"Actor: Bogdan Stupka"

• Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £3.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (304.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in the 16th century this is a story about the Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing armies.

• Sappho | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Evocative of the erotic cinema of Tinto Brass comes a provocative love story set in the 1920's.American heiress Sappho Lovell has the perfect life; daughter of a millionaire, married to a handsome & artistic husband and has set off on a summer long trip to the beautiful Greek isle of Lesbos. However, everything changes when she meets Helene. What begins innocently as a summer friendship ignites into a high stakes mnage trois of love and lust with a stormy outcome none of the participants could ever have anticipated.

• Medieval Epics: Legends of the Sword (3 Disc Boxset, Iron & Blood; Barbarossa: Siege Lord & Alexander: Warrior Saint) | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Iron and Blood Barbarossa: Siege and Lord Alexander: Warrior Saint

• East West | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  East West is, fortunately, more than the colour-by-numbers melodrama that the packaging makes it seem. On the cover, a pair of haunted eyes gaze into the middle distance above a superb example of that absurd movie poster copywriting that reads much the same wherever you put the nouns: "In a land without freedom, escape was her only hope", which is hardly more meaningful than, say, "In a land without hope, freedom was her only escape". East West deserves better. A French-Russian production, the film tells the story of a Russian doctor, his French wife and their child. In 1946 they accept Stalin's invitation to exiled Russians to return to the motherland and help rebuild the country; swiftly they discover that the reality doesn't quite match the advertising. The film follows the stresses the situation places on the central couple's marriage and focuses on the wife's dreams of escape, which revolve around an intervention by a grand dame of French theatre (played, appropriately, by Catherine Deneuve). East West suffers slightly from several disorientating lurches forward in time, but is otherwise a superior thriller and a convincing period piece. On the DVD: East West offers two different trailers, filmographies of the stars and director and scene selection. The film is in French with English subtitles. –-Andrew Muller