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• Vincent and Theo | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In life he was impoverished his work largely ignored; yet today paintings by Vincent Van Gogh fetch millions of dollars at auction. This supreme irony is laid bare in the passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother who seems unable to live with him.....or without him.

• Shrek +3D - The Story Continues | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £9.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (101.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shrek: Shrek (Mike Myers) is a cynical no-nonsense ogre whose swamp has been overrun by annoying fairy tale creatures. He sets out to save his home and along the way is befriended by a wise-cracking donkey (Eddie Murphy) sent to slay a fire-breathing dragon and save a beautiful princess (Cameron Diaz) with a deep dark secret. In the end Shrek learns to love and be loved. Shrek 3-D: (15 Minute Short) - The story continues in this brand-new adventure! Shortly afte

• The Three Musketeers: Milady | Blu Ray | (22/04/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brotherhood Of The Wolf | Blu Ray | (22/08/2011) from £41.24   |  Saving you £-21.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

• La Haine (4K UHD) | Blu Ray | (21/04/2025) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Turning the camera away from iconic Paris to the concrete banlieue, Mathieu Kassovitz's second feature as a director changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it landed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, winning the Best Director prize.The film takes place over 24 hours following the police shooting of a young man from a deprived housing estate and shows the world through the eyes of three friends one North African, one Jewish and one Black - who are frustrated with politicians, the media and police brutality.Black-and-white visuals, a thumping hip-hop soundtrack and graffiti-daubed streets underscore the urgency and rebellion at the heart of this game-changing classic.Extras:4K restoration supervised by director of photography Pierre Aїm and presented on UHD in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)Alternative soundtrack by award-winning electronic music collective Asian Dub Foundation. Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in 2025.Audio commentary by Mathieu Kassovitz (2004)Redefining Rebellion (2020, 5 mins): film critic and programmer Kaleem Aftab explores the spirit of revolution in La HaineScreen Epiphany: Riz Ahmed introduces La Haine (2020, 14 mins): the award-winning actor talks about his connection to the filmInterview with Mathieu Kassovitz (2020, 35 mins): interview with the actor, writer and directorThree short films by Mathieu Kassovitz: Fierrot le pou (1990, 7 mins): a young man shoots hoops (or tries) in a gym, in an effort to impress a young woman, Cauchemar Blanc (1991, 10 mins): a group of white men carry out a racist attack in the banlieue, and Assassins (1992, 12 mins): Kassovitz's short film that he later developed into the feature Assassin(s) in 199710 Years of La Haine (2005, 84 mins): feature-length documentary marking the 10th anniversary of Matthieu Kassovitz's award-winning filmCasting and rehearsals (1995, 19 mins)Anatomy of a Scene (1995, 7 mins): a look at the shooting of a particularly challenging sceneBehind the Scenes (1995, 6 mins): Kassovitz, his cast and crew prepare to embark on making La HaineColour deleted and extended scenes (1995, 17 mins): including afterwords by Mathieu Kassovitz on selected scenesOriginal trailers25th anniversary trailer80-page book featuring writing by Ginette Vincendeau and Kaleem Aftab, an interview with Mathieu Kassovitz, archival essays and reviews, and more

• Joan Of Arc: The Messenger | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Over the years, many film directors have attempted to tell the story of legendary 15th-century heroine Joan of Arc, a simple country girl who claimed she was inspired by God to lead the French troops in a victorious assault on the mighty English army. Luc Besson's 1999 epic might not be the best version of her life, but it's certainly the biggest. The movie cost a reported $60 million. Even if you are terminally unimpressed by the scale of such recent blockbusters as Gladiator, your eyes will pop out at the sheer number of bodies (living and dead) that Besson has assembled for the dynamic battle scenes. The lavish sets and costumes are almost equally gobsmacking, though neither will show to maximum advantage on the small screen. That's a pity because size is the only thing Joan of Arc really has going for it--as a human drama, it falls completely flat.The historical Joan was eventually made a saint by the Catholic Church, and earlier biopics tended to treat her celestial visions as literal fact. It was probably a mistake for Besson and his co-screenwriter Andrew Birkin to take a more psychological approach and present them as figments of her hysterical imagination. It makes it hard to work up the necessary empathy when the spectacle revolves around a confused and neurotic babe who couldn't organise a Tupperware party, let alone a vast military campaign. Milla Jovovich (the star of Besson's previous The Fifth Element and formerly his wife) doesn't help matters with her shrill and amateurish performance. But a couple of the supporting players are passably amusing--John Malkovich camps it up energetically as Charles, the dispossessed French king whom Joan reinstates, while Faye Dunaway wears outlandish headgear and carries on like a science-fiction creation in the role of his scheming mother-in-law. (The less said the better about Dustin Hoffman's pompous turn as Joan's personified conscience.) Besson keeps to the same glossy visual style even when the Maid is burning at the stake, but it isn't enough to prevent this empty shell of a movie from being a colossal yawn. --Peter Matthews

• The Three Musketeers | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £8.74   |  Saving you £4.25 (48.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The young D'Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men Athos (Oliver Reed) Porthos (Frank Finlay) and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out that they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle

• Black Swan - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £7.60   |  Saving you £17.39 (228.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

• Mesrine - Killer Instinct (Complete) | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (35.02%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Jacques Mesrine, last of the great French gangsters, was declared Public Enemy Number One during his lifetime. He regularly finished atop the list of newsmakers in opinion polls.

• Irreversible (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Perhaps the quintessential exemplar of New French Extremism, Irreversible amazed and outraged audiences across the world upon its release in 2002, with its harrowing scenes of rape and violence. Now Gaspar Noé's nauseating, thrilling, ingenious masterwork returns in a new 4K restoration, both in its original Theatrical Cut and a potent new Straight Cut, assembled in 2020, that re-orders the film's reverse narrative into a linear chronology. Extras 4K restoration supervised by writer-director Gaspar Noé Two versions of the film: the 2002 Theatrical Cut (98 mins); and the 2020 Straight Cut, which re-orders the narrative into a linear chronology (90 mins) Original 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo audio tracks Audio commentary by Gaspar Noé on the Theatrical Cut (2003) The Irreversible Odyssey (2019): retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Gaspar Noé, actors Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, and others SFX (2003): visual effects supervisor Rodolphe Chabrier discusses his team's work on the film Original theatrical trailer 2020 Straight Cut trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles Limited edition exclusive 80-page booklet with a new essay by Anna Bogutskaya, archival interviews and articles, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 5,000 copies

• Black Swan | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £9.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (151.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) this provocative psychological thriller exhilarated audiences and critics on its way to becoming the must-see film of the year. Portman gives the performance of a lifetime as Nina a stunningly talented but dangerously unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to breaking point by her driven artistic director (Vincent Cassel) and the threat posed by a seductive rival dancer (Mila Kunis) Nina's tenuous grip on reality starts to slip away. As the pressure builds Nina's all-consuming obsessions spin out of control plunging her into a waking nightmare that will threaten not only her sanity but her life.

• Jason Bourne (4K UHD Blu-ray + Blu-ray) | 4K UHD | (28/11/2016) from £7.62   |  Saving you £9.87 (129.53%)   |  RRP £17.49

  Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures' Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA's most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows. Jason Bourne, now remembering who he truly is, tries to uncover hidden truths about his past. Click Images to Enlarge

• Criterion Collection: John Cassavetes - Five Films | Blu Ray | (22/10/2013) from £63.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• It Could Happen To You | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £13.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (42.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Inspired by an actual incident, this unassuming, wonderfully good-natured romantic comedy tells the story of a New York City street cop named Charlie (Nicolas Cage) who makes a promise to a coffee-shop waitress named Yvonne (Bridget Fonda) that will change both their lives. One day after coffee, Charlie is embarrassed to discover he doesn't have money for a tip, so he tells Yvonne that he'll share half of his winnings if the lottery ticket he's holding comes up a winner. Sure enough, he wins the jackpot--a whopping US$4 million payoff--and Charlie's wife, Muriel (Rosie Perez), goes ballistic when he tells her about his deal with Yvonne. From this point, It Could Happen to You follows Charlie's dilemma as he is forced to decide the proper course of action, and director Andrew Bergman smoothly incorporates a gentle love story into this amusing crisis of conscience. Fonda and Cage have an easygoing chemistry that adds a pleasant touch to the movie's fairy-tale plot, and It Could Happen to You's kindhearted sentiment is never so thick that it becomes sticky-sweet or artificial. As feel-good comedies go, this one's a class act. --Jeff Shannon

• Eastern Promises | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £6.76   |  Saving you £14.49 (263.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts star in this new thriller which centres on one of London's most notorious organized crime families.

• Mesrine - Killer Instinct (Complete) | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £12.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (54.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The incredible and brutal story of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) continues in "Mesrine: Public Enemy No 1". Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again.

• The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan | Blu Ray | (14/08/2023) from £23.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brotherhood Of The Wolf | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £5.56   |  Saving you £10.43 (187.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

• Tale Of Tales | Blu Ray | (08/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tale of Tales unleashes a barrage of mind-bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the (mis)adventures of three kings.