"Actor: Diana"

• Reform School Girl | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gloria Castillo stars as mixed up teenager Donna Price. When she witnesses her boyfriend steal a car and get involved in a fatal hit and run accident he frames her for the accident to save himself and she is sent to reform school on car theft charges. Despite her innocence Donna refuses to reveal who was really driving the stolen vehicle it is only once the culprit reveals himself to be throughly nasty that Donna is able to extricate herself from her spiralling dilemma.

• Double Platinum | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A soapy backstage melodrama originally produced for network broadcast, Double Platinum downplays showbiz verisimilitude to turn on the tears. With 60s soul queen Diana Ross and 90s pop princess Brandy sharing production credit as well as billing, this formulaic tearjerker focuses on its stars' dramatic chops more than their musical prowess, a choice that won't deter their respective audiences, even as it disappoints less partisan music fans who might have hoped for a stronger musical component.Olivia King (Ross) is the former St. Louis housewife who abandoned her family for pop stardom, only to return 18 years later determined to meet, and reconcile with, her daughter, Kayla (Brandy), now nurturing her own footlight fantasies. But when the prodigal mom finally does reveal herself to the bright, feisty teen, Kayla is outraged and then hard-boiled. Olivia's offer to help the undeniably talented girl make industry contacts is accepted, with the bitter caveat that the superstar should abandon any hopes of a true maternal bond with her embittered daughter. The usually imperious Olivia meekly accepts those terms, while the secretly yearning Kayla keeps up her tough-cookie cover, but the plot telegraphs its ultimate destination, even as the tears flow.Both stars acquit themselves well in the story's stormier clashes, and the emotional tug of the story is well engineered to soak hankies. Less credulous viewers will be hampered by the original songs--when Ross steps on-stage, her regal demeanour and flashy (if occasionally silly) gowns support her supposed status as a legend, but the utterly forgettable, generic songs she mouths deflate that image. That said, viewers less interested in the actual music than the glitzy idea of the two characters may well be content to wallow in the waterworks of a story that could as easily have been titled Divas: The Next Generation. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Sexual Malice | DVD | (19/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sex so hot, it's deadly", announces the tagline for Sexual Malice. Originally screened in 1994, this is a quintessential late-night TV movie. The well-worn plot concerns relationships inside and outside of marriage, with a twist obvious enough for the non-rocket scientists among us to have twigged well before the denouement. As for the sex scenes--there's little here that errs on the outré side of Dirty Dancing (interestingly enough, there's a secondary role for one Don Swayze), and the visuals are stylishly, almost tastefully done--Ashley Irwin's coffee-table funk adding the right musical enhancement. As the upwardly mobile accountant Christine Chandler, Diane Barton gives a creditable portrayal of a woman caught between the routine of marriage to the predictable Richard (stolidly dependable Edward Albert) and the excitement of an illicit affair with the passably seductive Quinn, played with a certain edge by Doug Jeffrey. The two subplots are wafer thin in narrative terms, but those who enjoy bump-and-grind under piers and in changing rooms will certainly stay the course. On the DVD: Sexual Malice comes to DVD in a 4:3 full frame print that's nonetheless a classy looking effort, and the stereo soundtrack is similarly pristine. There are detailed filmographies, a well-reproduced but oddly random photo gallery, and a trailer that manages to summarise a completely different scenario. As its closing voice-over proclaims, "Caught between a boring husband and a dangerous lover, a passionate woman can commit just about anything". Now you know.--Richard Whitehouse

• Le Comte Ory - Glyndebourne Festival Opera | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in rural France at the time of the crusades Rossini's last comic opera is the saucy tale of Le Comte Ory and his pursuit of the crusaders' wives who chastely await the return of their menfolk. This acclaimed production was recorded at Glyndebourne during the 1997 season with the delectable French soprano Annick Masis as Adele the Belgian tenor Marc Laho as the lecherous Comte Ory and Diana Montague as the amorous page Isolier. Jerome Savary's sparkling production includes a sensuous bathing scene and a riotous banquet with the male singer disguised as nuns. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic.

