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• Peacemaker, The | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £5.83   |  Saving you £14.16 (242.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It seems that thrillers these days--even good ones--are all about scene-chewing bad guys, cute retorts fit for the Dennis Miller show and one big special effect to end the movie. Well, something like The Peacemaker, the first feature film from DreamWorks, puts the record straight. Here is an expertly paced thriller with a sensible villain, smart instead of cute dialogue, and a focus on action instead of special effects. It's not original, just solid. It's the second of these energetic and effective thrillers that writer Michael Schiffer (Crimson Tide) has penned. The White House Nuclear Smuggling Group tracks down 10 stolen nuclear bombs after a suspicious train wreck in Russia. The acting head of the department (Nicole Kidman) and her military field officer (George Clooney) are off to Europe to track down the bombs. Instead of a Gary Oldman-Bruce Dern madman, The Peacemaker's heavy is an unknown Romanian actor (Marcul Iures) playing a Bosnian rebel who works passionately and quietly. This may be a popcorn movie, but it uses the ripe emotions of the Bosnian War to create tension. This is the best film vehicle yet for the overwhelming charisma of George Clooney as a quick-witted, generally warm Oliver North type who will seek deadly vengeance without pause. He's matched very well by the professional polish of Nicole Kidman who is showing great flexibility in dividing her roles between serious and fun fare. --Doug ThomasOn the DVD: Extras are pretty minimal, with just two very brief featurettes. The first has director Mimi Leder talking about her two stars in between blooper reel outtakes; the second has some behind-the-scenes footage of two stunt sequences, the Viennese car chase and the New York street chase (the latter of which shows George Clooney doing all his own running). Two theatrical trailers complete the package. The feature itself is well presented in anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1.with the choice of English or German language options. --Mark Walker

• School Ties | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £26.01   |  Saving you £-10.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After receiving a scholarship to an exclusive prep school working-class teen David Green (Fraser) becomes a star athlete and wins the attention of a beautiful debutant (Amy Locane). But the ties of his newfound friendship are broken when a student reveals the secret David has tried to conceal - he is Jewish. Now David must take the most important stand of his life one that will touch the lives of many and forvever change the course of his future.

• Dead Man's Curve | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Someone is about to go over the edge... For college friends Tim and Chris the plan was simple. Knock off their roommate Rand frame it as a suicide and walk away with straight A's for the semester. But when the plan begins to unravel and the questions keep coming surrounding Rand's suicide the rules begin to change and the bonds of loyalty and friendship dissolve in the midst of lies and deception.

• Fear Itself | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fear Itself is a supernatural thriller about a woman (Gina Philips) who travels to the family estate and finds herself condemned to a house with buried secrets from the past terrorizing and haunting her present. When Karen Baldwin's ailing grandmother makes a final request for Karen to clean out the family's mountain estate and liquidate its assets she and her boyfriend Jeff drive out to the family's old sprawling run-down mansion. There Karen meets Pierce (Tom Sizemore)

• Let The Devil Wear Black | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  32 year old Jack Lyne is forced to return to Los Angeles when his father dies. Confronted by family rivalries and intrigues Jack is wracked with ever more indecision and doubt not least about his father's death. Something tells him it was murder but why and by whom?

• Dead Man's Curve | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £17.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (33.40%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Someone Is About To Go Over The Edge. For college friends Tim and Chris the plan was simple. Knock off their roommate Rand frame it as a suicide and walk away with straight A's for the semester. But when the plan begins to unravel and the questions keep coming surrounding Rand's suicide the rules begin to change and the bonds of loyalty and friendship dissolve in the midst of lies and deception.

• Along For The Ride | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two Ex-Lovers One Open Road. Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing) and Melanie Griffith (Working Girl) are Ben and Lulu. Years ago they had an intense passionate affair a relationship that ended very badly. Now fifteen years later he's a successful married writer who gets a desperate call . . . Lulu needs his help. Chaotic and confused she reveals a huge secret that they alone must deal with. Together on a fiery cross-country journey they will find a new direction that points to their future.