"Actor: Al Murray"

• Brubaker | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The most wanted man in Wakefield prison is the warden! Posing as a new prisoner Brubaker (Redford) discovers vast corruption in a state penitentiary before revealing himself to be theinew warden. His personal crusade to bring reform puts him in grave danger especially when he insists on exposing a series of secret murders that took place years earlier. Powerful and disturbing 'Brubaker' won acclaim for its gritty realism and Oscar-nominated screenplay based on the real life stor

• Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £6.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (113.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This fourth film in the ""Planet of the Apes"" series picks up the action a few years after ""Escape from the Planet of the Apes"" left off. At the end of the third movie the ape Cornelius and his wife Zira were murdered by humans when they traveled back in time. However their son Caesar remained behind with kind-hearted circus owner Armando who kept the ape's existence a secret. ""Conquest of the Planet of the Apes"" opens in 1991 after an epidemic has wiped out the dog population

• Barry Lyndon | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Perhaps Stanley Kubrick's most underrated film, Barry Lyndon--adapted from the picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray--inhabits the 18th century in the way A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey inhabit the future: perfect sets, costumes and cinematography capture characters whose rises and falls are at once deeply tragic and absurdly comical. Narrated in avuncular form by Michael Hordern, the film follows the fortunes of Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal), a handsome Irish youth forced to flee his hometown after a duel with a cowardly English officer (Leonard Rossiter). Stripped of his small fortune by a deferential highwayman, Barry joins the British army and fights in the Seven Years War, attempting a desertion that leads him into the Prussian army. A position as a spy on an exquisitely painted con man (Patrick Magee) leads to a life of gambling around the courts of Europe, and just before the intermission our hero achieves all he could want by marrying a wealthy, titled beautiful widow (Marisa Berenson). However, Part Two reveals that Barry can no more be a clockwork orange than the protagonist of Kubrick's previous film, and his spendthrift ways, foolhardy pursuit of social advancement and unwise treatment of his new family lead to several disasters, climaxing in another horrific, yet farcical duel. Shot almost entirely in the "magic hour", that point of the day when the light is mistily perfect, with innovative use of candlelight for interiors, Barry Lyndon looks ravishing, but the perfection of its images is matched by the inner turmoil of its seemingly frozen characters. Kubrick is often accused of being unemotional, but his restraint is all the more affecting when, for example, Barry is struck by the deaths of those close to him, his wife writhes into madness or his stepson (Leon Vitali) vomits before he can stand his ground in a duel.On the DVD: The extras are skimpy, a trailer and a list of awards, a French alternate soundtrack and subtitles in seven languages. However, the film--"digitally restored and remastered"--is served superbly by the medium. Letterboxed to 1.59:1 (which fits the 14:9 option of a widescreen TV), with a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack, the print looks and sounds wonderful, which not only allows a fresh appreciation of the wit and beauty of the film but shows just how good the apparent underplaying (unusual in Kubrick films) of the cast is. --Kim Newman

• Deadly Pursuits | DVD | (16/02/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman helps a young boy to find his father but finds that the search could just turn deadly...

• Al Murray - The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Raise your glasses! Eagerly anticipated hilarious stand up from everyone's favourite Pub Landlord. Laugh along with Al Murray as he sets the world to rights in his own unique lager-fuelled way. Murray has established himself as one of the most popular live stand-up comedians of recent years and as well as starring in his own major TV series his Pub Landlord show consistently packs out venues across the country. Guaranteed laughs for all.

• Al Murray Barrel of Fun Live | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Al Murray The Pub Landlord is back on the road to roll out his Barrel of Fun a brand new stand-up show for 2010. Britains best-known Pub Philosopher will be serving up his own special brew of bar room banter at venues across the UK this autumn. In 2009 the Peoples Publican left over 230 000 of his regulars over-flowing with laughter on his one-man mission to fix Broken Britain. This year you can tap into a whole new Barrel of Fun and no half measures.

• Fear City | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £7.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (37.04%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tom Berenger plays an ex-boxer who quits the ring after killing an opponent and along with his partner (Jack Scalia) runs a talent agency for strippers among them his bi-sexual ex-girlfriend and star attraction (Melanie Griffith). When two of their dancers are brutally mutilated and murdered against a backdrop of mob-controlled violence and NYPD gritty police work it is left to Berenger to return to his murderous fighting skills and find the psycho killer...