• Madonna: Innocence Lost | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £11.30   |  Saving you £-1.31 (-13.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Madonna: Innocence Lost

• A Family At War - Series 3 - Part 3 | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £8.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (124.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shiela Ashton still wants to divorce David and goes to see Peggy the girl who had David's baby. David has his last bomber raid and then crashes his motorbike ending up in hospital. Victory seems to be getting closer and Liverpool prepares for VE day. The Ashtons gather for the meeting of the board that will decide the future of Briggs and son - and Edwin Ashton. Featuring episodes 11 to 15 of series three: Thicker Than Water Breaking Point The Lost Ones The Sensible Thing Under

• Skeletons In The Closet | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Seth (Jonathan Jackson) cannot erase the childhood memory of a fire that took the life of his mother and left him psychologically scarred Seth now seventeen has been under various shrinks and has always blamed his father Will (Treat Williams Mulholland Falls) for the death of his mother. The night of Seth's graduation ball a fellow student is found brutally murdered by a river. Because of Seth's psychotic behaviour his father suspects he has something to do with the murder. Seth is questioned by the police but released when another student confesses to the murder. Tina (Linda Hamilton Dante's Peak The Terminator) is a close friend of Seth's father and does not believe Seth is capable of any wrong. More people go missing but there is no trace of their bodies. Are these people a figment of imagination or are there skeletons in the closet?

• George Balanchine - New York City Ballet in Montreal Vol. 2 | DVD | (06/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fair Isle and the Highlands | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £10.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Held in trust' by the National Trust for Scotland are mountains and islands gardens gorges and waterfalls castles stately homes follies and folk museums. Diana Rigg introduces the work of the Trust and is our guide on a spectacular journey from the remote islands of Fair Isle and St. Kilda through the highlands to the legendary battlefields of Bonnie Prince Charlie's doomed rebellion.

• Babes 'N' Bullets | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Evil Instinct: Steamy sex thriller 'Evil Instinct' is one of Hong Kong's most successful Category III movies ever. The most watched hotel pay-per-view film in Asia as well as a substantial box office smash it combines beautiful women and hot action with a powerful and intriguing story. Cop Sam Hui gets picked up by two gorgeous women in a bar and ends up having an intense sexual encounter with one. They are interrupted by a phone call from the scene of a grisly murder. The crime is just one of a series and the investigation leads Sam to an Insurance Company where the two girls work. Penny (Carrie Ng) fascinates him even when he discovers that the girls are selling sex in return for favours. Meanwhile Wendy (Pang Dan one of Cat III's hottest new stars) has set out to steal Penny's clients by offering them kinky sex. Penny starts to go off the rails as her clients defect to Wendy and Sam finds out she is addicted to a weird snake serum drug. When he discovers that all the murder victims have a snake DNA in their blood his suspicions turn to the object of his sexual obsession - but it seems she has the perfect alibi... Both stunning girls wear a succession of skin tight S/M outfits as they turn up the heat in this scorching thriller which pays homage to Basic Instinct - but with hotter women and far more style. Naked Killer 2: A suave and seductive serial rapist (Mark Cheng) is on the prowl terrorising an apartment block. Fearing her life to be in danger Chu (Jacqueline Ng) enlists the help of her old friend Yau (Chingamy Yau) as an avenging angel who will seduce the rapist and wreak revenge on behalf of the victims of his terrible crimes. Soon the two are embroiled in an erotic and deadly game of cat and mouse... Her Name Is Cat: It's been a while since 'Category III' movies (Hong Kong's own classification for films which mix sex and violence) have been in the news here but following Hong Kong Legends' release of the originial Cat III mega-hit 'Naked Killer' comes another all-action femme fatale thriller from Hong Kong Classics. 'The Huntress - Her Name Is Cat' is from 'Naked Killer' director Clarence Ford produced by the legendary Wong Jing ('Sex & Zen' and many more) and stars statuesque Chinese beauty Almen Wong - who stands out from any crowd of her countrymen by virtue of being almost six feet tall in her boots or stilletos! Clarence Ford expertly recaptures the thrills and atmosphere of the 'babes 'n' bullets' genre in this stylish action movie which features former Elle model Almen Wong as Cat - a highly trained assassin from mainland China forging a new career as a paid killer on the edge of the Hong Kong underworld. When her path crosses that of tough cop Michael Wong and another female assassin is sent kill her Cat turns huntress to survive.....

• The Golden Age Of Comedy | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This DVD collection brings together a wealth of comedy and variety shows that dominated US TV schedules in the 1950s. These provided a showcase for the established stars of the day and a launch platform for a whole new generation of comedians including: Bob Hope Jack Benny Burns & Allen Martin & Lewis Abbott & Costello The Three Stooges Lucille Ball Phil Silvers Groucho Marx and many more. With over 8 hours of highlights from 13 different shows The Golden Age Of Comed

• Seance On A Wet Afternoon | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An intensely claustrophobic nail-biter to rival prime Hitchcock, 1964's Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a classic British thriller written and directed by Bryan Forbes. Set largely in an imposing Gothic house in north London, the film stars Richard Attenborough as Bill Savage, a man struggling to maintain his marriage to his increasingly unbalanced wife, Myra, played in an Oscar-nominated performance by the little-known but brilliant Broadway actress Kim Stanley. Myra, who believes she is a medium, plans a scheme that will make her famous, involving kidnapping then "psychically" locating a little girl. Attenborough (who won a BAFTA) and Stanley are both superb in what is part riveting battle of wills, part nerve-wracking kidnap thriller with, just possibly, a touch of the supernatural. Gerry Turpin's precise b/w cinematography and John Barry's chilling score add significantly to the atmosphere of dread, and if the plot has one or two gaping holes, Forbes's direction covers them deftly. Forbes explored female delusion again in The Whispers (1967) and The Mad Woman of Chaillot (1969); the film also marked a major entry in his long-term collaboration with John Barry and with his wife, the actress Nanette Newman. Séance clearly had an influence on Attenborough's own directorial contribution to the genre, the highly unsettling Anthony Hopkins vehicle, Magic (1978). On the DVD: Séance on a Wet Afternoon is presented in an excellent 16:9 transfer, anamorphically enhanced for widescreen televisions, that effectively captures the brooding look of Gerry Tupin's BAFTA-nominated cinematography. Unfortunately the print used, though generally very good, does show some damage, including some instances that appear to run through the best part of a reel. Though noticeable and sometimes distracting, they barely mar this gripping film. The mono soundtrack is fine, though there is the very occasional touch of distortion. The disc comes with optional English subtitles, the excellent original trailer and a new and first-rate 33-minute interview with Bryan Forbes in which he engagingly explains every aspect of the making of the film. --Gary S Dalkin

• Northeast Fife and Central Scotland | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £10.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.90%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Diana Rigg guides us on a tour of superb buildings and estates many still inhabited by ancient Scottish families and containing art and treasures collected over centuries from all over the world. We also find ghosts gardens and restored fishing and mining villages.

• Cocktail | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £19.42   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cocktail is the story of a hilarious and dramatic summer in the lives of three people in a foreign land who inadvertently become best friends until love comes to town! When Gautam (Saif Ali Khan), Veronica (Deepika Padukone) and Meera (Diana Penty) start living together in London, they make for an unlikely threesome. Meera and Veronica are best friends. Gautam and Veronica are in a casual relationship. Meera hates Gautam and he loves this. All is well until love happens... with all its compli...

• Hit Glasgow West and South West | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £9.41   |  Saving you £1.58 (14.40%)   |  RRP £10.99

  In the West of Scotland are spectacular sea views unique gardens the incredible Culzean Castle and the mighty city of Glasgow. Diana Rigg takes us from Burn's night at the Bachelors' Club to the unparalleled views from Goatfell in Arran on this guide to Scotland's western riches.

• The Bloody Judge | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring horror icon Christopher Lee 'The Bloody Judge' (Franco's version of the classic 'Witchfinder General') was a much darker look at the infamous witch-hunter Judge George Jeffreys whose real life excesses allowed Franco to portray copious amounts of nudity and sadistic torture. This letterboxed version was passed uncut by the UK state censors the BBFC.

• A Family At War - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £19.03   |  Saving you £0.96 (5.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Family At War is the classic ITV series chronicling the fortunes of the Ashton family living in Liverpool during the Second World War. Written by the highly acclaimed John Finch (Coronation Street).

• Queenie's Castle - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Complete Series Two

• Queenie's Castle - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £27.57   |  Saving you £-11.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Complete Series 1

• Maazel - 1984 / Keenlyside, Lepage (Royal Opera House) | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The debut DVD release of Lorin Maazel's new opera, based on George Orwell's dystopian novel, one of the most famous novels of the 20th century.Premiered at Covent Garden in 2005, where it was conducted by the composer and filmed in High Definition. The producer was Robert Lepage, whose highly-praised, visually-stunning production is gripping and at times terrifying. This release is timed to coincide with the run of the same production at La Scala in May 2008.Stars the acclaimed Simon Keenlyside as Winston Smith, the central character with Nancy Gustafson as Nancy, with whom Winston embarks on the secret affair that will be their undoing.