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• Battle Of the V.1 - In Colour! | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £8.69   |  Saving you £4.30 (49.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in World War II and based on a true story, Battle of the V.1 starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina and Christopher Lee is set in Nazi held Poland. Polish Resistance discover a mysterious pilot-less plane being built and tested in Poland - the resistance inform Britain of the plane and British enlist a Polish school teacher (Michael Rennie) to infiltrate the factory where the 'strange plane' was being built and pass as much information as possible back to London. The film tells the vit...

• Bounty Hunter / Love Happens / | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £7.20   |  Saving you £17.79 (247.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Bounty Hunter Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). Milo expects an easy payday, but nothing is ever easy with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other – until they find themselves on the run for their lives. Love Happens Burke (Aaron Eckhart, The Dark Knight), a successful and hugely popular self-help guru has all the answers but no intention or time to fall in love again. Charming florist Eloise (Jennifer Aniston, Marley & Me) on the other hand has no plan in life but tends to fall head over heels… unfortunately for her…usually with the wrong men. A chance meeting in a hotel lobby turns their lives upside down, and with the help of Eloise’s friend Marty (Judy Greer, 27 Dresses) and Burke’s relative (Martin Sheen, The West Wing) they soon realize that in order to have a future, they first need to confront their past… The Break Up Gary (Vince Vaughn) spots Brooke (Jennifer Anniston) at a ball game and is instantly attracted to her, so in effort to charm her he buys her a hotdog and persuades her to go on a date with him. The two hit it off and soon enough are a couple and move into a luxurious condo together.After a big argument about Gary not helping her enough Brooke breaks up with Gary in hope he will change his ways. But the break-up only pushes him even further away. Things start to worsen instead of improving when neither of the two will move out of the condo. But do they really want to break-up or have things just gone way too far?

• Patton (two-disc set) | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, Patton is a monumental film that won seven Academy Awards and gave George C Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged in the States and abroad. Inevitably, many critics and filmgoers struggled to reconcile the events of the day with the film's glorification of US General George S Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II; how could a film so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner, aided in no small part by composer Jerry Goldsmith's masterfully understated score. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, General Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comOn the DVD: The widescreen print of the movie (which was originally filmed using a super-wide 70mm process called "Dimension 150") is handsomely presented on the first disc, with a remastered Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. It is accompanied by a rather dry "Audio essay on the historical Patton" read by the president and founder of the General George S. Patton Jr. historical society. The second, supplementary disc carries a new and impressive 50-minute "making-of" documentary, with significant contributions from Fox president Richard Zanuck, as well as composer Jerry Goldsmith and Oliver Stone. Director Franklin J. Schaffner (who died in 1989) and star George C. Scott are heard in interviews from 1970. In the documentary, Stone provocatively complains that Patton glorified war and that President Nixon's enthusiasm for the movie was directly responsible for his decision to invade Cambodia. Also on this disc, in a separate audio-only track, is Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent music score--one of his greatest achievements--heard complete with studio session takes for the famous "Echoplex" trumpet figures. --Mark Walker

• Heart of Dragon | Unknown | (29/09/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  World-famous for their action and derring-do, old friends Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung teamed up for a film that shows there's much more to them than brawling.Jackie plays a good-hearted cop looking after his learning-disabled brother Danny, played by Sammo, but doesn't always succeed in keeping him out of trouble. When Danny is taken as a hostage, his brother will risk everything - his career and even his life -to rescue him, throwing it down as only Jackie Chan can.Made the same year as Police Story, Heart of Dragon was a change of pace for the great action artists, giving them a chance to show of their acting chops as well as their stunt skills - even if they don't ignore the latter! 88 Films are proud to present this 4K restoration of a Hong Kong classic.BRAND NEW 4K REMASTER FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES PRESENTED IN ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION (1080P) IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO2 Versions of the film - Hong Kong Cut Cut [91 Mins] and Japanese Extended Cut [99 Mins][Hong Kong Version]Cantonese Mono with newly remastered english subtitlesClassic English Mono Dub[Japanese Extended Version]Cantonese Japanese SoundtrackCantonese HK theatrical SoundtrackCantonese HK theatrical Soundtrack with Japanese Soundtrack for parking lot fight sceneCantonese with HK soundtrack & the Japanese songsClassic English dub hybrid with Cantonese for the extra Japanese scenesAudio Commentary by David WestThe First Mission - Making of Special [48:41 mins]The First Mission - Behind the Scenes - Special video for the pre-release event[Archive] Interview with Jackie Chan[Archive] Interview with Rocky Lai[Archive] Interview with Sammo Hung[Archive] Interview with Sammo Hung 2[Archive] Interview with Arthur WongHong Kong TrailerEnglish ˜Raging Force' TrailerFortune Star TrailerJapanese Teaser Trailer #1Japanese Teaser Trailer #2Japanese Theatrical Trailer

• The Corruptor | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £6.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (188.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is not your average New York cop. Working in Chinatown has its multifarious cultural nuances and its fair share of ubiquitous enticement, both of which are reflected in detective Chen's weary face. He had to get into bed with the highest echelons of the Chinese Mafia as a way of augmenting his own career, while maintaining a semblance of control over the dime-a-dozen hoods who proliferate on this turf. To make matters worse, he now has to break in rookie detective Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), who has asked to be assigned to the Chinatown division. Apparently Wallace is infatuated with all things Chinese, or is suffering from "Yellow Fever," as his fellow colleagues would have us believe. Chen, not one to suffer fools gladly, takes young Wallace under his protective wing, oft-warning the shady powers of the neighbourhood not to sink Danny into their sordid pool of corruption. But before he knows it, both he and Wallace are caught in a deadly ring of double-crosses, shady-dealings, murders, and car chases. And all of this under the suspicious eye of Internal Affairs. Part Serpico and part Hard Boiled, this film seems at first to be a major departure from director James Foley's previous work. However, Foley has frequently revealed a keen eye and understanding for emotionally complex relationships, especially between teacher and pupil (Glengarry Glen Ross) or father and son (At Close Range). This movie is no different. In fact, Foley's meticulous attention to the relationship between the wise, morally burdened Chen, and the naove, innocent Wallace morphs this otherwise tedious plot into a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Hats off to Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg, whose sympathetic chemistry creates an authentic and deeply personal connection, a factor that proves crucial to the film's poignant, disturbing finale. --Jeremy Storey

• Kidnapping Freddy Heineken | DVD | (08/06/2015) from £4.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (73.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas, One Day), Sam Worthington (Avatar, Sabotage) and Anthony Hopkins (Thor: The Dark World, The Silence Of The Lambs) star in this double-barrelled, killer combination of gripping heist movie and tense psychological thriller, Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. When they're turned down for a bank loan, low-level career criminals (Sturgess and Worthington) embark upon one of the most audacious and infamous crimes in recent history, the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken (Hopkins), heir to the brewing empire and one of the wealthiest men in the Netherlands. But once the deed is done, the reality of life on the run and the pressures of guilt soon begin to infect the kidnappers as they start to unravel from within. Click Images to Enlarge

• The Dark Knight - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-11.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Christopher Nolan returns to direct the follow up to his own 2005 blockbuster 'Batman Begins' with Christian Bale once again suited up as 'The Dark Knight'. Gotham City previously a playground for organised crime and petty thieves has been cleaned up under the ever watchful eye of Batman. With the continued help of Lt James Gordon (Gary Oldman) and determined District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) Batman continues to round up the remaining criminals plaguing it. As the opening sequence quickly shows a new threat has emerged. The Joker! brought to life again this time by the late Heath Ledger (Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner). With his eerie grin and wicked laugh mixed with pyschotic madness he unleashes a new danger to the people of Gotham amidst all his chaos. As Batman struggles to bring the madman to justice his alter-ego Bruce Wayne is caught in a love triangle as Rachel Dawes' (Maggie Gyllenhaal) relationship with Harvey Dent grows stronger. Knowing that Harvey may be the 'White Knight' required to bring continued peace to Gotham Batman hopes that for the last time his skills and arsenal of equipment will be needed to stop the crazed villain before the city falls back into turmoil! - MW

• Sherlock Holmes | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £9.80   |  Saving you £10.19 (103.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Explosive action baffling mystery and astonishing intrigue follow Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his trusted ally Watson (Jude Law) in a race to uncover and foil a terrifying plot that threatens to destroy the country. Director Guy Ritchie helms the all-action adventure reintroducing the great detective to the World. Robert Downey Jr. is the new Sherlock Holmes!

• The River Wild | DVD | (13/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meryl Streep tried her hand at action films with this Curtis Hanson film and proved herself quite credible, bringing emotion as well as the willingness to kick butt. She plays a suburban mum and former white-water rafting guide who is taking her family on a raft trip for summer vacation. But overworked Dad (David Strathairn) can't make the trip so she and her son leave without him--and walk right into trouble. Killers on the run (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) abduct them and force Streep to take them down the most dangerous stretch of river to elude the cops. Hanson understands how to pace and construct this kind of action fodder but it's strictly formula stuff, enlivened only by the depth of Streep's portrayal and the viciousness of Bacon's character. --Marshall Fine

• McBain | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £4.03   |  Saving you £-0.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a group of U.S. Rangers save McBain from execution during the Vietnam War he vows to repay them. Years later when his saviour Santos is killed on a mission to reclaim Colombia for its people he finds himself called into action and regroups his army platoon to lead Santos rebel army...

• Raffles | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  All of the classic TV series featuring the debonair A J Raffles - the idol of society at the end of the nineteenth century who was also an accomplished jewel thief and safe-cracker.

