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• The Firm | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This first film adaptation of a John Grisham novel is a crackerjack popcorn movie that satisfies even though it radically changes the last half of the book. The novel's dynamic setup is intact: Mitch McDeere, a hot law graduate (a well-suited Tom Cruise), finds a dream job in a luxurious Memphis law firm. His superiors (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook) provide Mitch and his young wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), with a house and plenty of money in exchange for lots of work, and maybe something more. Soon FBI agents (including a bald Ed Harris) encircle Mitch, telling him his firm has a sinister secret, forcing Mitch into a heck of a pickle. How Mitch deals with his situation is where the book and movie differ, yet by the time Mitch is running from bad guys with suitcase in hand, the movie delivers Grisham's goods. For Sydney Pollack's film, Mitch is more confrontational and heroic. Plot aside, the care Pollack put into this fair-weather thriller is unimpeachable, as is his cast. There is hardly a better all-star cast in any 1990s thriller, from Hackman and Harris in key roles to actors in smaller parts, sometimes with only a scene or two. Standouts include David Strathairn as Mitch's wayward brother, Wilford Brimley as the head of security, film producer Jerry Weintraub as an angry client, Gary Busey as a private investigator and Holly Hunter in a delicious, Oscar-nominated supporting role as Busey's most loyal of secretaries. The cast seems to have had as much fun making the film as we do watching it. It's slick Hollywood product, but first-rate all the way. --Doug Thomas

• LA NOTTE | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £13.35   |  Saving you £6.64 (49.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, Michelangelo Antonioni - even as it solidified his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni's Twilight of the Gods, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined from a crane-shot, it's a sprawling study of Italy's upper middle-class; seen in close-up, it's an x-ray of modern man's psychic desolation. Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8-1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and public intellectual; she is the wife. Over the course of one day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds, the pair will come to re-examine their emotional bonds, and grapple with the question of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria. Photographed in rapturous black-and-white by the great Gianni di Venanzo (8-1/2, Giulietta degli spiriti), La notte presents the beauty of seduction, then asks: When did this occur - this seduction of Beauty? The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Michelangelo Antonioni's haunted odyssey for the first time ever on Blu-ray. Special Features: New 1080p presentation of the film in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio with previously censored sequences restored for the first time. New and improved English subtitles Original Italian Theatrical Trailer 56-page booklet with an essay by film-critic and scholar Brad Stevens, and the transcript of a lengthy Q&A conducted in 1961 with Antonioni upon the film’s release.

• Time To Leave | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Francois Ozon's most intimate and lyrical work 'Time to Leave' features a moving performance from Melvil Poupaud as a 30 year-old man facing up to the reality of his own mortality. With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a serious illness fashion photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family confiding instead only in his grandmother (affectingly played by screen legend Jeanne Moreau). But anger and denial give way to an acceptance of sorts when a chance encounter with a waitress (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) offers Romain a glimmer of hope and the unexpected chance to leave something of himself behind.

• Querelle | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from Jean Genet's novel the final film of director Fassbinder's career is a surreal tale of sex and murder that has become a cult favourite. Brad Davis (Midnight Express Chariots Of Fire) stars as Querelle an enigmatic drug-dealing sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest. Amidst the sultry highly charged atmosphere he embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery. With its striking iconic imagery set against the orange glow of a permanent sunset Querelle is a d

• Paranoid | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Paranoid tells the story of Chloe a fashion model who tired from her hectic schedule agrees to spend a weekend in the country with her new boyfriend and some of his friends. Things soon start to turn bad when his wife arrives and Chloe is left alone in a house full of people she doesn't know.

• Mit stahlharter Faust, 1 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (25/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Night We Never Met | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sam Lester is looking for an apartment in a city where affordable accomodation is hard to find. One advert leads him to the ideal place but there is a catch; he must share with two other tenants who are already using the apartment on alternate days...

• TNT Jackson | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A blaxpoitation action/kung-fu flick about an undercover female cop (Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell) headed to Hong Kong in order to find and help her missing brother who happens to be in trouble with the mob. TNT Jackson appears in many Kung Fu battles against the Chinese Mob and even a classic topless karate scene.

• TNT Jackson | DVD | (30/08/2012) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-6.97 (-116.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A blaxpoitation action/kung-fu flick about an undercover female cop (Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell) headed to Hong Kong in order to find and help her missing brother who happens to be in trouble with the mob. TNT Jackson appears in many Kung Fu battles against the Chinese Mob and even a classic topless karate scene.

• Les Valseuses | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Les Valseuses is the controversial groundbreaking classic that shot Gerard Depardieu to stardom and also marked the arrival of a major new talent in director Bertrand Blier. One of the key French films of the seventies. Two aimless drifters spend their days wandering the French countryside looking for trouble and women. Their hedonistic spree of petty crime and debauchery usually results in them fighting or running their way out of trouble. The delinquent pair are joined by a supporting array of characters played by Jeanne Moreau Miou-Miou and Isabelle Huppert in one of her earliest roles.