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• The Frighteners | DVD | (17/01/2000) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One movie-lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps right down the middle. Michael J Fox plays a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of spirits who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme--or something like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel like you're watching several movies at once--a slasher pic, a supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into one non-stop showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous film Heavenly Creatures and would later create the ingenious pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• L.A. Takedown | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-24.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As cop and criminal two ruthless professionals have the same outlook and code. L.A. Takedown directed by Michael Mann is a complex and gripping thriller about Vincent Hanna an obsessive cop tailing a callous and clinical armed robber Patrick McLaren. They first meet across a crowded cafe and after a heist goes wrong Hanna and McLaren confront each other in a full scale battle on the streets of Los Angeles.

• Last Exit To Brooklyn | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.

• Last Exit To Brooklyn | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives. A young prostitute emotionally numb from having sold her body so many times regularly leads her prospective clients to a dark alley where a gang beats and robs them; an office worker cannot deal with his repressed homosexuality; and a young girl's father refuses to admit that she is eight months pregnant. All these stories take place in a world waiting to explode: local workers are engaged in an angry strike against a nearby factory while not too far away at the Brooklyn Navy Yard soldiers sail daily for Korea many never to return. The personal and the political intermingle in this bleak look at poverty drugs and violence in the inner-city in the early 1950s based on Hubert Selby Jr's controversial book. Jennifer Jason Leigh received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Circle in 1990 for her work in this film.

• Where The Day Takes You | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £3.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (228.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  No parents. No rules! A group of teenage runaways - fleeing abusive parents prostitution drugs and educational isolation - try to survive together on the mean streets of Los Angeles... An all-star cast takes you on an unforgettable tour of Hollywood's notorious underground; from the after-hours dance clubs to the hidden drug dens it's a no holds barred look at life in the fast lane.

• Last Exit to Brooklyn | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. (author of 'Requiem For A Dream') this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.

• The Frighteners | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened - an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the grave.

• The Marrying Man | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A lothario visits Las Vegas with his friends to celebrate his engagement. While there he falls in love with a sultry singer -- who just happens to be Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend! Siegel catches the two together and as punishment forces the couple to get married. The duo quickly divorce but they can't stop thinking about each other...

• Norma Jean And Marilyn | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd deliver stunning performances in this acclaimed psychological drama that takes a revealing look at the two personalities of Marilyn Monroe.

• 2:22 | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £5.18   |  Saving you £13.80 (630.14%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The plan was simple......... the job was not. When a tight crew of four thieves decide to take down a boutique hotel in the dead of winter things go horribly wrong. Unsuspecting hotel guests unwittingly play a part in this tangled web. Unusual lives and hard choices intertwine twisting the scheme to the point of no return. Loyalty love friendship and honor are brought to a boil in this graphic crime thriller.

• Drowning Mona | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Small quirky comedy thrillers such as Drowning Mona are one of the things that American cinema does best and far too rarely. Peter Steinfeld's appealing script attracted a solid cast of stars under the direction of newcomer Nick Gomez (whose previous work includes episodes of The Sopranos). It seems that someone has cut Mona's brake cables and she drove to her death by drowning. Bette Midler's Mona manages to make it entirely plausible that almost everyone might have wanted to kill her: from her son's business partner Eddie (Casey Affleck) to her husband's mistress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis). The local police chief (Danny DeVito), already burdened with subordinates who refer to running away from danger as "securing the perimeter" and the impending marriage of his daughter (Neve Campbell) to the sweet but unreliable Eddie, has to make sense of the farrago of lies and half-truths which is all anyone will tell him. This is an ingenious tightly plotted film which is never too busy to scatter odd little gags at its margins; it's a tall tale, whose complicated telling is half the fun. On the DVD The DVD comes with the theatrical trailer, a director's commentary, interviews with the stars and four deleted scenes. The picture is 1.85:1 anamorphic and the sound is Dolby Surround. --Roz Kaveney

• Dead Cold | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric Thornsen recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen his wife Alicia nurses him back to health in the country. However when a stranded motorist requests refuge for the night their nightmare is only just beginning... Murder is the coldest affair...

• The Frighteners - Steelbook - Universal 100th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (25/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened.an evil so powerful; its reach extends beyond the grave. Director Peter Jackson and executive Producer Robert Zemeckis unleash a riveting thriller with the most spectacular special effects this side of the hereafter. For Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox), death is a great way to make a living: ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome guests. But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam...until frank finds himself at the centre of a dark mystery. A diabolical spirit is on a murderous rampage, and the whole town believes Frank is behind it. Boasting music by Danny Elfman and co-starring Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs and John Astin, this supernatural chiller is so fiendishly entertaining it's scary!

• The Frighteners | HD DVD | (26/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the sleepy little town of Fairwater a monstrous evil has awakened... An evil so powerful its reach extends beyond the grave. Director Peter Jackson and executive Producer Robert Zemeckis unleash a riveting thriller with the most spectacular special effects this side of the hereafter. For Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox) death is a great way to make a living: ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome guests. But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam... Until Frank finds himself at the centre of a dark mystery. A diabolical spirit is on a murderous rampage and the whole town believes Frank is behind it. Boasting music by Danny Elfman and co-starring Trini Alvarado Jeffrey Combs and John Astin this supernatural chiller is so fiendishly entertaining it's scary!

• Watching The Detectives - Vol. 1 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The first DVD compilation of its type this features an episode from each of three classic American television police shows. Each episode contains a special guest star; Ironside 'Tagged for Murder' with Bruce Lee Columbo 'A Stitch in Crime' with Leonard Nimoy and Kojak 'The Birthday Party' with none other than Richard Gere. COLUMBO: A STITCH IN CRIME Dr Barry Mayfield (Leonard Nimoy) is a brilliant young heart surgeon on the staff of a major Los Angeles Hospital. However he cannot accept that the hospital's senior heart specialist the revered Dr Edmund Hiedeman has invited a foreign specialist to help them with their work on a drug that will combat transplant rejection. Veteran Nurse Sharon Martin believes that Mayfield is a cold opportunist who would like to take all the credit for the research project. Even she doesn't know how far he will go to reach his goal. IRONSIDE: TAGGED FOR MURDER When George Bellingham is electrocuted in his own pool Detective Sgt Ed Brown refuses to accept the accidental death verdict and discusses his suspicions with Ironside. They track down a series of mysterious numbers on the dead mans watch which leads them to some former friends of Bellingham's including a retired general who tells the strange story of a robbery in the closing days of the war. With special guest star Bruce Lee. KOJAK: BIRTHDAY PARTY Kojak's young niece Ellena is kidnapped during her birthday picnic by an unidentified woman. The kidnappers call Kojak's office threatening the safety of the child unless one of their accomplices being held for the murder of a policeman is released immediately from the precinct house. A furious Kojak works against the clock to discover the identity of the kidnappers and save his niece. With special guest star Richard Gere.

• Norma Jean and Marilyn | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd deliver stunning performances in this acclaimed psychological drama that takes a revealing look at the two personalities of Marilyn Monroe.

• PLAYERS - PIECE OF THE ACTION | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  A group of high school friends become embroiled in a plot involving illegal gambling and their efforts are quickly rewarded. However, when a local crime syndicate get wind of their elaborate scheme, the friends soon realise they may have bitten off more than they can chew.

• Player - Pledge Of Allegiance | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mac (Freddie Rodriguez) and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf. This Friday Night Lights meets Casino story is filled with the perfect combination of non stop action violence lust and greed.