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• The Jack Bull | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-44.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on American television network HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers to a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death. This terrier is Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse breeder of limited means who has a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L Q Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over and his men beat Redding's Indian horse trainer and friend (Rodney A Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered as the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket. So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law. Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticised Western—a full hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star/producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising and willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable but John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

• The Duke | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'The Duke' is a lighthearted family comedy that proves once and for all it is a dog's life! The fun begins when Hubert the faithful canine companion to the late Duke of Dingwall inherits the Duke's estate the magnificent jewels and the official title of Duke. To assure Hubert's well-being Charlotte the butler's niece and Hubert's best friend is made his legal guardian. An unlikely duo Hubert and Charlotte turn the world of high society upside down. But as the two try to

• The Uncanny | Blu Ray | (28/05/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• KYTV - Series 1 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The hilarious sketch-based show which lampooned the new satellite television companies which had begun to operate in the UK! Each week a different aspect of 'cheap' television production and broadcasting provided the 'theme' for the sketches in the programme; no target was left untouched! Episodes Comprise: 1. Launch Night 2. Big Fight Special 3. The Green Green Show 4. Those Fabulous War Years 5. It's A Royal Wedding 6. Challenge Anna

• Taggart - Vols. 38 To 41 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The longest running police drama on TV marks its' 20th anniversary in September 2003 with this box set release. Episode titles: Skin Deep Wavelength Football Crazy Falling In Love.

• Midsomer Murders - A Tale Of Two Hamlets | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. The Smythe-Websters are a rich family whose wealth and power dominate the two local villages of Upper and Lower Warden Manor. The Head of the Manor's nephew Larry i

• Dawkins And Lennox - Has Science Buried God? | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fixed Point Foundation hosts a second discussion between Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor John Lennox this time in the UK at the Oxford Museum of Natural History. An enthralling topic for scientists skeptics and Christians for nearly 150 years the answer to this question has implications that reverberate through-out public and private live from government policy and medical ethics to individual choices made every day. Two scientists return to the Oxford Museum of Natural History the famed site of the 1860 Evolution debate between Huxley and Wilberforce. Discussing an issue the BBC calls 'as fierce as ever ' the two go head to head in a remarkable match of intellect. Holding the Atheistic position is Prof. Richard Dawkins celebrated author of the God Delusion and regarded by many as the spokesman for the 'New Atheism.' Opposing Dawkins is fellow Oxford Professor John Lennox. Lennox like Dawkins has dedicated his career to science but arrives at very different conclusions. 'It is the very nature of science ' he says 'that leads me to belief in God.

• Charlie's Angels - Night Of The Strangler / To Kill An Angel | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Once upon a time...there were three girls who went to the Police Academy...and they were each assigned very hazardous duties...but I took them away from all that...and now they work for me. My name is Charlie. To Kill An Angel: A trip to the carnival leads to a tunnel of horrors when Kelly gets caught in the crossfire between two paid killers and an autistic child. Night Of The Strangler: The Angels bare all - almost - as undercover fashion models while investigating a kinky case of multiple murders.

• Ringmaster | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• The Onion Field | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One night in l963, two plainclothes LAPD officers were abducted by armed, small-time criminals after a routine traffic stop, then driven to a remote area where one was brutally executed. The other officer managed to escape and the perpetrators were captured and brought to trial. Despite overwhelming evidence, the slayers managed to drag the justice process on for years through appeals and delaying tactics, one of them making use of the prison law library to become a "jailhouse lawyer". Taken from the Joseph Wambaugh book, The Onion Field is a true story about a case that changed LAPD policies forever. More than a simple police procedural, though, the film is a character study that follows the aftermath of the murder for all involved. John Savage, as the surviving officer, is called on over and over to re-enact the event in court, chided by his superiors and eventually fired from the force, with redemption a long way off. He does a great job in a harrowing role as frustration, guilt and depression cause his life and career to disintegrate over time. There are impressive early performances by Ted Danson and James Woods (setting the tone for countless raw-nerve, psycho-lowlife roles that Woods would take on in the future). The compelling script, written by ex-cop Wambaugh (with no studio interference), is a reminder of why he's one of novelist James Ellroy's favourite writers. It's a story of tragedy and hope, dignity and pain, with a potent emotional payoff. --Jerry Renshaw

• A Shock To The System | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Michael Caine stars as Graham Marshall a career-minded business-man passed over for promotion by a younger man. In anger he discovers that he has the power to kill any person who gets in his way....

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Season 1.2 | DVD | (07/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes included - 'Dominoes' 'Souls in the Balance' and 'End Game'.

• Nosferatu | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Back To Bataan | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (-30.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 'Back To Bataan' John Wayne plays Colonel Joe Madden a rough tough officer serving under General MacArthur during the Second World War. When American forces are forced to pull out of Bataan Madden volunteers to stay behind and organize the Filipino residents into a top flight guerilla force that will keep the Japanese on edge until MacArthur's promised return. There's some romance amid the suspense and sweaty action as an attractive Manila resistance liason (Fely Franquelli) falls for Wayne's second-in-command Captain Andres Bonifacio (Anthony Quinn) an earnest fighter trying to live up to his folk hero father's reputation. Madden however is too busy for women preferring to spend his time communicating by radio to his valiant men as they count the boats and plant the mines. The Duke is nicely understated in this atypical role a nice counterbalance to costar Quinn's typically impassioned performance. War film buffs should enjoy the film's appealing blend of action nail-biting suspense and jingoistic patriotism. Director Edward Dmytryk would later go on to direct 'The Caine Mutiny' and 'The Young Lions'.

• True Colors | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Cusack and James Spader star in this dramatic absorbing story of two friends who move from law school to Washington's corridors of power. Cusack plays Peter a lower-class go-getter who climbs to the position of congressman by betraying everyone who ever trusted him including his idealistic blue-blood pal Tim. Tim of course would never cross a friend. Unless it was to avenge his own betrayal...

• Land Of Plenty | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £6.30   |  Saving you £13.69 (217.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A personal social commentary from internationally acclaimed director Wim Wenders investigating anxiety and disillusionment in post 9/11 America. After years of living abroad with her American missionary father Lana (Michelle Williams) returns to the United States to begin her studies. But instead of focusing on her education Lana sets out to find her only other living relative - her uncle Paul her deceased mother's brother. A Vietnam veteran Paul is a reclusive vagabond with deep emotional war wounds. A tragic event witnessed by the two unites them in a common goal to rectify a wrong and takes them on a journey of healing discovery and kinship. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2004 WINNER of the UNESCO Award Venice Film Festival 2004

• Prime Suspect 2 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker

• Wrong Is Right | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Political double-talk dirty tricks hidden microphones spy satellites bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Globe-trotting ace TV news reporter Partick Hale (Connery) is on the trail of a terrorist offering the sale of a nuclear bomb to a Mid-East oil country. Hale juggles Arab sheiks and international intelligence agents to get at the story. Meanwhile

• Midsomer Murders - The Maid In Splendour | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (241.16%)   |  RRP £16.99

  There is change afoot in Midsomer Worthy. Lawrence Haggard is looking to redevelop the village. One of Haggard's business associates is Stephen Bannerman the owner of The Maid in Splendour public house. Shortly after closing time Jamie Cruickshank who works in the bar of The Maid in Splendour is shot in the back outside of a ramshackled old cottage in Hunter's Wood. Barnaby and Scott must unravel mystery and catch the killer but why would anyone kill Jamie?

• Viruddh | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They pushed him too far...Now bear the consequences. An ageing couple are forced to search for their faith in human values and society after the death of their only son Amar. In the process they undergo the most testing struggle of their lives.