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• Saving Private Ryan | Blu Ray | (29/04/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything, from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers, has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire. After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the Tom Hanks-led platoon consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty Sergeant; the thick-necked Private; the Southern man religious sniper; the cowardly Corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean-cut as the titular Private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures.--Mark Walker

• Pulp Fiction | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award 1995, this boldly inventive and expertly orchestrated crime saga is now available as a two disc DVD set that includes such extras as deleted scenes, interviews and a documentary.

• The Patriot | Blu Ray | (02/07/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mel Gibson stars in this action packed tale of the Amercan war of independence.

• iZombie - Season 2 | DVD | (29/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Olivia Liv Moore (series star Rose McIver) was a disciplined, overachieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out ... until the night she was turned into a zombie. Stuck somewhere between half-alive and undead, Liv called off her engagement with the love of her life, Major (series star Robert Buckley), and transferred her medical residency to the city morgue in order to reluctantly access the only real form of sustenance left available to her -- and the only thing that allows her to maintain her humanity -- human brains. But there are side effects to Liv's new diet: With each brain Liv consumes, she experiences visions -- flashes of the corpse's memories -- including, in some cases, clues as to how they were killed. Her boss, the brilliant but eccentric Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti (series star Rahul Kohli), encourages her to embrace this gift and to work with an eager homicide detective, Clive Babineaux (series star Malcom Goodwin), to help solve these murders. In doing so, Liv finds a measure of peace, and a new sense of purpose in what her life has now become. It's not the same as being alive again, but at least she can find purpose in her undead existence by helping solve the murders of those who are, indeed, fully dead. The series also stars David Anders as Blaine DeBeers, the zombie who was responsible for Liv's undead status.

• THE BULLET TRAIN | Blu Ray | (24/04/2023) from £14.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release The Bullet Train, Junya Satō's edge-of-your-seat thriller, starring the legendary Sonny Chiba and Ken Takakura. Presented as part of the Eureka Classics range in its UK debut on Blu-ray presented from a 2K restoration. Available from 20 February 2023, the first print-run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition O-card Slipcase. Ken Takakura stars as a mad bomber who plants a device on a high-speed Japanese train, programmed to detonate if the train's speed drops below 80 kilometres per hour. The trains conductor (Sonny Chiba) must keep the train moving whilst the police track the madman down. Most well-known for inspiring the 1994 Hollywood blockbuster Speed, The Bullet Train is a remarkably tense thriller from director Junya Satō, and Eureka Classics is proud to present it in this definitive edition for its UK debut on Blu-ray, from a 2K restoration of the original film elements. Product Features Limited Edition slipcase featuring new artwork by Tony Stella (First Print Run of 2000 copies) 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 2K restoration of the original film elements Original Japanese theatrical version and alternate dubbed International version included Optional English subtitles Brand new audio commentary by Jasper Sharp and Tom Mes Brand new interview with author / critic Kim Newman Brand new interview with Tony Rayns Big Movie, Big Panic: Junya Sato on The Bullet Train archival featurette Trailers PLUS: A limited edition collectors booklet featuring a new essay by film writer Barry Forshaw (First Print Run of 2000 copies) *All extras subject to change

• Exodus: Gods and Kings | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator Prometheus) comes the epic adventure EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS the story of one man’s daring courage to take on the might of an empire. Using state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion Scott brings new life to the story of the defiant leader Moses (Christian Bale) as he rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) setting 400 000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

