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• The Wild Wild West: The Complete Series | DVD | (05/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Death Warrant | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £11.97   |  Saving you £4.01 (44.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1990, Death Warrant was one of several back-to-back action movies that suddenly made Jean Claude Van Damme's name a rival to Stallone's and Schwarzenegger's. Its distinction from the likes of Cyborg or Double Impact is in its firm grounding in reality. In fact, Los Angeles County Jail couldn't seem more harshly real. That's where Detective Burke finds himself going undercover to investigate a string of mysterious (and politically embarrassing) deaths. Of course, the prison environment is ideally suited to Van Damme's strengths, where he elicits sympathy as the innocent abroad during one fight sequence after another. Lots of colourful secondary characters are along for the ride, such as the enigmatic Priest, tough-as-nails peanut-shucking Sergeant DeGraf and Burke's arch nemesis, the Candyman (Patrick Kilpatrick). There's an admirable attempt at portraying the action with some panache. Light and shadow is used to good effect and every kickbox move is punctuated by a double cut. Although the script dispenses with the essential Van Damme elements in the opening seconds (he lost a partner / he's from Canada / he can kickbox), this is definitely an above-average Van Damme flick. On the DVD: The bare-bones transfer offers an occasionally grainy picture in 1.85:1 ratio and a three-channel surround soundtrack. The only extra off the static menu is the original theatrical trailer. --Paul Tonks

• Columbia Classics Collection Vol. 2 UHD (14 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (13/09/2021) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Six classic films from six iconic directors including Anatomy Of A Murder, Oliver!, Taxi Driver, Stripes, Sense And Sensibility (1995), and The Social Network. Experience these essential films from Columbia Pictures like never before, now fully remastered and debuting on 4K Ultra HD. With films driven by bold and impassioned characters and with stories deftly told by master filmmakers and with hours of special features and an exclusive 80-page book with unique insights and production detail about each of the included films this second volume of the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection is truly the best way to watch these treasured cinematic favourites! Includes filmmaker & historian commentaries, anniversary reunions, documentaries, deleted scenes, archival featurettes and much more! Also includes an exclusive Blu-ray™ bonus disc featuring a curated collection of 20 short films from the Columbia Pictures library.

• Alien Nation | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alien Nation is a routine cop thriller with a comedic sci-fi twist. They get drunk on sour milk. They have two hearts and bald, spotted heads. They're highly intelligent, but if you drop them in seawater they'll melt into a puddle of goop. They're "Newcomers", and they arrived as refugees in a massive alien slave-ship, quarantined for three years and then reluctantly accepted as citizens of Earth. To some humans--including seasoned Los Angeles cop Matt Sykes (James Caan)--the Newcomers are unwelcomed "slags". Sykes' own virulent "speciesism" intensifies when Newcomer thugs kill his partner, but he sees logic in teaming up with Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin), the first Newcomer detective in the LAPD. Francisco's Newcomer knowledge is vital to their investigation of an alien drug ring, and a friendship grows from life-or-death circumstances.Alien Nation has two things working in its favour: Caan and Patinkin form a memorable duo, and the basic premise--as conceived by Rockne S O'Bannon (who later developed the film as a TV series)--intelligently accounts for the sociological impact of an alien population. The subtle point is made that humans are extraordinary beings who squander their potential, and the evil of drugs--as dealt by a social-climbing Newcomer played by Terence Stamp--leads to a crisis that threatens to generate global intolerance. These points are well presented in a context of overly familiar plotting and standard-issue sarcasm. It's entertaining for a brisk 90 minutes, but in its attempt to be widely appealing, Alien Nation glosses over issues that might have made it more uniquely provocative. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Black And Blue | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Frannie Benedetto and her nine-year-old son now have a new name new home and a safer life. Safe that is from Detective Bobby Benedetto Frannie's husband and Robert's father who has mistreated his wife and who is not aware of their whereabouts. Their life goes smoothly until Robert has questions that must be answered and he rings his father. Soon Bobby is hunting down his family...

• Animal 2 | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Animal Allen (Ving Rhames) is serving a life sentence for murder at Folson Prison taking the rap for his eldest son. After a brutal prison riot between the Mexicans and the Blacks he is transferred to Susanville Prison where he previously served 15 years. On the outside Animal's son James Jr. is framed for murder and faces serious jail time. To help his son Animal has no choice but to return to his violent past as a money fighter. His new role brings him to the height of power as the leader of the Blacks but he uncovers he is being used as a pawn in a conspiracy to spark an all out race war between the gangs.

• Cool Money | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Who says armed robbery can't be civilised? Charismatic thief Bobby Comfort (Marsters) escapes from prison clears himself of all charges and returns to a new life he finds unsatisfying. Although he is devoted to his wife and daughter his old life comes calling both figuratively and literally in the form of ideas man Sammy Nalo (Cassini). With the help of Bobby's old partner they begin robbing swanky New York hotels while Comfort's second cousin and bumbling cop Phil P

• EdMcbain Ice | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £9.97   |  Saving you £-5.98 (-149.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Once she'd been a dancer. Now she lies on a sidewalk, her blood seeping into the snow. The detectives of the 87th precinct are learning about ice: in a mulitimillion dollar showbiz scam, in the glittering diamonds that spill out of a dead man's vest, in the veins of a small time pusher. As the detectives scramble for evidence, as the city shivers, a killer is one step ahead, and the heat is still on.

• Direct Action | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Can One Man Make A Difference? Frank Gannon (Dolph Lundgren Universal Soldier Rocky IV) is a veteran cop in the Direct Action task force. When his fellow officers learn that he's blown the whistle to the Feds on police corruption they implicate him in a deadly drug scam. Now with the help of rookie cop Billy Ross (Polly Shannon Snowboard Academy) he's got just one day to prove his innocence and see that justice is served...if he can stay alive.