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• Bound By Blood | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A yoga instructor looks to protect her sex-worker sister from her deadbeat boyfriend.

• Loot | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £7.91   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British comedy adaptated from the play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father (Milo O'Shea) and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott (Richard Attenborough) as he traces the crooks, and the promiscuous nurse Fay (Lee Remick), who is also on the trail of the stolen money.

• The Crying Game | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An IRA film with a difference, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game takes the Anglo-Irish conflict as the starting point for a thoughtful, often poignant and sometimes humorous examination of gender and identity. Stephen Rea is the IRA volunteer who befriends a kidnapped British soldier (the gauche but likeable Forest Whitaker), then takes the questions of loyalty and instinct (the "frog and scorpion" fable) with him to London, where he falls for the dead man's girlfriend (the appealing Jaye Davidson). Love and terrorism are fused in a violent and suspenseful denouement, where truth manifests itself in an unexpected yet meaningful way. Miranda Richardson and Adrian Dunbar are persuasive as the IRA agents, and there are excellent cameos from Jim Broadbent as an East End barman and Tony Slattery as a property shark, all making the most of Jordan's stylish, Academy Award-winning script. Anne (Art of Noise) Dudley contributes a moodily atmospheric score, with three versions of "When a Man Loves a Woman" to point up the gender issue. On the DVD: The Crying Game comes to disc with a widescreen picture that reproduces adequately for an early 90s film. The soundtrack, though, has real presence. There are subtitles in English and Russian(!), though the theatrical trailer is hardly a major bonus. An interview or a commentary with Jordan, discussing the motivation behind the project, would really have benefited a film which cuts across genres so successfully as this. --Richard Whitehouse

• Home Alone 1 & 2 | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Home Alone When Kevin McCallister’s (Macaulay Culkin) family leaves for Christmas vacation they forget one thing: Kevin! So the eight-year-old starts decorating for the holidays. But when two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) try to break in Kevin rigs a hilarious array of booby traps for them in this comical holiday hit! Home Alone 2 This year Kevin (Culkin) is spending the holidays in New York City. Unfortunately his parents are spending them in Florida! Accidentally separated from his parents once again Kevin manages to find food lodging and fun using his dad’s credit card. But when the notorious Wet Bandits escape prison and head for New York too Kevin must use his wits to welcome them in his own unforgettable way!

• Great British Garden Revival: Series One | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £8.95   |  Saving you £16.04 (179.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Great British Garden Revival sees the nation's top television gardening talents stand up in a bid to restore Britain s rich horticultural heritage. In this popular and beautifully produced series, Britain's leading experts each champion a gardening style or group of plants which they feel passionately about. They share insider tips and offer practical advice on how to transform our gardens. They also meet inspiring experts and passionate amateur gardeners who share their enthusiasm in wanting to celebrate the beauty of overlooked historic gardening styles and traditions, and bring them back. The Complete first series of the Great British Garden Revival contains all 20 episodes on 4-Discs, and covers almost every conceivable aspect of the British Garden: Monty Don campaigns for wild flowers Joe Swift champions front gardens Charlie Dimmock praises ponds Chris Beardshaw campaigns for the stumpery Toby Buckland celebrates homegrown fruit Christine Walkden praises ornamental bedding Sarah Raven examines the British lawn James Wong praises tropical gardens Rachel De Thame champions the art of topiary James Wong looks at rooftop gardens Chris Beardshaw celebrates herbaceous borders Alys Fowler praises kitchen gardens Carol Klein supports the cottage garden Tom Hart Dyke promotes house-plants Carol Klein shares her passion for the rock garden Toby Buckland looks at herbs Rachel de Thame gives tips on how to grow flowers Joe Swift talks about tree planting Diarmuid Gavin champions glasshouses Matt James wants gardeners to rediscover shrubs

• An American Werewolf in London | Blu Ray | (27/09/2016) from £15.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cruel Gun Story | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Togawa (Joe Shishido, Branded to Kill) is released from prison early by his underworld bosses. They make him execute a daring heist on an armoured vehicle, knowing he has no choice but to do it, as he needs the money for his sister's surgery. With multiple partners and facets to the operation, much is at risk and all is never as it seems. A riff on Stanley Kubrick's The Killing from Nikkatsu's ˜Action' line, Takumi Furukawa directs this yakuza tale with every bit of the deftness found in classic American noir of the 1950s, featuring hard-boiled characters and enough twists to make your fedora spin. SPECIAL FEATURES High-Definition digital transfer of Cruel Gun Story, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the world Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Audio commentary by author and filmmaker Jasper Sharp (2024) New introduction by critic and programmer Tony Rayns (2024, 21 mins) Visual essay by Japanese cinema expert Hayley Scanlon on Nikkatsu's noir films of the 1960s (2024, 12 mins) Archival interview with actor Joe Shishido (2006, 9 mins) Optional English subtitles

• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £6.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel by Ben Fountain , the film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad contrasting the realities of the war with America's perceptions. Click Images to Enlarge

• Eye For An Eye | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Karen McCann's orderly life is shattered when a stranger breaks into her home and murders her 17-year-old daughter. But shock and grief turn into rage and disbelief when the killer is released on a legal technicality. When he commits another murder and is set free once again Karen is determined to make him pay for his crimes.

