"Actor: Mel Gibson"

• Conspiracy Theory / Payback | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Conspiracy Theory: New York cab driver and conspiracy buff Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) knows about the secret movers shakers and assassins who really control things. Trying to put Justice Department attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) in the know he's run out of her of office. Soon both will run for their lives. The two stars conspire for suspense romance and twists that click like a rush-hour taximeter. (Dir. Richard Donner 1997 Cert. 15) Payback: Mel Gibson po

• The Singing Detective | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £8.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (78.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a film adaptation of Dennis Potter's famous TV series, a hospitalized novelist reworks his first book and becomes feverishly confused with his novel's protaganist, a detective investigating a murder in 1950s L.A.

• The River | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starring Mel Gibson in his second Hollywood film, The River celebrates traditional American values through the Garvey family's determination to hold onto their farm against all odds. The drama opens with the threat of flooding from the river that adjoins the Garvey's land, then depicts their struggles through ailing livestock, accident and risk of crop failure. Add to these a local businessman, Scott Glenn, planning to turn the valley into a dam, a subplot echoing Deliverance (1972), also filmed in Eastern Tennessee, and all the elements are in place for an emotional triumph-over-adversity movie. Much of The River has a realistic tone, unflinchingly depicting numerous hardships, especially when Gibson has to earn extra money as a strike-breaking hired hand in a steel mill. Against this, and a surprisingly left-wing tone advocating cooperation over competition, the more upbeat moments resort to feel-good cliché with John Williams' lilting score seemingly wandered in from a Spielberg fantasy. Nevertheless the cast, including Sissy Spacek as Gibson's wife, deliver first-rate performances and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond expertly captures the harshness and the beauty of the land. The River was one of a trio of major US farming movies in 1984, the others being Country and Places in the Heart. On the DVD: The 1.85:1 anamorphically enhanced image is virtually flawless, capturing the many subtle effects of light on water throughout the film. Released theatrically in stereo, the opening and closing sequences demonstrate the power of a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix in generating atmosphere through natural sound. Elsewhere the audio is less striking, but always clean and powerful. Extras are routine: the US trailer, four brief biographies, and interesting though short production notes. --Gary S. Dalkin

• The Man Without A Face | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £6.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (49.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Since a tragic accident left him hideously scarred seven years ago Justin MacLeod has hidden away in his cliffside retreat. Meanwhile the locals have delighted in painting him as a perverted madman with an horrific past. Twelve-year-old Chuck Norstadt is also an outsider. Alienated from his family he awaits the day he can go to a boarding school far from home - but he has to pass his entrance exam first. Then by accident Chuck meets Justin Macleod. Justin turns out to be the fr

• The Shyamalan Collection | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Sixth Sense: After the assault and suicide of one of his ex-patients award-winning child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is left determined to help a young boy named Cole who suffers from the same diagnosis as the ex-patient - they both see dead people. Malcolm cannot rest until he makes amends for his feelings of failure created by the mental breakdown of the first patient. Cole is a young boy who is paralyzed by fear from his visions of dead people. His mother is at her wits end trying to cope with Cole's eccentricities. With the help of Dr. Crowe Cole goes on a journey of self as he learns to overcome his fears all the while discovering the purpose of his gift. Unbreakable: When David Dunn (Willis) emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor - and without a single scratch on him - he meets a mysterious stranger (Jackson) who will change David's life forever. Interrupting his life at odd moments it's Elijah Price's presence and probing that force David to confront his destiny on a journey of self-discovery and purpose that will absolutely stun you with its power. Signs: Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family are told extra-terrestrials are responsible for the sign in their field. They watch with growing dread at the news of crop circles being found all over the world. Signs is the emotional story of one family on one farm as they encounter the terrifying last moments of life as the world is being invaded. Get ready for a close encounter of the scared kind... The Village: Run. The truce is ending... M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Village' finds the renowned writer-director crafting a suspenseful story of a small community whose inhabitants are plagued by fear of the unknown forest that surrounds them. For years they have kept a truce with mysterious creatures in the woods by vowing never to breach a clearly defined border. However when a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) becomes determined to explore the nearby towns his actions are met with menacing consequences.

