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• Sneakers | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £14.44   |  Saving you £-4.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency. Robert Redford plays the group's guru, an ageing techno-anarchist who has been hiding from the feds since the early 1970s; his companionable gang of freaks includes Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, the late River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, as a veteran CIA operative turned "sneaker." The technological black box that everybody is after, an array of computer chips that can decode any encrypted message, isn't a very plausible invention, but it's a serviceable McGuffin, and the megalomania of the master plotter played by Ben Kingsley has more resonance than most. Modest inferences can be drawn about the very latest high-tech threats to civil liberties. --David Chute, Amazon.com

• The River Wild | DVD | (31/05/2002) from £9.97   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hang on tight for a suspense-filled action-thriller starring Oscar-winner Meryl Streep in a stunning performance that will take your breath away! Streep portrays a former river guide who arranges a white-water rafting trip to celebrate her son's birthday and salvage her shaky marriage. Her skills and courage are soon put to the test when three mysterious strangers threaten to turn their vacation into a living hell...

• Good Night and Good Luck | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £6.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (191.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Broadcast journalist Edward Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

• Dolores Claiborne | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (100.14%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Dark secrets, family torments and two murders swirl around the stoic, hardened figure of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates), a housekeeper accused of murdering her employer of 22 years. Then there was that timely accident that took Dolores's husband (David Strathairn) during the solar eclipse of 1975. Yet with all the sombre suffering that follows Dolores like a miasma of pain, none of it compares with the heartache of a relationship she has with her grown daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Although this flick is rife with horror, it is not of the supernatural kind, but rather of the torment only real people can impose on one another. The script is full of colourful language, and director Taylor Hackford successfully weaves several plot threads and psychological dilemmas throughout this engrossing tale without diminishing any of them. He not only culls intense performances from his cast, but he also brings to life the landscape around them. When Dolores Claiborne's best-kept secret is finally given up, it occurs under the surreal backdrop of a solar eclipse that is a truly sensational bit of cinematography. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• McMafia | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £6.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by the insider interviews in Misha Glenny's bestselling book and featuring a star-studded international cast, this fast-paced thriller exposes the connections behind a global network of organised crime. McMafia unravels a complex web of connections that joins up money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in India, Russian oligarchs in London and Bedouin smugglers in the Negev desert. What starts out as a story of survival and revenge becomes a tale of one man's struggle against the lures of corruption.

• Louder Than Bombs | Blu Ray | (15/08/2016) from £10.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (104.56%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Three years after her untimely death, an upcoming exhibition celebrating famed war photographer Isabelle Reed brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family home, forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently. A funny and poignant drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert.

• The River Wild (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep turns her hand to action films in this white-water knuckle-biter. Having decided to heal some family rifts, expert rafter Gail (Streep) takes her husband and their young son for a day out on the river. But the pleasant family adventure takes a turn for the worse when they encounter a couple of armed bank robbers (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) who hijack the raft and take them into seemingly impassable rapids. It's now up to Gail to save the day and return them to safer waters.

• Godzilla | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £23.00 (329.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

• Fracture | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young district attorney becomes a crusader for justice when a man is found innocent of the attempted murder of his wife.

• Ufo (2018) | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Derek (Alex Sharp) a brilliant college student, haunted by a childhood UFO sighting, who believes that mysterious sightings reported at multiple airports across the United States are UFO's. With the help of his girlfriend, Natalie (Ella Purnell), and his advanced mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks (XFiles' Gillian Anderson), Derek races to unravel the mystery with FBI special agent Franklin Ahls (David Strathairn) on his heels. Features:

• We Are Marshall (1-Disc Edition) | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £5.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (60.80%)   |  RRP £13.99

