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• Drive | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £8.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Drive takes the standard American mismatched-buddies action comedy formula and turbo-charges it with furious Hong Kong wirework and martial arts. The result is a three-and-a-half million dollar "B" picture which looks like it cost 10 times more. The perfunctory story crosses Universal Solider (1992) with Rush Hour (1997) as a biologically enhanced Mark Dacascos flees a small army of Hong Kong assassins through California, teaming up with comedian Kadeem Hardison and delivering an almost unbelievable amount of bang per buck. Director Steve Wang stages the action with flair and clarity, the stunts, wirework and fights being exceptionally well-choreographed and shot. With Hardison's patter, two offbeat redneck assassins and a TV show about a frog with Einstein's brain there's abundant surprisingly genial humour, aided by Brittany Murphy's ditzy performance as a Twin Peaks-like teenager with hormones in overdrive. The cyborg aspect simply justifies the superhuman combat, but nevertheless a huge showdown in a retro-space age club is clearly styled after the "Tech Noir" bar sequence in The Terminator (1984), adding motorcycle killersstraight out of Rollerball (1975). Drive captures the rush of Hong Kong action movies yet almost has the feel of a musical, the mayhem replacing song and dance and offering more popcorn entertainment than many a bloated summer blockbuster.On the DVD: For such a low budget movie the 2.35:1 anamorphically enhanced image puts many far bigger features to shame, being pin-sharp throughout, with strong and accurate colours and minimal grain. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is equally strong, with sound-effects and music both having considerable impact, explosions ripping thorough the room like the latest Arnie shoot 'em up. There is a 47-minute retrospective documentary which is particularly interesting on the way the film was cut and restored for American release--this DVD presenting the director's cut which runs over 16 minutes longer than the US version. Six deleted/extended scenes are presented in a variety of formats, and it's easy to see why they were deleted. Also included are the original theatrical trailer, three photo galleries, cast and crew biographies and interview galleries with director Steve Wang and four of the main stars totalling about 20 minutes of material. The informative commentary track has Wang, Dacascos, Hardison and stunt co-ordinator Koichi Sakamoto revelling in their sheer enthusiasm for the movie and for Hong Kong action in general. --Gary S Dalkin

• Swingers | DVD | (06/12/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the Los Angeles "lounge" scene that was in vogue during the early and mid-1990s, here's the movie that virtually defined that brief but colourful nightlife milieu. As an added bonus, it just happens to be a very funny, observant story about love, loss and male bonding among a group of friends who struggle to find decent jobs by day, and lurk through Hollywood's hottest nightclubs by night. A sort of latter-day Rat Pack, they include Mike (writer-actor Jon Favreau) and his closest buddy, Trent (Vince Vaughn), who are waiting for the big show-biz break that seems to be eluding them. Mike's twisted up about the girlfriend he left back East to pursue his going-nowhere standup comedy career, and Trent uses the word "money" as an adjective ("Man, we look totally money tonight") with such frequency that you may find yourself slipping into lounge-lizard mode after watching the movie. One of the most noteworthy indie-film success stories of the 90s, Swingers is a time-capsule comedy that seized its moment in the spotlight, launched several promising careers and continues to maintain its lasting appeal. --Jeff Shannon

• Osmosis Jones | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In this combined live action & animation comedy Osmosis Jones is a maverick white blood cell cop, paired with a no-nonsense partner, a cold tablet. The two must protect their human host, Frank, after he eats a potentially deadly infected egg!

• Serenity (4K UHD+ Blu-ray + UV) | 4K UHD | (02/10/2017) from £23.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joss Whedon, the Oscar®* and Emmy®-nominated writer/director behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, now applies his trademark wit in this breathtaking epic. Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, now ekes out a living aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew, but when Mal takes on two new passengers - a young doctor and his telepathic sister - he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, and so Serenity finds itself caught between the unstoppable military force of the Alliance, the horrific, cannibalistic fury of the Reavers - and another danger lurking at the very heart of the spaceship... Special Features: FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH WRITER/DIRECTOR JOSS WHEDON AND CAST MEMBERS NATHAN FILLION, ADAM BALDWIN, SUMMER GLAU AND RON GLASS DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES OUTTAKES TAKE A WALK ON SERENITY FUTURE HISTORY - THE STORY OF EARTH THAT WAS

• Mystery Alaska | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £13.70   |  Saving you £1.29 (9.42%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mystery, Alaska -- In this little town on the outskirts of greatness, completely isolated by glaciers and vast, snowy mountains, there are only two things to do when the temperature drops below zero

• Lakeview Terrace | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two newlyweds move in to their California dream home only to be harassed by an overly vigilant neighbourhood watchman (Samuel L. Jackson).

• Quest For Fire | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £14.02   |  Saving you £3.23 (25.31%)   |  RRP £15.99

  80 000 years ago a primitive tribe desperately guards its most values possession fire. They know how to tend it how to use it but its creation remains a mystery. During an attack by a neighbouring tribe their flame is lost and so begins an epic obstacle-filled quest to find another source of the element so precious in their struggle for survival. Special Features: Director's Commentary Commentary with Actors Ron Perlman Rae Dawn Chong and Michael Gruskoff The Making of the Quest for Fire Interview with Director Jean-Jacques Annaud Video Gallery with Jean-Jacques Annaud Commentary

• When Trumpets Fade | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £7.06   |  Saving you £-1.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the post D-Day euphoria American troops fighting in Europe hoped to be home by Christmas but many wouldn't make it. Still to come was one of WWII's most senseless and savage conflicts - the largely forgotten Battle of Hurtgen Forest dubbed The Death Factory where three months of carnage left 24 000 American troops dead or wounded. After one particularly vicious skirmish a shattered and scared Private David Manning stumbles through the muddy forest carrying a critically wounded comrade. Promoted for his bravery and reluctantly put in charge of raw recruits Manning's troop is rapidly plunged into the horror and heroism of battle. Desperate to escape the slaughter of the front line Manning embarks on an almost suicidal death-or-glory mission. But will his luck hold out or will someone else trudge out of the forest carrying back his broken body? Directed by John Irvin and featuring a cast of hot young Hollywood talent When Trumpets Fade matches Saving Private Ryan in its passionate portrayal of the terrors and futility of warfare... and its reluctant heroes.

• Body Shots | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £4.38   |  Saving you £15.61 (356.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Its Friday night and the girls are getting ready for a big night out. The boys they are meeting up also making their preparations for a wild night ahead. They meet and all seems to be going well the drinks are going down quick and fast and the four women and four lads seem to be well paired off for a night of wild raging. The couples go their own way until 4 am when Emma arrives at Jeans in bad shape accusing Mike an NFL player of rape. When arrested he says he is innocent

• The Horseman | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £8.76   |  Saving you £7.23 (82.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A multi-award winning and intensely unique Australian movie that explosively follows in the traditions of Wolf Creek and Chopper, The Horseman is a red-raw insight into one man's quest for very a painful sort of vengeance and retribution.

• I Sell The Dead | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £21.00   |  Saving you £3.99 (19.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  19th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of the guillotine looming over him young Blake confides in visiting clergyman Father Duffy recounting fifteen years of adventure in the resurrection trade. His tale leads from humble beginnings as a young boy stealing trinkets from corpses to a partnership with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes as they hunt creatures unwilling to accept their place in the ground. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure horror and vicious rivalries that threaten to put all involved in the very graves they're trying to pilfer.

• Quest For Fire | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £25.67   |  Saving you £-7.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  80 000 year ago a primitive tribe desperately guards its most valued possession fire. They know how to tend it how to use it but its creation remains a mystery. During an attack by a neighbouring tribe their flame is lost and so begins an epic obstacle-filled quest to find another source of the element so precious in their struggle for survival.... Jean-Jacques Annaud's multi-award winning film is an extraordinary view of the dawn of man and a true original. Winner of an Oscar and BAFTA for Best Make-Up Effects.

• Wolf | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sophisticated to a point, this well-executed wolf-man tale works due to its clever setting and enormous star power. We all know Jack Nicholson can go nuts but the script makes his character aware of his changes, sometimes for the better, early on. The setting, a publishing house in the middle of a takeover, gives the characters dramatic life before the horror elements kicks in. A senior editor about to get the boot, Nicholson's character becomes a new man after being bitten by a wolf. He takes on challenges at work, lives a more robust life and attracts a new love. But will his new-found energy consume him? Director Mike Nicholson keeps the action alive in the first half but the film peters out at the end with cheap theatrics and the overuse of slow motion. Michelle Pfeiffer has little to do as simply the love interest with a grittier than average personality. Better is James Spader as a smarmy colleague. Nicholson is in fine form, relying on his keen gift to spark interest (a twitch of the head, a look in the eyes), instead of heavy doses of movie make-up. Giuseppe Rotunno's sweeping camerawork sets the mood quite well. Wolf is easy to recommend, with the added feature it's hardly gratuitous. --Doug Thomas

• Silent Hill | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £17.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose (Radha Mitchell) decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.Path of Darkness: The Making of Silent Hill: Including Silent Hill Origins, Casting, Set Design, Stars and Stunts, Creatures Unleashed, Creature Choreography On Set vintage featurette Around The Film vintage featuretteTheatrical trailer

• San Ferry Ann | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £5.76   |  Saving you £4.23 (73.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A motley crew of British characters ride the 'San Ferry Ann' from Dover to the shores of Calais where they embark on a weekend of calamity. A campervan family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge and Joan Sims) cause chaos from the moment they set their tires on the shore resulting in frequent run ins with the Gendarme. Lewd Grandad (Wilfred Brambell) finds his own misadventures with a newly acquainted friend a crazy German ex-soldier (Ron Moody). Also aboard for the ride is a saucy hitchhiker (Barbara Windsor) who causes a few heads to turn including that of a fellow traveller (Ronnie Stevens) who pursues her affection with comic results. By the end of this weekend though the French may well be wishing to say 'au revoir' to these trouble making tourists.

• Labyrinth | DVD | (06/12/1999) from £7.40   |  Saving you £6.85 (111.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sarah (a teenage Jennifer Connelly) rehearses the role of a fairy-tale queen, performing for her stuffed animals. She is about to discover that the time has come to leave her childhood behind. In real life she has to baby-sit her brother and contend with parents who don't understand her at all. Her petulance leads her to call the goblins to take the baby away, but when they actually do, she realises her responsibility to rescue him. Sarah negotiates the Labyrinth to reach the City of the Goblins and the castle of their king. The king is the only other human in the film and is played by a glam-rocking David Bowie, who performs five of his songs. The rest of the cast are puppets, a wonderful array of Jim Henson's imaginative masterpieces. Henson gives credit to children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, and the creatures in the movie will remind Sendak fans of his drawings. The castle of the king is a living MC Escher set that adults will enjoy. The film combines the highest standards of art, costume, and set decoration. Like executive producer George Lucas's other fantasies, Labyrinth mixes adventure with lessons about growing up. --Lloyd Chesley

• Run If You Can | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is a riveting thriller involving a young girl called Kim who is staying alone in a friend's house in Los Angeles. While watching an old black and white film on television she notices that the film is being intercut by a sequence in colour of a man and woman making love. The sequence ends with the man suffocating the woman with a pillow and then bundling her into a plastic bag. Confused and shocked it is only the next day that Kim realises for certain what has happened when a friend informs her that there has been a series of murders in Los Angeles with women found in green plastic bags. As the scenes continue Kim alerts the police and word leaks out to the media of Kim's discovery and the picture is being picked up by a neighbouring scanning TV dish of videos made by the murderer for his own use. Kim's role changes from spectator to victim. As the killer's face is never seen any man becomes a nightmare as she misinterprets friendly gestures from teachers to delivery men. When we think it's all over she gets a phone call. Is the game over yet?

• Hellgate | Blu Ray | (19/12/2016) from £14.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Beyond the darkness terror lives forever Legends abound of ˜The Hellgate Hitchhiker'. So the story goes, a beautiful young woman was once brutally defiled and murdered by a biker gang. Now, returned from the dead, she wanders the roadside luring unsuspecting motorists to their doom Refusing to heed the warnings of locals, a group of college friends set out on a cross-country road trip looking for fun and frolics. But they get much more than they bargained for when they wind up in the abandoned mining town of Hellgate and hemmed in by hordes of the undead! Providing gore and gags in equal measure, Hellgate recalls the good old days of video rental frights and challenges other gleefully twisted flicks such as Re-animator and Return of the Living Dead for sheer grisly delirium! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: ¢ High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation ¢ Original uncompressed 2.0 PCM audio ¢ Road to Perdition, B-Movie Style: An extensive interview with Hellgate director William A. Levey ¢ Alien Invasion, Blaxploitation and Ghost-Busting Mayhem: Scholar, Filmmaker and fan Howard S. Berger reflects on the intriguing film career of William A. Levey ¢ Video Nasty: Kenneth Hall, writer of the Puppet Master series, speaks about the direct-to-video horror boom that allowed Hellgate to become a classic of the cassette rental era ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

• House of Sand and Fog | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £8.55   |  Saving you £11.44 (133.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly star as two parties locked into a bitter tug-of-war over a house that has tragic consequences.

• The Final Countdown | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  With a tantalising "what-if?" scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. It's really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 1980 release, but there's still some life remaining in the movie's basic premise: what if a modern-era navy aircraft carrier--in this case the real-life nuclear-powered USS Nimitz--was caught in an anomalous storm and thrust 40 years backwards in time to the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor? Will the ship's commander (Kirk Douglas) interfere with history? Will the visiting systems analyst (Martin Sheen) convince him not to? Will a rescued senator from 1941 (Charles Durning) play an unexpected role in the future of American politics? Veteran TV director Don Taylor doesn't do much with the ideas posed by this potentially intriguing plot; he seems more interested in satisfying aviation buffs with loving footage of F-14 "Jolly Roger" fighter jets, made possible by the navy's generous cooperation. That makes The Final Countdown a better navy film than a fully fledged time-travel fantasy, but there's a nice little twist at the end, and the plot holes are easy to ignore. James Cameron would've done it better, but this popcorn thriller makes an enjoyable double bill with The Philadelphia Experiment. --Jeff Shannon