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• Choices | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Blade | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The recipe for Blade is quite simple; you take one part Batman, one part horror flick, and two parts kung fu and frost it all over with some truly campy acting. What do you get? An action flick that will reaffirm your belief that the superhero action genre did not die in the fluorescent hands of Joel Schumacher. Blade is the story of a ruthless and supreme vampire slayer (Wesley Snipes) who makes other contemporary slayers (Buffy et al.) look like amateurs. Armed with a samurai sword made of silver and guns that shoot silver bullets, he lives to hunt and kill "Sucker Heads". Pitted against our hero is a cast of villains led by Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a crafty and charismatic vampire who believes that his people should be ruling the world, and that the human race is merely the food source they prey on. Born half-human and half-vampire after his mother had been attacked by a blood-sucker, Blade is brought to life by a very buff-looking Snipes in his best action performance to date. Apparent throughout the film is the fluid grace and admirable skill that Snipes brings to the many breathtaking action sequences that lift this movie into a league of its own. The influence of Hong Kong action cinema is clear, and you may even notice vague impressions of Japanese anime sprinkled innovatively throughout. Dorff holds his own against Snipes as the menacing nemesis Frost, and the grizzly Kris Kristofferson brings a tough, cynical edge to his role as Whistler, Blade's mentor and friend. Ample credit should also go to director Stephen Norrington and screenwriter David S. Goyer, who prove it is possible to adapt comic book characters to the big screen without making them look absurd. Indeed, quite the reverse happens here: Blade comes vividly to life from the moment you first see him, in an outstanding opening sequence that sets the tone for the action-packed film that follows. From that moment onward you are pulled into the world of Blade and his perpetual battle against the vampire race. --Jeremy Storey

• The Cartier Affair | DVD | (23/07/2004) from £5.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Curt Taylor is a handsome con manstraight out of prison. He's paid his dues but not his debts. Underworld King Pin Phil Drexler wants back payment for protecting Taylor while he was inside. He makes Taylor an offer he can't refuse - and through a string of coincidences gets him a job as a secretary to the beautiful star Cartier Rand. But it's Iarceny Drexler's after and demands that Taylor steal the key to the security system of the star's mansion and plans a daring plot to heist her jewels. But the tables turn when the unlikely pair eventually fall in love and plan a heist themselves - to steal the jewels back....

• Horror in the Attic | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Trevor Blackurn awoke from a coma he had no memory of his past. In search of answers he breaks into the secret attic with another patient (Seth Green) as the others are being killed one by one. A darkly sinister doctor (Jeffrey Combs) informed him that he'd been committed to a sanitarium for the criminally insane for the sacrificial murder of his fiancee. Thrown into a bizarre halfway house filled with strange psychos his thin grip on reality begins to slip away as he plunges into a violent world of magic nightmares wild sexual escapades and torturous medical experiments.

• Pit And The Pendulum | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-8.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this twisted quest to save souls Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Lance Henriksen - Aliens Near Dark) leads a bloody reign of terror torturing and killing in the name of religion. His evil knows no boundaries. Caught in this insane cruelty is Maria (Rona De Ricci) whose beauty leads Torquemada into temptation and brutal atonement.Imprisoned Maria and her husband Antonio (Jonathan Fuller) are befriended by Esmerelda (Frances Bay) a confessed witch. Together they struggle to save themselves from the sinister Torquemada and his machine of ultimate pain and torture - THE PIT & THE PENDULUM.Featuring Oliver Reed as the Cardinal and Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) in a darkly comic performance as the scribe.A bizarre descent into hell form the creator of Re-Animator.Featuring Oliver Reed as the Cardinal and Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) in a darkly comic performance as the scribe.A BIZZARE DESCENT INTO HELL FROM THE CREATOR OF RE-ANIMATOR...

• The Killer Next Door | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Molly Wright is an average college student with an ordinary life. A strange artist moves in and her life is about to change.... Her new neighbour is a serial killer and no one will believe her.

• I Could Read The Sky | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke 'I Could Read The Sky' is a haunting and lyrical film about identity love loss and the isolation and loneliness of the immigrant. Dermot Healy movingly portrays a man reflecting upon his life from his rural upbringing on the West Coast of Ireland to his journey to London and experiences in the vividly modern metropolis. Driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both envir

• Unleashed/Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon/Kung Fu Hustle | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unleashed: Serve no master. Written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Louis Leterrier Unleashed features a fantastic performance from martial arts superstar Jet Li. On and beneath the mean streets of Glasgow fiery gangster Bart (Hoskins) is merciless with debtors would-be rivals and anyone else he takes a passing dislike to. Bart maintains his stranglehold through his unwitting enforcer Danny (Jet Li) who he has 'raised' since boyhood. Danny has been kept as a near-prisoner: trained to attack and if necessary kill. Danny knows little of life except the brutal existence that Bart has so cruelly fashioned for him. However when Danny has a chance encounter with the sightless piano tuner Sam (Morgan Freeman) he senses true kindness and compassion for the first time and experiences the transforming power of music. When a sudden gangland coup separates Danny from Bart and the gang Danny escapes the underworld. Taking refuge with Sam and his stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon) Danny finds a family of sorts and a future... However the mob will not give up their prize asset so easily and Danny must soon call upon his skills once more to protect his family and bury his past. (Dir. Louis Leterrier 2005) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Amazing martial arts fighting sequences (choreographed by Yuen wo Ping - The Matrix) stunning special effects action adventure and romance have made Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon the most talked about movie of the year. Martial arts masters Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) and Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) battle against evil forces to recover their stolen sword the legendary Green Destiny. (Dir. Ang Lee 2000) Kung Fu Hustle: From walking disaster to Kung Fu master: it's a new comedy unlike anything you have seen before! In the 1940's Chinese province of Guangdong petty thief Sing (Stephen Chow) aspires to become a member of the notorious Axe gang the fiercest cruel and most widespread crime syndicate in the city. However Sing is just a street rascal (trying to ignore the fact that his heart is actually in the right place) and so he ventures into the run-down Pig Sty Alley to prove his worth. However in attempting to extort money from the hairdresser Sing unwittingly exposes the plump landlady her hen-pecked husband the camp tailor and rugged coolie as martial arts masters in hiding. Coming to the attention of the Axe gang who want to clear out the apartments Sing's actions have set off a relentless chain of events that brings the clans together in an explosive battle! Stephen Chow continues his unique comedy style that first came to the attention of the West in Shaolin Soccer mixing slapstick in the finest tradition of Buster Keaton; to marvellous martial arts choreographed by none other than Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix Kill Bill); to dance sequences with tuxedoed gangsters; to moments of genuine pathos concerning Sing's mysterious history involving a beautiful mute lollipop vendor... (Dir. Stephen Chow 2004)

• The Descent | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £36.60   |  Saving you £-11.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Club Culture - Human Traffic / Sorted / South West 9 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Featuring an outstanding cast of rapidly rising talent, Sorted is a hallucinogenic cocktail of thriller and insider's eye view of the London club scene. Debut director Alexander Jovy has promoted raves and is a qualified lawyer, so it's unsurprising his club scenes, filmed on real nights at the Ministry of Sound and other clubs, are completely authentic. The story has young lawyer Carl, Matthew Rhys, coming from Yorkshire to investigate the death of his high-flying (in every sense) brother. Jovy portrays the gulf between Carl's world in his relationship with classy, conventional Sunny (Sienna--Take a Girl Like You--Guillory), and the hedonistic fantasyland of the club scene represented by fallen Pre-Raphaelite angel Tiffany (Fay--Eyes Wide Shut--Masterson). Straddling the two worlds is a remarkable Jason Donovan as Martin, customs officer by day, glam transvestite by night. Unfortunately atmospheric drama soon gives way to lightweight thriller conventions while Tim Curry's camp villain (surely a parody of DeNiro's Louis Cypher from Angel Heart), creates expectations of a much darker conclusion. Sorted is ultimately old-fashioned, romantic and soft-centred where it needs far more edge, but is nevertheless so luxuriantly stylish it may mark Jovy as his generation's answer to Ridley Scott. A word of warning: several scenes feature very powerful stroboscopic lighting effects. --Gary S. Dalkin On the DVD: The expansive, beautiful colour-saturated cinematography is well captured by the 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer and the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix is stunning. There are 10 text profiles of cast and crew, together with seven video interviews comprising over 45 minutes of footage. Also provided is a 26-page electronic press kit, the original trailer and 10 minutes of deleted scenes, with optional director's commentary. The featurette is actually a montage of behind-the-scenes shots edited to the movie's haunting love theme, while the outtakes edit assorted gaffs to the main dance anthem. The alternately informative and trivial director's commentary also features producer Mark Crowdy; together they make good company. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Toy Story of Terror | Blu Ray | (19/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Smoke / Blue In The Face | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Smoke (Dir. Wayne Wang 1995): Departing from the conventions of Hollywood story-telling Smoke is constructed like an emotional jigsaw puzzle: pieces interweave and interconnect to form an intricate whole. Unrelated characters - a cigar store manager (Harvey Keitel) who has taken photographs in front of his store at the same hour every day for 14 years; a novelist (William Hurt) unable to go on writing after his wife is killed in a random act of street violence; a man (Forest Whitaker) who ran away from his past and tries to start over after accidentally killing his wife. These characters amongst others making their way through the lonely urban landscape might seem to have little in common. But in the couse of this motion picture they cross paths by chance and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways. Blue in the Face (Dir. Wayne Wang & Paul Auster 1995): The companion film to Smoke Blue In The Face is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in this movie about relationships the city and sex.

• Jumpin' Jack Flash/Fatal Beauty | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jumping Jack Flash (Dir. Penny Marshall) (1986): Computer operator Terry Dolittle (Goldberg) becomes involved in international espionage when a desperate message from a British Intelligence officer appears on her computer terminal... Fatal Beauty (Dir. Tom Holland) (1987): Some cops have buttons you really shouldn't push! Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg stars as a hard-as-nails wise-crackin' undercover cop who wages a blistering personal war against a ruthless Los Angeles drug ring in this action-packed shoot-'em-up action comedy. A lethal drug called 'Fatal Beauty' has hit the mean streets of Los Angeles - and Rita Rizzoli (Goldberg) the city's toughest undercover cop ain't havin' any of it on her beat! Against direct orders from her boss Rita goes on a rampage against the druglord responsible wielding both her mighty gun - and her wicked tongue. And to get close to the enemy Rita targets Mike Marshak (Sam Elliott) the drug kingpin's rugged and handsome bodyguard. And she doesn't know whether to kill him or kiss him!

• Magic Kid 2 | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Kevin a martial arts expert has become a teen Hollywood heartthrob but wants to quit. The studio's attempts to stop him lead to hilarious consequences.

• Transformers: The Rebirth, Parts 1-3 | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £14.50   |  Saving you £1.49 (10.28%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Decepticons steal the key to the plasma chamber but when they try to open the chamber the energy released blasts them and several Autobots to the distant planet of Nebulos where another civil war rages. The Autobots decide they need an extra edge to defeat the Decepticons and they link with Daniel and four good Nebulons to become Headmasters. Unfortunately the Decepticons use the same idea and also combine their weapons with evil Nebulons to create Targetmasters. The Autobots and Decepticons clash in their most earth shattering battle to date with their fates and the future of Earth and Cybertron hanging in the balance!

• Entropy | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £7.24   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stephen Dorff narrates and stars in this self-consciously hip tale of a man under pressure to direct his first film and keep his new romance going...

• Cider With Rosie | DVD | (03/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on a memoir of English writer Laurie Lee and featuring narration by Lee himself, this made-for-television adaptation begins in wartime 1918 with Lee's family moving to the Gloucestershire countryside. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) shines as the matriarch of this large blended family, a compassionate and distracted woman who pines for the brood's missing father. The movie takes Lee from a young boy sleeping in his mother's bed through his girl-obsessed adolescence, fondly dealing with an assortment of relatives, schoolmates and villagers along the way. Lee doesn't actually have cider with girlfriend Rosie until a few minutes before the 82-minute movie ends, but in the meantime Charles Beeson, directing from an adaptation by John Mortimer, has offered up a gentle homage to long-passed era. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

• Agatha Christie - A Life In Pictures | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The most celebrated mystery writer in the world was also something of a mystery herself. This film discovers her early life in her own words using actual documented accounts; told in a way as gripping as one of her novels. Exploring the truth about her eleven day disappearance in 1926 and unfolding the events that shaped her career as the undisputed 'Queen Of Crime'.

• Stuck | Blu Ray | (11/05/2009) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (52.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stuck stars Mena Suvari as Brandi - a compassionate young retirement home carer - and Stephen Rea as Tom - a victim of the downsized economy he is out-of-work and newly homeless. Their worlds collide when Brandi driving home from a club after too many drinks accidentally hits Tom the impact smashing his body head-first through her car's windshield. With Tom lodged in broken glass the panicked Brandi drives home and locks the car in her garage. She pleads with Tom conscious and in severe shock to stay calm promising to take him to a hospital. That is until she realizes her fate is tied to that of her victim: if discovered this accident will extinguish her bright future. Blocking the image of the bloody broken Tom from her mind Brandi waits for him to die so she and her drug-dealer boyfriend can dispose of the body. Realizing her plan Tom knows he must escape if he wants to survive...

• Kung Fu Hustle | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Movie-kinetics genius. Kung Fu Hustle takes the gleeful mayhem of Hong Kong action movies, the deadpan physical humor of silent comedies, and the sheer elasticity of Wile E. Coyote cartoons and fuses them into a spectacle that is simple in its joys and mind-boggling in its orchestration. A run-down slum has been poor but peaceful until a bunch of black-suited gangsters called the Axe Gang show up to cause trouble --and discover that, hidden among the humble poor, are three kung fu masters trying to live an ordinary life. But after these martial artists repulse the gang with their flying fists and feet, the gang leader hires a pair of assassins, whose arrival leads to the unveiling of more secrets, until both the screen and the audience are dizzy with hyperbolic fight artistry (choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping, who also choreographed MThe Matrix). Weaving through this escalating fury is a loudmouthed loser (writer/director/actor Stephen Chow) who suddenly finds himself having to live up to his bragging. Kung Fu Hustle more than lives up to the promise of Chow's previous film, Shaolin Soccer -- it's a movie made by an imagination unfettered by the laws of physics. Hugely entertaining. --Bret Fetzer