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• Just Cause | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £9.33   |  Saving you £4.66 (49.95%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Just Cause is a film that relies on phony plot twists and steals openly from any other thriller that it can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every cinematic "homage", you'd be tanked after its first 45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate (Blair Underwood), who swears he didn't rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbour on death row (Harris) committed the crime. Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who made the lacklustre Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations. Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Cluedo gameboard. -- Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• Hill Street Blues - Season 1 | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £17.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From legendary creator/writer Steven Bochco the multi award-winning Hill Street Blues is the original pioneering ‘ TV cop show’ that blazed the trail for later ensemble hits such as NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. One of the most innovative and critically acclaimed series of its time this is the story of an overworked under-staffed police precinct in an anonymous inner city patterned after Chicago. ‘Let’s be careful out there.’ So ends each roll-call session at the Hill Street station house. As the cops and detectives head out onto the streets Captain Frank Furillo juggles the delicate balancing act of providing enough protection for the law-abiding citizens without inciting the neighbourhood gangs and local criminal elements who are openly hostile towards any police presence. Yet as dangerous as his inner city precinct can be Furillo's biggest battles often involve protecting his own cops from the Public Defender's office self-serving bureaucrats and even each other. Breathtakingly fast paced mature tough brutal and uncompromising Hill Street Blues is a triumph of intelligence and substance. It is quite simply the most ground-breaking show in recent memory and is essential viewing for all lovers of quality entertainment.

• Hill Street Blues - Season 2 | DVD | (01/04/2013) from £17.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The multi award-winning Hill Street Blues is the critically acclaimed story of an overworked under-staffed police precinct in an anonymous inner city patterned after Chicago. This ground-breaking crime drama from acclaimed producer Steven Bochco follows one of the first truly ensemble casts on TV.The action centres on a chaotic police precinct torn by crime and racial tension providing a realistic view of the private and work lives of everyone from the beat cops to the police captain. In the second season the relentless barrage of crime continues beginning when an ex-gang leader returns and reclaims his place at the top of the Black Arrow gang. Hill Street Blues established the fast-paced gritty verite style that would spawn countless imitators such as NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. It is quite simply the most ground-breaking show in recent memory and is essential viewing for all lovers of quality entertainment.

• Millennium | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Whilst investigating a plane crash a government official meets a strange woman but the next day the woman vanishes. Her identity is entwined with the strange object found at the crash site for which she returns only to then vanish once more...

• Hill Street Blues - Series 1 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  From legendary creator/writer Steven Bochco the multi award-winning Hill Street Blues is the original pioneering ' TV cop show' that blazed the trail for later ensemble hits such as NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. One of the most innovative and critically acclaimed series of its time this is the story of an overworked under-staffed police precinct in an anonymous inner city patterned after Chicago. 'Let's be careful out there.' So ends each roll-call session at the

• To Sir With Love 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! A teacher of thirty years experience takes a job at a run-down multi-racial high school in Chicago and begins teaching the youngsters respect.

• Poltergeist The Legacy - Season 1 | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Since the beginning of time mankind has existed between the world of light and the world of darkness. This journal chronicles the work of our secret society known as The Legacy. Created to protect the innocent from those creatures that inhabit the shadows and the night."" Inspired by Tobe Hopper's classic supernatural horror film Poltergeist and the sequels that followed this series builds and expands on the concepts of the franchise. Following the activities of T

• Hill Street Blues - Season 2 | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £12.59   |  Saving you £23.66 (208.83%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Let's be careful out there."" The complete second season of Steve Bochco's ground-breaking cop show. Episodes Comprise: 1. Hearts and Minds 2. Blood Money 3. The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue 4. The Second Oldest Profession 5. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree 6. Cranky Streets 7. Chipped Beef 8. The World According to Freedom 9. Pestolozzi's Revenge 10. The Spy Who Came in From Delgado 11. Freedom's Last Stand 12. Of Mouse and Man 13. Zen and

• Mary Higgins Clark - Weep No More My Lady | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a movie star is murdered whilst making a film near a French health spa her husband swiftly becomes the main suspect...

• Midnight Crossing | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a storm of desire deception and murder... four people are about to be swept away. There's no turning back tonight. Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway Daniel J. Travanti John Laughlin (Crimes Of Passion) Kim Cattrall (Mannequin) and Ned Beatty (The Fourth Protocol) star in a twisted suspense thriller of murder lust and greed. For Jeff Schubb inheriting his father's sloop and charter business in the Florida Keys was a dream come true. When his wife's employer Morely Barton suggests the two couples cruise to the Bahamas Jeff sees his financial worries drift away. Once at sea Morely provides a new destination an island off Cuba where he stashed his fortune before Castro's regime. He offers Jeff half to help retrieve his treasure. But all is not smooth sailing as the past encroaches on the present and too many deceits connect the foursome in a deadly game of intrigue.

• Midnight Crossing | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £11.91   |  Saving you £-5.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With a pounding, synthesised sound track, big-haired babes in bikinis and succession of increasingly incredible fight scenes and returns from the dead, Midnight Crossing takes some beating as an eminently watchable slab of 1980s schlock. Honesty is a premium in this torrid tale of a buried fortune, hot sex, deceit on the high seas and much extended suspense. Jeff Shub (John Laughlin), a six-packed hunk in tight shorts, lives for his yacht, inherited from his father. When his wife's boss Morley (married to a blind woman and played by Daniel J Travanti) charters the yacht for a birthday celebration, the two couples head off for the Bahamas. Then, Morley reveals his real agenda--the recovery of treasure he buried on a Cuban island in the pre-Castro years--and it soon becomes clear that nothing and nobody are what they seem. Kim Cattrall, years before her emergence as a stylish television star in Sex and the City, pops up in a in a wet t-shirt. And at the film's centre is a knockout, beyond self-parody performance from Faye Dunaway. Here she plays Joan Crawford playing a blind woman who might not, in fact, be blind at all. Dunaway confirms the suspicion that she was an actress born 30 years too late for the kind of scripts that would have best served her unique brand of throbbing melodrama. The rest of the cast, particularly the usually reliable Travanti, soon follow her over the top. The result is a compulsive 90 minutes of hammy and thoroughly enjoyable action. On the DVD: Presented in letterbox widescreen (1.85:1) format for maximum effect Midnight Crossing surfaces pretty much as it did in the cinema. Picture quality is fine. The daylight scenes on board the yacht certainly benefit but the interminable night-time struggles are less convincing. Were they shot in a tank? Probably, if the dull stereo sound quality at this point is anything to go by. Extras are limited to the original cinema trailer and filmographies of the leading players.--Piers Ford

• Making A Case For Murder | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £12.23   |  Saving you £3.75 (40.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A courtroom drama based on a true story which exposes the horrors of racial violence. On a cold night in 1986 three black men struggled to repair their car in a middle-class neighbourhood of New York City. Unable to start the vehicle they sought refuge in a small restaurant nearby. What happened next sent shockwaves throughout the world.

• True Stories | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When He's Not A Stranger: An estimated one out of every three women will be sexually assaulted at some time in their life. Annabeth Gish portrays a shocked and violated victim who is lured into a false security and raped by her best friend's boyfriend. Little Girl Lost: Tess Harper and Frederic Forrest star in this inspiring story based on a real-life drama of the Brady family fighting to adopt a little girl who first came into their lives as a foster child.

• Hill Street Blues - Season 3 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Let's be careful out there."" The complete second season of Steve Bochco's ground-breaking cop show. Episodes Comprise: 1. Trial by Fury 2. Domestic Beef 3. Heat Rash 4. Rain of Terror 5. Officer of the Year 6. Stan the Man 7. Little Boil Blue 8. Requiem For a Hairbag 9. A Hair of the Dog 10. Phantom of the Hill 11. No Body's Perfect 12. Santaclaustraphobia 13. Gung Ho 14. Moon Over Uranus 15. Moon Over Uranus: the Sequel 16. Moon Over Uranus: the Final Legacy 17. The Belles of St. Marys 18. Life in the Minors 19. Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back 20. Spotlight on Rico 21. Buddy Can You Spare a Heart? 22. A Hill of Beans