  There seems to be no end to "beating-the-odds" American football movies these days, but We Are Marshall, based on a true story, is in the top tier of that clutch of movies. Matthew McConaughey plays Jack Lengyel, who becomes head coach--more or less by default--of Marshall University's rebuilding varsity American football team in Huntington, West Virginia, after the school's 37-member team and coaches (and a number of others) die in a plane crash in the Appalachian Mountains on November 14, 1970. Facing an indifferent college president (David Strathairn) ready to shut the football program down, a morose assistant coach (Matthew Fox of Lost fame), and a charged-up player (Anthony Mackie) who missed the doomed flight due to an injury, Lengyel is faced with fielding a new team and putting the players through their paces. There are the usual, perhaps too-familiar, training montages and field action, but screenwriter Jamie Linden and director McG (Charlie's Angels) also draw some very good performances from the likes of Kate Mara and Ian McShane, contributing to an emotional tapestry conveying a powerful sense of how such a sizable loss affects a small community. --Sally Giles

• Matewan | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A little-known chapter of American labour history is brought vividly to life in this period drama from writer-director John Sayles. It's a fictional story about labour wars among West Virginia coal miners during the 1920s, but every detail is so right that the film has the unmistakable ring of truth. The tension begins when the Stone Mountain Coal Company of Matewan, West Virginia, announces a lower pay rate for miners, who respond by calling a strike under the leadership of a United Mine Workers representative (Chris Cooper). Proving strength in numbers, the miners are joined by black and Italian miners who initially resist the strike, and a fateful battle ensues when detectives hired by the coal company attempt to evict miners from company housing. Violence erupts in a sequence of astonishing, cathartic intensity, and Matewan achieves a rare degree of moral complexity combined with gut-wrenching tragedy. The film salutes a pacifist ideal while recognising that personal and political convictions often must be defended with violence. To illustrate this point, Sayles enlisted master cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who creates the film's authentic visual texture--a triumph of artistry over limited resources. The result is a milestone of independent filmmaking, and Matewan remains one of Sayles's finest achievements. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Louder Than Bombs | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three years after her untimely death, an upcoming exhibition celebrating famed war photographer Isabelle Reed brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family home, forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years. With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently. A funny and poignant drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert.

• American Pastoral | DVD | (06/03/2017) from £7.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Phillip Roth, 'American Pastoral' follows a family whose seemingly idyllic existence is shattered by the social and political turmoil of the 1960s.

• L.A. Confidential | Blu Ray | (02/10/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, LA Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of LA history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolour noir films, Chinatown. Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced "hero" (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson

• Alphas - Series 1 | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £4.94   |  Saving you £20.05 (405.87%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A crack team of super-humans operate within the Defence Criminal Investigation Service of the U.S Department of Defence to investigate a new breed of crime; those committed by and involving other 'Alphas'.

• Good Night, And Good Luck | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Broadcast journalist Edward Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

• Alphas - Season 2 | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Discredited by the government after revealing the existence of Alphas in Season One Dr. Lee Rosen (Academy Award nominee David Strathairn Good Night and Good Luck) must re-assemble his now defunct team to face the growing threat of Alpha extremist Stanton Parish (John Pyper-Ferguson Fringe). With the help of tech-genius Skylar (guest star Summer Glau Firefly) and memory recorder Mitchell (guest star Sean Astin The Lord of the Rings trilogy) Rosen and his team must work together to uncover Parish's chilling plan. But with a mole in their midst can they overcome the dangers that surround them and stop Parish before it's too late? Special Features: Deleted Scenes Gag Reel

• McMafia BD | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Inspired by the insider interviews in Misha Glenny's bestselling book and featuring a star-studded international cast, this fast-paced thriller exposes the connections behind a global network of organised crime. McMafia unravels a complex web of connections that joins up money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in India, Russian oligarchs in London and Bedouin smugglers in the Negev desert. What starts out as a story of survival and revenge becomes a tale of one man's struggle against the lures of corruption.

• My Blueberry Nights | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £3.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (415.47%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A beautiful young woman on the treacherous road to love.... In Wong War Kai's debut English language feature My Blueberry Nights the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough break-up Elizabeth (Norah Jones) sets out on a journey across America leaving behind a life of memories a dream and a soulful new friend - a caf owner (Jude Law) - all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers including a troubled cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz) and a down-on-her luck gambler (Natalie Portman) with a score to settle. Through these individuals Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself.