"Actor: Carl Anderson"

• The Harder They Come | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £26.38   |  Saving you £-10.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Director-producer Perry Henzel's all-Jamaican 1973 classic The Harder They Come--one of the most beloved of all international cult favourites--fiercely expresses the live-wire Jamaican spirit when an impoverished Africa tuned to American radio. Ivan, a country boy who dreams of fame as a singer, rides into Kingston on a rickety country bus in the opening scenes, only to meet with disaster heaped on disaster at the hands of those masked as friends. In a breathless defining climax, Ivan finally breaks from his passivity and begins to wreak his revenge. Soon Kingston's music Mafia and the equally corrupt authorities are after him, but like the real-life people's hero (a man named Rhygin) on whom this character is partially based, Ivan leads them on a maddening chase eluding capture until the movie's shocking final moments. ,p. The film incorporates an archetypal passion for "outlaw" justice common to American Westerns, which were a staple of the Caribbean theatre circuit at the time. Released just 12 years after Jamaica achieved independence, The Harder They Come also reflects the disenchantment that soon followed a massive post-independence exodus from the island's country hamlets to the tropical ghettos of Kingston, where a more grinding urban poverty awaited. Brilliantly shot, directed, written, and acted; singer Jimmy Cliff excels in the leading role and Carl Bradshaw shines as his arch-enemy, the film tells an anthemic Jamaican story to seductive rhythms of a soundtrack that became a reggae bestseller.--Elena Oumano

• Gregory's Two Girls | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £11.08   |  Saving you £-5.09 (-85.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Gregory's 2 Girls' is part thriller, part romantic comedy and finds Gregory still dreaming his way through life and still looking for romance.

• Perfect Disasters | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creators that brought you ""Walking with Dinosaurs"" and ""Walking with Beasts with high quality production values and top end CGI animations. 6 x 47 individual scenarios each depicting the build up consequences and aftermath of a particular ""Perfect Disaster""; Episodes Comprise: 1. Super Typhoon 2. Fire Storm 3. Solar Storm 4. Super Tornado 5. Mega Flood 6. Ice Storm

• Joe Zawinul And The Zawinul Syndicate - Live At The Munich Philharmonie | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £49.51   |  Saving you £-28.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring the tracklist: 'March Of The Lost Children' 'Solitude' 'Little Rootie Tootie' 'Medicine Man' 'Shadow And Light' 'Carnavalito' 'Black Water' and 'Improvisation'.

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Dancehall Queen is a hugely enjoyable melodrama featuring a resourceful heroine, spectacularly slimy villains and a lot of very loud music. Street vendor Marcia (Audrey Reid) is under pressure from all directions--family friend Larry has made her dependent on his good will before putting sexual pressure on her teenage daughter while street thug Priest has killed a friend for minding her patch and is now trying to push his way into her bed. What is attractive about this film is that Marcia wins by playing to her strengths: she goes back to the wild-child dirty dancing she loved before having her children and becomes Mystery Lady, a contender for cash prizes in competition. Most of the film's occasional touches of wild comedy come from her attempts to keep this from her rather staid daughter and the ease with which, from behind silver foil fringes and jewelled nose-chains, she can take revenge on the men who mess with her quieter persona. This is a surprisingly classy little movie, whose rawness comes across as urgency: e en those of us who miss half the patois dialogue can't help but respond to its fizzy energy. On the DVD The DVD has digitally re-mastered music, the usual chapter index, a Web link and what is called "Hyperactive DVDROM" content which means it is very, very flashy and very, very loud. --Roz Kaveney

• Carleen Anderson - Grace and Favours Live | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Chapter List:01. Introduction02. True Spirit03. Feet Wet Up04. Mama Said05. Family History06. Fortunes Drive07. Famous Patience08. Early Career09. Move On10. Dance In The Rain11. Gospel Music12. When The Light Shines13. Woman In Me14. Home Life15. Stories16. Nervous Breakdown17. Next Album18. Don't Look Back In Anger19. Apparently Nothing20. Credits.

• The Ten Commandments | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £18.14   |  Saving you £-2.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner is a vintage product of the old Hollywood studio system complete with sweeping scenery and breathtaking effects including the crossing of the Red Sea by thousands of Hebrew slaves. With a dramatic and gripping plot superbly acted by Heston as the Hebrew saviour Moses The Ten Commandments has lost none of the impact and power it held over audiences on its initial release back in 1956.