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• French Connection | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £7.93   |  Saving you £10.06 (126.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A milestone film from 1971 and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, The French Connection transformed the crime thriller with its gritty, authentic story about New York City police detectives on the trail of a large shipment of heroin. Based on an actual police case and the illustrious career of New York cop Eddie Egan, the film stars Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, whose unorthodox methods of crime fighting are anything but diplomatic. With his partner (Roy Scheider), Popeye investigates the international shipment of heroin masterminded by the suave Frenchman (Fernando Rey) who eludes Popeye throughout an escalating series of pursuits. The obsessive tension of Doyle's investigation reaches peak intensity during the film's breathtaking car chase, in which Doyle races under New York's elevated train tracks in a borrowed sedan--a sequence that earned an Oscar for editing and was instantly hailed as one of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed. Produced on location, The French Connection had an immediate influence on dozens of movies and TV shows to follow, virtually redefining the crime thriller with its combination of brutal realism and high-octane craftsmanship. Boosted by the film's phenomenal success, director William Friedkin gained even more attention with his follow-up film, The Exorcist. --Jeff Shannon

• Top Dog | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £3.86   |  Saving you £9.13 (236.53%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hooligan boss Billy Evans (Leo Gregory - Cass Wild Bill) has it all - a successful business a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey (Ricci Harnett - Rise of the Footsoldier) over a backstreet proetection racket Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to finally settle the question - who is Top Dog? Directed by Martin Kemp and based on Dougie (Green Street) Brimson's best-selling novel Top Dog is a heart-stopping thriller with a top UK cast including Danielle Brent (Cockneys Vs Zombies) Lorraine Stanley (London to Brighton) George Russo (Green Street 3) and Vincent Regan (St George's Day). Special Features: Deleted Scenes (3 min approx.) Filmmaker commentary (Director Martin Kemp Writer Dougie Brimson and Producer Jonathan Sothcott)

• French Connection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A milestone film from 1971 and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, The French Connection transformed the crime thriller with its gritty, authentic story about New York City police detectives on the trail of a large shipment of heroin. Based on an actual police case and the illustrious career of New York cop Eddie Egan, the film stars Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, whose unorthodox methods of crime fighting are anything but diplomatic. With his partner (Roy Scheider), Popeye investigates the international shipment of heroin masterminded by the suave Frenchman (Fernando Rey) who eludes Popeye throughout an escalating series of pursuits. The obsessive tension of Doyle's investigation reaches peak intensity during the film's breathtaking car chase, in which Doyle races under New York's elevated train tracks in a borrowed sedan--a sequence that earned an Oscar for editing and was instantly hailed as one of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed. Produced on location, The French Connection had an immediate influence on dozens of movies and TV shows to follow, virtually redefining the crime thriller with its combination of brutal realism and high-octane craftsmanship. Boosted by the film's phenomenal success, director William Friedkin gained even more attention with his follow-up film, The Exorcist. --Jeff Shannon

• The Kumars At Number 42 | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet the Kumars at No. 42. A fictional immigrant family who have bulldozed their back garden so they can build a studio on the back of their house and indulge their spoilt son Sanjeev who fancies himself as a celebrity chat show host. Each week the celebrity guests are invited onto the show to partake in the unique Kumar experience -a thorough interrogation by the entire family. Dad is keen to get down to business literally; Mum just wants what every Asian mother wants a wedding

• Stephen King's Silver Bullet | Blu Ray | (12/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Silver Bullet | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Silver Bullet is a generic, by-the-numbers Stephen King film with a Stephen King screenplay adapted from an earlier novella. Back in the innocent days of 1976--the age of innocence gets later every year--the town of Tarker's Fall finds itself in the grip of mass hysteria when something starts tearing people apart. Only a crippled child Martie (Corey Haim) works out the truth, which is that the new pastor is a werewolf. Eventually he manages to convince his supercilious sister Janey and his unreliable drunk Uncle Red (Gary Busey) and there is the usual confrontation involving a silver bullet melted down from the children's religious jewellery; the title also refers to the boy's motorised wheelchair. The film neglects interesting possibilities--the lynch-mob mentality that takes over the town fizzles after the major vigilantes are killed, the pastor tries to justify the killings to himself--in favour of stock ultra-violent confrontations and extended metamorphoses; its major strength is a familiar King theme, the helplessness of being a child in a world full of people who will not listen to you. On the DVD: The DVD comes with a director's commentary by Daniel Attias and dubbed versions in German, French and Italian. The soundtrack has Dolby sound which brings out the stylised fairy-tale elements in the score and the widescreen picture is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic ratio. The sometimes muddy-looking night-scenes are balanced by brisk pastoral daylight scenes that have their own innocence. --Roz Kaveney

