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• Saving Private Ryan (DTS) | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (-50.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire. After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the platoon, led by Tom Hanks, consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty sergeant; the thick-necked private; the southern-man religious sniper; the cowardly corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean cut as the titular private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine-gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures. On the DVD: This DTS edition of Saving Private Ryan presents the movie with astonishingly vivid surround sound that is audibly superior to the standard Dolby Digital version. With a wider dynamic range and a more spacious soundfield, the battles really do spill over into your living room. There are new animated menus but because the DTS data stream requires greater space on the disc, the 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary included on the previous release is omitted. --Mark Walker

• Titanic | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £6.07   |  Saving you £4.91 (159.42%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This TV-mini series starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and George C. Scott is based on the tragic event that shocked the world and still today remains a great tragedy. Untold stories of the passengers and crew on the ill-fated liner's maiden voyage. - 3 Hour Complete Mini-Series - EMMY Award winning production - Limited Edition 100th Anniversary Edition on 2 Discs

• Art Pepper - Notes from a Jazz Survivor | DVD | (07/08/2000) from £17.71   |  Saving you £-0.72 (-4.20%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Art Pepper - Notes From A Jazz Survivor

• Casino Jack | Blu Ray | (16/07/2012) from £7.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (100.13%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Casino Jack lays bare the wild excesses and escapades of Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey), a man hell- bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. Aided by his business partner Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper), Jack parlays his clout over some of the world's most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. When the two enlist a mob-connected buddy (Jon Lovitz) to help with one of their illegal schemes, they soon find themselves in over their heads, entrenched in a world of mafia assassins, murder and a scandal that spins so out of control that it makes worldwide headlines.

• Dancehall Draft Picks Vol.1 | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-6.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Dancehall Draft Picks is a cutting edge documentary and a blazing dance-hall compilation in one package. Get the first look at the up and coming artists Jamaica is buzzing about through insightful feature segments. Meet the producers and artists that are running the Underground dancehall scene in up close and personal interviews and recent performance clips. Also includes a 16-track audio CD. Bonus CD Tracklist: 1. Goodas - Tony Matterhorn 2. Man From Mars - Tony Matterhorn 3. Dreaming - Mavado 4. Weh Dem Ah Seh - Mavado 5. Come In - Hollow Point 6. Who Goes - Hollow Point 7. From Them Dis - Aidonia featuring Bounty Killer 8. Ukku - Aidonia 9. Man Ah Thug - Busy Signal 10. Hypocrites - Busy Signal 11. Hypocrites - Mr. Pepper 12. Disrespect - Mr. Pepper 13. Gully Gun - WARD 21 14. Brown Eyes Bleed - WARD 21 15. Bad Out Deh - Alozade 16. Screw Face - Alozade featuring Kiprich & Chico

• Titanic Gift Box | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Everyone thought the RMS Titanic was the safest ship in the world - a leading shipbuilding journal proclaimed it 'unsinkable' because of its watertight compartment design. On its first trip from England to New York City, it collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. The much-publicized 'unsinkable' watertight compartment design was never designed to cope with such extensive damage, and the 'unsinkable' ship starts to go down. Even worse, more than half the 2200+ passengers & crew on board are already doomed, as the Titanic is only carrying lifeboats for about 1200. This is the frightening and untold story of the passengers & crew's struggles to stay alive on the ill-fated liner’s maiden voyage. Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a wealthy woman mourning the loss of her aunt, who reignites a romance with old flame, Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher). Meanwhile, a charming ne'er do well named Jamie Perse (Mike Doyle) steals a ticket for the ship, and falls for a sweet innocent Irish girl on board. But their romance is threatened by the villainous Simon Doonan (Tim Curry), who has discovered about the ticket and makes Jamie his unwilling accomplice, as well as having sinister plans for the girl. Director Robert Lieberman and scripter’s Ross Lamanna and Joyce Eliason easily convey tension as the great ocean liner approaches what we know to be certain doom. This box set also contains replicated memorabilia of the original documents and information for The Titanic including: Letter of Condolence Distress Call Large Poster Transcript Identity Card 2nd Class Menu Illustration of the ship Dear Brother letter Advert Small Poster Black and White photographs Music Sheet

• Saving Private Ryan - WWII Collection | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Containing collectable Lobby Cards featuring key scenes from the film; two sobering World War II documentaries ""Price for Peace"" and ""Shooting War""; and a commemorative two disc copy of the film with never before seen footage and exclusive features the Saving Private Ryan WWII Collection is a must for all war enthusiasts. Presented in stunning commemorative packaging this boxset is in memory of those 60 years ago. Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers the story beg

• Green Mile, The / Pay It Forward / Proof Of Life | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying on the mile. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his movie brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comPay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitises the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. One may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humour, clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. --Jim Gay, Amazon.comWhen someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging", you can bet they're going to be left hanging. There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long March to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Russell Crowe (the soldier-turned-"K&R") and Meg Ryan adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to David Morse's captivity. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favouring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Specters | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A group of archaelogists headed by Donald Pleasance have entered the secret catacombs which have been sealed for centuries. In their ignorance and quest for the unknown the archaeologists have broken the seal to the gates of hell unleashing a terrible evil not seen on the face of the earth for nineteen thousand years. The heart of the evil lies in an unexplored catacomb into which the archaeologists lower a computerised camera. The air odour and silence over in a menacing atmosphere as the camera scans the darkness revelling a centuries old tomb. Donald Pleasance interprets the inscriptions of the tomb and realises the true horror of his find. He has a evoked an evil so terrifying that it could destroy mankind as we know it.

