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• Ninja Scroll - 10th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A peak achievement of Japanese anime, Ninja Scroll is a propulsive mix of samurai action-adventure and supernatural fantasy from writer-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Supernatural Best City). This is defiantly animation for grown-ups, complete with fountains of blood, plenty of naked flesh and (in both the subtitled and dubbed versions) some decidedly strong language. (Students of Japanese language could pick up some useful expressions.) The plot sounds like a 16th-century variation on The X-Files: an entire village has been wiped out by a mysterious plague and an antigovernment conspiracy of invulnerable demons seems to be responsible. A wandering ninja, Jubei, and his female counterpart, Kagero, team up to defeat the plotters. Jubei is a classic reluctant hero, agreeing to participate in the mission only after being fed a slow-acting poison; the antidote will be supplied after he cooperates. And Kagero, a looker whose embrace is lethal, is a femme fatale with a difference that seems distinctively Japanese: sexual contact itself is poisonous, especially for a warrior with a pure soul. --David Chute

• Fortress of Amerikkka | DVD | (30/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.30

• Charles Bronson: Chino/Man With a Camera | DVD | (15/12/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.47

• Wrong Side of Town | Blu Ray | (15/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• BLOKES ACTION BLU-RAY PACK VOL.1 | Blu Ray | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  SWAT (2003): Two wisecracking battle-hardened veterans (Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell) team up with a pair of street-smart rookies (Michelle Rodriguez and LL Cool J) to form the most freewheeling - but effective - S.W.A.T. team ever.. Their first assignment: transport an international drug kingpin into federal custody - after he's offered 0 million to anyone who will free him! Stealth (2005): A trio of stealth bomber pilots (Jamie Foxx Jessica Biel Josh Lucas) are forced to fly with EDI (Extreme Deep Invader) a computer-manned prototype plane that specializes in extra-precision bombing. The brainchild of a programming wunderkind (Richard Roxburgh) EDI has the ability to learn at a fantastic rate but before long a freak accident causes it to question authority and launch an attack on Russia. In a top-secret military operation the three pilots struggle to bring the artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war... Tears Of The Sun (2003): In director Antoine Fuqua's action-adventure film Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters the loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he's sent into the heart of Africa the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience. Lt. Waters travels to war-torn Nigeria to rescue Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) a U.S. citizen who runs a mission in the countryside. But when Lt. Waters arrives Dr. Kendricks refuses to abandon the refugees under her care... She implores Waters to escort them on a dangerous trek through the dense jungle to the nearby border of Cameroon. During the journey the S.E.A.L.s find themselves the unwitting guardians of a man sought by the rebel militia. This further endangers their already hazardous mission. But all the while it strengthens Waters' resolve to protect Lena -- for whom he has unexpectedly developed feelings -- and the refugees and to deliver them safely across the border. Ghost Rider (2007): Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) was only a teenaged stunt biker when he sold his soul to the devil (Peter Fonda). Years later Johnny is a world renowned daredevil by day but at night he becomes the Ghost Rider of Marvel Comics legend. The devil's bounty hunter he is charged with finding evil souls on earth and bringing them to hell. But when a twist of fate brings Johnny's long-lost love (Eva Mendes) back into his life Johnny realizes he just might have a second chance at happiness-if he can beat the devil and win back his soul. To do so he'll have to defeat Blackheart (Wes Bentley) the devil's nemesis and wayward son whose plot to take over his father's realm will bring hell on earth-unless Ghost Rider can stop him. The Patriot (2000): Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) distinguished himself in the French and Indian Wars but now lives in peace with his seven children on his sprawling South Carolina plantation. The horrors of conflict come back to haunt him however when his headstrong eldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) defies his orders to join the American army. Unwilling to get involved himself Benjamin reluctantly joins the fight when second eldest son Thomas (Gregory Smith) is killed in cold blood by sadistic British officer Colonel Tavington (Jason Isaacs). Determined to protect the rest of his family and sister-in-law Charlotte (Joely Richardson) from harm Benjamin takes up arms alongside his patriotic son Gabriel leading a brave militia into battle against the overwhelming English army.

