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• Battlefield Britain - The Battle Of Culloden 1746 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This BBC series delves into the world of British Military history uncovering weapons tactics and the personalities behind the battles. Presented by father and son team Dan and Peter Snow.

• Supreme Sanction | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A journalist holds potentially threatening information and the government will not rest until he is dead. The government's trained assassin is undecided which side to choose...

• A Hard Day's Night (Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (24/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Viking - The Darkest Day | Blu Ray | (04/11/2013) from £6.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (350.88%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture.

• Cry Macho - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (13/01/2022) from £16.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Deep Core | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One hundred miles beneath the ocean floor scientist attempting to reach an oil field unwittingly unleash a massive explosion. The resultant impact creates a tsunami that completely engulfs the tropical island of Kontiki and a mysterious earthquake that swallows the town on Moltov in northern Siberia. At a loss at how to remedy the situation U.S. geologists have no option but to track down disgraced scientist Brian Gordon forcing him to pilot the controversial ultra-sound drilling machine he invented in an effort to relieve the pressure building under the Earth's mantle that could trigger an explosion that would destroy everything above ground...

• Con Air BD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblown action formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even after Simpson's druggy death. (Read Charles Fleming's exposé, High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, for more about that). Nicolas Cage, sporting a disconcerting mane of hair, is a wrongly convicted prisoner on a transport plane with a bunch of infamously psychopathic criminals, including head creep Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich), black militant Diamond Dog (Ving Rhames), and serial killer Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi, making the most of his pallid, rodent-like qualities). Naturally, the convicts take over the plane; meanwhile, on the ground, a US marshal (John Cusack)and a DEA agent (Colm Meaney), try to figure out what to do. As is the postmodern way, the movie displays a self-consciously ironic awareness that its story and characters are really just excuses for a high-tech cinematic thrill ride. Best idea: the filmmakers persuaded the owners of the legendary Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to let them help out with the structure's demolition by crashing their plane into it.--Jim Emerson

• Dawn Rider / Texas Terror | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father... Texas Terror: Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in a shoot-out with robbers...

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• UFC 110: Nogueira vs Velasquez | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Main Card Minotauro Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos Keith Jardine vs. Ryan Bader Mirko Cro Cop vs. Anthony Perosh Preliminary Card Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski Chris Lytle vs. Brian Foster C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic James Te-Huna vs Igor Pokrajac

• Ghost in the Shell | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £14.76 (42.20%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Ghost In The Shell: Mamoru Oshii's futuristic animated masterpiece is the perfect film to experience on DVD. Seamlessly merging traditional cel animation with the latest computer graphic imagery this stunning sci-fi spectacle has broken the boundaries of mainstream animation with its detailed artistic direction and uniquely intelligent story line. Aided by an esoteric Kenji Kawai score 'Ghost In The Shell' took the world by storm in 1996 introducing a new wave of Japanese animation through its mesmerzing cinematic expression. A movie that questions our own human existence in the fast-paced world of the information age this remarkable award-winning cyber-tech thriller has gone on to become one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time. Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence: It is the year 2032 and Earth is a world where the few remaining humans coexist with cyborgs human spirits inhabiting mechanized bodies and dolls robots with no human elements whatsoever. A cyborg detective for the government's covert anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9 Batou is charged with investigating the bizarre case of a malfunctioning gynoid - a hyper-realistic female robot created specifically for sexual companionship - responsible for slaughtering its owner. Delving deeper and deeper into the investigation Batou and his partner Togusa are forced to confront violent Yakuza thugs devious hackers influential government bureaucrats and powerful corporate criminals. As they move closer to uncovering the mystery it slowly becomes apparent that the truth behind the crime is far more shocking than anyone dared imagine... Ghost In The Shell: Solid State Society: The year is 2034; two years after Major Motoko Kusanagi left Public Security Section 9 the elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber warfare. In that time Section 9 has increased its appointed personnel to 20 operatives with Togusa taking over as leader of the unit. Section 9's latest assignment sees the team confronted by a rash of mysterious suicides involving operatives of the disbanded Siak Republic many of whom had sought asylum in Japan. They manage to track down Ka Gae-Ru a former Siak Colonel who has taken a hostage in the hope of negotiating safe passage out of the country. Confronted by Section 9 a fearful Gae-Ru issues a cryptic warning that The Puppeteer is coming before killing himself. Investigations suggest that The Puppeteer is an ultra-wizard hacker who is not only responsible for the recent spate of suicides but is also behind a series of child abductions. But who is the Puppeteer and what is the connection to the so-called Solid State Society? An unexpected encounter between Batou and Major Motoko leaves the former with his own theory one that is almost impossible to comprehend...

