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• The World Of Drunken Master | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £7.41   |  Saving you £-1.42 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Made in 1979 The World of Drunken Master appeared at the same time as Drunken Master Part 2, and is an unofficial prequel to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master (1978). As the titular character, Siu Tien Yuen appeared in all three films, though here his role is reduced to a 10-minute cameo and the bulk of the film is a flashback to 30 years earlier. The story unfolds as Jack and Mark Long play a pair of petty thieves who team-up, learn kung fu and fall in love with the daughter (Jeanie Chang) of the owner of a local distillery. Naturally there is a gang of villains who want to close the business down and steal the land, so that the second half of the movie is one long series of fight scenes. Clearly made on a very low budget, the action is nevertheless inventively choreographed and well filmed. Siu Tien Yuen doesn't have much to do, though the framing device and the passage of time to when the old friends meet again lends a poignancy and sense of loss unusual in kung fu movies. The star would reprise the character at greater length in Magnificent Butcher (again, 1979), while Jackie Chan finally delivered his own Drunken Master II in 1994. The title on this print is actually Drunken Dragon. On the DVD: the original 2.35:1 ratio film is presented here at standard TV 4:3, with often little evidence even of any panning and scanning so that the images look badly composed and lack important information throughout. The credits have been simply squashed to 4:3 so that everything looks tall and thin. Worse, the encoding is riddled with compression artefacts and the eye-aching out-of-focus, grainy, washed-out transfer shows clear evidence of originating with a poor quality video than the original film. There is no original soundtrack option, only a dreadful American dub. The sound is mediocre mono. Apart from various language subtitles the only extra is the original theatrical trailer. This is presented anamorphically enhanced, but the picture quality is still very poor and the image has been squashed from 2.35:1 to 1.77:1. The listed trailers for other MIA titles are missing from the disc, which astonishingly claims to be a "Special Edition". The cover blurb even manages to confuse the plot with that of an entirely different film, the same director's The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979). --Gary S Dalkin

• Fruits Basket - Vol. 1 - A Great Transformation | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The Sohma family is cursed. However this is no ordinary family curse. When a member of the family is embraced by a person of the opposite gender they transform into an animal of the Chinese Zodiac! The Sohma's managed to keep thecurse private for generations but when a young girl stumbles upon their secret life at the Sohma house changes forever. Conflict erupts as Zodiac rivals clash in this most unusual household. Young Tohru Honda must promise thesecret will remain her own or

• Enter The Invincible Hero | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £9.34   |  Saving you £0.65 (6.96%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fast-paced Kung Fu story about a young drifter who starts work for a security firm only to discover that the company was set up to deceive and rob it's own customers. He takes it upon himself to bring down the company by any means possible but is shocked when he finds out who is behind the operation.

• Six Million Dollar Man, The - Vol. 4 | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Episodes included are: 'Population Zero' 'Doomsday and Counting' and 'Survival of the Fittest'.

• Dawn of The Dragon Slayer | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Will's father is killed by a dragon, Will leaves his once-idyllic home in the mountains to hunt down the beast. The trail of slaughter leads him on an epic journey across the lowlands. When he reaches an ancestral home, he finds others who know about the dragon and stays to work for the tyrannical Sterling in order to learn how to slay the beast.Will is befriended by Sterling's daughter Kate, and she prepares him for the final battle with the dragon. But Sterling, threatened by Will, orders his men to kill the young squire. Will manages to escape with his life, but he must risk everything to destroy the dragon so that can avenge his father's death and prove himself a man.

• Kingdom Of Heaven | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £24.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.04%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Orlando Bloom stars as a stranger in a strange land in this epic Crusades adventure.

• The Rookie | Blu Ray | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Nick Pulovski is a tough veteran cop with a history of training new partners who end up dead -- usually thanks to his recklessness. His most recent assignment is a cocky rookie with emotional problems and a lot of leftover hostility from his childhood. The two team up to crack a car-stealing ring; but when Pulovski gets kidnapped by a pair of sadistic thieves it's up to the brash rookie to save him. And this young cop won't let useless technicalities like The Law stand in his way.

• Independence Day (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (16/09/2013) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind.

• Eastsidaz, Tha | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Multi-platinum rapper Snoop Dogg stars in a gritty and realistic tale of double cross and revenge set in his native Long Beach CA. Tha Eastsidaz tells the story of Killa Pop (Snoop Dogg) as a respected and powerfull gang kingpin looking to get out of the game - as soon as he pulls of one final deal. His trusted lieutenant Crackle (Tray Deee) has set everything up the place the time the price... and him. Now Pop is fighting to survive in maximum security while Crackle steals the empire he has worked his entire life to build. Aided from the outside by gun-toting gangstresses Doggie's Angels and his loyal friend Snap (Goldie Loc) Killa Pop and partner (Darryl Brunson) plan an ingenious escape and a brutal payback for Crackle in an incredible climax you'll never forget.

• Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe Box Set | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe Box Set (3 Discs)

• Go For Broke! | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.80   |  Saving you £-0.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Van Johnson stars as Lt. Michael Grayson in this wartime drama about a unique regiment of Japanese-American men during World War Two and their distrustful and bigoted lieutenant. Sent to fight in Italy the regiment soon have the lieutenant re-evaluating his personal opinions as his men prove their willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty and live up to their motto and Go For Broke.

• The Snows Of Kilimanjaro | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As writer Harry Street (Gregory Peck) lays gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he feverishly reflects on his life. Through his delirium he recalls his one true love Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner) whom he lost through his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Though she is dead Cynthia continues to haunt Street's thoughts. In spite of one successful novel after another Street feels he has compromised his talent to ensure the success of his books making him a failure in his eyes. His neglected wife Helen (Susan Hayward) tends to his wounds listens to his ranting endures his talk of lost loves and tries to restore in him the will to fight his illness until help arrives. Her devotion to him makes him finally realise that he is not a failure. With his realisation of a chance for love and happiness with Helen will he regain his will to live?

• The Prisoner Of Zenda | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Author Anthony Hope's classic tale is given the Peter Sellers treatment in The Prisoner Of Zenda.

• Mission Impossible 1-5 | Blu Ray | (07/12/2015) from £44.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook - Limited to 2000 copies. Mission Impossible Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). 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. Mission Impossible 2 The world's greatest spy returns in M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in. Mission Impossible 3 Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias). Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol No plan. No backup. No choice. Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his elite team (Jeremy Renner - The Avengers and Simon Pegg - Star Trek) go underground after a bombing of the Kremlin implicates the IMF as international terrorists. While trying to clear the agency's name, the team uncovers a plot to start a nuclear war. Now, to save the world, they must use every high-tech trick in the book. The mission has never been more real, more dangerous or more impossible. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.

• Hot Fuzz/Miami Vice/Smokin' Aces | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hot Fuzz (Dir. Edgar Wright) (2007): Top London cop Police Constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) finds himself reassigned to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) an oafish but well meaning young Constable. Just as all seems lost a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems.... Miami Vice (Dir. Michael Mann) (2006): After a deadly security breach in the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF) the FBI ask for help from the Miami authorities who are not part of the compromised group. This assignment goes to Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett (Farrell) and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs (Foxx). Going undercover as offshore boat racers and outlaw smugglers Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper they take on the narcotrafficking network of the mysterious Archangel de Jesus Montoya-Londono and his Cuban Chinese banker Isabella (Gong Li) where the intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication become blurred cop and player become one... Smokin' Aces (Dir. Joe Carnahan) (2007): When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing...

• The Day After Tomorrow Steelbook (exklusiv bei Amazon.de) | Blu Ray | (01/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blue Dragon Vol. 5-6 | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blue Dragon Vol.5 & 6 Double Pack

• Ned Kelly | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Making no pretence to be factually accurate, Ned Kelly is at least an engaging action film with its heart in the right place. You don't need to be a student of Australian history to know that a picture detailing the life of the notorious folk hero and outlaw is not going to be a light-hearted romp through the outback. Injustice, persecution and unlawful imprisonment are the meat of his story, all presented here with not too much of a rose-tinted perspective amid generous doses of obligatory action. Rebellious teenager Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger) is wrongfully imprisoned for stealing a horse and, when he returns to the bosom of his large Irish family, finds that the police won't let him go straight. After being accused of a crime he didn't commit, Kelly is left with no option but to go on the run. Accompanied by his gang (among them Orlando Bloom) he robs banks to survive and also to try and get the money together to free his family from prison. There is some considerable romanticising of the story and the man himself, due in part to Ledger's affable Robin Hood-esque working-class hero portrayal. Bloom is wide-eyed and daring as Kelly's main man, and Naomi Watts as his married mistress has the thankless task of breaking up some great action sequences to play the unnecessary love interest. --Kristen Bowditch

• Full Metal Alchemist 9 - Paint And Lust | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £25.35   |  Saving you £-9.36 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The boys are separated when kidnappers take Al to their hideout leaving Ed frantic to find his brother. Izumi steps in to help her protgs as always and finds they've learned something from life she could never have taught them alone...responsibility. Major Armstrong battles Greed's men in the sewers in an attempt to save Al while up above Ed escapes the military's clutches for a showdown with Greed. As Lust suggests the battle is part of some larger plan Greed morphs his body into an impervious shield and swears Ed must kill him if he wants to see Al again. Lust and Gluttony meet Wrath for the first time and quickly set out on the Elric Brother's trail. Will Ed and Al reach their destination before they're overtaken? And if they do are they ready for what they'll find? Episodes comprise: 33. Al Captured 34. Theory of Avoarice 35. Reunion of the Fallen 36. The Sinner Within

• Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World | UMD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Russell Crowe stars as "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, who pits his crew of the HMS Surprise against a much better armed and ruthless enemy in a chase that takes him all the way to the far side of the world.