• Hard Rain | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It may not exactly be a disaster movie, but this terminally silly thriller is certainly disastrous, and would be pointless without the novelty of its setting in a flooding Midwestern town during a torrential rainfall. Physically impressive but idiotic in every other respect, the movie pits an armoured truck courier (Christian Slater) against a smart leader of thieves (Morgan Freeman) and a corruptible town sheriff (Randy Quaid) who are vying for possession of $3 million in cash. A waterlogged game of cat and mouse, the plot is so contrived that even the most impressive action sequences--such as a jet-ski chase through flooded high-school corridors--are robbed of their already tenuous credibility. Before long you'll be yawning as incompetent accomplices are systematically dispatched by their own stupidity, in the kind of movie where the use of power boats inevitably leads to at least one death by outboard motor. What's impressive here is the physical production itself--the effect of flooding was created by building a huge replica of downtown Huntington, Indiana, in a huge, watertight aircraft hangar in Palmdale, California! --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Hunting Party, the | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £10.09   |  Saving you £2.90 (28.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  TV News reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard) have worked in the world's hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television Simon has a meltdown. After that Duck is promoted and Simon disappears. Five years later Duck returns to Sarajevo with rookie reporter Benjamin (Jessie Eisenberg) to cover the fifth anniversary of the end of the war. Simon shows up a ghost from the past with the promise of a world exclusive. He convinces Duck that he knows the whereabouts of Bosnia's most wanted war criminal 'The Fox'. Armed with only spurious information Simon Duck and Benjamin embark on a dark and dangerous mission that takes them deep into hostile territory. It's the scoop of a lifetime but will they live to report it?

• Accion Mutante | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a future world ruled by good-looking people a terrorist group of mutants leaded by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo a rich businessman to claim for the rights of the ugly people. Escaping from the police in their spaceship Ramon trys to kill his gang in order to get all the ransom. The trip ends abruptly when they crash in Axturiax the planet of the crazy miners where no woman lives.

• El Gringo | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000, and a bloody past, finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.

• Fast & Furious | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This exciting four film set will take you on the ultimate adrenaline-fuelled road-trip of your life! Follow the entire fast-paced franchise from illegal street-racing in LA and money laundering in Miami to death defying drifting contests in Tokyo and the final-chase over the border of Mexico - these thrill rides will leave you breathless! Titles Comprise: The Fast And The Furious (Dir. Rob Cohen 2001): Roaring along at breakneck speed Dom (Vin Diesel) and his crew meet on the streets of L.A. each night to show off their high-powered racers. When new guy Brian (Paul Walker) wants to add his fuel to the fire he can't getup the money to race but offers up his car as collateral. In their tiny jacked compacts Dom Brian and Edwin (Ja Rule) burst into a high-gear race with Brian nearly beating perennial champion Dom. But in the final moments he loses the race and his car. Brian's debt is quickly cleared however when he saves Dom both from the cops and from a potentially violent encounter with Johnny Tran (Rick Yune) a rival gang lord. Dom takes Brian under his wing - a decision that disgusts his gang but delights his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster). 2 Fast 2 Furious (Dir. John Singleton 2003): Now an ex-cop on the run Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back O'Connor's no rules; win-or-die skills are unleashed against an international drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy (Tyrese) riding shotgun and a drop-dead gorgeous undercover agent (Eva Mendes) dialling up the heat 2 Fast 2 Furious accelerates the action into a desperate race for survival justice... and mind blowing jaw-dropping speed! The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (Dir. Justin Lin 2006): Shaun Boswell has always been an outsider. A loner at school his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing - which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time Shaun is sent out of the country to live with his uncle in the military in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal gravity-defying automotive challenge... drift racing a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart stopping courses of hairpin turns and switchbacks. For his first unsuccessful foray in drift racing Shaun unknowingly takes on D.K. the Drift King with ties to the Yakuza the Japanese crime machine. The only way he can pay off the debt of his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld where the stakes are life and death. Fast & Furious: Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed- Fast & Furious. Heading back to the streets where it all began they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert in the new high-octane action-thriller. When a crime brings them back to L.A. fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.

• Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An aspiring knight struggles to save a dragon from a spell cast on him by an evil druid. The third installment in the DragonHeart franchise.

• Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Blu Ray | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second part of Quentin Tarantino's deliriously stylish movie as The Bride (Thurman) continues her typically blood-soaked revenge quest... Having killed two of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad The Bride continues her mission to avenge the three remaining names on her death list that turned her El Paso wedding party into bloody carnage and left her for dead. Her attention turns to Budd (Michael Madson) Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and finally the corpse littered path leads to Bill (David Carradine). However an unexpected survivor complicates matters...

• The Heist | Blu Ray | (01/04/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Charles (Morgan Freeman), Roger (Christopher Walken) and George (William H. Macy) are the very picture of honest security guards.

• Sharpe's Waterloo | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £2.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (63.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Sean bean returns in this award-winning drama as swashbuckling British officer Richard Sharpe for the battle of his life in Sharpe's Waterloo. Sharpe seemed to have settled down for life on a tranquil French farm with his new partner Lucille when the sudden news of Napolean's return from exile compels him to go back to the army to fight in the great Battle of Waterloo. He joins the staff of Wellington's ally the Prince of Orange. Once again reunited with the Chosen Men among them his good friend Harper (Daragh O'Malley) Sharpe abandons his inept commander to organise the defence of the British key positions on the farm of La Haie Sainte and plays a courageous and important role in securing one of Britain's most famous victories.