"Director: Brian de Palma"

• The Untouchables | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The DVD extras follow the adage that if one has lemons, make lemonade. This "special" edition has no commentary track, and no new input from stars Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Andy Garcia or writer David Mamet. Yet DVD director Laurent Bouzereau has an ace up his sleeve that makes the four new featurettes (about 50 minutes of content) worth listening to: candid talk. The usual, stiff promotional take is jettisoned as producer Art Linson and director Brian De Palma honestly talk about the film's origins, the tricks of shooting, and the casting of Robert De Niro. These refreshing comments (plus insight from the cinematographer Stephen H. Burum and actor Charles Martin Smith), and better-than-average vintage interviews makes for valuable watching--even if the footage is intercut too often with film clips. To top it all off, there's a new Dolby Digital 5.1 EX soundtrack. --Doug Thomas

• The Fury | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An elaborate game of mind control begins when the son of government agent Peter (Douglas) is kidnapped for his psychokinetic powers. Desperate to find him the father hires a girl (Irving) with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret U.S. agency where he's being used for dangerous mind experiments - and programmed for elimination...

• Stephen King Collection | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.49   |  Saving you £-0.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.94

  Misery (Dir. Rob Reiner 1990): When author Paul Sheldon suffers a car accident in a blizzard he thanks his lucky stars that nurse Annie Wilkes was on hand. That is until he discovers that she's his number one fan and has no intention of ever letting him go... The Dark Half (Dir. George A. Romero 1993): Masters of horror Stephen King and George A. Romero have created a gripping creepy frightening film that thrills shocks and works us over! Featuring an intelligent screenplay and first-rate cast including Oscar winner Timothy Hutton The Dark Half will keep you captivated to the chilling end. Horror writer Thad Beaumont (Hutton) hopes to distance himself from his murder novels and from George Stark the pseudonym he has used to author them. To achieve this he cooks up a murder of his own: a publicity stunt that should lay Stark to rest forever. But when the people around him are found gruesomely slain - and his own fingerprints dot the crime scenes - Beaumont is dumbfounded until he learns that Stark has taken on a life of his own and begun a gruesome quest for vengeance... Carrie (Dir. Brian De Palma 1976): Based on the novel by Stephen King with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen Carrie is the story of a young girl with telekinesis who has the power to move objects by the force of her mind. The school wallflower and the brunt of her classmates' jokes Carrie's revenge is the focus of this tense and stylish horror film. This is the film that made Sissy Spacek a star and featured John Travolta and Amy Irving in their first important screen roles. Carrie established director Brian DePalma as a new creative force in motion pictures.

• Dressed to Kill | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £16.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (21.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) has a session with her psychiatrist Dr Elliott (Michael Caine) she silently seduces a man in an art gallery an assignation that ends in murder and the only witness high-class prostitute Liz Blake (Nancy Allen) being stalked by the killer in turn. One of Brian De Palma's darkest and most controversial suspense thrillers Dressed to Kill was as acclaimed for its stylish set-pieces and lush Pino Donaggio score as it was condemned for its sexual explicitness and blatant borrowings from Alfred Hitchcock in general and Psycho in particular. But the glee with which De Palma turns this material inside out is completely infectious as he delves deep inside the troubled psyches of his characters (critic Pauline Kael said that the film was permeated with the distilled essence of impure thoughts) in order to undermine expectations at every turn. Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the feature Optional original uncompressed Mono 2.0 Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround Sound Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Symphony of Fear: Producer George Litto discusses his working relationship with Brian De Palma Dressed in White: Star Angie Dickinson on her role in the film Dressed in Purple: Star Nancy Allen discusses her role in the film Lessons in Filmmaking: Actor Keith Gordon discusses Dressed to Kill The Making of a Thriller – A documentary on the making of Dressed to Kill featuring writer-director Brian De Palma George Litto stars Angie Dickinson Nancy Allen Dennis Franz and more! Unrated R-Rated and TV-Rated Comparison Featurette Slashing Dressed to Kill – Brian De Palma and stars Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon discuss the changes that had to be made to avoid an X-rating Original Theatrical Gallery Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanel Marsh Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and author Maitland McDonagh illustrated with original archive stills and promotional material “Filled to the brim with DePalma's characteristic visual flair Dressed to Kill is an amazing film just to look at” - Reel Film

• Domino | Blu Ray | (05/08/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, police officer Christian (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: TV's Game of Thrones) seeks justice for his partner's murder by ISIS member Imran. On the hunt for the killer, Christian and a fellow cop become caught in a game of cat and mouse, with a duplicitous CIA agent, using Imran as a pawn to trap other ISIS members. Soon, Christian is racing against the clock -- not only seeking revenge but to save his own life. A thrilling race-against-time also starring Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) and Carice van Houten (Valkyrie, TV's Game of Thrones).

