"Actor: Alexander Polinsky"

• Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse | DVD | (23/05/2022) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What do you get when you combine the DC Super Hero Girls, the Legion of Doom and Teen Titans Go! with a dash of an ancient Kryptonian goddess? A recipe for pandemonium! With the help of an amulet from Krypton, Lex Luthor unites a group of Super-Villains to capture all of Earth's Super Heroes, leaving only the DC Super Hero Girls to stop the Legion of Doom. The girls must cross dimensions to rescue their fellow heroes from the Phantom Zone, but a mix-up leads them to the wrong universe. Get sucked into the chaos as this who's who of the DC Universe battles together to save the world in an epic multiverse event!

• Saints And Soldiers | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £6.39   |  Saving you £-0.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There is a time for heroes... Belgium: December 1944 and German troops open fire on unarmed American prisoners of war provoking the historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines discover a stranded R.A.F. pilot who holds the key to German intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five men must battle through the bitter Winter landscape to smuggle their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy.

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 1 - The Pluto Campaign | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roughnecks is the computer-animated TV spin-off from director Paul Verhoeven's live-action sci-fi shoot-'em-up Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had already seen his Robocop movie spun-off into animated television with mixed results, so when it came to Starship Troopers he wanted Roughnecks to be a little different (the director acted as Executive Producer on the series). The style of computer animation here recalls, if anything, the little green soldiers from the Toy Story movies. Backed by an unending techno-based score (despite which the series has won several awards for sound editing), the 20-minute episodes are like viewing brilliantly conceived "cut scenes" from computer games. The series concept begins by taking the movie's characters, giving them different origins---and then forgets about a bug home-world in favour of a mobile threat that can appear anywhere. With souped-up combat suits that better acknowledge Robert Heinlein's original novel, the technological look and feel also owes a significant debt to Aliens. This first collection edits together the opening five episodes to make a 100-minute self-contained movie about a crawling infestation on Pluto. You'll know where shows start and end by the narration. The story is all to do with set-up as we meet the titular Roughnecks: Rico, Dizzy, Doc, Jenkins, Higgins and Razak. Between missions of rescue and mercy, a love triangle is established, Rico's heroics and Higgins' cowardice are explored and more bugs are wasted than you can possibly keep count of. The finale's discovery of "Bug City" will test anyone for arachnophobia. --Paul Tonks

• Saints & Soldiers / Days of Glory 2 disc Bluray Boxset | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £9.09   |  Saving you £10.90 (119.91%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Saints And Soldiers: December 1944. The German army rampages trough the frozen wastes of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. Among the many Allied prisoners taken en route a small band of American soldiers manages to escape. Without weapons and without food ravaged by the cold the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline... but as their perilous journey takes its toll loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance. A mesmerising hallucinatory journey through the hellish landscape of war ravaged Europe based on real life events Saints And Soldiers tells the story of ordinary men and the mission that made them heroes. Days Of Glory: 1943. The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war Sa''d Abdelkader Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army along with 130 000 other indigenous soldiers to liberate the fatherland from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 2 - The Tesca Campaign | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £6.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (190.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Volume 2 of Roughnecks--Starship Troopers Chronicles, Johnny Rico, Lieutenant Razak and their computer-animated squad embark on the Tesca campaign, once again fighting the bugs in all their myriad forms, shooting anything that moves and generally causing chaos and mayhem. Inspired by Robert Heinlein's sci-fi classic and executive-produced by Paul Verhoeven, who made the big-screen version, Roughnecks is cutting-edge TV animation that's more for grown-ups than kids. The neat equipment, combat suits and weapons are as deadly as they are cool, and even though the extreme gore and violence of the movie has been toned down the endless threat from all manner of nasty bugs is still pretty terrifying (the Giant Spider Bug, for example, really is the stuff of nightmares). As with Volume 1, the five 20-minute episodes are here spliced together into a movie-length feature, which makes for a satisfyingly lengthy story arc instead of the more usual self-contained individual episodes. The show's structure also allows for plenty of character development: this time the squad are joined by an alien "skinny" called T'Phai who, as might be expected, has to work hard to bond with the rest of the team and earn their respect. Like all good war stories, at its heart Roughnecks celebrates that "Band of Brothers"-style bonding in extreme circumstances which we viewers can only experience vicariously. On the DVD: The 4:3 picture is good, although it's better to watch with the lights off to see all the detail in the moody (i.e., "dark") CG animation. The 5.1 sound shows off explosions and gunfire, but also the almost incessant techno soundtrack. There's a good commentary from cast and crew members, who talk about their various movie inspirations (from the D-Day landing sequence of Saving Private Ryan to, of course, Aliens) and their desire to parallel real war situations. There's also a photo gallery of the human actors and a trailer. This is a stylish show, and a good DVD.--Mark Walker

• Saints And Soldiers | Blu Ray | (30/06/2008) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  December 1944. The German army rampages trough the frozen wastes of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. Among the many Allied prisoners taken en route a small band of American soldiers manages to escape. Without weapons and without food ravaged by the cold the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline... but as their perilous journey takes its toll loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance. A mesmerising hallucinatory journey through the hellish landscape of war ravaged Europe based on real life events Saints And Soldiers tells the story of ordinary men and the mission that made them heroes.

• Saints And Soldiers | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £4.85   |  Saving you £11.14 (229.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There is a time for heroes... Belgium: December 1944 and German troops open fire on unarmed American prisoners of war provoking the historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines discover a stranded R.A.F. pilot who holds the key to German intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five men must battle through the bitter Winter landscape to smuggle their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy.

• Saints & Soldiers - Special Edition (2 Disc) Tin Box | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £4.25   |  Saving you £15.74 (370.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There is a time for heroes... Belgium: December 1944 and German troops open fire on unarmed American prisoners of war provoking the historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines discover a stranded R.A.F. pilot who holds the key to German intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five men must battle through the bitter Winter landscape to smuggle their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy.