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• Bad Boys | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £3.58   |  Saving you £16.41 (458.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Narcotics cops Mike and Marcus are back - this time investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami and a dangerous criminal kingpin whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.

• Street Trash (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £14.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Something is killing the homeless of New York city by melting them. Two brothers and a maverick cop set out to stop the ruthless gang behind the killings.

• Miller's Crossing | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £8.95   |  Saving you £14.03 (235.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Miller's Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leo's lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Tom's problem. Making matters worse, Tom has outstanding gambling debts he can't pay, which keeps him in regular touch with a punishing enforcer. With all the energy the Coens put into their films, and all their focused appreciation of genre conventions and rules, and all their efforts to turn their movies into ironic appreciations of archetypes in American fiction, they never got their formula so right as with Miller's Crossing. With its Hammett-like dialogue and Byzantine plot and moral chaos mitigated by one hero's personal code, the film so transcends its self-scrutiny as a retro-crime thriller that it is a deserved classic in its own right. --Tom Keogh

• The Case For Christ | DVD | (18/12/2017) from £12.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Award-winning, investigative reporter, Lee Strobel, is exactly where he wants to be in his career: enjoying a recent promotion to legal editor at the Chicago Tribune. Unfortunately, life at home is not such smooth sailing, as Lee struggles to understand and accept his wife Leslie's sudden newfound faith. Utilising his journalistic and legal training, Lee decides to try and disprove the claims of Christianity in order to save his crumbling marriage, pitting his resolute atheism against Leslie's growing faith. Chasing down the biggest story of his career, Lee comes face-to-face with unexpected results that could change everything he knows to be true.

• Fatal Attraction | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fatal Attraction was the most controversial hit of 1987, a film nominated for six Oscars that launched a whole up-market psycho sub-genre. In an elaboration of Play Misty for Me (1971), Michael Douglas plays a married middle-class everyman who has an opportunistic weekend affair with New York publishing executive, Glenn Close. The twist is that Close's Alex is a borderline psychotic. She won't let go, and the film moves from a study of modern sexual mores to an increasingly tense thriller about neurotic obsession. The performances are exceptional and two set-pieces, one which gave us the term "Bunny Boiler" and another in a fairground, provide metaphorical and literal rollercoaster rides. Only a laughable sex scene--in a sink, anyone?--and a melodramatic finale shamelessly ripping-off the 1955 French classic Les Diaboliques and Psycho (1960) prevent a good thriller being a great one. Even so, Fatal Attraction is still a film worth seeing again, even if it's hard to wonder what all the fuss was about in 1987. On the DVD: Fatal Attraction on disc has a new 28-minute documentary featuring the principal players explaining how wonderful each other are. More substantial is a 19-minute feature on creating the visual look, with sections on cinematography, costume and make-up design. A worthwhile 10-minute piece examines the social impact of the movie and the controversy it generated. Seven minutes of the three stars in rehearsal is intriguing, but more interesting is the opportunity to see the original, low-key ending, rejected after test screenings. Much of the best documentary material focuses on how the finally released ending came about, while Lyne's commentary is thoughtful and illuminating. The original trailer is included and there are 16 sets of subtitles, including English for the hard of hearing, as well as an alternative German dub. The sound has been remixed from stereo into a subtly involving Dolby Digital 5.1, and the 1.78:1 anamorphic transfer looks fine, though there is some very minor print damage. --Gary S Dalkin

• Pumping Iron | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In 1977 an independent documentary movie shone a light on the world of bodybuilding becoming a huge box office hit and creating an international sensation. It launched one man's multi-million dollar career and changed the world of bodybuilding and physical exercise forever: Pumping Iron.

