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• In Time / The Darkest Hour Double Pack | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In TimeAs a storyteller, Andrew Niccol tends to think big, tackling heady subjects such as genetic predestination (Gattaca), the nature of reality (The Truman Show), and celebrity in the cyber age (S1m0ne). In Time, Niccol's first film since 2005's Lord of War, has a typically gigantic premise--a world where everyone over 25 years old must pay for every continued second of their existence--but stumbles in the execution. While the ideas are exceedingly clever, the telling isn't especially witty. Justin Timberlake stars as a goodhearted but desperate minimum-wager trapped in a society where the rich are essentially immortal and the poor see their lifespan shorten with every purchase. (A cup of coffee costs 4 minutes, taking the bus also takes 30 minutes off of your life, and so on.) After being gifted with a century by a mysterious benefactor, he begins a romance with a beautiful socialite (Amanda Seyfried), whose father holds the key to the entire monetary system. Matters are complicated with the introduction of a relentless time cop (Cillian Murphy) with his own motivations for restoring the unnatural balance of things. Niccol has fun laying out the aspects of a world where even the elderly are genetically frozen at age 25 (the scenes where Timberlake interacts with his mother, played by a disturbingly spry Olivia Wilde, are an unsavoury hoot), but has difficulty translating the ingenuity of his concept to a compelling narrative, which rapidly devolves into a mix of uninspired chase scenes and a succession of time-related puns that would have trouble passing muster on a Laffy Taffy wrapper. (The bad guys threaten to clean Timberlake's clock. Repeatedly.) While science fiction aficionados will find much to chew on in Niccol's askew reality, In Time never quite hits the marks that its own ideas suggest. As a film, it's more fun to think about than watch. --Andrew Wright The Darkest HourFancy a sci-i movie where you can shift your brain to neutral, and just sit back and watch an alien invasion take place? Then The Darkest Hour presents itself as a fine candidate for a blockbuster night in front of the television. There's nothing massively radical about the concept. A bunch of five young Americans find themselves in Moscow, just as the world finds itself under the threat of alien invasion. As such, The Darkest Hour trains its focus on its principal quintet, as they battle to survive. Which, as you've probably correctly guessed by now, is all the excuse needed for a mixture of special effects, a few thrillers, and a fun hour and a half of mayhem. The Darkest Hour doesn't quite have a blockbuster-level budget. The picture sparkles in particular, with the lively visuals benefiting enormously from the clarity of a 1080p video transfer and don't overlook the workout your audio system gets, either. This is a loud, fast film, that's happy to put any half-decent surround sound system through its paces. It gladly does so, too. Awards aren't going to be lavished at the door of The Darkest Hour anytime soon, but it's an enjoyable film, that notwithstanding. In fact, it's an enjoyable film that's just as entertaining second time round. And while occasionally the economy of its budget is evident, The Darkest Hour nonetheless punches above its weight. --Jon Foster

• Troy/10000 BC Double Pack | Blu Ray | (17/09/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Troy: For honour... In 1193B.C. the dandy Trojan prince Paris (Bloom) irresponsibly spirits away the unhappy wife of Menelaus (Gleeson), the Spartan king. Demanding the return of Helen, the Greeks launch a thousand ships and lay siege to Troy. Under the command of Agamemnon (Cox), revered warrior Achilles (Pitt) leads the Greek forces against the Trojan defenders, commanded by Hector (Bana), who carries the fate of his nation on his shoulders... 10,000 BC: From Roland E...

• Magic In The Water | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Radio psychologist Jack Black (Mark Harmon) takes his children Joshua (Joshua Jackson) and Ashley (Sarah Wayne) on a ""vacation"" to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster ""Orky"" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad and help keep local polluters from dumping toxic waste into Orky's home.

• Samurai X - Trust | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nineteenth century Japan: a land torn by warfare and rebellion where small bands of soldiers seek to overthrow the tyrannical Tokugawa Shogunate. Kenshin is a young orphan whose fighting skills where honed by the great swordsman Hiko. But Kenshin's soul is embattled just like the battlefields of Japan his hopes for a new world peace at odds with his life of blood and killing. His world is thrown into further confusion by the arrival of a mysterious woman named Tomoe. Her kindness

• Ninja Scroll 2 | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £12.64   |  Saving you £7.35 (36.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jubei Shigure Dakuan and Tsubute set out to find answers. The battles heat up as the Kimon become more desperate to obtain the Dragon Stone and the Light Maiden while the Hiruko are just as desperate to keep the Kimon from their goal. Everyone is out for blood with Jubei stuck right in the middle! Includes the episodes: The Diamond Child Shelter From The Rain Blossom The Fate Of Rengoku.

• Dead Drop | Blu Ray | (17/02/2014) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (345.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer.

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Episodes 1, 2 And 3 | DVD | (22/11/1999) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring episodes 1-3.

• Death Riders | Blu Ray | (13/08/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Steven Seagal is back as Elijah Kane in this new action-packed film.Elijah Kane's city is caught in the crossfire of a gang war between the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, when they attack the dangerous Mexican gang, MS-13, in Seattle and look to flip a profit doing so.

• The Fast And The Furious | Blu Ray | (04/04/2011) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Investigating a series of truck hijackings, a rookie undercover cop infiltrates a Los Angeles street racing gang.

• The Spy Next Door | Blu Ray | (02/08/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (130.36%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Family action comedy "The Spy Next Door" stars Jackie Chan as Bob Ho, an undercover CIA superspy who decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbour and girlfriend.

• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters | Blu Ray | (03/03/2014) from £11.15   |  Saving you £13.84 (124.13%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, continues the epic journey to fulfill his destiny, as he teams with his demigod friends to retrieve the Golden Fleece, which has the power to save their home and training ground, Camp Half-Blood.

• The War Game | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Few films have caused such controversy as Peter Watkins' The War Game a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a limited nuclear attack on Kent England. Blending fiction and fact to create a moving and startling vision of the personal as well as the public consequences of such an attack Watkins exposes the inadequacy of the nation's Civil Defence programme and questions the philosophy of the nuclear deterrent. Conspicuously absent from TV screens until 1985 it was mainly through cinema release in 1966 - and its Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1967 - that it gained a loyal and vociferous following providing a sharp focus for CND and other peace movements. This special edition DVD also includes Watkins' award-winning The Diary of an Unknown Soldier and The War Game - The Controversy in which Patrick Murphy reveals new information pointing to a definitive account of the banning of the film.

• Born Invincible | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £13.24   |  Saving you £-7.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Classic Kung Fu fare from the Hong Kong school directed by the old master himself, Joseph Kuo, Born Invincible has only been available in an extremely crackly print for years. Fortunately this version has been cleaned up, though lovers of Oriental kitsch will be glad to hear that the risible, excruciating dubbing remains intact. The plot revolves around the evil Ching Ying (Carter Wong), who has trained since the age of three in the near-impossible art of Tai Chi Kung Fu. His body has become tantamount to a single, deadly muscle, the 108 pressure points of human vulnerability reduced to just one--his sole weakness. His training has also left him with whitened hair and a voice that, dubbed, is a little too close to Harry Enfield's Grayson character from the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches in high excitement. Having killed two elders of the Lei Ping school in martial combat over an old score, it falls to the students of that establishment to avenge their masters, through three rigorous years of training. The awesome, though often-comical fight scenes (which in no way resemble Tai Chi) dominate the movie, involving as they do protracted acrobatic manoeuvres, few of which seem to involve actual contact with the human body. Still, lovers of The Matrix might care to revisit this, in order to check out how those moves were first committed to celluloid when editing was less of a fine art. --David Stubbs

• Jesse James: Lawman | DVD | (09/04/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a small town is overrun by the gang of outlaws. The Mayor finds that they are under the thumb of the gang's leader, villainous Hoyt Killian. The town's sheriff takes it upon himself to hire famed outlaw Jesse James to infiltrate the gang and stop their evil plans from inside their ranks. Its outlaw versus outlaw and to the winner goes the town and its secret treasures. An action-packed western featuring Kevin Sorbo and the legendary Peter Fonda.

• L.A. Earthquake | DVD | (16/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When colossal earthquakes erupt along the San Andreas Fault, Los Angeles hovers on the brink of destruction. As a mass evacuation of the city is ordered, a few survivors find themselves left behind, roaming the streets with a group of dangerous convicts who escaped from prison during the tremors. Amidst the chaos, Calvin Hopkins is stranded in the disaster zone searching for his girlfriend Ashley (Gina Holden, Fantastic Four, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) and fearing for her life. As the cty crumbles and the convicts start to take survivors hostage, the Air Force bombers are called. Led by LT. Grisham (Christopher Judge, The Dark Knight Rises) the clock is ticking to save as many lives as they can, rescue the hostages and for Calvin and Ashley to re-unite before L.A. collapses into rubble and flames.

• The Brides Of Fu Manchu | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard is determined not to let that happen...

• Midnight Man | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Married and supposedly retired from duty Sean Dillon (Rob Lowe) is dragged back into the dangerous world of international espionage when a plan is discovered by Brigadier Ferguson (Kenneth Cranham) to kill off the British Royal Family. Dillon must discover who is behind the plot but the suspects are many and varied. Is the IRA involoved Middle East fundamentalists or old guard Russian leaders tightening their fingers on the trigger that will set Britain on the road to a Republic? The stage is set for a deadly game of cat and mouse between former comrades turned adversaries. In such a barren climate of cold hearts can love survive and good finally triumph over evil?

• The Transporter Steel Pack | Blu Ray | (02/03/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (37.00%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is the best at what he does: transporting illegal goods with no questions asked. But his latest shipment a beautiful woman kidnapped by slave traders brings deadly complications to the delivery plans. Now Frank must kick into overdrive to save his precious cargo—and his life.

• Spirited Warrior | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £5.33   |  Saving you £4.66 (87.43%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ultra-rare and available on DVD for the first time ever! A group of travellers are trekking through the exotic forests of Thailand when from out of nowhere comes a martial arts maniac who hacks up most of the party with a multitude of deadly weapons and savage martial techniques. The mad man is the Spirited Killer a forest dweller who will kill all those who enter his domain. Leading those who survive this vicious attack is Tony Jaa making his film debut taking on the might of Thai action star and mentor Panna Rittikrai as the Spirited Killer. The action stakes the action stars and stunt teams give Jackie Chan and Jet Li a run for their money. This is the first picture from the team who would later bring the world Ong Bak and Tong Yum Goong.

• Mission Impossible '89 | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Episodes Comprise: The Golden Serpent (Part 1) The Golden Serpent (Part 2) The Princess Command Performance Countdown Countdown War Games Target Earth The Fuhrer's Children Banshee For Art's Sake Deadly Harvest Cargo Cult The Assassin Gunslinger Church Bells in Bogota The Sands of Seth