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• Robocop Trilogy | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  Paul Verhoeven was almost unknown in Hollywood prior to the release of RoboCop in 1987. But after this ultra-violent yet strangely subversive and satirical sci-fi picture became a huge hit his reputation for extravagant and excessive, yet superbly well-crafted filmmaking was assured. Controversial as ever, Verhoeven saw the blue-collar cop (Peter Weller) who is transformed into an invincible cyborg as "an American Jesus with a gun", and so the film dabbles with death and resurrection imagery as well as mercilessly satirising Reagan-era America. No targets escape Verhoeven's unflinching camera eye, from yuppie excess and corporate backstabbing to rampant consumerism and vacuous media personalities. As with his later sci-fi satire Starship Troopers the extremely bloody violence resolutely remains on the same level as a Tom and Jerry cartoon. The inevitable sequel, competently directed by Irvin Kershner, thankfully continues to mine the dark vein of anti-consumerist satire while being reflexively aware that it is itself a shining example of that which it is lampooning. Sadly the third instalment in the series, now without Peter Weller in the title role, is exactly the kind of dumbed-down production-line flick that the corporate suits of OCP might have dreamed up at a marketing meeting. Its only virtue is a decent music score from regular Verhoeven collaborator Basil Poledouris, whose splendid march theme returned from the original score. On the DVD: Packaged in a fold-out slipcase these three discs make a very collectable set. All are presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic prints, although only the first movie has any extra material worth mentioning. Here the Director's Cut option allows the viewer to see Paul Verhoeven's more explicitly violent versions of Murphy's "assassination", ED-209's bloody malfunction and the shootout finale. These extended sequences are handily signposted in the scene selection menu, and the filming of them can be seen in a sequence of Director's Cut footage. Deleted scenes include "Topless Pizza" ("I'll buy that for a dollar!") and there are two contemporary "making of" featurettes plus a good, new half-hour retrospective. Both the latter and the director's commentary make abundantly clear the Reagan-era satire and are chock full of quotable lines from Verhoeven--"I wanted to show Satan killing Jesus"--and his producer--"Fascism for liberals". Stop-motion animator Phil Tippett gives a commentary on the storyboard-to-film comparisons, and there are the usual trailers and photos. Showing just how much the sequels are rated in comparison, the second and third discs have nothing but theatrical trailers and their sound is just Dolby 2.0 whereas the original movie has been remastered into Dolby 5.1.--Mark Walker

• Exit Wounds / Out For Justice | DVD | (21/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Exit Wounds: Sometimes you have to go undercover to bring justice to the law: sometimes you have to walk in the darkness to bring the truth to light. From the acclaimed producer of 'The Matrix' Joel Silver brings you action hit 'Exit Wounds'. Fifty kilos of heroin disappear from the property vaults of the toughest precinct in Detroit and no one knows how. Itll make someone $5 million richer - maybe someone in uniform - as long as no one talks. Stolen drugs crooked cops. T

• The Paper | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sometimes a day is all it takes. Today Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) metro editor of a New York tabloid has some very big decisions to make. His heavily pregnant wife (Marisa Tomei) is facing urgent deadlines of her own. Henry' boss the managing editor (Glenn Close) is also reaching a crisis in her life and her senior (Robert Duvall) has just discovered he is an extremely sick man. To top it all the paper is in pursuit of a hot story that could expose a major scandal and fre

• Exit Wounds | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £3.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (72.20%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Steven Seagal stars as a tough cop who sets out to expose the corruption in his inner-city police department, with the help of a local crime lord.

• Jo | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Joachim Jo Saint-Clair, Jean Reno (Leon Ronin) is a veteran detective in Paris elite Criminal Brigade tackling the city's most challenging murder cases. Jo takes the audience behind the scenes of Paris' most iconic locations the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Catacombs, Place Vendome as we follow St-Clair in his relentless pursuit of justice. Brilliant and brutal, St-Clair matches wits with pathological killers to solve a series of shocking murders. Fighting crime alongside Reno are Tom Aust...

• Autumn In New York | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A New York restaurant owner falls for a young woman chef. When she reveals a dark secret about herself, their relationship takes on deeper meaning.

