"Actor: Curtis"

• Slashers | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Japan's number one extreme reality show is having it's first all-American special! Six lucky contestants, chosen from thousands of applicants, will have the chance to win millions of dollars, and all they have to do is stay alive!

• Curtis Mayfield And The Impressions - Movin' On Up 1965 - 1974 | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-6.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This two-hour film tells the incredible story of one of the greatest artists and most important R&B groups of all time. Also included in the documentary are 22 complete vintage television performances from The Impressions and Curtis Mayfield's solo career filmed between 1965 and 1973. In addition to telling the history of Curtis Mayfield as an artist and the Impressions as a group the film explores how The Impressions' music was a virtual soundtrack for the civil rights era in the '60s. In an interview filmed exclusively for the documentary civil rights leader Ambassador Andrew Young (who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) speaks about the effect classic Impressions songs such as People Get Ready Choice of Colours and We're A Winner had on the movement and how often their songs were sung for inspiration in churches and during marches (some led by Dr. King.) The film also shows how Curtis Mayfield's solo work helped define the early '70s. Chuck D leader of the rap group Public Enemy provides context about Curtis's music as a soundtrack to the grim realities of urban life culminating with his 1972 masterpiece Superfly. In addition Carlos Santana speaks about Curtis Mayfield's unique genius as a songwriter artist and teacher and also comments on the spiritual nature of his music. Also featured in the film are Impressions Fred Cash and Sam Gooden who discuss the history of the group beginning with their origins in the late '50s and share incredible stories about many of their classic songs as well as give insight into Curtis as a songwriter. In addition producer/arranger Johnny Pate speaks about the recording process of their classic songs and reminisces about the Impressions in the studio. Altheida Mayfield Curtis's widow provides tender insight into the personal side of Curtis including his inspirations and aspirations as well as stories about Curtis as a husband and family man. Curtis Mayfield himself speaks through several archival interviews filmed throughout his career. Tracklist: It's All Right (1965) Woman's Got Soul (1965) I Need You (1965) People Get Ready (1965) Meeting Over Yonda (1965) We're A Winner/Amen (1968) This Is My County (1970) Choice of Colours (1969) Check Out Your Mind (1970) (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go (1970) Keep On Keeping On (1972) We've Got To Have Peace (1972) We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue/ Give Me Your Love (1972) Superfly (1972) Freddie's Dead (1972) Pusherman (1972) Eddie You Should Know Better (1973) Future Shock (1973) The Makings Of You (1970)

• Nicholas' Gift | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This is the extraordinary true story of a close and loving family on a sightseeing holiday in Italy in September 1994 whose lives were shattered one desolate night with the indiscriminate shooting of their little seven year old son Nicholas. As Nicholas lies dying in hospital his devastated parents take the most painful decision imaginable to donate Nicholas' organs so that other little children may receive the gift of life. What begins as an intensely private and unbelievably courageous act of love and human compassion was soon to send emotional ripples right around the world that would come to be known as the Nicholas Effect.

• The List Of Adrian Messenger | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Classic comedy whodunnit directed by John Huston ('The Maltese Falcon').

• The Dictator's Son | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The son of a dictator travels to the U.S. to attend college.

• The Adventures Of Huck Finn | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Huckleberry Finn's age has been scaled down in this 1993 Disney film in order to accommodate star Elijah Wood's young years at the time. But that is not the only concession Mark Twain's great American novel must make to Disney revisionism. Wood's Huck, as adapted for the screen by writer-director Stephen Sommers, is all rascal and only nominally a philosopher, which takes a lot of the soul out of Twain's extraordinary story about Huck's enlightenment while travelling with the slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) along the Mississippi river. Big chunks of the journey are also minimised in significance, and not just for the sake of storytelling economy. Jason Robards Jr and Robbie Coltrane brighten things up, but overall this is an unnecessarily simplified version of a literary classic. --Tom Keogh

• Christmas With The Kranks | UMD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Slapstick humor gets a full-body workout in Christmas with the Kranks. Critics were unanimous in their derision, and John Grisham must have gnashed his teeth over what studio-boss-turned-director Joe Roth did to his bestselling novel Skipping Christmas, to which this broad-stroked comedy bears little or no resemblance. The title characters are played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who decide to skip Christmas because their daughter's in Peru with the Peace Corps. Thus begins a rabid program of enforced conformity when their neighbors (led by Dan Aykroyd) coerce the Kranks into changing their holiday attitude--a change that comes easily when the daughter announces she'll be home for Christmas after all. Imagine if a suburban lynch mob said "Have a Merry Christmas or we'll kill you," and you'll get some idea of what spending Christmas with the Kranks is really like. And if you laughed at the frozen cat, you're probably on Santa's "naughty" list. --Jeff Shannon

• Halloween | UMD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more instalments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton

• Dirty Pair Flash - Vol. 2 - Episodes 7-11 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With a gang of android hit-women and cross-dressing assassins on their tails the Lovely Angels find that it's a very small world after all when a mysterious killer wants them dead. The ultimate vacation becomes the ultimate nightmare a the deadly chase leads Kei and Yuri through haunted houses five-star restaurants and a painstaking recreation of the most barbaric century of all the 20th! Episodes comprise: Tokyo Holiday Network / Seventeen Mysterious High School / Hot Springs S

• The Persuaders: The Complete Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (01/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 9 disc set featuring the complete collection (all 24 episodes ever produced) of the cult TV series featuring John Barry's classic theme tune! Upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and nouveau riche Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) two wealthy playboys from very different backgrounds are paired up by a stern judge who tasks them with becoming international crimestoppers.... Episodes Comprise: 1. Overture 2. The Gold Napoleon 3. Take Seven 4. Greensleeves 5. Powerswitch 6. The Time and the Place 7. Someone Like Me 8. Anyone Can Play 9. The Old the New and the Deadly 10. Angie Angie 11. Chain of Events 12. That's Me Over There 13. The Long Goodbye 14. The Man in the Middle 15. Element of Risk 16. A Home of One's Own 17. Five Miles to Midnight 18. Nuisance Value 19. The Morning After 20. Read and Destroy 21. A Death in the Family 22. The Ozerov Inheritance 23. To the Death Baby 24. Someone Waiting

• Prime Target | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A renegade cop with an attitude is chosen by the FBI to transport a mob boss across country to testify against the Mafia. To stay alive he must remain one step ahead of the competition.

• New Order - A Collection / New Order Story | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The New Order Story: A collection of 21 clips interspersed with interviews with the band and with many of their celebrity friends including Bono from U2. It takes you through New Order's journey from the early days of Joy Division up to the release of Republic taking in all the stories characters and ideas that have played a part in the making of the band along the way. A Collection: 'A Collection' features all of New Order's groundbreaking videos including 'Bizarre Love Triangle' 'Blue Monday' and 'True Faith' plus alternate versions and brand new videos for 'Temptation' and 'Ceremony' created just for this compilation. It also includes the latest video from their current album - the title track 'Waiting For The Sirens Call'. Tracklist: 1. Ceremony 2. Confusion 3. The Perfect Kiss 4. Shellshock 5. State Of The Nation 6. Temptation 7. Bizarre Love Triangle 8. True Faith 9. Touched By The Hand Of God 10. Blue Monday '88 11. Fine Time 12. Round & Round 13. Run 14. World In Motion 15. Regret 16. Ruined In A Day 17. World 18. Spooky 19. 1963 20. Crystal 21. 60 Miles An Hour 22. Here To Stay 23. Krafty 24. Jetstream 25. Waiting For The Sirens' Call

• Scallywagga - Series 1 | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £4.57   |  Saving you £15.42 (337.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A heady mix of the best fresh and familiar funny voices - straight out of the north - have combined to play Scallywagga's host of wrongheaded new characters.

• Sextette | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington husband number 6. As luck would have it an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and the Russian delegate (one of Marlo's former husbands) is threatening to derail the negotiations unless he can have one more fling with his ex!

• Running Time (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (16/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with Gary Sinise; Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-wideni

• The Magick Lantern Cycle | Blu Ray | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  More than any other filmmaker of his generation Kenneth Anger is recognized by the public as a maker of underground experimental cinema. To main-line film critics he is the first-remembered such filmmaker one who combines cinematic talent and an aura of scandal. This collection of films known as the Magick Lantern Cycle includes: 1. Fireworks (1947) 2. Puce Moment (1949) 3. Rabbit's Moon (1950/1971 the rarely seen 16mins version) 4. Eaux d'Artifice (1953) 5. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) 6. Scorpio Rising (1964) 7. Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) 8. Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) 9. Rabbit's Moon (1979 version) 10. Lucifer Rising (1981) 11. Anger Me (2006) - Elio Gelminis documentary on Kenneth Anger

• Rich And Powerful | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tony Curtis is Stoddard the rich and powerful focal point of Balboa society. Erin blakely (Carol Lynley) is his ex-lover and widow of his partner Sam Cole (Steve Kanaly) is an honest politician determined to expose Ernie's unscrupulous double dealing. Filmed in the exotic sun-drenched waterfront of Newport Beach California 'Rich And Powerful' paints an intimate picture of love lust and intrigue. As Ernie Stoddard knows well; wealth and power bring him either the best of friends or the worst of enemies.

• In A Stranger's Hand | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Wealthy Jack Bauer (Urich) comes to the aid of a mother Laura McKillin whose daughter has been abducted. Together to their horror they discover a dedicated ring of professional child snatchers...

• Slashers - Are You Game ? | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Are you game? Japan's number one extreme reality show is having its first all-American special! Six lucky contestants chosen from thousands of applicants will have the chance to win millions of dollars and all they have to do is stay alive!