"Director: Bill Duke"

• Deep Cover (1992) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (23/08/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director BILL DUKE (The Killing Floor). LAURENCE FISHBURNE (The Matrix) stars as Russell Stevens/John Hull, a police officer who goes undercover as the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (The Fly's JEFF GOLDBLUM) in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomesand the harder to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring DR. DRE's debut solo single, this unsung gem of the nineties' Black cinema explosion delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interview with director Bill Duke New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover's place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film's title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop Panel discussion from 2018 featuring Duke and Fishburne and moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by Gillespie

• Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £9.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (81.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg plays a Reno lounge singer who hides out as a nun when her villainous boyfriend (Harvey Keitel) goes gunning for her. Maggie Smith is the mother superior who has to cope with Whoopi's unorthodox behaviour, but the cute script turns the tables and shows the latter energising the stodgy convent with song and attitude. A real crowd-pleaser and a perfect vehicle for Goldberg, this is a happy experience all around. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Whoopi Goldberg returns in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, a gratuitous, poorly written sequel that contrives a reason to get her character back into Maggie Smith's convent. The "socially conscious" plot finds Goldberg being asked to relate to a bunch of street kids and pull them together into a choir. Since a bad guy is needed, the script grabs that old chestnut about a rich guy (James Coburn) preparing to close down the convent's school, and runs with it. The film is slow and unconvincing from start to finish, although co-stars Mary Wickes and Kathy Najimy get some good laughs, and the music is pretty spirited. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Sister Act 2 - Back In The Habit | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £2.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (401.34%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Whoopi Goldberg returns in a gratuitous, poorly written sequel that contrives a reason to get her character back into Maggie Smith's convent. The "socially conscious" plot finds Goldberg being asked to relate to a bunch of street kids and pull them together into a choir. Since a bad guy is needed, the script grabs that old chestnut about a rich guy (James Coburn) preparing to close down the convent's school, and runs with it. The film is slow and unconvincing from start to finish, although co-stars Mary Wickes and Kathy Najimy get some good laughs, and the music is pretty spirited. --Tom Keogh

• Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £11.01   |  Saving you £8.98 (81.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sister Act: A Hilariously Divine Comedy!"" -ABC Radio Network. Relive all the fun laughter and irresistible music of Sister Act - the inspired comedy hit that packed pews everywhere! Whoopi Goldberg stars as a sassy low-rent lounge singer forced to hide out from the mob in the last place anyone would ever look for her - a convent. While she's there her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers and turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swin

• The Twilight Zone - Series 2 | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £8.80   |  Saving you £31.19 (354.43%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of the colour episodes from season 2 of The Twilight Zone.

• Hoodlum | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hoodlum, Bill Duke's interesting but flawed blaxploitation take on the classic gangster movie, usefully redresses a balance. It is all too easy to see the criminal underworld of the 1920s as an all-white affair, in which Harlem is an exotic locale where occasionally white gangsters patronise the black performers of the Cotton Club, from which black audiences were specifically barred. Yet one of the principal sources of illegal revenue was the numbers racket in Harlem--gambling on stock market closing figures--revenue on which the likes of Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano were keen to lay their hands. Lawrence Fishburne is an impressive "Bumpy" Johnson, the street enforcer turned strategist for the matriarchal Queen (Cicely Tyson), gradually learning a ruthlessness that forfeits him the love of a good woman, Francine (Vanessa Williams). Tim Roth as Schultz and Andy Garcia as Luciano are essentially melodramatic turns--the foul-mouthed punk and the reptilian smoothy--and both turn in enjoyably full-blooded unsubtle performances. --Roz Kaveney

• Miami Vice | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £8.64   |  Saving you £1.35 (13.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1: Pilot Sonny Crockett an undercover cop for the Miami Vice Department and Ricardo Tubbs a New York street cop unwillingly team up to apprehend a Columbian cocaine smuggler in this pilot episode. 2: The Golden Triangle Crockett and Tubbs' assignment as hotel security turns out to be more than just routine when a drugs-related hit leads to a side of Lt. Castillo they've never seen before. 3: The Golden Triangle Part 2 Lt. Castillo must find a way to catch General Lao Li with enough evidence to send him to prison but without endangering My Ying's life who was brought to Miami by Lao Li as a hostage to protect himself from Castillo.

• Not Easily Broken | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Not Easily Broken" is an uplifting drama about love and family adapted from the book of the same name by renowned pastor and author Bishop T.D. Jakes.

• Deep Cover | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's a thin line that devides the perfect criminal and the perfect cop. It's a fine white line and Officer Russell Stevens is about to step over it. Clean cop Stevens goes undercover to bust LA's biggest narcotics network and discovers it's a short step between catching a criminal and becoming one... A raw and sometimes shocking slice of life from the streets where money makes the rules and drugs do the talking.

• The Cemetery Club | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An all-star cast lights up the screen with irresistible laughter and charm in the heartwarming comedy The Cemetery Club. When three spirited widows throw caution to the wind and go in search of eligible bachelors they discover that the transition from mating to dating is a tricky proposition filled with unexpected surprises. Academy Award winners Olympia Dukakis 1987 Best Supporting Actress (Moonstruck) and Ellen Burstyn 1974 Best Actress (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) plu

• America's Dream | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Three stories that centering around the African-American fight against racial prejudice.

• Miami Vice - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Crockett and Tubbs tackle Miami's crime scene in three more exciting episodes: Florence Italy Return of Calderon Part 1 and Return of Calderon Part 2.

• A Rage In Harlem | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sultry Robin Givens (Head of State) heats up the screen with Forest Whitaker (Phone Booth) Gregory Hines (Once in the Life) and Danny Glover (The Royal Tenenbaums) in this cool sexy thriller about a gangster's girlfriend and the trouble she stirs for the fellas mixed up in her life! When Imabelle (Givens) hits Harlem with a trunkload of stolen gold she's on the run and looking for a place to hide. So when shy and naive Jackson (Whitaker) appears Imabelle thinks she's met the perfect patsy... but she forgets to protect her heart! As the chase again takes off and the intrigue mounts you'll find that unexpected twists are all the rage in this stylish thriller!

• Not Easily Broken | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £13.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Not Easily Broken chronicles the story of one couple's love, loss and ultimate faith in one another. It follows the lives of Dave and Clarice Johnson in their second decade of marriage. Dave's dreams of baseball success were dashed by injury and he settled for a steady but unfulfilling job as head of a construction company. Meanwhile Clarice's career really took off but in the process she has become blind to his needs and desires to start a family.Their lives are suddenly disrupted when a car crash seriously injures Clarice. During her recovery she realises how far away she has pushed Dave. Not Easily Broken is an uplifting drama focusing on their relationship and whether they can pull it back from the brink.

• Hoodlum | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar nominees Laurence Fishburne Tim Roth and Andy Garcia set the screen ablaze in this riveting crime thriller exploding with spectacular gun battles and brutal action. In 1930s New York Bumpy Johnson rules the Harlem numbers racket with a rare combination of honour dignity and strength. But when savage gangster Dutch Schultz threatens his reign with a series of bloody attacks Bumpy knows that the only way to win is to play Dutch's deadly game. As a vicious war spins madly out of control so does Bumpy's personal life and soon the mobster realizes that his only way out is to instigate a dangerous plan involving one of the most feared and powerful gangsters in history... Mob chieftain Lucky Luciano.

• Maximum Security | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Harry Kantschneider has just been sentenced to a federal penitentiary: Maximum Security. A place where a lifetime sentence means a lifetime of hell. Harry has been stripped of his dignity and of his rights losing all his dreams to the nightmare of prison. But Harry is determined to get out no matter what it takes. Harry cleverly avoids the brutality of his inmates with his charming personality and a penchant for practical jokes. He becomes a hero to the other convicts and is befrie