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• Dangerous Game | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Abel Ferrara's taste for the sensational is on display in the flawed but interesting Dangerous Games, even though its subject matter is a long way from the genre material in which he has mostly specialised. The film is a psychological drama in which the Method manipulations of director Eddie (Harvey Keitel) prey on the weaknesses of coke-head actor Burns (James Russo) and insecure soap star Sarah (Madonna) to a point where reality breaks down for all three of them--and, in the film's last moments, the audience too; we are left traumatically hanging by a profound ambiguity in what we have just seen. Ferrara moves backwards and forwards between naturalistic and staged shots: we see scenes in hand-held verité and as rushes on a video. The over-wrought drama of consumerism, decadence and possible redemption that is being shot in the film is clearly intended to be directly relevant to their lives and is only marginally more melodramatic; at one point, Eddie's wife arrives unexpectedly at his hotel room moments after Sarah has left his bed. Keitel gives his usual authoritative performance as a weak man breaking under the weight of his pretensions; as Sarah, Madonna gives one of her less bad performances, attractively underplaying amid a storm of hamminess. On the DVD: the DVD only gives us subtitles and the trailer as extras. --Roz Kaveney

• The Corner (HBO Mini Series) | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  On the front lines of America's drug war, one family is living in the crossfire in The Wire creator David Simon's THE CORNER.

• The Avengers: The Complete Series 1-6 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  All the surviving episodes from series 1-6 of the cult 1960s action series starring Patrick MacNee, Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg. Series 1 episodes are: 'Hot Snow' (incomplete; first 15 minutes only), 'Girl On a Trapeze', 'The Frighteners'. Series 2 episodes are; 'Mission to Montreal', 'Dead On Course', 'The Sell Out', 'Death Dispatch', 'Propellant 23', 'Mr Teddy Bear', 'The Decapod', 'Bullseye', 'The Removal Men', 'The Mauritius Penny', 'Death of a Great Dane', 'Death On the Rocks', 'Traitor in Zebra', 'The Big Thinker', 'Intercrime', 'Warlock', 'Immortal Clay', 'Box of Tricks', 'The Golden Eggs', 'School for Traitors', 'The White Dwarf', 'The Man in the Mirror', 'Conspiracy of Silence', 'A Chorus of Frogs', 'Six Hands Across a Table' and 'Killer Whale'. Series 3 episodes are: 'Concerto', 'Brief for Murder', 'The Nutshell, 'The Golden Fleece', 'Death a la Carte', 'Man With Two Shadows', 'Don't Look Behind You', 'The Grandeur That Was Rome', 'The Undertakers', 'Death of a Batman', 'Build a Better Mousetrap', 'November Five', 'Second Sight', 'The Secrets Broker', 'The Gilded Cage', 'The Medicine Man', 'The White Elephant', 'Dressed to Kill', 'The Wringer', 'The Little Wonders', 'Mandrake', 'The Trojan Horse', 'The Outside-In Man', 'The Charmers', 'Esprit de Corps' and 'Lobster Quadrille'. Series 4 episodes are: 'The Town of No Return', 'The Murder Market', 'The Master Minds', 'Dial a Deadly Number', 'Death at Bargain Prices', 'Too Many Christmas Trees', 'The Cybernauts', 'The Gravediggers', 'Room Without a View', 'A Surfeit of H20', 'Two's a Crowd', 'Man-Eater of Surrey Green', 'Silent Dust', 'The Hour That Never Was', 'Castle De'ath', 'The Thirteenth Hole', 'Small Game for Big Hunters', 'The Girl from Auntie', 'Quick-Quick Slow Death', 'The Danger Makers', 'A Touch of Brimstone', 'What the Butler Saw', 'The House That Jack Built', 'A Sense of History', 'How to Succeed... at Murder' and 'Honey for the Prince'. Series 5 episodes: 'The Fear Merchants', 'Escape in Time', 'The Bird Who Knew Too Much', 'From Venus With Love', The See-Through Man', 'The Winged Avenger', 'The Living Dead', 'The Hidden Tiger', 'The Correct Way to Kill', 'Never, Never Say Die', 'Epic', 'The Superlative Seven', 'A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Station', 'Something Nasty in the Nursery', 'The Joker', 'Who's Who???', Death's Door', 'Return of the Cybernauts', 'Dead Man's Treasure', 'The £50,000 Breakfast', 'You Have Just Been Murdered', 'Murdersville', 'The Positive-Negative Man' and 'Mission... Highly Improbable'. Series 6 episodes are: 'The Forget-Me-Knot', 'Invasion of the Earthmen', 'The Curious Case of the Countless Clues', 'Split!', 'Get-A-Way!', 'Have Guns-Will Haggle', 'Look-(Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers...', 'My Wildest Dream', 'Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?', 'You'll Catch Your Death', 'All Done with Mirrors', 'Super Secret Cypher Snatch', 'Game', 'False Witness', 'Noon-Doomsday', 'Legacy of Death', 'They Keep Killing Steed', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Killer', 'The Rotters', 'The Interrogators', 'The Morning After', 'Love All', 'Take Me to Your Leader', 'Stay Tuned', 'Fog', 'Who Was That Man I Saw You With?', 'Pandora', 'Thingumajig', 'Homicide and Old Lace', 'Requiem', 'Take-Over' and 'Bizarre'.

