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• Rio Grande | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £8.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (17.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rio Grande was the last and least memorable of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy (following Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), but it none the less maintains an interesting continuity about the gentlemanly rules of military conduct. Here the focus is on the family. While creating a heated controversy over his handling of the Apache war, John Wayne must also contend with disgruntled wife Maureen O'Hara and estranged son Claude Jarman Jr, a new recruit trying to earn his father's love and respect. Ford suggests that there are two conflicting codes of honour in every cavalry officer's life, the personal as well as the professional, and that it takes an act of heroism to maintain both. It's fascinating to observe Wayne's progression throughout the trilogy, as his personal stakes intensify. This is the first of five onscreen appearances between the Duke and O'Hara, each filled with a competitive spirit and stormy sexuality. --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

• The Last Flight | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Marie (Marion Cotillard), an obstinate, adventuresome, young pilot, sets out to track down her lover, who has vanished in the Sahara during a record flight attempt from London to Cape Town. Her unexpected arrival turns life upside down for a remote French Camel Corps troop that is already preoccupied with the stirrings of a Tuareg uprising. Antoine (Guillaume Canet), a captain in conflict with his superior officers, decides to help Marie with her desperate quest across a grandiose and hostile...

• Captain Courageous | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns...

• Willie Dynamite | Blu Ray | (06/02/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  HE'S TIGHT, TOGETHER, AND MEAN. The hands-down winner of the all-out best blaxploitation movie of the seventies, declares author and artist Darius James in That's Blaxploitation! Willie Dynamite may not be as well-known as John Shaft, Sweet Sweetback or Super Fly's Youngblood Priest, but he certainly deserves to be. Who is Willie Dynamite? He's the flashiest pimp in New York he drives a personalised purple-and-gold Cadillac and wears some of the most eye-catching outfits ever seen on a cinema screen. He wants to be number one, but with the police, the D.A., fellow pimps and a tough-talking social worker on his tail, can a man as arrogant and amoral as Willie D avoid a downfall? Willie Dynamite competes with the best of blaxploitation on all levels. Roscoe Orman dominates with his central performance a star turn that's the equal of Richard Roundtree in Shaft or Pam Grier in Coffy. Multi-award-winning director Gilbert Moses balances action and social commentary as deftly as Gordon Parks, Jr. did with Super Fly. And the score by J.J. Johnson featuring Motown legend Martha Reeves is as catchy as anything composed by Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield or James Brown. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by MGM Original 1.0 mono audio (uncompressed on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Kiss My Baad Asss, a guide to blaxploitation hosted by actor and musician Ice-T, and featuring interviews with Richard Roundtree, Melvin van Peebles, Isaac Hayes and others Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully illustrated collector's booklet containing new writing on the film by Cullen Gallagher

• Escape | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £3.16   |  Saving you £11.59 (827.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ten years after the Black Death has ravaged the lands a poor family is ambushed by a pack of merciless killers on a desolate mountain pass. Nineteen-year-old Signe is the lone survivor. Held hostage and facing a fate worse than death Signe manages to flee her captors but her escape does not go unnoticed and now the chase is on. Special Features: Bloopers Deleted Scenes Visual Effects Featurette

• The Boer War | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £6.97   |  Saving you £3.02 (43.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Britain went to war against the Boers in October 1899 the British public expected the fighting to be over by Christmas. As it turned out The Boer War in Kipling's famous phrase gave the British 'no end of a lesson'. Using accounts of the soldiers who fought in this bitter and bloody clash of arms and remarkable contemporary photographs this programme tells the story of Britain's last great Imperial War.

• Cloverfield 1-3 Collection (DVD) | DVD | (04/02/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Producer J.J. Abrams takes you deeper into the Cloverfi eld universe than ever before with this mysterious sci-fi thriller. Orbiting Earth on the brink of a devastating energy war, scientists prepare to test a device that could provide unlimited power or trap them in a terrifying alternate reality. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl and Chris O'Dowd, The Cloverfi eld Paradox is the ultimate journey into the unknown.

• Rogues Of Sherwood Forest | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is a UK Region 2 DVD ( and Region's 4 and 5 ) released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2009. The film runs to about 76 minutes and is presented Widescreen ( 16:9 ratio ).

• Gunrunner | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £4.03   |  Saving you £-1.04 (-34.80%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The dark decadent underworld of Montreal is the backdrop for this tale of deceit and murder. The more the Gunrunner struggles to remain true to himself the deeper he becomes enmeshed in a tangled web of corruption. And soon he finds himself player pawn and victim of a much larger power struggle.

• Alien | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

• Tom Clancy Box Set | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This four-disc box set contains The Hunt for Red October (starring Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan), Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger (both starring Harrison Ford) and The Sum of All Fears (starring Ben Affleck). You can read our reviews of each movie by following the links below: The Hunt for Red OctoberPatriot GamesClear and Present DangerThe Sum of All Fears

• Miami Vice | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  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.

