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• City Of Darkness | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Cary Grant | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Bristol born Archie Leach changed his name to Cary Grant a new Hollywood star was about to be born. Equally at home with action adventure movies or in light romantic comedy roles Grant was the epitome of the suave stylish leading man. This box set features him in three of his classic movies - Amazing Adventure His Girl Friday and Penny Serenade and also includes a biography of Grant - Cary Grant on Film. Amazing Adventure: In an effort to subdue a bout of depression a millionaire playboy (Cary Grant) makes a 50 000 British pound bet with a psychiatrist that he could become a famous business tycoon without using his family's inheritance. Based on the novel ""The Amazing Quest"" by Ernest Bliss. (Dir. Alfred Zeisler 1937) His Girl Friday: This hilarious re-working of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur sees Grant as the savage editor and in a switch the reporter played by scheming Rosalind Russell. This version adds the twin lures of sex and romance. The film moves at whirlwind speed as Director Howard Hawks instructed his actors to overlap their lines so much so that at times everyone seems to be talking at once. Hawks also had his cast move at twice the normal speed so the screen looks frantic from scene to scene thus conveying the urgency of the news world he was depicting. It's undoubtedly Cary Grant's greatest comedic role proving once again the amazing versatility of this Hollywood legend. (Dir. Howard Hawks 1940) Penny Serenade: Penny Serenade is the story of Julie and Roger Adams. It is an honest look at a happy if not exactly peaceful period in the domestic life of a newspaperman and a former salesgirl in a music shop. (Dir. George Stevens 1941)

• Burst Angel - Infinity | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (18.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Catch Jo and Meg in their very first adventure off duty and ready to celebrate! That is until recent events in New York City deflate their good cheer. Meg's old gang's been broken up with one in the hospital recovery uncertain. And the freak responsible is still on the loose a coward preying only on those weaker than himself. Jo calls for vengeance and the girls are on the hunt again... and this time it's personal!

• Kings Of Construction | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £11.59   |  Saving you £1.40 (12.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Three of the World's most exciting construction projects. The Ngong Ping cable car in Hong Kong is the largest in the World. The Dubai ski resort is the World's largest artificial ski slope and it's being made in the desert. Thirty two miles in length the Gotthard base tunnel is set to become the World's longest rail tunnel.

• Project A-Ko - Episode 1 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's the not-too-distant future and a metro-polis flourishes inthe crash site of an alien spacecraft. A-ko a teenager growing up in this city enjoys the life of an ordinaryschoolgirl along with incredible superhuman strength! Buther carefree days are numbered. Her school rival B-ko isnot content to live in the shadows any longer. A-ko's superpowers and good fashion sense may not be a matchfor B-ko's evil genius and MEGA-POWERED FIGHTINGROBOTS OF DOOM!

• Heaven's Soldiers | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £6.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (56.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A nationalistic military-themed time travel adventure filled with equal parts action and comedy! The story centers on a group of North and South Korean soldiers who find themselves flung back in time just as their respective countries are locked in a tense standoff with the United States over the status of a jointly produced nuclear warhead.

• Newsreel History Of The Third Reich - European Domination | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This educational and thought provoking series comprises German newsreel recordings and includes unique footage plundered by Russians troops. Directed and orchestrated under the influence of Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda it is by no means an accurate historical depiction but a fascinating insight into how the period leading up to and including World War Two was portrayed to the German people. This episode covers early 1940 as Hitler's forces steamrollered Western Europe. It deals with the invasion and surrender of Holland Belgium Norway and Denmark; the Battle of Dunkirk and the subsequent British evacuation and the capitulation of France including the victory parades through Paris.

• Stunt Rock | Blu Ray | (07/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Noein Vol.2 | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £18.54   |  Saving you £1.45 (7.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The next 5 episodes in the cult anime hit of 2007. Described by the director Akane Kazuki as ""The Terminator meets Stand By Me"". Noein - To Your Other Self will appeal to both male and female sci-fi and anime fans. Episodes Comprise: Episode 6: The Timespace of Tears Episode 7: Important Person Episode 8: Secrets Episode 9: Crossing Over the Time Barrier Episode 10: A Night of Storms

• Brave | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £3.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (433.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With a courageous and impetuous heroine leading the way, Disney/Pixar sets out on yet another extraordinary journey-this time across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland in Brave. Brave is in UK cinemas August 17, 2012.

• Inglourious Basterds | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There's a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol' boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally. Even as Raine's band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France, a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa (Christoph Waltz) is busy validating his own legend as "The Jew Hunter." Along the way, he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl (Melanie Laurent) who will reappear years later in Paris, dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale. Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true filmmaker, with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot Kill Bill), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, Pulp Fiction-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and then take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds. Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," Saving Private Ryan WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of Hostel) Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. --Richard T. Jameson

• One Eyed Jacks | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Brando(""Rio"") stars with Karl Malden(""Dad Longworth"") as two bank robbers on the run from the Federales in Mexico They are pinned down and only one can get away to get fresh horses for their escape. Dad is the one to go but greed gets the best of him. He takes off with the money and leaves Rio to be captured and sent to a Mexican Jail for 5 long years. When he escapes he goes looking for Dad finally finding him in Monterey California where ""Dad"" is now a tough Sheriff and has a beautiful step-daughter Louisa. The action and the romance heat up as Rio is bent on revenge and falls for the beautiful Louisa.

• Second In Command | UMD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Braveheart (DVD + Book) | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £16.34   |  Saving you £-6.35 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mel Gibson stars on both sides of the camera playing the lead role plus directing and producing this brawling richly detailed saga of fierce combat tender love and the will to risk all that's precious: freedom. In an emotionally charged performance Gibson is William Wallace a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation...

• Action Collection (Men Of War/Ticker/The Stranger) | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Men Of War: Nick Gunar (Dolph Lundgren) is a burnt-out jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. At the end of his rope he is hired by the Nitro Mine Corporation to strong-arm the natives of a South China Sea island into giving up their rights to its valuable mineral resources. Nick loathes the thought of another mission but this seemingly easy job will earn him enough money to get back with his estranged family. He recruits some of his former mercenary buddies to help him with the job. The island people refuse to give up their land and Nick decides to help them fight the greedy corporation that hired him. The island and its people bring Nick back to life. He finally finds something worth fighting for and a place to call home. As greed and treachery begin to unravel Nick's band of mercenaries choose sides. Some are with him and others still working for the corporation will stop at nothing to destroy him. Ticker: San Francisco detective Ray Nettles (Tom Sizemore) and his partner Fuzzy (Nas) find themselves confronting one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs the city has ever known. When one of the terrorists beautiful scientist Claire Manning (Jaime Pressly) is arrested the terrorist leader Swan (Dennis Hopper) threatens to detonate bombs across the city in order to secure her release. Faced with the potential carnage Nettles turns to Bomb Squad expert Frank Glass (Steven Seagal) for help. Ticker hurtles to an explosive conclusion as Glass and Nettles must capture and detonate Claire before she goes nuclear and takes out the entire city of San Francisco! The Stranger: Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating bullet and betrayal he'll remember another piece of the horror that took away his career his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete and one man is about to take back his past... by ending a whole lot of futures. Erica Cerra (Eureka) and Adam Beach (Flags Of Our Fathers) star in this explosive action-thriller about collateral damage stone cold vengeance and a double-crossed killing machine known only as The Stranger.

• Fukasaku Trilogy | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £27.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The breakout success of the fantastic Battle Royale resulted in long-overdue global recognition of the films of Kinji Fukasaku. This prolific Japanese filmmaker who died in 2003 had already made himself a name in his home country as an auteur who favoured outrageous style and biting social commentary. This collection brings together three exciting and colourful early films from Japanese cinema's most exhilarating director. Titles Comprise: Blackmail Is My Life: Tautly paced and fueled by a trendy soundtrack synthesis of whistled themes and electric rock Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevil hipsters who discover blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. These rebellious youths tread a deadly line by blackmailing both sides of society- namely the Yakuza kingpins and top government officials. Blackmail Is My Life is a bloody wake-up call to Japanese culture and budding criminals and a perfect example of the director working in his prime. Black Rose Mansion: A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer Black Rose to perform in his exclusive men's club he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm. If You Were Young: If You Were Young highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plan - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

• Kung Fu Killer | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £15.46   |  Saving you £-0.47 (-3.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  To avenge the murder of his Wudang Grandmaster White Crane (Carradine) a monk and spiritual master of the martial arts infiltrates the Shanghai underground where he forms an unusual bond with a New York lounge singer (Hannah) and her gangster boss. In this twisted den of crime Crane must cross the line between true justice and cold-blooded revenge. To avenge his enemies Crane is conflicted between modern weaponry and traditional brute force in a martial arts extravaganza.

• The Group | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Having grown up together in an orphanage run by the benevolent Father Martin six friends - a Hong Kong film director (Alfred Cheung) a psychologist (Miriam Yeung) an electronics expert (Francis Ng) a surgeon (Ken Wong) a lawyer (Christine Ng) and a self-defence instructor (Almen Wong) - have vowed to get together once a year to use their professional skills for the good of others. When they unexpectedly receive the shocking news that their mentor has been killed while on a relief

• Saiyuki Reload - Vol. 1 | DVD | (08/01/2007) from £17.43   |  Saving you £2.56 (12.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The legendary Sanzo group continues on the path to saving the world from the revival of Gyumaoh and his demons. As they travel Goku Gojyo Hakkai and Sanzo use their tremendous powers to restore peace to Shangrila. However there are many who wish for the victory of the dark side...

• Serenity | Blu Ray | (25/06/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  Serenity is a film that, by rights, shouldn’t have been made. For starters, it’s spun out of the short-lived and quickly-cancelled TV series Firefly, which has only itself got the full recognition it deserves on DVD. It then marries up two seemingly incompatible genres, the western and science fiction, has no major stars to speak of, and pretty much has ‘hard sell’ written all over it. Perhaps that explains its modest box office performance back in 2005. What it fails to reflect, however, is that this is one of the most energetic, downright enjoyable sci-fi flicks in some time. Not for nothing did many rate it higher than the Star Wars movie that appeared in the same year. It follows renegade captain Mal Reynolds and his quirkily assembled crew, as they work on the outskirts of space, trying to keep out of the way of the governing Alliance. That plan quickly changes when they take on a couple of passengers who have attracted the attention of said Alliance, and thus the scene is set for an action-packed, cleverly written movie that deserves many of the plaudits that have rightly been thrust in its direction. What’s more, Serenity works whether you’ve seen the TV series that precedes it or not. Clearly fans of the Firefly show will be in their element, but even the casual viewer will find an immense amount to enjoy. The only real problem is that given the film’s box office returns, further adventures of Reynolds and his crew look unlikely. Unless Serenity turns into a major hit on DVD, that is. It’s well worth playing your part in making that happen.--Simon Brew