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• The Crazies | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £7.90   |  Saving you £3.35 (50.45%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A military plane carrying a secret bio-chemical warfare agent crashes near Evans City Pennsylvania releasing a deadly virus into the local water supply. Highly contagious the virus quickly begins to infect the town's residents producing homicidal insanity in its victims. As government scientists work to find an antidote the town is forcibly quarantined by the US military. Clad in protective suits troops of soldiers move in intending to control and cover up the situation and to

• Eloge De L'Amour | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaited Eloge de l'Amour was one of the highlights of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who found it hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of contending threads. Certainly the plot is elusive. A young writer (Bruno Putzulu) wants a dark-haired woman (Cecile Camp) to play a role in his evolving project, a study of the four stages of love: meeting, physical passion, separation and reconciliation. By the time the funding comes through, she has killed herself and he looks back to the time when he might, or might not have met her before. Above all, the picture explores the blurred territory between the personal and the collective memory and the difference between a life which is simply lived and one in which the individual brings the power of imagination to their existence. Ultimately, the characters remain curiously faceless and the film fragments into a kaleidoscope of merging images, colours and landscapes and collective experience triumphs.Godard's legendary status as the godfather of French New Wave cinema has long since passed into the realms of cliché. Here, the "present" is shot on the streets of Paris in black and white. Godard's city of light looks as timeless as it did back in 1966 when he made Masculin Feminin. The second part of the film is shot in digital video, absorbing the audience with its electrically intense, mesmerising colours. Eloge de l'Amour is, more than anything, a sensual experience. Godard provokes but doesn't provide any answers. But fans of his more polemical work will enjoy the satirised American producers who want to purchase the rights to the Resistance couple's story. Americans have no memory, says the author. So they buy it from others. Godard never was a fence-sitter. --Piers Ford On the DVD: the main DVD extra on this disc sounds enticing: an interview with one of the world’s most innovative and influential directors. Yet the reality is disappointing, as it’s merely a transcript. The biography is more of the same. The only other additional feature is the subtitles, though there’s no option to turn them off. --Nikki Disney

• Angel - Season 4 (New Packaging) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £7.80   |  Saving you £20.19 (258.85%)   |  RRP £27.99

  As the fourth season of Angel starts, everything is still as we left it: Angel has been sunk to the bottom of the sea in an iron box by his inexplicable and vindictive son Connor and Cordelia has been summoned to higher realms to await orders. Gunn and Fred are left in the Hyperion Hotel, unsure about what has happened to their friends, and Lilah is working hard to seduce Wesley to the dark side. In the first few episodes, some of this is resolved but it's almost immediately replaced by far worse crises: prophesies of doom accumulate more rapidly even than usual in this wonderfully gloomy show and a horned rock-like beast rains fire on Los Angeles. This is Angel's most tightly dramatic season yet--with a story arc of surprising intensity punctuated by the show's usual wit and sexiness. --Roz Kaveney

• Carandiru | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A doctor uncovers stories of crime, revenge, love and friendship when he stars work in Sao Paulo's infamous prison Carandiru.

• Thunderheart | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tough but moving, Thunderheart is an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 in South Dakota (involving an armed stand-off between Indian activists and the FBI, an event that prompted Thunderheart director Michael Apted to make a companion documentary, Incident at Oglala). The conclusion of Thunderheart feels like politically charged whimsy, but the real strength of the film is Kilmer's outstanding performance as a man in transformation. Apted's clear-eyed depiction of the Sioux's spiritual and cultural continuity with the past has none of the cloying romanticism of other films about Indians. Produced by Robert De Niro. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• Crimewave (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (28/08/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the colossal success of The Evil Dead, director Sam Raimi teamed up with the Coen brothers (fresh from Blood Simple) to make his next film, Crimewave, an unusual mixture of screwball comedy, film noir and B-movie homage. Raimi's film tells the bizarre story of a security-system installer, Vic (Reed Birney), who finds himself in the electric chair when he falls in love with Nancy (Sheree J Wilson), a femme fatale on the run from two bumbling exterminators 'of all sizes' (Paul L Smith, Popeye, and Brion James, Blade Runner). A notoriously troubled production which flopped upon its original release, Crimewave can now be enjoyed as a riotously entertaining showcase for Raimi and the Coens, which also benefits from a highly amusing performance from cult-horror star Bruce Campbell. Product Features High Definition remaster Four feature presentations: the 87-minute international version with a selection of three alternative titles (Broken Hearts and Noses, The XYZ Murders, and Crimewave); and the 82-minute US theatrical cut Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor-producer Bruce Campbell and filmmaker Michael Felsher (2013) Audio commentary with Sam Raimi expert James Flower (2021) The Crimewave Meter (2013, 16 mins): Bruce Campbell revisits his early collaborations with writer-director Raimi Leading Man (2013, 16 mins): actor Reed Birney talks about Crimewave and his wider career Made in Detroit (2013, 9 mins): producer-actor Edward R Pressman discusses the making of the film Rank Outsider (2021, 10 mins): critic and author Kim Newman remembers the original UK release Too Much for Comfort (2021, 8 mins): appreciation by comedian, musician and writer Rob Deering On-set footage (1983, 12 mins): rare behind-the-scenes material from Reed Birney's personal archive Promotional reel (1984, 14 mins): previously unseen digest version with unique voice-over, intended for industry use US theatrical trailer US home video trailer French theatrical trailer Image galleries: promotional materials and behind-the-scenes photography The XYZ Murders script gallery: complete pre-production screenplay New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Diabolique | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Diabolique is Jeremiah Chechik's 1996 revamped version of the 1955 French film noir tale of two teachers at a boys school conspiring to kill the headmaster (played in the remake by Chazz Palminteri of Jade and The Usual Suspects). The three assemble an intriguing triangle of revenge and deceit as the headmaster's abused and humiliated wife and mistress team up to get even. Mia Baran is the fragile wife with a delicate heart condition, portrayed by Isabelle Adjani (Queen Margot), and Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct) is the plotting, contemptuous mistress. Together they set out to wreak an unfortunate revenge, but as the story reveals itself, miscalculations abound as hidden agendas and secret lives are unexpectedly exposed. Chechik's new look and timeless setting give film noir audiences something neoteric and seductive to play with. A welcomed change to the film's story line is the fresh addition of Kathy Bates as a daunting private detective. Fans of Stone's will not be disappointed with the latest version of her "I-could-give-a-damn smoldering broad" technique and anyone not yet familiar with Chazz Palminteri will love watching him succeed as the ultimately despicable headmaster. --Michele Goodson