• Journey To Dinosaur Island | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The adventure begins when Lucas (Darius Williams) a 13 year old boy embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of life, Lucas hears a radio broadcast in the distance and is drawn into the jungle where he encounters a beautiful young girl who claims to have come from the 1950s (Kate Rasmussen.) Together they set out on a quest to get home all th.

• The Killing | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £17.74   |  Saving you £-1.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Among Stanley Kubrick's early film output The Killing stands out as the most lastingly influential: Quentin Tarantino credits the film as a huge inspiration for Reservoir Dogs and just about any movie or TV show that plays around with its own internal chronology owes the same debt. This sort of convoluted crime caper had really kicked off with John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle in 1950. From then on, nouveau noir scripts kept trying to find new ways of telling very similar stories. Here the novel Clean Break is adapted for the screen in a jigsaw-puzzle structure that caught Kubrick's eye. With a dry narration we're introduced to the key players in a racetrack heist as it's being planned, but the story bounces back and forth between what happens to each of them during and before the big event. All of this keeps the audience guessing as to exactly how it will go wrong, while the downbeat telling, the unsympathetic characters and the excessively dramatic score clearly foretell that it will go wrong from the start. The denouement is comically daft no matter how many times you see it. On the DVD: The Killing is a no-frills DVD transfer, in 4:3 ratio and with its original mono soundtrack. Criminally, just one trailer is all that's been dug up as an extra. --Paul Tonks

• Hunger | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £10.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Hunger" follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands.

• The Upper Hand - Series 1 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Upper Hand: Series 1 (2 Discs)

• Raging Bull - 20th Anniversary Edition - 2 Disc Set | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £7.32   |  Saving you £9.93 (163.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Raging Bull" is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt.

• Olive, the Other Reindeer | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £7.92   |  Saving you £0.95 (11.99%)   |  RRP £8.87

  When Santa cancels his annual flight because of a hurt reindeer, a young Christmas loving dog named Olive is convinced she has what it takes to get Santa's flight off the ground and save Christmas.

• Home Alone / Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Home Alone: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York: Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back. But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist.

• The Fugitive | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Catch him if you can. 'The Fugitive' is on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones (1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of a U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege) their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out. So catch him if you can. And catch an 11-on-a-scale-of-10 train wreck (yes the train is real) a plunge down a waterfall a cat-and-mouse jaunt through a Chicago St. Patrick's Day parade and much more. Better hurry; Kimble doesn't stay in one place very long!

• Wargames | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £12.58   |  Saving you £0.41 (3.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defence system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Children still like this movie, though. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Sacrament (Limited Edtion) | Blu Ray | (17/06/2024) from £34.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A small documentary film crew accompanies a man as he travels to Eden Parish in search of his missing sister. It soon becomes apparent that this paradise is not what it seems.Special Features Indie Guys at Heart: A new interview with Actor AJ BowenThe Best Pathway: A new interview with Actor Joe SwanbergAn Ecstatic State: A new interview with Actor Amy SeimetzThe Itch to Act: A new interview with Actor Gene JonesA Wild Ride: A new interview with Producer Peter PhokTruthiness: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on The SacramentWe're Not Sinners Here: The Making of The Sacrament Limited Edition ContentsRigid slipcase with new artwork by Chris Malbon70-page book with new essays by Anton Bitel, Kat Hughes, Rich Johnson and Beth Kelly 6 collectors' art cards

• Raw Deal | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £3.33   |  Saving you £15.92 (769.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A by-the-numbers action flick featuring a stern Arnold Schwarzenegger, Raw Deal has all the traditional traits of the genre. Schwarzenegger is a disgraced former FBI agent who winds up as sheriff of a backwater Southern town. He is given a chance to reclaim his job when the head of the Bureau offers him reinstatement if he'll go undercover to capture the mob boss responsible for killing his son. Schwarzenegger must get close enough to gain the trust of the gangster without being discovered as a mole, while gathering enough evidence to take him down. One of Schwarzenegger's early films, in which he honed his persona, Raw Deal offers up the usual quotient of gun battles and tough talk, with a trace of self-deprecating humour from its star, making it reasonably worthwhile entertainment. --Robert Lane