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• Toy Soldiers | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Amy and seven of her college friends take her parents yacht for a vacation under the watchful eye of ex-marine veteran and skipper 'Sarge' Ford nothing could have prepared them for the trouble they were about to find themselves in. After an accident on the yacht Amy and a few of her friends decide to head inland for medical help but soon realise this is the last thing they will receive. The friends are taken hostage by a group of revolutionary guerrillas who plan to use the Am

• Street Kings / Street Kings 2 Double Pack | DVD | (04/02/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Street Kings: Directo David Ayer brings you Street Kings an intense police thriller starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie and Chris Evans. Keanu Reeves is Tom Ludlow - a veteran LAPD Vice Detective - hell bent on finding the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews). Forest Whitaker stars as Captain Wander, Ludlow's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Inte...

• Street Kings / Street Kings 2: Motor City | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Street Kings Street Kings is a pungent bouquet of corruption, violence, multi-ethnic mayhem, macho glee laced with macho angst, and fluorescently obscene dialogue from the mind of James Ellroy. Its hero, though he'd scarcely consent to be called one, is L.A. police detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), for whom life is a wound that won't heal and dealing out retribution to scumbags is the ongoing treatment. Ludlow's the star player--"the tip of the [expletive] spear"--on a team of detectives headed by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). Coach Wander relies on his boys to keep breaking lurid cases, usually through deeply darkside underground work, and raising his profile with the media and the department. In pursuit of these goals, nothing is forbidden except failure, and the truth is what you make it look like. This is familiar Ellroy territory, most effectively translated to the screen in L.A. Confidential (which should have won the 1997 Oscar, and would have if Titanic hadn't launched that year). If you know Ellroy's ground game, you can pretty much guess where Street Kings is going, and where it's been. Still, the twists and torques of its urban road-rage course maintain the centrifugal force needed to hold us in our seats (a tactical highlight: refrigerator adapted as rolling barricade), and the movie keeps bopping us with oddball casting coups: comic Jay Mohr and Northern Exposure/Sex and the City veteran John Corbett as two members of Coach Warden's gonzo detective squad; Cedric the Entertainer doing a nicely nuanced turn as a street creature; Hugh Laurie doing a less-hyper version of House, if House worked Internal Affairs. The problem is that director David Ayer keeps everything intense. Dialogues are shot too close-up, line readings are too strident, the action is too nonstop slam. Recall Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and the mind's eye summons up a whole spectrum of existence, mood, place, historical period, emotional investment; there's an amplitude to the picture and the sensibility bringing it to us, something besides the whodunit and the endless rap sheet of nasty what-they-done. Everything in Street Kings is one-note, and with Keanu Reeves playing it implosive and Forest Whitaker locked in crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat mode, that's no way to stay the course. --Richard T. Jameson

• Toy Soldiers / Kampuchea Express / War Dog | DVD | (06/05/2006) from £8.55   |  Saving you £4.44 (34.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Toy Soldiers: When Amy and seven of her college friends take her parents yacht for a vacation under the watchful eye of ex-marine veteran and skipper 'Sarge' Ford nothing could have prepared them for the trouble they were about to find themselves in. After an accident on the yacht Amy and a few of her friends decide to head inland for medical help but soon realise this is the last thing they will receive. The friends are taken hostage by a group of revolutionary guerrillas who plan to use the Americans as bargaining chips in their war against the Government. 'Sarge' launches a rescue mission but only he and Amy manage to escape leaving her friends in the hands of the terrorists. Safely back at home Amy learns that the American government is unwilling to negotiate the release of the hostages. It's up to Amy to go back in there and get her friends out... Kampuchea Express: Amidst the steaming hell-hole of a dying civilisation where the brutality of the West meets the stealth and cunning of the East a blazing battle is fought between their two nations employing men whose only desires are for death and destruction. Amongst the dying and mortally wounded a man meets a woman and this is their story their nightmare. War Dog: Charles Stewart was unable to accept that his brother Rick had died in Vietnam so he started to investigate what he believed to be a government cover up. A journalist shows Charles a captured video film of a recent attempted political assassination amongst the assailants Charles recognises his brother. He also recognises Spacek his former commanding officer in Vietnam a sadistic evil man. Spacek has been recruited for a secret government project to create prefect soldiers emotionless calculating the ultimate in killing machines. In reality the government has created a walking nightmare that's out of their control and they order Spacek to terminate the project. Charles locates his brother and attempts to rescue him from the doomed experiment. Together the two brothers try to escape but Spacek knows his security has been breached and lets his war dogs loose on their trail resulting in a bloody and final conflict.