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• Lush Life | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tenor saxophonist Al Gorky and trumpeter Buddy Chester have grown accustomed to their wild lives as bohemian jazz musicians. But Al's unorthodox views on life and his lackadaisical disposition have started to affect more than his marriage; they're also taking a toll on his music. Then Buddy learns he's dying of a brain tumor. Al and Buddy realize they must confront their own mortality as they plan one last special musical session together.

• House of Witchcraft (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (14/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT is part of a four-part movie series made for Italian television under the umbrella title House of Doom. Legendary Italian horror maestros Umberto Lenzi and Lucio Fulci each contributed two films for the series: Lenzi made HOUSE OF LOST SOULS and HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT while Fulci offered HOUSE OF CLOCKS and SWEET HOUSE OF HORRORS. Lenzi's second contribution to the series centres on a young man with a recurring nightmare in which he is running away from a pursuer and reaches the shelter of an old house only to have an ugly old woman boil his head in a big kettle. Sensing his underlying stress and anxiety his girlfriend suggests he take a relaxing holiday and the two drive to an old estate that belongs to her family. The nightmarish chills become reality when the young man reaches the house and realizes it's the same one from his dream...Lenzi refrains from his usual gore and splatter style and instead delivers an almost old-fashioned story bathed in chilling atmosphere and classic Freudian fears of witchcraft and haunted houses.

• The Day After Tomorrow/Phone Booth/Road To Perdition | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Phone Booth (Dir. Joel Schumacher 2003): A single phone call can change a man's life...or possibly end it. Stu Shepard is a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. The Day After Tomorrow (Dir. Roland Emmerich 2004): From the Director of 'Independence Day' comes a spectacular roller-coaster ride that boasts pulse-pounding action and sensational mindblowing special effects. When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age tornadoes flatten Los Angeles a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm to stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than any they've ever encountered... Mother Nature! The Road To Perdition (Dir. Sam Mendes 2002): Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan a father fighting to keep his only son from traveling the Road To Perdition. Directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes this towering motion picture achievement has been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike as one of the year's most extraordinary films.

• The Assassination Of Trotsky | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mexico City 1940. Communist parades are celebrating May day. In a hotel room near Zocalo Square there are two people who are destined to play a major part in the events leading to the assassination of Leon Trotsky the ageing idealist and 'dedicated Marxist and atheist' banished from Russia by Josef Stalin who has been given sanctuary by the Mexican Government - Frank Jacson travelling on a Canadian passport who claims to be a Belgian in Mexico avoiding national service and Gita Samuels a one-time translator.

• Smoke / Blue In The Face | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Smoke (Dir. Wayne Wang 1995): Departing from the conventions of Hollywood story-telling Smoke is constructed like an emotional jigsaw puzzle: pieces interweave and interconnect to form an intricate whole. Unrelated characters - a cigar store manager (Harvey Keitel) who has taken photographs in front of his store at the same hour every day for 14 years; a novelist (William Hurt) unable to go on writing after his wife is killed in a random act of street violence; a man (Forest Whitaker) who ran away from his past and tries to start over after accidentally killing his wife. These characters amongst others making their way through the lonely urban landscape might seem to have little in common. But in the couse of this motion picture they cross paths by chance and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways. Blue in the Face (Dir. Wayne Wang & Paul Auster 1995): The companion film to Smoke Blue In The Face is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in this movie about relationships the city and sex.

• Bloodsport / Enter The Dragon | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. Bloodsport is a guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon) and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright

• Street Kings / Street Kings 2: Motor City | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Street Kings Street Kings is a pungent bouquet of corruption, violence, multi-ethnic mayhem, macho glee laced with macho angst, and fluorescently obscene dialogue from the mind of James Ellroy. Its hero, though he'd scarcely consent to be called one, is L.A. police detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), for whom life is a wound that won't heal and dealing out retribution to scumbags is the ongoing treatment. Ludlow's the star player--"the tip of the [expletive] spear"--on a team of detectives headed by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). Coach Wander relies on his boys to keep breaking lurid cases, usually through deeply darkside underground work, and raising his profile with the media and the department. In pursuit of these goals, nothing is forbidden except failure, and the truth is what you make it look like. This is familiar Ellroy territory, most effectively translated to the screen in L.A. Confidential (which should have won the 1997 Oscar, and would have if Titanic hadn't launched that year). If you know Ellroy's ground game, you can pretty much guess where Street Kings is going, and where it's been. Still, the twists and torques of its urban road-rage course maintain the centrifugal force needed to hold us in our seats (a tactical highlight: refrigerator adapted as rolling barricade), and the movie keeps bopping us with oddball casting coups: comic Jay Mohr and Northern Exposure/Sex and the City veteran John Corbett as two members of Coach Warden's gonzo detective squad; Cedric the Entertainer doing a nicely nuanced turn as a street creature; Hugh Laurie doing a less-hyper version of House, if House worked Internal Affairs. The problem is that director David Ayer keeps everything intense. Dialogues are shot too close-up, line readings are too strident, the action is too nonstop slam. Recall Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and the mind's eye summons up a whole spectrum of existence, mood, place, historical period, emotional investment; there's an amplitude to the picture and the sensibility bringing it to us, something besides the whodunit and the endless rap sheet of nasty what-they-done. Everything in Street Kings is one-note, and with Keanu Reeves playing it implosive and Forest Whitaker locked in crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat mode, that's no way to stay the course. --Richard T. Jameson

• Bridge To Hell | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-13.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When three prisoners of war escape from a prison camp in Yugoslavia they encounter partisans who agree to help fight in return for a safe passage to freedom. Their task is to blow up a strategic bridge which is heavily defended by German troops. Follow the action frought with danger as our heroes complete their mission to destroy... The Bridge To Hell.

• Windtalkers / Hart's War / Platoon | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Windtalkers: In 1942 several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) - a Navajo code talker the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan when capture is imminent Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code? Harts War: Fourth generation war hero Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still as the camp's highest-ranking American officer he commands his fellow inmates keeping a sense of honour alive in a place where honour is easy to destroy all under the dangerous ever-watchful eye of SS Major Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war McNamara is silently planning waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country. Platoon: Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young naive American who upon his arrival in Vietnam quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong but also with the gnawing fear physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other the conflict chaos and hatred permeate Taylor suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone Platoon is powerful intense and starkly brutal.

• Dead Men Can't Dance | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £6.12   |  Saving you £-0.13 (-2.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A special military unit ventures into the de-militarized zone (DMZ) of Korea to destroy a North Korean nuclear power plant slated to start producing nuclear weapons...

• Gangster: The Yards, Brother, Ghost Dog | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Yards:'The Yards' is a tense thriller set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of friends Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. So he goes to the one place he thinks he'll be safe: home. There he takes a job with his highly connected and influential uncle Frank (James Caan) and is reunited with his long-time friend Willie Gutierez (Joaquin Phoenix) and Willie's girlfriend Erica (Charlize Theron). But in the yards where his uncle now pulls the strings safe is not how they do business. Unwittingly he's drawn into a world of sabotage high stakes payoffs and murder. And the secret he discovers will make him the target of the most ruthless family in the city: his own. Now in the name of justice he'll have to do everything in his power to bring them down. Brother:In Japan the sworn brotherhood of the Yakuza is described as being 'thicker than the blood of kindred brothers'. With his life under threat disgraced Yakuza hard man Yamamoto escapes to Los Angeles in search of his half-brother Ken a small-time drug dealer. Unable to speak the language and confused by his surrounding Yamamoto teams up with Ken and his friend and fellow gang-member Denny. Soon Yamamoto finds himself back in the old routine. His ruthless efficiency in terrorising and killing rival gang members shocks even the blood hardened Americans and before long Yamamoto's gang is strong enough to join forces with a rival Japanese crime lord called Shirase. Ghost Dog:Ghost Dog lives above the world alongside a flock of birds in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient Samurai text Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move throughout the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the samurai.