• This Is Not A Love Song | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (19.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Spike (Colgan) and Heaton (Glenaan) are the unlikeliest pair: two loners who have found each other. Taciturn competent unreadable; Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast his sidekick Spike is manic child-like unstopaable; someone we are instinctively afraid for... When Spike commits a terrible crime Heaton decides to stand by him; an act of astonishing almost foolhardy loyalty. There begins a chase across a vast northern landscape of moors rivers and da

• Red Planet / Battlefield Earth / Soldier | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In Red Planet the only thing thicker than the Martian atmosphere (which is breathable, by the way) is the layer of clichés that nearly smothers a formulaic beat-the-clock plot. Science fiction fans are sure to be forgiving, however, because the film is reasonably intelligent, boasts a few dazzling sequences, and presents fascinating technology in the year 2057. We don't know how the Mars-1 spaceship gets to Mars in only six months (newfangled propulsion, no doubt), but we do get some cool diagnostic read-outs on tinfoil scrolls, an abundance of well-designed hardware, and a service-robot-turned-villain that's a high-tech hybrid of RoboCop, Bruce Lee, and a slinky panther with plenty of lethal attitude. A perfectly suitable companion to another Year 2000 sci-fi thriller, Pitch Black, Red Planet is a fine way to kill a couple of hours. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comWhen Battlefield Earth was released theatrically, this inept sci-fi epic qualified as an instant camp classic, prompting Daily Variety to call it "the Showgirls of sci-fi shoot-'em-ups". Other reviews were united in their derision, and toy stores were left with truckloads of Battlefield Earth action figures that nobody wanted. Recklessly adapted from the novel by sci-fi author and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard and set in the year 3000, the film is no worse than many cheesy sci-fi flicks, but the sight of Travolta as a burly, dreadlocked alien from the planet Psychlo provokes unintentional laughter from first frame to final credits. The best that Battlefield Earth can hope for is a Dune-like fate: it might improve in a longer director's cut--but that's wishful thinking. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comKurt Russell hits new heights in laconic action heroes with his portrayal of Sergeant Todd, born and bred to be a Soldier in a futuristic army. Raised to kill mercilessly, living only for battle, he finds himself at the twilight of his career (and so-called life) when a regiment of genetically enhanced warriors threatens to make his brand of soldiering obsolete. Soldier is one of those rare sci-fi movies that relies more on plot and action than special effects (though the trash planet is effectively wrought). The pace of action in the last half of the film is relentless and exciting, and Russell's portrayal of the old warrior as he warms to human emotions relies more on expression than words-in fact, he barely utters half-dozen lines. --Tod Nelson, Amazon.com

• 61 | Blu Ray | (07/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.57

  One was the Yankees' best loved player, the other was their most valuable. In the summer of 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle took on Babe Ruth's record, the 1927 single-season 60 home run slam. It would be a summer that no one who knows baseball would forget. As the summer of 1961 unfolds, both Maris and Mantle find themselves approaching Babe Ruth's benchmark of 60 home runs. Facing mounting pressure from the media and the stands, they both know there's only room for one winner. The peopl.

• Hard Time - The Premonition | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Burt Reynolds returns as Logan McQueen the hardest and most fearless cop in Florida. At the end of 'Hard Time' Logan had loyally offered to take the fall on behalf of his partner Duffy (Durning) a move which has now esconsed him behind bars with the very criminals he helped put there! When a series of terrifying attacks is begun with meticulously macabre efficiency Logan is back out on the case but finds he may need the help of a duplicitous convict to help him crack the case...

• Air Strike | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The newest member of an elite American helicopter squadron must prove himself to the other pilots. The squadron is on a mission to destroy the leader of a drug cartel and his trained private army.

• Knockaround Guys | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Three Burials - The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada | Blu Ray | (06/04/2009) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook - Limited to 2000 copies. The directorial debut from Academy Away-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada is an epic tale of revenge and redemption, friendship and loyalty, set against the majestic border country of the United States. When Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cesar Cedillo, All The Pretty Horses) is found murdered and buried in a shallow grave in the desert, the local police force makes no attempt to solve the crime, rapidly transferring the corpse to a pauper's grave. Driven by a promise he made to Melquiades before his death, ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), takes it upon himself to track down the murderer and give his friend the burial he deserves. With stunning cinematography by two-time Academy Award winning cinematographer Chris Menges, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada also stars Barry Pepper, January Jones and Dwight Yoakam.

• The Dangerously Daring DVD For Boys | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £6.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This factual DVD will show you the most important things that boys of all ages need to know including: How to Kite-Surf How to catch and cook your own food How to ride a mountain bike (over a mountain!) How to dress with style How to play the guitar How to survive alone in the woods How to go Sea-Kayaking How to play the drums How to master the Diabolo How to pull off the best skate-boarding tricks With each section presented and demonstrated by an expert in a fun-packed and exciting style! The DVD is packed with extras including lots of facts charts lists and tips making the 'Danger for Boys' DVD the perfect inspiration and companion for boys of all ages. If you feel you should be getting out more then this DVD is for you! He who dares...does!