"Actor: Allen"

• Steeltown Murders | Blu Ray | (19/06/2023) from £14.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When two best friends are found murdered, a local policeman Paul Bethell suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. Could this be linked to other unsolved murders? In a case that has haunted him for 30 years, will new DNA evidence finally let him bring the killer to justice?

• Mommie Dearest | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £35.35   |  Saving you £-19.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Mommie Dearest' is the outrageous and controversial story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and her struggle with the dual roles of fading actress and tormented mother. The public Crawford was strong-willed glamorous and admirable but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford the woman desperate to be a mother adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in the movie industry. The rage the debilitating strain and the terrifying descent in

• Silverado | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Four strangers became friends. Four friends became heroes. On the road to... Silverado. Get ready for some horse-ridin' gun-totin' whiskey drinkin' fun in this digitally remastered DVD edition of Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado! This spirited Western stars Kevin Kline Scott Glenn Kevin Costner and Danny Glover as four unwitting heroes who cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends res

• Scoop | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.94

  Woody Allen writes, directs and stars in this comedy crime thriller alongside Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman. The film follows American journalism student Sondra Pransky (Johansson), who, while taking part in a show presented by magician Sidney Waterman (Allen) in London, is visited by the ghostly apparition of the recently deceased journalist Joe Strombel (Ian McShane) and told the identity of an alleged serial killer. As Sondra and Sidney try to uncover whether there is any truth to these claims, Sondra begins to fall in love with the suspect, British aristocrat Peter Lyman (Jackman)...

• You'll Like My Mother | Blu Ray | (24/07/2023) from £13.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar® winner* Patty Duke stars in the tense and claustrophobic psychological thriller, You'll Like My Mother. When her husband is killed in Vietnam, Francesca Kinsolving (Duke) finds herself alone...and pregnant. She makes her way to Minnesota in order to meet her late husband's mother, certain that she'll be greeted with open arms. But Francesca soon discovers that there may be more to the Kinsolving family than she ever imagined...and that this simple family reunion is only the beginning of a waking nightmare. Rosemary Murphy (To Kill A Mockingbird), Richard Thomas (The Waltons), and Sian Barbara Allen (who was nominated for a Golden Globe® for her performance) also star in this intriguing, tautly directed thriller [that delivers] a high level of terror and tension (TV Guide)!

• Bourne 4K Collection (4K UHD+BD+UV) | 4K UHD | (11/09/2017) from £64.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (26.99%)   |  RRP £79.99

  All five Bourne films are available together in The Bourne Ultimate Collection! Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, an elite government agent determined to outwit and outmanoeuvre anyone who stands in the way of his mission to discover the secrets of his mysterious past. As part of the next generation of genetically-engineered agents, Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross attempts to finish what Bourne started. Follow their explosive, action-packed adventures with the blockbuster films from one of the most popular series of all time: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy and Jason Bourne. Loaded with hours of bonus features, The Bourne Ultimate Collection is the ultimate espionage experience for Bourne fans everywhere! BONUS FEATURES: BRINGING BACK MATT DAMON AS BOURNE SHUTTING DOWN THE LAS VEGAS STRIP DELETED SCENES NEW YORK CHASE ROOFTOP PURSUIT DRIVING SCHOOL FILMMAKER COMMENTARIES

• Blood From The Mummy's Tomb / Devil Rides Out / Horror Of Frankenstein / Lust For A Vampire / Scars Dracula | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Devil Rides Out (WS 1.66:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 91 mins) Employing ancient rituals a group of Satanists invoke the powers of darkness for personal gain risking very souls to do so. All those involved become increasingly ensnared by the malevolent presence they have summoned. Learning of a friend's involvement the Duke de Richeleau enters the fray as champion for the Powers of Light. Accompanied by his three friends Rex Van Ryn Simon Aron and Richard Eaton the Duke takes the battle to the enemy; the Devil himself! The Horror Of Frankenstein (WS 1.85:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 92 mins) On the sudden death of his father young Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) inherits his title his castle and his comely and very accommodating housemaid Alys (Kate O'Mara). Victor decides to leave college and return home where he can carry out scientific experiments of which his teachers would never approve... With the aid of a grave-robber Victor collects the parts he requires for his greatest experiment yet; the construction of a human being! As the struggle to keep his experiments secret becomes harder the body count mounts up and the monster is not yet complete! Scars Of Dracula (WS 1.85:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 91 mins) When two innocent victims discover the blood drained corpse of a missing friend in Dracula's castle necropolis the flesh-creeping horror begins. Christopher Lee the definitive Count Dracula to British film fans portrays both the creature's essential power and evil and his sexual and magnetic appeal in a script that stems directly from the original Bram Stoker novel. Lust For A Vampire (WS 1.78:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 91 mins) When the fascinating and fatal Mircalla Karnstein enrolls at an exclusive girls' finishing school in Transylvania English teacher Richard Lestrange is among those who fall victim to her striking and sensual beauty. As he risks his life to save her from the terrified villagers he must first save himself from her lethal kiss... Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (WS 1.85:1 Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono: English 89 mins) The evil begins when professor Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir) and his expedition team discover in Egypt after years of quest the tomb of Queen Tera (Valerie Leon). The Queen is a beautiful creature naked save for the tapestry of wonderful jewels that decorate her body. Legend suggests that Egyptian priests murdered Tera Queen of Darkness and that she has mysterious powers from beyond the grave... The opening of the tomb has a strange effect on Fuchs and his team. Are they aware of the powers they are unleashing when they return to England with the mummy and the strange artefacts found in the tomb?

