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• The Sniper (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most shocking films of Hollywood's golden age, The Sniper pits Adolphe Menjou (State of the Union) against Arthur Franz (The Caine Mutiny) in a deadly game of cat and mouse.When misogynist delivery man Eddie goes on a killing spree, murdering women through the sights of his sniper rifle, it falls to detective Frank Kafka to second-guess his motives and put a stop to his rampage.Directed by Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet), this chilling and controversial film noir is a favourite of Martin Scorsese, and has provided a prototype for films from Magnum Force to Se7en.Product FeaturesHigh Definition remasterOriginal mono audioAudio commentary with the Film Noir Foundation's Eddie Muller (2009)Introduction by Martin Scorsese (2009, 4 mins)Three Lives (1953, 23 mins): short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur FranzThree Pests in a Mess (1945, 16 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges in which the trio become involved in a deadly shooting incident, or so they think, causing panicOriginal theatrical trailerImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialsNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Die Screaming Marianne | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  70's classic horror film starring Susan George (Peckinpah's Straw Dogs) and directed by horror maestro Pete Walker (Frightmare) .

• Gothic | Blu Ray | (18/09/2023) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by cult favourite Ken Russell (The Devils) and starring Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Julian Sands (A Room with a View), Natasha Richardson (The Comfort of Strangers) and Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies), Gothic delves into the erotic and terrifying night that ultimately birthed Mary Shelley's classic horror story Frankenstein. When a wild storm rages over Lord Byron's literary house party, he suggests to his guests that they concoct a ghost story. However, upon deciding to hold a séance they soon conjure up their deepest fears. Plunged into a surreal horror, they wonder if it's merely the power of their own intense lust and vivid imaginations that is tormenting them, or if they have in fact raised the dead!

• Seven | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £4.94   |  Saving you £13.05 (264.17%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or moulding; the air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. It's a terrific date movie--for vampires. --Jim Emerson

• The Forever Purge | Blu Ray | (18/10/2021) from £6.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The next thrilling instalment of the franchise from Blumhouse! One night is not enough as members of an underground movement, no longer satisfied with the annual night of anarchy and murder, decide to overtake America through an unending campaign of mayhem and massacre. No one is safe. On the morning after the Purge, a masked gang of killers attacks a wealthy Texas ranching family and their workers. Exposed by daylight, the two families are forced to band together and fight back as the country spirals into chaos and the United States begins to disintegrate around them.

• Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker | Blu Ray | (13/05/2024) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It remains the most joltingly violent, psychosexual grindhouse shocker of the '80s, directed by a veteran of I Love Lucy and starring a frequently shirtless former teen idol with an epically demented performance by an Oscar® nominee. And now it can be experienced for the first time ever in UHD: Jimmy McNichol stars as an orphaned high-school student raised by his strangely overprotective aunt (Susan Tyrrell of FAT CITY fame) who becomes implicated in a grisly murder investigated by a psychotic police detective (an equally unhinged Bo Svenson of INGLORIOUS BASTARDS). 7x Emmy® nominee Julia Duffy (Newhart) and Bill Paxton (in one of his first film roles) co-star in this jaw-dropping hunk of genre insanity (Pop Culture Beast) and former DPP 39 Video Nasty - also known as NIGHT WARNING - now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with 6 hours of new and archival Special Features.SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio Commentary With Star Jimmy McNicholAudio Commentary With Co-Writer/Producer Steve Breimer And Co-Writer Alan Jay Glueckman, Moderated By Mondo Digital's Nathaniel ThompsonAudio Commentary With Co-Producer And Unit Production Manager Eugene MazzolaExtreme Prejudice - Interview With Actor Bo SvensonPoint And Shoot - Interview With Director Of Photography Robbie GreenbergFamily Dynamics - Interview With Editor Ted NicolaouCast And Crew Interviews With Actors Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell And Steve Eastin, Make-Up Artist Allan A. Apone And Producer Steve BreimerTrailerTV Spot

• Who Am I | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £10.75   |  Saving you £9.24 (85.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Benjamin is a nobody, an outsider, but this changes when he meets the charismatic Max. The two of them couldn˜t be more different, but they share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max˜s friends, they form the subversive hacker group CLAY (CLOWNS LAUGHING @ YOU). For the first time in his life Benjamin feels like he belongs and even the beautiful Marie starts to notice him. But what started out as fun soon turns deadly serious, when Benjamin and CLAY are suddenly investigated by German Secret Service and Europol. With the leading Europol cybercrime investigator at their heels, Benjamin starts to realize that he is no longer a nobody, but one of the most wanted hackers of the world.

• American Gangster (Blu-Ray & 4K) | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £19.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "INCLUDES THEATRICAL FILM PLUS EXTENDED VERSION WITH 18 MINUTES OF ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE Academy Awardwinners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multi-million dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation.Disc One4K ULTRA HD MOVIE BLU-RAY MOVIE + BONUS FEATURES FOR THE ULTIMATE MOVIE WATCHING EXPERIENCE, THIS DISC FEATURES:4X sharper picture than HDHDR (High Dynamic Range) for brilliant brights and deepest darksImmersive Audio for a multi-dimensional sound experienceFeature Commentary with director Ridley Scott and writter Steven ZaillianDisc TwoBlu-Ray Movie + Bonus FeaturesFeature Commentary with director Ridley Scott and Writer Steven ZaillianDeleted ScenesThe Bet Special: The Making of Amcerican GangsterDateline NBC: American Gangster First LookHip-Hop Infusion Featuring Common and T.I.Fallen Empire: Making American GangsterAnd more! "

• The Infernal Affairs Trilogy Criterion Collection - UK Only - Original titles: Mou gaan dou, II and III: Jung gik mou gaan | Blu Ray | (28/11/2022) from £64.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The explosively stylish, gripping saga of two rival moles that jolted the Hong Kong crime drama to new life is now available in one box set.The Hong Kong crime drama was jolted to new life with the release of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, a bracing, explosively stylish critical and commercial triumph that introduced a dazzling level of narrative and thematic complexity to the genre with its gripping saga of two rival moles-played by superstars TONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI (In the Mood for Love) and ANDY LAU TAK-WAH (As Tears Go By)- who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld.Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of self-deception and betrayal mirror Hong Kong's own fractured identity and the psychic schisms of life in a postcolonial purgatory.Infernal AffairsTwo of Hong Kong cinema's most iconic leading men, TONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI and ANDY LAU TAK-WAH, face off in the breath-taking thriller that revitalized the citystate's twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese's The Departed.The setup is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles-a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthless triad by posing as a gangster, and a gangster (Lau) who becomes a police officer in order to serve as a spy for the underworld-find themselves locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, each racing against time to unmask the other. As the shifting loyalties, murky moral compromises, and deadly betrayals mount, Infernal Affairs raises haunting questions about what it means to live a double life, lost in a labyrinth of conflicting identities and allegiances.Infernal Affairs IIThe first of two sequels to follow in the wake of the massively successful Infernal Affairs softens the original's furious pulp punch in favour of something more sweeping, elegiac, and overtly political. Flashing back in time, Infernal Affairs II traces the tangled parallel histories that bind the trilogy's two pairs of adversaries: the young, duelling moles (here played by EDISON CHEN KOON-HEI and SHAWN YUE MAN-LOK), and the ascendant crime boss (ERIC TSANG CHI-WAI) and police inspector (ANTHONY WONG CHAU-SANG) whose respective rises reveal a shocking hidden connection.Unfolding against the political and psychological upheaval of Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China, this elegant, character-driven crime drama powerfully connects its themes of split loyalties to the city-state's own postcolonial identity crisis.Infernal Affairs IIITONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI and ANDY LAU TAK-WAH return for the cathartic conclusion of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, which layers on even more deep-cover intrigue while steering the series into increasingly complex psychological territory. Dancing back and forth in time to before and after the events of the original film, Infernal Affairs III follows triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming (Lau) as he goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection, matches wits with a devious rival in the force (LEON LAI), and finds himself haunted by the fate of his former undercover nemesis (Leung). A swirl of flashbacks, memories, and hallucinations culminates in a dreamlike merging of identities that drives home the trilogy's vision of a world in which traditional distinctions between good and evil have all but collapsed.Product FeaturesNew 4K digital restorations, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracksAudio commentaries for Infernal Affairs and Infernal Affairs II featuring codirectors Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak and screenwriter Felix Chong Man-keungAlternate ending for Infernal AffairsNew interview with Lau and MakArchival interviews with Lau, Mak, Chong, and actors Andy Lau Tak-wah, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Kelly Chen Wai-lam, Edison Chen Koon-hei, Eric Tsang Chi-wai, and Chapman To Man-chakMaking-of programmesBehind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, and outtakesTrailersNew English subtitle translationsPLUS: An essay by film critic Justin Chang

• Novocaine 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £32.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate (Jack Quaid) turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

• Wild Things 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (31/03/2025) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Shout | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £7.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (28.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's a gorgeous Summer's day and two teams play a cricket game with a difference. It's the annual match between the local mental asylum and the villagers and in the scoring hut patients Crossley and Graves sit side-by-side recording every run over and fallen wicket. To keep themselves entertained Crossley recounts a terrifying story of how he came to possess supernatural powers that enable him to kill with a shout. It was he claims an ancient magic he learnt from spending many years with the Australian Aborigines. Although Graves dismisses the tale as an insane fantasy as the match continues the proceedings take on an emphatically sinister turn...

• Last King of the Cross | Blu Ray | (31/07/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It follows two brothers: Sam and John Ibrahim. They organize the street but lose each other in their ascent to power.

• Red Dragon | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £8.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (156.01%)   |  RRP £22.99

  An ex FBI agent (Edward Norton) reluctantly comes out of retirement and turns to the imprisoned Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) for help in tracking down another serial killer.

• Joker Steelbook | Blu Ray | (10/02/2020) from £69.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• ZAZ: THE COLLECTION! 4K UHD (Airplane! / Top Secret! / The Naked Gun!) | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £56.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  SURELY, WE CAN'T BE SERIOUS?! For the first time in 4K Ultra HD, Paramount brings you the essential collection of three ZAZ (writer/directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker) comedy classicsAIRPLANE!, TOP SECRET! and THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD! Each movie is presented in both HDR-10 and Dolby Vision, accompanied by hours of special features, and exclusive to this set, a variety of collectible posters and a booklet featuring never-before-seen images from the studio archives!

• Veronica Mars | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £7.80   |  Saving you £8.19 (105.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After nine years Veronica Mars has definitely landed on her feet. She's left behind her impulsive beau Logan given up her detective business and gotten her law degree. She's living with respectable boyfriend Piz in New York City where a prestigious law firm wants to make her an associate. One day she learns of the shocking death of pop singer Bonnie DeVille an old classmate from Neptune High. Because Logan had been dating Bonnie he's now a suspect in her murder and he begs Veronica to fly to California and help him choose a decent lawyer. Back in Neptune Veronica catches up with her detective father and other old pals. At karaoke night loopy Ruby Jetson wails a Bonnie Deville song; Veronica and Logan wonder if this clearly obsessed fan could be Bonnie's killer? Veronica sneaks into Ruby¿s vacant home to look for clues but is arrested as an intruder. Ruby agrees not to press charges if Logan will take Ruby out on a date. At a local bar Veronica uncovers surprising news: Ruby had been seen at this bar the night of Bonnie's murder and thus could not be her killer. So who done it then? Old sleuthing partners Mac and Wallace reveal a curious discovery: Susan an old friend of Bonnie's had also died several years earlier drowned in a boating accident. Is there a connection between the deaths? Mac and Wallace drag Veronica to the Neptune High ten-year reunion and Piz has flown in from New York to be there too. Veronica runs into many old friends including best 'frenemy' Gia and politically aspiring Luke. When an old sex tape featuring Veronica and Logan is shown by pranksters a massive brawl erupts and Piz gets walloped. At an after-party at Gia's loft Veronica learns that Susan was last seen during a night of heavy drinking on a boat with Gia and Luke. Noting that spy footage of Bonnie keeps turning up on the Internet she enlists movie star James Franco's help in tracking down celebrity sleaze monger Vinnie. The slimeball has been tapping the camera feeds from tablet computers given to celebrities. He shares with Veronica all the footage from Bonnie's tablet some of which implicates one of the dead girl's friends. With a furious Piz breaking off their relationship and the New York law firm retracting their offer Veronica's life is falling apart. Can she trick the culprit into confessing before a desperate partner blows Veronica out of the sleuthing game forever? Special Features: By the Fans: The Making of the Veronica Mars Movie

