"Actor: Oleg Taktarov"

• Rollerball | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £5.78   |  Saving you £3.20 (114.69%)   |  RRP £5.99

  By 2005 the most popular sport in the world is the ultra violent rollerball, where two teams engage in deadly hi-tech combat, watched by millions. Directed by John Mctiernan ("Die Hard"), starring Chris Klein, Jean Reno,and LL Cool J.

• Fifteen Minutes | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £5.55   |  Saving you £14.44 (260.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fifteen Minutes partners Robert De Niro and Saving Private Ryan's Edward Burns in a thriller satire on America's "reality TV" industry. De Niro plays celebrity detective Eddie Fleming, who must reluctantly work with arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) when a grisly fire is discovered to conceal a murder. This is the work of Emil (Karel Roden) and Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), East European psychos bent on a maniacal spree of killings. All of these are videotaped by Emil, who renames himself after his hero Frank Capra, in a perverse tribute to the US of A, where "no one is responsible for what they do!". Soon the duo decide to sell their footage to Kelsey Grammer's creepily shameless frontline TV journalist. As a pair of loons whose scariness is just the right side of cardboard villainy, Roden and Taktarov steal the movie as well as their camcorder. However, the central theme of voyeurism and video murder was dealt with far more effectively in the 1992 Belgian movie Man Bites Dog and, while the action tears along in explosive fashion, it does so at the expense of both plausibility and the anti-media satire, which seems hitched crudely onto the bumper of what is essentially a satisfying but conventional blockbuster thriller. --David Stubbs

• Ultimate Fighting Championship 5 / Ultimate Fighting Championship 6 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ultimate Fighting Championship 5 showcases the much anticipated 'Superfight' between three-times UFC champion Royce Gracie and World Shootfighting Champion Ken Shamrock. Ultimate Fighting Championship 6 features Tank Abbott Oleg Taktarov and Pat Smith plus Ultimate Fighting Championship 5 champion Dan 'The Beast' Severn vs. Ken Shamrock in 'The Superfight'.

• Predators - Play Exclusive | Blu Ray | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Executive producer Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse, Spy Kids) is the driving force behind this energetic reboot of the popular Predator films, which pits the dreadlocked alien hunters against a rogues' gallery of human antiheroes, led by a bulked-up Adrien Brody. The Oscar winner acquits himself nicely in the role of a gritty mercenary who finds himself stranded on a jungle planet with a host of criminals and professional killers (among them such scene-stealers as Walton Goggins and Danny Trejo), as well as a seemingly innocent doctor, well played by Topher Grace. They've been deposited there to serve as living targets for a horde of Predators--whose looks, designed by Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger, are impressively varied and sleek--that use the planet as their private hunting grounds. Laurence Fishburne is also on hand as a soldier who has managed to survive for years in the jungle; he, Brody, and Grace do much to make the pulpy dialogue by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch (adapting a premise penned by Rodriguez in the mid-'90s) palatable. Likewise, Hungarian director Nimrod Antal (Vacancy) lends a great deal of atmosphere and Rodriguez-style momentum to the picture--perhaps more than necessary, since the end result is, like the 1987 original with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fun B-movie and nothing more, designed entirely to give moviegoers a slick, unchallenging roller-coaster ride. Having said that, it's a vast improvement over the 1990 sequel and the dreadful tie-ins with the Alien franchise, and should provide movie monster aficionados with an afternoon's worth of thrills. --Paul Gaita

• Velvet Revolution | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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• Sambo Volume 2, How to master your Opponent | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In this second opus, Oleg presents new fight and self defense techniques. You will discover controls on the ground with finishing in ankle lock, leg lock, knee lock, arm lock, back of the neck lock, defense on the ground with finishing in triangle, controls with turning over and lock on a kneeling opponent, various choke techniques with grips on the nose, followed with suffocation techniques, strikes, dodges, techniques standing/ground with immobilisations, throws and control on the ground, d...

• Sambo- Absolute Russian Fighting | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £29.47   |  Saving you £0.52 (1.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Oleg TAKTAROV, 'the Russian Bear' 'Some men are part of History, other men make History ! � Oleg is one of those who write things with destinies that no one could have imagined... This great Sambo Champion is a technique virtuoso, he gives the impression of creating something in each new fight. He will live forever in the Hall of Fame of ultimate fighting and prides... Oleg TAKTAROV was born in Russia, and arrives in the U.S. with the dream of becoming an actor. He is discovered thanks to th...