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• Round Midnight (1986) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (09/05/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  'Round Midnight is a love letter from director BERTRAND TAVERNIER (Coup de torchon) to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist DEXTER GORDON plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start, Turner relocates to Paris, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan (The Intouchables' FRANÇOIS CLUZET) who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the self-destructive musician. HERBIE HANCOCK's evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with lived in, soulful authenticity. Product Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, supervised by composer Herbie Hancock and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio New interview with jazz critic Gary Giddins New conversation with music producer Michael Cuscuna and author Maxine Gordon, widow of musician Dexter Gordon Behind-the-scenes documentary from 19TK[ck] Panel discussion from 2014 featuring director Bertrand Tavernier, Cuscuna, Maxine Gordon, and jazz scholar John Szwed, moderated by jazz critic and broadcaster Mark Ruffin Performance from 1969 of Fried Bananas by Dexter Gordon, directed by Teit Jørgensen[ck] Excerpt from the 1996 documentary Dexter Gordon: More Than You Know, by Don McGlynn ck] New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by scholar Mark Anthony Neal

• Boogeyman | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young man must face his demons - literally - in this chilling horror.

• Gun Fury | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £8.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hudson and Reed are newlyweds traveling to the West. Carey in a wonderful performance as a psychotic outlaw kidnaps Reed. Hudson is then forced to pursue the gang and tries to maintain his composure but ends up becoming just as crazed as Carey.

• Starry Night | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-29.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A century is a long time to wait for your dreams to come true. In this whimsical thought-provoking fantasy Vincent Van Gogh returns to life in modern day Los Angeles a century after his death. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime Vincent is awestruck to learn that he is now considered one of the world's greatest artists and that his paintings command millions. But no one believes that he's Vincent Van Gogh least of all his own lawyer the media and a skeptical art detective who is out to prove that he's an imposter. He devises a plan to give the proceeds from his masterworks to struggling young artists -- however the only way he can profit from his own work is to steal it back from the greedy and rich collectors who hoard it. Vincent soon falls in love with a talented art students who inspires him to paint new masterpieces in this award-winning film about art love and second chances.

• Prime Suspect 2 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker

• Treasure Hunt | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chang Ching (Chow Yun-Fat) is a CIA operative who is commanded to return to his native China and ""recover"" a Chinese national treasure for the US Government. The treasure turns out to be Mei a young girl with paranormal powers who is the center of politicial intrigue and greed hidden in the famed Shaolin Temple from those who would seek to exploit her. When Chang Ching falls in love with the innocent young woman he is called upon to make sacrifices fight monsters and perform brave deeds to win the hand of his lady-love. As it happens the sacrifices are of his arrogance and selfishness the monsters are corrupt men and his brave deeds include leaving behind his entire former life as a CIA operative and enduring a long separation from his beloved and waiting for her return even if it lasts a lifetime...