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• Madame de... (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When, beset by debt, the titular Countess Louise (Danielle Darrieux) decides to sell a pair of earrings that were a wedding gift from her husband André (Charles Boyer), she unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will have serious consequences not only for the Parisian couple but for André's mistress and for an Italian Baron (Vittorio De Sica), who purchased the, by then, much-travelled jewellery. Featuring nuanced performances by all three lead actors and directed by celebrated auteur Max Ophüls, this intricately constructed and elegantly designed drama is a searing study of fateful passion wound up in deceits, deals and desires. Special Features: Fully illustrated booklet featuring writing on the film and full film credits Other extras TBC)

• Red Corner | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £5.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (170.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Using a faulty thriller for his soapbox as an outspoken critic of China, a devout follower of the Dalai Lama, and an influential supporter of Tibetan freedom, Richard Gere resorts to the equivalent of propagandistic drama to deliver a heavy-handed message. In other words, Red Corner relies on a dubious strategy to promote political awareness, but director Jon Avnet appeals to the viewer's outrage with such effective urgency that you're likely to forget you're being shamelessly manipulated. Gere plays a downtrodden TV executive who sells syndicated shows on the global market, and during a business trip to China he finds himself framed for the murder of the sexy daughter of a high Chinese official. Once trapped in a legal system in which his innocence will be all but impossible to prove, Gere must rely on a Chinese-appointed lawyer (played by Bai Ling) who first advises him to plead guilty but gradually grows convinced of foul play. Barely attempting to hide its agenda, Red Corner effectively sets the stage for abundant anti-Chinese sentiment, and to be sure, the movie gains powerful momentum with its tale of justice gone awry. It's a serious-minded, high-intensity courtroom drama with noble intentions, but one wonder if it has to be so conspicuously lacking in subtlety. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea / The Swiss Family Robinson / One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  20 000 Leagues Under The Sea (Dir. Richard Fleischer 1955): An adventure based on Jules Verne's prophetic novel.... Climb aboard the Nautilus and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award-winning (1955) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20 000 Leagues Under The Sea a truly mesmerizing masterpiece! Swiss Family Robinson (Dir. Ken Annakin 1960): A family fleeing from the despotic regime of Napoleon is chased off course by a band of pirates. They are then shipwrecked on a tropical island where they begin a new and adventurous life. Based on the book by Johann Wyss. One Of Our Dinosaurs (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1975): It's Nanny Hettie to the rescue when British Intelligence Agent Lord Southmere is captured by Chinese agent Hnup Wan. Hettie is the only one who knows Southmere's secret: he has stolen a piece of top-secret microfilm from a Chinese warlord and hidden it in the skeleton of a dinosaur in a London museum. Aided by a small army of fellow nannies Hettie saves the day by foiling Wan and his gang.

• Cop Land | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £6.06   |  Saving you £11.93 (196.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Freddy Heflin (Stallone in a critically acclaimed performance) is a simple small-town Sheriff who had big dreams of becoming a New York City cop before a heroic deed left him deaf in one ear. Though he saved the life of the woman he loves (Annabella Sciorra - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle) she went on to marry someone else. But everything in Freddy's life is about to change! After he uncovers evidence of a murder fakes suicide and police tampering Freddy must choose between the men he idolises the woman he adores and the law he's sworn to defend.

• Le Divorce | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Kate Hudson) and Roxeanne (Naomi Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society.

• Alpha | Blu Ray | (07/01/2019) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. Europe, 20,000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe's most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone -- he must learn to survive and navigate the harsh and unforgiving wilderness. Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learn to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds in order to find their way home before the deadly winter arrives.

• FX2 - The Deadly Art Of Illusion | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Follow-up to the 1986 Original. Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy are back for an all-new action-thriller that continues the FX saga with stylish wit unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action. Five years after his first deadly adventure Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated electronic toys for a living. But when his girlfriend’s ex-husband (Tom Mason) a police detective persuades him to devise an illusion to capt

• Abbott And Costello - Meet The Killer/Jekyll And Hyde | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meet The Killer: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami). Jekyll And Hyde: Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. At one point the serum that turns Jekyll into the murderous Hyde gets injected into Tubby.

• Cube | Blu Ray | (15/10/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.

