Crime Thriller

• Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Weapon | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The inventor of a secret weapon and its prototype are abducted leaving the wartime Allies in dire need of assistance. Sherlock Holmes is called and begins to do battle with Professor Moriarty who will later become his arch-enemy...

• Murk | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jacob has ostensibly taken time off work to write a book but in reality he's still coming to terms with his sister Julie's attemted suicide she is now seriously disabled and wheelchair bound. Jacob feels somehow responsible and his guilt has robbed his life of direction. Meanwhile Julie has struck up a romance on the internet with the slightly odd yet seemingly decent and kind Anker and announces their intention to marry. After some initial doubts Jacob accepts Anker pleased that Julie has managed to find some kind of happiness. But on her wedding night Julie commits suicide and the family is devastated. The tragic answers to the questions raised by her suicide are found In the silent streets of a town called Murk.

• The Ipcress File | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The tense spy thriller by Len Deighton that turned Michael Caine into a superstar! Cynical and rebellious ex-army sergeant Harry Palmer has been blackmailed into working for Britain's security service. Hot on the trail of a kidnapped scientist Palmer finds himself enmeshed in a sinister conspiracy involving horrifying brainwashing techniques murder and treachery that reaches up to the highest levels of the security service itself... Often hailed as Len Deighton's finest spy story

• La Balance | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the dark and dangerous streets of Paris lurks an underworld full of lowlifes pimps and hookers. The elite undercover cops turn a pimp (Philippe Leotard) into an informer in order to crack the crooked world he inhabits... This gritty realistic slice of the Parisian underbelly has been much copied but never bettered!

• True Crime | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Once in a while, studio heads actually make sensible decisions. Kudos to whoever at Trimark screened the embarrassing True Crime, an overwrought, under thought, "mystery" and decided, "You know, we really don't need to let the American public see this," and immediately sent it straight to video. Probably the one most pleased by the decision was Alicia Silverstone, who didn't need this type of thing getting a theatrical distribution and hurting her blossoming career. As for Kevin Dillon? Well, he was probably happy just to get paid. Silverstone plays the teen Nancy-Drew-meets-Encyclopedia-Brown protagonist who teams up with fresh-faced police cadet Dillon to try to bag a serial killer who's been butchering teenage girls at travelling carnivals in various cities. Writer-director Pat Verducci packs his thriller with implausible detective work and numerous plot twists, all visible 20 minutes away. The "shock" ending can pretty much be worked out within the first act, leaving viewers another hour to watch Verducci concoct several amateur dream sequences, and explore a disgusting sexual relationship between Silverstone and Dillon. By the end, the question isn't so much "Whodunit?" as "Who cares?" --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• The Darkest Day | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr Pink | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

• Not Forgotten | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Soon after exchanging wedding vows with his second wife, a haunted man becomes obsessed with discovering the true fate of the missing daughter from his first marriage. Later, when the man and his new wife consult with a mystic, it quickly becomes apparent that some things are better left forgotten. Paz Vega and Simon Baker star in a supernatural thriller directed by BASIC co-producer Dror Soref.

• Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill / Terror By Night | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-33.30%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Terror By Night (1946): A precious jewel 'The Star Of Rhodesia' is stolen from a train. The master detective is forced to use all his powers of deduction with the help of his trusty aid Dr. Watson in this fast paced thriller. Dressed To Kill (1946): A beautiful woman and her gang of criminals attempt to match their wits with Sherlock Holmes in this murder/mystery set in Dartmoor and London's antique auction rooms. Rathbone and Bruce gave the screen's greatest interpr

• Order Of Chaos | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sherlock Holmes - In Washington / Faces Death | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (-44.20%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Two installments from the super sleuth with Basil Rathbone taking up the reigns of Holmes. In Washington:Top-secret documents are missing and a British secret service agent is dead. Holmes and Watson go to Washington to recover the documents before they fall into the wrong hands. Faces Death:Holmes and Watson are summoned to Musgrave Manor to investigate a murder. Holmes solves a complicated puzzle of an ancient family ritual to expose the murderer.

• Sherlock Holmes - Voice Of Terror / Secret Weapon | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (-44.20%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Two more installments from the super sleuth. Secret Weapon:The great detective must stop the Nazis from getting their hands on a new bombsight wrapped in a code of dancing men. Voice Of Terror:When taunting saboteurs warn of a Nazi invasion of the British Isles through a horrific radio menace the British Intelligence's Inner Council calls in Sherlock Holmes to help in the crisis.

• Ten Dead Men | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ten Dead Men a violent hard edged British revenge story that will blow you away! Betrayed repaying an old blood debt and left for dead former gun for hire Ryan returns to enact a violent bloody revenge on the ten men who killed his wife and forced him back into a life he thought he'd left behind years ago. Ten men took away his life. Now ten men will pay.

• From Hell | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Heavy on atmosphere and light on everything else, From Hell is visually impressive while lacking the depth of the acclaimed graphic novel it's based upon. Making their third feature since 1993's Menace II Society, twins Allen and Albert Hughes approach the Jack the Ripper case with physical precision, re-creating the gritty Whitechapel district of 1888 London in meticulous detail. What they've forgotten is the sheer terror that gripped Whitechapel in the wake of the Ripper's slaying of five prostitutes, investigated here by a Scotland Yard sleuth (Johnny Depp) who uses opium, laudanum and absinthe to fuel his semi-prescient visions of the slayings. Heather Graham attempts a slippery Cockney accent as a would-be victim, while Ian Holm steals the show as a has-been surgeon with devilish delusions of grandeur. Violence is obliquely suggested or briefly graphic, but no matter how you cut it, From Hell is only marginally thrilling as it treads familiar territory. --Jeff Shannon

• Play Misty for Me | DVD | (27/07/2020) from £7.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dave Garland (Clint Eastwood) is a Californian DJ who runs a late night call-in show, and receives regular requests from a female caller for Erroll Garner's 'Misty'. Following a bust-up with his regular girlfriend, Tobie (Donna Mills), Dave has a one-night stand with Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter) after meeting her at his regular night spot. It transpires that Evelyn is the mystery caller on Dave's show, but after their night together she becomes obsessed with him, refusing to accept his subsequent rapprochement with Tobie. Evelyn's rage at first takes a suicidal turn, then becomes murderous as she makes violent threats towards Dave and Tobie. Special Features Playing The Game: Clint Eastwood And His Early A-List Success An Interview With New York Times Best-Selling Author Marc Eliot, Writer Of American Rebel: The Life Of Clint Eastwood She'S Behind You! Play Misty For Me In Context - An Interview With Leading Uk Film Critic Kim Newman Misty Memories: Revisiting A Clint Eastwood Classic - A Discussion Of The Film With Dark Side Magazine Editor Allan Bryce

• Bacurau | DVD | (27/04/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bacurau is a wild, genre-blending siege thriller from Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Neighbouring Sounds) and Juliano Dornelles. Set in the remote backcountry of Brazil, it follows a tight-knit village community's bloody and brutal fight for its own survival. With unforgettable turns from Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, this is an audacious, original and spectacularly violent blend of neo-Western, revenge thriller and political allegory. Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize in 2019.

• Ray Donovan Season Seven | DVD | (11/05/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Family Fixes Everything While Ray makes progress in therapy, there are dangers from the past that require the Ray Donovan of old. With NYC mayor Ed Feratti, an unrelenting NYPD offi cer hunting for the truth and clients old and new, Ray struggles to fi nd the balance between fixing for clients and fi xing himself. And when Feratti's corruption brings a piece of Mickey's past back to New York, Ray is forced to seek answers to long-buried questions. Special Features: Dash Directs Deconstructing Ray

• Snowpiercer | DVD | (25/05/2020) from £5.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a failed global-warming experiment, a post-apocalyptic Ice Age has killed off nearly all life on the planet. All that remains of humanity are the lucky few survivors that boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system has evolved aboard the train, fiercely dividing its populationbut a revolution is brewing. The lower-class passengers in the tail section stage an uprising, moving car-by-car up toward the front of the train, where the train's creator and absolute authority resides in splendor. But unexpected circumstances lie in wait for humanity's tenacious survivors... Visionary director Bong Joon Ho's enormously ambitious and visually stunning, (Scott Foundas, Variety) film has been widely praised as a superb masterpiece of science fiction (MTV). Starring Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner, John Hurt, and Ed Harris.

• Underworld Quadrilogy | DVD | (12/10/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Nightingale | DVD | (27/01/2020) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Australian thriller written and directed by Jennifer Kent. Set in 1825 in the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Irish convict Clare Carroll (Aisling Franciosi) seeks revenge on British Army officers for taking the lives of her husband and child. As she employs the help of Aboriginal tracker Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), the unlikely pair journey through the wilderness with the hope of getting justice, one way or another...