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• The Diplomat | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (79.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Diplomat is an intricate and fast-paced action thriller that charts a dangerous and duplicitous game played between the Secret Services and a radical terrorist cell. When Scotland Yard intercepts a massive heroin shipment British diplomat Ian Porter (Dougray Scott) is the prime suspect thanks to his known association with notorious drugs trafficker Krousov. Yet when an attempt is made on Porter's life the strange behaviour of both Porter and MI6 leads the Yard to a staggering conclusion: Porter is not simply a British ambassador to Tajikstan but an MI6 operative sent undercover to expose Krousov's terrorist contacts. And when a Cold-War nuclear bomb goes missing the race is on to uncover Porter's involvement and prevent a global disaster with or without MI6's help. In the murky world of the Secret Services nothing and no one is as it seems.

• Transformers - 2 Disc Special Edition | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £3.89   |  Saving you £21.10 (542.42%)   |  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.

• George Washington | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The title’s misleading: this is no biopic of America’s first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, it’s mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boy’s saved from drowning, another gets killed--but they’re presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film that’s fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orr’s widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Green’s early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the film’s reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a director’s commentary--or rather a director’s dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp

• Transformers | DVD | (19/06/2017) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  How do you like your blockbuster movies? If the answer’s loud, fast and full of big robots fighting, then you’re well and truly in luck. For director Michael Bay’s take on Transformers, based on the toys of the same name, delivers just that. And with some style. The film stars the fast-rising Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia) as Sam, who discovers that his first car has a little more to it when it transforms into an Autobot robot called Bumblebee. Fortunately, the Autobots are the good guys, and following not far behind are a good number more, headed up by Optimus Prime. Against them are the less friendly Decepticons, with Megatron at the helm, and the two sides are set for a frenetic battle right in the middle of Planet Earth. There’s a plot sitting underneath all of this, but it’s pretty much given with the Transformers movie that it’s just a vehicle to get the film from one set piece to another. And there’s little denying that the action sequences are spectacular. Boasting quite staggering special effects, the on-screen action moves with a pace and ferocity that sometimes makes it hard just to keep up with it all, as mighty robots engage is some quite staggering fights. It’s quite an achievement. Paving the way for an already-in-production sequel, Transformers has little pretensions about what it’s going to do, and is all the better for it. This is a film about big robots, big fights, big effects and, ultimately, big, dumb grin-inducing fun. What, really, is there not to like? --Jon Foster

• Ghost Machine | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £4.46   |  Saving you £11.53 (258.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sean Faris (Never Back Down) Rachael Taylor (Transformers Shutter) and Luke Ford (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) star in this supernatural thriller about a group of young U.S. military techs who borrow a top-secret combat simulator for a weekend of unauthorized gaming. But when they set up the system inside an abandoned prison used for the torture of post - 9/11 prisoners they discover that someone - or something - has uploaded itself into their A.I. software. A deadly new player has now joined the game. How do you survive the final level of lock-and-load virtual reality when escape is impossible slaughter is uncontrollable and the enemy is unstoppable? The ultimate battle begins inside the Ghost Machine.

• Transformers | HD DVD | (03/12/2007) from £7.79   |  Saving you £22.20 (284.98%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Their war our world... 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 the Transformers are given the live action treatment with Michael Bay at the helm.

• The Mystery of Natalie Wood | DVD | (19/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.37

  Import from The Netherlands with English soundtrack From one day to the next , she was the most beloved child star of America. She was a true superstar , the last of the actresses in the time-honored Hollywood tradition . This detailed film biography of one of the best actresses in Hollywood and antrekkelijkste covers her entire life, her fairytale career , her turbulent life and her mysterious death . In 1943, in Santa Rosa made filming on location. Among the spectators is Natasha Gurdin , the four -year-old daughter of Russian immigrants . At the urging of her energetic mother , Mary ( Alice Krige , Dinotopia ) , she makes a bow to the manufacturer , introduces himself and says, 'I want to be a movie star . "She brings very convincing and it has therefore successfully . She took the name Natalie Wood ( Elizabeth Rice , My Dog Skip) , and when she was seven , the charming girl on its way to become what her mother had always hoped for more precise known worldwide . What was the life of Natalie Wood looks like she closed the door of the studio behind ? The complex , frightening and revealing answer is given in The Mystery of Natalie Wood , based on Natasha , the biography has been a long time. In the list of best-sellers from The New York Times Language : English Subtitles: Dutch Picture: 4:3 Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0