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• Half Nelson (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2019) from £18.88   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sometimes people are attracted to each other because of their differences. When there's a nebulous attraction between a teacher and a young teenage child--as in the superb Half Nelson--the relationship has all the makings of confused disaster. Though there are a few uncomfortable moments when it's not obvious whether Dan (Ryan Gosling) and Drey (Shareeka Epps) might cross the line, the attraction between the pair is culled less from sexual tension than desperation. Dan is an idealistic history teacher in an inner-city school. Drey is one of his brightest students. For both, drugs represent something that may help them escape their worlds. He takes drugs to dull his dissatisfaction with himself. She views drugs as a possible way to better her life, even though she knows her brother's foray into that trade landed him in jail. Bleakly filmed and well told, Half Nelson soars because of the immaculate acting by Gosling and Epps. With his impish smile, Gosling provides a character that is at once disarming, alluring, and pitiful. As the young girl who's already seen too much hardship in her life, Epps plays her part with just the right amount of hardened raw emotion. While the ambiguous ending may not please fans weaned on happy Hollywood finales, it's a fitting and believable close to a thought-provoking film. --Jae-Ha Kim

• Eagle Eye/Disturbia | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Eagle Eye: Shia LaBeouf stars as Jerry a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother dies mysteriously. When he returns home he finds that he has been framed as a terrorist - along with his single mother! Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination they must work together to extricate themselves. Two unsuspecting Americans are separately drawn into a conspiracy by a mysterious woman they have never met but who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity they have become her unwitting accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot. Disturbia: After his father's accidental death Kale (Shia LaBeouf) becomes sullen withdrawn and troubled. When he lashes out at a well-intentioned but insensitive teacher he finds himself under a court-ordered house arrest. His mother Julie (Carrie-Anne Moss) works night and day in order to support herself and her son as she tries in vain to understand the changes in his personality. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale as he takes chances to extend the boundaries of his confinement. His interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home toward those of his neighbours including a mutual attraction to the new girl next door (Sarah Roemer). Together they begin to suspect that another neighbour is a serial killer. Are their suspicions merely the product of Kale's cabin fever and vivid imagination? Or have they unwittingly stumbled across a crime that could cost them their lives?

• Sucker Free City | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sucker Free City is an original film directed by Spike Lee that takes a riveting look at the seductive dangerous world and life choices of a diverse group of young people inextricably caught up in the unique gang culture of San Francisco. When racial tension erupts and emotions collide three young men from different ethnic backgrounds perpetrate low-level crimes that eventually infringe upon each other's neighbourhoods. As their lives intersect on the streets will they com

• Haven | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Can love survive the fall of paradise? During a weekend two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the nation.

• Hurt Locker | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Hurt Locker presents an intense and unflinching portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.Winner of the BAFTA Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Sound.Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing & Best Sound Editing.Play.com Review One of the best films of 2009, The Hurt Locker bears similarities to David Simon and Ed Burns' Generation Kill in its non-judgemental depiction of military life and the motivations of soldiers. It's a complicated and sometimes uncomfortable look into a world in which most of us will never get closer to than on our TV screens. The fact is some soldiers, for one reason or another, like the thrill of war. Sgt. James (charismatically played by James Renner - 28 Weeks Later) is one such soldier. Not one to do things by the book, James is right at the centre of this devastating action film. Unhinged, but not without his demons, James regularly comes into conflict with his new teammates: the aspirational but conventional Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie - Notorious) and rabbit in the headlights Spc. Eldridge (Brian Geraghty - The Guardian). The proverbial `hurt locker' is one they barely keep shut. There's a job to be done, even if it does draw them closer to hell with each passing moment.Film buffs will be pleased to learn that The Hurt Locker features sterling cameos from Guy Pearce (The Road), David Morse (16 Blocks) and Ralph Fiennes (briefly reunited with his Strange Days director). Bigelow knows her action, as Point Break, K-19: The Widowmaker and Near Dark fans will testify, and here she has created a battleground where even the camera is nervous - danger, even when it doesn't come, feels like it's everywhere.Moving through a series increasingly fraught bomb disposals, the movie presents an apolitical view of soldiering that, whilst not being unique to the genre (Kubrick's Paths Of Glory, Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and Fuller's The Big Red One), captures a chaos and intensity seldom seen elsewhere. It's refreshing to watch a war film that doesn't preach endlessly about the nature of war, but shows you enough horror for you to make up your own mind. Overall, we can't urge you strongly enough to open The Hurt Locker and experience this masterpiece from a master director - it's an experience you will not forget in a hurry.

• Captain America - The Return of the First Avenger (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) - 4K Mondo Edition - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (24/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Million Dollar Baby | UMD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Clint Eastwood's 25th film as a director, Million Dollar Baby stands proudly with Unforgiven and Mystic River as the masterwork of a great American filmmaker. In an age of bloated spectacle and computer-generated effects extravaganzas, Eastwood turns an elegant screenplay by Paul Haggis (adapted from the book Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole, a pseudonym for veteran boxing manager Jerry Boyd) into a simple, humanitarian example of classical filmmaking. Eastwood mines gold for each and every character: charting the powerful bonds that develop between "white-trash" Missouri waitress and aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), her reluctant trainer Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), and training-gym partner Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris (Morgan Freeman). --Jeff Shannon

• The Scottish Writers' Collection | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Notorious | Blu Ray | (22/06/2009) from £11.91   |  Saving you £16.07 (180.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The tragic story of Christopher Wallace - a young man who would go on to take the R&B world by storm under the alias of The Notorious B.I.G.

• Undue Influence | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Things look bad for Laurel when her ex-husband's pretty new and much younger wife Melanie is murdered after the two have a fight. Her lawyer is frustrated because he knows Laurel is innocent but her lies keep her the number one suspect. Laurel has a secret which she is not prepared to reveal - that Melanie seduced Laurel's 16-year-old son and was pregnant to him. The son enraged that she would choose his father over him shot her. But will Laurel continue to take the blame for her son even to the chair?

• Runner, Runner | Blu Ray | (28/04/2014) from £3.86   |  Saving you £21.13 (547.41%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Richie (Justin Timberlake), a Princeton college student who pays for school with on-line gambling, bottoms out and travels to Costa Rica to confront the on-line mastermind, Ivan (Ben Affleck), whom he believes has swindled him.

• A Sense Of Freedom | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Sense Of Freedom

• Original Sin | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £6.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (-64.20%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Antonio Banderas is a wealthy nineteenth century Cuban businessman plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale (Angelina Jolie)whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

• The Stranger | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Juliet has it all - a rich and successful husband a beautiful home and a loving family. But everything changes when a mysterious stranger invades her perfect world. All too soon his ominous presence begins to take a terrible toll on Juliet's life. She is tormented by a recurring nightmare - dark desires long since repressed are re-awoken and forbidden fantasies become a shocking reality. A sexually charged psychological thriller The Stranger is the story of one woman's journey into the terrifying recesses of her mind...

• Just Your Luck | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Peter McDougall's (Just Another Saturday Just A Boys Game) first televised script for the acclaimed BBC Play for Today series in 1972. Based on fact the story is of Alison who unexpectedly falls pregnant to Alex (David Hayman's first TV role). The couple decide to marry and break the news to their parents - an uncomfortable meeting and slightly acrimonious wedding follow exploring the sectarian divide of that era. A witty bleak and audacious tale which caused uproar after the original broadcast but was also proclaimed as the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Another early triumph for Peter McDougall

• Rap Mania - The Roots Of Rap | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  DISC 1:1. Rapmania - Grandmaster Melle Mel2. Pause - Run DMC3. Come Off/Bust A Move - Young MC4. Droppin' Rhymes On Drums - Def Jef5. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang6. Unity - Afrika Bambaataa7. I Got It Goin' On - Tone Loc8. Gas Face - 3rd Bass9. Ice-T Medley - Ice-T10. Jingling Baby - LL Cool J11. Children's Story - Slick Rick12. Kurtis Blow Medley - Kurtis Blow13. I Get The Job Done - Big Daddy Kane14. I'm Goin' Off - Grandmaster Kaz15. I've Got The KNack - Everlast16. Kool Moe Dee Medley - Kool Moe Dee17. I'll Work You To The Bone - Wanda D18. Just A Friend - Biz Markie19. Independent Woman/Feelin' Kinda Horny - Roxanne Shante20. Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em - Eric B & Rakim21. Closing - Various ArtistsDISC 2:1. Lay Down The Law - Nefertiti2. D30 - Ice3. The Rhythm - Kwame4. Friends - Whodini5. Wanna Make You Mine - MC Trouble6. Prince Whipper Whip7. Straight Up And Funky - Special K

• Logic 10 | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £7.75   |  Saving you £12.24 (61.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A look at the up-and-comers of the skateboard world as well as established stars.

• Brother To Brother | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The critically acclaimed drama that invokes the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance. As an elderly man poet Bruce Nugent meets a young black gay artist struggling to find his voice and together they embark on a surreal narrative journey through his inspiring past. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

• DOCTOR WHO-DIE KOMPLETTE - MOV | DVD | (22/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Undue Influence | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99