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• Blood - The Last Vampire | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.92   |  Saving you £11.33 (200.18%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Blood the Last Vampire brings a moody atmospheric quality all of its own to the Japanese animated film tradition. In a few short enigmatic scenes, we learn of the young girl Saya who is working for nameless government agencies and is sent, after one of her killings, to pose as a new pupil at an American school on an air force base. The Vietnam War is underway, but this does not concern her--she is involved with a far older war. All we ever find out is that she is not quite human, and that two of her schoolmates (and a whore in the mean streets adjacent to the base) are something yet again. Much of what ensues--gore and metamorphosis and nightmare chases--is all the more confusing for being seen through the eyes of a schoolteacher who never learns very much. This is a dreamlike film which does not have to make entirely literal sense, far more so than the creator's more famous Ghost in the Shell. It is also a memorable stage in the development of digitised animation. --Roz Kaveny

• Passchendaele | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £7.23   |  Saving you £12.76 (176.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A shell shocked veteran returns home to Canada where he is assigned to help the on-going recruitment drive needed to feed the war machine. As he recovers from his experiences he falls for a war nurse whose younger brother cannot enlist due to a medical condition. Desperate to serve his country David uses a fraudulent medical certificate and joins the army. Michael feels he has no option but to follow him back to the Western Front and protect him from harm. Both men are dispatched to the front line of Passchendaele - a battle that became synonymous with the misery of the First World War and claimed over 600 000 casualties.

• The Astronaut's Wife | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £6.58   |  Saving you £13.41 (203.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An intriguingly creepy premise but failed execution marks The Astronaut's Wife, a stylish and ultimately bland thriller about a pretty, young woman whose pretty, young astronaut husband comes back from his most recent space mission a little... odd. Before that fated space trip, Spencer (Johnny Depp) and Jillian (Charlize Theron) were a sunny, happy couple with matching blonde hairdos and a predilection for romping in the sack from extremely clever camera angles. However, after a communications blackout brings Spencer and his partner back down to earth prematurely, things are a little... peculiar. Spencer's partner goes bonkers and has a heart attack; on top of that, the partner's wife takes a fatal shower with a plugged-in radio. Getting out of the space biz, Spencer accepts a job as a corporate exec in New York, and as a welcome to the Big Apple for his comely wife, he molests her at the company cocktail party. Soon enough, Jillian is pregnant, but as you might expect, this pregnancy (twins, don't you know) is a little... unusual. Writer-director Rand Ravich takes his sweet time getting from extremely obvious plot point A to even more obvious plot point B, stretching out the development particulars in mind-numbing, suspense-killing fashion. Even Joe Morton, as a sinisterly psychotic NASA official, can't liven things up--you know you're in bad thriller territory when the biggest scare comes from a light suddenly being switched off. Theron, sporting a Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby style haircut, sleepwalks beautifully through the movie, but she did this role much, much better in The Devil's Advocate. Depp, with a cornpone Southern accent, is about as realistic as his peroxided hair. Ravich does the viewer no favours with a hackneyed ending straight out of a B-grade paperback horror novel in which the most shocking moment is Theron's sudden emergence as a brunette. With Blair Brown as a jaded socialite who offers to help out Theron by providing do-it-yourself abortion pills, and a lovely Donna Murphy as the suicidal wife who figures it all out before everyone else. -- Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Dragonfly | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £13.92   |  Saving you £1.07 (7.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This supernatural thriller stars Kevin Costner as a man who goes to dangerous extremes when he becomes convinced his dead wife is trying to communicate with him through the near death experiences of others.

• The Souvenir Part II | DVD | (25/04/2022) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Joanna Hogg's shimmering story of first love and a young woman's formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy. With an outstanding cast that also includes Richard Ayoade, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn and Tilda Swinton, the critically acclaimed sequel to The Souvenir is a truly unmissable cinematic event.

• Creep | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets

• Mo' Money | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  You can never be too rich or too funny. Comedian Damon Wayans brings his rogue's gallery of outrageous characters to this action filled comedy about a con artist who tries to go straight but keeps getting pulled in the wrong direction...

• Risky Business (Crtierion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A sly piece of pop subversion, this irresistible satire of Reagan-era materialism features Tom Cruise in his star-is-born breakthrough as a Chicago suburban prepster whose college-bound life spirals out of control when his parents go out of town for the week and an enterprising call girl (Rebecca De Mornay) invites him to walk on the wild side. While Cruise boogying in his briefs yielded one of the most iconic pop-cultural moments of the 1980s, it is the film's unexpected mix of tender romance (enhanced by a moody synth score by Tangerine Dream) and sharp-witted capitalist critique that remains fresh and daring.

