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• Replacement Killers | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This didn't turn out to be quite the deserving American vehicle for Hong Kong action superstar Chow Yun-fat that it should have been. But it is an entertaining potboiler about a hired gun (Chow) who fails to carry out an assignment to kill a cop (which would leave the fellow's son without a father), and becomes a target himself when the contract is handed over to other assassins. Mira Sorvino plays a document forger who is drawn into the fray, pairing up with the hero as they fight their way out of bad spots. The whole enterprise is a little too routine, but the action is sharp and the battles are imaginative and crisp. Director Antoine Fuqua has a by-the-numbers feeling for the influence of Hong Kong on contemporary thrillers (this film was also produced by John Woo), and that's enough to make The Replacement Killers purely enjoyable if not exactly a revelation. --Tom Keogh

• Warriors Of Virtue - The Return To Tao | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-11.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Set a few years after the original film "Warriors of Virtue," the sequel finds Ryan and his best friend Chucky arrive at a martial arts competition in Beijing and thrust into the parallel land of Tao to do battle as the next Warriors of Virtue!

• First Love - Litter On The Breeze | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  First Love: Litter On The Breeze

• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 1 | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £5.11   |  Saving you £19.88 (389.04%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state and adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. The charismatic villain Mason Eckhart of the Genetic Security Agency (Tom McCamus) professes an ideology of service and sacrifice for which many mutants fall, unaware of his genocidal and exploitative real intentions--though his habit of dumping failed minions into glass tubes for subsequent vivisection might give them a clue. A quest for redemption underlies the apparent smugness of Adam (Michael Shea), the good guys' mentor who used to work for the GSA's front, research company Genomex. The shiny, pretty central quartet themselves--fierce acrobatic Shalimar, reliable density-shifter Jesse, laddish electro-boy Brennan and sensible mind-twister Emma--alternately rescue new mutants from Eckhart and neutralise those who are threats. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs and a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades and untrustworthy lovers. On the DVD: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 1 contains the following episodes: "The Shock of the New". Shopgirl Emma discovers her powers of persuasion have made her the target of murderous Mason Eckhart and his henchman Thorne. Rescued by Shalimar and Jesse, she refuses their offer of passage into the mutant underground and is attacked a second time. "I Scream the Body Electric". Captured while rescuing Emma, electricity-shooting Brennan is forcibly recruited into Eckhart's kidnap squads--can he be rescued or avoid corruption? "Russian Roulette". A gun that targets and destroys the DNA of mutants is being tested by Russian mercenaries. Mutant X needs it to cure Brennan and to stop Eckhart obtaining it. "Fool for Love". Shalimar falls for a GSA scientist whose cure for mutancy is more dangerous than either of them know. "Kiloherz". A fiery radical young mutant, Kiloherz, can travel in radio waves and inhabit electronic equipment. Mutant X need to save him from Eckhart and stop him doing too much damage. The DVDs also has trailers, Web links and interviews with Victoria Pratt (Shalimar) and producer Karen Wookey. --Roz Kaveney

• Fu Manchu | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Box set containing the three 'Fu Manchu' titles: 'The Face Of Fu Manchu' 'The Bride Of Fu Manchu' and 'The Vengeance Of Fu Manchu'.

• Talons Of The Eagle | DVD | (21/05/2002) from £7.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two cops each trained in martial arts investigate the murder of fellow agents...

• Silver Dream Racer | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two professional motorcycle racers (a cossetted professional and a hotheaded privateer) competing in the world motorcycle championships find themselves at odds in a more personal type of competition: they both love the same woman...

• Legal Eagles | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robert Redford, usually a pretty good judge of material, got snookered badly in Legal Eagles, an Ivan Reitman comedy which also stars Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah. Redford is a rising assistant D.A. who is prosecuting a woman (Hannah) for theft of a painting by her father. Before he knows what's hit him, he's involved romantically both with the defendant and with her scattered lawyer (Winger). Redford is as good as he can be, given the circumstances but this is a film that doesn't know where it's going. Originally intended as a serious film about the legal wrangling over the estate of the late Mark Rothko, this film quickly degenerated when the script was turned over to Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr, whose sparkling oeuvre includes Turner and Hooch. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Heroes - Series 1-2 - Complete | Blu Ray | (25/08/2008) from £75.15   |  Saving you £14.84 (19.75%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Includes every episode from Season 1 and 2 of Heroes! From creator and writer Tim Kring comes the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Heroes an epic drama that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Ultimate Tin Box Collection | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Neon Genesis Evangelion's trailblazing blend of action and philosophy immediately elevated it above the pack and accounts for its enduring popularity. The series which originally aired in Japan from 1995 to 1996 has exerted a strong influence on anime ever since.

• Julius Caesar (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (27/05/2019) from £8.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

• John Wayne War & Westerns Collection | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.82

  John Wayne, aka The Duke will always be remembered as one of ROOSTER COGBURN ¢ JET PILOT ¢ THE CONQUEROR Hollywood's greatest actors; cast as a lead in over 142 films during his decade spanning career. Here are seven of the best films which display Wayne's meteoric talent in the genres for which he is most fondly remembered war and westerns. Included in this set are his Oscar® nominated performance in Sands of Iwo Jima, his first lead Western role in John Ford's Stagecoach, Rooster Cogburn (the prequel to True Grit) and four other memorable classics - The Conqueror; Jet Pilot; Rio Grande and Flying Tigers.

