"Director: Joe Carnahan"

• The Grey | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £4.97   |  Saving you £15.02 (302.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The plane crashes (boy, does it crash) in the remote Alaskan nowhere, and the rough-and-tumble oil wildcatters who survive must fight their way to safety. That in itself might be enough from which The Grey could fashion a suspenseful thrill-ride, but the movie has one more ace up its sleeve. Wolves! A pack of them, starving and considerably irritated that these outsiders have blundered into their territory. And while it is true that most real-world wolves are hardly man-eaters, director Joe Carnahan and cowriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers are really not all that interested in reality. Despite some hair-raising moments and a healthy spattering of gore, The Grey is an existential action picture, and the wolves function only as all-purpose predator (being computer-generated, they never really look real anyway). What's really at stake are the souls of these men--how they get along together, and how they face death. Yes, there is always something faintly absurd hanging around this movie; it's like a Jack London story adapted by Luc Besson. But out of its pulpy mash, Carnahan extracts something gutsy. It certainly helps that he's got the mighty Liam Neeson on board as the most capable of the survivors; Neeson exudes the kind of authority that the average action hero can only play-act. Dallas Roberts and Dermot Mulroney add colour, and Frank Grillo jumps off the screen as the most belligerent of the desperate crew. It's possible for a movie to have an absurd premise yet carve something unexpectedly philosophical out of that: The Incredible Shrinking Man and Rise of the Planet of the Apes come to mind. Add this one to that oddball list. --Robert Horton

• The A-Team | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £4.18   |  Saving you £15.81 (378.23%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Give it up to the A-Team: they've always been good at demolishing things in big, big ways. Freed from the confines of the 1980s TV series, the 2010 blockbuster movie version allows the four members of the paramilitary squad to really amp up the mayhem to newly crazed heights. Liam Neeson plays team leader Hannibal Smith (inheriting the cigar-chomping from the show's George Peppard), and pro wrestler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is "B.A." Baracus, the TV show's most iconic character (insert Mr. T "I pity the fool" joke here). As the vain Face, Bradley Cooper preens in convincing fashion, and District 9 out-of-nowhere star Sharlto Copley plays the unhinged pilot "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. These boys are on the trail of some money-counterfeiting plates, from Bagdad to Germany to places in between. It would be understating it to say that the plot is not of primary importance, although Patrick Wilson has some fun as a CIA official and Jessica Biel occasionally strikes poses as Face's ex-flame, now a military officer displeased with the A-Team's extra-legal shenanigans. The storytelling is insipid and half-hearted--but when it comes to snarky dialogue and two-fisted action scenes, director Joe Carnahan is in his comfort zone. It's reasonably fun watching the working-out of such logistical puzzles as dropping a tank (with crew inside) from a plane, or scattering the main characters on a dockside as cargo containers rain down from a ship looming above them. Good times, although is it asking too much for certain basic laws of physics (if you drop a human body ten stories, for instance, it might actually sustain injuries) to be used as a guideline? But worrying about such matters isn't in the spirit of The A-Team, which cheerfully ignores the petty concerns of credibility and logic. --Robert Horton

• The A-Team--Extended Explosive Edition | Blu Ray | (29/11/2010) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Give it up to the A-Team: they've always been good at demolishing things in big, big ways. Freed from the confines of the 1980s TV series, the 2010 blockbuster movie version allows the four members of the paramilitary squad to really amp up the mayhem to newly crazed heights. Liam Neeson plays team leader Hannibal Smith (inheriting the cigar-chomping from the show's George Peppard), and pro wrestler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is "B.A." Baracus, the TV show's most iconic character (insert Mr. T "I pity the fool" joke here). As the vain Face, Bradley Cooper preens in convincing fashion, and District 9 out-of-nowhere star Sharlto Copley plays the unhinged pilot "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. These boys are on the trail of some money-counterfeiting plates, from Bagdad to Germany to places in between. It would be understating it to say that the plot is not of primary importance, although Patrick Wilson has some fun as a CIA official and Jessica Biel occasionally strikes poses as Face's ex-flame, now a military officer displeased with the A-Team's extra-legal shenanigans. The storytelling is insipid and half-hearted--but when it comes to snarky dialogue and two-fisted action scenes, director Joe Carnahan is in his comfort zone. It's reasonably fun watching the working-out of such logistical puzzles as dropping a tank (with crew inside) from a plane, or scattering the main characters on a dockside as cargo containers rain down from a ship looming above them. Good times, although is it asking too much for certain basic laws of physics (if you drop a human body ten stories, for instance, it might actually sustain injuries) to be used as a guideline? But worrying about such matters isn't in the spirit of The A-Team, which cheerfully ignores the petty concerns of credibility and logic. --Robert Horton

• Smokin' Aces | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Vegas magician turned gangster must be protected when he agrees to rat on the mob in this high octane dark action comedy.

• The Grey | Blu Ray | (21/05/2012) from £7.12   |  Saving you £17.87 (250.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The plane crashes (boy, does it crash) in the remote Alaskan nowhere, and the rough-and-tumble oil wildcatters who survive must fight their way to safety. That in itself might be enough from which The Grey could fashion a suspenseful thrill-ride, but the movie has one more ace up its sleeve. Wolves! A pack of them, starving and considerably irritated that these outsiders have blundered into their territory. And while it is true that most real-world wolves are hardly man-eaters, director Joe Carnahan and cowriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers are really not all that interested in reality. Despite some hair-raising moments and a healthy spattering of gore, The Grey is an existential action picture, and the wolves function only as all-purpose predator (being computer-generated, they never really look real anyway). What's really at stake are the souls of these men--how they get along together, and how they face death. Yes, there is always something faintly absurd hanging around this movie; it's like a Jack London story adapted by Luc Besson. But out of its pulpy mash, Carnahan extracts something gutsy. It certainly helps that he's got the mighty Liam Neeson on board as the most capable of the survivors; Neeson exudes the kind of authority that the average action hero can only play-act. Dallas Roberts and Dermot Mulroney add colour, and Frank Grillo jumps off the screen as the most belligerent of the desperate crew. It's possible for a movie to have an absurd premise yet carve something unexpectedly philosophical out of that: The Incredible Shrinking Man and Rise of the Planet of the Apes come to mind. Add this one to that oddball list. --Robert Horton

• Smokin' Aces/ Smokin' Aces 2 - Assassin's Ball | Blu Ray | (05/11/2013) from £18.29   |  Saving you £1.70 (9.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two volume collection of thrillers. In 'Smokin Aces' (2007) a Vegas funnyman turns snitch against some heavyweight mobsters and needs protecting. Buddy 'Sarah Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a comedic Vegas magician who has informed on an important mobster. The call goes in from the mobster that a million bucks goes to anyone who cuts Buddy's heart out and the FBI intercepts the call. Aces is put under the protection of agents Carruthers and Messner (Ray Liotta and Ryan Reynolds) who squirrel.

• The Liam Neeson Film Collection | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £1.96 (32.78%)   |  RRP £7.94

  A former government operative comes out of retirement and uses his extensive training to rescue his estranged daughter from a slave trade operation.

• Stretch | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £3.79   |  Saving you £9.20 (242.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Director of Smokin’ Aces brings you into the world of Kevin Stretch a Hollywood Limo driver with a dark past. When Stretch is in need of quick cash to pay back his debts to a notorious gangster he takes a job with a billionaire client in hopes of a big payday. His client’s eccentricities soon escalate into a wild night of adventure sex and danger which begins to make the fate of returning to the mob empty-handed seem reasonable. With an all-star cast featuring Patrick Wilson Ed Helms James Badge Dale Brooklyn Decker and Jessica Alba you won’t want to miss out on the ride of a lifetime.

• Smokin' Aces / Smokin' Aces 2 - Assassins' Ball | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £3.55   |  Saving you £11.44 (322.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Smokin' Aces: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing... Smokin' Aces Assassins' Ball:Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty that has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda) a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favourite Tremor family from the original film featuring nymphomaniac gun-nut (Autumn Reeser) and her lethal kinfolk (Maury Sterling Michael Parks and C. Ernst Harth). Baker (Clayne Crawford) the agent in charge of the operation puts himself and his team in the line of fire to defend Weed but it's not until the smoke clears on the film's explosive climax that the surprising identity of the plot's mastermind is revealed. Executive produced by Joe Carnahan (Narc) the writer-director behind the shockingly edgy hit Smokin' Aces and directed by P.J. Pesce ('Lost Boys: The Tribe') Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball features a sexy cast whip-smart script and hyper-kinetic visuals. And with the return of infamous assassins Lazlo Soot and the Tremor Brothers from the original theatrical film audiences will experience a furious frenzy of explosive action that will keep them guessing until the very last scene. Both the Blu-ray and DVD editions include the rated and unrated versions of the movie and an arsenal of explosive bonus features. Starring Tom Berenger ('Training Day') Clayne Crawford ('Brooklyn to Manhattan') Martha Higareda ('Street Kings') Ernie Hudson (Heroes) Michael Parks ('Grindhouse') Autumn Reeser (Entourage) and Vinnie Jones ('X-Men: The Last Stand' 'Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels') as well as returning stars from the original theatrical release Tommy Flanagan ('Sin City') Maury Sterling ('Smokin' Aces') and Christopher Michael Holley ('Smokin' Aces').

