Crime Thriller

• And Hope To Die | DVD | (07/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  And Hope to Die is a 1972 crime drama directed by Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Purple Noon). A French fugitive (Jean-Louis Trintignant, Z, The Conformist) heads to Canada where he ends up joining forces with a criminal gang who are plotting a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned when the crime lords daughter they plan to kidnap accidently dies.

• Two Minute Warning | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £13.85   |  Saving you £-7.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game and his killing spree to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper which could result in many innocent deaths. As the two teams race to find the killer before the two minute warning rings out signalling the start of his shooting the tension mounts.

• Dark Tide | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £6.62   |  Saving you £11.37 (171.75%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.

• Dead Sexy | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dead Sexy is yet another entry in the spurious "erotic thriller" genre. Although it attempts to pass itself off as a crime drama, the credibility of the whole affair is stretched somewhat by casting ex-Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed in the lead role of Detective Kate McBain, the police officer leading investigations into a suspected serial killer. This time, though, Tweed (who also produced the film) does a sterling job of both keeping her clothes on (most of the time) and acting her way through the movie. Every cliché in the book is utilised, but the movie might have stood up to repeated viewing if it took itself a little less seriously. As it is, the frequent sex scenes are crow-barred in to signal some sort of plot development as the whole thing moves towards its rather lame conclusion, unable to decide whether it wants to offer explicit adult entertainment or serious drama. Ultimately this is one for fans of Tweed, not those who relish a good whodunit. On the DVD: Dead Sexy is surprisingly high-budget and offers good picture and sound quality. Extras are limited to a filmography of Tweed and her wooden co-star John Enos, plus a theatrical trailer that does a fair job of summing up the movie's mix of sex and action. --Phil Udell

• The Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £5.04   |  Saving you £19.95 (395.83%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Da Vinci Code: Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book. So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher." Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. --Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com Angels & Demons: If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley, Amazon.com

• The Untouchables - Special Collectors Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (06/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Under the visionary direction of Brian De Palma and with an adapted screenplay by David Mamet, THE UNTOUCHABLES is a must-see masterpiece a glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of good versus evil on the streets of Prohibition-era Chicago, with unforgettable performances by Robert De Niro as mob warlord Al Capone and Kevin Costner as law enforcer Eliot Ness. The big-screen blockbuster hit earned Sean Connery an Oscar®* for his portrayal of veteran officer Jimmy Malone, and the excellent supporting cast includes Patricia Clarkson, Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith. This special collector's edition includes a double sided poster, 6 art cards and 2 business cards. Bonus Features The Script, The Cast Production Stories Re-inventing The Genre The Classic Original Featurette: The Men

• The Mirror Crack'd | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Angela Lansbury stars as supersleuth Miss Marple who sets about solving a mysterious death in the archetypal English village of St. Mary Mead. It features an all star cast including Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. EXTRAS: Interview with writer Barry Sandler Interview with Dame Angela Lansbury Interview with producer Richard Goodwin Behind the scenes stills gallery Storyboard gallery

• Kandahar UHD BD (Lim. Steelbook): 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray / Limited Steelbook | Blu Ray | (01/12/2023) from £20.64   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Omar | Blu Ray | (06/10/2014) from £11.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-nominated in the Foreign Film category (Palestine entry) OMAR tells the story of a sensitive young baker who is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets when he daily crosses the separation wall to visit Nadia his secret love. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. To prove himself to Nadia's family Omar becomes a freedom fighter and must soon face painful choices about life and manhood. When he is captured after a deadly act of resistance he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal begin to jeopardize all of his relationships: his longtime trust with accomplices and childhood friends deteriorates and even Nadia begins to question his motives. His feelings quickly become as torn apart as the Palestinian landscape. But it's soon evidence that everything he does is for his love of Nadia. The four young characters are all played by newcomers and this is their first film lending the Palestinian story authenticity and immediacy. Waleed F. Zuaiter playing Agent Rami is the only actor amongst the main cast that has had previous experience in front of the camera. Hany Abu-Assad directed the last Palestinian Oscar-nominated film Paradise Now (2006) and his previous work also includes the critically-acclaimed Rana's Wedding (2002) and The Courier (2011).

• Vacancy | Blu Ray | (15/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox's (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around with only the TV to entertain them... until they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they're watching were all filmed in the very room they're sitting in. With hidden cameras now aimed at them... trapping them in rooms crawlspaces underground tunnels... and filming their every move David and Amy must struggle to get out alive before whomever is watching them can finish their latest masterpiece.

• Detour | DVD | (24/07/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When law student Harper wakes with an almighty hangover the last thing he expects at his front door is threatening tough guy Johnny Ray and his girlfriend Cherry, but he soon comes to realise that a drunken bar conversation the previous night is about to turn into a dark and dangerous reality. Harper obsesses that his step-dad Vincent is responsible for the car crash that has left his mum in a coma, and Johnny Ray is here to drive them all to Vegas where he's agreed to kill Vincent for $20,000. Harper's claims that he was drunk when he hired him fall on deaf ears and he realises he might not be able to change course; if he wants to survive this, he needs to carry on down the road he's already chosen, even if there's clearly danger up ahead.