• The Deer Hunter | DVD | (04/03/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

• Ronin 4K UHD and Blu-Ray Mediabook Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (01/04/2024) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ronin 4K UHD & Blu-Ray Mediabook3-Disc Limited Collector's Edition in Mediabook with the film on UHD-Blu-ray and Blu-ray, and one Bonus Blu-ray disc, as well as a 24 page booklet.BONUS:Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer | Theatrical TrailerBLU-RAY BONUS:In the cutting room | Natascha McElhone: The Work of an Actress | Composing the Music | Risky Driving Maneuvers | Filming in the Fast Lane | Through the Lens | Interviews in Venice | Alternative Ending

• Shaft (2019) | Blu Ray | (15/06/2020) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Legendary bada** John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) agrees to help his estranged son, JJ (Jessie T. Usher), uncover the truth behind his friend's suspicious death. The popular opposite of his foul-mouthed father, JJ is a book-smart cybersecurity expert who needs an education only Shaft can provide: how to navigate Harlem's underbelly. But if flying fists and bullets weren't enough of a challenge, JJ finds his political correctness clashes wildly with Shaft's shut your mouth style in this nonstop action-comedy that proves the Shaft name is still the ultimate in cool. Extra Content Can Ya Dig It? The Making of Shaft - A Complicated Man: The Shaft Legacy - Part One: A Bad Mother Born, Part Two: No Question Asked, Part Three: A Legend in His Time - Deleted Scenes - Gag Reel

• Four Moons | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young boy fights to suppress his growing attraction to his male cousin, a relationship between two reunited friends threatens devastating repercussions, the appearance of a third party throws off the balance of a committed gay relationship, and a family man gives into his obsession over a handsome male prostitute in this film featuring four stunning and personal tales of personal struggle.

• The Undoing | Blu Ray | (22/03/2021) from £16.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Grace (Nicole Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant), are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family. Bonus Features The Undoing Revelations Creating The Undoing Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant introduce The Undoing

• Private's Progress | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  With a remarkable cast headlined by Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price and Terry Thomas, WWII army comedy Private's Progress was one of the major British hits of 1956. Carmichael is Stanley Windrush, a naïve young soldier who during training falls in with the streetwise Private Cox (Attenborough). Windrush's uncle is the even more ambitiously corrupt Colonel Tracepurcel (Price), who plans to divert the war effort to liberate art treasures already looted by the Germans. The first half of the film is quite pedestrian, though the pace picks up considerably once the heist gets underway, and the cheery tone masks a really rather dark and cynical heart. Carmichael's innocent abroad quickly wears thin, but Attenborough and Price steal the film, as well as the paintings, with typically excellent turns. With a nod in the direction of Ealing's The Ladykillers (1955) the film also anticipates the attitudes of both The League of Gentlemen (1959) and Joseph Heller's novel Catch 22 (1961), though lacks the latter's greater sophistication. The cast also contains such British stalwarts as William Hartnell, Peter Jones, Ian Bannen, John Le Mesurier, Christopher Lee and David Lodge, and was sufficiently popular to reunite all the major players for the superior sequel, I'm Alright Jack (1959). On the DVD: Private's Progress is presented in black and white at 4:3 Academy ratio, though the film appears to have been shot full frame and then unmasked for home viewing so there is more top and bottom to the images than at the cinema. The print used shows constant minor damage and is quite grainy, though no more than expected for a low-budget film of the time. The mono sound is average and unremarkable, and there are no special features. --Gary S Dalkin

• Four Rooms | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £6.25   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor hotel and a hapless bellboy named Ted is in for the wildest night of his life. While delivering room service Ted meets up with a series of outlandishly eccentric guests from a pair of pint-size pranksters bent on destruction to a demented movie star who makes Ted an outrageous offer he can't believe or refuse! Directed by four of Hollywood's hottest filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino and featuring hilarious performances from Antonio Banderas Marisa Tomei and Madonna this hysterical romp is five-star fun!

• Behind Enemy Lines | Blu Ray | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.98

  A drama about a pilot and a naval flight officer (Owen Wilson and Gabriel Macht) shot down behind enemy lines in Bosnia, and the clandestine mission their commanding officer (Gene Hackman) sets up to rescue them.

• 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

• Risky Business | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet the model son who's been good too long. To celebrate its 25th Anninversary Warner have re-released this classic dark comedy. Meet Joel Goodson an industrious college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible trustworthy son. However when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash in a risky way.

• Sirens | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sirens is an affectionate, semi-fictional comedy of manners set in 1930s Australia. In an audacious stroke of casting Hugh Grant plays a stereotypically awkward and diffident Englishman, in this case a Church of England priest. The priest is despatched into the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in an effort to press the Good Word upon Norman Lindsay, an artist whose lurid works are scandalising the upright citizenry. Lindsay--capably played here by Sam Neill--really existed and though he fancied himself as a dashing Bohemian artist, his paintings were dreadful. Sirens sees Grant's rigidly decent young priest and his equally prim wife (Tara Fitzgerald) gradually tempted further and further into the rustic bacchanalia that Lindsay has founded up in the bush. This sensual world is represented by Lindsay's young muses, played by supermodel Elle MacPherson, a pre-Ally McBeal Portia De Rossi and Kate Fischer. The three are more or less unclothed for most of the film, and spend what seems an unnecessary amount of time washing each other in rock-pools. This may or may not reflect awareness on the part of the producers that the film's predictable plot and overwrought dialogue weren't going to fill a lot of seats without some help. On the DVD: Sirens is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, but there are no extra features.--Andrew Mueller