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• Snake Eyes | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story featuresNicolasCage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defence is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives DePalma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma licence to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes but what style you're talking about.--Tom Keogh

• Breakfast At Tiffany's | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  No film better utilises Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewellery. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbour, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naivety combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high-society bohemian chic. --Sean Axmaker

• Blood (O Sangue) | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Costa's auspicious debut demonstrates his love and knowledge of both classical Hollywood and European art cinema. Costa explores the plight of two brothers as they attempt to come to terms with the death of their father and the legacy of violence and debt he has left behind. Shot in startling monochrome, Costa has created a lushly stylized romantic fable. Blood stands apart from his later 'neo-realist' works, but is uniquely formed work of Art in its own right. New filmed interview with director Pedro Costa (Second Run exclusive) Joao Bénard on Pedro Costa (16 mins) Trailers All-new HD transfer with restored picture and sound Optimal quality dual layer disc Booklet featuring new essays

• Demons at dawn | DVD | (23/06/2025) from £10.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• True Believer | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £6.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (188.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  True Believer is an effective mystery by thrillmeister director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping with the Enemy), that allows star James Woods to do some real acting as he conveys his character's denial and sense of disappointment in himself. Eddie Dodd (Woods) is a former '60s radical lawyer who now spends his time cynically defending drug dealers for the big bucks. But an idealistic young protégé (Robert Downey Jr.) convinces him to take one case from the heart: a young Chinese immigrant unjustly accused in a gang slaying. Woods (complete with add-on ponytail) fairly hums with energy once he gets cooking here. Playing the been-there-done-that mentor--not to mention legal gadfly--gives him plenty of opportunity to run off at the mouth with spicy one-liners and zingers. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Guilty As Sin | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Odd teaming of man-of-integrity A-list studio director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, The Verdict) with muckraking, lively independent screenwriter Larry Cohen (It's Alive, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent), the court-room drama Guilty As Sin relies rather heavily on the plot of Jagged Edge. Jack Warden reprises Robert Loggia's grumpy but decent private-eye role exactly, while ice-maiden lawyer Rebecca De Mornay is ensnared in a web of duplicity and violence by her client (Don Johnson), accused of murdering his wife. It hasn't got the gravitas of Lumet's best or the maniacal energy of top-rate Cohen film, but as a no-brain thriller it offers a couple of edgy, interesting star performances, with Johnson in particular cutting loose from his image with a display of razor-edged smiling charm as the killer gigolo. --Kim Newman

• War | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jet Li and Jason Statham go head to head in this all action spectacular as an FBI Agent seeks revenge on a mysterious assassin.

• Doctor Jekyll Versus The Werewolf | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After her fiance is murdered by thuggish villagers the beautiful Justine is saved from death by loner Waldemar a man with a mysterious 'illness'...

• Monster Island | DVD | (24/06/2019) from £5.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As the world tries to stop a giant Kaiju bent on destruction, more and more monsters appear -- each one more terrible than the last -- leaving mankind defenseless until our heroes reach out to a specialist versed in monster lore. Let Battle Commence!

• What Have I Done To Deserve This | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What Have I Done To Deserve This? is a perfect example of director Pedro Almodóvar's earlier work, containing all the elements which earned his films a cult international following. Starring the incomparable Carmen Marua as Gloria, a prescription drug addicted mother battling to make sense of her life and family as the world around her goes crazy. Intelligent, offensive, risqué, hilarious, eccentric, ironic, compelling, sad and sext, this early film shows Almodóvar's genius at it's more raw and untamed, his explosive energy shining through right to the last frame. Extras: Around What Have I Done To Deserve This? Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer

• Madonna - The Immaculate Collection | DVD | (01/01/1990) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring the tracks ""Lucky Star"" ""Borderline"" ""Like a Virgin"" ""Material Girl"" ""Papa Don't Preach"" ""Open Your Heart"" La Isla Bonita"" Like a Prayer"" ""Express Yourself"" Cherish"" ""Oh Father"" and ""Vogue"".

• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (28/05/2012) from £16.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (53.78%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit Journey to the Center of the Earth, the new 3D family adventure Journey 2: The Mysterious Island begins when young Sean Anderson receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island.

• FREIER FALL - FREIER FALL - KO | Blu Ray | (22/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Limey | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Limey follows Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.

• Anger Management | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £4.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (103.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered, non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane, he is remanded to the care of an unconventional anger management therapist, Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson).

• Neruda | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £12.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chile, 1948: Senator Pablo Neruda, diplomat and future Nobel Prize-winning poet, accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached. Pursued by the police, Neruda and his artist wife are forced into hiding and an intimate game of cat and mouse begins. In Europe, the legend of the poet hounded by the policeman grows and artists led by Picasso call for his freedom. Neruda, meanwhile, inspired by his transformative new life as a fugitive, writes his epic collection of poems, Canto General, capturing the turmoil of a Latin America in crisis. Paying homage to a mercurial creator who is impossible to pin down in conventional biography, this playful, inventive feature by Oscar-nominated Pablo Larrain is the story of the escape, the investigation and the literary legend of a man once hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century . Starring Luis Gnecco and Gael Garcia Bernal, the film plays out like a road movie, inviting us to soar alongside Neruda in his poetry, his memory, and his deeply held sometimes paradoxical political ideals.

• Henry And June | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £8.39   |  Saving you £1.60 (19.07%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose husband is slowly defecting from art to working in a bank, leaving her very bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his wife, June (Uma Thurman), who finances her husband's life in Paris so he may praise her beauty in his writing. Unhappy with her husband's writing and her lovers' affair, June enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist mode and Nin back to her husband. Despite having one of the more erotic scenes of the 1990s, between Nin and June, the film does not live up to its subject, largely due to a mediocre screenplay and flawed direction. The strength of the original material and Medeiros' strong performance make it worth viewing. -- James McGrath, Amazon.com

• Paranoia | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rich and lonely American widow befriends two young people whose motives become suspect.

• Seve: The Movie | Blu Ray | (09/05/2018) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dramatic retelling of the life and career of Spanish professional golfer Severiano 'Seve' Ballesteros directed by documentary film-maker John-Paul Davidson. The film shows how Seve grew from a young boy ('Jose Luis Gutierrez ') playing golf on the beaches of his native Spain with a broken 3-iron to a world number one and leading figure in the sport. Told through dramatic re-enactments and previously unseen archive footage, the story follows Seve as he overcomes every hurdle in his journey tow.

• Your Move | DVD | (05/02/2018) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  How far will you go to protect your family?