War

• The Motorcycle Diaries | HD DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1952 a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution Ernesto Che Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the provided by his girlfriend Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro) constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood and the dawning realization of where they should head in life.

• MAENNER, DIE AUF ZIEGEN - MOVI | DVD | (05/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brothers at War | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £6.21   |  Saving you £9.78 (61.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brothers At War is an intimate portrait of an American family during a turbulent time. Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the experience sacrifice and motivation of his two brothers serving in Iraq. The film follows Jake's exploits as he risks everything-including his life-to tell his brothers' story. Often humorous but sometimes downright lethal Brothers At War is a remarkable journey where Jake embeds with four combat units in Iraq. Unprecedented access to U.S. and Iraqi combat units take him behind the camouflage curtain with secret reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border into sniper Hide Sites in the Sunni Triangle through raging machine gun battles with the Iraqi Army. Ultimately the film follows his brothers home where separations and life-threatening work ripple through their parents siblings wives and children. Brothers At War provides a rare look at the bonds and service of our soldiers on the frontlines and the profound effects their service has on the loved ones they leave behind.

• The Entrance | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A police detective is swept into a web of deception and in search of the truth finds herself in a fight against the occult. Ryan James a street-savvy drug dealer is desperate for help and protection against his kidnappers so he turns to the police and detective Jen Porhowski. As Porhowski tries to help and unravel his account of the night's horrifying events she gets entangled in a world from 400 years ago where a possessed nun is punishing the tempters of the innocent.

• Drona | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Drona

• Concentration Camps - Dachau | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dachau concentration camp was situated 12 miles from Munich in Bavaria and was the first of the infamous concentration camps built by the Nazi regime as part of the Final Solution. The camp was set up in 1933 and was initially occupied by Communist and Jewish inmates but very soon its doors opened to many other miserables that the Nazis wanted to eradicate. Dachau is factually considered as one of the worst Nazi camps with a hideous reputation of maltreatment and barbaric living conditions. During 1941-42 hundreds of medical experiments were carried out on healthy prisoners and in the final year of the war more than 40 000 prisoners perished in the camp. A disturbing yet insightful insight into one of humanity's darkest hours.

• Manila, Open City | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £4.62   |  Saving you £1.37 (29.65%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In early February 1945 as Allied Forces slowly closed the net around the Japanese Army entrenched within the city ruins of Manila the defeated Empire's soldiers adopted a brutal and savage operation of persecution against the citizens. Atrocities committed against the inhabitants were akin to those being inflicted in Europe by the Nazis and a damning indictment of the Japanese Army's contempt for the innocent.

• Charlie Wilson's War/Capote | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Charlie Wilson's War: The true story of how a playboy congressman a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today. Capote: In 1959 Truman Capote a popular writer for The New Yorker learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb Kansas. Inspired by the story material Capote and his partner Harper Lee travel to the town to research for an article. However as Capote digs deeper into the story he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work 'In Cold Blood'. To that end he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners especially with Perry Smith a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for the book which only an execution can provide. The conflict and mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce a literary account that redefined modern non-fiction....

• Gulf War | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-79.90%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The 1991 Persian Gulf War is a military triumph for the United States. But when thousands of returning veterans start to develop medical problems it appears that the military is trying to downplay or ignore the situation. It takes perserverance on the part of the military families and members of congress to bring to light the dilemma and prompt action on the part of the government.

• The Heartbreak Kid | HD DVD | (04/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.

• Young And Innocent (Hitchcock) | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Among Alfred Hitchcock's pre-Hollywood movies, 1938's Young and Innocent is a most unfairly overlooked classic. It's full of themes and stylistic touches that became permanent fixtures in his career. Based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles, the film title refers to the characters' outlook. However Hitchcock characteristically chips away at that innocence with flourishes of macabre humour, such as scenes of a dead rat at the lunch table and a hopeless conference with a defence lawyer, while suspense is heightened in a game of blindman's buff at a children 's party. The story concerns a typically Hitchcockian innocent man (Derrick de Marney) on the run, with a trivial object to find (a raincoat) that will prove his innocence. He's helped by a fiery young girl (Nova Pilbeam) who's unfortunately the daughter of the chief constable, but has some handy first aid skills. There's also an oppressive mother figure in the shape of an overbearing aunt (Mary Clare). Aside from these thematic traits, what remains impressive for viewers new or old is Hitchcock's technical set-pieces: a car sinks into a mineshaft, a railway station is recreated in miniature, and the twitchy-eyed murderer is finally located via an extended aerial tracking shot across a ballroom (pre-empting many similar shots, eg: Notorious). This sequence took two days to accomplish, and demonstrates the director was more than ready to move to the older and less innocent American industry . --Paul Tonks

• Jezebel Collection: Sex a Go Go III | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Line | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Line (4 Discs)

• Stomp The Yard/Life And Lyrics | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (37.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stomp The Yard: DJ an amazing underground street dancer hasn't been in college for a day before he's entranced by the lovely April (Meagan Good). Working as a gardener to pay the bills DJ doesn't fit in with the wealthier students around campus but one thing does catch his attention - the rival fraternity competition known as stepping. With April's help DJ learns about the legacy and heritage behind the fraternities and decides to join up. Now part of an official step group DJ now must balance rehearsals work and school while at the same time winning the heart of the girl of his dreams. With the National Step Championship drawing closer DJ must learn to stop dancing as an individual and to start stepping as part of a team. Life And Lyrics: An exhilarating story of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of London's vibrant urban music scene. The Motion Crew are a group of South London rappers led by DJ Danny 'D-Biz' Lewis (Ashley Walters). For Danny his music is everything and his crew are like family. Danny's loyalty is put to the test when he falls for the beautiful Carmen (Louise Rose) who is related to one of their most hated rivals a member of the violent and arrogant Hard Cash Crew. Both crews seem certain to face each other in the rap battle finals of the prestigious Mic Masters competition a thrilling event that will offer a final chance for Danny to beat his rivals and make it big.

• Election | Blu Ray | (10/08/2009) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Busy with clubs, committees and school musicals, Tracy Flick is ready for her greatest glory - the student government presidency.

• Be Cool | UMD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast including John Travolta Uma Thurman Andr 3000 Steven Tyler and The Rock and bursting with the hottest music in the biz Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!

• Jodie Foster Silver Screen Collection | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the few actresses to have successfully made the transition from child star to adult star Jodie Foster is a double Oscar winner and one of today's truly big stars. In tandem with her acting career Jodie has also enjoyed a hugely successful career as a producer and director making her one of Hollywood's major players. Mesmerized: An orphaned New Zealand girl marries a rich Australian businessman and has to cope with living in the Australian outback. If that were not bad enough she also has to deal with her husband's controlling ways. Five Corners: A psychotic man is released from prison seeking the young woman he tried to rape and the young man who came to her rescue. His time in prison has done little other than increase his love for her and hatred of him....

• Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai | DVD | (01/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Love comes to people in all sorts of ways. To Sanjay (Uday Chopra) however love came hitting like a ton of bricks. Residing in Bombay with his friend and flat mate Ria (Bipasha Basu) Sanjay is the dithering casanova constantly bungling up his romantic liaisons till one day the phone rings. It's his childhood friend Anjali (Sanjana) and she is getting married. This is the ton of bricks I was telling you about! Observing Sanjay's reaction to this news and hearing him talk to Anjali Ria concludes that Sanjay is in love with her. Sanjay wakes up to this truth reluctantly and sets off to Dehradoon on a ""noble"" mission - to break the wedding! In Dehradoon he is reunited with Anjali - till he meets the groom to be - handsome charismatic every girl's dream-guy Rohit (Jimmy Shergill). Nevertheless Sanjay''s love for Anjali impels him to take on the world and he sets off on a crusade of poisoning the family's mind against Rohit. On realizing that Sanjay is behind these seemingly innocent coincidences Rohit confronts him - a clash between the good and the not-so-good. Both men decide to give each other a fair chance letting Anjali be the final decision maker. Does Rohit's integrity win over Anjali or does Sanjay's love emerge triumphant? Well most of us have seen ""My Best Friend's Wedding""... How does this film end?

• WWII: As Seen On The Home Front | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Story Of The Battle Of Britain | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Battle of Britain Memorial Flight: History of Aviation - Battle of Britain Memorial Flight provides a fitting tribute to the aircraft that defended Britain during World War II and sheds light onto all that the BBMF do to honour the services of both aircraft and aircrew. This programme oozes nostalgia as we see the mighty Lancaster the power Hawker Hurricane and the legendary Spitfire in all their glory as they cruise gracefully above the Channel Islands.