• Scarface 1983 - 35th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• The Bonfire Of The Vanities (1990) | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £7.09   |  Saving you £6.90 (97.32%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Is it time, after the anonymous disaster of Mission to Mars, to give Brian De Palma's famously doomed film of Tom Wolfe's bulky novel Bonfire of the Vanities another chance? The uproarious ins and outs of the film's troubled production have become well-known via Julie Salamon's account of its making, The Devil's Candy, and fans of that might want to flick between page and screen to see just when Melanie Griffith caused untold continuity problems by having her breasts inflated. Techno buffs will surely appreciate the pointless but somehow wonderful trickery of an extended tracking shot at the outset that exists only to last a few seconds longer than the one in Orson Welles Touch of Evil (1958). Tom Hanks was rather better cast than was generally allowed, as "master of the universe" Sherman McCoy, who comes a cropper after a hit-and-run accident, since his nice-guy act shows intriguing cracks. And even Bruce Willis does his best on a hiding to nothing as the drunken writer. It is funny in parts, agonising in others, and misses Wolfe's tone--but somehow its failures might make it as symptomatic of the long-gone excesses of the early 90s as the novel was of the 80s. --Kim Newman

• Dressed To Kill | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  To condemn Dressed to Kill as a Hitchcock rip-off is to miss the sheer enjoyment of Brian De Palma's delirious thriller. Homages to Hitchcock run rampant through most of De Palma's earlier films, and this one's chock-full of visual quotes, mostly cribbed from Vertigo and Psycho. But De Palma's indulgent depravity transcends simple mimicry to assume a vitality all its own. It's smothered in thickly atmospheric obsessions with sex, dread, paranoia, and voyeurism, not to mention a heavy dose of Psycho-like psychobabble about a wannabe transsexual who is compelled to slash up any attractive female who reminds him--the horror--that he's still very much a man. Angie Dickinson plays the sexually unsatisfied, forty-something wife who's the killer's first target, relaying her sexual fantasies to her psychiatrist (Michael Caine) before actually living one of them out after the film's celebrated cat-and-mouse sequence in a Manhattan art museum. The focus then switches to a murder witness (De Palma's then-girlfriend Nancy Allen) and Dickinson's grieving whiz-kid son (Keith Gordon), who attempt to solve the murder while staying one step ahead (or so they think) of the crude detective (Dennis Franz) assigned to the case. Propelled by Pino Donaggio's lush and stimulating score, De Palma's visuals provide seductive counterpoint to his brashly candid dialogue, and the plot conceals its own implausibility with morbid thrills and intoxicating suspense. If you're not laughing at De Palma's shameless audacity, you're sure to be on the edge of your seat. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Scarface | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £9.48   |  Saving you £5.50 (73.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Scarface (Dir. Howard Hawks 1932): Generally regarded to be the best - and most brutal - of the classic gangster films the original Scarface tells the story of orginised crime's pinch on the city of Chicago during prohibition. Paul Muni plays Tony Carmonte an ambitious hood with a Napoleonic urge to fight his way to number one gang boss. When the last of the old-style crime bosses is brutally slain down the finger is pointed at Tony and Johnny Loro a rival gangster. However Tony's desire to move up the ladder is about to put him in the firing line of his peers and the police. Produced and directed by the mercurial Howard Hawks Scarface is the movie which established both Paul Muri and his coin flipping aide George Raft as major Hollywood stars. Scarface (Dir. Brian De Palma 1983): Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping cult crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire and makes some ruthless friends and enemies on the way to oblivion...

• Tom Cruise Collection | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Collateral: Cab driver Max (Foxx) dreams of one day realising his entrepeneurial aspirations. However one terrifying night he realises that the passenger he's been driving around all evening (Cruise) is a contract killer committing a series of hits. Now it's up to Max to somehow stop the killer from executing the last witness on his list and to stay alive himself... Days of Thunder: Tom Cruise plays race car driver Cole Trickle whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid) Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends race car driver Cole Trickle's career until he turns to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and true courage needed to race to win and to live. Top Gun A look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Pete Maverick Mitchell a daring young fighter who's out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom... The Firm: Three-time Oscar nominee Tom Cruise delivers the most electrifying performance of his career in this riveting film based on the international best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere a brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad. Driven by a fierce desire to bury his working class past Mitch joins a small prosperous Memphis firm that affords Mitch and his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) an affluent lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm Mitch sets out to find the truth in a deadly crossfire between the FBI the Mob and a force that will stop at nothing to protect its interests - The Firm. Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. War Of The Worlds: Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and somewhat less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife (Miranda Otto) and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and young daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) for a rare weekend visit a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down. Moments later Ray witnesses an extraordinary event that will change all their lives forever. A towering three-legged war machine emerges from deep beneath the earth; an ordinary day has suddenly become the most extraordinary event of their lifetimes - the first strike in a cataclysmic alien attack on Earth. Ray scrambles to get his children away from this merciless new enemy embarking on a journey that will take them across the ravaged countryside where they become caught in the desperate tide of refugees fleeing from an extraterrestrial army of Tripods. But no matter where they run there is no safety no refuge: only Ray's unconquerable will to protect the ones he loves...

