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• Luck - Season 1 (HBO) | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £10.69   |  Saving you £1.31 (10.90%)   |  RRP £12.00

  Leave nothing to chance. HBO presents this provocative original series set in the worlds of horseracing and gambling. Created and executive produced by David Milch (Deadwood), legendary director Michael Mann (Heat, Public Enemies) and Carolyn Strauss, this one-hour drama series centers on Chester 'Ace' Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), an intuitive tough guy with a long history in dirty pool. Recently released after three years in prison, Ace and his longtime chauffeur (Dennis Farina) craft a complex plan to reverse the sagging fortunes of a California racetrack. Meanwhile, four dissolute gamblers at the track pool their resources in an effort to win an elusive Pick Six bet while a weathered trainer (Nick Nolte) sees a second chance in an untested thoroughbred. The stellar cast also includes: John Ortiz, Richard Kind, Kevin Dunn, Jason Gedrick, Ritchie Coster, Ian Hart, Tom Payne, Kerry Condon and Jill Hennessy.

• You Kill Me | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £4.24   |  Saving you £13.01 (436.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While drying out on the west coast, an alcoholic hitman befriends a sharp-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

• Paparazzi | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £7.12   |  Saving you £11.87 (166.71%)   |  RRP £18.99

  When a bunch of photographers almost kill him and his family, a Hollywood star sets out to exact revenge.

• What Happens In Vegas | Blu Ray | (08/09/2008) from £6.70   |  Saving you £19.29 (287.91%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Two strangers find themselves married in Vegas and hitting the jackpot! Through their constant bickering the two find themselves coming closer together.

• Layer Cake / Snatch | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £15.06 (53.80%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Layer Cake: Matthew Vaughn the producer of 'Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Snatch' steps into the director's chair for the first time with 'Layer Cake'. Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel 'Layer Cake' is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However big boss Jimmy Price (Cranham) hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder the

• Get Shorty (Special Edition) | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £42.19   |  Saving you £-22.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drug Smuggling. Racketeering. Loan Sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! A hysterical comedy that insists it doesn't take much to make it in the movies...just a background with the mob. Loanshark Chili Palmer (Golden Globe Winner Travolta) has done his time as a gangster. So when ""business"" takes him to LA to collect a debt from down-and-out-filmmaker (Gene Hackman) Chili jumps headfirst into the Hollywood scene: he smoozes a film star (Danny Devito) romances a ""B"" movie queen (Rene Rus

• Midnight Run | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Martin Brest rocketed to the top of Hollywood's A list with the blockbuster success of Beverly Hills Cop, and this 1988 follow-up is even better. Midnight Run is a genuine rarity--an action comedy that's dramatically satisfying--thanks to a sharp script by George Gallo, the superb teaming of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, and Brest's consummate skill in combining suspense and humour with well-developed characters. De Niro plays a maverick bounty hunter whose latest assignment is Grodin, an accountant accused of embezzling from the Mob. De Niro thinks he's in for an easy job, transporting Grodin (who's afraid to fly) from New York to Los Angeles, but soon discovers that both the FBI and the Mafia are hot on Grodin's trail. Equal parts road trip, action thriller, and a quirky character study, Midnight Run moves at a breakneck pace but still gives De Niro and Grodin time to create rich, memorable performances as two men who seem to be opposites, but gradually develop mutual respect and admiration. Mainstream entertainment at its best. --Jeff Shannon

• Manhunter | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Released to box-office indifference in 1986, Manhunter introduced Hannibal Lecter and established the rules of the modern race to find serial killer thriller five years before The Silence of the Lambs packed cinemas everywhere. This was Michael Mann's third feature, reuniting William L Petersen and Dennis Farina from his debut Thief (1981) as FBI agents hunting the killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". Petersen's Will Graham is the man who put Lecktor (as it is spelt here) behind bars, and as in Lambs consults with the Doctor, played with understated malevolence by Brian Cox. Manhunter is an exceptionally well-photographed film: Mann's regular cinematographer Dante Spinotti created sparse, elegantly framed, often mono-chromatically lit compositions which are essential to the shifting psychological moods. The performances are very good, and the typically 1980s, Vangelis-esque electronic score effectively sustains tension. Once the killer is introduced the scenes with Joan Allen have a genuinely unsettling, almost surreal quality. There is at least one serious plot flaw--how does "The Red Dragon" get his letter to Lecktor? Manhunter never packs the sheer excitement of Lambs, nevertheless, it is a powerful and compelling thriller which remains far superior to the third instalment in the series, Hannibal (2001). On the DVD: In addition to the trailer there is a revealing 10-minute conversation with Dante Spinotti in which he explains how he created the very distinctive look of Manhunter. Also included is a more general 17-minute retrospective "making-of" documentary. This is good but too short, the extras failing to live up to the wealth of material on the Lambs and Hannibal DVDs. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image is generally very good, being just a little soft in one or two early scenes. The sound is listed as Dolby Digital 5.1, but appears to replicate the main stereo signal in the rear channels. Audio is none the less powerful and clear, though lacks the sheer edge and atmospherics of some more recent thrillers. --Gary S Dalkin

