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• The Bonfire Of The Vanities (1990) | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £7.09   |  Saving you £6.90 (97.32%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Is it time, after the anonymous disaster of Mission to Mars, to give Brian De Palma's famously doomed film of Tom Wolfe's bulky novel Bonfire of the Vanities another chance? The uproarious ins and outs of the film's troubled production have become well-known via Julie Salamon's account of its making, The Devil's Candy, and fans of that might want to flick between page and screen to see just when Melanie Griffith caused untold continuity problems by having her breasts inflated. Techno buffs will surely appreciate the pointless but somehow wonderful trickery of an extended tracking shot at the outset that exists only to last a few seconds longer than the one in Orson Welles Touch of Evil (1958). Tom Hanks was rather better cast than was generally allowed, as "master of the universe" Sherman McCoy, who comes a cropper after a hit-and-run accident, since his nice-guy act shows intriguing cracks. And even Bruce Willis does his best on a hiding to nothing as the drunken writer. It is funny in parts, agonising in others, and misses Wolfe's tone--but somehow its failures might make it as symptomatic of the long-gone excesses of the early 90s as the novel was of the 80s. --Kim Newman

• Home And Away - Secrets And The City | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £6.01   |  Saving you £3.98 (66.22%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Shattered Homes' and 'Broken Dreams': 2 episodes previously aired on TV plus 'Secrets And The City' an exclusive DVD episode never to be seen on TV!

• Prince of the City (blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mother Night | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mother Night is the third movie from director Keith Gordon (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear). The 35-year-old director who started as an actor (Christine) has turned into one of the more assured directors working today. His films are ambitious in plot and tone. With Mother Night he works with his first major star, Nick Nolte. In 1961, the fictitious Howard W Campbell Jr., an American by birth, shares the same deserted prison with Adolph Eichmann. As he prepares to stand trial for war crimes, the former playwright scribes his memoirs. Now this is the same Howard W. Campbell Jr. who was a notorious voice on German radio during the war, tearing into American policy and spreading Nazi propaganda. Was he a wilful participant or an American spy? Campbell, who romanticises at the drop of a hat, tells his story of indifference, morality, and love. His days of notoriety in Berlin give way to anonymity back in the States. He purrs about his true love (Sheryl Lee) and tells truths with his shrewd neighbour in New York (Alan Arkin). The movie is based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel of the same name. Gordon and screenwriter Robert E. Weide have an uncommon insight into Vonnegut's material: the mesh of fact and fiction, the sweeping themes, the tragic goofiness. The movie is perfectly suited to Nolte's gruff style with a husky voice that pierces the night. The film is a cherished companion piece to Slaughterhouse Five. --Doug Thomas

• Octane | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £5.01   |  Saving you £9.98 (199.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  "Octane" is the story of Senga, a woman plunged into a dark, deranged world when her teenage daughter Nat is lured away by a blood-obssessed cult.

• The Ultimate Fighter Smashes: Team UK vs Team Australia | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  For the first time in UFC history The Ultimate Fighter series comes to Australia. 'The Smashes' reignites the intense long-standing rivalry between Australia and the UK with UFC contenders George Sotiropoulos and Ross Pearson leading their teams in a test to find the next welterweight and lightweight superstars. No one could have predicted the twists and turns, only one thing was for certain, when you put national pride on the line, with the added incentive of a lucrative UFC contract nothing...

• Let The Devil Wear Black | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  32 year old Jack Lyne is forced to return to Los Angeles when his father dies. Confronted by family rivalries and intrigues Jack is wracked with ever more indecision and doubt not least about his father's death. Something tells him it was murder but why and by whom?

• Save The Tiger | DVD | (27/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director John G. Avildsen's Save The Tiger is a complex character study of businessman Harry Stoner (Jack Lemmon bagging his second Oscar) the CEO of a once-successful clothing company in 1970s Los Angeles. He and his business partner Phil Greene (the great Jack Gilford) have seen better days - their company is failing and on the eve of an important fashion show they must make a decision about its future. Harry believes that the only way out of their financial cri

• Karate Kill | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-3.17 (-24.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martial Arts champion Steve Chase is lured to a desert fortress to compete in what he thinks will be an Olympic-style contest between Martial Arts champions with a prize of a fortune in diamonds. In reality the competition is a revenge scheme planned by a madman. With the woman he loves imprisoned. Chase has only one choice – to face an army of Karate Gladiators single-handed...

• Martial Arts Super Box Set | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  King Boxer II: Bruce Le is back with a vengeance thundering his way through a multitude of adversaries using all the techniques he knows. From the Leopard Fist to the Tiger Claw he smashes all who stand in his way in his battle against an evil Shaolin sect. Karate Kill: Martial Arts champion Steve Hunt is lured to a desert fortress to compete in what he thinks will be an Olympic-style contest between Martial Arts Champions with a prize of a fortune in diamonds. In