"Actor: Howard"

• The Princess and the Frog Superset (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £19.60   |  Saving you £6.39 (32.60%)   |  RRP £25.99

  After the visual bombast of many contemporary CGI and motion-capture features, the drawn characters in The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Studio's eagerly awaited return to traditional animation, feel doubly welcome. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin), The Princess and the Frog moves the classic fairy tale to a snazzy version of 1920s New Orleans. Tiana (voice by Anika Noni Rose), the first African-American Disney heroine, is not a princess, but a young woman who hopes to fulfill her father's dream of opening a restaurant to serve food that will bring together people from all walks of life. Tiana may wish upon a star, but she believes that hard work is the way to fulfill your aspirations. Her dedication clashes with the cheerful idleness of the visiting prince Naveen (Bruno Campos). A voodoo spell cast by Dr. Facilier (Keith David) in a showstopping number by composer Randy Newman initiates the events that will bring the mismatched hero and heroine together. However, the animation of three supporting characters--Louis (Michael-Leon Wooley), a jazz-playing alligator; Ray (Jim Cummings), a Cajun firefly; and 197-year-old voodoo priestess Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis)--is so outstanding, it nearly steals the film. Alternately funny, touching, and dramatic, The Princess and the Frog is an all-too-rare example of a movie a family can enjoy together, with the most and least sophisticated members appreciating different elements. The film is also a welcome sign that the beleaguered Disney Feature Animation Studio has turned away from such disasters as Home on the Range, Chicken Little, and Meet the Robinsons and is once again moving in the right direction. --Charles Solomon Stills from Princess and the Frog (Click for larger image)

• Revenge In The House Of Usher | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-7.54 (-75.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jess Franco directs this low budget slice of Euro horror under the name J.P. Johnson. Revenge in the House of Usher is a chilling tale based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic The Fall of the House of Usher. When Allen comes upon a sinister house clinging to a high cliff he is plunged into the macabre world of the Usher last descendent of a family plagued by madness. Usher leads Allen down a whirlpool of evil where Ushers' murdered wives are vampires and living corpses. Allen is

• The Day Of The Triffids | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All reports confirm that the world is witnessing an unprecedented shower of meteorites - a once in a lifetime spectacle that must be seen.' Bill Masen lies in his hospital bed and listens to the radio broadcast in frustration - the bandages on his eyes are not meant to be removed until the following morning. When the time comes he is relieved to find he can see perfectly. But is soon to discover that he is one of the few people left in the world that can. The previous night's light show has blinded all those who watched. With the meteorites have come the spores of a man-eating alien plant form - Triffidus Celestus. Multiplying quickly they uproot themselves in search of a prey that stumbles helplessly in the dark. The fate of the world is in the hands of a few as the Triffids threaten the future of mankind in this classic adaptation of John Wyndham's sci-fi chiller.

• Gung Ho | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a Japanese car company buys an American plant the American liason (Keaton) must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labour...

• I Bury The Living | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (25.06%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The newly appointed chairman of a cemetery discovers that by replacing the white pins on a cemetery map to black he can cause the death of the plot owner...

• John Wayne: Complete Collection (34 Films) | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £399.99   |  Saving you £-250.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  The ultimate collection (56 hours!) of John Wayne movies many of which have been previously unavailable on DVD! 1. Stagecoach (1939) 2. The Long Voyage Home (1940) 3. Fort Apache (1948) 4. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 5. Rio Grande (1951) 6. The Quiet Man (1952) 7. Sands of Iwo Jima 8. The Fighting Seabees 9. The Flying Tigers 10. Back to Bataan 11. Jet Pilot 12. The Flying Leathernecks 13. Dark Command 14. Tall in the Saddle 15. Angel and the Bad Man 16. The Fighting Kentuckian 17. The War Wagon 18. Rooster Cogburn 19. The Spoilers 20. Tycoon 21. Wake of the Red Witch 22. The Conqueror 23. The Magnificent Showman 24. Hellfighters 25. Seven Sinners 26. Three Faces West 27. Lady from Louisiana 28. The Shepherd of the Hills 29. In Old California 30. Pittsburgh 31. Reap the Wild Wind 32. War of the Wildcats 33. Dakota 34. Flame of Barbary Coast

• F.A.R.T. - The Movie | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Artie is a college senior who has a little problem with wind. Actually it is a big problem Artie farts uncontrollably. Fortunately his fraternity brothers especially Bear the Frat president at Buck University accept him for the smelly b*st*rd that he is. But the girl of Artie's dreams Andrea will have nothing to do with him. So basically it's your typical boy meets girl boy loses girl boy farts like crazy love story!

• Tiger Heart | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Soon after Eric meets gorgeous Stephanie he discovers she and her uncle are being forced out of their store by unscrupulous property developers. Martial arts devotee Eric and his high-kicking friend Brad prepare to take on the bad guys.

• Tarare - Salieri | DVD | (21/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Salieri opera peformed at the 1988 Schwetzinger Festspiele. 'Tarare' tells the story of the Spirit Of Nature who creates new people in an attempt to cleanse the human race. The results bring love and jealousy. Sung in French.

• D.W. Griffith - Monumental Epics | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  There’s little doubt that much of what we now take for granted about cinema owes much to the vision of director D W Griffith. Monumental Epics collects five of his most influential silent masterpieces. The Birth of a Nation (1915) is also the birth of the epic film. Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War this provocative film unflinchingly shows the humiliation of Southern culture, the "heroism" of the Ku Klux Klan, and links the Union and Confederacy by a common Aryan birthright. All of which has to be viewed in its period context if it is to be viewed at all. Intolerance (1916) is film-making of epic complexity. Human intolerance is related through a modern tale of wrongful conviction, intercut by three stories from Babylonian, Judean, and French history to point up the issue through the ages. The intricacy of the intercutting is breathtaking even now, but those as confused as the first audiences evidently were can opt to see each story separately. Sensitively tinted, this is Griffith's finest three hours. Broken Blossoms (1919) has Griffith venturing into domestic melodrama. Although there's a clear moral to be drawn from this tale of compassion in the face of ignorance and brutality, neither the over-acting of Lillian Gish and Donald Crisp, nor the vein of sentimentality that creeps into their characters' relationship allow the viewer to forget the period-piece nature of the film. Here an appropriately expressive musical score helps keep viewing at an attentive level. Way Down East (1920) shows Griffith moving from the epic to the personal, though still on a large scale. The combining of old-style melodrama with latter-day female emancipation is tellingly brought off, and Lillian Gish excels as the country girl used and abused by male society, until "rescued" by a farmer of true moral scruples. Unconvinced? Then go straight to the climactic snowstorm and ice floe sequences--Eisenstein et al are inconceivable without this as trailblazer. Abraham Lincoln (1930) marked Griffith's entry into the talkie era. Tautly directed, it offers a historically accurate account of the 16th US President's rise to power and his visionary outlook on American society. Civil War scenes are implied rather than enacted, and its Walter Huston's robust yet understated acting that carries the day, with sterling support from Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge and Hobart Bosworth as General Lee. On the DVD: Stylishly packaged, restoration and digital remastering has been carried out to Eureka's usual high standard, and the 4:3 aspect ratio has commendable clarity. Birth of a Nation has Joseph Carl Breil's original orchestral score and a pithy "making of" film by Russell Merritt. Intolerance contains a useful rolling commentary and a great wurlitzer soundtrack too. Way Down East includes a commentary. Abraham Lincoln also has a commentary, though Hugo Riesenfeld's score often verges on the mawkish. Overall this set is a must for anyone remotely interested in film as a living medium.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Net - Collector's Edition / The Net 2.0 | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Net (Dir. Irwin Winkler 1995): Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a freelance computer analyst who spends her days tracking down computer viruses and her nights at home 'chatting' to other Internet users. She is content with her reclusive existence until her life is turned upside down when she is sent a top-secret disc. Caught up in a murderous web of corruption and conspiracy and pursued by a force that will stop at nothing including deleting all traces of her existenc

• The Sherlock Holmes Casebook | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Includes the following: The Case Of The Texas Cowgirl The Case Of The Thistle Killer The Case Of The Shoeless Engineer The Case Of The Christmas Pudding The Case Of The Imposter Mystery

• Best Of British Comedy Films | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sir Henry at Rawlinson End: The plot of `Sir Henry at Rawlinson End revolves around attempts to exorcise of the ghost of Humbert, the brother of Sir Henry (Trevor Howard). Humbert was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident whilst escaping from an illicit tryst. Amongst the eccentric family members, mad friends and grudgingly loyal servants involved are the eternally knitting Aunt Florrie, the tapeworm-obsessed Mrs. E, Lady Phillipa of Staines, who enjoys the odd `small sherry and the ever-present Old Scrotum, Sir Henry s wrinkled retainer. RUNNING TIME: 73 MINUTES Simon Simon: Two handymen cause chaos on a new crane whilst haphazardly trying to accomplish jobs for their ever more frustrated boss. With Peter Sellers, Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe, Michael Caine and Bob Monkhouse. RUNNING TIME: 30 MINUTES Futtocks End: A weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) produces a series of saucy mishaps between staff and guests. This silent film uses music, sound effects and incoherent mutterings in the place of dialogue, as the bumbling and lewd General competes with his equally lecherous butler (Michael Hordern) as they try to win the attentions of the beautiful short-skirted young houseguest. RUNNING TIME: 47 MINUTES The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer: The mysterious Michael Rimmer (Peter Cook) appears at a small advertising agency and soon takes over from the hapless employees, including the bumbling Pumer (John Cleese,) skiving boss Ferrett (Arthur Lowe, Dad s Army) and sexy secretary Tanya (Valerie Leon, Carry On). Rimmer rises through the ranks of the agency, creating saucy marketing campaigns for Graham Chapman, before turning the firm into a successful polling company and moving into politics. RUNNING TIME: 98 MINUTES

• Howard Goodall's Big Bangs | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.25

  Award-winning composer Howard Goodall looks at five of the most significant changes in the history of Western music: notation, equal temperament, opera, piano, and recorded sound.

• American Graffiti | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Here's how American critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas' 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: "[It's] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant." The time to which Ebert and the film refers is the summer of 1962, and American Graffiti captures the look, feel, and sound of that era by chronicling one memorable night in the lives of several young Californians on the cusp of adulthood. (In essence, Lucas was making a semi-autobiographical tribute to his own days as a hot-rod cruiser, and the film's phenomenal success paved the way for Star Wars.) The action is propelled by the music of DJ Wolfman Jack's rock & roll radio show--a soundtrack of pop hits that would become as popular as the film itself. As Lucas develops several character subplots, American Graffiti becomes a flawless time capsule of meticulously re-created memory, as authentic as a documentary and vividly realised through innovative use of cinematography and sound. The once-in-a-lifetime ensemble cast members inhabit their roles so fully that they don't seem like actors at all, comprising a who's who of performers--some of whom went on to stellar careers--including Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, and Paul Le Mat. A true American classic. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Frederick Forsyth Presents: A Little Piece Of Sunshine | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Frederick Forsyth: A Little Piece Of Sunshine

• Jumanji - The Price | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Three spisodes of animated adventures with brother and sister Peter and Judy as their magical Jumanji game offers all sorts of exploring opportunities! Includes: 1. The Price 2. Bargaining For Time 3. Ransom Of Redhead

• Howard Hughes - The Real Aviator | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £12.72   |  Saving you £-6.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Reckless daring inventive eccentric and secretive - these are just some of the words used to describe filmmaker and flying maverick Howard Hughes. A spectacular documentary featuring exclusive footage - released to celebrate the Hollywood biopic of Hughes (directed by Martin Scorsese) entitled The Aviator starring Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Beckinsale Cate Blanchett and Jude Law.

• Jess Franco Double Bill - Vol. 1 - Dracula Vs Frankenstein / Curse Of Frankenstein | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dracula Prisoner Of Frankenstein (1972): Yesterday they were cold and dead. Today they're hot and bothered! When Dracula despatches another innocent victim Dr. Seward decides it's time to eradicate the evil count once and for all. However when Dr Frankenstein reanimates the lifeless Count in an attempt to create the perfect master race it's a three way battle between the man the vampire and the monster. Plus a werewolf thrown in for good measure! Curse Of Frankenstein

• God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life Of Georg Frederic Handel | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Tony Palmer: God Rot Tunbridge Wells - The Life of Georg Frederic Handel