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• Avatar - Collector's Edition (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (15/10/2012) from £13.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it's the fact that Cameron seems torn between his two loves--awesome destructive gizmos and flower-power message mongering--that makes Avatar's pursuit of its point ultimately uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron's dialogue continues to clunk badly. If you're won over by the movie's trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. (The overextended "take that, Michael Bay" final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn't measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar frequently hits a giddy delirium all its own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. --Robert Horton

• Chinese Zodiac | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £5.14   |  Saving you £7.85 (152.72%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) is a soldier of fortune who leads a team to recover several lost artefacts from the Old Summer Palace - the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were looted in the 1800s. Their quest takes them around the world from the vineyards of France to the slopes of an active volcano with Hawk stopping at nothing to accomplish the mission. Chinese Zodiac is a spectacular adventure featuring Jackie Chan who performs all his own stunts for the very last time on film.

• Kidnapped | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £7.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (37.04%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The adventures of young orphan David Balfour as he travels through the Scottish Highlands during the Jacobite rebellion in search of his rightful inheritance.

• Kill Bill: Volume 2 (4K UHD Bluray Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (31/03/2025) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With this thrilling, must-see movie event, writer and director Quentin Tarantino completes the action-packed quest for revenge begun by The Bride (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill Volume 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!

• Assault On Precinct 13 | Blu Ray | (09/01/2017) from £18.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13 is a riveting low-budget thriller from 1976, in which a nearly abandoned police station is held under siege by a heavily armed gang called Street Thunder. Inside the station, cut off from contact and isolated, convicts heading for death row and the cops must now join forces or die. That's the basic plot, but what Carpenter does with it is remarkable. Drawing specific inspiration from the classic Howard Hawks Western Rio Bravo (which included a similar siege on disadvantaged heroes), Carpenter used his simple setting for a tense, tightly constructed series of action sequences, emphasising low-key character development and escalating tension. Few who've seen the film can forget the "ice cream cone" scene in which a young girl is caught up in the action by patronising a seemingly harmless ice cream van. It's here, and in other equally memorable scenes, that Carpenter demonstrates his knack for injecting terror into the mundane details of daily life, propelling this potent thriller to cult favourite status and long-standing critical acclaim. From this Carpenter went on to make the original Halloween, one of the most profitable independent films of all time. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Last Valley | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-8.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Clavell's The Last Valley is a heartfelt film of paradise found and lost in the midst of the bloody Thirty Years War, a senseless religious conflict long since degenerated into a rabble of looters preying on peasants. It's also a triumph of passion over style. Michael Caine stars as the Captain, a happily tolerant leader whose army of mercenaries--a mix of Protestants and Catholics--murders, pillages and rapes side by side for whichever faction is paying more at the time. Omar Sharif is Vogel, a lone refugee whose flight from the marauding band leads them all to a beautiful village in the mountains. The Captain and Vogel make an unlikely pair: the shrewd mercenary with the dream of peace, and the philosopher-peasant hanging on to his own life in the face of certain death--and their alliance to preserve this Eden and her people stands in contrast to the soldiers who soon become splintered by greed, lust and religious zealotry. Clavell isn't exactly subtle, but his sense of irony is biting: one Christian soldier is ready to lead a mob in righteous battle after a perceived blaspheme, and in the next scene attacks and rapes an innocent Christian maiden he's sworn to protect. The film falters in clumsy battle scenes and awkward dramatic staging, but Caine's complex characterisation of the guarded Captain and Sharif's haunted performance keep the story alive, and the beautiful photography fixes the film like a jewel into its setting. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Goodfellas | 4K UHD | (12/12/2016) from £19.89   |  Saving you £2.42 (12.17%)   |  RRP £22.31

  Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music perfectly, not just to summon a particular time but to set a precise mood. GoodFellas is at least as good as The Godfather without being in the least derivative of it. Joe Pesci's psycho improvisation of Mobster Tommy DeVito ignited Pesci as a star, Lorraine Bracco scores the performance of her life as the love of Hill's life, and every supporting role, from Paul Sorvino to Robert De Niro, is a miracle.

• Another 48 Hours | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The boys are back in town! Conman Reggie Hammond and cop Jack Cates team up once again and turn San Francisco inside out to nail an elusive druglord. Sequel to the smash hit ""48 Hours"".

• A Knight's Tale | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £5.50   |  Saving you £7.49 (136.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A lowly squire impersonates his deceased master at jousting tournaments, increasing in skill and stature in order to find and ultimately defeat his arch foe.