• The Mask of Zorro | Blu Ray | (01/11/2010) from £17.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.39%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A lusty and rousing adventure, this calls to mind those glorious costume dramas produced so capably by the old Hollywood studio system--hardly surprising, in that its title character, a de facto Robin Hood in Old California, provided starring vehicles for Douglas Fairbanks and Tyrone Power, the 50s TV hit, and dozens of serials and features. Zorro, a pop-fiction creation invented by Johnston McCulley in 1918, is given new blood in this fast-moving and engaging version, which actually works as a sequel to the story line in the Fairbanks-Power saga, The Mark of Zorro. A self-assured Anthony Hopkins is Don Diego de la Vega, a Mexican freedom fighter captured and imprisoned just as Spain concedes California to Santa Ana. Twenty years later, he escapes from prison to face down his mortal enemy, a land grabbing governor played with slimy spitefulness by Stuart Wilson. Too old to save the local peasants on his own, he trains bandito Antonio Banderas to take his place. Much swashbuckling ensues as Banderas woos Catherine Zeta-Jones, becomes a better human being and saves the disenfranchised rabble. Director Martin Campbell wisely instils a measure of frivolity into the deftly choreographed action sequences, while letting a serious tone creep in when appropriate. This covers much ground under the banner of romantic-action-adventure and it does so most excellently. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Miller's Crossing | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £8.95   |  Saving you £14.03 (235.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Miller's Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leo's lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Tom's problem. Making matters worse, Tom has outstanding gambling debts he can't pay, which keeps him in regular touch with a punishing enforcer. With all the energy the Coens put into their films, and all their focused appreciation of genre conventions and rules, and all their efforts to turn their movies into ironic appreciations of archetypes in American fiction, they never got their formula so right as with Miller's Crossing. With its Hammett-like dialogue and Byzantine plot and moral chaos mitigated by one hero's personal code, the film so transcends its self-scrutiny as a retro-crime thriller that it is a deserved classic in its own right. --Tom Keogh

• Anaconda 1 - 4 Box Set | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Anaconda: Deep in the mighty Amazon jungle, a documentary crew headed by Dr Steven Kale and Terri Flores rescue a charismatic loner, Paul Sarone. But Sarone is a man obsessed, and his secret motive wraps them all in a deadly coil of danger as he sets out to capture the vicious master of all predators - a lethal Anaconda!Anaconda: Hunt For The Blood Orchid: When a corporate pharmaceutical sponsor is about to pull the plug on research, part-time adventurer Dr. Jack Byron re-awakens their interest with tales of the Borneo black orchid, said to produce a chemical that can keep a cell reproducing indefinitely. When the trip becomes increasingly dangerous, due to floods, capsized boats and gigantic, ill-tempered anacondas, Byron refuses to allow his crew to end the expedition, and resorts to foul play in order to keep them on the trail...Anaconda 3: The Offspring: The giant anacondas are back in the next chapter in the thrilling series, starring David Hasselhoff as Hammett, the ruthless mercenary and snake slayer. In a secret research facility, two mega snakes are undergoing testing by a brilliant scientist, Amanda (Crystal Allen). But when the financier, Murdoch (John Rhys-Davies), pushes the experiments too far, the snakes escape, hungry and heading for civilization. What Hammett doesn't know is that one of the snakes is expecting a litter of slithering offspring. Now the race is on to head off the snakes' unstoppable onslaught before they reach the city.Anacondas: Trail Of Blood: The genetically enhanced snakes from Anaconda 3: Offspring are dead, but one of their slithering offspring has regenerated to live on in this next action-packed chapter of the Anaconda franchise. The dying mogul, Murdoch (Emmy-Nominated actor John Rhys-Davies), hires a doctor to harvest a fresh supply of blood orchids and experiment with the regenerative nectar on a baby snake. Overnight, the offspring grows monstrous enough in size and appetite to devour the good doctor whole, before slithering free on a regenerative rampage. The beautiful herpetologist, Amanda (Crystal Allen), dedicated to destroying the vicious beasts she helped create, leads a team of young scientists against a ruthless pack of Murdoch's armed thugs to get the coveted orchids before the snake hunts both factions down. The bloodthirsty offspring is seemingly invincible, sliding through explosions and gunfire only to regenerate and prey insatiably on anything in its path.

