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• Breakdown | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tautly directed and superbly photographed, this crowd-pleasing thriller from 1997 is indebted to Steven Spielberg's Duel but more closely resembles Dead Calm in its strengths and weaknesses. Kurt Russell plays a stressed-out husband whose wife (Kathleen Quinlan) disappears after their car breaks down in the desert. Tracking down her whereabouts leads to an interstate theft and kidnapping ring, and as Russell pursues--and is pursued by--a vicious redneck played to perfection by J T Walsh (in one of his final film roles), the movie succumbs to several tense but utterly conventional action sequences. That doesn't stop the movie from being an above-average nail-biter. It is so effectively directed by co-writer Jonathan Mostow that even the more surreal situations seem plausible and altogether unsettling. Russell's performance is key to the film's success--he's smart enough to be admirable and we can readily identify with his frustration, confusion and torment. Through him, Breakdown takes on the edgy quality of a wide-awake nightmare. --Jeff Shannon

• Danielle Steel's Once In A Lifetime | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.20   |  Saving you £-0.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An endearing and tragic love story that follows the life of a popular American novelist Daphne Fields struggling to come to terms with bringing up her deaf son alone after the heartbreak of losing her husband and daughter in a house-fire. As the only reminder of the family she once had she devotes her life to her son's upbringing with outstanding courage forever putting his happiness before her own. She finds strength in Dr. Matt Dane who is dedicated to the care and attention of deaf children. He offers support and comfort as her writing career takes off and she is forced to make many personal sacrifices. But Daphne is scared. Scared that she will never find the happiness she once had and scared that she will never be able to love again.

• Breakdown (1997) Blu-Ray (Imprint Limited Edition #29) | Blu Ray | (05/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stimulus | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rage Films and Team Thirteen were given huge props with their last film The Junkshow Diaries which got nominated for five Powder Video Awards. Stimulus is sure to deliver! Stimulus documents the skiing talent and off-snow antics of today's fearless skiers. Jamie Pierre Jon Olsson Rex Thomas Heath Ordway Gordy Piefer Sage Cattabriga-Alosa Ben Wheeler Jack Hannan Jon Johnston Ian McIntosh and Ryan Oakden are just some of the skiers the