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• Runaway Jury / Class Action | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £13.49   |  Saving you £5.49 (52.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Runaway Jury: The stakes are extremely high in an explosive trial when the widow of a gun massacre victim represented by attorney Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) sues the gun's powerful manufacturer. Now with millions of dollars in the balance 12 jurors must decide if the gun maker was negligent. However unscrupulous jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) believes the verdict is too important to be left in the hands of a jury and will spare no expense to ensure the chosen jury remain sympathetic to his client. Tension mounts and tables are turned as it comes to light that the jury is being manipulated by one of its own Nicholas Easter (John Cusack) with the aid of a beautiful woman (Rachel Weisz) on the outside to swing the verdict in the direction of the highest bidder... Class Action: Lawyer Jebediah Ward devoted to defending victims of large corporations and the State is fighting for compensation for the victims of automobile accidents involving defective cars. However it turns out that the manufacturer in his latest case is being defended by none other than Ward's daughter...

• Speed / Die Hard / Independence Day / Transporter / Behind Enemy Lines | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Speed Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will explode! Die Hard New York cop John McClane facing Christmas alone flies to Los Angeles to see his estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and their kids in an attempt to patch things up. He arrives at his wife's high tech office building in the middle of their Christmas party just as it is gatecrashed by the ruthless master criminal Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and a dozen fellow activists intent on relieving the Nakatomi Corporation of six hundred million dollars in negotiable bonds... Independence Day 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. The Transporter Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean hiring himself out as a mercenary transporter who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW Martin finds his latest assignment could well be his last after his package is revealed to be a beautiful woman (Shu Qi) at the centre of a human trafficking ring... Behind Enemy Lines On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels...

• Wes Anderson Box Set - the Royal Tenenbaums/Rushmore/Life... | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Royal Tenenbaums: Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children--Chas Richie and Margot and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of fifty thousand dollars in the ninth grade. Richie was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal failure and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. The Royal Tenenbaums is the story of a family of geniuses and their sudden unexpected reunion one winter. Rushmore: The story of a gifted rebellious teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) a 10th grader at elite Rushmore Academy. Editor of the School Newspaper Captain or President of innumerable clubs and societies Max is also one of the worst students in school and the threat of expulsion hangs permanently over his head. Max's world is rocked when he falls for elegant 1st grade teacher Miss Cross (Olivia Williams) and he plans to erect an aquarium in her honour - then finds himself competing for her affections with his friend steel tycoon Mr Blume (Bill Murray) the wealthy father of two of his classmates...

• Western Box Set | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  THE SEARCHERS: (Languages:English French Italian:MONO Subtitles:English French Italian Dutch Arabic Spanish Portuguese German Romanian Bulgarian) Often acclaimed as John Ford's best film The Searchers is the saga of an ex-Confederate soldier named Ethan Edwards who embarks on a long obsessive search for his niece Debbie who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. Accompanied by Martin Pawley a young man he had saved from Indians several years earlier Ethan searches throughout the West in vain. This DVD includes Jeffrey Hunter and Natalie Wood Interviews Two Trailers and featurettes. UNFORGIVEN: (Languages: English 5.1 SURROUND Subtitles: English Arabic) Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven is an exciting modern classic that rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director (Eastwood). Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper a colorful killer-for-hire called English Bob. And Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whisky. Written by David Webb Peoples (12 Monkeys). WILD BUNCH: DIRECTOR'S CUT: (Languages: English 5.1 SURROUND Subtitles: English Arabic) By any standard director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honour rates as one of the all-time greatest westerns perhaps one of the greatest of all films. This Original Director's Cut restores it to a complete pristine condition unseen since its July 1969 theatrical debut. The image is letterboxed the colour renewed the stereo soundtrack remixed and reintegrated - all to blood-and-thunder effect. This DVD also features (on side B) the home video debut of The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage the Acadaemy Award-nominated 1996 documentary by Paul Seydor and Nick Redman.

