"Actor: Bates"

• Shadows And Fog | Blu Ray | (03/04/2017) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of Woody Allen's strangest films, this studio-bound fantasy turned his Kafkaesque one-act play Death (1975) into a full-blown homage to German Expressionist filmmakers like Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, brought to life by one of the starriest casts he ever assembled: Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Julie Kavner, Madonna, John Malkovich, Donald Pleasence and Lily Tomlin, plus Allen himself. He plays the cowardly Kleinman, reluctantly recruited by a vigilante mob in search of a serial killer. When he finds himself involved with a troupe of circus performers whose sword-swallower Irmy (Farrow) and clown Paul (Malkovich) want to leave to start a family, Kleinman thinks that this is a welcome distraction but the killer has other ideas... Described by the New York Times as a brazen, irrepressible original, Shadows and Fog is the most visually and narratively unpredictable of Allen's films. Carlo di Palma's dazzling cinematography makes full use of the title elements, but it's the richness of the multi-layered narrative, with its Shakespearean oscillation between burlesque comedy and poignant tragedy that really sticks in the mind.

• Lust For A Vampire | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Through the unholy rites of black magic the notorious female vampire Carmilla Karnstein is reincarnated as a luscious young debutant (Yutte Stensgaard). But when the depraved seductress is enrolled at an exclusive girl's school she begins to inflame the desires of her fellow students as wellias her weak-willed teacher (Ralph Bates). Can these perverse hungers be quenched by theimere taste of blood or will an entire village be unwittingly consumed by their lust for a vampire?

• Dear John - Series 2 | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £34.98   |  Saving you £-14.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Lacey's social life is ever expanding with social events organised by the 1-2-1 Club. As the members get to know each other they support one another through various crises. Ralph is harassed by Hell's Angels Kirk has a crisis of confidence John meets a lady Kate gives up her job to travel around Greece and flirty Louise still insists on grilling anyone she can about their sex life. They are also joined by new members Sylvia and ex-60s pop star Ricky Fortune.

• Love Liza | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at the 2002 Sundance film festival, Love Liza features a tour de force performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Wilson Joel - a man in trouble.

• Hot Pursuit | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Cusack stars as Danny an all round nice guy who plans to spend some quality time in the Caribbean with his girlfriend Lori (Wendy Gazelle). But although they've been planning their trip for months it only takes a few minutes for it all to go wrong! To start Danny misses his plane. Then for all his attempts to catch up with Lori he finds himself in ever more bizarre situations. From jailbreaks and jungles to hurricanes and hijacking his only companion is roguish old sea dog Captain MacLaren (Robert Loggia). She promised him ten days together in paradise. He never dreamed how far he'd have to go!

• Christmas Is Here Again | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £4.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (80.89%)   |  RRP £8.99

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• My Sister's Keeper | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'My Sister's Keeper' is a startling portrayal of one woman's fight for survival against all the odds. Set in Appalachia in 1943 the film depicts Maggie's three day deadly struggle with her husband's killer. Maggie found her husband's body beaten and bloody hanging in the smokehouse. With no help to hand she returns home to avoid the vicious pack of wild dogs that roam around killing at their own will. Tension and danger mount as a stranger appears and Maggie submits to being raped

• Nicholas Gift | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Viva Nicholas! Viva Nicholas! shouts Reg Green at the dedication of a school named after his slain son. And that sums up how all of Italy feels about 7-year-old Nicholas Green and American tourist and accidental victim of a bandit's bullet. In this highly publicized 1994 crime would-be robbers who fired the fateful shots were not even after the Greens but were trying to intercept a jewelry shipment. Still the bizarre story of mistaken identity is little more than a footnote to the powerful true story of two parents' generosity and willingness to forgive - all while dealing with their boy's grim prognosis. Under the worst circumstances Reg and Maggie Green make the most courageous decision possible: They will donate Nicholas' organs a practice almost unheard of in Italy at that time. Since then organ donation in Italy has increased 118 percent giving more than 3 000 people a second chance at life. It is call The Nicholas Effect.

• Dear John - Series 1 | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The entire first series of the classic BBC comedy Dear John where upon finding his wife has left him for his best friend John joins the 1-2-1 Club a local encounter group for the divorced and separated. Here he meets the feisty Kate the bland bespectacled Ralph the exuberant Kirk St. Moritz resplendent in white suit and medallion and of course club founder Louise who asks everyone with relish Were there any sexual problems?

• Hamlet | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £7.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Franco Zeffirelli's stripped-down, two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as a rather robust version of the ambivalent Danish prince. Gibson is much better in the part than many critics have admitted, his powers of clarity doing much to make this particular Hamlet more accessible than several other filmed versions. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. Zeffirelli's vigorous direction employs a lively camera style that nicely alters the viewer's preconceptions about the way Hamlet should look. --Tom Keogh

• The Blind Side/Going the Distance Double Pack | Blu Ray | (17/09/2012) from £9.11   |  Saving you £12.14 (154.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Blind Side: Teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock). Learning that the young man is one of her daughter's classmates, Leigh Anne insists that Michael-wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter-come out of the cold. Without a moment's hesitation, she invites him to stay at the Tuohy home for the night. What starts out as a gesture of kindness turns into something ...

• Little Black Book | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £4.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (312.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Infuriated by her tight-lipped boyfriend, Brittany Murphy's TV producer delves into his palm pilot to find all about his ex-girlfriends - and finds more than she bargained for.

• The Pride Of The Force | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller and sees the wildly popular rubber-faced actor and entertainer once touted as Elstree s own Clark Gable playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman! The Pride of the Force also marked the first and only screen pairing of Fuller and his future wife Nan Bates with the couple meeting on-set for the first time. This long-unseen feature is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. SPECIAL FEATURES: [] Image Gallery

• Mulholland Drive / Eraserhead / Lost Highway | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say in Mulholland Drive David Lynch indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams", Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. --Fionn Meade David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled-over movies of the 1990s. But there are no straight answers. This film is "about" a lot of things: obsession, the impossible notion of owning a partner, why tailgating is wrong. Beyond that, it's about nothing more than enjoying just how sensually delicious everything looks and sounds on Lynch's Highway. --Paul Tonks Eraserhead is a horror movie unlike any other. A fuzzy-haired young man, trapped in his apartment, has a series of nightmarish experiences, among which is a scene in which his head is used to make the rubbers that fit on the ends of pencils. --Nikki Disney

• The Persuaders - Vol. 5 - Episodes 15-18 | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Further action-fuelled adventures with those cool crimefighters Lord Brett Sinclair (Moore) and Danny Wilde (Curtis). Epsisodes include: The Man In The Middle: A double agent is discovered working in British Intelligence... Element of Risk: A known criminal arrives in London and gets mixed up with Danny... A Home of One's Own: Danny buys himself a cottage and gets involved with the illegal activities of the local squire... Nuisance Value: A fake kidnapping threatens to test the sleuthing skills of Brett and Danny...

• Prince & The Pauper | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Mark Twain's classic story of the Pauper who dreams of riches and the prince who just wants to behave like a normal boy. After a chance meeting the two boys become friends and are amazed to discover that they are identical and can easily pass for each other- an opportunity to get what they have both always wanted! But both learn that no life is as it seems: the Prince has to overcome an alcoholic father's wrath and a spell in prison while the Pauper is trapped in a palace rampant with political intrigue and in-fighting when the old king dies.

• Complete Unknown | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mysterious woman with a remarkable past revisits a former lover, complicating the settled life he has built for himself and his wife in Complete Unknown, an unsettling exploration of identity from acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace, The Forgiveness of Blood).

• Crazy People | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Crazy People' is a sharp and satirical film about the fickle world of advertising starring Dudley Moore as Emory an advertising executive who believes honesty is the best approach for his new advertising campaign. In a bid to 'recover' from his loss of perspective Emory is sent to a clinic by his bosses. The fine line between certified insanity and what society accepts as normal is expertly developed when Emory's world collides with the lives of the clinic's patients. Emory

• Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time | Blu Ray | (17/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Sisters Keeper | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £7.69   |  Saving you £-1.70 (-28.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two sister's lifelong struggle with mental illness daily hardships and their own conflicted relationship evolves into mutual respect and understanding in this poignant and emotional real life story. Throughout their life Christine and Judy's stern but dutiful devoted mother tries to hide the fact that Christine is not like other girls. Suffering from Schizoaffective Disorder Christine is in and out of hospital for most of her teenage years leaving her younger sister Judy confused and ambivalent to someone who her mother loves as dearly as her. In later life Judy who has escaped the confines of small town life to New York receives a visit from her sister. But the re-acquaintance turns sour when Judy's friend begins displaying the kind of prejudice Christine and Judy's mother attempted to protect them from during childhood. And when their mother succumbs to a debilitating illness Christine's need for her sister becomes more apparent and overwhelming. Judy fears she must finally confront her own inability to form relationships and reconcile her feelings towards her sister so that they can both begin to lead the normal loving lives they crave so much.