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• Manon Lescaut | DVD | (02/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hard Boiled | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £7.91   |  Saving you £12.08 (152.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Released in 1992, Hard Boiled is John Woo's farewell to the kind of blood-spattered cinema of vengeance and redemption with which he had made his name as a director in Hong Kong during the late 1980s. The following year he was in Hollywood filming Hard Target with Jean-Claude Van Damme, and an era had effectively ended. This might explain the elegiac feel Woo brings to his study of two men haunted by the violent consequences of their actions. Chow Yun Fat generates tremendous sullen energy in his portrayal of Tequila, a plain-clothes cop who not only loses his partner in a shoot-out with a gang of underground gunrunners but also discovers that he's unwittingly killed a fellow officer working undercover. Playing opposite him is Tony Leung as the enigmatic Tony, a young police officer who has secretly managed to penetrate the world of illegal arms-dealing in the guise of a cold-blooded gangland assassin. With rival gangs fighting over the weapons trade and Tequila gunning for Tony, unaware of his true identity, Hard Boiled has an unsurprisingly high body count, particularly when the various factions converge on a private hospital, reducing it by the movie's end to a smoking war zone, its corridors strewn with corpses. John Woo's ability to exploit the comic-book profundities of the genre, endowing his set-piece action sequences with a uniquely emotional edge, comes through in the controlled use of slow motion, cut-away details and brooding freeze-frame studies of the central characters. The image of Chow Yun Fat cradling an abandoned baby against his chest while he blasts his way out of the hospital's maternity unit has an enduring sharpness to it. However, a sense of ending runs throughout the movie, as if Woo were acknowledging that, having done everything he could with the format, the time had come for him to move on. And perhaps it had. --Ken Hollings

• Chesty Morgan - The Doris Wishman Collection (Box Set) | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deadly Weapons: Crystal (Morgan), a woman with freakishly huge 73' breasts, avenges her beloved Harry after he is gunned down by hitmen in New York City.; ; Double Agent '73: Chesty now plays Jane, a top-notch secret agent who's vacationing at a nudist camp (and sporting big ol' red platforms, hot pants and an unusual sling around her pendulous boobs!). She's pulled away from her R&R for a secret mission - to break up a heroin ring run by a scarred villian named Toplar. The orga...

• Stranger/Orson Welles on Film | DVD | (27/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.30

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• Bloodsport | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A powerful three-in-one special for all Martial arts enthusiasts consisting of the sequels to Bloodsport starring Jean Claude Van Damme. Bloodsport 2: This film tells the story of Alex (Bernhardt) a known street fighter and petty villain who has been imprisoned following the theft of an ancient sword. Prison however proves to be his making as he is taught the deadly fight discipline known as 'The Iron Hand' by his mentor Sun (James Hong). Bloodsport 3: In this frantic movie alex learns of his mentor's death murdered by the evil Duvalier at the hands of his warrior 'The Kumite Beast.' To avenge Sun's death Alex finds himself drawn into the dangerous world of the Kumite. It's a contest where a fight to the death is often the outcome and 'The Beast' could well prove his equal. Bloodsport 4: Bernhardt is John Keller a police officer. A local prison discovers that inmates have disappeared under strange circumstances and it's Keller who is asked to go undercover to unearth the reason why.

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 brings the franchise to its powerful final chapter in which Katniss Everdeen [Jennifer Lawrence] realises the stakes are no longer just for survival they are for the future. With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow [Donald Sutherland] in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends including Gale [Liam Hemsworth], Finnick [Sam Claflin] and Peeta [Josh Hutcherson] Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 is directed by Francis Lawrence and features an acclaimed cast including Academy Award®-winner Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Academy Award®-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone with Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland reprising their original roles from The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The impressive line-up is joined by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 co-stars Academy Award®-winner Julianne Moore, Mahershala Ali, Natalie Dormer and Gwendoline Christie.

• Robinson Crusoe - luxe 6 dvd box | DVD | (26/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.95

  Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Philip Winchester stars as Robinson Crusoe in this exciting series based on the classic Daniel Defoe tale. Set in the 17th century, CRUSOE follows the famous castaway as he navigates the wilds of an uncharted island using his wits and a handful of ingenious gadgets wrought from primitive materials. This captivating set includes every episode of the entire series which was canceled after its first season, featuring Sam Neill THE TUDORS as Crusoe s friend Jeremiah Blackthorn, and newcomer Tongai Arnold Chirisa as the castaway s native ally, Friday. ...Crusoe - 6-DVD Box Set ( Robinson Crusoe )

• Monte Carlo | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  It's 1940 and the rich and glamorous are seeking refuge from the war in the gambling capitol of Monte Carlo. There caberet singer Katrina uses her charms to obtain war secrets which she passes on to British Intelligence.

• Inmate Zero | DVD | (27/04/2020) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The most extreme medical trials are conducted on the inmates of St. Leonards, a re-purposed prison for some of the world's most violent criminals. But when one experiment goes wrong, the entire facility becomes a terrifying, disease-ridden maze for the desperate survivors.

• Rogue | DVD | (16/11/2020) from £5.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Megan Fox (Transformers franchise) tackles a thrilling new role as a battle-hardened mercenary in this explosive action saga. As team leader O'Hara, she leads a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captor in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O'Hara's squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels - and a ravenous, enraged lioness. Extras: Commentary with Cowriter - Director - Producer MJ Bassett, Cowriter Isabel Bassett, and Actor Philip Winchester Director's Commentary Cast Interviews Trailer Gallery

• Berserk! | Blu Ray | (18/03/2022) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Crawford (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) stars as Monica Rivers, the owner of a traveling circus plagued by a series of mysterious deaths. When a high-wire performer becomes the first victim, he is replaced by Frank Hawkins (Ty Hardin, Battle of the Bulge), an even more daring aerialist. But Frank's attentions to Monica make her business manager, Dorando (Michael Gough, Batman), jealous.After Dorando becomes the brutal killer's next victim, Police Superintendent Brooks (Robert Hardy) arrives at the scene, but the mystery is not so easy to unravel with a cast of suspects with motives including jealousy and revenge. This campy horror flick with a surprising climax also features Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love) and Diana Dors (There's a Girl In My Soup).

• Rogue Agent | DVD | (07/02/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A