, assuming his audience will stay with him every step of the way. Certain, self-congratulatory scenes induce cringing--Willis and Danny Aiello, for instance, sing "Side by Side" (to brassy accompaniment on the soundtrack) every time they're working a job--but the overall effect is more irritating and baffling. Keep a good thought for Willis (an underrated actor better than the summer junk we usually see him in) by checking out his superior work in Pulp Fiction and his small but memorable role in Billy Bathgate. --Tom Keogh

• Swept Away | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £6.97   |  Saving you £2.01 (50.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Madonna gives her most believable performance in Swept Away as Amber, a rich woman on a sea cruise who expects the world to obey her every whim. When she and a high-spirited crew member (Adriano Giannini) are marooned on a small deserted island the feud that sprang up between them on the ship becomes an all-out war then changes into lustful desire as Amber finds that losing status opens up a new side of her personality. Some people will want to see Swept Away for the simple pleasure of seeing Madonna being slapped; more demanding filmgoers will, sadly, be left wanting. Though the movie purports to be a satirical examination of capitalism (as was the original 1974 version), its vague discussion of money and power adds up to very little. The love story is surprisingly sincere, making Swept Away a standard romantic potboiler with gorgeous tropical backdrops. --Bret Fetzer

• A Touch of Frost: Series 1 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £34.15   |  Saving you £-9.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Includes the feature-length episodes 'Care & Protection' 'Not With Kindness' and 'Conclusions'. David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. This release features all the episodes from Series One of A Touch of Frost.

• Green Hornet | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  After Bruce Lee's untimely death in 1973 and the global success of 'Enter The Dragon' two 90-minute feature films were created to capitalise on Lee's worldwide stardom. The first of these films Green Hornet was released theatrically in 1974. Starring Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as The Green Hornet the film capitalised on the existing popularity of the 1960s crime-fighting duo. Edited with bruce Lee's star power in mind the film has an abundance of spectacular fight scenes. The Green Hornet has never been available on DVD ...until now! Digitally re-mastered from a brand new 35mm print in its original 1:1.85 theatrical aspect ratio The Green Hornet represents the last of the unleased Bruce Lee feature films.

• Matchstick Men | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £5.06   |  Saving you £9.93 (196.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A phobic con artist and his protege are about to pull one of the most lucrative swindles of their lives when the swindler's teenage daughter suddenly turns up unannounced.

• Set Up | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £2.39   |  Saving you £15.60 (86.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A group of friends become involved in a potentially deadly diamond heist.

• A Town Called Panic | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (101.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hilarious and frequently surreal the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty! Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromit's Aardman Studios) Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events. Cowboy and Indian's plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbeque backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. Whoops! This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events as the trio travel to the center of the earth trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures. Each speedy character is voiced-and animated-as if they are filled with laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this papier-m''ch'' burg will Horse and his equine paramour-flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar)-ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid A Town Called Panic is zany brainy and altogether insane-y!

• Sylvia | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.36   |  Saving you £8.63 (117.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow, "Sylvia" is a story of the love, passion, wit and despair between two of the 20th century's most brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and the British poet Ted Hughes.

• Cube 2 | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Imagine waking up in a in a cube-shaped room with a bunch of strangers. Nobody can remember how and why they are there and nobody knows how to get out. Feel the suspense as you witness the horror of eight people who find themselves in just such a predicament. Trapped in a world where the rules of physics do not apply each of the eight must use a special skill to help them survive - unfortunately only one of them can!

• Quatermass - Chapters 1 To 4 / The Conclusion | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  John Mills stars as the eponymous Professor in 1979s Quatermass, the fourth, final and best of the celebrated television science fiction serials. The Professors early adventures were 1950s TV productions, all made into cult Hammer films, including the excellent Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Here Quatermass, now an elderly scientist searching for his missing grand-daughter, finds himself facing a new alien nightmare in a convincingly bleak near-future Britain of urban decay, social collapse and unchecked violence. Written by Nigel Kneale, as were all the Quatermass stories, this was an intelligent extrapolation of 1970s industrial-strife-ridden Britain, a continuation of the apocalyptic British SF tradition of John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids was serialised by the BBC two years later). Thanks to a generous budget sufficient to allow for an international theatrical version, the production values are impressively large-scale, and the naturalistic performances from a cast including Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman and Brenda Fricker add greatly to the sense of reality. Best of all, John Mills brings tremendous class to an adventure which remains a rare example of serious, ideas-based adult TV SF. Director Piers Haggard (Pennies from Heaven) packs considerable tension and not a few scares into Kneales epic canvas. On the DVD: Quatermass is presented on three DVDs with two 50-minute episodes and perfunctory production notes on each of the first two discs. The 4:3 picture is good for a 1970s TV series, though there is some minor print damage. Sound is adequate two-channel mono. Disc 3 offers the 101-minute international theatrical version, called The Quatermass Conclusion. This version contains some slightly stronger, 15-rated material, and different credits. The disc also features an oddly presented but interesting 18-minute interview with Nigel Kneale which is centred on the original three Quatermass BBC serials. A 16-page booklet is informative and the packaging is among the most attractive to grace a DVD set thus far. --Gary S Dalkin

• The King Is Alive | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a bus breaks down in the desert the passengers decide to stage a production of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' to pass the time until they are rescued. However jealousies and divisions between members of the group threaten the security of all... Intellectual and offbeat horror film from acclaimed Danish director Kristian Levring adhering to the 'Dogme95' principles of film making.

• Last Man Standing | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £10.41   |  Saving you £5.58 (53.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Best known for making movies about men and violence, director Walter Hill scored a misfire with this ambitious but ultimately dreary remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo. The story's essentially the same but the setting has been switched to a dusty, almost ghostly Texas town in the 1930s, where two rival Chicago gangs are locked in an uneasy truce. Bruce Willis plays the lone drifter who allies himself with both gangs to his own advantage, working both sides against each other according to his own hidden agenda. The violence escalates to a bloody climax, of course, with Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly and Michael Imperioli as trigger-happy lieutenants in a lonely, desolate war. Fans of gangster movies will want to see this, and, if nothing else, Hill has brought his polished style to a vaguely mythic story. It's far from being a classic, however, and although its action is at times masterfully choreographed, the movie's humourless attitude is unexpectedly oppressive. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com