• K-Pax | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £6.56   |  Saving you £3.43 (52.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Kevin Spacey is a mysterious patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from the planet K-pax. Jeff Bridges is the pyschiatrist who tries to help him, as this supposed alien has remarkable effect on his fellow patients.

• Ghost Story | DVD | (18/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Revered misunderstood and oft-discussed Stephen Weeks' rarely seen 1974 dreamlike chiller is the absolute definition of a cult British Horror film. Set in 1920's England it tells of three former public schoolmates Larry Dann (The Bill) Murray Melvin (The Devils) and the enigmatic Vivian Mackerrell (the inspiration for Bruce Robinson' s creation 'Withnail' seen here in his only major screen role) who reunite in a country mansion haunted by the spirit of insane former resident Marianne Faithfull (Girl On A Motorcycle). The haunting transports them to a surreal world of demonic dolls sadistic doctors incest and murder. Hammer fans will see Barbara Shelley (Dracula Prince Of Darkness) and Leigh Lawson (Hammer House Of Horror) among the cast 'cult TV' enthusiasts will recognise Anthony Bate (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Beasts) and sitcom lovers will enjoy a cameo from Penelope Keith (The Good Life To The Manor Born).

• In The Bedroom | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £13.58   |  Saving you £2.41 (17.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a short story by Andre Dubus this award winning film tells of an upper middle class New England family faced with sudden tragedy: their son's murder.

• Virtuosity | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  He's a composite of some 200 personalities each and every one a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7 a virtual reality creation designed to put L.A. police officers to the test. But Sid isn't playing games anymore. He's escaped the bounds of cyberspace. And if you think he's unconquerable in the world of bits and bytes wait till you see what Sid has in store for a world of flesh and blood. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off on opposite sides of the law and on both sides of

• House of Gucci | Blu Ray | (21/02/2022) from £7.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it's worth, and how far a family will go for control.

• Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (111.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Banacek: Season 2 | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £27.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek (George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team), Boston's leading insurance investigator. Banacek is called in to investigate the most baffling and ingenious of crimes which have exhausted the minds of all others. Using logic and with the aid of his chauffeur, his chess-playing associate and a bevy of beautiful women, Banacek launches intricate investigations to reveal, like a magician, the solution to in...

• Banacek: Season 1 | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £27.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek (George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's, The A-Team), Boston's leading insurance investigator. Banacek is called in to investigate the most baffling and ingenious of crimes which have exhausted the minds of all others. Using logic and with the aid of his chauffeur, his chess-playing associate and a bevy of beautiful women, Banacek launches intricate investigations to reveal, like a magician, the solution to in...

• Scarface 1983 - 35th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• The Parallax View | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £17.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There is no conspiracy. Just twelve people dead. Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View a superb conspiracy thriller about one man's paranoia that turns out to be total incredible fact ranks among the best movies of its kind. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who aong with seven others witnesses the assassination of a political candidate. When the other seven die in ""accidents"" the newsman begins to doubt the offiical position: that the lone madman was responsible for the crime. He imagines a sophisticated network of highly trained murderers. But his nightmares pale against the bizarre truth he uncovers.

• Detroit | DVD | (08/01/2018) from £7.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy Award® winning director of THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of ˜67.

• Homicide | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bob Gold is a cop. A good cop. But tonight he will betray his friends disgrace the force and commit an act of violence because he believes it is the only right thing to do... Cop Bobby Gold and his partner Tim Sullivan accidentally discover the murder of an elderly Jewish shopkeeper. What seems like a simple robbery gone wrong leads the investigation to Zionist vigilantes and an anti-Jewish conspiracy. Gold must then confront his loyalties to the force and question his own ethni

• Peggy Sue Got Married | DVD | (05/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Francis Ford Coppola's passable 1986 comedy stars Kathleen Turner as an unhappy, middle-aged woman who goes back in time to her high school years and meets her future husband (Nicolas Cage) all over again. A lightweight entry from Coppola, the film has some clever, backward-looking jokes; and the lead actress does bring intelligence and searching emotions to her role. Cage (Coppola's nephew)--who specialised in these dumb-guy roles back then (see Raising Arizona)--is in sharp, raw form. Worth a visit, but don't expect to be bowled over this time by the legendary director.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com