• Roadgames (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (14/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Richard Franklin's 1981 Australian horror classic, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Read Window. Keach plays Quid, an American trucker who, with the help of Curtis's hitchhiker, tracks down a serial killer active on the long, empty roads of southern Australia. This deluxe, extras-laden edition boasts an all-new 2020 restoration from a 4K scan of the duplicate negative, produced exclusively for this release. Extras New 2020 restoration from a 4K scan of the duplicate negative, produced exclusively for this release Original mono audio Audio commentary with director Richard Franklin (2003) Audio commentary with cinematographer Vincent Monton, costume designer Aphrodite Kondos, production secretary Helen Watts, and film historian Mark Hartley (2019) Audio commentary with writers and programmers Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe (2020) Kangaroo Hitchcock (2003): archival documentary on the making of Roadgames featuring interviews with Franklin and actor Stacy Keach Australian Long Haul (2019): actor Stacy Keach discusses the role of Pat Quid and working in Australia Audio interview with Stacy Keach (2016): further thoughts on the film by the actor Audio interview with Richard Franklin (2001): the director recalls his early career as a filmmaker and the production of Roadgames Archival Interview with Richard Franklin (1981): documentary profile of the director Audio interview with Grant Page (2016): an in-depth discussion with the actor and stunt co-ordinator ˜Not Quite Hollywood' Interview Excerpts (2008): over an hour of outtakes from Hartley's acclaimed documentary on Australian cinema, featuring Franklin, Page, actors Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, screenwriter Everett De Roche, and assistant director Tom Burstall Roadgames: A Lecture (1980): archival recording of Franklin, co-producer Barbi Taylor and composer Brian May discussing the making of the film Neil Sinyard on ˜Roadgames' (2020): newly filmed appreciation by the British film historian And His Ghost May Be Heard (1973): rare short film by Franklin, marking his first collaboration with Roadgames cinematographer Monton Script Read (1980): audio recording of a pre-production read-through, featuring Franklin and actors Keach and Marion Edward Music demos: excerpts from the Brian May score in demo form Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Lee Gambin, extensive archival interviews with Richard Franklin, Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, Franklin's 1980 Alfred Hitchcock obituary, an overview of contemporary critical responses, Mark Hartley on And His Ghost May Be Heard, and film credits Limited edition exclusive double-sided poster UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies

• Disorder | Blu Ray | (25/07/2016) from £8.45   |  Saving you £13.54 (160.24%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Following a tour of duty, Special Services soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) takes a job in security for a wealthy businessman and his family. During a lavish party at their luxurious ˜Maryland' villa, Vincent senses that something is amiss. When his employer is then urgently called away on business Vincent is left to ensure the safety of his wife Jessie (Diane Kruger) and their child. Suffering from post-traumatic stress, Vincent battles his own paranoia whilst clinging to the certainty that Jessie and her family are in immediate danger, unleashing a hell-bent determination to protect them at all costs. Bonus features exclusive to the Blu-ray: Director Alice Winocour's short films Kitchen, Magic Paris and Pina Colada; and Q&A with star Matthias Schoenaerts and director Alice Winocour filmed at Picturehouse Central 8th March 2016.

• World Noir Vol 2 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £40.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  AS THE 1960S BEGAN, THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF FILM NOIR CAME TO AN END IN HOLLYWOOD. BUT FILMMAKERS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FIRST-RATE EXAMPLES OF THE GENRE, WITH THREE SUPERB EXAMPLES COLLECTED HERE. IN HELMUT KÄUTNER'S BLACK GRAVEL AN ILLICIT COUPLE FIND THEMSELVES HAVING TO COVER UP A PAIR OF DEAD BODIES IN POST-WAR GERMANY. IN JACQUES DERAY'S SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE FIVE GANGSTERS BUY A CACHE OF DRUGS, BUT ONE OF THEM IS PLANNING A DOUBLE CROSS. IN TAKUMI FURUKAWA'S CRUEL GUN STORY A GANGSTER (JOE SHISHIDO) EXECUTES A DARING HEIST ON AN ARMOURED VEHICLE.