"Actor: Franco"

• Eurocrime! The Italian Cop And Gangster Films That Ruled The '70s | DVD | (24/07/2017) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime.

• How to Kill a Judge | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In How to Kill a Judge, Franco Nero (Django) plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later killed. The real judge the character is based on seizes the film but is later found murdered. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates through his police and mafia advisors, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema that derives from a highly personal approach to the subject matter inspired by real-life events, director Damiano Damiani (Day of the Owl) points the camera at himself and the genre in this fascinating exploration of the social impact of the mafia.In How to Kill a Judge, Franco Nero (Django) plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later killed. The real judge the character is based on seizes the film but is later found murdered. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates through his police and mafia advisors, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema that derives from a highly personal approach to the subject matter inspired by real-life events, director Damiano Damiani (Day of the Owl) points the camera at himself and the genre in this fascinating exploration of the social impact of the mafia.

• The Comfort Of Strangers | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on an Ian McEwen novel, The Comfort of Strangers is directed by Paul Schrader at his most portentous. A young couple holidaying in Venice are taken up by an older more sophisticated pair. Christopher Walken as the Eurotrashy Roberto portrays with considerable vigour the sort of smooth stranger from whom anyone who has ever seen this sort of movie ought to run a mile, and Helen Mirren as his complaisant wife is hardly less sinister. Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are believably obtuse as the lovers who fail to understand exactly what they are being sucked into. This ought to be a far better film than it is: Harold Pinter's script is elliptically menacing and Angelo Badalamenti's score attractively gloomy. But in the end The Comfort of Strangers presents a rather low-rent vision of decadence: Roberto's praise of Margaret Thatcher and habit of photographing the unwary and beautiful are not quite enough to make the film's shocking climax entirely plausible. The DVD contains no additional features other than the obligatory theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Whatever It Takes | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £5.56   |  Saving you £0.43 (7.73%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Like most of the male population at Gilmore High Ryan (Shane West) has a serious crush on the beautiful and popular Ashley Grant (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) and he is willing to do whatever it takes to win her over. Ryan's best friend Maggie (Marlo Sokoloff) meanwhile has attracted the attention of Ashley's cousin Chris (James Franco) a babe magnet unused to rejection. Although they have never mixed in the same social circles before the guys join forces and weave an hilarious web of fake e-mails plotted phone calls and contrived double dates in order to get the girls of their dreams in time for the prom. A great teen remake of 'Roxanne' 'Whatever It Takes' shows how mistaken identities can be all part of the fun of falling in love.

• Suddenly Last Winter | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A couple engage in discussions with people on the street politicians and religious leaders about the discrimination against gays and lesbians in Italy.

• Die Hard 2 - Die Harder | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, a team of terrorists has seized a major International Airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler), have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency, except one: John McClane, an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly de-ja-vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battle...

• The Decameron | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £12.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (65.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Pasolini's colourful and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story circles (to be followed by 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'Arabian Nights') 'The Decameron' contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio. Capturing the bawdy earthy spirit of the original the film romps through its tales of sex and death - of lusty nuns and priests cuckolded husbands murdered lovers and grave-robbers with five of the stories linked by an artist 'Giotto's pupil' played by Pasolini himself.

• Die Hard 2 | Blu Ray | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.98

  On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital a team of terrorists has seized a major International Airport and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler) have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency except one: John McClane an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly de-ja-vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz) the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead desperately low on fuel. It's all-out war a heartstopping jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts!

• The Mountain Of The Cannibal God | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When her anthropologist husband fails to return from an expedition into the Manilla jungle, Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) organises a search party to go looking for him. Accompanied by her brother Arthur (Antonio Marsina) and her husband's friend Dr Edward Foster (Stacey Keach), Susan heads towards Mount Rarami, the last confirmed location her husband visited. There they learn about the terrible curses which have rendered the mountain taboo and begin to suspect that it might have something to do with the anthropologist's disappearance.

• Demoniac | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A former Catholic priest, who was tossed from the priesthood for his way-too-liberal beliefs, now writes S&M articles for a French magazine. Having been a witness to Black Masses complete with phony sacrifices, he deems himself judge and sets out to kill those people he feels are destined to spend eternity in Hell. Features: Directed by the notorious sexploitation Director Jess Franco Part of our successful Black House label Starring sex icon and Cult Horror superstar Lina Romay

• Spider-Man 2 | Blu Ray | (15/01/2018) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two years have passed, and the mildmannered Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) faces new challenges as he struggles to balance his life as the elusive superhero Spider Man. Tormented by his secrets, Peter is in danger of losing all those that he holds dear. His love for MJ (Kirsten Dunst) becomes stronger and his friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death. These relationships are now in danger of unravelling when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), who has been reincarnated as the multitentacled 'Doc Ock'.

• Eaten Alive | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £13.60   |  Saving you £-7.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The renowned Italian director Umberto Lenzi tells a tale of cannibals at play in the Jungles of New Guinea starring Robert Kerman Janet Agren and Mel Ferrer. When a young woman's sister disappears the only clue to her whereabouts is a glimpsed appearance in a bizarre film showing scenes of cannibalism left behind by a hitman murdered on the streets of New York. The trail soon leads to New Guinea where the subject of the film the self-styled spiritual leader ""Mr Jonas"" is te

• Spider-Man 3 | Blu Ray | (15/10/2007) from £6.68   |  Saving you £18.31 (274.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Spider-Man returns to battle a host of new baddies in the third adventure based on the popular comic book hero.

• The Danny Boyle Collection | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £5.49   |  Saving you £7.34 (57.20%)   |  RRP £12.83

  127 Hours 127 hours tells the incredibly inspiring true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), a thrill seeking adventurist who, on a spontaneous hike to Blue John Canyon in Utah became trapped in a canyon after a boulder became dislodged and crushed his arm against the wall. Now trapped in a canyon with no phone, a minimal amount of water and no one else around, Aron had to come to terms with the fact that he would probably die alone in the canyon. As Aron became delusional from the lack of water and food he started to examine his life and soon started to realise that his only way out would be to amputate his own arm, but could he do it?Academy Award winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) brings this dramatic tale of one man’s desperate fight for survival in a situation he never saw possible to escape from. Sunshine It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all. Slumdog Millionaire Today is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life. A Penniless, eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much?Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal's incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show?When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out... The result is the sweeping, stylish, intoxicatingly human experience of Slumdog Milliomaire, the new film from acclaimed director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Millions, 28 Days Later, Sunshine). Part exhilarating love story, part eye-catching journey into the underbelly of the so-called maximum city of Mumbai, part stirring tale of an Everyman's triumph against a harsh, cynical world, Slumdog Millionaire is a visceral, action-packed Dickensian epic for the 21st Century. At the heart of its exhuberant storytelling lies the the intriguing question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love. 28 Days Later A powerful virus is unleashed on the British public following a raid on a primate research facility by animal rights activists. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempt to salvage a future: little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

• Tour of Duty - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £32.38   |  Saving you £17.61 (54.39%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Bravo Company are back with the second explosive season of this classic TV series. The platoon now finds itself transferred to the Tan Son Nhut base, just outside Saigon. The company faces a whole new war with different battles and new faces. This season sees this group of young recruits becoming battle-weary fighters, and personal battles are beginning to show amidst the daily grind of war.Soundtrack - Now for the first time ever, all 16 full length episodes contain the complete original soundtrack, featuring many of the biggest artists and greatest songs of the era, including Steppenwolf, Marvin Gaye and Tammy Tyrell, Roy Orbison, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Stevie Wonder, The Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash and including the unforgettable theme tune 'Paint It Black' by The Rolling Stones.

• Pumping Iron - 25th Anniversary | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £8.39   |  Saving you £10.60 (126.34%)   |  RRP £18.99

  In 1977's hit documentary, Pumping Iron Arnold Schwarzenegger works the crowds, plots strategies for defeating multiple opponents, shares his parents' values with the press and inspires legions of admirers with his resolute optimism about the future. And all of this long before he decided to run for governor of California. Larger than life, though not necessarily larger than his rivals for the Mr Universe and Mr Olympia bodybuilding titles (especially a young Lou Ferrigno, hot on Schwarzenegger's competitive trail but much less interesting), he still comes across, at age 28, as a consummate politician, smart, likable, and crafty about exploiting others' psychological weaknesses. The film still feels redundant (there's only so much beefcake the human eye will tolerate), but the emotional dramas--the unrewarded hard work, the unanswered hopes--are compelling. This 25th Anniversary edition includes a revealing 2003 interview with Schwarzenegger and a reunion of the film's bodybuilders and director. --Tom Keogh

• Spider-Man | Blu Ray | (15/01/2018) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is an ordinary guy who lives with his beloved aunt and uncle and quietly pines for the girl next door, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). But when a geneticallymodified 'superspider' bites him while on a school trip, Peter develops unusual skills  fantastic acrobatic strength, supernatural awareness and a talent for webspinning. It's not until tragedy strikes at home that Peter decides to use his new powers to fight crime under a secret identity: SPIDERMAN! When the evil Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) attacks the good people of New York and endangers the life of Mary Jane, Peter commits himself to the ultimate tests: to thwart his archenemy and to win the heart of the girl that he loves.

• Force 10 From Navarone | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Explosive high adventure! A mission more daring than silencing the ""Guns"". The survivors of The Guns Of Navarone (Dir. J. Lee Thompson 1961) are given an even more dangerous mission - they must destroy a huge bridge deep in the Balkans. During their journey they join up with 'Force 10' a group of tough American commandoes led by the daring Lt. Colonel Barnsby (Harrison Ford). But on their arrival in Yugoslavia they are captured by the Germans and failure of

• Palo Alto | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £15.97   |  Saving you £2.01 (15.49%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Tour of Duty - Season Three | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £44.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (12.36%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Bravo Company returns for more explosive action and more thrilling adventures in the third and final season of this much acclaimed Vietnam war series. The men face some tough challenges ahead when their platoon, now called Team Viking, is transferred to Camp Barnett to become part of a Special Operations unit. The final season delivers extreme combat action and intense personal drama focusing on real Vietnam War issues such as the catastrophic effects of chemical warfare, the massacre of Vietnamese civilians, the out-of -control problem of heroin addiction and the difficulties soldiers faced when returning home to a country so bitterly divided by the war.