• American Gun | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Stretch | Blu Ray | (01/06/2015) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Director of Smokin’ Aces brings you into the world of Kevin Stretch a Hollywood Limo driver with a dark past. When Stretch is in need of quick cash to pay back his debts to a notorious gangster he takes a job with a billionaire client in hopes of a big payday. His client’s eccentricities soon escalate into a wild night of adventure sex and danger which begins to make the fate of returning to the mob empty-handed seem reasonable. With an all-star cast featuring Patrick Wilson Ed Helms James Badge Dale Brooklyn Decker and Jessica Alba you won’t want to miss out on the ride of a lifetime.

• Three The Hard Way | DVD | (31/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The story involves a white supremesist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly who shoot kick and karate chop their way to final victory.

• The Black Pirate | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in the capture of a ship but things are complicated when he finds that there is a young woman on board whom he wishes to protect from the threat of rape.

• Crime | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill:A beautiful woman and her gang of criminals attempt to match their wits with Sherlock Holmes in this murder/mystery set in Dartmoor and London's antique auction rooms. Rathbone and Bruce gave the screen's greatest interpretation of the legendary detective duo created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Redneck:Three men commit robbery during which the jeweller is killed in Italy. Making their getaway they head towards the French border to they think safety in the mountains. En route crashing one car they steal another only to find the son of a diplomat in the back. With twists and turns the carabinieri are hard on their heels.... The Four Deuces:At the height of the great depression in the early 1930's a full scale gang war is underway. On revenge killing follows another in the battle for supremecy... Family Enforcer:The story of a young man who is bent on becoming the best hoodlum in the underworld society where favours are repaid in kind... or repaid in blood. Gangster Story:Gangster Jack Martin comes into conflict with his rival Earl Dawson. Matthau plays mob leader Jack Martin whose girlfriend Carol (Grace) is desperate for him to give up his unlawful and dishonest lifestyle. The problem is Jack doesn't have the same yearning to turn his back on his shady past but the crunch comes when he persuades the bank manager to lease him an office in the building and promptly robs the bank! With events turning very nasty is there any point in Carol trying to save her man from himself when all the signs indicate that he's hell bent on a course to self-destruction.

• Angel 3 - The Search | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Now a New York photographer Angel returns to L.A. to search for her mother who abandoned her as a baby. Her mother is killed shortly after their first meeting but not before she confides that Angel has a sister who is in great danger.

• Red Dawn | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Red Dawn opens with one of the most shocking scenes ever filmed; in a peaceful classroom students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field: the invasion of the United States has begun! As their town is overrun by foreign nationals eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team the Wolverines they wage unremitting guerrilla warfare in defence of their parents their friends and their country. Powerful chilling and abso

• The Final Duel | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £9.49 (172.54%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Flying Water Siders Naked Female Femme Fatales and Evil Ninjas make this one of the most bizarre and best-loved Kung Fu flicks to make it out of Hong Kong. Firm favourite of Jonathan Ross but not for the faint hearted!!

• Exit Wounds / Nico / Under Siege | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Exit Wounds: Stolen drugs crooked cops. To gangster Latrell Walker (DMX) the money at the other end of the deal provokes the question - are all cops bad? But when he crosses paths with tough cop Orin Boyd (Steven Seagal) he discovers that nothing is what it seems even the law. With enemies everywhere and only one chance Latrell and Orin must join forces to reveal the deadly conspiracy at the heart of the precinct. Nico: Chicago cop Nico Toscani (Steven Seagal) is on to something big. Suspects collared in a drug raid are allowed to walk and Nico himself is asked to turn in his badge. He may be off the force - but not out of the action! Under Siege: When the USS Missouri welcomes aboard entertainers for the battleship's last voyage the visitors throw a party a war party. Led by a rogue CIS operative (Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Gary Busey) they're killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except one man. I'm just a cook that man says. But he's a cook with a recipe for action. He's ex-Navy SEAL and decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Seagal)!