• Flight Of Fury/The Detonator/Second In Command | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £11.50   |  Saving you £3.49 (30.35%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Flight Of Fury (2007): John Sands is a special agent working for an underground division of the U.S. Air Force. When his own agency begins to feel threatened by the knowledge he's gained from past missions they decide to imprison him an wipe his memory clean leading John to escape from a high-tech detention center. But they quickly catch up with him and offer him a deal he can't refuse: return a stolen top-secret stealth bomber into U.S. airspace and Sands will regain his freedom. Fail and the bomber will fall into the hands of deadly terrorists hellbent on loading it with biological warheads... The Detonator (2006): Undercover C.I.A. agent Sonni Griffith (Wesley Snipes) travels alone to Poland to expose an arms dealer and stop the sale of a nuclear weapon. When the arms dealer is tipped off to Griffith's identity he lands himself in prison...but is quickly released by the C.I.A. only to be given a new mission: to escort a beautiful Russian woman Nadia back to the United States. Griffith soon learns that strong-willed Nadia is being hunted by the very arms dealer that he intended to destroy but this evil dealer will stop at nothing to get the information out of Nadia that he needs - the location of the $30 million dollars she has hidden that will buy him a nuclear bomb. As the leak within the C.I.A. continues to expose the location and identity of Griffith and Nadia they must fight the arms dealers to the death to save themselves and the world! Second In Command (2006): 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!

• Goldeneye | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Bond is back in an adventure, which is bigger, better, and more explosive than ever before. It's packed with incredible stunts, glamorous locations, beautiful women and fast cars!Bond has a dangerous new enemy to face in his deadly mission. Aided by the Russian underworld, his treacherous foe has stolen a top-secret helicopter and the lethal Soviet space weapon GoldenEye with which he plans to obliterate the Western world.

• Marvel's Iron Fist Season 1 | Blu Ray | (04/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One man's battle against a legendary enemy ignites an epic saga of mysticism, betrayal and bone-crushing action in Marvel's Iron Fist: The Complete First Season. Fifteen years after a plane crash kills his parents, presumed-dead lone surviver Danny Rand returns home to New York City. He hopes to fulfil his destiny as the Immortal Iron Fist, claim his birthright and reunite with the childhood friends who now run Rand Enterprises. But the company has been infiltrated by The Hand , a criminal empire whose greed and bloodlust are part of a vast conspiracy to corrupt Danny's powers and destroy him by turning even his closest allies against him.

• Project A - Part 2 | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £5.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (234.45%)   |  RRP £16.99

  For people who've discovered Jackie Chan through his American hit Rush Hour and want to learn what his Hong Kong movies are like, Project A is an excellent place to start. Chan plays a sailor in 19th-century Hong Kong; pirates have been terrorizing the seas for months and all efforts to combat them have been sabotaged by the corrupt chief of police and a criminal gang, who are in cahoots with the pirates. But the plot is hardly the point--a Jackie Chan movie is about astonishingly acrobatic action sequences and breathtaking stunts, and Project A has plenty. Of particular interest is a bicycle chase that is more suspenseful than any car chase you've ever seen. Chan is joined by Sammo Hung (star of the US TV series Martial Law) as a shifty con man who comes through when the chips are down. Project A also features Yuen Biao, a frequent co-star in Chan's movies, who's yet another astounding martial artist. But what separates Jackie Chan movies from other kung fu flicks is his sense of humour; every fight scene is punctuated by something--a clever use of a prop or sudden reversal of your expectations--that will make you bark with laughter. Sometimes it's just so exquisitely choreographed that the entire movie seems to float on a cloud of giddy delight. Jackie Chan is often compared to the classic silent comedians for his grace and timing--he lives up to it. --Bret Fetzer

• She | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  SHE who must be obeyed! ...SHE who must be loved! ...SHE who must be possessed! A Cambridge professor and his friends hear tales whilst travelling in Palestine of a lost city in deepest Africa ruled by a beautiful woman seeking her one true love. Intrigued by the legends they set off across the desert in search of the strange land: however little do they know they are being led into a trap of the immortal She the cold blooded queen Ayesha who is pining for the return of the lover she murdered long ago.... A spectacular adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's classic fantasy novel.

• Jumanji | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When young Alan Parrish and his friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) begin to play a mysterious board game they don't realise its unimaginable powers until Alan is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji. Twenty-six years later Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) discover the dusty board and reawaken the game as they begin to play. Instantly the forces of Jumanji release a fully-grown bewildered Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) into their world. With each roll of

• Captain America: Civil War | Blu Ray | (05/09/2016) from £9.68   |  Saving you £10.26 (105.99%)   |  RRP £19.94

  Marvel's Captain America: Civil War finds Steve Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. But after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two campsone led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.

• Gangster Land | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  During the height of Prohibition, amateur boxer Jack McGurn ascends through the ranks of the Italian mob to become the right hand man of Al Capone. As the South Side Italian gang grows its power, so does the North Side Irish gang, facilitating the most brutal gang war the country has ever seen.

• Diamonds Are Forever | Blu Ray | (14/09/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The World Is Not Enough is an exhilarating but sophisticated, action-packed adventure. Pierce Brosnan returns as Bond, charged to protect a gorgeous billionaire heiress (Sophie Marceau) from the ruthless hands of the nuclear-obsessed terrorist Renard (Robert Carlyle), who wants control of the world's petroleum supply.

• Superman Animated Movie Collection | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Superman & Batman: Public Enemies Superman & Batman: Apocalypse Superman: Doomsday Superman: Unbound Superman Vs. Elite

• Sinbad Collection - Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad/Golden Voyage Of Sinbad/Sinbad And The Eye Of Tiger | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £44.99   |  Saving you £-32.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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