• French Connection (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  New York City detectives ""Popeye"" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection. But when one of the criminals tries to kill Doyle he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits. Based on a true story this action-filled thriller with its renowned chase scene won five Academy Award in 1971 including Best Picture Best Director (William Friedkin) and Best Actor for

• Jerry Bruckheimer Collection 2: Pearl Harbor / Crimson Tide / Con Air | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A trio of thrilling feature films from high-octane producer Jerry Bruckheimer including Pearl Harbor Crimson Tide and Con Air. Pearl Harbor features the life and times of a group of people who find themselves caught up in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and in the aftermath of the bombing America's involvement in the Second World War. Crimson Tide is a tense story set aboard an American nuclear submarine caught up in a global crisis. Con Air finds a recently paroled man on an aircraft with some of the most notorious criminals of all time during a hijacking.

• Enemy Of The State/Armageddon | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Enemy Of The State (Dir. Tony Scott) (1998): Hot Hollywood favourite Will Smith stars with Gene Hackman in a high-powered suspense thriller where non-stop action meets cutting edge technology! Robert Clayton Dean (Smith) is a successful Washington D.C. Attorney who without his knowledge is given a video that ties a top official of the Nation Security Agency (Jon Voight) to a political murder! Instantly every aspect of Dean's once normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives who wage a relentless ultrahigh-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence! Get ready for the action to explode as Dean desperately races to reclaim his life and prove his innocence before it's too late! Armageddon (Dir: Michael Bay) (1998): When NASA's executive director Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) makes the terrifying realisation that the Earth has just 18 days before it's obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas he has only one option - land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers led by their boss Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) on the asteroid and drop a nuclear warhead into its core. Entirely re-mastered with bonus special features spectacular special effects laugh-out-loud humour great characters riveting storytelling and heartfelt emotion make Armageddon an exhilarating thrill ride you'll want to experience like there's no tomorrow!

• Modern War Triple (Platoon, Windtalkers, Behind Enemy Lines) | DVD | (12/03/2007) 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? 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. Behind Enemy Lines: On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels. Meanwhile on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea Burnett's commanding officer Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) attempts to negotiate his soldier's return amidst tense political and military maneuvers. Soon Burnett discovers exactly why he's being hunted making his situation and Reigert's actions even more perilous...

• Superman - The Movie | HD DVD | (04/12/2006) from £6.66   |  Saving you £18.33 (275.23%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The movie that makes a legend come to life. The planet Krypton is doomed. Only one man Jor-El knows it and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-El''s son grows to manhood he learns that he possesses super-powers he must hide from ordinary mortals around him. It takes a big movie to contain the considerable talents of Marlon Brando Gene Hackman Jackie Cooper Glen Ford Margot Kidder Valerie Perrine and at its heart the most human portrayal of the Man of Steel Christopher Reeve. Superman an Academy Award winner (1978) for special achievement in visual effects is more than big enough. Directed by Richard Donner Superman: The Movie makes us believe this epic story all over again.

• Bugs Box (Bee Movie, Antz, Flushed Away) | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Bee Movie (2007): Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) a bee who has just graduated from college is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Renee Zellweger) a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms he discovers humans actually eat honey and subsequently decides to sue us. Antz (1998): With a superstar cast and breakthrough visual effects DreamWorks' spectacular comedy adventure ANTZ became 'king of the hill' with audiences and movie critics alike. Everyone digz ANTZ! Life is no picnic for Z a small worker with some very big ideas whose chances of landing the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. But when Z convinces his soldier ant buddy Weaver to switch places with him his simple life takes a wild turn. From his battles in the termite war to his search for 'Insectopia' Z's adventures land him in a final confrontation with the ruthless General Mandible who has planned to liquidate the colony. Once the most insignificant of workers Z may just turn out to be the biggest hero of them all. Flushed Away (2006): Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust ""society mouse"" who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the ""whirlpool."" Sid may be an ignorant slob but he's no fool so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out or rather up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and speaking of trouble the villainous Toad - who royally despises all rodents equally making no distinction between mice and rats - wants them iced...literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats Spike and Whitey to get the job done. When they fail the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin - that dreaded mercenary Le Frog.

• Superman 2 | HD DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This fantastic new Special Edition of Superman 2 features the original Richard Lester theatrical cut as well as the Richard Donner version which includes the film as it was originally conceived and intended to be filmed; containing a beginning and ending never seen before with 15 minutes of restored footage! A nuclear explosion in outer space has freed rebel General Zod and his evil cohorts from their captivity in a fragment of Kryptonite. Having been banished from Krypton for their treachery against Jor-El they now plot revenge on his son - Superman. Arch villain Lex Luthor offers his services to Zod. Meanwhile Lois Lane has finally discovered Clark Kent''s identity. Will Superman surrender his superhuman powers to marry her or will he save the city of Metropolis? Original cast members from Superman create a blend of thrills humour and humanity that makes this sequel great fun for the whole family.