• The Ice Cream Truck | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young mother moves back to her hometown where she becomes the focus of her neighbor's teenage son. The temptation to re-discover her youth and have an affair with the boy is soon put dramatically into perspective as several deaths in the neighborhood are linked to an evil slasher that stalks the suburbs in an ice cream truck.

• Physical Evidence | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £7.52   |  Saving you £2.47 (32.85%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A hard-boiled cop wakes up drenched in blood he remembers nothing but the police find a bloody murder weapon that matches his type. A criminal has been killed and he becomes the prime suspect...

• Equinox | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are identical twins living in the fictional city of Empire with no knowledge of each other, having been separated at birth and given up for adoption. Henry is a shy mechanic living in a slum who loves Beverly, his best friend's sister, and also baby-sits for his neighbour Rosie, a prostitute. Freddy, a driver for the gangster Mr. Paris, is slick and self-confident, married to the materialistic Sharon. One day, Sonya, who works in a morgue, comes across a letter indicating that the twins are actually the offspring of European nobility and owed a large sum of inheritance money. She decides track them down and as their two worlds collide, the twins lives will never be the same again.

• Dolan's Cadillac | Blu Ray | (12/04/2010) from £9.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (109.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A young man attempts to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster in this adaptation of Stephen King's short story.

• Night Watch | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £4.10   |  Saving you £11.89 (290.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Good and evil do battle in this epic Russian tale of Witches, Vampires and Shape-Shifters.

• Gingerbread Man, The | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Kenneth Branagh plays cocky Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder, who makes the mistake of falling for the sultry charms of waitress Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz). Mallory feels threatened by her father Dixon (Robert Duvall), a member of a cult, and Rick agrees to take on her case. With help from private eye Clyde Pell (a scene-stealing Robert Downey Jr), his acerbic PA Lois Harlan (Daryl Hannah) and Mallory's ex-husband Pete Randle (Tom Berenger), Rick succeeds in getting Dixon institutionalised. But Dixon escapes and the threats begin against both Rick and his young children, which brings him into direct conflict with his estranged wife Leeanne (Famke Janssen). With both a trumped-up murder charge looming over him and a hurricane closing in on the Deep South, Rick is forced to go on the run as he fights to clear his name - and save his life. But just who can he trust? And has the legal hotshot been played for a fool?

• Brain Dead | Blu Ray | (17/07/2023) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Brain Dead, a mind-bending nightmare based on a story from The Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont, starring Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Bud Cort (Harold and Maude) and George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke). The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting growth industry, utilizing a memory re-sculpting technique pioneered by eccentric neurosurgeon Rex Martin (Bill Pullman). It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance or a botched career. At Eunice's New You outlets, a simple operation will give customers peace of mind. Or it might leave them brain dead. But when Martin refuses to cooperate with Eunice, he soon finds himself plunged into a surreal existence that intertwines dreams and reality. Has Martin slipped over the edge into madness? Or have corporate profit mongers given him a push, making him the guinea pig in his own experiment? To know the answer is to know true terror! Product Features Brand New Extras The Brains Behind the Nightmare, a new documentary on Brain Dead Tales from the Cranium, an interview with director Adam Simon Additional Extras Audio commentary with co-writer/director Adam Simon and filmmaker Rodman Flender Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer 2K Scan of the original film elements

• Hitchcock: Volume 1 | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.52 (34.82%)   |  RRP £17.50

  The Volume 1 of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films including Psycho (1960) Rope Saboteur Rear Window Shadow of a Doubt The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Saboteur (1942)Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of a fire that killed his best friend. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)A young woman discovers her visiting Uncle Charlie may not be the man he initially seemed to be. Rope (1948)Two young men strangle their classmate hide his body in their apartment and invite his closest friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the perfection of their crime. Rear Window (1954)A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his window and becomes convinced one of them has committed a serious murder. The Trouble with Harry (1955)The trouble with Harry is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)A family holidaying in Morocco stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Psycho (1960)A young woman steals $40 000 from her client and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor who has been too long under the presence and domination of his mother. Special Features: Disc 1 The Making of Saboteur - A Closer Look Storyboards Hitchcock Sketches Saboteur Theatrical Trailer Disc 2 The Making Of Featurette John M Hayes Interview Art Gallery Rear Window Trailer Compilation Rear Window Theatrical Trailer Disc 3 The Making Of Art Gallery Rear Window Trailer Compilation Rope Theatrical Trailer Disc 4 The Making of - The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over Art Gallery Hitchcock Trailer Compilation The Trouble with Harry Theatrical Trailer Disc 5 Production Notes Cast and Filmmakers Theatrical Trailer Disc 6 The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much Art Gallery Hitchcock Trailer Compilation The Man Who Knew Too Much Theatrical Trailer Disc 7 Shadow of a Doubt beyond Doubt Documentary Production Drawings Art Gallery Shadow of a Doubt Theatrical Trailer

• Slave | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

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