"Actor: Freddie Jackson"

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £19.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (50.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dennis Potter's astonishing six-part miniseries Pennies from Heaven remains one of the edgiest, most audacious things ever conceived for television. The story tells of one Arthur Parker (Bob Hoskins), a sheet-music salesman in 1930s England. Beaten down by economic hard times and the sexual indifference of his proper wife (Gemma Craven), Arthur cannot understand why his life can't be like the beautiful songs he loves. On a sales trip through the Forest of Dean, he meets a virginal rural woman (Cheryl Campbell) he suspects may be his ideal. Ruination follows. Punctuating virtually every scene is a vintage pop song--lip-synched and sometimes danced out by the characters. This startling innovation makes the contrast between Arthur's brutish life and his bourgeois dreams even more dramatic. Potter's dark vision digs into British stoicism, sexual repression, the class system and even the coming of fascism in Europe. But it is especially poignant on the subject of the divide between art and reality. Piers Haggard directs the long piece with deft transitions between songs and story. (It was shot partly on multi-camera video, partly on film.) The cast is fine, especially the extraordinary Cheryl Campbell, who imbues her character with keen intelligence and no small measure of perversity. Bob Hoskins triumphs in his star-making part, bringing a demonic energy to his small-time Cockney, nearly bursting his button-down vests with frustration and appetite. Pennies from Heaven was remade in 1981 for the big screen (with Steve Martin), in an interesting, Potter-scripted adaptation; it's one of the reasons the original has been unavailable on home video for so long. --Robert Horton

• Def By Temptation | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-4.55 (-228.60%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The terrifying tale of vampires and lust. In this chilling 'Blade meets Exorcist' film a female vampire is hell-bent on destroying a party of college students with her powers of seduction.

• The Greatest Nineties | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life 2. Kim Appleby - Don't worry 3. Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me 4. EMF - Unbelievable 5. Jesus Jones - Real Real Real 6. White Town - Your Woman 7. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman 8. Belinda Carlisle - Live Your Life Be Free 9. Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite 10. Arrested Development - Mr Wendal 11. Kenny Thomas - Outstanding 12. Wendy Moten - Come In Out Of The Rain 13. Dubstar - Stars 14. Eternal - Power Of A Woman 15. Louise - Naked 16.

• Freddie Jackson-in Concert | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  More great music from the Jazz Channel Series. The tracklist includes 'Nice 'N' Slow' 'Have You Ever Loved Somebody / Tasty Love' 'Jam Tonight' 'Love Me Down' 'Don't Let Love Slip Away' 'You Are My Lady' and 'Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)'.