• Law And Order - Series 4 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Powerful timely and gripping Law & Order has become one of television's most celebrated and widely acclaimed American crime series of all time. Get ready for another thrilling season of ripped-from-the-headlines cases as all 22 episodes of the gripping fourth season come to DVD for the first time ever. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sweeps 2. Volunteers 3. Discord 4. Profile 5. Black Tie 6. Pride and Joy 7. Apocrypha 8. American Dream 9. Born Bad 10. The Pursuit of Happiness

• Law And Order - Series 5 | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £42.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (7.12%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Return to the scene of the crime with Chris Noth in his final season of the show honored by 11 consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series! All 23 compelling episodes of Law & Order: The Fifth Year are now available on DVD for the first time in this must-own 5-disc collection. Joining Detective Mike Logan (Noth) and his dedicated colleagues who investigate and prosecute crime is a powerful lineup of guest stars including Regina Taylor Edie Falco Gina Torres and John Cameron Mitchell. Ripped from today's headlines Law & Order is the gripping phenomenon that will captivate you again and again! Episodes Comprise: 1. Second Opinion 2. Coma 3. Blue Bamboo 4. Family Values 5. White Rabbit 6. Competence 7. Precious 8. Virtue 9. Scoundrels 10. House Counsel 11. Guardian 12. Progeny 13. Rage 14. Performance 15. Seed 16. Wannabe 17. Act of God 18. Privileged 19. Cruel and Unusual 20. Bad Faith 21. Purple Heart 22. Switch 23. Pride

• Law & Order Season 7 | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Unrelenting powerful and full of twists Law & Order remains TV's longest-running crime series of all time. Honoured with 11 consecutive Primetime Emmy'' Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series and an amazing 50 Primetime Emmy'' Award nominations since its inception this acclaimed and intelligent series continues to captivate audiences with its provocative storylines ripped from today's news headlines. And now the entire Seventh Year-all 23 groundbreaking episodes-are available on DVD in this five-disc collector's set. Carey Lowell joins returning stars Benjamin Bratt Sam Waterston and Jerry Orbach as they take on new cases that deal with everything from explosive race relations to poisonous blood relations. Also featuring guest stars Taye Diggs Edie Falco Lauren Graham Felicity Huffman Jennifer Esposito and more it's hard-hitting viewing that sets the bar for every other legal drama ever made.

• Crossing Jordan - Complete Series | DVD | (24/02/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Law And Order - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Law And Order is back with Season 6!

• Molly | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £7.35   |  Saving you £8.64 (117.55%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Imagine experiencing life through the eyes of an innocent child...forever. Beautiful and vibrant Molly McKay might have a mental disability but she's not about to let the world pass her by. Starring Academy Award nominee Elisabeth Shue in an inspired performance Molly is a joyous celebration of the irrepressible human spirit. Autistic since birth 28-year-old Molly (Shue) is a carefree young woman with an incredible zest for life. Her brother Buck (Aaron Eckhart) a 32-year-old

• Row Your Boat | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Komodo | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  I think they're contesting our place in the food chain", quips an Imperilled teen at an especially low moment of Komodo, a regulation trapped-with-monsters straight-to-video quickie. There was a millennial blip of such nature-on-the-rampage horrors in the year 2000 and Komodo settles comfortably onto the shelf with King Cobra, Blood Surf, They Nest, Crocodile, Spiders and Octopus. If you've seen all of them, you'll probably want to see this too--but don't say we didn't warn you. Komodo familiarly packs a few no-name actors to an island supposedly off the shore of Carolina (actually somewhere in Australasia and has them menaced by CGI creatures, then fighting back and beating the beasts. Though the title gives away the nature of the menace, ex-effects technician-turned-director Michael Lantieri keeps the monsters off-screen and purportedly mysterious for half the running time. Teenage Patrick (Kevin Zegers) is traumatised by the deaths of parents (and his dog) and retreats into an amnesiac fugue, but his psychiatrist Victoria (Jill Hennessy) brings him back to the site of the tragedy to stir his memories. It turns out that the local evil oil company has always known that a bunch of giant, flesh-eating lizards were on the loose but kept quiet about it for nebulously nefarious purposes. Oates (Billy Burke), a rebellious company minion, hooks up with Patrick (who shows unexpected resourcefulness in whipping up lizard traps) and the shrink and they have a last-reel confrontation with the monsters that allow for some very distant echoes of Jurassic Park. The CGI and model work is seamless but the monsters have too little personality and, despite their voracious appetites, require all manner of contrivances to bring their victims within snapping distance. Nice bit at the end though with a gory if not dramatic finale. --Kim Newman

