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• Hard Boiled | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £7.86   |  Saving you £12.13 (154.33%)   |  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

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• The Last House on the Left Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Last House on the Left is a vicious and efficient updating of the 1972 controversial graphic shocker of the same name, produced by its original director/producer pairing of Wes Craven and Sean Cunningham. When athletic teen Mari Collingwood (Sara Paxton) opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget. The two girls wind up in the company of escaped convict Krug (Garret Dillahunt) and his makeshift family of vile career criminals, who kidnap and brutally assault them before leaving them for dead. Fleeing from the scene of their violent crime during a storm, the thugs inadvertently seek refuge with Mari's parents, anxious as to why their daughter hasn't come home yet and primed to unleash the full forces of hell on anyone who would dare to touch so much as a hair on her head. Energetically directed by Dennis Iliadis from a new script by Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye, Disturbia), this remake of horror cinema's seminal tale of bloody revenge has been described by Stephen King as the best horror movie of the new century. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS ¢ High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation of the original Theatrical Version of the film ¢ Original lossless stereo audio and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Introduction by director Dennis Iliadis ¢ Audio commentary by David Flint and Adrian Smith ¢ A River of Blood, a 31-minute interview with Sara Paxton ¢ The Notorious Krug, a 27-minute interview with actor Garret Dillahunt ¢ Suspending Disbelief, an 18-minute interview with screenwriter Carl Ellsworth ¢ Reviving the Legend, a 33-minute interview with producer Jonathan Craven ¢ Look Inside Featurette, from the films original 2009 release ¢ Deleted scenes ¢ Theatrical trailer ¢ Image gallery ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee