"Actor: Ernest Thomas"

• The Dogs Of War | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £11.93   |  Saving you £2.32 (21.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War is an uneasy mix of espionage and combat that never really succeeds in either role. Based around the character of Paul Shannon, the film follows events in the fictional African state of Zagaro. Hired on a reconnaissance mission by a nameless multi-national corporation, Shannon is captured and tortured before his release, only to return to the country to lead a small band of mercenaries (the dogs of the title) in a bloody coup. The first section of the movie works best, building a real sense of tension and unease, not least through a typically understated performance by Christopher Walken as the paranoid loner who keeps a pistol in his fridge (watch too for a brief appearance from a young Jim Broadbent). There are obvious references to the by-then obsolete school of Vietnam filmmaking in the second section, with the Asian enemy replaced by an African one. The gung-ho mentality of the soldiers is, however, so two-dimensional that the viewer develops little empathy for their plight. The action is slow and drawn out, with the seemingly endless pregnant pauses operating as a means for enabling the film to achieve a reasonable running time. On the DVD: little is on offer here aside from the usual scene selection, audio and subtitle options and original cinema trailer. --Phil Udell

• The Dirty Dozen - The Deadly Mission | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Telly Savalas assumes the role of the leader of the Dirty Dozen from Lee Marvin as he and the twelve are charged to destroy a nerve gas manufacturing plant before the Germans can make enough to use against the Allied invasion...

• Malcolm X | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £7.84   |  Saving you £5.15 (65.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Filmmaker Spike Lee actor Denzel Washington and other top talents vividly portray the life and times of Malcolm X. ""Heres a man who rose up from the dregs of society spent time in jail re-educated himself and through spiritual enlightenment rose to the top "" Lee says. Academy Award winner Washington was an Oscar nominee and the New York Boston and Chicago Film Critics choice as 1992s Best Actor.

• Gigli - Non Ti Scordar Di Me | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £21.87   |  Saving you £3.12 (12.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Songs and excerpts from Rigoletto Africana Mignon Favorita Marta and Elisir.

• The Dirty Dozen - The Fatal Mission | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Dirty Dozen are sent on a dangerous mission to intercept and eliminate a cadre of idealistic young Nazi officers being sent to the Middle East in preparation for the establishment of a Fourth Reich after the war's imminent end...

• Super Snooper | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dave is nuked in the swamplands thereafter developing supernatural powers. So fantastic are the things he can now do that he can catch bullets in his teeth yet when he sees anything in red he becomes weak. His superior sargeant Dunlop becomes so angry when this happens. Total comedy for all the family!

• F. Scott Fitzgerald And The Last Of The Belles | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (-300.50%)   |  RRP £3.99