• Mafia | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the story of the modern Mafia the most powerful criminal organisation ever. Its rise is a gripping and often tragic tale of corruption and crime murder and betrayal and a growing war with police and governments across the World. Its central protagonists - men like 'Lucky' Luciano and Tomasso Buscetta on one side Giovanne Falcone and Rudolph Giuliani on the other - are some of the real heroes and villains of our time. Full of crime action and larger than life characters the series is also a parallel history of the last 50 years - globalisation politics and big business - seen from its shadowy underbelly. We follow how from the late 1950s the Mafia exploited the emerging international economic climate to turn itself into the biggest most profitable multinational corporation in the world; a conglomerate comprising two very distinct organisations: the American and Sicilian Mafias. Authorities across the globe completely failed to appreciate this separate but symbiotic relationship until it was too late.

• Definitive Edition - Daredevil | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Attorney Matt Murdock is blind, but his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night, he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice.

• Second in Command | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an official appointed second-in command to the US ambassador to a tumultuous Eastern European country. When the ambassador is murdered in an attempted coup it's down to JC and a small group of US marines to fend off the attackers!

• Lebanon | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The First Lebanon War - June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israel Air Force. What seems to be a simple mission gets gradually out of control and turns into a shivering nightmare.

• The Terminator | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Terminator was the film that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in the action-brawn firmament, and both his and the movie's subsequent iconic status are well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg that kills without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and direction are pared to the bone and are all the more chillingly effective for it. But don't overlook the contribution of Linda Hamilton, who more than holds her own as the Terminator's would-be victim, Sarah Connor, thus creating--along with Sigourney Weaver in Alien--a new generation of rugged, clear-thinking female action stars. The film's minimalist, malevolent violence is actually scarier than that of its far more expensive, more effects-laden sequel. --Anne Hurley

• The Unbeaten 28 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In THE UNBEATEN 28 young Tiger (Meng Fei) witnesses the brutal death of his father and is taken in by a Kung Fu Master (Jack Long) for training in the ancient disciplines of Shaolin and Wu-Tang in the hope of taking revenge. But the young Tiger must successfully overcome 'The 18 Obstacles' to uncover the secret manual that holds the key to the rebuilding of the powerful 'Wu-Tang Clan'; only then will he have the power to avenge the deaths of his father and the adoptive master to whom he owes his life.

• Hulk Vol.2 (animated TV series) | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Incredible Hulk Volume 2. Contains The First Part I The First Part II and Kindred Spirits .

• Drunken Master 3 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sum Yu is a young princess betrothed to the dictator Yuan Shih-Kai. Unfortunately Sum Yu is being detained by Sun Yat-Sen's republican loyalists and Yuan Shih-Kai sends Governor Li (Liu) to bring her to him. Meanwhile Wong Fei-Hung is enlisted to take the princess to a safe hiding place and learns the art of drunken boxing which he uses to defend the princess from the Governor and his cadre of troops...

• Barbarossa - Siege Lord | Blu Ray | (04/04/2011) from £8.83   |  Saving you £11.16 (55.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italy. 12th Century. The Northern Lands are ruled by the German Emperor Frederick Hohenstaufen called Barbarossa (Redbeard). His dream is to conquer the lands of Central and Southern Italy to revive the Empire that once belonged to Charles the Great. But in the North there is a young man from Milan named Alberto Da Giussano. His dream is to defeat the Emperor and give freedom back to people from the Northern lands.