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• 13 Rue Madeleine | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of Allied agents prepare to infiltrate German intelligence in Paris to find the whereabouts of a secret rocket site during World War 2. Their task is made even more hazardous by the fact that one of them is a double agent...

• Guyver - The Bioboosted Armor Collection | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £51.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (16.37%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor Collection (7 Disc)

• Superman: The Movie (4 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (340.68%)   |  RRP £21.99

  To commemorate the recent release of Superman Returns this fantastic 4 disc Special Edition of the original with have fans (metaphorically) salivating in the aisles! Featuring the original 1978 cut plus the 2001 extended edition commentary from Richard Donner and a whole host of archival footage additional scenes and screen tests this is truly the most definitive Superman box set ever! The movie that makes a legend come to life. The planet Krypton is doomed. Only one man Jor-El knows it and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-Els son grows to manhood he learns that he possesses super-powers he must hide from ordinary mortals around him. It takes a big movie to contain the considerable talents of Marlon Brando Gene Hackman Jackie Cooper Glen Ford Margot Kidder Valerie Perrine and at its heart the most human portrayal of the Man of Steel Christopher Reeve. Superman an Academy Award winner (1978) for special achievement in visual effects is more than big enough. Directed by Richard Donner Superman: The Movie makes us believe this epic story all over again.

• Robin Hood - Series 1 Vol.3 | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The BBC's Robin Hood is a big budget re-imagining of the classic tale with a unique blend of exhilarating action wit and romance all headed by a bright young cast of actors. Robin Hood delights as he fights the authority of the evil Sheriff of Nottingham with outrageous scams disguises tricks and ingenuity breathtaking archery and incredible swordplay. All the while he romances the heavenly Maid Marian and champions the poor with his band of merry men! This release features the third part of the first series

• A Better Tomorrow - Special Edition | DVD | (27/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Better Tomorrow is one of the most influential films in Hong Kong film history, a massive hit which launched the "Heroic Bloodshed" genre, made an instant superstar of Chow Yun Fat, set director John Woo on a path to Hollywood blockbusterdom, and spawned a series of hit sequels starting with the inevitable A Better Tomorrow II (1987). The story is a gangster archetype: Ho (Ti Lung) and best friend Mark (Chow Yun Fat) are counterfeiters, while Ho's younger brother Kit (Leslie Cheung), is a trainee law officer. When tragedy strikes Ho determines to go straight, and Kit seeks to bring them to justice. It's an age-old plot which leads to wholesale mayhem and a blood-soaked finale. Yet unlike many Hong Kong action movies, A Better Tomorrow packs the powerful emotional resonance of the best gangster flicks through coherent storytelling and believable characters struggling with impossible dilemmas. Rather than draw on crime movie imagery, Woo appropriates much of the visual style, not to mention individual set-pieces, ferociously intense gunplay, menacing electronic soundscapes and blue backlighting from James Cameron's then-recently released The Terminator (1984). That the result launched a filmmaking revolution testifies to John Woo's skill behind the camera, a talent which would reach full flower in The Killer (1989). On the DVD: A Better Tomorrow--Special Edition is anamorphically enhanced and transferred at 1.78:1, but the use of a slightly soft, washed-out print and regularly apparent compression artefacts makes for a mediocre picture. The sound is two-channel mono, which is often harsh and borders on distortion. The only choice on the first DVD is to watch the film in Cantonese, with optional English subtitles, or in a poor English dub. The second DVD has a new ten-minute featurette edited mainly from archive interviews with the stars and John Woo. There are further archive interviews; 18 minutes with Chow Yun Fat, 10 minutes with Woo and two minutes with Ti Lung. These are interesting, but are not all specific to the film. Also included is a short text transcription of an interview with Woo, biographies and filmographies, a gallery of assorted stills and two trailers. All this could easily have fitted on the first DVD and doesn't do justice to either the film or the idea of a special edition. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Hulk: Limited Edition DVD Box Set | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" director Ang Lee brings the brutal Marvel Comics character to the silver screen.

• The Prisoner - Vol. 2 - Episodes 5 To 8 | DVD | (14/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The most famous the most acclaimed and the most intriguing of all classic television thrillers starring Patrick McGoohan as a man with no name but with only a number.... Number Six. Trapped in an inescapable village Number Six is discovering that life is a battle with the ever-changing Number Two and that there may never be an end to the nightmare. Episode 5 - The Schizoid Man: Number Six awakes to find he has an identical twin. Episode 6 - The General: A subliminal teaching method is being used in The Village. Episode 7 - Many Happy Returns: The Village appears dead and Number Six escapes... or has he? Episode 8 - Dance of the Dead: It's carnival time in The Village... by order people will be happy.

• Sinbad of the Seven Seas | Blu Ray | (08/02/2016) from £7.21   |  Saving you £9.04 (151.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A dazzling adventure of faraway lands and heroic spectacles, this heart-soaring epic follows the brave Sinbad the Sailor (Lou Ferrigno, The Incredible Hulk ) in a rousing tale based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade. Sinbad discovers that Jaffar, the evil Vizier to the good Calif of Basra, has placed a spell on Basra, turning its people into animals and enslaving the mind of the Calif. Sinbad sets forth on a journey to retrieve the five sacred gems of Basra that will defeat Jaffar, which Jaffar has dispatched to places of great evil. He must succeed before Jaffar's spell saps the will of the Calif's daughter Alina, the beloved of one of Sinbad's crewmen, and forces her to marry him.

• Bloodfight | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Masahiro Kai has made it to the finals of the Free Fighting Championship. In flashback he remembers training Ryu Tenmei for the event. Ryu makes it to the final bout against the reigning champ Chang Lee (Bolo Yeung). After Lee kills Ryu Kai sinks into alcoholism tangling with a gang of Americans until he decides to go back into training and defeat Chang Lee himself.

• Operation Rogue | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £4.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (165.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Brandon son of the famed Marine Sniper Gunny Thomas Beckett and his mentor Captain Miller must team up with a female sniper and track down a rogue sniper - a returned Iraq War vet suffering from PTSD - who is using remote control weapons to assassinate military and civilian targets in the U.S. and Central America.

• Shaft Trilogy | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L. Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing, New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn-out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle, and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wise-cracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.comShaft in Africa, the second sequel to the original hit, foreshadows itself early on when Shaft, asked to go undercover in Africa to halt a modern-day slave trade, claims that he's not James Bond but strictly Sam Spade. Bond, however, is the operative model here, with John Shaft masquerading as an Ethiopian to infiltrate the slave business and bring it down. Yet everyone he encounters seems to know who he is and wants to kill him--but the string of dead bodies he leaves in his wake across two continents proves that no one is able to stop everyone's favourite hip private eye. Written by Stirling Silliphant, the film is long on action set pieces that are filmed with more energy than the previous movie, Shaft's Big Score. Given contemporary practices involving smugglers of illegal Chinese and Mexican immigrants, the plot isn't all that far-fetched. Roundtree, as usual, is the picture of unflappable cool--but don't get him mad. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Edge Of Honor | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  An innocent camping trip turns deadly when a band of boy scouts stumble upon a cache of high tech weapons. When their scout leaders are killed the young men must rely on all of their wilderness training to outsmart a group of merciless gun muggers.

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £7.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (88.55%)   |  RRP £14.99

  George Lazenby made his first and only appearance as James Bond in this the unheralded gem of the franchise. With an incredibly affecting denouement and one of John Barry's finest scores OHMSS would show a different side to Bond and open up the character to different approaches in the future. Agent 007 (George Lazenby) and the adventurous Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) join forces to battle the evil Spectre organization in the treacherous Swiss Alps. But the group's powerful leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) is launching his most calamitous scheme yet: a germ warfare plot that could kill millions!

• The Most Dangerous Game (Digitally remastered in colour) | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £26.96   |  Saving you £-18.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Double Dragon | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £16.36   |  Saving you £-8.37 (-104.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The hit video game roars to life with amazing special effects and spectacular action sequences. In 2007 New Angeles is ravaged by earthquakes tidal waves and vicious gang wars. The evil tycoon Koga Shuko (Terminator 2's Robert Patrick) is obsessed with finding both halves of the Double Dragon a talisman which will give him awesome mystical powers. Teenaged brothers Jimmy and Billy (Mark Dacascos Scott Wolf) wind up with the missing half thrusting them into the adventure of their lives. Marian (Alyssa Milano) and her vigilante Power Corps help them summon all of their courage resourcefulness and martial-arts skills to stop the villain's evil plan. This high octane action spectacular crackles with the energy and humour of its heroes: buckle your seatbelt and enjoy the ride!

• Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Two Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £8.32   |  Saving you £14.67 (176.32%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A band of commandos led by a murderous officer seize an international airport. Their aim is to rescue a drug baron (Franco Nero) from justice. Detective McClane (Bruce Willis) finds himself having to battle tough anti-terrorists squads and a deadly snowstorm to break the grip of the terrorists who have control of the plane that is carrying his wife...

• War Games | Blu Ray | (03/10/2011) from £6.66   |  Saving you £14.32 (390.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When six friends go out to into the wilderness to play war games with automatic weapons and light ammunition, many of their relationships become fractured under the weight of the game. Just as things begin to fall apart, they realize they are not alone in the forest, and a sadistic group of very dangerous men start to hunt them down, one by one. The only difference between the hunter and the hunted are that one groups bullets are very real.

• The L Word - Series 1-3 - Complete | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Same sex. Different city. Set in the chic world of Los Angeles this humor laced dramatic series explores the lives of a group of lesbians their friends family and neighbours. The series takes a smart sexy and fun look at the hopes dreams and lives of these individuals as they deal with things like career struggles relationship issues and the pressures of trying to start a family. The stellar cast features Pam Grier (Jackie Brown Foxy Brown) Jennifer Beals (Flashdance Vampire's Kiss) and a fine selection of guest stars including Snoop Dogg Ossie Davis and Rosanna Arquette.

• Fury At Smuggler's Bay | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A small coastal village is the setting for smuggling and ship wrecking. Only the Squire's son is prepared to speak out against the man responsible...

• The Champions - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - The Beginning / The Invisible Man | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £31.06   |  Saving you £-21.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  By the end of the 1960s, British television had done adventurers and sleuths to death. If Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was the supernatural spin on the mystery format, The Champions was the science-fiction version, mixing comic-book superheroics into the globe-trotting do-gooders formula. In the pilot, square-jawed Craig Sterling (Stuart Damon), model-gorgeous Sharron Macready (Alexandra Bastedo) and ironic Brit Richard Barrett (William Gaunt)--agents of an international good-guy organisation called Nemesis--find themselves in a Shangri-La-style forgotten Tibetan civilisation, where they undergo training in extrasensory perception and superhuman strength. Back home, they use their powers to tackle a mixture of ordinary crime and more complicated nefarious plans that have a semi-science fiction feel. The good-looking Damon and Bastedo seem to have had their personalities erased in the mountains, leaving Gaunt to shoulder all the acting weight. Nevertheless, it has a kind of creaky, straight-faced charm, like some lost British take on Marvel Comics' superhero teams. Volume One covers: "The Beginning", the pilot story, with Felix Aylmer as a Tibetan lama; and "The Invisible Man", which features cranial implants and bank robbery, with Peter Wyngarde (who played the title role in Jason King) as the baddie. --Kim Newman