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• Scorpio | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £15.36   |  Saving you £-2.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though not quite a classic, director Michael Winner's Scorpio is still an underrated espionage thriller that was well attuned to the political cynicism of its time. Burt Lancaster plays Cross, a CIA operative who dates back to the agency's earliest days as the OSS. Scorpio (Alain Delon) is a protégé of Cross, and one of Cross's best friends in a netherworld where everyone's allegiances, personal and political, are in question. Higher-ups within the intelligence agency decide that Cross knows too much and is better off eliminated; at first, Scorpio refuses the job until the CIA frames him on a phoney narcotics bust and coerces him into the assignment. The two men play a game of global cat-and-mouse as Cross consorts with his Russian counterparts--fellow ageing dinosaurs in a young man's game. Cross's links with the Russians go back to the days of the Spanish Civil War and the time when Cross was given the ironic label of "premature anti-Fascist" by the House Unamerican Activities Committee. The incredibly convoluted plot is rife with double-crosses and reverse double-crosses, in an environment in which nothing is quite as it seems and no one is to be trusted. Winner infuses enough energy and excitement into the film's many action segments to make Scorpio worthy of comparison to John Frankenheimer's best political thrillers. The director also throws in several curveballs, such as the zither music during a meeting in a Vienna café (shades of The Third Man) and the preposterous device of disguising Lancaster as an African-American priest. The best line must be "I want Cross, and I want him burned!" --Jerry Renshaw

• Kalifornia | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed with a cool remove by Dominic Sena, Kalifornia falls somewhere between Badlands and Natural Born Killers. David Duchovny is a blocked author with a fascination for outlaw killers who hatches a plan to road trip through America's mass-murder landmarks to finish his book. He enlists the help of his frustrated photographer girlfriend Michelle Forbes, who desperately wants to leave the East Coast for LA, and they advertise for riding partners. Luckily for them, they wind up with a veteran killer, the greasy trailer-park ex-con Brad Pitt, who decides to skip parole with his cowering child-woman girlfriend Juliette Lewis. Duchovny is enamoured by gun-toting Pitt's recklessness and lawless disregard for, well, everything--simultaneously terrified and thrilled by Pitt's brutal beating of a barfly. Meanwhile, Pitt's leaving a trail of corpses in their wake. Pitt brings a ferocious magnetism to his part, but it's still hard to buy genial Duchovny's odd attraction; Juliette Lewis conveys a terrifying sense of victimization with her poor dumb creature. Despite the film's best efforts, it never really plumbs the psyche of Pitt's simmering psycho--he's just plain bad, you know--but it does fashion an effective little thriller out of the tensions brewing in the restless quartet. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Anna Karenina | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £6.19   |  Saving you £-0.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• The X Files: Season 6 | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Mulder and Scully return from Antarctica to discover they've been reassigned and are no longer a part of The X-Files. Their frustration turns to fear when Cassandra Spender a woman who claims to have been abducted the same night as Mulder's sister reappears with claims of an alien threat. But it is an extraterrestrial artefact found off the coast of Africa which may hold the key to the very origins of life on Earth and which has an unexplained and deadly effect on Mulder. Episod

• Angelica | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £6.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  James Norton, Janet McTeer, Jena Malone and Ed Stoppard star in this an unnerving, supernatural horror experience that will delight fear fans in search of a genuine creep out. Take a deep breath and prepare for your nerves to be shattered In Victorian England, sexual repression opens a rift between a young couple - Constance and Joseph - after the birth of their daughter Angelica. As Constance retreats further from her relationship a ghostly predator begins to haunt its way through the house late at night... When the eerie visits become evermore menacing and vividly evoke Constance's deepest fears, she decides to fight against the supernatural force in a bid to save herself and her daughter.

• Murder in Soho | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £10.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This cracking Brit-noir crime thriller features relatively early roles for Googie Withers James Hayter future Bond star Bernard Lee and Broadway veteran Jack La Rue who would become familiar to cinemagoers as one of Hollywood's most dependable screen gangsters. Released in Britain in 1939 Murder in Soho is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. One of the brightest spots in Soho was the Cotton Club run by American Steve Marco. Steve was proud of his club's reputation; it was an excellent 'blind' for more important activities. So when double-crossing Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve's past Joe had to be murdered. Steve was not going to have anyone destroy what had taken years to build... Special Features: Image Gallery Original Script PDF

• NYPD Blue - Season 4 | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £32.38   |  Saving you £12.61 (38.94%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The fourth compelling season of TV uberproducer Steven Bochco's NYPD Blue. It was the groundbreaking series that broke all the rules and triggered what may be the biggest mutiny in TV history when some of the station affiliates refused to carry the show. Some viewers also complained but the majority loved what was being touted as TV's first R-rated series. NYPD blue has garnered an amazing 86 Emmy Award nominations and 21 wins. So if you missed all the excitement back

• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 6 | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  In season six of Star Trek: The Next Generation the dangers grow even more dire for the crew of the Enterprise. During a behind-the-lines mission Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) falls into the hands of a seasoned Cardassian torturer. In an attempt to learn the truth about his father Worf (Michael Dorn) breaks into a Romulan prison compound. James Doohan returns when a transporter malfunction resurrects the original series' Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) copes with a bizarre identity crisis that pits him quite literally against himself. And Data's (Brent Spiner) quest to understand emotion introduces him to the concept of rage.

• Inspector Morse - Series 8 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £14.52   |  Saving you £10.47 (72.11%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features all the special episodes of the classic British Television drama Inspector Morse. Episodes comprise: 1. Way Through The Woods: A man accused of being the Lover's Lane killer is killed in a prison fight before his trial. But Inspector Morse is convinced that he was innocent and that the key to the murderer can be found in the depths of Wytham Woods... 2. The Daughters Of Cain: What first appears as a routine case for Morse and Lewis becom

• Cleanskin | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £4.58   |  Saving you £11.41 (249.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sophisticated British action thriller CLEANSKIN explodes onto cinema screens in March with an exciting cast lead by Sean Bean, who plays Ewan, a Secret Service Agent working undercover in the criminal underbelly of London.

• The Rolling Stones - Rock And Roll Circus | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £13.20   |  Saving you £0.79 (5.98%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Unavailable at all for nearly three decades, then issued in a VHS edition in 1996, the Rolling Stones' legendary Rock and Roll Circus finally gets the full treatment with this DVD release documenting the 1968 event. The Stones were reportedly unhappy with their performance (hence the long delay), and it isn't their finest moment; performing "Jumping Jack Flash" and a variety of songs from their then-new Beggars Banquet album, Keith Richards is game, but Jagger's preening (especially on "Sympathy for the Devil") is over the top, and guitarist Brian Jones looks dissolute and well on his way to his death the following year. A certain weirdness permeates some of the other musical acts as well: Jethro Tull lip-syncs unconvincingly, Taj Mahal and band were obliged to perform before the circus set was completed and the audience had arrived, and John Lennon's outing with impromptu supergroup the Dirty Mac (with Richards, Eric Clapton, and drummer Mitch Mitchell) is hampered by Yoko Ono's caterwauling, although their version of the Beatles' "Yer Blues" is cool. Still, the Who are brilliant, Marianne Faithfull is beautiful, the various circus acts are fun, and the crowd clearly loves it. The DVD comes with some fascinating bonus features, including three extra songs by Mahal, some lovely classical piano by Julius Katchen, and a "quad split-screen" version of "Yer Blues". Best of all are a new interview with the Who's Pete Townshend and the various commentary tracks added for the DVD--especially those by Tull's Ian Anderson, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and Stones Jagger, Richards, and Bill Wyman (who dryly attributes Jagger's reluctance to issue the show to his dissatisfaction with his own performance, not the band's). Flaws notwithstanding, this is a treat. --Sam Graham

• El Dorado | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £5.03   |  Saving you £7.96 (158.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks' greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks' marvellous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a hopeless drunken bender. James Caan, in one of his first sizable roles, plays a kid who can't shoot straight and wears a funny hat (every character in the movie makes fun of this hat). As the plot moves along, it begins to resemble Rio Bravo rather closely ("I steal from myself all the time", Hawks was fond of admitting). But in El Dorado the heroes are a bit older, their powers a bit weaker; at the end Wayne must revert to a bit of subterfuge in order to get the drop on the steely gunslinger (ice-cold Christopher George) he needs to put down. As relaxed as the movie is, Hawks and Wayne and company are in good spirits, with plenty of broad humour and easy camaraderie on display. Hawks and Wayne would make just one more film, the disappointing Rio Lobo, before ending their fruitful partnership. --Robert Horton

• Be Cool | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Travolta returns as Chili Palmer in this sequel to 1995 comedy hit.

• Sharpe's Regiment / Sharpe's Siege | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £5.03   |  Saving you £9.96 (198.01%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (1993-7) ran to 14 full-length television films that follow the adventures of the titular soldier through the later years of the Napoleonic Wars. The programmes are an outstanding achievement for the small screen, dominated by Sean Bean's central performance as the heroic, troubled outsider who turns out to be a resourceful and loyal leader. Bolstered by a strong supporting cast, particularly Daragh O'Malley as Harper and (in later episodes) Abigail Cruttenden as Jane, Sharpe is often visually striking, the action tense and gripping. Consistency is maintained by all 14 episodes being directed by Tom Clegg. On the DVD: Sharpe's sound is full-bodied stereo while the very "sharp" picture has been transferred slightly letterboxed at 14:9. Though looking much better than the original TV transmissions the occasionally cropped framing makes it apparent the films were shot in 16:9 widescreen, so it is regrettable they have not been transferred to DVD in that format. Otherwise these are first-rate releases. --Gary S Dalkin

• Rebel Without A Cause | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Geordie Shore: Series 7 | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £5.22   |  Saving you £11.77 (225.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Geordie Shore: Series 7

• Planet Of The Apes Red Tag Boxset | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £28.25   |  Saving you £-8.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Planet of the Apes:Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science-fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall). Winner of an honorary Academy Award for Outstanding Make-Up Achievement, Planet Of The Apes is grand entertainment, from its visually arresting beginning to the chilling last moment. Beneath The Planet of The Apes:In the acclaimed sequel to Planet of the Apes, another astronaut (James Franciscus) crashes through the time barrier searching for the missing Taylor (Charlton Heston). The daring rescue mission leads to a subterranean city where mutant humans, who practise mind control, worship a weapon capable of destroying the entire planet. Escape From The Planet of The Apes:Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter reprise their roles from the original Planet of the Apes in this third chapter of the Apes saga. Two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius (McDowall) and Zira (Hunter) travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities - until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives! Conquest of The Planet of The Apes:The fourth episode of the legendary Apes saga, stars Roddy McDowall and Ricardo Montalban. The time is the near future. Apes have substituted cats and dogs as household pets, and replaced servants as personal assistants - until their continual mistreatment provokes one advanced ape from the future, Caesar (McDowall), to lead a spectacular revolt that marks the beginning of the ape revolution. Battle For The Planet of The Apes:The fifth and last chapter of the legendary Apes saga is set in 2670 A.D. After the revolution, brought about by Caesar, the world is now a desolated place. Now man and apes try to live together in an uneasy harmony, with apes having the edge over man as the leaders. When the smoke clears the carnage is everywhere, but there is hope for a new beginning for man and ape. Rise of The Planet of The Apes:From the creators of Avatar comes the number 1 UK blockbuster and ultimate Sci-fi re-boot – Rise of the Planet of the Apes an origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Planet of the Apes (2011):In the year 2029, interstellar reconnaissance missions are relegated to chimpanzee pilots from the space station OBERON in deep space. On one such mission, a chimp loses communication and vanishes from the radar. Fearless astronaut Leo Davidson launches a rescue mission and, following a malfunction, lands on a jungle-like planet not unlike Earth. To Leo's astonishment, English-speaking apes and primitive humans inhabit the planet. Following his capture by the apes and his subsequent escape, Leo assembles a small band of defiant humans and empathetic apes in an attempt to re-establish contact with Oberon, but his focus changes following an unexpected discovery. Armed with this new information, Leo leads a rebellion against an overpowering ape force that will result in freedom or complete annihilation.

• Eden Lake | Blu Ray | (19/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.

• James Last - Live at the Royal Albert Hall | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £6.22   |  Saving you £8.77 (141.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Last: Live At The Royal Albert Hall

• Lesbian Vampire Killers | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £4.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (270.93%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Comedy duo James Corden and Mathew Horne ("Gavin & Stacey") go toe-to-toe with a bunch of over-amorous and curious vampires in the madcap horror comedy "Lesbian Vampire Killers"