"Actor: George Duke"

• Car Wash | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £11.37   |  Saving you £-5.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Car Wash is an earthly irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in Los Angeles car wash. An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo roles inculding George Carlin ""Professor"" Irwin Corey The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor as Daddy Rich a flamboyant Reverend who preaches the

• Flash Gordon Space Soldiers | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial presented for the first time on DVD. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orbit and is headed straight toward the Earth. While Dr. Hans Zarkov works feverishly to finish a rocket ship of his own design internationally renowned polo player and Yale graduate Flash Gordon is a passenger on a small plane where he meets fellow passenger Dale Arden. When a meteor storm destroys their aircraft Flash and Dale bail out and land near Zarkov's ship. The great scientist enlists them to join him on his quest to save Earth and the heroic trio blasts off into space to rendezvous with the runaway planet Mongo. Featuring all 13 episodes of the exciting serial series.

• Dionne Warwick - The Dionne Warwick Story | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Disc 1 - Dionne Warwick Live in Concert 2005: 1. Heartbreaker 2. Do You Know the Way to San Jose 3. I'll Never Fall in Love Again 4. Look of Love 5. Arthur's Theme 6. I'll Never Love This Way Again 7. All the Love in the World 8. Alfie's Theme 9. Don't Make Me Over 10. Walk On By 11. That's What Friends Are For 12. Don't Think It's Over 13. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 14. What the World Needs now 15. Anyone Who Needs a Heart 16. Say a Little Prayer 17. Deja Vu Disc 2 - Don't Make Me Over: This 90 minute documentary is a music profile of Dionne Warwick featuring performance clips interviews and contributions from a star-studded line-up of her friends family and collaborators including Quincy Jones Tom Jones Burt Bacharach Stevie Wonder Gladys Knight Gloria Estefan and many more!

• Casino Lights '99 | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Contemporary jazz, smooth jazz, jazz lite: call it what you will, Casino Lights 99 will fulfil any taste you may have for that kind of funky, groove-oriented instrumental music (with a couple of vocals thrown in for good measure). Filmed at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival in 1999, the concert (also available on CD) features some of the genre's best players, like pianist Bob James and guitarist Larry Carlton, both of whom appear with their own bands, backing other musicians, and with their group Fourplay. Also on hand are keyboardist George Duke, saxophonists Kenny Garrett, Boney James, Kirk Whalum, and Mark Turner, and trumpeter Rick Braun. The performances are all good; these fellows can play, and singers Kevin Mahogany and Gabriela Anders are no slouches either. The problem lies in the material. Aside from Miles Davis's "Four" (played by Fourplay), the standard "Old Folks" (Turner), and a couple of others, most of what passes for tunes is little more than riff-heavy, melody-free jamming--and that includes two hoary classics, Eddie Harris's "Cold Duck Time" (played here by Carlton) and Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" (the closing number, played by just about everybody). The simple truth is that listening to (and watching) some guy get down with his funky horn again and again gets old over the course of two hours. But then, perhaps you had to be there. --Sam Graham, Amazon.com

• Zorro's Black Whip - Vol. 2 | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Crescent City Herald owner Randolph Meredith is a strong advocate of Idaho joining the United States. Fellow citizen and owner of the local stagecoach line Dan Hammond is not however and has Randolph killed in an attempt to quell the pro-union movement. Randolph's sister Barbara takes over at the Herald and also dons a black costume and mask to become 'The Black Whip'. With the help of government agent Vic Gordon The Black Whip thwarts all attempts by Hammond and his henchmen to exe

• Zorro's Black Whip - Vol. 1 | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Crescent City Herald owner Randolph Meredith is a strong advocate of Idaho joining the United States. Fellow citizen and owner of the local stagecoach line Dan Hammond is not however and has Randolph killed in an attempt to quell the pro-union movement. Randolph's sister Barbara takes over at the Herald and also dons a black costume and mask to become 'The Black Whip'. With the help of government agent Vic Gordon The Black Whip thwarts all attempts by Hammond and his henchmen to exe

• The Montreux Dream And BB King Workshop | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (-11.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Montreux Jazz Festival, the subject of the inspirational 1999 documentary The Montreux Dream, first took place in 1967. Since then, it has become a world-famous event, bringing together the finest musicians and singers in an annual celebration which transcends stuffy musical barriers. The force behind Montreux is its founder Claude Nobs and the documentary is as much a tribute to his generous passion for music (jazz and blues in particular) as it is to the artists past and present who have taken part over the years. Archive footage of Aretha Franklin at the piano (and at her vocal peak), blues singer and guitarist BB King, Miles Davis, the obviously thrilled British soul singer Beverley Knight and REM, among many others, contribute to a riveting and moving story. Director Christopher Swann skilfully uses performance clips to link interviews with many of these stars and anecdotes from Nobs as he reveals what an important historical archive the Festival has generated, and how he has managed to persuade so many stars to give their services for often relatively modest fees. Exhilarating stuff. On the DVD: Technically it might count as an extra, but the BB King Montreux Workshop 1999 commands equal billing with the main documentary. King's modest and engaging personality, the way he talks humbly about "rubbing shoulders with all these great people" and above all his eloquent, accessible dissection of the blues make this an invaluable 50 minutes for anyone who gives a fig for fine musicianship. The DVD cover claims that the main documentary is in 16:9 full-frame format, but it appears to be in 4:3 letterbox. This is fine, serving the sweeping vistas of Montreux and the modern performance footage well. The Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound quality is decent, but improves if you have a surround facility. Web links take you to the main Montreux Festival site and a site dedicated to BB King. --Piers Ford

• George Duke Band - Tokyo, Japan 1983 | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99