• Stretch | Blu Ray | (01/06/2015) from £11.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Director of Smokin’ Aces brings you into the world of Kevin Stretch a Hollywood Limo driver with a dark past. When Stretch is in need of quick cash to pay back his debts to a notorious gangster he takes a job with a billionaire client in hopes of a big payday. His client’s eccentricities soon escalate into a wild night of adventure sex and danger which begins to make the fate of returning to the mob empty-handed seem reasonable. With an all-star cast featuring Patrick Wilson Ed Helms James Badge Dale Brooklyn Decker and Jessica Alba you won’t want to miss out on the ride of a lifetime.

• Narc | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £3.89   |  Saving you £12.10 (75.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jason Patric and Ray Liotta are 'narcs,' undercover police officers who put themselves on the front lines of the war against drugs.

• Smokin' Aces | Blu Ray | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Vegas magician turned gangster must be protected when he agrees to rat on the mob in this high octane dark action comedy.

• The A-Team/ True Lies Double Pack | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The A-TeamGive it up to the A-Team: they've always been good at demolishing things in big, big ways. Freed from the confines of the 1980s TV series, the 2010 blockbuster movie version allows the four members of the paramilitary squad to really amp up the mayhem to newly crazed heights. Liam Neeson plays team leader Hannibal Smith (inheriting the cigar-chomping from the show's George Peppard), and pro wrestler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is "B.A." Baracus, the TV show's most iconic character (insert Mr. T "I pity the fool" joke here). As the vain Face, Bradley Cooper preens in convincing fashion, and District 9 out-of-nowhere star Sharlto Copley plays the unhinged pilot "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. These boys are on the trail of some money-counterfeiting plates, from Baghdad to Germany to places in between. It would be understating it to say that the plot is not of primary importance, although Patrick Wilson has some fun as a CIA official and Jessica Biel occasionally strikes poses as Face's ex-flame, now a military officer displeased with the A-Team's extra-legal shenanigans. The storytelling is insipid and half-hearted--but when it comes to snarky dialogue and two-fisted action scenes, director Joe Carnahan is in his comfort zone. It's reasonably fun watching the working-out of such logistical puzzles as dropping a tank (with crew inside) from a plane, or scattering the main characters on a dockside as cargo containers rain down from a ship looming above them. Good times, although is it asking too much for certain basic laws of physics (if you drop a human body ten stories, for instance, it might actually sustain injuries) to be used as a guideline? But worrying about such matters isn't in the spirit of The A-Team, which cheerfully ignores the petty concerns of credibility and logic. --Robert Horton True LiesFrom The Terminator to Titanic, you can always rely on writer-director James Cameron to show you something you've never seen on the big screen before. The guy may not consistently pen the most scintillating dialogue in the world (and, especially in this movie, he doesn't seem to have a particularly high regard for women), but as a director of kinetic, push-the-envelope action sequences, he is in a class by himself. In True Lies, the highlight is a breathtaking third-act jet and car chase through the Florida Keys. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a covert intelligence agent whose wife of 15 years (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finds out that he's not really a computer salesman and who becomes mixed up in a case involving nuclear arms smuggling. Tom Arnold is surprisingly funny and engaging as Schwarzenegger's longtime spy partner, and Bill Paxton is a smarmy used-car salesman whom Arnold thinks is having an affair with his wife. Purely in terms of spectacular action and high-tech hardware, True Lies is a blast. --Jim Emerson

• Smokin' Aces / Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £12.13   |  Saving you £3.86 (31.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Smokin' Aces (2007): When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing... Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998): Streetwise charmer and cardshark Eddy (Nick Moran) walks into the biggest card game of his life carrying a stake backed by the life-savings of his three best mates Tom (Jason Flemying) Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). Eddy is the sharpest player on the circuit but the game is set-up and Eddy leaves owing underworld boss ""Hatchet"" Harry (P.H. Moriarty) half a million. Harry gives Eddy a week to come up with the money before he starts taking fingers as collateral. Eddy's dad JD (Sting) can cancel the debt by handing over his bar lock stock and barrel to his old adversary Harry JD refuses to give in feeling his street-tough son can get himself out of his own messes. So while Harry sends a couple of petty crooks to steal a pair of antique shotguns to add to his collection Eddy and his mates plan a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like bandits! In a comedy of errors and a helter-skelter ride through London's gangland the guns cash drugs and identities become all mixed up as a full complement of London's lowlife get involved in a melee which even their menace can't handle.

• Serpico / Narc / The Untouchables | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £9.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (100.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Narc Jason Patric and Ray Liotta deliver edgy driven performances in this compelling crime drama. Nick Tellis (Patric) is a suspended narcotics officer recruited to investigate the murder of Michael Calvess a rookie cop killed under mysterious circumstances. Tellis is teamed with Calvess's partner Henry Oak (Liotta) a hot-tempered renegade who'll stop at nothing to avenge his friend's death. As Tellis and Oak follow a shadowy trail through the seamy drug underworld the lin

• The A-Team | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The A-Team follows the exciting and daring exploits of John 'Hannibal' Smith (Neeson), Templeton 'Faceman' Peck (Cooper), Captain 'Howling Mad' Murdock (Sharlto Copley - District 9) and Sgt Bosco 'B.A.' Baracus (UFC star Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson): renegade Special Forces soldiers framed for a crime they did not commit. Going 'rogue,' the team must utilize their unique talents - and eccentricities - to clear their names and find the true culprit. Also starring Jessica Biel ...

• Smokin' Aces/ Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £28.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (3.45%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Smokin' Aces: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing... Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball: Federal agents once again match wits with a cadre of creative killers in the high-octane feature-length film Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball. Walter Weed (Tom Berenger) is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty that has a unique method of killing her prey (Martha Higareda) a power-tool wielding psychopath (Vinnie Jones) and a deadly master of disguise (Tommy Flanagan). Also in the hunt is the fan-favourite Tremor family from the original film featuring nymphomaniac gun-nut (Autumn Reeser) and her lethal kinfolk (Maury Sterling Michael Parks and C. Ernst Harth). Baker (Clayne Crawford) the agent in charge of the operation puts himself and his team in the line of fire to defend Weed but it's not until the smoke clears on the film's explosive climax that the surprising identity of the plot's mastermind is revealed. Executive produced by Joe Carnahan (Narc) the writer-director behind the shockingly edgy hit Smokin' Aces and directed by P.J. Pesce ('Lost Boys: The Tribe') Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball features a sexy cast whip-smart script and hyper-kinetic visuals. And with the return of infamous assassins Lazlo Soot and the Tremor Brothers from the original theatrical film audiences will experience a furious frenzy of explosive action that will keep them guessing until the very last scene. Both the Blu-ray and DVD editions include the rated and unrated versions of the movie and an arsenal of explosive bonus features. Starring Tom Berenger (Training Day) Clayne Crawford (Brooklyn to Manhattan) Martha Higareda (Street Kings) Ernie Hudson (Heroes) Michael Parks (Grindhouse) Autumn Reeser (Entourage) and Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels) as well as returning stars from the original theatrical release Tommy Flanagan (Sin City) Maury Sterling (Smokin' Aces) and Christopher Michael Holley (Smokin' Aces).

• Hot Fuzz/Miami Vice/Smokin' Aces | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hot Fuzz (Dir. Edgar Wright) (2007): Top London cop Police Constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) finds himself reassigned to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing the action of the city Angel struggles to adapt to his situation and finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) an oafish but well meaning young Constable. Just as all seems lost a series of grisly accidents motivates Angel into action. Convinced of foul play Angel realises that Sandford may not be as idyllic as it seems.... Miami Vice (Dir. Michael Mann) (2006): After a deadly security breach in the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF) the FBI ask for help from the Miami authorities who are not part of the compromised group. This assignment goes to Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett (Farrell) and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs (Foxx). Going undercover as offshore boat racers and outlaw smugglers Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper they take on the narcotrafficking network of the mysterious Archangel de Jesus Montoya-Londono and his Cuban Chinese banker Isabella (Gong Li) where the intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication become blurred cop and player become one... Smokin' Aces (Dir. Joe Carnahan) (2007): When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing...

• Smokin' Aces (HD DVD) | HD DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A Vegas magician turned gangster must be protected when he agrees to rat on the mob in this high octane dark action comedy.

• Jarhead / the Kingdom / Miami | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Kingdom (Dir. Peter Berg) (2007): After a deadly terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, takes the lives of many innocent American civilians, the FBI decides to take action by sending a team to capture those responsible. Hot shot Special Agent Ronald Fluery (Jamie Foxx) gets the task of a lifetime when he is picked to lead the elite group into conflict. With agents Janet Mayes, (Jennifer Garner), Adam Leavitt, (Jason Bateman), and Grant Sykes, (Chris Cooper), at his side, Fluery.