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• The Jack Bull | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on American television network HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers to a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death. This terrier is Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse breeder of limited means who has a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L Q Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over and his men beat Redding's Indian horse trainer and friend (Rodney A Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered as the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket. So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law. Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticised Western—a full hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star/producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising and willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable but John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

• Meuterei am Schlangenfluß (Bend of the River) | DVD | (10/08/2017) from £11.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Vampires Vs Zombies | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £13.50   |  Saving you £2.49 (18.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When young Jenna becomes affected by a mysterious vampiric disease she begins to hallucinate and her father whisks her away on a journey to find the source of the infection. On their way to the hometown of the Baroness Vampire Carmilla suspected to be the cause of the problem the two encounter a friendly General school-girl zombies cannibals and of course the power-mad evil Carmilla! In order to survive they alley with the General who has his own score to settle with Carmilla as well as the weapons and means to do it. As the men battle endless attacks from the living dead Carmilla slowly seduces Jenna in mind and body...

• Article 99 | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Due to governmental red tape the patients most in need of care are denied treatment. Two doctors become con artists subverting the government by making all of their patients' ailments appear to be war-related so they receive free health benefits...

• Snoop Doggy Dogg - Murder Was The Case - The Movie | DVD | (01/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  He may have been usurped in recent years but, during the period detailed in Murder Was the Case, Snoop Doggy Dogg was the last word in gangsta rap. As with the new boy on the block Eminem, the power behind Snoop's throne was undoubtedly producer Dr Dre, and he is to be found included in nearly as much of the documentary footage as the rapper himself. These sit alongside a selection of music videos and clips from live television performances. While not exactly in-depth, a few of the interviews do try and scratch beneath the surface of the gangsta veneer (when asked if he is a violent man, the reply is a slightly chilling "when I have to be"), a marked contrast to the clips of the proud father and baby son. The videos are the usual mix of edgy urban funk and street style, coupled with the by-now rather tired visual imagery. The short film from which the package takes its title takes these concepts to an uncensored conclusion, a tasteless and crass work indulging in explicit scenes of violence, drug taking and misogyny. On the DVD: A brief inclusion of two extra video clips, as well as an animated interactive menu and scene selector. The stereo sound quality is suitably booming.--Phil Udell

• The Grind | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Street slimebag Luke owes a significant debt to the Mexican mob and has just had his final warning. In desperation he comes up with one final scheme to pay his IOU or risk losing his life. He gets together with his tech-geek mate Josh to raise easy on-line money through a reality peep show called 'hotgirlsinahouse.com.' Finding girls off the streets to participate in the 'big brother' style webcast proves easy enough but Luke needs cash up-front for the costs. He accepts a lucrative offer from a local hood to buy credit card information from the website hits as each girl's quirky personalities are streamed for all to see. On-line viewing becomes more sexual hits increase and the website's account grows. Luke leaves cash incentives for the girls to encourage the provocative behaviour and the girls play right into the scheme: fighting with each other by day competing for viewers by night. Hits grow and grow. When the competition amongst the girls turns threatening the web-masters realise they're in over their heads.

• Dr Strangelove | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £15.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stanley Kubric's classic black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse is both funny and frightening, and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals, U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff Buck Turgidson (George C Scott), trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russias strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientists who has bizarre ideas about mans future. The President (also Sellers) is helpless to stop the bombers, as is Captain Mandrake (Sellers once again). Dr. Strangelove is truly a brilliant film classic.

• Hardcore | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £29.90   |  Saving you £-16.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Life doesn't always go as planned... A powerful unflinching glimpse into the dark bizarre world of the pornography industry. George C. Scott gives a strong sensitive portrayal of a deeply religious Midwestern businessman whose daughter while on a church-sponsored outing runs away from home. He hires an oddball detective (Peter Boyle) who learns that the daughter has been making cheap sex films. When the father realizes that he can no longer trust the detective he decides to hun

• Forgotten Sins | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £7.17   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Forgotten Sins' is a startling and disturbing drama based on a true story. County sheriff Matt Bradshaw a devout churchgoer and respected pillar of the community stands accused of terrible crimes: sexually abusing his own daughters and organising multiple rapes and Satanic rituals. Matt's reaction to these accusations is almost as shocking - he makes a full and frank confession. Amid an atmosphere of religious frenzy and further accusations of murder and torture the witch hunt begins. Only one man believes in Matt's innocence: eminent psychologist Dr Richard Ofshe (William Devane). He is convinced that Matt is the innocent victim of religious brainwashing and police pressure for a confession. But what chance does Ofshe have of seeing justice done when Matt himself is so utterly convinced of his own guilt?

• She Led Two Lives | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In this true story Rebecca Cross meets an old flame who does not realise that she is already married. They start a passionate affair which results in Rebecca committing bigamy and marrying her lover. She struggles to keep the secret from both men but life eventually catches up...

• Runaway Father | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £4.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (20.77%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.