• Columbo The 1970s Complete Collection | Blu Ray | (10/06/2024) from £105.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Falk stars as the cigar chomping, trench coat wearing, police lieutenant Columbo in the series that set the standard for the murder mystery genre. This 20-disc Blu-ray set contains the first 7 seasons of this ground-breaking series, including the 2 original pilot TV movies, now restored and remastered by NBC Universal. Enjoy once again this classic series that won a staggering 13 primetime Emmys

• Radio Days | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Woody Allen's gentlest and most unassuming movie, Radio Days isn't so much a story as a series of anecdotes loosely linked together by a voice-over spoken by the director. The film is strongly autobiographical in tone, presenting the memories of a young lad Joe (clearly a stand-in for Allen himself) growing up in a working-class Jewish family in the seafront Brooklyn suburb of Rockaway during the late 1930s and early 40s. In this pre-TV era the radio is ubiquitous, a constant accompaniment churning out quiz shows, soap operas, dance music, news flashes and Joe's favourite, the exploits of the Masked Avenger. Given Allen's well-publicised gallery of neuroses, you might expect childhood traumas. But no, everything here is rose-tinted and even the outbreak of war makes little impact on the easygoing, protective tenor of family life. Now and then Allen counterpoints his family album with the doings of the radio folk themselves (blink, and you'll miss a young William H Macy in the studio scene when the news of Pearl Harbour comes through). The rise to fame of Sally (Mia Farrow), a former night-club cigarette girl turned crooner, is the nearest the film comes to a coherent storyline. But most of the time Allen is content to coast on a flow of easy nostalgia, poking affectionate fun at the broadcasting conventions of the period and basking in the mildly rueful Jewish humour and small domestic crises of Joe's extended family. There aren't even any of his snappy one-liners, and the humour is kept low-key, raising at most an indulgent smile. A touch of Allen's usual acerbity wouldn't have come amiss. But for anyone who shares these memories, Radio Days will surely be a delight. On the DVD: Not much besides the theatrical trailer, scene menu and a choice of languages. The screen's the full original ratio, but nothing seems to have been done to enhance the soundtrack, and the dialogue's not always clear. A boost in volume may help.--Philip Kemp

• Million Dollar Baby | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Clint Eastwood stars in and directs this gritty boxing-based drama which sees him training a female fighter.

• Me, Myself and Irene | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £7.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (150.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An outrageous comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, the film centers around a mild-mannered Rhode Island cop (Carrey) with split-personality disorder.

• Man About Town | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Welcome to the deep end of a very shallow town. Ben Affleck stars as Jack Giamoro a top Hollywood agent who seems to have it all: a successful career money and a beautiful wife. Yet he still feels like something is missing so he takes a journal writing class to explore his feelings. But when Jack fears his wife Nina (Romijn) is cheating on him with his most important client his perfect life quickly starts to unravel. Things get even worse when his journal - which contains secrets that could ruin him personally and professionally - is stolen by an ambitious journalist (Bai Ling). Jack must fight back to hold on to everything he has fought so hard to win and in doing so finally achieves the self-insight he was looking for - that only through family can he really find lasting happiness.

• The Harder They Fall | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A movie that proved a fine swansong for Humphrey Bogart, The Harder They Fall is a gripping drama set against a background of fixed boxing matches. Not so much about the fights as the exploitation of the sport, the film is based on a novel by Budd Schulberg, whose Oscar-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront (1954) helped turn Rod Steiger into a star. Here Steiger delivers an equally bravura performance as the chillingly corrupt manager, Nick Benko, a man who will do anything to turn a buck. Bogart meanwhile is outstanding as unemployed sports writer Eddie Willis, hired against his better judgement to promote a no-hope Argentinean boxer, Toro Moreno (Mike Lane). Powerfully written, if built around the unlikely premise of building a 10th-rate fighter into a world-class contender, the drama is essentially a battle for Willis's soul as he is torn between money and conscience. Though the scenes with Bogart and Steiger facing off are the strongest and a veritable masterclass of hardboiled characterisation, Mark Robson, who also helmed the Kirk Douglas boxing classic Champion (1949), directs with a convincingly dirty realism, the final punishing and bloody match a clear influence on Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980). On the DVD: The Harder They Fall's anamorphic 1.77:1 transfer is excellent with only one brief scene showing any significant print damage. Burnett Guffey's noir-ish black-and-white cinematography looks sharp and fresh as the day it was shot, with only minimal grain. The mono sound is strong and clear, without a hint of distortion or compression. The only extra is a scored gallery of posters and lobby cards from other Bogart films available on Columbia. There are dubbed versions in French, German, Spanish and Italian, and a plethora of subtitle options. --Gary S Dalkin