• Up Close And Personal | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice (Robert Redford) is a brilliant hard edged veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet each breaking story ev

• The Insider | DVD | (08/01/2001) from £6.60   |  Saving you £9.39 (142.27%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jeffrey Waging (Russel Crowe) was a central witness in the lawsuits filed by Mississippi and 49 other states against the tobacco industry which were eventually settled for $246 billion.

• The New World | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  This epic adventure is set amid the encounter of European and American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607.

• The Fall Of The Roman Empire | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption, and intrigue that tore apart the greatest empire the world has seen. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of characters and stories. At the centre are handsome but stiff Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the ageing emperor Marcus Aurelius(Alec Guinness), and Christopher Plummer as Commodus, the corrupt heir to the throne. They are boyhood friends turned enemies when the latter accedes to the throne and sells out the values of his father for greed and hedonistic pleasures. The three-hour running time is filled out with the tales of Sophia Loren (as the beautiful Lucilla in love with Livius but coveted by greedy Commodus) and a gallery of heroes and villains that includes James Mason, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif, and Eric Porter. The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes--a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome--which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power. Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written (and historically accurate up to a point) with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, It lacks a central core and the magnetic hero of its superior predecessor. Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) tackles the same story with an updated action-adventure slant. --Sean Axmaker

• Showgirls | DVD | (17/02/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young drifter, named Nomi, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.

• Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition) | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £4.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (141.73%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award 1995, this boldly inventive and expertly orchestrated crime saga is now available as a two disc DVD set that includes such extras as deleted scenes, interviews and a documentary.

• Speed / Speed 2 - Cruise Control | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £12.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (19.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Speed: Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will expl

• Inside Man | Blu Ray | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tough cop matches wits with a clever bank robber who is holding hostages.

• Menace II Society (1993) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £32.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directors Albert and Allen Hughes(The Book of Eli) and screenwriter Ttger Williams (The Perfect Guy) were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine (Panther's Tyrin Turner) is growing up under the influence of his ruthless, drugdealing father (Pulp Fiction's SAMUEL L. JACKSON, in a chilling cameo) and his loose-cannon best friend, O-Dog (Love Jones' Larenz Tate), leading him into a spiral of violent crime from which he is not sure he wants to escape, despite the best efforts of his grandparents and the steadfast Ronnie (The Matrix Revolutions' Jada Pinkett). Fusing grim realism with a propulsively stylish aesthetic honed through the Hughes brothers' work on rap videos, Menace II Society is a searing cautionary tale about the devastating human toll of hopelessness. Special Edition Features: Original 2.0 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio Two audio commentaries from 1993 featuring directors Albert and Allen Hughes Gangsta Vision, a 2009 featurette on the making of the film New conversation among Albert Hughes, screenwriter Tyger Williams, and film critic Elvis Mitchell New conversation among Allen Hughes, actor and filmmaker Bill Duke, and Mitchell Interview from 1993 with the directors Deleted scenes Film-to-storyboard comparison Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film critic Craig D. Lindsey

• The Fisher King | Blu Ray | (19/06/2017) from £23.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arthurian mythology and modern-day decay seem perfect complements to each other in Terry Gilliam's drama/comedy/fantasy The Fisher King. Shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) makes an off-handed radio remark that causes a man to go on a killing spree, leaving Lucas unhinged with guilt. His later, chance meeting with Parry (Robin Williams), a homeless man suffering from dementia, gets him involved in the unlikely quest for the Holy Grail. The rickety and patently unrealistic stand that insanity is just a wonderful place to be and that the homeless are all errant knights wears awfully thin, but, there are numerous moments of sad grace and violent beauty in this film. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese launched his successful career and his smart wordplay helped garner Mercedes Ruehl an Oscar as Lucas' girlfriend. --Keith Simanton

• The Forger | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £7.69   |  Saving you £11.29 (240.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The world's best art forger (John Travolta Pulp Fiction, Face/Off) makes a deal with a crime syndicate to get an early release from prison, but in return he must pull of an impossible heist - he must forge a painting by Claude Monet, steal the original from a museum and replace it with a replica so perfect that no one will notice. He enlists the help of his father (Christopher Plummer A Beautiful Mind, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and son (Tye Sheridan MUD, The Tree of Life) and together they plan the heist of their lives!

• Danielle Steel's Secrets | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £6.69   |  Saving you £-0.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  While the couple keep the affair under wraps other stars struggle to conceal their own ghosts. Former Queen of Soap Jane Adams is the victim of a violent and jealous husband but can she resist throwing herself into the arms of her co-star Zack Taylor? Sex-symbol Bill Warwick lands his first major role but then his success is marred by a police investigation into the suspicious death of his wife? Amidst all the scandal and the cover up the show must go on.... but can it?

• Knives Out 4k Ultra-HD BD | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell, KNIVES OUT is a witty and stylish whodunnit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing until the very end.

• Remember | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zev Guttman (Academy Award® Winner* Christopher Plummer), receives a mysterious package from his close friend Max (Academy Award® Winner  Martin Landau), containing a stack of money and a letter detailing a shocking plan. Both Zev and Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and the same sadistic guard was responsible for the death of both their families a guard who, immediately after the war, escaped Germany and has been living in the U.S. ever since under an assumed identity. With Max wheelchair-bound, Zev must embark on a cross-continental road-trip to bring justice once and for all to the man who destroyed both their lives. From Academy Award® nominated¡ director Atom Egoyan and with an incredible lead performance from Christopher Plummer as the frail but unstoppable Zev, REMEMBER is a thrillingly fast-paced revenge story. * Winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Beginners, 2012.   Winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Ed Wood, 1995. ¡ Nominee, Best Director, The Sweet Hereafter, 1998.

• Strange Days | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Cameron wrote the script for Strange Days, a not-so-futuristic science fiction tale about a former vice cop (Ralph Fiennes) who now sells addictive, virtual reality clips that allow a user to experience the recorded sensations of others. He becomes embroiled in a murder conspiracy, tries to save a former girlfriend (Juliette Lewis), and has a romance with his chauffeur and bodyguard (Angela Bassett). Cameron's ex-wife, director Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break), brought the whole, busy, violent enterprise to the screen, and while the film's socially relevant heart is in the right place, its excesses wear one out. Some of the casting doesn't quite click either: Fiennes isn't really right for his nervous role, and Lewis is annoying (and unbelievable as the hero's much-yearned-for former squeeze). Expect some ugly if daring moments with the virtual reality stuff. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• A Simple Wish | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £3.85   |  Saving you £6.14 (159.48%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Your wish is his command... sort of. 'A Simple Wish' tells the sweet-natured story of Murray a bumbling fairy godfather who has good intentions but not much else. Technically Murray is a fairy godmother--the only male member of the North American Fairy Godmother Association. After barely passing his godmother's exam he is sent to New York City to watch after Anabel a young girl who wishes that her father Oliver will land a part in a Broadway musical so that the family w

• So I Married An Axe Murderer | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £7.03   |  Saving you £-1.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Enjoyable on many levels ... OK, it's enjoyable on only one level--if you're a big fan of Mike Myers's screwball idea of funny. That this script had been through a lot of hands in Hollywood before Myers agreed to star in it (using his Wayne's World clout) seems amazing as most of the truly funny bits here seem to be straight from Myers. Most memorable is his role as his own irascible Scottish father, screaming at his youngest son and talking about the Bay City Rollers. But Myers also plays Charlie, a bookshop owner/poet who falls in love with a "hardhearted harbinger of haggis", the local butcher (Nancy Travis), who may also be a serial killer. Mostly enjoyable, but there's also some weird stuff here. Try as you might, you may never rid yourself of the image of Brenda Fricker and Anthony LaPaglia making out. Also features a great soundtrack with Soul Asylum and Toad the Wet Sprocket. --Keith Simanton