• Taxi to the Dark Side | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £6.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (43.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

• Trigger Happy TV - Series 3 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £4.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (117.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Trigger Happy TV 3 is another compilation from the cult late night Channel 4 comedy that turbo-charged the old Candid Camera format with a cool rock soundtrack for the MTV generation. While the show itself could become repetitive, the 42 minutes of highlights distilled into the main feature here are frequently hilarious. See public prankster Dom Joly wrestle a giant badger in the woods, enjoy the office populated entirely by people dressed as bears and collapse with laugher at the most surreal estate agent scenario in the world. From a terribly insecure policeman to the street guide who doesn't know the location of anything, Joly's nerve at pulling off some of these gags is breathtaking. The supporting feature is a half-hour spoof biography of Joly made to introduce Trigger Happy TV to American audiences. Deadpan in the extreme, it sends up the fly-on-the-wall genre and celebrity interview with uncomfortably accurate wit. That's not the end, because the presentation makes the line between programme and extras largely irrelevant, so read on to see what else is... On the DVD: Trigger Happy TV 3 can simply be played straight through so that everything on the disc makes a 90-minute pseudo feature, or individual sections can be selected as extras. There are 14 mostly worthwhile unseen clips, three "Bad Rabbit Jokes" (and they are bad), the three "Worst Ideas Ever" (they are), "Brushes with the Law" (which was bound to happen with such stunts as White Van Man's road rage), and four hugely entertaining previously unseen Celebrity Interviews with Hanif Kureishi, Bret Easton Ellis, Uri Geller and Alan Titchmarsh. The commentary track by Joly and Sam Cadman rambles with entertaining irrelevance from a deaf George Martin producing their recording at Studio 2, Abbey Road, to rather more believable recollections of being arrested in Belgium. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Front (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What if there were a list? A list that said: Our finest actors weren't allowed to act. Our best writers aren't allowed to write. Our funniest comedians aren't allowed to make us laugh. What would it be like if there were such a list? It would be like America in 1953. Special Features 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman and actress Andrea Marcovicci Behind The Front (2004, 6 mins): an interview with the acclaimed director of photography Michael Chapman Isolated score: experience Dave Grusin's original soundtrack music Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Goodness Gracious Me - Complete Series 3 | DVD | (17/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Goodness Gracious Me was never quite a classic comedy series, but it did achieve the goal of all such sketch shows: to make at least a couple of its characters part of the popular discourse. The show's best creations were those that served to let the rest of Britain in on a few of the in-jokes in British/Asian life. The bitterly competitive immigrant mothers boasting about the achievements of their first-generation children, the over-compensating, more-British-than-the-British Kapoor family and the obstinately patriotic Mr Everything Came from India. The sketch in which the latter passionately argues that Leonardo da Vinci was, in fact, Indian is a particular joy. Fine though these ideas were, Goodness Gracious Me also carried its share of padding. Hapless Romeo Mr Check Please is a less funny and less charming reading of The Fast Show's "I'll get me coat", and the kindest that can be said musical sketches is that they're not quite as lame as the ones on Smack the Pony. On the DVD: Goodness Gracious Me, Series 3 offers the standard episode selector, a song selector to direct the viewer to the unfunny musical parody of their choice, augmented by a simple yet brilliant idea that should be mandatory for all sketch show DVDs: another selector which allows you to watch all the sketches from the series featuring one particular character. The DVD also contains an interview with cast member Nina Wadia. No subtitles are available. --Andrew Mueller

• Flawless | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this drama about a hardened cop who suffers a heart attack and undertakes singing lessons from his transvestite neighbour to aid his recovery.

• Agent Cody Banks 2 - Destination London | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Teen super spy Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) has to go undercover at an elite London boarding school to track down a missing mind control device.

• Zelig | Blu Ray | (12/12/2016) from £14.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mockumentaries are ten a penny these days, but in 1983 Zelig offered something startlingly new, as heavyweight talking heads such as Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag discuss an entirely fictional character who is nonetheless strangely convincing. Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is a man so introverted and insecure that he has developed the ability to blend perfectly into the background of any given situation, regardless of the personality or even ethnicity of the people around him. But when he inadvertently becomes famous as the human chameleon after the media takes too keen an interest in his therapy sessions with Dr Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow), Zelig is faced with an unprecedented challenge: how do you fade into the background when the spotlight is firmly upon you? Zelig isn't just hilarious but also an incredible technical accomplishment. Without any recourse to CGI techniques that had yet to be invented, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Gordon Willis inserts Zelig into actual 1920s and 30s footage so seamlessly that you're convinced that he's really interacting with the likes of Babe Ruth and Adolf Hitler.

• Extraterrestrial | Blu Ray | (16/03/2015) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (57.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Still reeling from her parents divorce, April (Brittany Allen, Defiance, Dead Before Dawn) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a group of friends. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. Lead by her boyfriend (Freddie Stroma Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince, Pitch Perfect), the group venture out toward the crash site and discover the remnants of a ship from another planet along with footprints that suggest its alien occupants are still alive.

• Blur - The Best Of | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £5.36   |  Saving you £6.63 (55.30%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The Best music and videos of Blur the archetypal indie/Brit-pop band. Tracklisting: 1. She So High 2. There's No Other Way 3. Bang 4. Popscene 5. For Tomorrow 6. Chemical World 7. Sunday Sunday 8. Girls And Boys 9. To The End 10. Parklife 11. End Of A Century 12. Country House 13. The Universal 14. Stereotypes 15. Charmless Man 16. Beetlebum 17. Song 2 18. On Your Own 19. M.O.R 20. Tender 21. Coffee And TV 22. No Distance Left To Run

• Anaconda - Trail Of Blood | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £6.97   |  Saving you £16.01 (402.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The genetically enhanced snakes from Anaconda 3: Offspring are dead but one of their slithering offspring has regenerated to live on in this next action-packed chapter of the Anaconda franchise. The dying mogul Murdoch (Emmy''-Nominated actor John Rhys-Davies) hires a doctor to harvest a fresh supply of blood orchids and experiment with the regenerative nectar on a baby snake. Overnight the offspring grows monstrous enough in size and appetite to devour the good doctor whole before slithering free on a regenerative rampage. The beautiful herpetologist Amanda (Crystal Allen) dedicated to destroying the vicious beasts she helped create leads a team of young scientists against a ruthless pack of Murdoch's armed thugs to get the coveted orchids before the snake hunts both factions down. The bloodthirsty offspring is seemingly invincible sliding through explosions and gunfire only to regenerate and prey insatiably on anything in its path.

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 4 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  The fourth series of Deep Space Nine can be summed up in one word: Klingons! The show's producers apparently felt beset from all sides. Babylon 5 was a huge hit, as was Star Trek: Voyager, the flagship of new channel UPN. Stepping up DS9's action quotient seemed to be the answer. Time would tell, however, whether doing so via Trek's tried-and-tested former bad guys was the best solution. Opening with a special two-hour extravaganza, the new year was immediately unfamiliar. Dennis McCarthy's original theme--despite winning an Emmy--was deemed too subdued. As its upbeat new rendition kicked off, the station was seen in battle and swarming with activity. Moments later, we met old/new crewmember Worf, whose sudden appearance was the result of a brewing invasive strategy by the Klingons. This initiated the first of many loyalty shifts, as the Cardassians became the victims. With plenty of re-appearances by Gowron, Kor and Kurn, it was clear that an ongoing space opera was being crafted. Dukat revealed a tragedy-ridden daughter; Odo's relationship with his people (and Kira) became increasingly melancholy; and even the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers were given a sympathetic angle by their drug addiction. Adding to the layers of ambiguity about Earth's (read: the Producers') position over being at war, was the "outing" of Eddington and Sisko's girlfriend as rebel activists. Lest we forget the homely/spiritual side of the Captain, time was spent with a future version of Jake, with his father (Brock Peters), and on the nature of his role as "The Emissary". Avery Brooks worked behind the camera a couple of times, but this year the surprise was LeVar Burton directing five shows. There was still time for comedy: the Ferengi warped back to Roswell in 1947 and Bashir played at James Bond. But the year will be recalled predominately for its violence. One of the episodes Burton directed had its fight scenes drastically cut, while the series as a whole won an Emmy for its space battle effects. On the DVD: Deep Space Nine, Series 4 contains more than two hours of extra features. Although they might all have been better compiled into one long documentary, the sections devoted to Aliens, Production Design and Artwork are, nevertheless, nicely contained. "Charting New Territory" is a 20-minute featurette on all the big changes attempted this year: Worf's introduction, arming the station and being daring with stand-alone episodes. There's also a terrific and candid dossier on Michael Dorn (Worf), ten mini-cameo cast tales, four seasons' worth of episode introductions, and a well-stocked Photo Gallery. All this can be found on the set's seventh disc; there's also the fourth CD-ROM disc, which allows you to build your own station at home. --Paul Tonks END

• The Cotton Club | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Cotton Club is routinely eclipsed by the controversies that surrounded its tumultuous production, but the film itself offers abundant pleasures that should not be overlooked. If Apocalypse Now represents the triumph of director Francis Coppola's perilous ambition, then The Cotton Club represents the ungainly glory of uncontrolled genius, as brilliant as it is out of its depth. As an upscale homage to classic gangster films it's frequently astonishing, cramming a thick novel's worth of plot and characters into 129 minutes, gloriously serviced by impeccable production design, elegant cinematography, and stylistic flourishes that show Coppola at the top of his game. What The Cotton Club lacks is cohesion. Written by Coppola and novelist William Kennedy (then enjoying the peak of his critical acclaim), the film struggles to exceed the narrative scope of The Godfather, but its multiple early-'30s plotlines fail to form any strong connective tissue. It's three (or four) movies in one, with cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere, playing his own jazzy solos) drifting from one story to the next--loving a young, ambitious vamp (Diane Lane, with whom Gere shares precious little chemistry), enjoying the success of a hot-shot hoofer (Gregory Hines), and protecting his brazen brother (Coppola's then-newcomer nephew, Nicolas Cage) from the deadly temper of mob boss "Dutch" Schultz (James Remar). Bob Hoskins and Fred Gwynne also score big in grand supporting roles, but The Cotton Club is perhaps best appreciated for its meticulous recreation of Harlem's Cotton Club heyday, and the brilliant music (Ellington, Calloway, etc.) that brought rhythm to gangland's rat-a-tat-tat. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Manhunter | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Released to box-office indifference in 1986, Manhunter introduced Hannibal Lecter and established the rules of the modern race to find serial killer thriller five years before The Silence of the Lambs packed cinemas everywhere. This was Michael Mann's third feature, reuniting William L Petersen and Dennis Farina from his debut Thief (1981) as FBI agents hunting the killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". Petersen's Will Graham is the man who put Lecktor (as it is spelt here) behind bars, and as in Lambs consults with the Doctor, played with understated malevolence by Brian Cox. Manhunter is an exceptionally well-photographed film: Mann's regular cinematographer Dante Spinotti created sparse, elegantly framed, often mono-chromatically lit compositions which are essential to the shifting psychological moods. The performances are very good, and the typically 1980s, Vangelis-esque electronic score effectively sustains tension. Once the killer is introduced the scenes with Joan Allen have a genuinely unsettling, almost surreal quality. There is at least one serious plot flaw--how does "The Red Dragon" get his letter to Lecktor? Manhunter never packs the sheer excitement of Lambs, nevertheless, it is a powerful and compelling thriller which remains far superior to the third instalment in the series, Hannibal (2001). On the DVD: In addition to the trailer there is a revealing 10-minute conversation with Dante Spinotti in which he explains how he created the very distinctive look of Manhunter. Also included is a more general 17-minute retrospective "making-of" documentary. This is good but too short, the extras failing to live up to the wealth of material on the Lambs and Hannibal DVDs. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image is generally very good, being just a little soft in one or two early scenes. The sound is listed as Dolby Digital 5.1, but appears to replicate the main stereo signal in the rear channels. Audio is none the less powerful and clear, though lacks the sheer edge and atmospherics of some more recent thrillers. --Gary S Dalkin