"Actor: Allen"

• Robocop Trilogy | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  Paul Verhoeven was almost unknown in Hollywood prior to the release of RoboCop in 1987. But after this ultra-violent yet strangely subversive and satirical sci-fi picture became a huge hit his reputation for extravagant and excessive, yet superbly well-crafted filmmaking was assured. Controversial as ever, Verhoeven saw the blue-collar cop (Peter Weller) who is transformed into an invincible cyborg as "an American Jesus with a gun", and so the film dabbles with death and resurrection imagery as well as mercilessly satirising Reagan-era America. No targets escape Verhoeven's unflinching camera eye, from yuppie excess and corporate backstabbing to rampant consumerism and vacuous media personalities. As with his later sci-fi satire Starship Troopers the extremely bloody violence resolutely remains on the same level as a Tom and Jerry cartoon. The inevitable sequel, competently directed by Irvin Kershner, thankfully continues to mine the dark vein of anti-consumerist satire while being reflexively aware that it is itself a shining example of that which it is lampooning. Sadly the third instalment in the series, now without Peter Weller in the title role, is exactly the kind of dumbed-down production-line flick that the corporate suits of OCP might have dreamed up at a marketing meeting. Its only virtue is a decent music score from regular Verhoeven collaborator Basil Poledouris, whose splendid march theme returned from the original score. On the DVD: Packaged in a fold-out slipcase these three discs make a very collectable set. All are presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic prints, although only the first movie has any extra material worth mentioning. Here the Director's Cut option allows the viewer to see Paul Verhoeven's more explicitly violent versions of Murphy's "assassination", ED-209's bloody malfunction and the shootout finale. These extended sequences are handily signposted in the scene selection menu, and the filming of them can be seen in a sequence of Director's Cut footage. Deleted scenes include "Topless Pizza" ("I'll buy that for a dollar!") and there are two contemporary "making of" featurettes plus a good, new half-hour retrospective. Both the latter and the director's commentary make abundantly clear the Reagan-era satire and are chock full of quotable lines from Verhoeven--"I wanted to show Satan killing Jesus"--and his producer--"Fascism for liberals". Stop-motion animator Phil Tippett gives a commentary on the storyboard-to-film comparisons, and there are the usual trailers and photos. Showing just how much the sequels are rated in comparison, the second and third discs have nothing but theatrical trailers and their sound is just Dolby 2.0 whereas the original movie has been remastered into Dolby 5.1.--Mark Walker

• Disney & Pixar's Toy Story 4 | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Bonnie takes the toys on her family's road trip, Woody ends up on an unexpected detour that includes a reunion with his long-lost friend Bo Peep, whose adventurous spirit and life on the road belie her delicate porcelain exterior. Woody and Bo are worlds apart when it comes to life as a toy, and they soon realise that that's the least of their worries.

• Play It Again Sam | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £10.09   |  Saving you £5.90 (58.47%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Neurotic New York film critic Allan Felix (Woody Allen) has just broken up with his wife Nancy (Susan Anspach) causing him to spiral into a deep depression and look for solace in the classic movies that he loves particularly the romantic saga 'Casablanca'. Allan begins to have conversations with the fantasy ghost of the film idol Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy) who gives him advice on romance and masculinity. Allan's married friends Linda and Dick (Diane Keaton Tony Roberts)

• Dog Day Afternoon | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A gripping true crime yarn, a juicy slice of overheated New York atmosphere and a splendid showcase for its young actors, Dog Day Afternoon is a minor classic of the 1970s. The opening montage of New York street life (set to Elton John's lazy "Amoreena") establishes the oppressive mood of a scorching afternoon in the city with such immediacy that you can almost smell the garbage baking in the sun and the water from the hydrants evaporating from the sizzling pavement. Al Pacino plays Sonny, who, along with his rather slow-witted accomplice Sal (John Cazale, familiar as Pacino's Godfather brother Fredo), holds hostages after a botched a bank robbery. Sonny finds himself transformed into a rebel celebrity when his standoff with police (including lead negotiator Charles Durning) is covered live on local television. The movie doesn't appear to be about anything in particular, but it really conveys the feel of wild and unpredictable events unfolding before your eyes, and the whole picture is so convincing and involving that you're glued to the screen. An Oscar winner for original screenplay, Dog Day Afternoon was also nominated for best picture, actor, supporting actor (Chris Sarandon, as a surprise figure from Sonny's past), editing, and director (Sidney Lumet of Serpico, Prince of the City, The Verdict and Running on Empty). --Jim Emerson

• Arachnid | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A viral outbreak on a remote South Pacific island lures a secret expedition to investigate. The natives there are dying from a lethal cocktail of neurotoxins and the most likely cause is a venomous spider bite. The suspect - a previously unknown species of arachnid. Now a terrifying predator with a voracious appetite and a killer instinct is hunting ex-Navy pilot Lauren Mercer and her team of soldiers and scientists. To make matters worse the thing is multiplying at a ferocious r

• The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection - Volume 12 | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £7.09   |  Saving you £7.90 (111.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A global byword for cinematic quality of a quintessentially British nature Ealing Studios made more than 150 films over a three decade period. A cherished and significant part of British film history only selected films from both the Ealing and Associated Talking Pictures strands have previously been made available on home video format - with some remaining unseen since their original theatrical release. The Ealing Rarities Collection redresses this imbalance - featuring new transfers from the best available elements in their correct aspect ratio this multi-volume collection showcases a range of scarce films from both Basil Dean's and Michael Balcon's tenure as studio head making them available once more to the general public. Three Men In A Boat (1933)An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends - and a dog - as they take a boating holiday on the Thames. Loyalties (1933)The sole Jewish guest at a Society gathering is robbed; when he exposes a fellow guest as the thief he finds the veneer of racial tolerance to be disturbingly thin... The Bailiffs (1932)In one of their earliest films Crazy Gang stars Flanagan and Allen star as a couple of incompetent broker's men who take possession of the wrong house... Laburnum Grove (1936)A respectable suburban householder shocks unwelcome visiting relatives by telling them that he is now a forger working for a criminal gang.

• Pillow Talk | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.53   |  Saving you £3.72 (59.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Day is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party line with an amorous playboy who ties up the line with his exploits while she is trying to conduct business. When the two accidentally meet he's taken with her beauty and pretending to be a wealthy Texan begins to court her mercilessly. Though flattered by this stranger's attention it's not long before she discovers his true identity. Now it's her turn to have a little fun...at his expense!

• Scrooged 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrate the 35th anniversary of an essential holiday classic, remastered for 4K Ultra HD™ and featuring hours of never beforereleased special features. Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a modernday Scrooge a mean, nasty, uncaring, and unforgiving TV exec ready to unleash a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol around the world. But, before the night is over, hell be visited by his deadasadoornail boss (John Forsythe), a maniacal cab driver from the past (David Johansen), a presentday fairy packing punches (Carol Kane), and a ghoulish, sevenfoot headless messenger from the future. Both hysterical and heartfelt, SCROOGED is an updated take on a familiar favorite. Yule love it!

• Man About Dog | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An Irish black comedy featuring three chancers on the run from a violent debt collector. On the way they acquire an abandoned greyhound which they use to make some money from betting it at the races. After making a fortune from the dog the lads find themselves pursued by the dog's original owners an angry group of travellers armed with crossbows shotguns and chainsaws. At the same time local crime boss J.P. McCallion (Sean McGinley) is tailing the boys so he can snatch the dog and the money for himself.

• Everyone Says I Love You | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Writer-director Woody Allen has produced yet another challenging and funny film with Everyone Says I Love You, this time taking on the musical genre and bending it to his own unique vision. The result is one of his most charming films in recent years, as Allen assembles a typically sterling ensemble cast to evoke the romanticism of years past. This time, the large cast (including Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton and Tim Roth) not only turn in funny and touching performances, but they sing the classic songs of the 1930s and 1940s themselves, and sing them very well. The plot centres on an extended family in New York and their various romantic entanglements, including Allen's pursuit of Julia Roberts through the streets of Paris and the canals of Venice. The musical numbers are the film's high points, displaying wonderful choreography ranging from a room full of dancing Groucho Marxes to a dancing couple in flight at the banks of the Seine. Everyone Says I Love You is a witty and entertaining fantasy, and truly romantic escapism.--Robert Lane, Amazon.com

• Night Of The Big Heat | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties. The boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan pub. Only a stand-offish visiting scientist suspects aliens are to blame. Meanwhile the new secretary to the local best-selling author is raising the temperature in her own way...

• Foster and Allen - After All These Years | DVD | (30/09/2005) from £6.76   |  Saving you £-0.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A special collection of videos and specially filmed clips from Foster and Allen celebrating 30 years in show business together. The main feature is a collection of 20 of their favourite videos including television performances duets and much more. Interviews videos exclusive performances and slide show - what more could a Foster & Allen fan ask for! Tracklist: 1. Bunch Of Thyme 2. Maggie 3. After All These Years 4. I Will Love You All My Life 5. Old Flames 6. Love

• Vampire Boys | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, DOROTHY ARZNER (Dance, Girl, Dance), the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wita mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. A Star Is Born's FREDRIC MARCH (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and SYLVIA SIDNEY (Sabotage) turn in extraordinary performances as the urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eyeleading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early feminist commentary on modern marriage. Special Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Dorothy Arzner: Longing for Women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler New video essay by film historian Cari Beauchamp English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film scholar Judith Mayne

• Gangster No. 1 | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £4.62   |  Saving you £5.37 (116.23%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gangster No. 1 is without doubt the most stylish British violent crime thriller from the many produced at the end of the 20th century. For all the pop-video glamour of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, neither have anywhere near as much a sense of danger as is shown here. Paul Bettany ignites the screen with a fury that explodes far more than it smoulders beneath his tautly kept temper. The tale concerns his ascent to the titular position of primacy in 1960s London, told in flashback by his present-day self (an equally riveting Malcolm McDowell). A lust for power won't allow anything to stand in either incarnation's way, especially the foppish posturing of established crime boss Freddie Mays (David Thewlis). What distinguishes this from many other tales of greed is that the never-named Gangster actually wants to be Freddie, not simply replace him. Saffron Burrows plays the suffering trophy moll in the middle of this personality clash and provides about the only level head and gentle tongue in what is otherwise a super-violent and super-profane script. This is what The Krays should have been, and therefore not for the squeamish. --Paul Tonks

• Toy Story (Disney Pixar) | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £7.34   |  Saving you £12.65 (172.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The toys celebrate their 10th birthday with this amazing double pack set.

• Dressed to Kill Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Upon its release in 1980, Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill was as acclaimed for its stylish set-pieces and lush Pino Donaggio score as it was condemned for its sexual explicitness but the glee with which the writer/director turns this material inside out is completely infectious, as he delves deep inside the troubled psyches of his characters to undermine expectations at every turn. After sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) has a session with her psychiatrist, Dr Elliott (Michael Caine), she silently seduces a man in an art gallery an assignation that ends in murder and the only witness, high-class prostitute Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), being stalked by the killer in turn. One of De Palma's darkest and most controversial suspense thrillers, Arrow Video is proud to present this iconic neo-Hitchcockian masterwork in stunning 4K alongside a raft of archival and newly commissioned bonus features. 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) ¢ Original lossless 1.0 mono soundtrack ¢ Optional lossless 5.1 soundtrack ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Brand new audio commentary by critics Drusilla Adeline and Joshua Conkel ¢ Audio commentary by critic Maitland McDonagh ¢ Beyond Good and Evil, a brand new visual essay by critics BJ and Harmony Colangelo ¢ The Empathy of Dressed to Kill, a brand new visual essay by critic Jessica Crets ¢ Strictly Business, a 2022 interview with actress Nancy Allen ¢ Killer Frames, a 2022 interview with associate producer/production manager Fred C. Caruso ¢ An Imitation of Life, a 2022 interview with actor Keith Gordon ¢ Archival interviews with actors Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon, and producer George Litto ¢ The Making of a Thriller, an archival documentary on the making of the film ¢ Unrated, R-rated and TV-rated comparison featurette ¢ Slashing Dressed to Kill, an archival featurette examining the changes made to avoid an X rating ¢ Photo gallery ¢ Theatrical trailer ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx ¢ Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Sara Michelle Fetters, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Matthew Sorrento and Heather Wixson

• Night Of The Big Heat | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A scorching picture from 1967, Night of the Big Heat is a sweat-inducing shocker based on the 1957 novel from John Lymington. The remote island of Fara is experiencing a stifling heat wave in the middle of winter, causing life, as the locals know it, to come to a halt. Tensions rise as the heat increases plus a high-pitched tone of unknown origin is incinerating the villagers. Directed by Hammer favourite, Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee alongside chisel jawed Patrick Allen, Night of the Big Heat is sizzling British sci-fi at its most intense.

• Manhattan | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Manhattan, Woody Allen's follow-up to Oscar-winning Annie Hall, is a film of many distinctions: its glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly elegant black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (best-known for shooting the Godfather movies); its deeply shaded performances; its witty screenplay that marked a new level in Allen's artistic maturity; and its catalogue of Things that Make Life Worth Living. Allen's "Rhapsody in Gray" concerns, as his own character puts it, "people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real, unnecessary, neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more insoluble, terrifying problems about the universe". It's a romantic comedy about infidelity and betrayal, the rules of love and friendship, young girls (a radiant and sweet Mariel Hemingway) and older men (Allen), innocence, and sophistication. (a favourite phrase is used to describe a piece of sculpture at the Guggenheim: "It has a marvellous kind of negative capability".) The film's themes can be summed up in two key lines: "I can't believe you met somebody you like better than me", and "It's very important to have some kind of personal integrity". OK, so they may not sound like such sparkling snatches of brilliant dialogue, but Manhattan puts those ideas across with such emotion that you feel an ache in your heart. --Jim Emerson

• Clown | DVD | (02/03/2015) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From master of terror Eli Roth (Hostel Cabin Fever) comes CLOWN a nightmarish reawakening of your BIGGEST childhood fear. It’s Jack's 10th birthday but the clown has cancelled. His dad Kent finds an old clown suit in the attic and saves the party. But after the party is over Kent has a problem… the suit won't come off. What starts as a joke quickly turns into a hellish nightmare. Kent can feel himself changing and his desperate attempts to free himself just leave him in agonising pain. As the suit takes hold of his body Kent slowly endures a brutal and agonising transformation. As he changes an uncontrollable hunger begins to consume him; an overwhelming and insatiable hunger…for children.