• The River | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £11.72   |  Saving you £-5.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This emotionally-charged film celebrates the triumph of a young rural couple as they face nature's greatest ravages the threat of poverty and a wrenching separation. Sissy Spacek Mel Gibson and Scott Glenn star in this moving tribute to love faith determination and the vanishing America of the independent farm family. Tom and Mae Garvey (Gibson and Spacek) are struggling to keep their homestead safe from the local power authority who wants to flood their land. When Mae's former beau John Wade (Glenn) turns out to be in charge of the plan to acquire the property tensions run high climaxing in a devastating confrontation on the flooded river banks. Directed by On Golden Pond's Mark Rydell 'The River' features magnificent location photography by Vilmos Zsigmond and an outstanding score by John Williams.

• Pocahontas | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £6.65   |  Saving you £13.34 (200.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The lowest point in Disney's opportunistic revisionism of source stories for its animated features in the 1990s, Pocahontas presents the title character (voiced by Irene Bedard) as a voluptuous Indian babe who falls for the British plunderer Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson). Half-baked if trendy paganism abounds in the film's depiction of nature as possessing consciousness (though talking trees certainly aren't new to cartoons). But the dubious legitimacy of the film's premise and characterisations calls everything into question. The songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz--while Oscar-winning--fall short of the standard Menken achieved in superior Disney predecessors including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. --Tom Keogh

• The Bounty - Imprint Limited Edition Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (07/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lethal Weapon | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mel Gibson set aside his art-house credentials to star as a crazy cop paired with a stable one (Danny Glover) in this full-blown 1987 Richard Donner action picture. The most violent film in the series (which includes three sequels), Lethal Weapon is also the edgiest and most interesting. After Gibson's character jumps off a building handcuffed to a man, and Gary Busey (as a cold, efficient enforcer) lets his hand get burned without flinching, there is a sense that anything can happen, and it usually does. Donner's strangely messy visual and audio style doesn't make a lot of aesthetic sense, but it stuck with all four movies. --Tom Keogh

• Transformers | Blu Ray | (08/09/2008) from £7.25   |  Saving you £17.74 (244.69%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Duelling alien races, the Autobots and the Decepticons, bring their battle to Earth, leaving the future of humankind hanging in the balance.

• Attack Force Z | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £12.39   |  Saving you £-2.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mel Gibson co-stars with Sam Neill in this action-packed World War II adventure story. An elite Australian military team is dispatched to rescue survivors of a shot-down plane stranded on a South Pacific island occupied by the Japanese. One of the castaways may hold the secret to ending the war and must be saved at all costs...

• The Patriot/A Knight's Tale/Ned Kelly | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: The Patriot : Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) distinguished himself in the French and Indian Wars but now lives in peace with his seven children on his sprawling South Carolina plantation. The horrors of conflict come back to haunt him however when his headstrong eldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) defies his orders to join the American army. Unwilling to get involved himself Benjamin reluctantly joins the fight when second eldest son Thomas (Gregory Smith) is killed in cold blood by sadistic British officer Colonel Tavington (Jason Isaacs). Determined to protect the rest of his family and sister-in-law Charlotte (Joely Richardson) from harm Benjamin takes up arms alongside his patriotic son Gabriel leading a brave militia into battle against the overwhelming English army. A Knight's Tale: Heath Ledger is William Thatcher a peasant squire who breaks all the rules when he passes himself off as a nobleman and takes the jousting world by storm. The only thing that stands between William and his dream of becoming the world champion of this most extreme of competitions is the bad boy of the sport Count Adhemar. And when the two rivals go lance to head at the world finals to determine who will be named the ultimate champion you'd better arm yourself and hang on tight for the thrill ride of your life! Ned Kelly: The true story of the most notorious outlaw of his time; persecuted by the police and hunted by an empire Ned Kelly had the largest reward in the world on his head. Forced into hiding when his family was unlawfully imprisoned Ned and his gang soon became folklore...

• The Year of Living Dangerously | DVD | (21/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Sullivans Season 1 Volume 1 | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £99.99   |  Saving you £-60.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This epic story of a typical Melbourne family torn by the terror and uncertainty of World War II, is one of the most highly awarded and widely seen cornerstones of Australian television. The Sullivans is the story of a typical family in 1939 and follows the lives of the family members and friends during the years of the Second World War. With painstaking attention to historical detail from critically-acclaimed writers and starring some of the country's most revered and enduring stars such as Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Kylie Minogue and Sigrid Thornton. Available for the first time on DVD, enjoy the first fifty episodes of this much loved series.

• Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen | Blu Ray | (19/06/2017) from £5.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pure. Popcorn. Entertainment. That's an exact classification of director Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The action is nonstop, with battles and explosions from start to finish. The camera (without any subtlety) exploits Megan Fox's hotness to the max. As if she weren't enough, a new sex kitten (Isabel Lucas) is thrown into the equation. Shia LaBeouf is as charismatic as ever, and fills the starring role with ease. And then there's the humour. Sam's parents (Kevin Dunn and Julie White) provided some semi-raunchy laugh-out-loud moments in the first movie, but now they take it to the next level. Sometimes it seems like they are trying a little too hard, but it is still hilarious. As far as the “plot” goes, the writers didn't waste much time--it's really just a context for the giant-robot death matches and dramatic slow-mo sequences. The movie kicks off two years later where the Autobots have formed an alliance with the U.S. government, creating an elite team led by Major Lennox (Josh Duhamel), in an effort to snuff out any remaining Decepticons that show up. The bad guys keep coming, and it turns out that a much more menacing force than Megatron is out there--and it is looking for something on Earth that is tied to the very origin of the Transformers race. Fans of the franchise will be delighted by the addition of many new robot characters (there are well over 40 in the sequel, versus only 13 in the first). The second Transformers has shaped up to be one of the worst reviewed and most successful movies of all time. This strange pairing is really just an indication that this movie has one purpose: to entertain. The creators didn't want to waste time bogging down the action and drama with substance--which was arguably a good decision. --Jordan Thompson

• The Bounty | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Bounty is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty. Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic. On the DVD: There is an excellent 52-minute "making of" documentary that mixes historical information with on-location interviews. A 12-minute overview of previous screen versions of the story is narrated by the film's historical consultant, Stephen Walters, who also provides a somewhat stilted but nevertheless informative audio commentary. The second audio commentary is from director Roger Donaldson, Producer Bernie Williams and Production Designer John Graysmark, who genuinely appear to enjoy reminiscing and have real enthusiasm for the movie. Also included is a fascinating 28-page booklet. This is the stuff Special Editions should always be made of, and this would be one of the finest DVDs on the market were it not for the transfer of the film itself, which appears to be a reprocessed version of the same NTSC anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer found on the bare-bones Region 1 DVD, with no sign of PAL speed-up. The picture not only shows considerable grain in some scenes, but also demonstrates marked compression artefacting and enhancement shimmer on all horizontal lines, making some scenes extremely ugly. For such a beautiful film it is a most disappointing transition to the digital format. Most unusually for a UK release, the disc is region free.--Gary S Dalkin

• The Man Without A Face | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Transformers/Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £4.79   |  Saving you £20.20 (421.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Transformers: Dueling alien races the Autobots and the Decepticons bring their battle to Earth leaving the future of humankind hanging in the balance. Introduced in 1984 the Transformers brand took the world by storm with its compelling saga of the Autobots versus the Decepticons. Over 20 years on and director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg bring us a thrilling battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. When their epic struggle comes to Earth all that stands between the evil Decepticons and ultimate power is a clue held by Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: The Autobots are back in the eagerly awaited new film from Michael Bay... Transformers 2! After the Autobots cast the Decepticons out into space and away from Earth Starscream took charge of the malevolent crew and has been plotting his return from their homeworld of Cybertron. Finding that Megatron's body has been stolen and revived from the US military's possession by Skorpinox the Autobots call for reinforcements and ready themselves for a battle which will decide the fate of Earth and the Universe.

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2-Disc) | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Decepticon forces return to Earth to take Sam Witwicky prisoner after he learns the truth about the Transformers' origins. Joining the mission to once again protect humankind is Optimus Prime and the Autobots.

• Braveheart - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. --Rochelle O'Gorman