• Last Holiday | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £11.11   |  Saving you £8.88 (79.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Queen Latifah plays a shy cookware salesperson who throws caution to the wind when she learns her days are numbered.

• The Hard Way | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Preparing for a screen test, a pampered actor becomes the unwelcome partner of a detective on the trail of a killer.

• Color Of Night | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  New York psychologist Dr Bill Capa (Bruce Willis) is stunned when an old friend and colleague is brutally stabbed to death. Capa believes the vicious murderer to be one of the members of a therapy group. While all around him falls apart he finds Rose (Jane March) and they embark on a reckless and passionate affair of erotic sexual discovery. But is there more to Rose than meets the eye? He will only know if he survives long enough to find out...

• Gospel | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £3.00   |  Saving you £16.99 (566.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  See It! Live It! Spread It! A young R&B singer returns home to find his father's once powerful congregation in disarray. With his childhood nemesis creating a ""new vision"" for the church he is forced to deal with family career and relationship issues that send him on a collision course with redemption or destruction...

• Das Boot -- Superbit | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Das Boot is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96 one of the famed German U-Boats known as ‘The Grey Wolves’. Prowling the North Atlantic they challenged the British Navy at every turn. The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy...

• Charlie's Angels/Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Charlie's Angels: Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are Charlies Angels - a trio of elite private investigators who with the latest in high-tech gadgets martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state of the art skills on land sea and air. Their goal to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice identification software out of his lethal hands. Aided by their faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray) and u

• Halloween | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. Master of horror John Carpenter joins forces with director David Gordon Green and producer Jason Blum (Get Out, Split) for this follow up to Carpenter's 1978 classic. This Collector's Set includes: Halloween (2018) on 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray Collectable SteelBook® Case Michael Myers Silhouette Pin Michael Myers Knife Pin Bonus features: Deleted/Extended Scenes Back in Haddonfield: Making Halloween The Original Scream Queen The Sound of Fear Journey of The Mask The Legacy of Halloween

• 8MM / 8MM 2 | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  8 MM (1998): Nicholas Cage is Tom Welles a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Respected but still waiting for the big break that will improve his professional status Welles spends most of his time on routine cases. Nothing too dangerous nor too threatening - until a case involving a small innocuous-looking plastic reel of film turns Welles' life upside down sending him down a sordid and terrifying path into society's deepest corners. Drifting away

• Training Day | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £4.96   |  Saving you £9.03 (182.06%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in the shadowy world of undercover police work, the story centres on on a veteran L.A.P.D. natcotics officer (Denzel Washington) who guides a rookie through his first day on the brutal inner-city beat.

• High School USA | DVD | (13/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Welcome to High School USA where students get an outrageous education- both in and out of the classroom! This is the story of a confrontation between Beau Middleton and Jay Jay Manners who have declared war on each other with a series of pranks and dirty tricks.

• Harry Potter: A History of Magic | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £8.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book, the British Library is hosting an exhibition of the real-life magical history behind JK Rowling's beloved classics. With exclusive access to a priceless collection of artefacts, take a tour around this mesmerising show. Rowling herself examines the most exciting items on display, and opens her private archive to reveal drawings and drafts that have been hidden away for years. And, as opening night arrives, famous fans marvel at this fascinating trove of delights, like Harry Potter seeing Diagon Alley for the first time. A behind the scenes look into the exhibition with JK Rowling Narrated by Imelda Staunton Readings from Harry Potter film actors: David Thewlis, Evanna Lynch, Warwick Davies, Miriam Margoyles & Mark Williams Rowling's imaginary world illuminated by her illustrator Jim Kay

• Oz - Season 3 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £20.00 (200.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility has opened an experimental new ward Emerald City reserved for especially dangerous criminals. Inside the walls of this rehabilitation unit is a world that's even more corrupt and dangerous than the mean streets the inmates left behind. Survival is dependent on two sets of rules; those laid down by the warden and those understood by the racially divided prisoners. Gritty and violent OZ deftly handles sensitive issues concerning the American justice system. This release contains every compelling episode from the show's third series.

• Blow Out | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ""A great movie!"" -Pauline Kael The New Yorker. John Travolta (Pulp Fiction Face/Off) stars in this riveting mystery/thriller filled with powerful performances intense action and an ""engrossing web of suspense and intrigue"" (Blockbuster Entertainment Guide). Written and directed by master filmmaker Brian De Palma (Mission: Impossible) Blow Out is a heart-stopping adventure hailed by Rolling Stone as ""an American moviemaking triumph!"" Jack Terri (Travolta) is a talented audio tech