• Fear The Walking Dead The Complete Sixth Season | DVD | (06/12/2021) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After being torn apart by the Pioneers, Morgan's (Lennie James) group is now dispersed across their far-reaching settlements, with life behind the Pioneers' walls testing each of the group's members in different ways and forcing them to defi ne who they really are in this new world. As Morgan's bid to free the remaining members of the group grows bolder, Virginia's (Colby Minifi e) desperation to fi nd her sister accelerates, as does her need to protect the settlements from the enemy forces outside and within. With new alliances forming, relationships dissolving, loyalties switching, and everyone forced to take sides, The End Is the Beginning reveals its deepest meaning.

• No Retreat, No Surrender Trilogy | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  No Retreat No Surrender: Bruce Lee fan Jason Stillwell is not the best student in his martial arts class. Beaten numerous times he is horrified when the local crime syndicate runs his teacher out of town. Training hard using pearls of wisdom from the ghost of Lee Stillwell sets his newly acquired skills upon the syndicate and its champion the deadly Ivan (Van Damme)... No Retreat No Surrender 2 - Raging Thunder: It's not a rematch it's war! An American kickboxer heads to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Soviet aggressors in the aptly named Death Mountain... No Retreat No Surrender 3 - Blood Brothers: Two feuding brothers are reunited by the hunt for their father's murderer - a wanted international terrorist. Together they seek the men responsible using their martial arts skills to the full....

• Romancing The Stone / The Jewel Of The Nile | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (19.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In 1984 Romancing the Stone was a huge hit for director Robert Zemeckis (who later went on to make Forrest Gump, Contact and Castaway among others) thanks in no small part to the winning team of Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. The chemistry between all three stars is infectious, but Turner steals the show from the guys, playing a pushy romance novelist who gets stuck among some dangerous figures in Colombia and has only a rumpled guide (Michael Douglas) as an ally. Zemeckis--whose specialty at the time was creating set pieces of raucous action (as in his Back to the Future trilogy)--keeps things hopping with lots of kinetic material. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com The Jewel of the Nile is a moderately entertaining sequel that pales by comparison to its predecessor. Romance novelist Kathleen Turner and retired soldier-of-fortune Michael Douglas return as a now-complacent couple. Bored with life on a yacht, they find excitement thrust upon them when she accepts a speaking engagement in the Middle East. Once there, she is abducted and finds herself involved with the "jewel" everyone is chasing. Douglas teams up once more with Danny DeVito to rescue his love. Less charming and more predictable than the original, this suffers for one simple reason: the characters have nowhere to go. In the original story we watched Turner blossom from timid storyteller to lusty adventuress. In this flick she is too much like all the other action adventure babes we've seen before. The same trio of stars reunited to better effect in DeVito's dark comedy The War of the Roses. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Kickboxer: Vengeance | DVD | (05/12/2016) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Revenge is the name of the game, as martial arts legend Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to his most famous film franchise! He is joined by Guardians of the Galaxy and Spectre star Dave Bautista in this bone-crunching action spectacular... After witnessing his brother being killed in the ring in a brutal bout in Thailand, young kickboxer Kurt (Alain Moussi) decides to train under the tutelage of his brother s legendary, no-nonsense coach Durand (Van Damme), in order to take-on Tong Po (Bautista), the man responsible for his brother s death. Durand doesn t feel Kurt has what it takes to defeat the awesome strength of Tong Po. But Durand doesn t reckon on Kurt s powerful and unquenchable thirst for vengeance.

• Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Blu Ray | (01/02/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £20.00 (222.47%)   |  RRP £28.99

  In MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS, the next chapter of the epic Maze Runner saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover it's shocking plans for them all.

• Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story | Blu Ray | (20/08/2018) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It took four years after the success of Umberto Lenzi's classic gut-ripper CANNIBAL FEROX for the Italian nasty native film to make a comeback and the first frightener to crawl out of the jungle squalor was AMAZONIA also known as WHITE SLAVE. Telling of a frequently naked western blonde (played by the gorgeous grindhouse sex symbol Elvire Audrey) who is captured, stripped and tormented by a group of jungle headhunters, AMAZONIA is perfectly fitting with the sleaze and schlock that this torrid trend became known for! Finally unleashed uncut and in HD by 88 Films, AMAZONIA is a must-see Italian shocker that perfectly compliments the excess of such video nasty gems as MAN FROM DEEP RIVER and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST!!!

• The Sea Shall Not Have Them (Digitally Remastered) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stirring British war film depicting the boat crews whose job it was to rescue downed RAF pilots. After the Normandy D-Day landings, a dangerous attempt is made to rescue the survivors of a WWII British Hudson bomber, crashed at sea. On board is an Air Commodore who has secret plans that could stop enemy air raids on London. Produced by Daniel M. Angel. Written by Lewis Gilbert and Vernon Harris from the novel by John Harris.

• Kill Bill Vol. I and II Double Pack | Blu Ray | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Kill Bill: Volume 1 The acclaimed fourth film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Volume 1 stars Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu and Vivica A. Fox in an astonishing, action-packed thriller about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta! Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start but is determined to finish! Loaded with explosive action and outrageous humour, it's a must-see motion picture event that had critics everywhere raving! Kill Bill: Volume 2 With this thrilling, must-see movie event, writer and director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) completes the action-packed quest for revenge begun by The Bride (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having already crossed two names from her death list, The Bride is back with a vengeance and taking aim at Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), the only survivors from the squad of assassins who betrayed her four years earlier. It’s all leading up to the ultimate confrontation with Bill (David Carradine), The Bride’s former master and the man who ordered her execution. As the acclaimed follow-up to the instant classic Vol. 1 – you know all about the unlimited action and humour, but until you’ve seen Kill Bill Vol. 2 you only know half the story!

• G.I. Joe Triple Pack | DVD | (15/11/2021) from £8.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience pulse-pounding stunts and intense battle sequences with the action-packed G.I. Joe 3-Movie Collection. Join the Joes for the first two missions, G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, as the elite strike force must race against time to stop Cobra, a diabolical organisation set on plunging the world into chaos with deadly technology. Then uncover the man behind the mask in Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, and take the journey with the iconic hero as he becomes the ultimate warrior in this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat adventure.Extras:G.I. Joe Origins - Snake Eyes: All-new Snake Eyes Short Film: Discover the secrets of Snake Eyes' legendary sword5 Deleted ScenesEnter Snake Eyes: Meet the man behind the maskA Deadly Ensemble: Meet the Joes and CobrasArashikage: Inside the elite ninja warrior clanG.I. Joe Retaliation: The True Face of EvilThe Sound of SilenceCommentary by Director Jon M. Chu and Lorenzo di BonaventuraG.I. Joe - The Rise Of Cobra:Commentary by Director Stephen Sommers and Producer Bob Ducsay

• The Hulk | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £3.79   |  Saving you £16.20 (427.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

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

• Rocky | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £5.46   |  Saving you £12.53 (229.49%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The 1976 Oscar winner for Best Picture, John G Avildsen's Rocky is the story of a down-and-out club fighter who gets his million-to-one shot at a world championship title. In the title role, Sylvester Stallone (who also penned the screenplay) draws a carefully etched portrait of a loser who, in Brando-esque fashion, "coulda been a contender". Rocky then becomes one thanks to a publicity stunt engineered by current champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), while finding love courtesy of timid wallflower Adrienne (Talia Shire) along the way. Burgess Meredith revives the spirit of 1940's genre pictures through his scenery-chewing performance as Rocky's trainer. An enormous entertainment, Rocky is irresistible in its depiction of an underachiever who has the courage to start all over again--a description that could have been applied to Stallone's own life at the time. --Kevin Mulhall