"Director: Gary Love"

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  • Spooks: Season 2 [2002]Spooks: Season 2 | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £13.24   |  Saving you £26.75 (202.04%)   |  RRP £39.99

    Revelling in its reputation for pulling no punches, the second series of the BBC's slick spy drama Spooks maintains the quality of its award-winning first year, serving up enough nail-biting moments of genuine tension to outweigh any concern that occasionally it courts controversy for no better reason than to cock a snook at the notoriously timid Auntie Beeb. The Islamic terrorist episode unsurprisingly received a great deal of negative publicity, but a show that prides itself on its contemporary edge could hardly ignore such an issue. Other episodes tackle computer hackers, Eastern European terrorists, Columbian drug cartels, inter-service territorial disputes with the CIA and even a mutiny in the army. One of the strongest episodes, set entirely within the sealed-off MI5 Section B department, tracks the team's individual reactions to what might be a drill, or a real and devastating VX gas attack. Throughout, this year focuses a great deal on the team's personal problems, notably Tom Quinn's chaotic love life, which ultimately brings his loyalty to the service into question. Cast changes introduce some new faces, while some old ones pop up in unwelcome places (Jenny Agutter relishing her new role as a villain). Pacy direction and snappy editing, generous use of slo-mo, split-screen and dramatic music all add to the tension inherent in scripts that bring a modern, youthful edge to the creaky old spy genre. Only the final episode resorts to some hackneyed plot contrivances in a rather strained bid to produce the now-obligatory cliffhanger. --Mark Walker

  • Waking The Dead - Series 1Waking The Dead - Series 1 | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    The Cold Case team is a crack squad of police investigators who re-open unsolved murder cases using new technology to re-examine evidence that hopefully will lead to the killer. They are at the cutting edge of modern police investigation but they have been given just one year to prove their worth. Their first case is the abduction and murder of Alice Miller a young girl who disappeared five years ago. As the team gets to work they inadvertently trigger the killer to strike again i

  • Waking The Dead - Series 3Waking The Dead - Series 3 | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £17.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (38.99%)   |  RRP £24.99

    The Cold Case team return to DVD for more unsolved crimes that need their outstanding expertise. Episode Listing: 1.Multistory 2.Walking On Water 3.Breaking Glass 4.Final Cut

  • Murder Investigation Team: The Complete Series [DVD]Murder Investigation Team: The Complete Series | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £35.00 (701.40%)   |  RRP £39.99

    MIT: Murder Investigation Team was the second post-watershed series spawned by The Bill, the UK's longest-running police procedural. Sharing its parent show's realism but stripped of soap-style content, this compelling and altogether darker spin-off centres on an elite unit tackling homicide in the capital - from drive-by shootings to ritual murder. Impressively researched (former Metropolitan DCI Jackie Malton acting as story consultant) with high-profile guests, the this compelling, CSI-sty...

  • Sugarhouse [2007]Sugarhouse | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-9.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    A middle-class city boy finds himself completely out of his depth in this gritty and tough East End drama.

  • The Business/ Transporter/ Be Cool [DVD]The Business/ Transporter/ Be Cool | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

    The Business (Dir. Nick Love 2005): The director and cast of The Football Factory relocate to Spain's Costa Del Crime for this swaggering gangster film a savagely funny tale of suntanned playboys blokey camaraderie and violence that's as casual as the natty 1980s fashion. With an acute eye for the cultural details of the 80s; from clothing to drugs and tacky Spanish clubs boasting a superb soundtrack and a nailbiting climax The Business is a tasty knuckle sandwich! The Transporter (Dir. Louis Leterrier 2002): Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean hiring himself out as a mercenary transporter who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW Martin finds his latest assignment could well be his last after his package is revealed to be a beautiful woman (Shu Qi) at the centre of a human trafficking ring... Produced by Luc Besson this insanely entertaining action flick features a pumped-up Jason Statham commanding in the lead role (see him deflect an anti-personnel missile using nothing more than a tray!) with sultry Taiwanese beauty Shu Qi holding her own in Corey Yuen's extravagantly choreographed action sequences. Be Cool (Dir. F. Gary Gray 2005): Disenchanted with the movie industry Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!

  • The Business/Be Cool/The TransporterThe Business/Be Cool/The Transporter | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    The Business (Dir. Nick Love 2005): The director and cast of The Football Factory relocate to Spain's Costa Del Crime for this swaggering gangster film a savagely funny tale of suntanned playboys blokey camaraderie and violence that's as casual as the natty 1980s fashion. With an acute eye for the cultural details of the 80s; from clothing to drugs and tacky Spanish clubs boasting a superb soundtrack and a nailbiting climax The Business is a tasty knuckle sandwich! The Transporter (Dir. Louis Leterrier 2002): Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean hiring himself out as a mercenary ""transporter"" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW Martin finds his latest assignment could well be his last after his package is revealed to be a beautiful woman (Shu Qi) at the centre of a human trafficking ring... Produced by Luc Besson this insanely entertaining action flick features a pumped-up Jason Statham commanding in the lead role (see him deflect an anti-personnel missile using nothing more than a tray!) with sultry Taiwanese beauty Shu Qi holding her own in Corey Yuen's extravagantly choreographed action sequences. Be Cool (Dir. F. Gary Gray 2005): Disenchanted with the movie industry Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!

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