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• Hong Kong 1941 | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £21.29   |  Saving you £-1.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hong Kong 1941 is a film from the former Crown Colony uniquely focusing on the Japanese occupation during the Second World War. Starring Chow Yun-Fat, shortly before A Better Tomorrow (1986) made him a superstar, this is a war drama far removed from the usual action fare expected from Hong Kong cinema. The English title deliberately evokes Spielberg's 1941, though the content anticipates the same director's Empire of the Sun, even to the extent that the hymn "Suo Gan" is used in both movies. The story of two friends in love with the same woman may call to mind Pearl Harbor, though this comparatively low-budget feature offers an infinitely more convincing account of the horrors of war than Michael Bay's glossy big-budget epic, with some of the most harrowing sequences since The Deer Hunter. The film does not shy away from the moral complexities of collaboration with the enemy, and likewise presents the main characters as fully three-dimensional. Chow Yun-Fat inevitably dominates (he won a Golden Horse award for his performance), yet Cecilia Yip Tong makes a strong impression as the heroine whose terminal illness does not result in the expected sentimental clichés. Alex Man is memorable as the third corner of the triangle, but what makes Hong Kong 1941 genuinely notable is its emotionally charged evocation of WWII from a rarely seen perspective. On the DVD: Hong Kong 1941 is presented in an anamorphically enhanced transfer at 1.77:1, cropping just a little of the original Hong Kong Critics Award-winning cinematography. The picture is excellent, with no blemishes, fine detail, rich colours and barely a hint of grain. The sound is offered in stereo in the original Cantonese, with optional English subtitles, or in a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix and dubbed into English. Both tracks have occasional distortion on the music. The original version preserves the performances much better, though some of the subtitles are wildly inaccurate--references to living in the 21st century and to Japanese jet planes--while the dubbed track offers better than average voice acting but with many of the cultural references Westernised. The multi-channel remix adds only discrete ambient effects and is barely noticeable. The main special features are an information-packed commentary by Hong Kong movie expert Bay Logan, and two interviews. Chow Yun-Fat speaks rather nervously in English for 12 minutes on a variety of topics, concentrating on his work with John Woo. The interview with Cecilia Yip Tong, specific to Hong Kong 1941, is in Cantonese with English subtitles, runs 27 minutes and is anamorphically enhanced with excellent image quality. Also included is a routine photo gallery, the original theatrical trailer and 12 Hong Kong Legends DVD trailers. --Gary S Dalkin

• Running On Empty | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope (Chistine Lahti and Judd Hirsh) blew up a napalm lab in 1971 they became lifelong fugitives. They and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law running from state to state job to job identity to identity. But now elder son Danny (River Phoenix) wants to stop running from a past not his. And to do so he might never see his on-the-lam family again...

• The Corruptor | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £6.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (188.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is not your average New York cop. Working in Chinatown has its multifarious cultural nuances and its fair share of ubiquitous enticement, both of which are reflected in detective Chen's weary face. He had to get into bed with the highest echelons of the Chinese Mafia as a way of augmenting his own career, while maintaining a semblance of control over the dime-a-dozen hoods who proliferate on this turf. To make matters worse, he now has to break in rookie detective Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), who has asked to be assigned to the Chinatown division. Apparently Wallace is infatuated with all things Chinese, or is suffering from "Yellow Fever," as his fellow colleagues would have us believe. Chen, not one to suffer fools gladly, takes young Wallace under his protective wing, oft-warning the shady powers of the neighbourhood not to sink Danny into their sordid pool of corruption. But before he knows it, both he and Wallace are caught in a deadly ring of double-crosses, shady-dealings, murders, and car chases. And all of this under the suspicious eye of Internal Affairs. Part Serpico and part Hard Boiled, this film seems at first to be a major departure from director James Foley's previous work. However, Foley has frequently revealed a keen eye and understanding for emotionally complex relationships, especially between teacher and pupil (Glengarry Glen Ross) or father and son (At Close Range). This movie is no different. In fact, Foley's meticulous attention to the relationship between the wise, morally burdened Chen, and the naove, innocent Wallace morphs this otherwise tedious plot into a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Hats off to Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg, whose sympathetic chemistry creates an authentic and deeply personal connection, a factor that proves crucial to the film's poignant, disturbing finale. --Jeremy Storey

• POMPEII 3D - MOVIE | Blu Ray | (07/08/2014) from £13.16   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Brylcreem Boys | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When two enemy pilots shoot each other down over Ireland they are both captured as prisoners of war. During World War II Neutral Ireland interned all soldiers sailors and airmen regardless of their nationality captured on Irish soil. What they failed to mention was that they would put them all in the same camp... Our pilots (Bill Campbell) and Rudi (Angus MacFayden) are astonished to come face to face with each other at the entrance of the interment camp. Further surprises are in

• Set the Piano Stool on Fire | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  About the relationship between pianist Alfred Brendel and the young composer and pianist Kit Armstrong. The film is an intimate chronicle of their relationship during 2008-9 and includes the only footage of Brendel performing during his farewell tour.

• The Bride With White Hair | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With its rich visuals textures and its fast & furious action 'The Bride With White Hair' is a dazzling combination of fantasy and martial arts. Armed with a deadly whip that can rip her enemies apart the Bride is a fierce and beautiful warrior raised by wolves and working for the cult leader Chi-Wu-Shang a malevolent siamese twin consisting of brother and sister. When the Bride falls in love with rival leader Yi-Hang heir to the rival Chung Yuan clan she attempts to leave her evil master but he wreaks deadly revenge by brutally slaughtering the leaders of the Chung Yuan. Ferocious with rage the Bride sets out on her own savage quest for vengeance... From Hong Kong director Ronny Yu and featuring powerful performances from Brigitte Lin in the title role 'The Bride With White Hair' is packed full of spectacular stunts special effects imagination and adventure.

• Eternals - Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2022) from £34.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Game of Thrones - Season 1 Gift Set | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This stunning limited edition gift set includes the complete first season of the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, alongside a Blu-ray bonus disc of Season 2 Episode 1 and dragon egg paper-weight. Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men...all will play the 'Game of Thrones.' A new original series based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series. Special Features: Making Game of Thrones From the Book to the Screen The Night's Watch Creating the Show Open Audio Commentaries Creating the Dothraki Language Character Profiles Blu-Ray Complete Guide to Westeros Anatomy of an Episode In-Episode Guide Hidden Dragon Eggs

• Prokofiev: War and Peace (La guerre et la paix) -- Paris Opera/Bertini | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £9.62   |  Saving you £21.63 (258.73%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the opera National de Paris TDK presents Prokofiev's monumental opera War and Peace in a tremendous production directed by Francesca Zambello.Based on Tolstoy's famous novel War and Peace is an opus of exceptional scale. Over 70 figures make up the enormous lyrical formation. The story tells of the fate of a Russian aristocrat who is overcome with shock at Napoleon's invasion. The core of the drama set against the backdrop of the war is the passionate love between the young Natacha Rostov to the Prince Andrei Bolkonski.

• Evil Instinct | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £16.58   |  Saving you £-11.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Steamy sex thriller 'Evil Instinct' is one of Hong Kong's most successful Category III movies ever. The most watched hotel pay-per-view film in Asia as well as a substantial box office smash it combines beautiful women and hot action with a powerful and intriguing story. Cop Sam Hui gets picked up by two gorgeous women in a bar and ends up having an intense sexual encounter with one. They are interrupted by a phone call from the scene of a grisly murder. The crime is just one of a series and the investigation leads Sam to an Insurance Company where the two girls work. Penny (Carrie Ng) fascinates him even when he discovers that the girls are selling sex in return for favours. Meanwhile Wendy (Pang Dan one of Cat III's hottest new stars) has set out to steal Penny's clients by offering them kinky sex. Penny starts to go off the rails as her clients defect to Wendy and Sam finds out she is addicted to a weird snake serum drug. When he discovers that all the murder victims have a snake DNA in their blood his suspicions turn to the object of his sexual obsession - but it seems she has the perfect alibi... Both stunning girls wear a succession of skin tight S/M outfits as they turn up the heat in this scorching thriller which pays homage to Basic Instinct - but with hotter women and far more style.

• Testament of Youth | Blu Ray | (25/05/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A powerful and passionate journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times. Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother's close friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse. She works tirelessly, experiencing all the griefs of war, as one by one her fiancé, her brother and their closest friends are all killed and the pillars of her world shattered. But, an indefatigable spirit, Vera endures and returns to Oxford, irrevocably changed, yet determined to find a new purpose, which spurs her towards a redemptive act of remembrance. Featuring an all-star cast including: Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Ex Machina, Anna Karenina), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Emily Watson (War Horse, The Book Thief), Hayley Atwell (Captain America, The Duchess), Colin Morgan (Merlin), Dominic West (The Wire, 300) and Miranda Richardson (The Phantom of the Opera, Empire of the Sun)

• In/Spectre (BD) | Blu Ray | (07/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shaolin Vs The Evil Dead | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill meets Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead as Hong Kong cinema legend Gordon Liu (Kill Bill 1 and 2; Master Killer) takes on the forces of the demonic underworld in the weird and wonderful horror-comedy kung fu flick SHAOLIN VS. EVIL DEAD. When the immortal King of the Vampires (Kit Cheung) is accidentally re-awakened it is up to two competing Shaolin monks Brother White (Gordon Liu) and Brother Black (Louis Fan star of The Story of Ricky) to save the world from the devastating army of darkness. Aided by their assistants the bungling Sun (Jacky Woo) and Fire (Shi Xiao-Hu) and the beautiful but deadly Moon (played by Liu's Drunken Monkey co-star Shannon Yoh) White and Black are forced to confront bizarre Hopping Vampires maggot-ridden corpses exploding midget zombies and armies of junior Shaolin monks and kung fu killers in the Satanic showdown that is Shaolin Vs. Evil Dead! Packed with comedy gore bizarre humour and moments of hilariously violent slapstick SHAOLIN VS. EVIL DEAD is also enlivened by superb fight choreography and wire-work of a standard that kung fu fans have come to expect from modern day martial arts films.

• Don't Mess With My Sister | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  LUST destroyed his life. PASSION led him to murder. GREED left him a beaten man. All because he wouldn't listen when they said...Don't Mess With My Sister! From Meir Zarchi the director of 'I Spit On Your Grave' comes a tense provocative action-packed thriller that gives new meaning to the word REVENGE.

• Magnificent Kick | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fast and furious martial arts movie action!

• Pitch | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Winner at the Toronto Independent Film Festival Pitch documents the childhood friends in their quest to sell their comedy script 'The Dawn'. It's crass farcical and down right outrageous yet they'll stop at nothing to get the attention of the Hollywood big boys. Not surprisingly their tireless attempts to gain recognition culminate in utter pandemonium.

• Joyful Partaking | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Walter Majeski a former TV weatherman lost his young son in a freak snowstorm that Walter failed to forecast. On this day Walter decides it is time to end his life but his own ineptitude keeps getting in the way... A darkly comic Altmanesque look at a day in the life of a suburban American neighbourhood. Joyful Partaking reveals how seemingly small acts of kindness or carelessness can change a life forever.

• The Racketeer | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Racketeer

• Cassandra | DVD | (15/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99