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• MABUSE LIVES! DR MABUSE AT CCC: 1960–1964 (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Four-disc Blu-ray Boxed Set | Blu Ray | (31/03/2025) from £44.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Recruit | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (267.14%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A brilliant young CIA trainee (Colin Farrell) is asked by his mentor (Al Pacino) to help find a mole in the Agency.

• Eyes Wide Shut | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £17.94   |  Saving you £-3.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Visually beautiful, Stanley Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to, and the standout performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: Eyes Wide Shut on DVD is presented in lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score, and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Steven Spielberg, to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney

• Run! Bitch Run! | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Run! Bitch Run! tells the story of Catherine and Rebecca two innocent teenage Catholic schoolgirls selling religious paraphernalia door-to-door in order to pay for their education. Things go horribly wrong when they knock on the wrong door in the wrong neighborhood and are confronted by evil Marla psychotic Clint and sociopath Lobo. Rebecca is tortured and killed and after she is brutally raped and left for dead Catherine awakes with only one thing on her mind REVENGE!! Run! Bitch Run! is a throw-back to the old school Rape & Revenge films of the 1970's and is loaded with classic Grindhouse characters. It has its fill of sex violence and dark humour that warrants multiple viewing for any fan of the Exploitation genre.

• Jeepers Creepers | Blu Ray | (26/10/2020) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens (Gina Philips, Chained and Justin Long, Drag Me to Hell) are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck... and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe. But when they stop to investigate, they discover that the grisly reality at the bottom of that pipe is far worse than they could have ever suspected... and that they are now the targets of an evil far more unspeakable (and unstoppable) than they could have ever imagined!

• Single White Female (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2024) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown, A Simple Plan) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hitcher, The Hateful Eight) star in Barbet Schroeder's (Reversal of Fortune, Mad Men) erotic psychological thriller Single White Female. When Allie (Fonda) breaks off her engagement, she is delighted to find a supportive new roommate in Hedy (Leigh). But when Hedy's behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive, and a series of violent events begin to occur, Allie fears that Hedy is not all she claims to be. Beautifully photographed by Luciano Tovoli (The Passenger, Suspiria), and with a powerful score by Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs, Videodrome), Single White Female is one of the most stylish suspense thrillers of the nineties. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remaster Original English stereo audio Audio commentary with director Barbet Schroeder, editor Lee Percy, and associate producer Susan Hoffman (2018) New York Interview: Barbet Schroeder (2018): the director discusses the production and release of Single White Female Upstairs with Graham Knox (2018): actor Peter Friedman recalls his casting and relates some anecdotes from the set The Fiancé Sam Rawson (2018): in-depth interview with actor Steven Weber SWF Seeks Writer (2018): screenwriter Don Ross looks back on his adaptation of John Lutz's novel and working with Schroder She'll Follow You Anywhere (2024): the critic, broadcaster, and author of Unlikeable Female Characters Anna Bogutskaya dissects and contextualises the film within the context of the erotic thriller Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English translation subtitles Limited edition exclusive book with a new essay by Georgia Humphreys, archival essays, a contemporary article on the making of the film, and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Sin City | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £8.10   |  Saving you £9.15 (133.77%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Trauma | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £5.95   |  Saving you £9.30 (198.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Chilling thriller starring Colin Firth as a bereaved widower haunted by visions of his dead wife.

• 2073 | Blu Ray | (03/02/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free existence.

• The Dive | DVD | (08/01/2024) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A dive at one of the world's most remote spots becomes a fight to the death for sisters Drew and May, when a landslide sends rocks tumbling into the sea, trapping May in the depths. As their oxygen runs low, Drew must make life-and-death decisions with no outside help in sight. A thrilling survival-horror starring Sophie Lowe (Medieval, The Beautiful Lie) and Louisa Krause (Billions, The Girlfriend Experience), from the director of TV series 'Skylines' and the Executive Producer of 'The Souvenir I & II' and 'Vita & Virginia'.

• Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani | Blu Ray | (24/07/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The most American of directors according to celebrated critic Paolo Mereghetti, Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) nevertheless surveyed his own country's mafia history unlike anyone before him, to critical and box office success. Three such classic films are collected in this Blu-ray box set, presented from new restorations. The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb). Adapted from the celebrated novel by Leonardo Sciascia (Illustrious Corpses, Todo Modo), The Day of the Owl was the first book to openly deal with organised crime in Sicily. A prestigious production, it was in the running for best film at the Berlin Film Festival and found wins at home in the David di Donatello Awards for Claudia Cardinale, Nero, Damiani, and Best Production. Nero portrays a simple man thrown in jail for a misdemeanour in The Case is Closed: Forget It. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, where the mafia controls everything. A powerful production with Nero in top form and supported by a strong cast including Riccardo Cucciolla (Rabid Dogs) and John Steiner (Tenebrae), the intensity of Damiani's film places it among the finest prison dramas. Presented in Italian and for the first time with the original English dub. In How to Kill a Judge, Nero plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later found murdered. The real judge the character is based on seizes the footage, but is later killed in the same way. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema, Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre as he investigates the social impact of mafia violence, a fitting end to this survey of Damiani's Cosa Nostra. Limited Edition Features 2K restorations of The Day of the Owl, The Case is Closed: Forget It and How to Kill a Judge New and archival extras for each film Limited edition perfect bound book featuring new writing on the film by experts on the genre Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in a rigid box with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings The Day of the Owl 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Italian and English audio options Original uncompressed mono PCM audio New interview with star Franco Nero Archival interview with Franco Nero, writer Ugo Pirro and production manager Lucio Trentini Archival interview with Claudia Cardinale from French TV in which she discusses her long and storied career Identity Crime-Sis: filmmaker and Italian crime cinema expert Mike Malloy discusses The Day of the Owl in the context of the formation of the Italian crime film genre Filmmaker Howard Berger looks at the late Italian career of actor Lee J. Cobb Trailer Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters The Case is Closed: Forget It 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Italian and, for the first time, English audio options Original uncompressed mono PCM audio New interview with star Franco Nero Archival documentary on the making of the film featuring actor Corrado Solari, assistant director Enrique Bergier and editor Antonio Siciliano Video essay on the career of Damiani Damiani by critic Rachael Nisbet Trailer Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters How to Kill a Judge 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Italian and English audio options Original uncompressed mono PCM audio New interview with star Franco Nero New interview with Alberto Pezzotta, author of Regia Damiano Damiani New video essay on the film by filmmaker David Cairns Trailer Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters

• Bulletproof | DVD | (14/09/2020) from £6.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• John Wick 1 - 4 Box Set (DVD) | DVD | (12/06/2023) from £23.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A retired hitman is forced back into the underground world of assassins when he embarks on a merciless journey to hunt down his adversaries. With the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) fights to overcome the world's top hitmen and women in a stylish tale of revenge and redemption.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Set 1 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £15.79   |  Saving you £9.20 (36.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's enigmatic eccentric and extremely intelligent detective Hercule Poirot.From England to the Mediterranean accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks Captain Hastings Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.Includes the following:The Adventure of Clapham Cook Murder in the Mews The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly Four and Twenty Blackbirds The Thir

• Doctor X | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £19.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A PRESCRIPTION FOR FRIGHT! Is there a (mad) doctor in the house? Yes! shrieks Doctor X, filmed in rare two-strip Technicolor. An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by re-creating the crimes in a lab filled with all the dials, gizmos, bubbling beakers and crackling electrostatic charges essential to the genre. Lionel Atwill is Doctor Xavier, pre-King Kong scream queen Fay Wray is a distressed damsel, and Lee Tracy snaps newshound patter, all under the direction of renowned Michael Curtiz. Product Features Includes the separately filmed B&W version, originally intended for small U.S. markets and international distribution, which has been unavailable for over 30 years. Featurette The Horror Films of Michael Curtiz UCLA before/after restoration reel. Commentaries by author/film historian Alan K. Rode and Scott MacQueen, head of preservation UCLA Film & Television Archive. Theatrical Trailer.

• Wallander: Collected Films 1-7 | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The opening seven episodes of the acclaimed Swedish crime drama series based on the novels by Henning Mankell. Krister Henriksson stars as Kurt Wallander a jaded police detective ground down over the years by difficult events in his personal life. As he investigates a string of grisly crimes in the cheerless town of Ystad Wallander is accompanied in his work by his troubled daughter Linda (Johanna Sallstrom). Episodes are: 'Before the Frost' 'The Village Idiot' 'The Brothers' 'The Overdose' 'The African' 'Mastermind' and 'The Tricksters'.

• Cannibal Ferox | Blu Ray | (20/04/2020) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A decade on from starting the cannibal genre, director Umberto Lenzi has the final word, pushing the vomit envelope beyond the sick with his utterly nasty, nihilistic apotheosis that is CANNIBAL FEROX. So unredeemable that its own makers denounced it as barbaric..! An academic, Gloria (Lorraine De Selle), journeys to the Amazon jungle where things go awry when her party encounters sadistic druggy villain Mike (Giovanni Lombardo Radice aka John Morghen), as the travellers venture further into the heart of darkness, they soon discover what it means to be the hunted prey. CANNIBAL FEROX aka 'Make Them Die Slowly', topped the official Video Nasty list for its raw graphic scenes of torture, mutilations, murder and cannibalism. This new 2K restoration of the film in full duration additionally features new grading which revives, for the 1st time, the original edgy look of the 16mm film stock it was shot on  finally presenting the film as it was first created by director Umberto Lenzi, on location in the Amazonian green inferno.

• NCIS Hawai'i - Season One | DVD | (20/02/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NCIS lands on the seductive shores of the Aloha State with NCIS: HAWAI'I, where the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor, Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey), has thrived and risen through the ranks by equal parts confidence and strategy in a system that has pushed back on her every step of the way. Together with her unwavering team of specialists, she balances duty, family and country while investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security and the mysteries of the sun-drenched island paradise itself.

• Tales Of The Unexpected - The Complete Series | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.91

  Roald Dahl's chillingly brilliant anthology series Tales of the Unexpected comes to you as a collection of every episode from each series. Although widely-regarded as one of the greatest children's authors of all-time Roald Dahl also wrote chilling adult fiction taking the twisted ideas used to entertain children and thrilling adults with similar themes. Much-gossiped about in its day the surprising stories - usually with a sting in the tale - enthralled a nation the moment the iconic titles started. Sinister and with a touch of the macabre Tales of the Unexpected holds at its heart a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

• The Usual Suspects Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (06/01/2025) from £14.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FIVE CRIMINALS. ONE LINE UP. NO COINCIDENCE. Amidst the wave of neo-noir thrillers that swept American cinema in the 1990s, few films made as much impact as The Usual Suspects, which revolutionised the genre, won two Academy Awards® and is still regarded as one of the greatest crime films ever made. After a brutal massacre on a cargo ship off the coast of Los Angeles leaves 27 men dead, Special Agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) interrogates one of the only two survivors, small-time con artist Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey). During the interview, Kint tells Kujan of how he was recruited by the fearsome crime lord Keyser Söze to commit a series of daring heists with four other crooked misfits: Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), Mike McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Fred Fenster (Benicio del Toro) and Todd Hockey (Kevin Pollak). But as Kint's account of the events leading up to the massacre becomes more convoluted, Kujan becomes increasingly sceptical and determined to discover the identity of the elusive Keyser Söze.With an unforgettably twisty and tightly written Oscar®-winning script by Christopher McQuarrie, The Usual Suspects is an unmissable entry in the canon of American indie cinema. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS¢ 4K restoration from the original negative approved by cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel ¢ High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation¢ Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing¢ Audio commentary with director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie¢ Audio commentary with editor and composer John Ottman ¢ The Devil in the Details, an archival interview with Newton Thomas Sigel ¢ Archival interview with John Ottman ¢ Round Up: Deposing the Usual Suspects, a two-part featurette delving into the creation and production of The Usual Suspects with clips, interviews with key figures, and footage from the making of the film ¢ Keyser Söze (Lie or Legend?), an archival featurette ¢ Heisting Cannes with The Usual Suspects, archival footage from the film's world premiere at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival ¢ Introducing The Usual Suspects, an original EPK featurette ¢ Deleted scenes with introduction by John Ottman ¢ Gag reel ¢ Interview outtakes with Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, Benicio del Toro, and Bryan Singer ¢ International trailer ¢ U.S. trailer with introduction by John Ottman ¢ TV spots ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket ¢ Collector's booklet featuring new writing by Barry Forshaw ¢ Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket