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• The Journey Of August King | DVD | (20/07/2004) from £8.18   |  Saving you £6.81 (83.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This passionate uplifting celebration of the human spirit received outstanding acclaim from critics coast-to-coast! Jason Patric (SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL SLEEPERS) is August King a young man whose life is changed forever when he risks everything to help a beautiful woman (Thandie Newton -- THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II) on a courageous -- and very dangerous -- search for a new life. Desperate yet determined the two set out on a harrowing journey toward freedom ..

• Catch And Release | Blu Ray | (23/07/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jennifer Garner stars in romcom about a woman who discovers her late fiance may not have been as perfect as she thought.

• The Proprietor (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A story of changing times constant relationships and reconciliation with the past.

• War Games | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When six friends go out to into the wilderness to play war games with automatic weapons and light ammunition, many of their relationships become fractured under the weight of the game. Just as things begin to fall apart, they realize they are not alone in the forest, and a sadistic group of very dangerous men start to hunt them down, one by one. The only difference between the hunter and the hunted are that one groups bullets are very real.

• Blind Horizon | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £4.74   |  Saving you £1.25 (20.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Left for dead in the remote Southwest Frank (Val Kilmer) is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers from the bullet wounds ominous memories begin to flash back-offering clues that point to an impending Presidential assassination...

• Turtles - Fast Forward Vol. 1 | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this series the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles find themselves fast-forwarded into the future: it's now the year 2105 and aliens are walking the streets. How will they get back home?

• Rudy - The Rudolph Giuliani Story | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With an outstanding performance by James Woods, Rudy: The Rudolph Giuliani Story is a warts-and-all portrait of New York City's lame-duck mayor, who rose from political disfavour to unexpected heights of heroism and leadership in the wake of September 11, 2001. Originally broadcast on the USA Network and based on Wayne Barrett's muckraking biography, it's a condensed, Cliff's Notes rendition of Giuliani's political career, with each commercial break serving as a chapter stop, beginning on the eve of 9/11 and alternating past and present highlights from Giuliani's rise to power. The film offers an unflinching portrait of a devoted public servant who's as fallible as he is competent: his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) understandably suffers while extramarital affairs and political fearlessness are all seen as by-products of Giuliani's compulsion to improve the city he loves. As Robert Dornhelm's clunky direction combines actual news footage with exacting recreations of 9/11 and its aftermath, Woods' charismatic performance wisely avoids mimicry to show us a flawed but noble man who, in the final analysis, deserves our conditional respect. --Jeff Shannon

• Blue Dragon Vol.1-2 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blue Dragon: Vol. 1 & 2 (2 Discs)

• Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years - Vol. 4: The Long Tide Of Surrender / What Price Churchill | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It’s easy to forget that before fronting the British war effort through most of World War II, Winston Churchill had spent the previous decade isolated in Parliament and in internal opposition to the Conservative party. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years dramatises this period in which the growing menace of Nazism in Germany was met with indifference, even fear by governments of the day who were more concerned with their survival than in serving those who had elected them. Churchill is perceptively played by Robert Hardy, confirming the image without falling into caricature. Visionary and obstinate by turns, he galvanises his supporters and enrages his enemies with a passion borne of conviction. A seasoned British cast includes Peter Barkworth as the amiable but ineffectual Stanley Baldwin, Eric Porter as the truly "out of time" Neville Chamberlain, Edward Woodward as the scheming Samuel Hoare and Nigel Havers as the tragically flawed Randolph Churchill. Martin Gilbert has done a persuasive job transforming his novel into a TV script, the scenes in the House of Commons having a gritty reality that makes compulsive viewing. On the DVD: it’s a pity that the Southern Pictures production, first screened in 1981, has emerged so dimly in this incarnation. Has the master tape eroded so badly, or was it simply not available? However, it’s worth putting up with the technical defects to enjoy this historically informed and grippingly dramatic serial. --Richard Whitehouse

• SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (BLU RAY) THE HUT | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New and sealed UK Steal Book

• China Moon | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  China Moon (1991) is a pleasing entertainment that assembles the dependable elements of film noir in the tradition of Body Heat (1981), The Last Seduction (1994) and, of course, the mother of all such films, Double Indemnity (1944). There's a femme fatale (the beautiful and talented Madeleine Stowe) and an honest cop (reliable Ed Harris) who soon becomes smitten. Her husband (Charles Dance) is a brute who beats her, so she murders him and inveigles Harris into helping her dispose of the body. That's when the complications begin, and Harris starts to sweat when his fellow cop keeps asking awkward questions. The acting is uniformly good, with Harris' partner played by Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) offering an excellent performance. Harris and Stowe strike sparks off each other, to the point where you almost believe he is being sucked into her schemes. On the DVD: The disc contains a theatrical trailer and several TV ads, with scroll-down filmographies of the major talents involved which are incomplete for some unknown reason. There's a brief and unenlightening five-minute documentary, with the principal cast plus the director, John Bailey, commenting on the film. Both image and sound are excellent quality, sound in Dolby Digital, picture in anamorphic widescreen ratio of 2.35:1 --Ed Buscombe

• The Work And The Glory Vol.1 | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (46.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Benjamin Steed (Sam Hennings) and Mary Ann Steed (Brenda Strong Seinfeld) relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.

• Dynamite Shaolin Heroes | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £9.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (2.46%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A mysterious master with superb Shaolin techniques uses all his skill to prevent a prince of the fallen Ming Dynasty from being used as a promotion tool by a power-hungry government official....

• The Last Picture Show | Blu Ray | (18/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1971 to critical acclaim and public controversy, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW garnered eight Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and was hailed as the most important work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.A surprisingly frank, bittersweet drama of social and sexual mores in small-town Texas, the film features a talent-laden cast led by Jeff Bridges (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Cybill Shepherd (Taxi Driver) and Timothy Bottoms (The Man in the Iron Mask). Cloris Leachman (TVs The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Ben Johnson (Rio Grande) each won Oscars for their work in supporting roles.

• Island Of Terror | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When oh when will scientists learn to stop playing with radiation? Island of Terror takes place on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. No phones no regular transport to and from the mainland but there is a well-equipped cancer research center where the well intentioned - but foolish! - scientists are irradiating lumps of tissue. The local constable finds a body with no bones in it ('No bones?' 'No bones!') and soon a team from London led by the ever-game Peter Cushing arri

• Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years - Vol. 2: In High Places / A Menace In The House | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It’s easy to forget that before fronting the British war effort through most of World War II, Winston Churchill had spent the previous decade isolated in Parliament and in internal opposition to the Conservative party. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years dramatises this period in which the growing menace of Nazism in Germany was met with indifference, even fear by governments of the day who were more concerned with their survival than in serving those who had elected them. Churchill is perceptively played by Robert Hardy, confirming the image without falling into caricature. Visionary and obstinate by turns, he galvanises his supporters and enrages his enemies with a passion borne of conviction. A seasoned British cast includes Peter Barkworth as the amiable but ineffectual Stanley Baldwin, Eric Porter as the truly "out of time" Neville Chamberlain, Edward Woodward as the scheming Samuel Hoare and Nigel Havers as the tragically flawed Randolph Churchill. Martin Gilbert has done a persuasive job transforming his novel into a TV script, the scenes in the House of Commons having a gritty reality that makes compulsive viewing. On the DVD: it’s a pity that the Southern Pictures production, first screened in 1981, has emerged so dimly in this incarnation. Has the master tape eroded so badly, or was it simply not available? However, it’s worth putting up with the technical defects to enjoy this historically informed and grippingly dramatic serial. --Richard Whitehouse

• Black Hawk Down | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £12.54   |  Saving you £0.45 (3.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The harrowing true account of what happened when a mission by a group of elite US troops in Somalia went terrribly wrong.

• A Man Called Hero | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An example of Hong Kong action cinema at its most mainstream, A Man Called Hero owes perhaps more to the films of Steven Segal than it does those of John Woo. The tale of a mythical hero who borders on the status of superhero, the film is stripped of any potential credibility by some of the most appalling dubbing ever seen at the cinema. While the original Chinese cast may inject the movie with passion, their American voice-over replacements obviously never made it past the sincere section of acting class. Each line is delivered with such false earnestness that the film sounds like a cross between Days of Our Lives and an episode of Pokémon. No cinematic cliché is left untouched, suggesting that this is not just a case of something lost in the translation but just a bad film... in anybody's language. The world-wide success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has proved that there is a huge market for original Eastern cinema, even more reason to avoid the pointless rehashing of the worst of Hollywood that A Man Called Hero undoubtedly is. --Phil Udell

• Mad Max / Lethal Weapon / We Were Soldiers | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Mad Max: On a remote stretch of deserted highway a band of violent bikers has taken over attacking anyone unlucky enough to cross their savage path. Racing up and down the seemingly endless miles of asphalt the crazed outlaws blaze through small towns plowing into vehicles and pedestrians alike with reckless abandon. Bringing a sense of law to this lawlessness are the mobile police force led by Max and Goose who are as fast and mean as their adversaries and are willing to

• Jungle Heat | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Vietnam war was about to end when a specially trained convoy is sent into the war-zone. The convoy is ambushed and captured by a vicious band of Vietcong rebels. Forced to witness the sickening torture of death of one of their comrades they each expect to meet the same grizzly fate. Only an act of bravery of one soldier with the flesh ripped from his hands aids their escape. Returning to Saigon they learn that the war is over - but that their war isn't. One man's brother has been taken by the Vietcong rebels. It was a matter of honour they had to rescue him they had to take revenge. The war was over. Their war had just begun.