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• Mission: Impossible | DVD | (03/07/2000) from £5.45   |  Saving you £14.54 (266.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mission: Impossible was one of the best action blockbusters of the 1990s, deriving a quality unique amongst its peers from the tension between Brian De Palma's directorial stylisation and the overriding presence of its star and producer, Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Special Forces agent Ethan Hunt, disavowed as a traitor by his own superiors and forced to uncover the true mole to prove his innocence. The original 1960s television series provides not only the wonderful musical motif, but also the layered complexity of false realities and masked identities, which are revealed with the playful conjuring of a Russian doll. This was Cruise's last movie as an angst-ridden youth (next stop was Jerry Maguire and the trials of family life) and he presents Ethan Hunt as caught between his heroic physical prowess and a trusting emotional naïvety that is painfully punctured by the treachery of those around him. Hollywood heavyweights Jon Voight (Heat) and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) are both excellent in support, while the remaining cast reads like an identikit of European cinema, including Emanuelle Beart, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jean Reno (Leon). De Palma's trademark set-pieces include a giant exploding fishtank in Prague, a helicopter chase through the Channel Tunnel, and, most notably, a break-in to steal a vital disc from CIA headquarters in Langley. The moment in the latter when, in almost complete silence, Cruise dangles precariously from a cable and just catches a bead of sweat before it triggers the floor alarm is as sublimely exhilarating as any in American movies of the last 10 years. On the DVD: Aside from basic language and chapter selection the disc is devoid of any extras, leaving us to wait for the behind-the-scenes story of the numerous rewrites and wrangling that reportedly beset production. On a more positive note, the picture and sound quality fully realise the film's highly stylised surface beauty and effects-laden kinetic energy. --Steve Napleton

• Modus | DVD | (19/12/2016) from £11.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Smart and brooding, Swedish detective thriller, Modus, follows psychologist and ex- FBI profiler Inger Johanne Vik as she finds herself and her autistic daughter drawn into an investigation surrounding a series of disturbing and brutal deaths in Stockholm. The case leads her to team up with local detective Ingvar Nymann and together they set about uncovering the clues to these shocking crimes. As the number of mysterious murders starts to increase, Inger Johanne is driven by her need to protect her daughter and starts noticing a pattern. But her discovery of the killer s weakness and the connection to a ruthless international network unintentionally turns the entire threat towards herself and her family. Based on the best-selling novels of Anne Holt, Modus is a thrilling, atmospheric crime series that raises questions about faith, intolerance, and the very nature of love itself.

• Golem | Blu Ray | (24/02/2025) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Naked - A Psychological Film | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £9.70   |  Saving you £-3.71 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'The Naked' is best described as 'The Office' meets 'Monty Python' and is a truely unique concept that has to be seen to be believed. Created by Witold Swientnicki and Krysztof Jaworski 'The Naked' takes place in an office where the characters are some clerks. Their life is full of dangers as a lot can happen in the working hours of an office: a dog can bite us they can be giving away tinned knuckle in the social department a phone operator from the room next door can drop in for

• Cinema of Conflict: Four Films by Krzysztof Kie?lowski | Blu Ray | (06/09/2021) from £44.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Few names are as synonymous with Polish cinema as that of Krzysztof Kieślowski, the renowned auteur responsible for the Dekalog and the Three Colours trilogy. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and his subsequent creative and critical success in France, Kieślowski plied his trade within the confines of the Eastern Bloc, capturing the realities of everyday life under Soviet rule. This collection gathers his four earliest narrative feature films, encapsulating the years 19761984.In 1976's The Scar, a well-intentioned Party loyalist is charged with overseeing the construction of a new chemical plant in the face of fierce resistance and is forced to confront the conflict between his good intentions and local opposition. In 1979's Camera Buff, a family man and amateur filmmaker experiences a dramatic change in fortunes when his newfound hobby opens up new horizons but also results in deep marital and philosophical conflicts. Blind Chance, completed in 1981 and denied a release in its native Poland until 1987, presents three possible outcomes to a single, seemingly banal event a young medical student running to catch a train and, in the process, explores the relationship between chance and choice. Finally, in 1984's No End, a recently bereaved translator juggles the conflicting demands of her work, caring for her son and her continued visions of her late husband, all against the backdrop of a Poland under the grip of martial law.As socially conscious as Kieślowski's earlier documentary shorts, this quartet of films covers a tumultuous period in Polish and Eastern European history, shot with unflinching realism by a filmmaker of distinction.Special Features:High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of all four filmsOriginal lossless mono audio for all filmsOptional English subtitles for all filmsAudio commentary on Camera Buff by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof KieślowskiAudio commentary on Blind Chance by film historian Michael BrookeGhost of a Chance, a visual essay on No End by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez LópezMoral and Martial Anxieties, a discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980sIntroductions by scholar and critic Michał Oleszczyk to all filmsMichał Oleszczyk looks through archive materials for each filmArchival interviews with filmmakers Agnieszka Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Slawomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grażyna Szapołowska, sound designer Michal Zarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kieślowski collaborator Irena StrzałkowskaThree short films by Kieślowski: The Office (1966), Concert of Requests (1967) and Talking Heads (1980)Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Łoziński, Kieślowski's colleague at the Warsaw Documentary Film StudioReversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley

• Holiday Inn | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Holiday Inn is the perennial Christmas-season favourite from 1942 that teams Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as entertainers (and rival suitors of Marjorie Reynolds) running an inn that is only open on holidays. It's a great excuse for lots of singing and dancing, seamlessly wrapped in a catchy story, and Astaire's frequent director Mark Sandrich (Top Hat, Shall We Dance) doesn't let us down. The Irving Berlin numbers (each one connected to a different holiday) are winners, with Crosby's warm performance of "White Christmas" a movie touchstone. --Tom Keogh

• No End | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Poland is under martial law and in 1982 Solidarity is banned. Ulla a translator working on Orwell suddenly loses her husband Antek an attorney. She is possessed by her grief but Antek continues to appear to her...

