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• Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (55.62%)   |  RRP £13.99

  If you have a hearty appetite for fiery explosions, heavy ordnance and nonsensical mayhem, Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever is just for you. This mindless action flick is so wrong-headed that even its ungainly title is inaccurate: as expert assassins on the fringes of government intelligence, FBI agent Ecks (Antonio Banderas) and Defence Intelligence agent Sever (Lucy Liu) aren't battling each other at all. Instead, he's trying to find his missing ex-wife (the stunning but expressionless Talisa Soto) and young son, while she's pursuing an agency turncoat (Gregg Henry) who's stolen the ultimate micro-technology for clandestine killing. United against a common enemy, Ecks and Sever lay waste to half of Vancouver (the film's budget-conscious location), and it all makes as much sense as meatballs on a vegetarian menu. Banderas and Liu look fabulous as corpses pile up around them, but Thai action director Kaos (aka Wych Kaosayananda) must have confused his nickname with the incomprehensible plot of his movie. --Jeff Shannon

• Dragon Ball Z: Season 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (17/02/2014) from £3.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (25.06%)   |  RRP £4.99

  5 years after he defeated Piccolo Goku has a family and now lives with Chichi andtheir son Gohan on Earth. A mysterious warrior from space arrives and threatens their peaceful life. Radditz the Saiyan warrior reveals to Goku the secret of his past and he is ready to do anything in order to force Goku to join him. Goku is forced to fight Radditz to rescue his son and is joined by an unexpected ally: the terrible Piccolo! But their opponent is more cunning than they expected! The end of the battle against Radditz is near but victory comes at a great cost for Goku and his friends. Collected here for the first time the first seven epic episodes of Dragon Ball Z.

• WWE: Elimination Chamber 2011 | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Coverage of the 2011 pay-per-view event from WWE, held at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. Stars of Raw - John Cena, Randy Orton, John Morrison, R-Truth, CM Punk and King Sheamus - battle it out to compete against the WWE Champion at WrestleMania XXVII. The WWE Championship Match, the WWE Tag Team Championship Match and the Elimination Chamber Match for the World Heavyweight Championship are also featured.

• Presque Rien | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £16.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (21.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mathieu (Jeremie Elkaim) a confused introspective 18-year-old boy is on vacation in Brittany with his troubled family. He discovers his sexual orientation when he meets Cdric (Stephane Rideau of ""Wild Reeds"") someone who’s more experienced and assertive. Mathieu questions where his life is going. Instead of going to college in Paris as expected he decides to stay in northern France with his new lover and enroll in school there. Unfortunately troubles lie ahead for the you

• Stage Fright | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £12.25   |  Saving you £-6.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Director Michele Soavi does the impossible by squeezing a few more drops of blood out from the slasher genre. Not only that, Soavi lensed one of the most beautiful and suspenseful horror movies of the 1980s. A genuinely haunting horror where the killer dressed as an owl goes to bloody work with a chainsaw that slices through flesh and bone...

• La Ville Est Tranquille | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michele (Ariane Ascaride) works nights in a fish market to finance her daughter's heroin addiction. When that's not enough she sells her body to Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) a striking docker who has turned his back on the cause to become a cabbie. Her supplier is Gerard (Gerard Meylan) a bar owner with a lucrative sideline in contract killing. His latest target is Claude (Pierre Banderet) a wealthy snob whose wife is so disgusted by him she takes up with an ex-convict. Frenc

• Secret Santa | DVD | (30/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

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• Suckers | DVD | (28/07/2000) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bobby Deluca is a nice guy in a lot of trouble! He owes money to a couple of bone-breaking loan sharks and is forced by his wife to take a job at a car dealership. Desperate for money Bobby becomes a reluctant car salesman. The dealership is the domain of the legendary silk tongued Reggie. He has trained his diverse team of misfit salesman to sell the hell out of the cars whilst extracting every last penny from the customers. What Bobby and the other salesman don't realize is that Reggie is not only dealing in cars but is also running an illegal drug smuggling operation using the imported vehicles as couriers...

• Riff Raff | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Although not of a genre readily associated with Ken Loach, Riff Raff is basically a romantic comedy--albeit one set against the backdrop of political and social injustice. Robert Carlyle is young Glaswegian Stevie, newly relocated to London and sleeping rough. He finds a job on a building site and embarks on a relationship with Irish singer Susan (McCourt). The struggle that both the couple and their friends and workmates (the film is very much an ensemble piece) have to endure just to survive life on the margins of society paints a grim picture of early 1990s Britain, but also one that is shot through with resilient humour. Much of this comes from from Ricky Tomlinson's sublime performance, one that pre-dates his Royle Family role but bears all the hallmarks of his comic genius. Some of the political interjections are understandably a little dated and a touch heavy-handed, but Riff Raff is a film that successfully combines a sense of righteous indignation with a warm heart. --Phil Udell

• The Ultimate Weapon | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.30   |  Saving you £-4.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Mercenaries Ben & Vince are assigned to destroy a stolen military arms cache held by a group of terrorists.

• Bulletproof | DVD | (04/03/2008) from £11.62   |  Saving you £-2.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An unstoppable force is about to meet an immovable object as tough LA cop Frank 'Bulletproof' McBain embarks on a dangerous mission to retrieve a top secret attack vehicle. The vehicle code named Thunderblast can withstand the impact of just about any weapon imaginable. Cuban Libayan and Russian terrorists plan to seize the much coveted battle machine at a Mexican village near the Texan border. A convoy led by the beautiful Lt. Devon Shepard is escorting Thunderblast when it is amb

• 400 Blows | DVD | (16/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Praised by film-makers (Akira Kurosawa called it One of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen) and critics the world over Truffaut's 400 Blows launched the Nouvelle Vague and paved the way for some of cinema's most important and influential directors. Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents his relationship with his mother is further strained when he discovers that she has taken a secret lover. Added to this his school teachers have written him off as a troublemaker and with luck seemingly never on his side it is Antoine who ends up getting the blame for bad behaviour. Finding refuge only in his love of cinema Antoine soon finds it necessary to break free and discover what the world can offer outside of the confines of his everyday life. This remarkable film features the extraordinary talent of Jean-Pierre Leaud as the rebellious Antoine a character based on Truffaut himself. Antoine Doinel was to make appearances in a number of Truffaut's films (including 'Stolen Kisses' 'Bed and Board' and 'Love on the Run') all of which chart his further adventures into adulthood.

• Breaking All The Rules | DVD | (15/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Breaking All The Rules is a teen comedy set in a Canadian amusement park. It stars park worker Jack Fleming (Carl Marotte) and his pal (Thor Bishopric) who fancy themselves as God's gift to women. The boys manage to impress Debbie (Carolyn Dunn) and Angie (Rachel Hayward) especially after winning a stuffed toy that contains a valuable diamond. It was stolen by three hapless criminals who pursue the teenagers. A break-dancing contest provides the finale where the film conclu

• Scourge Of The Worlds - A Dungeons And Dragons Adventure | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure is not a film sequel to Dungeons and Dragons (2000), but the DVD equivalent of an interactive role-playing novel. There are over 900 short digitally animated sequences, leading every so often to a choice to be made with the remote control, resulting after about 90 minutes in one of four possible endings. Just as the original D&D was inspired by The Lord of the Rings, the scenarios here are Tolkien rehashed: a newly arisen darkness is seeking an ancient ultimate weapon, against which stand a human warrior, Regdar, a halfling, Lidda and an elven wizard, Mialee. The CGI is closer to Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles than the pseudo-realism of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the electronic score is tiresome and the contemporary American voice acting, using such expressions as "head's up" and "…or something", is laughable. What of the interactive element? Essentially it offers two equally uninteresting paths at the end of every major scene--uninteresting because it's impossible to care what happens to the marionette-like stereotypes no matter what they do. While the adventure does offer plenty of well-choreographed cartoon-style action, interacting with Scourge of Worlds is ultimately about as much fun as watching someone else play a computer game--and that's just the first time through. On the DVD: Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure fills the DVD with the 900-plus animated sequences, presumably leaving no room for extras. The only options are between stereo sound and far more involving Dolby Digital 5.1. The image appears to have been taken directly from a digital master and is flawless, the images only limited by the TV-standard computer rendering. --Gary S Dalkin

• Storm Over Asia | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The last of the three great films that VI Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm Over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged classic of Soviet silent cinema. Filmed largely on location in Mongolia, the film has an authentic documentary feel, though the story is a stirring melodrama, about a young fur trapper who is mistreated by the occupying forces in the civil war and becomes a leader of the partisans. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medieval rituals of a Buddhist temple, but it's out on the steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast landscapes. Together with The Mother (1926) and The End of St Petersburg (1927), Storm Over Asia (also known as "The Heir to Genghis Khan") entitles Pudovkin to be ranked with Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as a master of the Soviet montage style, which he expounded in his book Film Technique (1929). On the DVD: The print, though not perfect, is of fair quality and a new score by Timothy Brock complements the images nicely. However, the so-called "Introduction" turns out to be just a few lines of text scrolling down the screen, telling you less than the information appearing on the sleeve notes. --Ed Buscombe

• Roberto Succo | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1986 Roberto Succo escaped from an Italian mental institution where he had been incarcerated for the brutal murder of his parents and went into hiding in France. Travelling between the Mediterranean and the mountains of Savoy Succo left a trail of inexplicable murders rapes and abductions which the police investigators struggled to connect. Cedric Kahn's gripping dramatisation of true events gives a terrifying insight into the disturbed mind of a serial killer and also follows

• A Family Divided | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £12.22   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Karen Billingsly's (Faye Dunaway) college-aged son Chad participates in a fraternity gang rape of a high school girl his attorney father Roger (Stephen Collins) advises Chad and his frat brothers to say nothing. But when Karen finds out she is devastated. The cover-up of the crime takes a toll on both her marriage and family as Roger plays on her motherly instincts and insists that she conceal the truth to protect their son and his future. Torn between doing what's right and safeguarding everything she holds dear Karen pleads with Chad to have the courage to face the truth accept the consequences and not be swayed by the lack of ethics in others.

• Bone Daddy | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Former chief medical examiner for the city of Chicago Dr William Palmer (Rutgar Hauer) is now a best-selling writer. 'Bone Daddy' his latest thriller is based on a series of grisly murders the pathologist once investigated. Re-told in graphic detail the horrific story has one added twist. In the book the murderer is tracked down and brought to justice... in truth the serial killer was never caught. When the author's agent fails to show at the book's press launch Palmer pays a visit to his hotel room and is stunned when all he finds is a severed finger - a calling card that tells him the psychopath who eluded him years before is back and ready to strike again.

• That Was Then, This Is Now | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Two friends grow up like brothers in the rough east side of Minneapolis but then there comes a time for tough life decisions as that friendship is gradually ripped apart. Friends Mark Jennings and Byron Douglas have lived like brothers growing up together in the rough neighbourhood of St Paul along with a bunch of easygoing friends. But then a budding romance between Byron and Kathy puts a strain on the friendship and when Charlie the bar owner is killed helping them in a fight against two revengeful pool players the rift widens. Byron spends more time with Kathy leaves the old life behind and takes on a regular job while Mark falls into a rollercoaster world of revenge-fuelled fights and drugs. The two boys must learn to not only come to terms with their past but also to decide on how to face the future.

• Fast Times At Ridgemont High | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The script for Fast Times at Ridgemont High is based on filmmaker Cameron (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) Crowe's time as a reporter for Rolling Stone. He was so youthful looking that he was able to go undercover for a year at a California high school and write a book about it. The film launched the careers of several young actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates and, above all, Sean Penn. The story line is episodic, dealing with the lives of iconic teen types: one of the school's cool kids, a nerd, a teen queen and, most enjoyably, the class stoner (Penn), who finds himself at odds with a strict history teacher (a wonderfully spiky Ray Walston). This is not a great film but very entertaining and, for a certain age group, a seminal film experience.--Marshall Fine, Amazon.com On the DVD: Amy (Clueless) Heckerling and Cameron Crowe's commentary is revealing and indicative of a time where nudity on celluloid was shocking rather than the norm as they talk about the issues which contributed to the film's original X-rating, as well as all the actors who originally auditioned for the roles. The transfer quality is high with little grain, and although the soundtrack is in mono rather than Dolby 5.1 it is not detrimental to the film. There's a retrospective documentary called "Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High" featuring new interviews with most of the cast and crew, plus a highly original feature about the locations used in the film, how they looked in 1982 and how they look now. For fact buffs there's the usual mix of biographies, theatrical trailer and production notes.--Kristen Bowditch