• One Of Her Own | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Toni Stroud a young dedicated cop is viciously raped by a drunken colleague she is prevented from turning him in by the force's unwritten code a 'blue wall of silence': you never rat on a fellow officer. Another female cop quickly becomes the rapist's next victim. And when Toni is asked to falsify a robbery report incriminating the women she decides to reveal the truth... A compelling true story of one woman's courageous battle to bring a brutal male-dominated system to justice.

• Nowhere To Run | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £15.35   |  Saving you £-9.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Poor Rosanna Arquette ended up in this Van Damme potboiler about an escaped convict who moves onto the farm of a widow (Arquette) and her two kids. Stuff happens: a cop who likes her gets jealous and beats up the Muscles from Brussels (but only after handcuffing him), there's a fire in the barn, bad guys are trying to drive her away, etc. The story was first developed by screenwriter Joe Eszter has (Basic Instinct) and the late director Richard Marquand (Eye of the Needle). Eszter wrote the script but who knows what direction this story was originally going? Van Damme's best film is still Timecop and this is a long way from the quality of that. --Tom Keogh

• Impulse | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Claire Dennison (Willa Ford) is a beautiful sensuous woman desperate to arouse her husband's desires. She devises a fantasy role-play game hoping to put the spark back into their marriage. She sets the scene and her husband takes the bait...or does he? So consumed with desire the passion enthralls her but it's not long before Claire realizes she's playing a dangerous game of seduction with someone so familiar yet completely unknown. Desperate to end the affair she tells the stranger the game is over but for him it's just begun.

• Soul Man | DVD | (19/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) needs a scholarship to get into Harvard Law School. There's one available for a black student. The only problem is that Mark's not black... yet. But thanks to an overdose of tanning pills a new hair-do and a lowered voice he miraculously passes for African-American and receives full tuition. Now with the help of his excessive best friend (Arye Gross) a fierce professor (James Earl Jones) and the beautiful classmate (Rae Dawn Chong) he falls in love with Mark is about to learn some once-in-a-lifetime lessons about racism discrimination sex-crazed white girls and basketball...

• Frankenhooker | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Frankenstein legend gets stitched up by the makers of Basket Case and Brian Damage in this outrageous horror comedy. When his pretty fiance goes to pieces under the blades of a runaway lawnmower aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. With the help of an explosive super drug Jeffrey reassembles his girlfriend from the body parts of New York prostitutes. But his dream-girl runs amok on 42nd Street turning tricks

• Wild One | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £20.19   |  Saving you £-9.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful `50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny the leader of a vicious biker gang that involves a small sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent on destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy) a ""good-girl"" whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival Chino (Lee Marivn) plus the hostility an

• Storm Chasers: Seasons 3 And 4 | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £39.13   |  Saving you £-9.14 (-30.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  They're back and this time it's serious! Each spring changing weather patterns create a recipe for catastrophe as air masses collide with devastating force producing deadly twisters. And every year a collection of scientists enthusiasts and eccentrics brace themselves for another series of storm chasing. They hope to spot one of Mother Nature's deadliest and most violent creations. But for this team seeing a tornado is not enough. Their goal is to achieve the unthinkable and actually go inside the tornado. In Series 3 of Storm Chasers meteorologist Reed Timmer Imax filmmaker Sean Casey and weather engineer Tim Samaras battle weather - and each other - to try and get the best images and data to help decode the secrets of nature's most intense storms. Then in Series 4 Storm Chasers returns with bigger storms and higher stakes. This series yields one of the most violent storm years on record. Watch as the teams feverishly work to improve early warning systems using science to not only improve lives but save them.

• Blue Streak / I Spy / National Security | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blue Streak: Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) finds the only way he can recover a diamond he stole two years prior is to impersonate a detective who along with his rookie partner ends up using his wits to solve crimes... I Spy: A super-powerful experimental spy plane is stolen by an evil arms dealer and is about to be handed over to an international terrorist. The U.S. Government drafts an egotistical boxing star (Murphy) to join a suave special agent (Wilson) on a dangerous top secret mission to get the plane back. Armed with the latest high-tech gadgets and a whole lot of attitude this ultimate odd couple might be able to save the world; if they can just get along! National Security: In this hilarious action-packed comedy Martin Lawrence stars as cocky L.A.P.D. cadet Earl Montgomery who would probably be a great cop if he weren't such a show-off. Earl's rebellious attitude gets him thrown out of the police academy and he has to settle for a job as a lowly security guard with 'National Security'. After a run-in with an uptight police officer Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) Earl accuses him of harassment. Hank loses his badge is thrown into jail and eventually winds up working for National Security as well. Earl's overzealous behavior leads to a sophisticated smuggling operation led by Nash (Eric Roberts) and a possible police cover-up. Now everyone wants Earl and Hank dead - though they just may kill each other first!

• Blood Money | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This is the story of Clinton and Nadine. Clinton is a small time bird smuggler who gets caught up in a twisted web of danger and deception. Nadine's an ex-hooker who is inexorably pulled in with him. So what could arms traffickers possibly want from them?