"Actor: Ben Brennan"

• Double Jeopardy | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £6.26   |  Saving you £9.73 (155.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her.

• The Last Picture Show | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £19.19   |  Saving you £-6.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the novel by Larry McMurty The Last Picture Show is a more bitter than bittersweet drama about growing up and winding down in the dusty nowhere town of Anarene, Texas, during 1951-52. Unusually shot in black and white while the rest of Hollywood was going psychedelic in 1971, it's an interesting contrast with the rock 'n' roll nostalgia of American Graffiti (the films share a key moment in which the boy who is leaving town gives a precious car to his stay-at-home friend and both make oblique references to Vietnam). It visits a recent past already nostalgic for a heroic Western era and discovers that whatever was wonderful has already gone by the time of these teenagers. Introspective Timothy Bottoms and outgoing Jeff Bridges are best friends and stalwarts of the school's losing football team. Cybill Shepherd is the blonde teen queen who innocently spreads chaos, ditching long-time boyfriend Bridges to run with a richer, faster set. She steals Bottoms away from an older married woman (Cloris Leachman) which prompts a vicious falling-out between Bottoms and Bridges. As the kids run around heedless, the town's older generation remember their own wilder days and wonder how they came to be so unhappy. Ben Johnson, in Academy Award-winning form, is "Sam the Lion", the wise old cowboy who runs the movie house and pool hall. He muses about his long-ago affair with Shepherd's feisty mother (Ellen Burstyn), who is currently throwing herself at a callous oilman stud (Clu Gulager). A soap in essence but director Peter Bogdanovich plays it as a John Ford-style "closing of the frontier" Western, with ugly-beautiful images of a West that has swapped cattle for oil but failed to strike it rich. He layers in evocative snatches of Hank Williams among the whistling winds and the whining locals. It perhaps has a tragedy too many in its last act and can't quite work up the tears with an actual martyrdom, but it does deliver a signature line of wistful regret, "nothing's been right since Sam the Lion died".On the DVD: this is an anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1 version of the 121-minute 1974 re-release, with one additional scene for Eileen Brennan's waitress, now labelled "the director's cut". It boasts a great sounding mono track, with alternate soundtracks and subtitles in a bunch of languages; a tiny promo piece from 1974 with a Bogdanovich interview; a solid hour-long retrospective documentary with interviews from a lot of the cast and crew (including future director Frank Marshall, an assistant and bit-player) and some trailers. Oddly, Bogdanovich has done a full-length commentary for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane but not for his own best film. --Kim Newman

• Brooklyn | Blu Ray | (29/02/2016) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BROOKLYN is the story of a young woman, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan; Atonement) who moves from a small town in Ireland to Brooklyn, where, unlike home, she has the opportunity for work, a future - and love, in the form of Italian-American Tony (Emory Cohen; The Place Beyond The Pines). However, when Eilis returns temporarily to Ireland she finds herself absorbed into her old community, but now with eligible Jim (Domhnall Gleeson; About Time) courting her. As she repeatedly postpones her departure back to America, Eilis finds herself confronting a terrible dilemma - a heart-breaking choice between two countries and two futures. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Interviews Featurette

• Felicia's Journey | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £6.61   |  Saving you £-0.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A lonely middle-aged catering manager (Bob Hoskins) spends all of his time studying tapes of an eccentric TV chef (Arsine Khanjian).

• Hustle | Blu Ray | (16/05/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rupert - Three Episodes | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £14.78   |  Saving you £-8.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Instantly recognisable in his red sweater and yellow check trousers and scarf the ever lovable Ruprt Bear joins his friends; Bill Badger Algy Pug Podgy Pig Edward Trunk Pong Ping and Tigerlily for more extraordinary adventures in Nut Wood. Rupert And Ginger: Rupert's encounter with a friendly Stegosaurus in Nut Wood Forest leads him on an adventure to the Jurassic era. Once there he helps his friend The Wise Old Goat repair his malfunctioning time machne and avoid becoming Tyrannosaurus' next meal. Rupert And Pong Ping: When Rupert and Pong Ping journey to China the Emperor's pet dragon becomes jealous of Pong Ping and has him kidnapped by a ferocious fire breathing relative. Rupert embarks on a daring adventure to rescue his friend and in doing so seals the friendship between the emperor and his pet dargon. Rupert And Little Yum: Rupert chooses to disobey his friend Officer Growler and the laws he represents in order to free a rare baby aboninable snowman from the influencial Sir Jasper. However it's only when he plays by Growler's rules that Rupert is able to help his new friend understand that although it may seem slow the law is fair and does punish the wrongdoers.

• Storybook Classics - Peter Pan | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.39   |  Saving you £-1.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Just think happy thoughts sprinkle a little fairy dust... and you're off to Neverland on a thrilling daring adventure with the fearless Peter Pan! When Peter visits Wendy and her brothers in their nursery in London he convinces them all to fly back to Neverland with him. There they will battle the villainous Captain Hook encounter indians and crocodiles and ultimately have the adventure of their lives! Join Peter Pan Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys as they take off for an enchanted world of magic in this adaptation of J. M. Barrie's immortal tale of fairies pirates and the loveable little boy who won't grow up.

• Hustle | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jaded cynical edgy. Burt Reynolds is Lt. Phil Gaines a case-hardened Los Angeles detective who finds himself drawn into a dark complex puzzle that involves the death of a teenage girl. Complicating his investigation is his sizzling relationship with an icy hooker (Catherine Deneuve) who has a dangerous connection to the case - one of her high-powered clients (Eddie Albert) is a main suspect. Moreover the victim's unstable father (Ben Johnson) blurs the focus of Gaines' investigat

• The Last Picture Show | Blu Ray | (18/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1971 to critical acclaim and public controversy, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW garnered eight Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and was hailed as the most important work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.A surprisingly frank, bittersweet drama of social and sexual mores in small-town Texas, the film features a talent-laden cast led by Jeff Bridges (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Cybill Shepherd (Taxi Driver) and Timothy Bottoms (The Man in the Iron Mask). Cloris Leachman (TVs The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Ben Johnson (Rio Grande) each won Oscars for their work in supporting roles.

• Humphrey Bogart Classics - Vol. 2 - The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre /To Have And Have Not /They Drive By Night | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Treasure Of The Sierra Madre: Greed and the lure of gold affects the lives of three men prospecting in the dangerous Sierra Madre mountains... To Have And Have Not: A jaded American charter boat captain risks his life to help a group of French freedom fighters and an attractive young woman with whom he falls in love. They Drive By Night: Two brothers struggle as truck drivers when one comes to harm the other is accused of his friend's murder...

• The Texans | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Randolph Scott plays Kirk Jordan a cattle herd driver who is instrumental in carving out the Chisholm Trail a commercial route from Texas to Kansas. Indians are only part of the problem as Kirk must also contend with the Ku Klux Klan and crooked carpetbaggers to fulfill his duties.

• Lucid surf DVD | DVD | (10/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A