• Modus | Blu Ray | (19/12/2016) from £13.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Smart and brooding, Swedish detective thriller, Modus, follows psychologist and ex- FBI profiler Inger Johanne Vik as she finds herself and her autistic daughter drawn into an investigation surrounding a series of disturbing and brutal deaths in Stockholm. The case leads her to team up with local detective Ingvar Nymann and together they set about uncovering the clues to these shocking crimes. As the number of mysterious murders starts to increase, Inger Johanne is driven by her need to protect her daughter and starts noticing a pattern. But her discovery of the killer s weakness and the connection to a ruthless international network unintentionally turns the entire threat towards herself and her family. Based on the best-selling novels of Anne Holt, Modus is a thrilling, atmospheric crime series that raises questions about faith, intolerance, and the very nature of love itself.

• The Hidden Olympics 1944 - A WWII Story Based on True Events | DVD | (19/07/2021) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Camera Buff | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filip a clerk in a small Polish town buys an 8mm camera to film the baby his wife is expecting. His bosses take an interest in it and commision him to film the company's 25th anniversary celebrations. When the result wins a prize at an amateur film festival Filip encouraged by his success becomes consumed by his new found passion. But as he develops his creative skills Filip soon discovers that his devotion to making films has unexpected consequences as tensions arise in his ma

• Divided We Fall | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Oscar nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the winner of five prestigious Czech Lions Awards 'Divided We Fall' is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple josef and Marie Cizek who offer refuge to David a young Jew fleeing from his persecutors. However when a Nazi official also ta

• The Story Of Sin | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Passionate Melodrama surrealist erotica and the rapturous strains of Mendelssohn collide head on in Story of Sin - the story of Ewa whose betrayal in love drives her to murder and prostitution. Based on a novel placed on the Index by the Church Borowczyk's only feature to be shot in Poland meticulously recreates a time in which his country had no official existence casting a cynical eye on a corrupt society commited to exploiting the innocent and repressing the erotic.

• Patty Hearst | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1974 heiress Patty hearst was kidnapped by terrorist group the Symbionese Revolutionary Army. She was brain-washed into embracing their philosophy and became a national cause celebre when she appeared on TV wielding a machine gun...

• Mission: Impossible - 2 Disc Box Set | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mission: Impossible was one of the best action blockbusters of the 1990s, deriving a quality unique among its peers from the tension between Brian De Palma's directorial stylisation and the overriding presence of its star and producer, Tom Cruise. The original 1960s television series provides not only the wonderful musical motif, but also the layered complexity of false realities and masked identities, which are revealed with the playful conjuring of a Russian doll. De Palma's trademark set pieces include a giant exploding fishtank in Prague, a helicopter chase through the Channel Tunnel, and, most notably, a break-in to steal a vital disc from CIA headquarters in Langley. The moment in the latter when, in almost complete silence, Cruise dangles precariously from a cable is as sublimely exhilarating as any in American movies of recent years. --Steve NapletonVisually stunning, and a likely must for John Woo aficionados, the second Mission: Impossible outing from megastar Tom Cruise suffers from an inconsistent tone and tired plot devices--not only recycled from other films, but also repeated throughout the film. Despite remarkable cinematography and awe-inspiring, trademark Woo photography, the movie offers a tepid story from legendary screenwriter-director Robert Towne (Chinatown) and a host of other writers, most uncredited. Woo's famed mythic film-making is far from subtle, with heroic Hunt frequently slow-motion walking through fire, smoke or other similar devices, replete with a white dove among pigeons to signal his presence. The emphasis on romance is an attempt to develop character and a more human side to superspy Hunt, but still the story proves a distraction from the exciting action sequences. --NF Mendoza, Amazon.com

• Delta Of Venus | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the erotic writings of Anais Nin this story of decadence and passion follows a beautiful young writer as she embarks on a personal odyssey of sexual exploration. Paris 1939: Elana a vivacious beauty arrives from America and is soon taken in by a smart young set of expatriates. But a heady life of fashionable parties soon becomes a dark maze of anger and heartbreak as money and love begin to run out. In desperation she begins writing for an anonymous collector of eroti

• Patty Hearst | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Beautiful... Rich... Kidnapped. She Captured America's Heart And Tore It Apart. On the evening of February 4th 1974 Patty Hearst the daughter of newspaper magnate Randolph Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley apartment and taken to a hideout. There she was gagged blindfolded and kept in a tiny closet. So began a five-year ordeal for Patty beginning with her kidnapping and followed by her transformation into a guerilla for the Symbionese Liberation Army her capture by

• WARRIOR QUEEN - MOVIE | Blu Ray | (28/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Chopin Celebration:At The Palace Of acut, Poland | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Chained Heat 2 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £6.19   |  Saving you £0.81 (13.09%)   |  RRP £7.00

  Based on the bestselling novel, Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Cinderella, Baby Driver) plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII. From the producers of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and with an all-star British cast, comes a compelling romantic drama with an intriguing mystery at its heart.