• Wayne's World / Wayne's World 2 | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wayne's World (1992): Wayne and Garth the horny heavy metal-loving teenage heroes of the popular ""Saturday Night Live"" skit hit the big screen. They're still doing their cable-access show out of the Wayne's basement in Aurora Illinois; only now a sleazy TV executive named Benjamin Oliver wants a piece of the action. As the babe 'n' band obsessed adolescents negotiate the shark-infested waters of network television Wayne finds 'amore' in the form of a heavy metal femme fat

• Man In A Suitcase - Complete | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Richard Bradford is ex-CIA agent 'Mac' McGill who now works as a private investigator. He goes from job to job living out hotel rooms with all his worldly possessions in one old brown suitcase... Featuring all the episodes ever made! Episodes comprise: 1. Brainwash 2. The Sitting Pigeon 3. Day of Execution 4. Variation on a Million Bucks (1) 5. Variation on a Million Bucks (2) 6. Man from the Dead 7. Sweet Sue 8. Essay in Evil 9. The Girl Who Never Was 10. All That Glitter

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Series 2 - Vol. 2.2 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Avenging betrayal and murder fighting for good in a world steeped in evil. Award-winning llustrator of Spiderman Todd McFarlane brings a life's work to the screen in this dark stylish and brutal animated incarnation of his Spawn anti-hero. Double-crossed and murdered Al Simmon's is sent to the fires of Hell. He makes an ill-fated deal with the Devil to return to see his wife again. Disfigured and trapped in the body of a hell-spawn caught between life and death he roams New York looking for trouble. The cloak and chains of Spawn explode from the comic-book page onto the screen in a deadly tornado of untapped unwrapped merciless power! Episode titles: Send In The KKKlowns Death Blow Hellzapoppin.

• Nesting | Blu Ray | (28/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Street Fight | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Street Fight chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark N.J. between Cory Booker a 32-year-old Yale Law School graduate and Sharpe James the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. Fought in Newark's neighbourhoods and housing projects the battle pits Booker against an a political machine that will use any means necessary to crush its opponents: city workers who do not support the mayor are demoted; disloyal businesses are targeted; a campaigner is detained and accused of terrorism; and disks of voter personal data are stolen during the night.Even the filmmaker is dragged into the fray and by election day the climate has become so heated that the national government is forced to send in observers to watch for election fraud and even violence and intimidation. Street Fight is set in the underbelly of democracy where elections are not won with spin-doctors or media consultants let alone policies are won on the streets.

• Jinnah | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the World. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.... 'A sweeping historical epic Christopher Lee is tremendously moving in his ability to illuminate the inner life of a man of unflinching dignity.' Los Angeles Times

• Serial Experiments Lain - Vol. 1 | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  We're all connected... There is the world around us a world of people tactile sensation and culture. There is the wired world inside the computer of images personalities virtual experiences and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide Lain a thirteen year-old girl discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: ""I just abandoned my body. I still live here..."" Has the line between the real world and t

• Oliver Stone Collection | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Director Oliver Stone is celebrated in this four-film, six-disc box set collection that includes two-disc "director's cut" versions JFK and Any Given Sunday respectively, plus Heaven and Earth and the documentary Oliver Stone's America. JFK is that rarest of things, a modern Hollywood drama which credits the audience with intelligence. Epic in length--this 198-minute director's cut runs 17 minutes longer than the cinema version--Oliver Stone's film has the archetypal story, visual scale and substance to match; not just a gripping real-life conspiracy thriller, but a fable for the fall of the American dream. Stone's DVD commentary is thoughtful, eloquent and considered. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack and the anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture are both first-class. The second disc contains 53 minutes of deleted and extended versions of scenes, all of which are available with or without commentary by Stone, a 10-minute video interview with the real "X", and a half-hour examination of documents only declassified in the wake of the film's release. Any Given Sunday is a massive 150-minute American football drama which, for all its ferocity and cynicism, is as soft-centred and clichéd as any Rocky-style underdogs-make-good crowd-pleaser. This is the director's cut with Stone's commentary ranging far and wide: he is far more interesting and thought-provoking to listen to than his film is to watch. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack are both flawless. The loaded second DVD includes Jamie Foxx's audition video, a routine 27-minute making-of documentary, music videos, outtakes set to music, and 33 minutes of deleted/alternative scenes with optional commentary from Stone. DVD-ROM and other features complete an exceptional package. Heaven and Earth follows Platoon (1986) and Born of the Fourth of July (1989) to conclude Stone's Vietnam War trilogy. Where Stone won Best Director Oscars for both previous films, Heaven and Earth proved a box-office disaster and went unrecognised by the Academy. It's hard not to think that racism underlay the commercial failure, for where the hit movies addressed the sufferings of white American soldiers played by Hollywood stars, Heaven and Earth focused on the fundamental victims, adapting the true story of a young Vietnamese woman, Le Ly, who goes from village girl to freedom fighter to wife of a US marine struggling to adjust to life in America to reconciliation in Vietnam. Superbly made, with a stunning performance by Hiep Thi Le as Le Ly, and powerful support from Tommy Lee Jones, this is intelligent, harrowing filmmaking which attempts to understand and bridge the divide between nations traumatised by war. Unfortunately heavily cut to bring it down to a multiplex-friendly running time, the often brilliant 135 minutes on show suggest a longer modern classic ended-up on the cutting room floor. The DVD features an incisive commentary by Stone, who alone of major Hollywood directors fought in Vietnam. Confirming that Heaven and Earth was heavily cut is the inclusion of 48 minutes of deleted/extended scenes, including a vastly extended 22-minute opening, Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture are excellent. Oliver Stone's America is a 53-minute interview in which Stone talks candidly about his films, concentrating on the trio included in the Oliver Stone Collection, firing off considered opinions at a rapid rate. Also included is Stone's student film, Last Year in VietNam, clearly influenced by the French New Wave in general and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) in particular. --Gary S Dalkin