• Pootie Tang | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £58.99

• Submerged | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Four Wheel Drive-Crossing the Salt Pans | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Four Wheel Drive: Crossing The Salt Pans

• Four Wheel Drive-Kalahari Journey | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Four Wheel Drive: Kalahari Journey

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Edition) | DVD | (10/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The greatest trilogy in film history, presented in the most ambitious sets in DVD history, comes to a grand conclusion with the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Not only is the third and final installment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien the longest of the three, but a full 50 minutes of new material pushes the running time to a whopping 4 hours and 10 minutes. The new scenes are welcome, and the bonus features maintain the high bar set by the first two films, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. What's New? One of the scenes cut from the theatrical release but included here, the resolution of the Saruman storyline, generated a lot of publicity when the movie opened, as actor Christopher Lee complained in the press about losing his only appearance. It's an excellent scene, one Jackson calls "pure Tolkien," and provides better context for Pippin to find the wizard's palantir in the water, but it's not critical to the film. In fact, "valuable but not critical" might sum up the ROTK extended edition. It's evident that Jackson made the right cuts for the theatrical run, but the extra material provides depth and ties up a number of loose ends, and for those sorry to see the trilogy end (and who isn't?) it's a welcome chance to spend another hour in Middle-earth. Some choice moments are Gandalf's (Ian McKellen) confrontation with the Witch King (we find out what happened to the wizard's staff), the chilling Mouth of Sauron at the gates of Mordor, and Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) being mistaken for Orc soldiers. We get to see more of Éowyn (Miranda Otto), both with Aragorn and on the battlefield, even fighting the hideously deformed Orc lieutenant, Gothmog. We also see her in one of the most anticipated new scenes, the Houses of Healing after the battle of the Pelennor Fields. It doesn't present Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) as a savior as the book did, but it shows the initial meeting between Éowyn and Faramir (David Wenham), a relationship that received only a meaningful glance in the theatrical cut. If you want to completely immerse yourself in Peter Jackson's marvelous and massive achievement, only the extended edition will do. And for those who complained, no, there are no new endings, not even the scouring of the Shire, which many fans were hoping to see. Nor is there a scene of Denethor (John Noble) with the palantir, which would have better explained both his foresight and his madness. As Jackson notes, when cuts are made, the secondary characters are the first to go, so there is a new scene of Aragorn finding the palantir in Denethor's robes. Another big difference is Aragorn's confrontation with the King of the Dead. In the theatrical version, we didn't know whether the King had accepted Aragorn's offer when the pirate ships pulled into the harbor; here Jackson assumes that viewers have already experienced that tension, and instead has the army of the dead join the battle in an earlier scene (an extended cameo for Jackson). One can debate which is more effective, but that's why the film is available in both versions. If you feel like watching the relatively shorter version you saw in the theaters, you can. If you want to completely immerse yourself in Peter Jackson's marvelous and massive achievement, only the extended edition will do. How Are the Bonus Features? To complete the experience, The Return of the King provides the same sprawling set of features as the previous extended editions: four commentary tracks, sharp picture and thrilling sound, and two discs of excellent documentary material far superior to the recycled material in the theatrical edition. Those who have listened to the seven hours of commentary for the first two extended editions may wonder if they need to hear more, but there was no commentary for the earlier ROTK DVD, so it's still entertaining to hear him break down the film (he says the beacon scene is one of his favorites), discuss differences from the book, point out cameos, and poke fun at himself and the extended-edition concept ("So this is the complete full strangulation, never seen before, here exclusively on DVD!"). The documentaries (some lasting 30 minutes or longer) are of their usual outstanding quality, and there's a riveting storyboard/animatic sequence of the climactic scene, which includes a one-on-one battle between Aragorn and Sauron. One DVD Set to Rule Them All Peter Jackson's trilogy has set the standard for fantasy films by adapting the Holy Grail of fantasy stories with a combination of fidelity to the original source and his own vision, supplemented by outstanding writing, near-perfect casting, glorious special effects, and evocative New Zealand locales. The extended editions without exception have set the standard for the DVD medium by providing a richer film experience that pulls the three films together and further embraces Tolkien's world, a reference-quality home theater experience, and generous, intelligent, and engrossing bonus features. --David Horiuchi

• Total Recall | Blu Ray | (04/08/2008) from £4.26   |  Saving you £15.73 (369.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in director Paul Verhoven's sci fi classic about a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars.