"Actor: Erickson"

• Roustabout | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Elvis formula was well in place by the time of 1964's Roustabout, a concoction of undistinguished songs (anyone remember "Poison Ivy League"?), pretty girls, tight pants, a colourful setting and a little bit of karate to prove that Elvis really had been studying his martial arts. With that understood, Roustabout is a better-than-average work-out for the King--not as peppy as Viva Las Vegas, but a good deal livelier than the sleepwalking It Happened at the World's Fair. Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck. ("This is not a circus, it's a carnival. There's a big difference.") The cast goes from high to low: both giant-sized future James Bond villain Richard Kiel and tiny Billy Barty are carny regulars, and Raquel Welch has a small role in the opening scene. Teri Garr is one of the carnival dancers behind Elvis. The legendary costume designer Edith Head puts Elvis in a series of snappy windbreakers, but thank goodness he's also in black leather a lot. As if that weren't enough to recommend it, the movie has a sequence involving Elvis riding a cycle inside the "Wall of Death", a huge wooden cylinder with high walls. This bit actually inspired an entire Irish film in 1986, Eat the Peach, in which friends build a similar contraption after they watch Roustabout on tape. --Robert Horton

• The Snake Pit | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of Virginia Cunningham who finds herself in an insane asylum and has no idea how she got there. Her husband Robert attempts to explain their relationship both before and after marriage and how her symptoms developed. Doctor Mark Kick struggles to get to the root of her problems but a relapse puts her back into 'The Snake Pit'... A touching central performance from Olivia de Havilland in this riveting exploration of mental illness.

• The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Blu-Ray Imprint Limited Edition #39 | Blu Ray | (07/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tornado | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £11.35   |  Saving you £-8.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Samantha Callen is assigned to pull the plug on Dr. Branson's tornado project an untested machine to track and predict dangerous twisters. In the few days she gives him to finish his research she meets and falls for Jake Thorne a tornado chasing cowboy who along with his friend Tex shows her the devastating effects a twister can have on an entire community. Sam then begins to understand the importance of the doctors work and realizes she wants to help them. It's then that Jake receives word of a real monster tornado heading their way- a deadly gale force maelstrom- an opportunity to test Dr. Branson's machine but at great risk as Sam and Jake enter the vortex and face imminent death.

• Brotherhood Season 2 | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £3.89   |  Saving you £21.10 (542.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second season of the critically-adored and Peabody Award-winning series Brotherhood returns to DVD. This 3-disc set includes all 10 dramatic season two episodes where we reunite with the Caffee family for more explosive blue-collar drama violence and politics. In the tradition of Showtimes brilliant original programming this series continues to compellingly examine the perhaps not-so-different moral worlds of politicians and mobsters as shown through the dynamic Caffee brothers. Episodes Comprise: One Too Many Mornings 3:4-8 Down in the Flood 3:5-6 The Lonesome Death of... 4:7:8 Dear Landlord 1:3-4 True Love Tends to Forget 1:1-4 Only a Pawn... 1:7-8 Not Dark Yet 3:5-6 Shelter From the Storm 1:1-2 Call Letter Blues 1:2-6 Things Have Changed 1:7-8

• Wagner: Gotterdammerung -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £12.24   |  Saving you £11.01 (100.27%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Under the baton of James Levine, Gotterdammerung ("The Twilight of the Gods") has a narrative drive that reminds us that, of all the individual operas in Wagner's Ring cycle, this is the one most about human emotions and the one in which its heroes are pulled into a world where they are most vulnerable to them. Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried and Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde never, in a sense, stand a chance: they are innocents who allow themselves to be manipulated not merely by the villainous Hagen, but by the ordinary venality of Gunther and his sister Gutrune, who goes along with a dirty little scheme to get what she wants, and is destroyed by it. As the tempter figure Hagen, Matti Salminen dominates the stage whenever he is on it; he is one of those basses whose voice and scowl seem to come from somewhere deeper than his large boots: rarely have the summoning of the vassals, or the oath of vengeance he, Gunther and Brunnhilde swear against Siegfried seemed so utterly his triumph. Jerusalem is almost perfect as Siegfried in spite of the gravelly quality of his heroic tenor: he has a glorious innocence even when the character is tricked into desecrating his true love; Hildegard Behrens is magnificent as Brunnhilde, both in her anger at Siegfried's apparent betrayal of her and in her redemptive understanding of how she has to atone for his death. Other Gotterdammerungs may be more monumental, but few make you care so passionately. On the DVD: Gotterdammerung comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format, not PAL, and with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• Brotherhood Season 1 | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £4.49   |  Saving you £20.50 (456.57%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This riveting series puts a familial spin on Angels with Dirty Faces, the 1938 James Cagney-Pat O'Brien classic in which two childhood friends take divergent paths--one becomes a priest, and the other a hoodlum. In Brotherhood, Michael Caffee (Jason Clarke) is an idealistic and respectable Rhode Island state representative dedicated to the preservation of his close-knit lower-middle-class Irish neighbourhood, the Hill. His older brother, Michael (Jason Isaacs), is a gangster who returns home after a seven-year absence (one step ahead of a hit, two steps ahead of the Feds) to pick up where he left off. The stage is set for backroom skullduggery and mean streets thuggery, as both men pursue their visions of the American dream on opposite sides of the law. At the heart of this series is the conflict between the estranged brothers. With the exception of clueless matriarch MaryRose (Fionnula Flanagan), Michael is not exactly received with open arms. "You're a tornado," Tommy tells him early on. "You suck everything in and spit it out broken." Indeed, the man is a psychopath. When a henchman of neighbourhood mob boss Freddie Cork (Kevin Chapman) threatens a woman, Michael not only repeatedly bashes his head against a car, but for the coup de grace, cuts off his ear. In one gut-wrenching scene, he compels a woman to sell him her store by inducing her mentally challenged brother to play Russian Roulette. No wonder Tommy insists, "We're not the same in any way." But don't be too sure. Michael is a good man and devoted father and husband, but he isn't above (or beneath) using Michael's inside information to blackmail a stubborn colleague who won't vote his way on a freeway project that could destroy the Hill. As the season unfolds, he will be forced to make more ethically challenged deals with the powers behind the scenes, one of whom has a mysterious connection with his mother. Brotherhood mines the clash between personal and professional lives to flesh out its characters. "The people's business" doesn't pay well, and Tommy is forced to moonlight as a real estate developer, and perform all home repairs. Eileen (Annabeth Gish), his picture-perfect politician's wife, smokes pot and is having an affair with a man she knew in high school. Declan Gigg (Ethan Embry) is a conflicted policeman who grew up with the Caffees. Comparisons with The Sopranos are inevitable, but Brotherhood quickly establishes its own unique voice, if not accent. --Donald Liebenson

• Sailor Beware | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin's formidable comedy double-act get up to all kinds of hilarious hi-jinks in the Navy.

• Kiss Them For Me | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this light-hearted wartime comedy three WWII Navy men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperate to keep the men on the straight and narrow Lieutenant (Werner Klemperer) commits the trio to becoming spokesmen at a shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long the rowdy Cre

• Tanks! - Sturmartillerie | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The fast moving Panzer Grenadier formations of the Blitzkrieg needed a mobile well armoured artillery presence to support their lightning thrusts into Poland France and Russia. They found it in the form of the Sturmartillerie. This is the story of the developments which led to the Wespe Hummel and the super heavy mortars of the Karl series.

• The Invisible Man, Series 1 (Box Set 2) | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Invisible Man continued its first year in increasingly tense and cryptic fashion. Anti-hero Darien has to keep up his spying gig in order to be fed an antidote to the side effects of the invisibility gland. Unfortunately it isn't working. The clock is ticking all the way to a tense finale, where the Quicksilver insanity threatens to consume him whole. There's lots of fun with the format on the way, of course. Darien encounters a ghost, a sperm thief and a hitman who likes to blind his witnesses. Some grander political backdrop comes to the fore as well, with the Chinese government seeking surreptitiously to obtain the gland. All the while there's a growing sense that the Agency has troubles of its own. In an unprecedented bit of audience participation, viewers were allowed to vote for the resolution of a story entitled "Money for Nothing". Fans went for the more interesting option, thankfully, and so an invisible bank raid pays off nicely for everyone. Creating constant conflict throughout the year is the lurking presence of arch-enemy Arnaud. The immediate resolution of that conflict is one of several surprise twists that singled out the show as more than standard TV SF fare. Not even a so-so cameo from Star Trek's Wil Wheaton could spoil the fun. On the DVD: The Invisible Man's second box set features even more extras than the first DVD set. Two cast commentaries are frequently comic, though with a constant sense of disappointment the show didn't go further than two series. There are lengthy interviews with the cast, too. But of real interest to fans will be alternate footage previously unseen in the UK. Some FX shots and script pages round out the package. --Paul Tonks

• The Seven Little Foys | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eddie Foy a vaudeville entertainer marries Madeleine a ballerina and soon their family grows... Eddie realises that his children could help him out of a tight spot....

• The Adventures of Bailey - The Christmas Hero | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's Christmas time at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the Handsome Fellow who just might be able to make his Christmas wishes come true! With thoughts of tennis balls, stuffed animals and more dog bones then he can count, he sets out to find this legend, bringing his brother Duke along for the ride. But when Bailey's blunders cause harm to Duke and even threaten their family's Christmas plans, he must not only find a way to save his brother, but he is also forced to make a big decision - one that just might enable him to finally understand the true meaning of Christmas.

• Kiss Them for Me | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  n this light-hearted wartime comedy, three WWII Nave men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore, they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperat to keep the men on the straight and narrow, Lieutenant Walter Wallace (Werner Klemperer) commits the shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long, the rowdy Crewson is courting the shipmaker's voluptous daughter (Jayne Mansfield) with hilarious results.

• Tanks! - Blitzkrieg | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £5.07   |  Saving you £4.92 (49.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is the powerful story of the creation and deployment of the Panzer Divisions the chief cog in Hitler's war machine. Featuring rare archivefilm stunning new 3D graphics new footage of the surviving machines and unique insights from Dr Niall Barr of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and Professor John Ericksom from the University of Edinburgh leading authorities on armoured warfare.

• Flesh And Bone | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family he runs into Kay who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Taking to the road the couple slowly discover feelings for each other until a figure from the past awakens a dark memory...

• Fort Algiers | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• The Russian Front 1941-1945 - Stalingrad To Kursk | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the largest tank battle ever witnessed in warfare the Soviet Red Army striking out after the siege of Stalingrad successfully resisted the German Panzer offensive in the Kursk salient on the Eastern Front. In the resulting counter-offensive so began an inexorable advance that would finally end in Berlin.

• The Russian Front 1941-1945 - Barbarossa - Hitler Turns East | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Professor John Erickson the award-winning author of 'Road to Stalingrad' and 'Road to Berlin' reassesses the titanic struggle between Hitler and Stalin on the Eastern Front. This volume covers the opening phase of the war as the forces of Germany focused their eyes on the prize of Moscow and the destruction of Russia. This DVD features rare archive footage from both Russian and German sources informative graphics and maps and incisive commentary and analysis by Professor John Er

• The Russian Front 1941-1945 - The Road To Stalingrad | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Professor John Erickson the award-winning author of 'Road to Stalingrad' and 'Road to Berlin' reassesses the titanic struggle between Hitler and Stalin on the Eastern Front. This volume covers the terrible events of 1942 from the doomed attempt to capture Moscow to the high water mark of Hitler's encirclement of Stalingrad. This DVD features rare archive footage from both Russian and German sources informative graphics and maps and incisive commentary and analysis by Professor Joh