• Boomtown - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sometimes a show cancelled prematurely can still put its competitors to shame. Boomtown was a radical and inventive approach to the ensemble cop show that added up to so much more than just its central gimmick of telling different stories from different perspectives. In fact, after the first few episodes in which the breakneck jumps of viewpoint and the time-frame demanded real attention, it de-emphasised them, while still forcing us to pay attention, making the viewer guess which story we were being told. Devised by award-winning screenwriter Graham Yost and director Jon Avnet, the first series of Boomtown covered a wide variety of cases: everything from baby-stealing to run-ins with the Russian Mafia, from hostage situations in suburban sports stores to rich kids having justice bought for them whether they wanted it or not. It was also the story of its seven central characters: Deputy DA David (Neil McDonough), for example, failing to cope with his growing alcoholism and sense of disillusion, and detective Joel Stevens (Donnie Wahlberg) endlessly reliving the cot-death of his daughter and his wife's attempted suicide. If the show had flaws, they were the slight marginalisation of the central female characters--a crime reporter and a paramedic--and the presence of too many storylines that were as much about teaching the characters a Valuable Lesson as credible crime stories. Nonetheless, it was a stunning show, which deserved a longer life. This complete Series 1 box set at least offers a readily available record of it for those of us who liked it too late. On the DVD: Boomtown, Series 1 DVD box set presents all 18 episodes (a further six were made for Series 2 before the show's cancellation) presented in widescreen 16:9 with the choice of Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0 Pro Logic. The only special features are a trailer and the original series pitch video. --Roz Kaveney

• Top Dog | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £10.89   |  Saving you £8.09 (102.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hooligan boss Billy Evans (Leo Gregory - Cass Wild Bill) has it all - a successful business a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey (Ricci Harnett - Rise of the Footsoldier) over a backstreet proetection racket Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to finally settle the question - who is Top Dog? Directed by Martin Kemp and based on Dougie (Green Street) Brimson's best-selling novel Top Dog is a heart-stopping thriller with a top UK cast including Danielle Brent (Cockneys Vs Zombies) Lorraine Stanley (London to Brighton) George Russo (Green Street 3) and Vincent Regan (St George's Day). Special Features: Deleted Scenes (3 min approx.) Behind-the-scenes (30 mins approx.) Stunts / Fights featurette (8 min approx.) Filmmaker commentary (Director Martin Kemp Writer Dougie Brimson and Producer Jonathan Sothcott)

• Adam & Paul | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Friends since they were small boys Adam and Paul - who is who we do not know - have withered into two hapless desperate Dublin junkies tied together by habit and necessity. The difference today is that Adam and Paul - already near rock bottom - have finally run out of luck credit and friends. A stylized downbeat comedy the film follows the pair through a single day which like every other is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs.

• Adam And Paul | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Friends since they were small boys Adam and Paul - who is who we do not know - have withered into two hapless desperate Dublin junkies tied together by habit and necessity. The difference today is that Adam and Paul - already near rock bottom - have finally run out of luck credit and friends. A stylized downbeat comedy the film follows the pair through a single day which like every other is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs.

• Cat's Eye / Silver Bullet / Shocker | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cat's Eye: What does a stray cat have in common with a radical technique to quit smoking the window ledge of a sky scraper and an evil goblin? Three of Stephen King's most imaginatively terrifying tales brought to life in this chilling trilogy of short stories... Shocker: A mass murderer goes to the electric chair but something goes horribly wrong. The electrical energy transforms him into a monster able to enter and possess other's bodies at will. Now he is loose and seemingly unstoppable... Silver Bullet: The small American town of Tarker's Mills is a place where everyone cares as much about everyone else as they do about themselves. When the Tarker's Mills tranquility is disrupted by the horrific discoveries of mutilated bodies of friends and relatives the whole town is out for justice. A young handicapped boy Marty Coslaw is convinced it is the work of a werewolf. Involving his sister Jane he uncovers the truth behind the werewolf...