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• Deadly Pursuit | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Deadly Pursuit is the polished chase thriller which marked Sidney Poitier's return to the big screen 11 years after A Piece of the Action (1977). Poitier, already 61 but not looking a day over 45, is an FBI agent hunting a killer who takes mountain guide Tom Berenger's girlfriend hostage and heads into the wilds of Washington State. Inevitably Poitier and Berenger reluctantly join forces, going through the usual mismatched buddy arguments with commendably straight faces and lending a quality of acting which elevates the movie above its routine screenplay. The girlfriend meanwhile is Kirstie Alley in one of her first major feature roles, providing little more than eye candy and enduring her ordeal with hardly a beautifully flowing tress out of place. Director Roger Spottiswoode maintains the suspense well and mounts the action set-pieces with a taut, lean style, though the film lacks the sharp edge of his Under Fire (1983) or the sheer scale of his Bond outing, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). One major asset is Michael Chapman's gorgeous mountains-and-rivers cinematography, actually filmed in British Columbia. Without the star cast and strong production values Deadly Pursuit could be any of a thousand straight-to-video action flicks, but as it stands is a superior formula adventure. The film was also released with the title Shoot to Kill. On the DVD: Deadly Pursuit comes to disc with no extras bar numerous subtitle options and a choice of a Spanish dubbed version. The original Dolby SR soundtrack has been given a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix and is effectively atmospheric, clean and clear, if lacking the firepower of a more recent equivalent. The anamorphically enhanced picture is a little soft in places and somewhat grainy, but otherwise good. The film was presented theatrically at 2.35:1 and has been reformated for DVD at 1.78:1. As the movie was shot in Super-35, a format designed to allow widescreen theatrical films to be more easily recomposed for television and video, the result here is visually quite different to the cinema original, with some shots losing information to the sides while others gain additional material at the top and bottom of the frame. Mostly the compositions look fine, as if the film had been shot at 1.85:1, though the mountain landscapes inevitably lack the sheer visual sweep and majesty of the big screen original version.--Gary S Dalkin

• Moonlighting | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring three episodes starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd: ""Pilot"" ""The Lady in the Iron Mask"" and ""A Womb with a View"".

• Crash: The Mystery Of Flight 501 | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  After a bomb scare flight 1501 is downed. Attributed to 'pilot error' the pilot's wife sets out to clear his name and expose the truth behind the crash...

• VI Warshawski | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When an ex-hockey player is slain his 13 year old daughter hires Warshawski to track down the evil killer. An action story of money murder and Chicago's notorious criminal world....

• The Witches Sabbath | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A coven of witches mask their true identity by operating the ""Sin and Skin"" strip club in The Witch's Sabbath. To keep the coven as one they must behead 666 victims before the arrival of their Dark Lord on Halloween. Unsuspecting victims are carefully chosen at the strip club and find themselves invited to feast at a sinister mansion where the ladies of ""Sin and Skin"" offer their victims one final meal. With their deadline fast approaching the head witch Auriana (Syn

• Blood Legend | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Many decades ago a beautiful woman named Moira was burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft. Diana who is a direct descendent of Moira is desperately trying to right the wrongs of the past. She looks to her eccentric uncle for guidance in performing the spells to bring her back for another chance at life. Diana and her coven of witches perform the ritual and bring Moira back. Moira becomes a vicious monster feeding on the innocent as she must have their blood to survive. Moira's human form can only be kept if she makes the ultimate sacrifice. Can the wrongs of the past be re-written? Only the blood of the next victim will tell.