• Wayne's World 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Party on like never before with Wayne's World in 4K Ultra HD for the most excellent picture quality and Dolby Atmos sound that really wails. Comedy legends Mike Myers and Dana Carvey bring their iconic characters Wayne and Garth to the big screen in this hilarious send up of pop culture, rock music and even product placement. Featuring a bodacious supporting cast that includes Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere and we're not worthy! Alice Cooper, you'll laugh ˜til you hurl. Product Features Commentary by Director Penelope Spheeris Extreme Close-Up Theatrical Trailer

• The Jazz Singer | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Back in 1927, The Jazz Singer entered the history books as the first true, sound-on-film talking picture, with Al Jolson uttering the immortal words, "You ain't heard nothing yet!" But even then it was a creakingly sentimental old yarn. By the time this second remake showed up in 1980 (there was a previous one in 1953) it looked as ludicrously dated as a chaperone in a strip club. Our young hero, played by pop singer Neil Diamond in a doomed bid for movie stardom, is the latest in a long line of Jewish cantors, but secretly moonlights with a Harlem soul group. When his strictly Orthodox father (Laurence Olivier, complete with painfully hammy "oya-veh" accent) finds out, the expected ructions follow. Though the lad makes it big in showbiz, it all means nothing while he's cut off from family and roots. But in the end--well, you can guess, can't you? Diamond comes across as likeable enough in a bland way, but unencumbered by acting talent, and the music business has never looked so squeaky clean--nary a trace of drugs, and precious little sex or rock 'n' roll. As for anything sounding remotely like jazz, forget it. This is one story that should have been left to slumber in the archives. --Philip Kemp

• Wayne's World 2 | DVD | (11/12/2001) from £3.75   |  Saving you £12.24 (326.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wayne's World 2 was a successful follow-up for Wayne and Garth's Adventures, full of the same madcap humour from their TV characters and previous film. Somewhere in the world, there are probably people who don't understand why Mike Myers' eponymous Wayne's World character is funny--feel sorry for them. Granted, the laughs are often cheap and silly, but there's no one who can embody a comic character and riff within that character the way Myers does. Wayne and his pal Garth (Dana Carvey) were fixtures on Saturday Night Live before the unexpected success of Wayne' s World, a movie about what happened when they tried to take their local cable-access citywide. This time, they want to stage Waynestock, a mammoth rock festival in their little Chicago suburb, even as Wayne copes with girlfriend Tia Carrere's interest in record-company exec Christopher Walken. For extra fun, Garth gets involved with the babelicious Kim Basinger. Yes, the humour is scattershot and the plot is lame--but you'll find yourself laughing none the less. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Snatch - Two Disc Set | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Brad Pitt and Vinnie Jones star in this tale of a London jewel heist, the new film from the director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

• Hardball | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £6.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (146.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Keanu Reeves stars as an aimless young man who scalps tickets, gambles and drinks, and agrees to coach a Little League team from a Chicago housing project.

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £6.45   |  Saving you £13.54 (209.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a remake of the 1974 horror classic, a handful of friends become isolated in the company of a deadly clan of cannibals.

• Marine 5, The: Battleground | DVD | (24/04/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE MOST WWE SUPERSTARS EVER IN A LIVE-ACTION FEATURE FILM! After returning stateside and now working as an EMT, Jake Carter (Mike The Miz Mizanin) finds himself trapped with an injured, marked man he's sworn to save. As a ruthless biker gang bent on revenge gains speed, Carter must use his killer Marine instincts to end the rampage . . . or die trying! DVD Special Features: Evening The Odds featurette Superstar Studded featurette Click Images to Enlarge

• The Love Guru | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £6.24   |  Saving you £14.74 (453.54%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Mike Myers returns with the last word in love...Pitka The Love Guru - the only man who can stop a sporting meltdown!