• That Old Feeling | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It was the perfect wedding except for two things ...the bride's parents The wedding from hell just sparked a match madeiin heaven! Happily divorced for 14 years Lilly and Dan still have one thing in common they hate each other with nuclear capacity. But after a knock-down drag-out fight at their daughter's wedding their pent-up hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion! Now the two unlikely lovebirds are on the run - with their frantic daughter her new stuffed-shirt

• Tears Of The Sun/Striking Distance/Mercury Rising | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £3.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (73.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tears of the Sun: Loyal veteran Navy S.E.A.L. Lt. A.K. Waters is sent into the heart of war-torn Africa on a hazardous mission to rescue Dr. Lena Hendricks a U.S. citizen who runs a mission. When the beautiful doctor refuses to abandon the refugees in her care Lt. Waters finds himself having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience. Together they begin a dangerous trek through the deadly jungle all the while being pursued by a rebel militia group with only one goal in mind: to assassinate Lt. Waters' unit and the refugees in his care... Striking Distance: Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide. A high-powered suspenseful drama with mind-blowing action Striking Distance is Bruce at his wisecracking best. Mercury Rising: Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) a renegade FBI Agent combats ruthless Federal agents to protect Simon a nine-year old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new unbreakable code. He can read Mercury the most advanced encryption code as easily as other kids read English. This ability renders the new billion dollar secret code vulnerable especially if enemies of the United States should learn of Simons's abilities and capture him. Program Chief Nick Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) orders the security threat eliminated but Kudrow hasn't counted on Jeffries getting involved. As deadly assassins trail them Jeffries quickly realises that no one can be trusted. Now time is running out and he discovers his only hope of survival is using Simon's special ability to bring their adversaries to justice.

• Saving Private Ryan - 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realitie

• Loser | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.99 (333.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An improvisational comedy using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament.

• Deception | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £9.89   |  Saving you £13.09 (189.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

• Be Cool / Get Shorty | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Be Cool (2005): Everyone is looking for the next big hit... Disenchanted with the movie industry Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune! Get Shorty (1995): Drug Smuggling. Racketeering. Loan Sharking. Welcome to Hollywood!

• Thief | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £12.10   |  Saving you £3.88 (42.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Caan stars as Frank a professional thief specialising in high profile jewel jobs. Desperate for one last glorious high paying job so that he can settle down for good with his girlfriend Frank gets involved with vicious gangland bosses. But his final job turns into a nightmare when he finds that getting away from the mob is harder than he thought...

• Knucklehead | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Saving Private Ryan (DTS) | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (-50.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire. After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the platoon, led by Tom Hanks, consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty sergeant; the thick-necked private; the southern-man religious sniper; the cowardly corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean cut as the titular private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine-gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures. On the DVD: This DTS edition of Saving Private Ryan presents the movie with astonishingly vivid surround sound that is audibly superior to the standard Dolby Digital version. With a wider dynamic range and a more spacious soundfield, the battles really do spill over into your living room. There are new animated menus but because the DTS data stream requires greater space on the disc, the 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary included on the previous release is omitted. --Mark Walker

• Snatch --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Guy Ritchie Writer/Director of 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' delivers another awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece. 'Snatch' is an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong a colourful Irish gypsy turned prizefighter and a very temperamental dog. In the heart of gangland two novice unlicensed boxing promoters Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a bare-knuckled fight with local kingpin villain and fellow boxing pro

• Blue Streak / Money Train / Striking Distance | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Blue Streak (1999): Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) finds the only way he can recover a diamond he stole two years prior is to impersonate a detective who along with his rookie partner ends up using his wits to solve crimes... Money Train (1995): Fresh from their successful double-act in White Men Can't Jump Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson reunite once more... Foster brothers they share a lifelong dream of robbing the `Money Train' that collects millions of dollars each night from New York City subway stations. Only two things stand in their way: they're cops and their boss. As far as he's concerned they're his trains it's his money and he's never been robbed. But on New Year's Eve plans are in motion and the action is switching to overdrive! Striking Distance (1993): Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide. A high-powered suspenseful drama with mind-blowing action Striking Distance is Bruce at his wisecracking best.

• Crime Story Season 1 | DVD | (06/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. Crime Story is the hard boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison) from the mean streets of early 1960s Chicago to the neon nights of mob paradise Las Vegas. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Final Transmission 3. Shadow Dancer 4. The Saint Louis Book Of Blues 5. The War 6. Abrams For The Defense 7. Pursuit Of A Wanted Felon 8. Old Friends Dead Ends 9. Justice Hits The Skids 10. For Love Or Money 11. Hide And Go Thief 12. Strange Bedfellows 13. Fatal Crossroads (aka Fortune On Men's Eyes) 14. Torello On Trial 15. The Kingdom Of Money 16. The Battle Of Las Vegas 17. The Survivor 18. The Pinnacle 19. Top Of The World (aka The King In A Cage) 20. Ground Zero