• Mission To Mars | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £6.23   |  Saving you £11.76 (188.76%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

• Phantom of the Paradise | Blu Ray | (24/02/2014) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

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• Body Double | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Director Brian De Palma pits sexuality against physical violence in a roller coaster of a thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith. A beautiful young woman performs a seductive striptease at the window of her fabulous Hollywood home. A struggling young actor watches entranced from a house nearby drawn into her obsession. Suddenly he becomes a helpless witness to her savage murder. Compelled to track down the psychopath responsible his investigations lead him into the stark and perverted world of the body double.

• Snake Eyes | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story featuresNicolasCage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defence is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives DePalma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma licence to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes but what style you're talking about.--Tom Keogh

• The Untouchables | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.35   |  Saving you £13.64 (214.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece – a glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago... and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first. Special Features: The Script, The Cast Production Stories Reinventing the Genre The Classic Original Featurette: The Men Theatrical Trailer

• Carrie/The Rage - Carrie 2 | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £6.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (100.15%)   |  RRP £12.99

  CarrieAll hell breaks loose when a tortured, misfit teenager (Sissy Spacek) unleashes her secret telekinetic powers against her psychotic mother (Piper Laurie) and sadistic classmates. Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, this ultimate revenge fantasy is one of the all-time great horror classics! Carrie 2: The RageWhen misfit teenager Rachel Lang’s (Emily Bergl) best friend commits suicide, high school becomes an even colder, lonelier experience for her. Now, the target of a mean-spirited prank, Rachel uses her telekinetic powers to wreak a fiery vengeance on those who have hurt her.

• Carrie | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All hell breaks loose when a tortured, misfit teenager (Sissy Spacek) unleashes her secret telekinetic powers against her psychotic mother (Piper Laurie) and sadistic classmates. Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, this ultimate revenge fantasy is one of the all-time great horror classics!

• Blow Out (1981) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (02/08/2021) from £23.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma (Sisters, Carrie, Scarface), John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction) gives one of his greatest performances, as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (played by Carrie's Nancy Allen), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on the act of moviemaking. Special Features: New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director Brian De Palma, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New hour-long interview with De Palma, conducted by filmmaker Noah Baumbach New interview with star Nancy Allen Cameraman Garrett Brown on the Steadicam shots featured in the film within the film Select on-set photos from photographer Louis Goldman Original theatrical trailer More! PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and Pauline Kael's original New Yorker review

• The Black Dahlia | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Black Dahlia weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession love corruption greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) a.k.a. ""The Black Dahlia"" - an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public. While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay (Scarlett Johansson) his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank) the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families - who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim... True crime meets urban legend as De Palma brings James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia to life.

• Sisters | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What The Devil Hath Joined Together Let No Man Cut Asunder! Before 1973, Brian De Palma was impossible to pigeonhole: he made comedies, political satires and openly experimental pieces. But with Sisters (originally released as Blood Sisters in the UK) he turned to the suspense thriller and discovered his natural home and a style that would lead directly to later masterpieces like Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. When Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets potential boyfriend Philip (Lisle Wilson) after appearing on the TV show Peeping Toms (a nod to the Michael Powell shocker), she invites him home, only to attract the ire of her twin sister Dominique. From across the courtyard, Rear Window style, reporter Grace (Jennifer Salt) witnesses Philip being murdered by one of the twins but the police find no body or any physical evidence. Naturally, Grace takes things into her own hands, and discovers more about the sisters' relationship than she bargained for Strongly influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski, and with a score by the great Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Psycho), Sisters was the first true Brian De Palma film. Features: Brand new High Definition digital transfer High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) What the Devil Hath Joined Together: Brian De Palma's Sisters A visual essay by author Justin Humphreys All new interviews with co-writer Louisa Rose, actress Jennifer Salt, editor Paul Hirsch and unit manager Jeffrey Hayes The De Palma Digest a film-by-film guide to the director's career by critic Mike Sutton Archive audio interview with star William Finley (excerpt) Theatrical Trailer Gallery of Sisters promotional material from around the world Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys