"Actor: Cusack"

• The Shakespeare Collection | DVD | (23/11/2020) from £81.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ALL 37 PRODUCTIONS FROM THE BBC TELEVISION SHAKESPEARE SERIES William Shakespeare's repute spans the world the beauty of his language, his profound insight into human nature and the complexity and integrity of his characters, confirming him as the greatest ever playwright. These BBC adaptations, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilise the best theatrical and television talent to bring the full glory of his plays to the small screen. In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The series beginning with Romeo and Juliet and concluding, nearly seven years later, with Titus Andronicus featured adaptations of all 36 First Folio plays, plus Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Ranging from traditional interpretations to adventurous, stylised approaches and featuring such great actors as John Gielgud, Jane Lapotaire, Claire Bloom, Derek Jacobi, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren and John Cleese the resulting productions form a magnificent and unique collection of the Shakespeare canon. THE SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION Titles arranged in alphabetical order ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA AS YOU LIKE IT THE COMEDY OF ERRORS CORIOLANUS CYMBELINE HAMLET HENRY IV PART I HENRY IV PART II HENRY V HENRY VI PART I HENRY VI PART II HENRY VI PART III HENRY VIII JULIUS CAESAR KING LEAR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST MACBETH MEASURE FOR MEASURE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING OTHELLO PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE RICHARD II RICHARD III ROMEO AND JULIET THE TAMING OF THE SHREW THE TEMPEST TIMON OF ATHENS TITUS ANDRONICUS TROILUS AND CRESSIDA TWELFTH NIGHT THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA THE WINTER'S TALE

• Heartbeat - The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (90.52%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield and initially starring former EastEnder Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines with a host of colourful characters that viewers took to their hearts and a wonderfully nostalgic soundtrack. Running for two successful decades and becoming staple Sunday-night viewing Heartbeat won several prestigious TV awards including Best Performing Peak-Time Drama in 1999 (beating Coronation Street) and a number of ITV Programme of the Year awards. The series attracted a peak audience of 14 million spawned a highly successful spin-off The Royal and a Top Ten hit single and has garnered a devoted following remaining prime-time viewing world-wide. In this complete fifth series the love story between Nick and Kate ends in tragedy and a dark cloud of shock and grief gathers over Nick as he is forced to move into a new and traumatising chapter in his life.

• 2012 | Blu Ray | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

• Grosse Pointe Blank | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £9.17   |  Saving you £8.08 (102.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hit man Martin Q Blank (John Cusack) is in an awkward situation. Several of them, actually. He's attending his high school reunion on an assignment; he's got a rival hit man (Dan Aykroyd) on his tail; and he's going to have to explain to his old girlfriend (Minnie Driver) why he stood her up on prom night. Grosse Pointe Blank is an amiable black comedy, cowritten by Cusack and directed by Jonathan Demme protégé George Armitage (Miami Blues), has the feel of Demme's Something Wild and Married to the Mob--which is to say its humour is dark and brightly coloured at the same time. Cusack and Driver are utterly charming--as is the leading man's sister, Joan, who plays his secretary. (Cusack received an Oscar nomination for her next role, in In & Out.) Alan Arkin is also very funny as Martin's psychiatrist. --Jim Emerson

• Toy Story of Terror | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £4.67   |  Saving you £5.08 (174.57%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The toys go on a road trip, when an unexpected event leads them to a roadside motel, after one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious, monstrous, and terrifying sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate.

• America's Sweethearts | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £4.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (103.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Julia Roberts heads the cast of this comedy about a Hollywood A-list couple have trouble promoting their new movie after the director does a runner with the print, and he falls for her personal assistant.

• 1984 | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £8.65   |  Saving you £1.34 (15.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a holocaustic future world, perpetually at war, where failure to conform is the ultimate crime, Winston Smith (John Hurt) rewrites history books and finds himself dreaming of escape from the all-seeing eyes of the Authorities. He embarks on a passionate (and illegal) affair with a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) but they are soon caught and Smith undergoes a nightmarish brainwashing at the hands of the chief inquisitor O'Brien (Richard Burton).

• Harold & Maude | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £12.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (8.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Black comedies don't come much blacker than cult favourite, Harold and Maude (1972), and they don't come much funnier either. It seems that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a load of eccentricity from the original Colin Higgins script, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to "reach out" and grab life by the lapels as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality. Harold grows fond of the old gal--she's a lot more fun than the girls his mother desperately tries to match him up with- -and together they make Harold and Maude one of the sweetest and most unconventional love stories ever made. Much of the early humour arises from Harold' s outrageous suicide fantasies, played out as a kind of twisted parlour game to mortify his mother, who has grown immune to her strange son's antics. Gradually, however, the film's clever humour shifts to a brighter outlook and finally arrives at a point where Harold is truly happy to be alive. Featuring soundtrack songs by Cat Stevens, this comedy certainly won't appeal to all tastes (it was a box-office flop when first released), but if you're on its quirky wavelength, it might just strike you as one of the funniest films you've ever seen. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Toys | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £13.30   |  Saving you £-0.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Enter a spectacular world of whimsy fun and fantasy in this acclaimed visual extravaganza. Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving adult who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle a war-loving general who builds weapons disguised as toys. Aided by his sister and girlfriend Leslie sets out to thwart his uncle and restore joy and innocence to their special world.

• Better off Dead 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (04/08/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrating 40 years, the quirky coming-of-age comedy BETTER OFF DEAD comes to 4K ULTRA HD for the first time ever! Lane Meyer (John Cusack, THE GRIFTERS) thought he found the perfect girlfriend in Beth (Amanda Wyss, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ), but when she dumps him for the school's arrogant ski team captain, Lane's dark imagination runs overtime. In addition, he's dealing with his quirky family, dodging a paperboy hell-bent on a two dollar payment, and training for a downhill ski competition. But when he meets a charming French exchange student, she may be the unexpected key to his happiness...and his heart.

• Fahrenheit 451 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with petrol and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct towards reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• High Fidelity | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £8.26   |  Saving you £9.73 (117.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In a biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl.

• Father Brown Series 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 | Blu Ray | (02/10/2023) from £127.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Odd Man Out | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James Mason is Johnny McQueen, the idealistic leader of an illegal organisation in Northern Ireland. Shot during an armed raid he is badly wounded. Stumbling through the back streets of Belfast his friends, enemies and the police begin to close in as he tries to find a place to hide...Outstandingly directed by the Oscar-winning Carol Reed, Odd Man Out stars James Mason as a terrorist on the run in post-war Belfast. Giving what is undeniably his finest performance, Mason gets exemplary support from both Robert Newton, a crazed artist who desires to paint the death in McQueen's eyes, and Kathleen Ryan as the woman who loves him more than life itself. This High Definition digital restoration showcases the film's stark and beautiful imagery, ably complemented by the its exceptional score, which continually drives the story forward to its shocking conclusion.

• Cell | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King s bestselling apocalyptic thriller, John Cusack (Love and Mercy), Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) star as three survivors fleeing Boston after a mysterious pulse turns cell phone users into vicious predators. 'Powerhouse performances from Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack' Bloodguts Horror 4 STARS 'Stephen King resurrects the zombie genre' Love Horror 4 STARS 'brain-bending' Sight and Sound 'smart, persuasive, intriguing... a refreshing throwback.' Kim Newman.

• 1408 | DVD | (26/12/2007) from £5.93   |  Saving you £14.06 (237.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on a short story by Stephen King, "1408" really does have horror inscribed in its soul.

• Ill Met By Moonlight | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In Nazi-occupied Crete British officers Fermor (Bogarde) and Moss (Oxley) aided by local patriots are assigned the job of kidnapping German commander-in-chief Kreipe (Goring). The operation if successful will be an incredible propaganda coup for the Allies; while the abduction goes smoothly the resultant chase across the rocky Cretan landscape proves anything but...

• Cracks | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dazzling debut from Jordan Scott (daughter of legendary director Ridley Scott), stars Eva Green ("The Golden Compass", "Casino Royale") as the mesmerizing Miss G, a liberating force in a staid but idyllic British boarding school.

• Father Brown: Series 6 | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £6.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes from the sixth series of the hit BBC drama starring Mark Williams as the eponymous character created by English writer G.K. Chesterton. Set in the 1950s in the fictional village of Kembleford, the series follows Roman Catholic priest Father Brown who has a knack for solving crimes. He is assisted by parish secretary Bridgette McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack) and is often a source of frustration for the local police. Includes subtitles for the Hard of Hearing.

• Spy Who Came In From The Cold | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £12.44   |  Saving you £-2.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Oscar nominee Richard Burton is a burnt-out British agent who refuses to ""come in from the cold"" to take a desk job-but instead launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career stalking East German agent Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides the basis for this breathtaking thriller of espionage intrigue crosses and double crosses. First-rate performances from the entire cast are matched by a tension-packed and brilliantly plotted screenplay with masterful direction from Martin Ritt.