• A Rage In Harlem | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sultry Robin Givens (Head of State) heats up the screen with Forest Whitaker (Phone Booth) Gregory Hines (Once in the Life) and Danny Glover (The Royal Tenenbaums) in this cool sexy thriller about a gangster's girlfriend and the trouble she stirs for the fellas mixed up in her life! When Imabelle (Givens) hits Harlem with a trunkload of stolen gold she's on the run and looking for a place to hide. So when shy and naive Jackson (Whitaker) appears Imabelle thinks she's met the perfect patsy... but she forgets to protect her heart! As the chase again takes off and the intrigue mounts you'll find that unexpected twists are all the rage in this stylish thriller!

• Phone Booth/Independence Day | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £6.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (28.98%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Phone Booth (Dir. Joel Schumacher 2003): A single phone call can change a man's life...or possibly end it. Stu Shepard is a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. Independence Day (Dir. Roland Emmerich 1996): One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind.

• Ski Troop Attach (B/W) | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.89   |  Saving you £-0.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An American recon patrol finds itself cut off from their support forces during World War Two as a German offensive severs their line of communication. Trapped in enemy territory in the midst of a freezing winter the soldiers must avoid detection whilst recording information about the German advance. They soon discover that a bridge spanning two mountains is providing the enemy with a strategic advantage and decide to blow it up. With a German ski patrol in close pursuit this mission could prove to be their last.

• Witness Protection | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Witness Protection lifelong Mafia hood Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore) wakes up one night to discover a price on his head and nowhere to go but to the cops, under protection as a federal witness. Based on the article "The Invisible Family" by Robert Sabbag, this HBO film drops us into the volatile period between lives as Bats takes his family off the streets and into a federal bunker where they begin shaping their new identities. Surrounded by surveillance cameras and locked in an apartment that feels like a fancy prison block, the formerly prosperous family starts to suffocate and self-destruct while it becomes clear just what a "readjustment of expectations" really means. Sizemore is excellent as the hot-headed gangster paralysed by helplessness, but Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is especially moving as the once-hopeful wife who buckles as her husband's secrets and lies are revealed. It's an interesting dynamic: the swaggering goodfella forced into a working-class life elicits little sympathy, but the toll on the family torn apart by recriminations, blame and frustration is affecting and powerful. They're undergoing a crash course in family therapy with federal official Forest Whitaker as their tough-love crisis counsellor. While the screenplay at times feels contrived, the drama is always potent. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Where Truth Lies | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deeply troubled by the accidental death of his first wife Wendy (Candice Daly) respected psychiatrist Dr. Ian Lazarre (John Savage) slips into a dark abyss of alcoholism depression and insomnia. Concerned for his health following a failed suicide attempt Lazarre's second wife Teresa and his best friend and lawyer Joe (Eric Pierpoint) agree to have him committed to a rehab clinic run by the mysterious Dr. Renquist (Malcolm McDowell). Placed in the care of the sensuous but si

• World War II Collection | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £13.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (81.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Desert Commandos: As Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin prepared to meet at the Casablanca Conference in the midst of World War Two a crack troop of Nazi assassins were making their way slowly through the African desert with only one objective - to kill the 'Big 3'. Disguised as British commandos the men must avoid detection repel hostile locals and survive the harsh surroundings if they are to complete their mission and return home alive. Minesweeper : When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbour U.S. Navy Lieutenant Richard Houston a penniless deserter decides to take a chance and re-enlist. To avoid being identified he assumes an alias 'Jim Smith' and is assigned to duty aboard a minesweeper charged with keeping the waterways clear. Packed with wartime suspense and building to a shocking climax Minesweeper is an engrossing story of friendship bravery love and honour. Go for Broke!: Van Johnson stars as Lt. Michael Grayson in this wartime drama about a unique regiment of Japanese-American men during World War Two and their distrustful and bigoted lieutenant. Sent to fight in Italy the regiment soon have the lieutenant re-evaluating his personal opinions as his men prove their willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty and live up to their motto and 'Go For Broke'. Ski Troop Attack: An American recon patrol finds itself cut off from their support forces during World War Two as a German offensive severs their line of communication. Trapped in enemy territory in the midst of a freezing winter the soldiers must avoid detection whilst recording information about the German advance. They soon discover that a bridge spanning two mountains is providing the enemy with a strategic advantage and decide to blow it up. With a German ski patrol in close pursuit this mission could prove to be their last. Manila Open City: In early February 1945 as Allied Forces slowly closed the net around the Japanese Army entrenched within the city ruins of Manila the defeated Empire's soldiers adopted a brutal and savage operation of persecution against the citizens. Atrocities committed against the inhabitants were akin to those being inflicted in Europe by the Nazis and a damning indictment of the Japanese Army's contempt for the innocent. Three Came Home: Claudette Colbert stars in the inspirational and compelling true story of American author wife and mother Agnes Newton Keith whose life is shattered by the Japanese occupation of Borneo in 1941. Separated from her husband and imprisoned in a P.O.W camp with her young son she begins a painful journey of survival as the harsh realities of camp life and the horrors of war become daily routine.

• Viking Women And The Sea Serpent | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk who have not returned from an earlier voyage. As they are sailing they are caught in a whirlpool that sends them near a hideous sea serpent and their boat is destroyed. The survivors make their way to an island the land of the Grimolts... a race of people that have enslaved all the unfortunate beings that land on their territory including the Viking men who have been forced to work down their mines. The women must battle to save their men and themselves.

• Son of Samson | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Red Planet / Battlefield Earth / Soldier | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In Red Planet the only thing thicker than the Martian atmosphere (which is breathable, by the way) is the layer of clichés that nearly smothers a formulaic beat-the-clock plot. Science fiction fans are sure to be forgiving, however, because the film is reasonably intelligent, boasts a few dazzling sequences, and presents fascinating technology in the year 2057. We don't know how the Mars-1 spaceship gets to Mars in only six months (newfangled propulsion, no doubt), but we do get some cool diagnostic read-outs on tinfoil scrolls, an abundance of well-designed hardware, and a service-robot-turned-villain that's a high-tech hybrid of RoboCop, Bruce Lee, and a slinky panther with plenty of lethal attitude. A perfectly suitable companion to another Year 2000 sci-fi thriller, Pitch Black, Red Planet is a fine way to kill a couple of hours. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comWhen Battlefield Earth was released theatrically, this inept sci-fi epic qualified as an instant camp classic, prompting Daily Variety to call it "the Showgirls of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups". Other reviews were united in their derision, and toy stores were left with truckloads of Battlefield Earth action figures that nobody wanted. Recklessly adapted from the novel by sci-fi author and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard and set in the year 3000, the film is no worse than many cheesy sci-fi flicks, but the sight of Travolta as a burly, dreadlocked alien from the planet Psychlo provokes unintentional laughter from first frame to final credits. The best that Battlefield Earth can hope for is a Dune-like fate: it might improve in a longer director's cut--but that's wishful thinking. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comKurt Russell hits new heights in laconic action heroes with his portrayal of Sergeant Todd, born and bred to be a Soldier in a futuristic army. Raised to kill mercilessly, living only for battle, he finds himself at the twilight of his career (and so-called life) when a regiment of genetically enhanced warriors threatens to make his brand of soldiering obsolete. Soldier is one of those rare sci-fi movies that relies more on plot and action than special effects (though the trash planet is effectively wrought). The pace of action in the last half of the film is relentless and exciting, and Russell's portrayal of the old warrior as he warms to human emotions relies more on expression than words-in fact, he barely utters half-dozen lines. --Tod Nelson, Amazon.com