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• The Game Trilogy Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (17/02/2025) from £17.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Made at the end of the 1970s, Toru Murakawa's Game Trilogy launched actor Yusaku Matsuda as the Toei tough guy for a new generation. Matsuda was the definitive screen icon of 1980s until his career was tragically cut short by cancer at the age of 40, following his Hollywood debut in Ridley Scott's Black Rain. In this career-defining triptych, Matsuda is Shohei Narumi, an ice cool hitman of few words, a steely trigger finger, and a heart of stone, hired in The Most Dangerous Game by a company bidding for a lucrative government air defence contract to take out the competition. In The Killing Game, Narumi finds himself caught in the midst of violent yakuza gang warfare, while his own brutal past catches up with him in the form of two beautiful women still bearing the emotional scars of his past assignments. In The Execution Game, Narumi falls for a mysterious saloon bar chanteuse who may or may not be part of the same, shadowy underworld organisation as the rival hitmen he is employed to rub out. With cool blue cinematography by Nagisa Oshima collaborator Seizo Sengen and a sultry score by jazz legend Yuji Ohno, Murakawa's masterful set of films raised the bar for the Japanese action movie to new heights. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS - High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of all films - Original lossless mono Japanese soundtracks - Optional newly translated English subtitles - Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella DISC 1: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME - Audio commentary by Chris Poggiali and Marc Walkow - The Action Man, a 30-minute interview with director Toru Murakawa - Original Japanese theatrical trailer - Image gallery DISC 2: THE KILLING GAME & THE EXECUTION GAME - Audio commentary on The Killing Game by Earl Jackson and Jasper Sharp - Audio commentary on The Execution Game by Tom Mes - Remembering Yusaku Matsuda, an interview with Yutaka Oki, film critic and personal friend of Yusaku Matsuda - Game Changer, an interview with The Execution Game screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama - Original Japanese theatrical trailers for both films - Image galleries for both films

• Dolan's Cadillac | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £5.04   |  Saving you £4.95 (98.21%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young man attempts to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster in this adaptation of Stephen King's short story.

• The Art Of The Steal | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £2.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (349.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.     Crunch Calhoun (Russell), a third rate motorcycle daredevil and semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get back into the con game and pull off just one more lucrative art theft with his untrustworthy brother Nicky (Dillon). Crunch reassembles the old team and comes up with a plan to steal a priceless historical book, but the successful heist leads to another, far riskier, plan devised by Nicky. What the brothers don't realize is they each have their own agenda and their plan goes awry in this con movie about brotherhood, honor and revenge.   Language English Subtitles Hindi, French, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, English Dubbed French, Italian, Spanish Run Time 90 minutes  

• Pathology | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.72   |  Saving you £11.27 (129.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A group of medical students devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder.

• Heat - Premium Collection Steelbook (Blu-ray + UV Copy | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-0.64 (-2.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro square off, 'Heat' sizzles. Written and directed by Michael Mann, Heat includes dazzling set pieces and a bank heist that USA Today's Mike Clark calls 'the greatest action scene of recent times'. It also offers 'the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year' (Newsweek). Val Kimler, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd are among the memorable supporting players in this tale of a brilliant LA cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). 'Heat' goes way beyond the expectations of the cops-and-criminals genre - and into the realm of movie masterpiece.

• Mercury Plains | DVD | (02/05/2016) from £6.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blood and Black Lace Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (18/09/2023) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  SIX MODELS. SIX VICTIMS FOR A CRAZED MASKED KILLER. The Christian Haute Couture fashion house is a home to models and backstabbing and blackmail and drug deals and MURDER. Having established a template for the giallo with The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava set about cementing its rules with Blood and Black Lace. In doing so, he created one of the most influential films ever made an Italian classic that would spearhead the giallo genre, provide a prototype for the slasher movie, and have a huge effect on filmmakers as diverse as Dario Argento and Martin Scorsese. Newly restored from the original camera negative and presented here in its original uncut form, this new release allows fans to see Blood and Black Lace afresh and offers newcomers the ideal introduction to a major piece of cult filmmaking. Product Features LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack Audio commentary by Mario Bava's biographer Tim Lucas Psycho Analysis a documentary on Blood and Black Lace and the origins of the giallo genre featuring interviews with directors Dario Argento (Suspiria) and Lamberto Bava (Demons), screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (All the Colours of the Dark), critics Roberto Curti and Steve Della Casa, and crime novelists Sandrone Dazieri and Carlo Lucarelli An appreciation by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, the creative duo behind Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears Gender and Giallo a visual essay by Michael Mackenzie exploring the giallo's relationship with the social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s Blood and Bava a panel discussion on Mario Bava featuring Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava and Steve Della Casa, recorded at the 2014 Courmayeur Film Festival The Sinister Image: Cameron Mitchell an episode of David Del Valle's television series, devoted to the star of Blood and Black Lace and presented in full The alternative US opening titles, sourced from Joe Dante's private print Original theatrical trailer Image galleries Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady Limited edition 60-page perfect bound book featuring writing on the film by Howard Hughes, Alan Jones and David Del Valle, plus new writing by Rachael Nisbet and Kat Ellinger Fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady Six double-sided collector's postcards

• Don't Breathe | Blu Ray | (16/01/2017) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Sam Raimi and the creators of EVIL DEAD comes another terrifying experience about a group of teens that break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong. Click Images to Enlarge

• Brother 2 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Aleksei Balabanov's powerful follow-up to his uncompromising Brother Chechen veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) arrives in Moscow. There he meets an old army buddy Konstantin who tells him how his twin brother Dimitri has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a U.S. ice hockey team by the manager and his Russian partners. Soon after Danila finds Konstantin dead. Vowing to avenge the death of his comrade Danila sets out on a trail that leads him to Chicago and a

• Botched | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stephen Dorff stars as an opportunistic thief in this gore/comedy hybrid. What can go wrong does go wrong and in a horrible way.

• Empire | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £5.61   |  Saving you £4.38 (78.07%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Victor is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name written all over it.

• Deception | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £5.07   |  Saving you £10.92 (215.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A solid enough thriller held together by some somewhat implausible plot devices, Deception stars Ben Affleck as Rudy, whose cellmate Nick is lucky enough to be pen-pal to the beautiful Ashley (Charlize Theron) who in turn has pledged herself, body and soul to the man inside whom she has never set eyes upon. Upon his release, Rudy decides to pose as Nick in order to take up with this luscious and adoring female. Unfortunately, the scheme backfires on Rudy when he discovers that Ashley was apparently a pawn in her ruthless brother Monster's game to coerce him into helping him and his gang of gun-runners rob a casino that Nick used to work in. Deception rumbles along at a pretty seedy, violent pace for a long time, with Rudy's efforts to escape resulting in Monster (a menacing Gary Sinise) using him as a dartboard in one memorably brutal scene. Following their raid on the casino, however (clad in Santa outfits), the plot takes a couple of devilish twists and turns which reward the viewer prepared to come this far down the road with these people. The lack of empathy may be redeemed by some viewers with a scene featuring Charlize Theron naked in a pool. --David Stubbs

• Atomic Twister - Sturm des Untergangs | DVD | (02/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Saint Meets The Tiger | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Robin Hood Of Modern CrimeThat was how The Saint was often promoted to entice readers, and it's a theme that his creator Leslie Charteris returns to a number of times in his books and stories. It was the publication of The Saint In New York in 1935 that made Charteris an international name. The film rights were sold even before publication and - despite some problem with the American censors over its violent content - became a hit picture for RKO in 1938. Charteris wanted Ronald Colman, Cary Grant or Douglas Fairbanks Jr for the role of Simon Templar. Instead, after Louis Hayward premiered the character, the much-respected George Sanders took on the role in four of the films, with Hugh Sinclair taking the lead in The Saint's Vacation and The Saint Meets The Tiger.The Saint Meets The Tiger:A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.

• A Bullet Is Waiting (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jean Simmons (Footsteps in the Fog), Rory Calhoun (The Colossus of Rhodes), Stephen McNally (The Lady Gambles) and Brian Aherne (The Song of Songs) star in A Bullet Is Waiting. Sheriff Munson (McNally) is escorting prisoner Ed Stone (Calhoun) when circumstances force both men to seek shelter in an isolated cabin with a solitary young woman, Cally (Simmons). With neither man seeming to be who he claims to be, Cally is unsure who to trust, and the tension begins to mount. Directed John Farrow (Night Has a Thousand Eyes), A Bullet Is Waiting is a thrilling and unique hybrid of film noir and western. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with writers Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman (2021) From Cricklewood to Hollywood (2021, 21 mins): archivist and historian Josephine Botting discusses the early career of actor Jean Simmons and her transition from British to American cinema The Yoke's on Me (1944, 16 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio protect their isolated farmhouse from unwanted guests Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Out of the Fog / Radio Cab Murder | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £19.75   |  Saving you £-4.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Out Of The Fog: Dublin born, Montgomery Tully directed this 1962 Eternal Films production, which he also wrote. Starring David Sumner and Susan Travers (Van Der Valk) as well as John Arnatt who appeared in 103 productions, including Whistle Down the Wind. Tullys direction is tight and brings a good deal of tension to this crime drama.Radio Cab Murder: Jimmy Hanley stars in this 1954 Insignia production. Cab driver Fred, (Hanley) a reformed safe cracker is recruited by the police to infiltrate a gang. Fred is aided by his fellow cabbies, when things start to go wrong... Written and directed by Vernon Sewell and with a good british cast this is an enjoyable crime caper. Picture and Sound restored to an excellent quality.

• Temple Season 2 | Blu Ray | (10/01/2022) from £28.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the first series, Daniel just about kept the plates in the air as he looked after his wife, Beth, in an illicit clinic underneath Temple tube station. But now everything comes crashing down as Beth wakes from her coma and demands answers. Eve wants to know why her parents have been lying to her, Lee joins forces with a charismatic activist and Anna is desperate to make something positive out of the situation.

• Unfaithful | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Although the premise of infidelity and its devastating consequences on all involved may not be a new one, Unfaithful still manages to emerge as a stylish, involving thriller. Based on an obscure 1970s French offering, director Adrian Lynne's version is pure Hollywood, from its casting of Richard Gere and Diane Lane in the lead roles, to its graceful visual style and even its somewhat unsatisfactory denouement. It's impossible not to watch the film without thinking of Lynne's own Fatal Attraction, although here the gender roles have been reversed to focus on the affair between bored suburban housewife Connie and exotic French book dealer Paul. The obsessive relationship between the two provides the film with its only real frisson. Gere is given very little to work with as the dull cuckolded husband Edward and delivers even less. The film moves rather slowly towards its key plot twist which never really lives up to its promise. On the DVD: Unfaithful may be lacking a little as a film, but this DVD is an impressive package. The film has a rich visual element and the digital picture quality brings out the best in Adrian Lynne's unique eye for detail. The reams of extras include commentaries from director Lynne and the cast, a well put together documentary, interviews, features, deleted scenes and a (superior) alternative ending. Lynne is always good interview value, coming across as a slightly less eccentric Ken Russell, and Lane and Olivier Martinez are both engaging and charismatic. A shame, then, that the movie itself isn't quite so impressive. --Phil Udell

• Sherlock Holmes - The Sign Of Four / The Blue Carbuncle | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £12.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Sign Of Four: One of the most exotic tales in the Sherlock Holmes collection this story features lost treasure a murderous pigmy a beautiful wronged woman with whom Watson falls in love a mad and mysterious pair of twins and a thrilling deadly chase along the Thames. These elements have made the mystery a real favourite amongst Holmes aficionados and this episode stands as a faithful but fast-paced adaptation of a much-loved novel. The Blue Carbuncle: This re

• Dark World | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £5.83   |  Saving you £4.16 (41.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Defeated on the battlefield by Thor Loki is brought to Odin for justice. But by using his guile and trickery Loki escapes to Earth. There he will conquer mankind and raise an even larger army to use in his quest for domination throughout the Nine Realms. Enraged by devastation of his home Thor pursues Loki but in the journey he is rendered defenceless awakening on Earth without his mighty hammer or his memory. Alone and disoriented Thor is besieged by Loki's followers hell-bent on stopping him...at any cost. Enlisting the help of a female human companion Thor fights his way North in search of his mythical weapon. Finding his hammer Thor's identity and prowess are restored and he must now prepare himself for a final climactic battle with Loki to prevent the overthrow of the universe.