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• The Warrior | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The images of Asif Kapadia's first feature film, The Warrior, sear themselves in the mind: the warrior practising with his sword in front of a half-alive tree, or a close-up of a scorpion scuttling across the desert as a camel cart goes by. Restrained beauty pervades the film in the choice of locations, costumes and the framing of each shot, but those unaccustomed to art cinema will feel the absence of story in this visual, mystical odyssey which uses few words, as looks and images carry the film. Irfan Khan brings a quiet, powerful presence of haunting intensity to the role an Indian "samurai", seemingly a homage to Kurosawa. The warrior has an epiphany after a bloodthirsty encounter that leads him to abandon his life in the desert and head for the pure snows of the Himalayas. This film (that repays repeat viewing and introduces major new talent) is likely to become a landmark. On the DVD: The Warrior's picture quality on disc does justice to the film and the extras are rewarding. The young director is sincere and reflective, as shown in his scene-by-scene commentary and on the deleted material, the latter lasting over an hour. The making of documentary is absorbing. --Rachel Dwyer

• Fairy Gone: The Complete Season 1 | Blu Ray | (24/10/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the director of Drifters, and the creator behind Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, comes a war-torn world on the brink of calamity. Able to summon fairies as alter-ego weapons, former soldiers become government dogs, mafia members, and even terrorists in search of purpose beyond the battlefield. Who will maintain the peace they all fought for nine years ago?

• Champion | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £4.40   |  Saving you £15.59 (78.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Champion' tells the true story of Kim Deuk-gu a poor man from the countryside that took up boxing and became one of the world's elite fighters. In 1982 after winning fame in the ring and marrying his first love Kim travelled to Las Vegas to fight Ray ""Boom Boom"" Mancini the reigning lightweight world champion. After 14 intense rounds in which Kim refused to give in he fell into a coma from which he would never wake changing the sport of boxing forever and throwing a nation into

• Full Alert | DVD | (17/07/2000) from £8.42   |  Saving you £11.57 (57.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Ringo Lam helms this standout action psycho-thriller. Perfectionist workaholic Inspector Pao finds himself up against Mak a seasoned criminal intending to use his explosives skills to pull off a billion heist. Now Pao must use his own resources to stop Mak and prevent heavy civilian casualties. With heartstopping car chases on the streets of Hong Kong and brilliant performances by the two leads Full Alert is an intelligent high velocity action movie considered by many as Lam's finest work.

• I Declare War | DVD | (30/06/2014) from £7.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (53.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Armed with nothing more than twigs, their imaginations and a simple set of rules, a group of 12-year-olds engaged in a lively game of Capture the Flag in the neighborhood woods start dangerously blurring the lines between make-believe and reality. Paint-filled balloons = Grenades. Trees = Control towers. Sticks = Sub-machine guns. The youthful innocence of the game gradually takes on a different tone as the quest for victory pushes the boundaries of friendship. The would-be warriors get a sea...

• Jet Li - The Defender / Jet Li - The Enforcer | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Enforcer: Li plays an undercover Chinese cop sent to track down a notorious criminal in Hong Kong. There he ultimately teams up with his young son an incredible kung fu master in the making. Together they lay down the law... Spectacular thrill-a-minute entertainment with knockout intensity this is a can't miss event for Jet Li fans and a must-see for anyone who's looking for some real action! The Defender: Action superstar Jet Li powers onto the screen in a non-stop action thriller about loyalty betrayal and revenge. Li plays a hard hitting and highly trained bodyguard hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his beautiful girlfriend after she witnesses a murder. But things get sticky when the bodyguard and the girlfriend begin to develop feelings for one another. Then while protecting the sexy witness Li kills the brother of one of the assassins and becomes the target for retribution himself. Featuring the always amazing Jet Li performing all of his own hand-to-hand combat 'The Defender' is a must-see for action fans everywhere!

• 2000 AD | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £8.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (123.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  2000 AD reunites Aaron Kwok and Andrew Lin from the ferociously pyrotechnic Black Sheep Affair (1998) for a slick but muddled Hong Kong/Singapore co-production conspiracy thriller about computer espionage. Kwok and Lin make fine adversaries, and have one excellent martial arts battle on a vertigo-inducing rooftop. Otherwise the action involves powerfully staged Heat-style gun play rather than martial arts, one set-piece car chase/shoot-out being strongly influenced by the Riviera pursuit in Ronin (1997). Beginning as a serious thriller, Kwok's nerdish computer games designer transforms into an invulnerable action hero, and any sense of plausibility is sacrificed for regulation mayhem. Cluttered with more characters than it knows what to do with, 2000 AD combines aspects of The Net (1995) and Entrapment (1999) into a largely nonsensical plot. Lin's villain is given vital information which later he is completely ignorant of. We never find out exactly what he is planning, or who he is really working for, and in one mystifying sequence he crashes the Singapore stock exchange, yet the event has absolutely no effect on anything. Though the cast is engaging and the direction polished the finale is an anti-climax, symptomatic of a highly entertaining movie which promises more than it delivers. On the DVD: The 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is clean and generally free from grain; the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is as powerful as any heard on a Hong Kong movie, although listen though headphones and a fair degree of background hiss is clearly audible in the quiet scenes. The film can be viewed with the original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, or dubbed into English. Either way, a surprisingly large amount of the original dialogue is in English. There is a 19-minute "making of" documentary, though this is bland made-for-television promotional fare. Much better is the 14-minute interview with director Gordon Chan and a 17-minute interview with Andrew Lin who reveals how once shooting had begun his originally heroic part was re-written to make him the villain, thus explaining why the plot makes so little sense. Best of all is the commentary by Chan and Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan, which is packed with information about the movie, Hong Kong cinema and filmmaking in general. By itself it makes the DVD a worthwhile purchase. --Gary S Dalkin