• Transporter 2 | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £17.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (16.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes in moving goods of all kinds, heads home to the United States.

• Combat America | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £5.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (38.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  '1st Lieutenant Clark Gable' provides the voice-over for this World War II US Army Airforces Film that tells the story of the 351st Bombardment Group AAF. Amongst remarkable footage taken from the combat planes in action 'Combat America' provides a rare portrait of the planes and the men that flew them both working and at rest.

• Cold Harvest | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £6.76   |  Saving you £-2.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A devastating comet strike two years ago has resulted in a world of famine drought and rampaging disease. Mankind's survival rests with seven human guinea pigs who carry immunity to the deadly virus who enlist the help of a bounty hunter...

• Marauders | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £6.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bruce Willis and Christopher Meloni star in this Canadian action thriller directed by Steven C. Miller. After a number of banks owned by high-profile tycoon Hubert (Willis) are robbed by a group of elite terrorists, FBI agent Jonathan Montgomery (Meloni) and his team are called in to investigate. Upon learning that the rich and powerful use the safe deposit boxes of Hubert's banks to store confidential information, Montgomery starts to suspect Hubert himself might have something to do with the robberies. However, when more banks are hit and it becomes clear that the criminal's motivation is not the money, the FBI team begin to realise there is a much bigger conspiracy at hand. The cast also includes Dave Bautista, Adrian Grenier and Johnathon Schaech.

• Spiritual Kung Fu | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £12.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shot back-to-back with Dragon Fist Jackie plays a young Shaolin layabout always in trouble with the Shaolin abbot. When he decides that he wants to leave Shaolin he has to perfect the five animal styles and get past the eighteen Lo Han formation. Dazzling fight action makes Spiritual Kung Fu one of Jackie's all-time best kung fu flicks.

• Charade | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (18.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautiful high society wife Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) has everything. And then her wealthy husband turns up dead, her apartment is stripped bare and several mysterious men start following her. Enter dapper gent Peter Joshua (Cary Grant). Can she trust him? And is that even his real name?Stanley Donen’s sexy and breezy screwball comedy thriller brought together European migr Hollywood royalty Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant for the first time to create a caper with real chemistry. Featuring playful performances from Walter Matthau, George Kennedy and James Coburn, Charade is scored by the mighty Henry Mancini, shot by Some Like It Hot cinematographer Charles Lang and features gowns by Givenchy. It’s riotous, glamorous and glorious.

• Ghett'a Life (DVD) | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £9.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Derrick, a ghetto teenager, dreams of being Jamaica's next world boxing champion, but it's election year and politics and tribal violence divide the country. His father, a loyal party supporter, forbids him from going to the boxing gym situated in a rival part of town. Derrick defiantly follows his heart but is confronted by the local 'don' who threatens his family. Derrick refuses to give up and the ignorance of divisiveness soon give way to the triumph of unity.

• Big Trouble In Little China Steelbook | Blu Ray | (16/12/2013) from £22.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (13.33%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Trying to explain the cult appeal of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China to the uninitiated is no easy task. The plot in a nutshell follows lorry driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) into San Francisco's Chinatown, where he's embroiled in street gang warfare over the mythical/magical intentions of would-be god David Lo Pan. There are wire-fu fight scenes, a floating eyeball and monsters from other dimensions. Quite simply it belongs to a genre of its own. Carpenter was drawing on years of chop-socky Eastern cinema tradition, which, at the time of the film's first release in 1986, was regrettably lost on a general audience. Predictably, it bombed. But now that Jackie Chan and Jet Li have made it big in the West, and Hong Kong cinema has spread its influence across Hollywood, it's much, much easier to enjoy this film's happy-go-lucky cocktail of influences. Russell's cocky anti-hero is easy to cheer on as he "experiences some very unreasonable things" blundering from one fight to another, and lusts after the gorgeously green-eyed Kim Cattrall. The script is peppered with countless memorable lines, too ("It's all in the reflexes"). Originally outlined as a sequel to the equally obscure Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Big Trouble is a bona fide cult cinema delight. Jack sums up the day's reactions perfectly, "China is here? I don't even know what the Hell that means!". On the DVD: Big Trouble in Little China is released as a special edition two-disc set in its full unedited form. Some real effort has been put into both discs' animated menus, and the film itself is terrific in 2.35:1 and 5.1 (or DTS). The commentary by Carpenter and Russell may not be as fresh as their chat on The Thing, but clearly they both retain an enormous affection for the film. There are eight deleted scenes (some of which are expansions of existing scenes), plus a separate extended ending which was edited out for the right reasons. You'll also find a seven-minute featurette from the time of release, a 13-minute interview with FX guru Richard Edlund, a gallery of 200 photos, 25 pages of production notes and magazine articles from American Cinematographer and Cinefex. Best of all for real entertainment value is a music video with Carpenter and crew (the Coupe de Villes) coping with video FX and 80s hair-dos.--Paul Tonks