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• Collateral Damage | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £7.61   |  Saving you £6.38 (83.84%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a man who takes the law into his own hands and sets out to track down the international terrorists who killed his family.

• Vanilla Sky / The Firm / Mission: Impossible 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Tom Cruise Collection. Vanilla Sky: David Aames (Tom Cruise) appears to lead a charmed life. Handsome wealthy and charismatic the young New York City publishing executive's freewheeling existence is enchanting yet he seems to be missing something. Then in one night David meets Sofia (Penelope Cruz) the girl of his dreams but loses her by making a small mistake. Thrust unexpectedly onto a roller-coaster ride of romance comedy suspicion love sex and dreams Davi

• Woody Allen: A Documentary | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £11.36   |  Saving you £5.63 (49.56%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allows his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography.Beginning with Allen's childhood, Woody Allen: A Documentary chronicles the trajectory and longevity of Allen's career - from teen writer to TV scribe, from standup comedian to award-winning writer-director averaging one film-per-year for more than 40 years. Exploring Allen's writing habits, directing, and relationship with his actors first-hand, new interviews with A-listers, writing partners, family and friends provide insight and backstory to the usually inscrutable filmmaker.

• Live Flesh | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £6.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (191.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) is a child of Franco's Spain born on a bus that was taking his mother a prostitute to the hospital. In spite of this Victor is young and life has not destroyed his trust in people particularly Elena (Francesca Neri) the daughter of a diplomat and the woman with whom he shares his first sexual experience. Victor believing the experience was not a casual one soon discovers things are not usually as straightforward as one would hope. Nerves a gun an

• Woman On Top | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £6.36   |  Saving you £6.63 (104.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set against the backdrop of enticing Brazilian music and fantasy, an engaging romantic fable about a seductive young woman's journey to emotional freedom.

• Masked And Anonymous | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £18.97   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sometimes surprising, often baffling and occasionally entertaining, Masked and Anonymous is another in the long but not necessarily distinguished line of rock-star movie vehicles. Bob Dylan stars in this BBC Films coproduction as an alter ego of himself, ageing rocker Jack Fate, released from jail to play a benefit concert in an alternative America that is run down and ruled by a military dictator. When not singing he makes little impression, so it's fortunate that director Larry Charles surrounds him with a galaxy of excellent supporting players, including John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Penelope Cruz, Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Dern, Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi and Val Kilmer--all of whom gave their services for free. The screenplay, cowritten by Dylan, is full of the kind of cryptic aphorisms familiar from his song lyrics: "What's bugging me?", remarks Jeff Bridges' character, "The absurdity of a lifetime of human labour, that's what's bugging me." "They have no ideology. They push both Jesus and Judas aside," says an anonymous bus driver, and there are plenty more didactic, speechy comments that even these veteran actors can't make sound natural or spontaneous. Better to focus on the music--both the songs Dylan performs on screen and those on the soundtrack, which consists mostly of foreign-language covers of Dylan classics. On the DVD: Masked and Anonymous on disc comes with a commentary track from director Larry Charles, who is good on the details of the shooting schedule, but vague about the movie's aspirations. There are some deleted scenes (none of which shed any more light on the plot), another Dylan performance, and a 20-minute "making of" featurette, with the many supporting stars waxing lyrical about the freewheeling shooting style and semi-theatrical staging. The anamorphic widescreen picture is unexceptional, as is the Dolby 5.1 soundtrack, which naturally enough works best with the music. --Mark Walker

• Supernova | DVD | (26/12/2000) from £3.59   |  Saving you £12.40 (77.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The makers of Supernova are apparently counting on the fact that generational turnover renders old formulas fresh again for new audiences. This is the only explanation for a sci-fi thriller that could charitably be called a "homage" to Ridley Scott's trend setting Alien. A medical rescue ship responds to a distress call from a mining colony and finds only one survivor: a strange young man (Peter Facinelli), who comes aboard carrying an even stranger alien artefact. But the plot of this film, which was directed and then disowned by Walter Hill, grows confused as it tries to explain the sinister force that will lead to a star transforming to supernova status, causing a universe-shattering explosion. Some nice sexual tension between James Spader (as the recovering drug-addict co-pilot) and Angela Bassett (as the ship's doctor). Notable mostly, however, for the eerie resemblance, both physical and vocal, between Facinelli and Tom Cruise. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• I'm So Excited! | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £5.01   |  Saving you £14.98 (299.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When it appears as though the end is in sight the pilots flight crew and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger which we carry within ourselves. Directed by the internationally acclaimed Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar with cameo appearances from Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Special Features: Making Of UK Theatrical Trailer UK Theatrical Teaser Trailer Spot 10 Spot 25 Making of VFX Creation of Airplane Crash site

• Official Competition | Blu Ray | (05/12/2022) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat co-direct this Spanish satirical comedy drama starring Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez. Hoping to finally cement his legacy, 80-year-old billionaire businessman Humberto Suarez (Jose Luis Gomez) hires acclaimed director Lola Cuevas (Cruz) to helm a film based on an award-winning novel. However, as rehearsals get underway, Lola's artistic ambitions are thwarted by her two rival lead performers: Hollywood star Felix Rivero (Banderas) and renowned thespian Ivan Torres (Martinez).

• Rvbx: Ten Years of Red Vs Blue | Blu Ray | (06/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blow | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £4.94   |  Saving you £13.05 (72.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz star in this true life story of a young man who worked with Colombian drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine into the United States in the 1970s.

• Memories of Underdevelopment (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (28/08/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Party Monster | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Macaulay Culkin stars in this movie based on notorious New York killer Michael Alig.

• The Work Of Director Chris Cunningham | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £21.32   |  Saving you £-3.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Work of Director Chris Cunningham, like the other volumes in the acclaimed Director's Series (Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry) offers a feast of visual ingenuity, with one major difference: unlike the relatively playful brightness of Jonze and Gondry, Cunningham wants to involve you in his nightmares. From the urban monstrosities of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" to the limb-shattering weirdness of Leftfield's "Afrika Shox", Cunningham's music videos emphasise the freakish and the bizarre, but they are also arrestingly beautiful and otherworldly, as in the aquatic effects used for Portishead's "Only You", combining underwater movements with ominous urban landscapes. Some of Cunningham's shock effects are horrifically effective (his 'flex" video installation, excerpted here with music by Aphex Twin, is as disturbing as anything conjured by David Cronenberg), while others are cathartic or, in the case of Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker", outrageously amusing. And while the eerie elegance of Madonna's "Frozen" arose from a chaotic production, the signature work in this collection is clearly Björk's "All Is Full of Love", a masterfully simple yet breathtaking vision of intimacy involving advanced robotics and seamless CGI composites. In these and other videos, Cunningham advances a unique aesthetic, infusing each video and commercial he makes with a dark, occasionally gothic sensibility. That these frequently nightmarish visions are also infectiously hypnotic is a tribute to Cunningham's striking originality. --Jeff Shannon

• Jamon Jamon | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in Jamón Jamón a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavour, but there is an edge, perhaps even heavy-handedness, to the dark humour that is either Luna's success or his downfall. The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, after all. Try to follow: sexy Penelope Cruz (Belle Epoque) is growing up with her mother outside town on the wrong side of the highway. Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past. Cruz is in love with Jordí Molla, by whom she is pregnant, but Molla's bourgeois mother, played by Anna Galiena (Being Human), thinks he can and should do better (of course, neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic, avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side.) To save her son from the lower classes, Galiena hires Javier Bardem, a muscular, pretty man (whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal) to pursue Cruz. The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death. This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides. After each surprise, you'll chuckle, feel guilty, and chuckle again. --Erik Macki, Amazon.com

• Belle Epoque | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of numerous awards including an Oscar for best foreign film Belle Epoque is a sensual uninhibited comedy starring Penelope Cruz. Set in a sun-drenched Spanish countryside of 1931 the film tells the story of Fernando a deserter from the war who is befriended and given shelter by an amiable artist. When his host's four beautiful daughters arrive a classic farce ensues as Fernando is seduced by one amorous sister after the other in this funny sexy and heart-warming celebra

• Target For Rage | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Johnson High School will never forget the day when ex-student Jason Copeland (Rick Schroder) decided to inflict a devastating revenge on the system that had rejected him. Armed and dangerous he marched into the school and started to fire indiscriminately at both students and staff then took dozens of terrified students hostage barricaded himself into a classroom and began a bloody reign of terror. But from this murderous mayhem an unlikely hero emerged: Deputy Skip Fine (Henry Winkler). Ignoring the mockery of both his colleagues and the FBI Fine took on the role of go-between- knowing that only his courage and negotiating skills could prevent even more bloodshed.

• El Crimen Del Padre Amaro | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £5.85   |  Saving you £15.40 (335.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mam Tambin Amores Perros) stars as a recently ordained priest sent to help an aging priest run a small parish church in rural Mexico. Upon arriving at his new post he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes helplessly entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. But when the handsome priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin he finds himself torn

• Harsh Realm - Season 1 | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £21.46   |  Saving you £8.53 (39.75%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The dark and fantastic Harsh Realm, a science fiction series about a war fought by flesh-and-blood humans trapped inside virtual reality, was launched by The X-Files creator Chris Carter in 1999 and died a regrettable, premature death on the Fox channel after three episodes. The remaining six shows found sanctuary on the FX network, and then Harsh Realm slipped into history, its wild story, based on a comic book, far from resolved. Perhaps Harsh Realm's ratings failure had something to do with its broad similarities to the hugely popular The Matrix, released only a few months before, or, for that matter, David Cronenberg's 1999 eXistenZ, in which characters fight for their lives inside a video game. Whatever the reason, enough time has passed to take an objective look at Harsh Realm, and there is a lot to be admired in its high level of imagination, complex plotting, and cutting-edge production values. Scott Bairstow stars as U.S. Army Lieutenant Tom Hobbes, a decorated hero who risked his life rescuing a buddy, Major Mel Waters (Max Martini), during a peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia. Set to return to civilian life and marry his fiancée, Sophie (Samantha Mathis), Hobbes is summoned by a mysterious superior (Lance Henriksen) and asked to test-run Harsh Realm, a virtual reality war game devised by the Pentagon. Once he begins, however, Hobbes is mentally imprisoned in the dangerous game (his body, along with those of hundreds of other "volunteers," is cared for in a secret military hospital), where he is identified by other, desperate captives as the savior they've been awaiting. D.B. Sweeney is very good as another soldier, Mike Pinocchio, whose sense of mission is re-awakened by Hobbes and who becomes a partner in an endless effort to defeat a madman named Santiago (Terry O'Quinn), who rules Harsh Realm from within. As with The X-Files, the nine episodes in this boxed set are each very striking on their own terms, with post-apocalyptic sets, constant surprises, and that special Chris Carter touch (fans of his Millennium will like Harsh Realm, too) that makes every story look and feel like a collision of a nightmare and a crisis of faith. --Tom Keogh

• Nine | Blu Ray | (19/04/2010) from £8.75   |  Saving you £16.24 (185.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A theatre director, facing up to a midlife crisis, is torn every which way by the nine, titular women in his life in Rob Marshall's eagerly awaited musical.