• Chutney Popcorn | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chutney Popcorn is an amusing exploration of surrogate motherhood that never lets cross-cultural or lesbian issues overrun what is essentially a family drama. Nisha Ganatra directs, writes and takes the lead role as Reena, a New York artist and lesbian with Indian roots that include an over-indulgent mother and newlywed perfect sister, Sarita. On finding that Sarita is infertile, Reena proposes becoming a surrogate mother, not just to help out her sister but to prove to her mother that she is capable of living up to the traditional values of womanhood. The pregnancy puts obvious strain on Sarita's marriage and she begins to distance herself from Reena and the unborn baby. At the same time, Reena's live-in girlfriend Lisa (Jill Hennessy) has commitment issues; babies never being part of her life equation. For her first feature film, Ganatra shows much promise with her ability to blend the various issues at the film's heart without becoming over-sentimental about them. Madhur Jaffrey offers a surprisingly sparky comic turn as the doting mother trying to hold on to the values of her homeland. The script is loaded towards the inevitable happy ending, which feels far too easy and upbeat, leaving the audience with unanswered questions about the future of the child. Despite such reservations, Chutney Popcorn is a spicy look into the alternative family that's more substantial than just a simple side dish. --Nikki Disney

• Most Wanted | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Comic actor Keenen Ivory Wayans made a creditable effort to expand his career horizons by writing the script for this action thriller, in which he also stars. Wayans plays US Marine Sgt James Dunn, a military hero who refuses an order to shoot a young shepherd during the Gulf War. His insubordination leads to a lethal struggle with a superior officer and a subsequent murder conviction against Dunn.Plucked from his death sentence by a covert unit of Marines, however, Dunn soon finds himself in a shadowy world of undercover wars under the command of one Lt Col. Grant Casey (Jon Voight). Offered freedom in exchange for aiding a mission against a corrupt industrialist (Robert Culp), Dunn agrees and then discovers he has actually been set up to take the fall for an assassination. Suddenly, he's the most wanted man in the world, with police, the military, the Secret Service and legions of reward seekers chasing him around Los Angeles. Jill Hennessy stars as an eyewitness who happened to catch the killing on videotape and can clear Dunn if she would only cooperate with him--a problem, since he has kidnapped her. Directed by David Glenn Hogan, Most Wanted works just fine as a well-oiled action piece with a capable star and competent action sequences. The story ideas (especially Dunn's Rambo-esque flight through the city and his reliance on esoteric survival skills) feel overly familiar, but that only makes Most Wanted all the more enjoyable as a pot-boiler instead of a serious original. --Tom Keogh

• Lymelife | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in the late 1970s on Long Island, New York, LYMELIFE chronicles the disintegration of two families when tangled relationships, real estate problems and an outbreak of Lyme's disease hit a small suburban community.

• Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women Of Camelot | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £6.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (27.84%)   |  RRP £7.99

  They were more than mere Washington wives. They were part of the American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image but concealing their private truths. They had no other choice. They were Kennedy women. For Joan wife of senatorial hopeful Ted Kennedy the nomination will thrust her into the spotlight. For the tenacious Ethel wife of future Attorney General Bobby Kennedy the political life is as vital to her as her own. And for John's en

• Small Town Murder Songs | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life. When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake - the victim of a brutal and violent crime - Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare; Fargo), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover (Jill Hennessy) and his suspicion of her current boyfriend. As he delves deeper into the crime, his newly-reformed life begins to unravel threatening his relationship with Sam (Martha Plimpton; The Good Wife) and intertwining itself within the investigation and possibly the murder itself.

• Jackie Ethel Joan | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  They were more than mere Washington wives. They were part of the American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image but concealing their private truths. They had no other choice. They were Kennedy women. For Joan wife of senatorial hopeful Ted Kennedy the nomination will thrust her into the spotlight. For the tenacious Ethel wife of future Attorney General Bobby Kennedy the political life is as vital to her as her own. And for John's enigmatic wife Jackie her husband's success means only one thing: that she must endure a deeply troubled marriage for the sake of a politicians's rise to power. This is the true story of the remarkable infamous Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.