"Actor: Christopher Rydell"

• On Golden Pond | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (234.11%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Writer Ernest Thompson, who came up with the original stage play of On Golden Pond and adapted it for film, is lucky to have two giants of the screen give dignity and breadth to his sometimes trite dialogue. Henry Fonda, in his last role, plays a prickly English professor at the disagreeable age of 80. Visiting his summer house by a Maine lake with his wife (Katharine Hepburn), the old man forges an unlikely bond with a lonely boy, comes to terms with his daughter (Jane Fonda) and suffers disorienting effects of mild dementia. Even playing a tired old man, Fonda is an absolute lion of a movie star, and Hepburn brings her special spirit to the part of his worried bride. The onscreen relationship between Henry and Jane Fonda naturally makes one think about their much-discussed difficulties off screen, but that's a side benefit in a movie that is really just a celebration of simple human decency. Directed by Mark Rydell (Harry and Walter Go to New York). --Tom Keogh

• For The Boys | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £13.14   |  Saving you £2.84 (27.98%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bette Midler poured her heart and soul into For the Boys, the story of a pair of entertainers who repeatedly took time from their careers to entertain US troops at war, from World War II to Vietnam--and it sank like a stone at the box office. Granted, it's corny and emotionally over the top. It is the tale of an unlikely team of singer and comedian (played by Midler and James Caan), who are brought together for a reunion show in their dotage. As they nervously anticipate seeing each other for the first time in years, they are flooded with memories of their earlier days as a hot show-biz couple whose own troubles always took second place to their patriotic urge to buoy the boys in uniform. Some say this was a veiled film version of the Martha Raye story; Midler gives it her all and Caan isn't bad. But director Mark Rydell lays on the schmaltz so thickly at times that it overpowers the tougher material. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Trauma | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £5.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (21.50%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Written and Directed by Dario Argento and starring his daughter, Asia Argento. This horror thriller tells the story about a young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.

• Stealing Candy | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to have tripple x-rated sex live on the internet. Fans will pay an absolute fortune to see it. But their plan begins to unravel as fear greed lust and power make a deadly combination and a new game arises... who will live and who will die?

• In The Deep Woods | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Joanna mourns for her friend the victim of a serial killer who specialises in preying on successful young women. Shortly after Joanna is addressed by a man who claims he's a private eye but his questions worry her and she begins to suspect all around her...

• Gotcha! | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  His first time may be his last. Jonathan Moore (Edwards) is a shy UCLA veterinary student and the reigning champion at 'Gotcha' a campus-wide paintball game. While on vacation in West Germany he's seduced by an older woman the sexy and mysterious Sasha (Fiorentino) who turns out to be an international spy. When he returns home to LA there's a strange canister of film in his backpack and a team of KGB agents on his back. Suddenly he's in the middle of a real life-or-death game of

• Blood And Sand | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A fiery young heiress begins a passionate and destructive relationship with a promising young bullfighter and sets out to ruin his career.

• Trauma | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £10.37   |  Saving you £5.62 (35.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Aura a suicidal anorexic preparing to jump off a bridge is rescued when David prevents her from plunging into the abyss. When Aura's mother a psychic dies just as she is about to divulge the identity of a vicious psychopath Aura begs David for help. The two try to protect one another while embarking on a dangerous search for a killer who's been decapitating innocent people...

• Trauma | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Trauma was director Dario Argento's big crossover attempt at combining the Italian giallo genre with the American stalk 'n' slash. His fans may debate whether the result was a complete success, but the film certainly put his name in front of a wider international audience. Essentially the story is a psycho-murderer-mystery, with the audience made to piece together clues towards the identity-revealing denouement. The movie comes alive as a result of suitably intense performances, even while the characters die. Piper Laurie and Brad Dourif supply atypically explosive cameos. The leads are contrastingly subdued for the most part, no doubt because of their characters' involvement with drugs. Asia Argento (the director's daughter) is an anorexic who witnesses her parents' decapitations among a series of similar murders by the notorious "Headhunter". Christopher Rydell plays the ex-junkie who takes her in and helps track down the killer. Backing them up are some even greater performances from Tom Savini's eye-boggling special FX. With the aid of a motorised garrotte, the beheadings are gruesomely real, especially the one that leaves a head still able to talk. On the DVD: Trauma comes to disc in full 2.35:1 widescreen, though this isn't the clearest of transfers (plenty of artefacts present). The sound is in an unspecified Dolby mix. An interesting selection of extras almost makes up for the lack of a commentary. There are filmographies of Dario and Asia, a gallery of behind-the-scenes stills, and trailers for the movie Phantom of the Opera and several more in this series of releases. More interesting are the text features: interviews with Asia on her memories of the shoot and with renegade horror director Richard Stanley surreally recalling his long-term fandom of everything Argento. Most fascinating, there's a mini-essay on what was cut and why by the BBFC for the original UK video release. --Paul Tonks

• Dr Rage | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £8.71   |  Saving you £7.28 (45.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a cab driver accidentally injures a homeless man he trades jail time for participation in an experimental anger control program at the Straun foundation. Once there he finds himself at the mercy of the foundation's insane head doctor Timothy Straun -- the infamous ""Dr. Rage"".

• Dr Rage | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  When a cab driver accidentally injures a homeless man he trades jail time for participation in an experimental anger control program at the Straun foundation. Once there he finds himself at the mercy of the foundation's insane head doctor Timothy Straun -- the infamous ""Dr. Rage"".