• Project S | DVD | (08/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Jackie Chan making a cameo appearance in a hilarious fight scene (in drag!) the undoubted star of this movie is Michelle Yeoh James Bond's latest sidekick in ""Tomorrow Never Dies."" Michelle reprises her role as Inspector Wah from the awesome ""Police Story 3"" and is assigned to Hong Kong to work with the Task Force set up to counter a cross border crime-wave. Michelle soon proves her worth when she dramatically foils an armed robbery. However her former partner Cheng shows

• Kung Fu Hustle | Blu Ray | (12/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The One Armed Swordsman | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shaw brothers superstar Jimmy Wang Yu reprises the world famous role in 'The One Armed Swordsmen'. Also starring 'King Boxer' Lo Lieh and directed by Jimmy Wang Yu and David Chiang this swordplay epic has never before been released in the UK.

• Fairy Gone: The Complete Season 1 | DVD | (24/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the director of Drifters, and the creator behind Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, comes a war-torn world on the brink of calamity. Able to summon fairies as alter-ego weapons, former soldiers become government dogs, mafia members, and even terrorists in search of purpose beyond the battlefield. Who will maintain the peace they all fought for nine years ago?

• Dark Tales Of Japan | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A bus hurtles down a pitch-black road at midnight stopping momentarily to pick up a solitary female passenger. She asks ""Want to hear a scary tale?"" and in hushed tones begins her morbid monologue... In this portemanteau of chilling stories five of Japan's best horror directors including Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On: The Grudge) and Norio Tsuruta (Ring 0) race to reach the outer limits of fear! In The Spiderwoman an urban legend proves to be more grounded in

• Avenging Fist | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £7.02   |  Saving you £12.97 (64.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The adventures of Nova a young fighter who is guardian of his family legacy an all-powerful martial arts style known only as 'The Avenging Fist'. When 'Combat 21' the leader of an underground movement known as 'The Red Dragons' discovers the existence of the style he will stop at nothing to learn its secrets and combine its strength with the all-conquering 'Power Glove' a technological fighting tool designed to unlock the unknown power of the human mind and body. When th

• 252 - Sign of Life | DVD | (10/01/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An epic blockbuster in the tradition of The Towering Inferno 252: Sign Of Life is a white-knuckle thrill ride through a volatile world devasted by the wild forces of nature... a world in which heroes are created and myths made. When a mega-typhoon strikes Japan and destroys Tokyo the fate of a handful of vulnerable subterranean survivors hangs in the balance. When their 252 distress call is detected an elite response force from the Tokyo Fire Department must bravely risk everything to avert almost certain death! A stunning survival movie on a massive scale 252: Sign Of Life graphically realises the incredible spectacle and intense melodrama that is born from urban devastation!

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 6 | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a multi-headed serpent the branches of the Dragon Line become the arms with which Galatea seeks to crush the last vestiges of human resistance in Tokyo. Now the city is abandoned. Only the Knight Sabers remain mankind's last line of defense against the nightmarish spawn of man and machine. But can even the Sabers defeat a beast with a million eyes and the mind of an insane child? The war against Galatea movesito the highest frontier as the Sabers stage a final desperate ass

• Raiders Of Wu Tang | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-19.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  World kung fu champion Sonny Yue stars as a young ranch hand who learns the secrets of Shaolin Horse Boxing. The Crippled Masters teach the young man how to defeat the 24 Shaolin Bronze Horses but Sonny must face his ultimate challenge by defending the Temple against the wrath of the Wu Tang high priest who is on a mission of death and destruction. A must-see guaranteed-new-moves movie never seen on any screen.

• The Shaw Brothers Collection - Death Duel | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This martial arts spectacular showcases 20 year-old Erh Tung-sheng's (aka Derek Yee) supreme martial arts skillls. Even Variety noted: 'Erh's charismatic screen presence should take him to superstardom like his older brother David Chaing'. The prediction proved correct and his performance as ace swordsman Third Master is just what any director would want. He fights evil saves damsels in distress and duels rival swordsmen to the well death!

• The Magnificent Chivalry | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-3.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hong Kong superstar Jimmy ""One Arm Boxer"" Wang Yu stars as the Bamboo blade China's top swordsman. His services are rendered by the Imperial treasury who want him to infiltrate a powerful gang of Highwaymen and get back the stolen silver bullion. After numerous deadly encounters the gang are beaten by the bamboo sword and only the gang leader remains however he is a lot tougher than was originally bargained for.

• Wu Tang Magic Kick | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Superstar John Liu stars in this kung fu classic where deceit and greed and non-stop leg to leg action are the order of the day.

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the aftermath of the great earthquake one ruthless corporation stands ready to take over the devastated city of Tokyo with an army of synthetic monsters. Only one small band of female mercenaries is ready to stand against the monolithic power of Genom but in this case four women is all it takes! Armed with the most incredible combat suits ever designed the Knight Sabers wage a desperate war in the shadows combating the monstrous by-products of technology run amuck with courage