• Dead Again in Tombstone (DVD + Digital Download) | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Guerrero returns from the dead once more to protect a stolen relic from getting into the hands of a gang of soldiers, which will ultimately cause hell upon earth.

• The Limey | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Limey follows Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.

• Against The Ropes | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £5.86   |  Saving you £10.13 (172.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Meg Ryan stars in this fact-inspired drama as a woman who defied all the odds when she entered the male dominated world of boxing management and took it by storm.

• Carmen Jones | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £13.60   |  Saving you £6.39 (46.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Few actresses have dominated the camera as powerfully as Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones. Her polished beauty plays in irresistible contrast to her title character's leonine sexuality and fluid emotions; a man can't decide from moment to moment if he wants to save her from doom, build her a castle, or never let her out of bed. Of course, that's the problem with the boys in this semi-experimental adaptation of Bizet's opera, Carmen. Straight-arrow Joe (a strapping Harry Belafonte), an obedient corporal on a southern military base during World War II, is all set to go to flight school and marry his hometown sweetie, Cindy Lou (Olga James), when his troublemaking sergeant orders him to accompany Carmen to a civilian court. In short order, Joe is swept up in Carmen's carnal anarchy and her craving for release from lousy options in life. An impulsive act of violence ensures that Joe's future is gone forever, putting Carmen in the difficult position of destroying their relationship to save him. Oscar Hammerstein II took Bizet's music in 1943 and rewrote the book and lyrics. The result is largely a smashing success with a few missteps (the bullfighter in Bizet's piece becomes a heavyweight boxer here, which breaks up a certain grace in the story) and a couple of perfect stretches (the long prelude to Carmen and Joe's first embrace, set on Carmen's hoodoo-ish home turf). Despite the fact that both Dandridge and Belafonte were singers, their vocal performances were dubbed by LeVern Hutcherson and Marilyn Horne. (Yes, it is a little disconcerting to hear another voice coming out of the more familiar Belafonte's mouth.) Otto Preminger directed with his usual eye on economy of action and production, as the numerous musical numbers tend to be shot in lengthy, single, carefully choreographed takes. The result can be a little visually static at times, but the passion behind the singing pulls everything through.--Tom Keogh

• Cherry Falls | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the small town of Cherry Falls a depraved killer is murdering high school students, but unlike most ‘stalk & slash’ killers this one is targeting virgins!

• Cougar Club | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Spence and Hogan graduate from college life looks bleak. The only jobs they can land are for hideous divorce lawyers that torture them constantly. Spence has the ""girlfriend from hell"" and Hogan just wants a girlfriend with experience i.e. a more mature woman. As luck would have it the guys are presented with an unusual opportunity - they start a club for young men devoted to pleasuring sexy older women known as ""Cougars"". The Cougar Club teaches the friends life's lessons of love respect and mutual satisfaction.

• Killer Nun (Region-Free, Uncut, Restored, Numbered Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (15/04/2024) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Crossroads | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pop superstar Britney Spears makes her big screen debut in this tale of three childhood best friends, and a guy they just met, take a trip across the country, finding themselves and their friendship in the process.

• The Sign Of Four | Blu Ray | (25/04/2016) from £18.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A young woman desperate for help enlists the aid of Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson. Drawn in by her intriguing tale the game is afoot and they begin to delve deeper into the case of a missing army captain in India, secret pacts and a king's ransom in stolen jewels, all the while shadowed by a mysterious peg-legged man and his dangerous associate.

• Free Guy - Steelbook Edition | Blu Ray | (07/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 1 | DVD | (11/10/2021) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes from the first season of the US zombie adventure drama and spin-off series of 'The Walking Dead' based on the comic books by Robert Kirkman. Ten years after the zombie apocalypse teenage step-sisters Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Hope (Alexa Mansour) must leave their secure community to try and locate their father, Leopold (Joe Holt), whose life is in danger. Having lived a relatively privileged life up to this point the girls must quickly adapt as they engage with the zombie outbreak for the first time. The episodes are: 'Brave', 'The Blaze of Gory', 'The Tyger and the Lamb', 'The Wrong End of a Telescope', 'Madman Across the Water', 'Shadow Puppets', 'Truth Or Dare', 'The Sky Is a Graveyard', 'The Deepest Cut' and 'In This Life'.

• Night Listener | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A radio show host's life is thrown into chaos after a conversation with his biggest fan.