• Superman - The Movie | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £8.17   |  Saving you £7.82 (95.72%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The movie that makes a legend come to life. The planet Krypton is doomed. Only one man Jor-El knows it and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-Els son grows to manhood he learns that he possesses super-powers he must hide from ordinary mortals around him. It takes a big movie to contain the considerable talents of Marlon Brando Gene Hackman Jackie Cooper Glen Ford Margot Kidder Valerie Perrine and at its heart the most human portrayal of the Man of Steel Christopher Reeve. Superman an Academy Award winner (1978) for special achievement in visual effects is more than big enough. Directed by Richard Donner Superman: The Movie makes us believe this epic story all over again.

• The Mexican | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Together for the first time, superstars Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts take a hilarious, action-packed tour south of the border with James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) in what People Magazine calls a quirky romantic comedy with plenty of gunplay and intrigue.Before reckless Jerry can make amends with Samantha, he has to take one more wild ride down to Mexico to pick up a priceless antique pistol and settle his debts. As things begin heating up with mob bosses and hit men, the action boils over with surprise twists and turns in the film Roger Ebert give a Thumbs Up.

• Unforgiven (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Unforgiven is an exciting modern classic that rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey: Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper a colourful killer-for–hire called English Bob. Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of Law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey...

• Downhill Racer | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Michael Ritchie's (The Golden Child) debut film is a tense and taut look at the world of Olympic skiing. Robert Redford is the hero a handsome loner from Idaho Springs Colorado bent on making it to the top of the heap. As the pressure and tension build Redford handles himself well learning in the process how fleeting and lonely fame can be. Redford is well cast as the all American boy chasing his dream and Gene Hackman is excellent as the tough and demanding American sk

• Tiger Warsaw/Split Decision/Whistle Blower/Darrow | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tiger WarsawChuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-valid. After15yrs of self destruction Chuck returns home to seek forgiveness.Split DecisionsThe story of a fighting Irish family whose patriarch Dan has ambitious plans for his younger son Eddie to be in the Olympic Boxing Team.The Whistle BlowerA law abiding businessman's world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The father embarks on his own investigation.DarrowIn the 19th Century a charismatic one-time farm hand turned lawyer made a history-making defence of a number of trials that earned him the status of an American hero.

• French Connection - Book & DVD | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £14.71   |  Saving you £1.28 (8.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Narcotics cop Popeye Doyle pits his wits against an international drugs ring attempting to infiltrate New York despite official warnings to back off... All-time classic action thriller (with a remarkable car chase below the elevated railway!) which won five Oscars in 1971.

• The Hunting Party | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  To cattle baron Brandt Ruger (Hackman) his beautiful wife Melissa (Bergen) is just one of his possessions. So when notorious bandit Frank Calder (Reed) kidnaps Melissa Ruger isn't concerned about her - he's enraged that someone stole from him. Melissa finds her captor quite kind but Ruger is organizing a posse to hunt down the pair and recover his property-dead or alive!

• Titanic/The Poseidon Adventure | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Titanic (Dir. Jean Negulesco 1953): Determined to remove her family from the superficial high society world in which her husband Richard (Clifton Webb) is engrossed Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck) boards the R.M.S. Titanic in England on its maiden voyage to America along with her two children. Learning of her plans however Richard purchases a steerage ticket aboard the ship in hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate ice and an overzealous ship captain step in the Sturges family faces an unimaginable challenge - the possibility of separation from one another forever. This classic based on the true-life history of the famed ocean liner remains one of the most poignant well-crafted films of all time. Winner of the 1953 Oscar for Best Screenplay. The Poseidon Adventure (Dir. Ronald Neame 1972): One of the most gripping escape films of all time follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave. Suspenseful terror combined with the victims' intimate and personal stories results in compelling and heart-stopping drama. The distinguished talents of 15 Academy Award winners along with the incredible special effects make this film a true classic.

• Unforgiven | HD DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unforgiven is an exciting modern classic that rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey: Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper a colourful killer-for-hire called English Bob. Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of Law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey...