"Actor: Ian"

• The Persuaders - Complete | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders, a derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given all that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle of The Professionals) that ran ove! r the screen in the 70s, in which the male leads sublimated their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies. --Kim Newman

• Tale of A Vampire | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A cross-cultural oddity, Tale of a Vampire feels like a 1970s British horror movie retranslated from the Japanese and mounted as a vehicle for Julian Sands. Director-writer Shimako Sato takes a gloom-haunted approach to the undead, allegedly influenced by the necrophile romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe (it claims to be based on Poe's poem "Annabel Lee") but also draws on the popular blood-sucking posiness of Anne Rice's bestselling novels. Alex (Sands), is a style-conscious vampire whose white shirts are always immaculate although he spends most of his nights messily pouring gore over his face. Living in a spartan docklands pad, Alex haunts a library of long-forgotten lore where he sets his cap at a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) who may be the reincarnation of his lost love. Unfortunately, a hat-wearing rival vampire (Kenneth Cranham) has been nurturing a grudge against Alex for lifetimes and sticks his oar in, complicating the relationship between vampire and willing victim, setting up for a big stake-shoving climax. For all its vampire feuds and dodgily S&M-flavoured blood-drinking scenes, this is somewhat staid and solemn, with few locations and a low budget abstraction reminiscent of those old episodes of The Avengers where they could only afford to build a corner of a set and there wasn't any money left to hire actors. While Sands, with aptly vampirish poise, and Cranham, with a sinister Southern accent, are interesting and poised antagonists, making the most of Sato's allusive dialogue, heroine Hamilton lets the side down with an awkward performance that hardly suggests anyone worth giving up immortality for. Cranham's character is supposed to be Poe himself, oddly transformed from his historical stature: he seems to have put on a bit of weight since his death in 1849, but Cranham's sly nasty way of ordering gruesome nouvelle cuisine and tormenting a harmless crackpot is aptly Poeish. The slow-paced film takes a long time to confirm what is obvious from the outset (even from the title) and then shudders to a halt with all the characters' fates left vague. However, it has a unique and disturbing atmosphere--the few familiar vampire images of a bloody Sands are outweighed by weirder moments like Cranham's presentation of a pale Hamilton, tied to a bed with red ribbons, as an offering to his nemesis--that makes it more insidiously memorable than many of its higher-budgeted, splashier cousins. On the DVD: A no-frills (no trailer, no cast notes, no nothing), full-screen presentation, which sometimes cramps Sato's careful compositions, this also has a mixed blessing transfer which lends a mouldy or rusty fuzz to some of the blacks in the many night scenes. There is, however, a nice animated menu. --Kim Newman

• The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 4 | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £5.71   |  Saving you £7.28 (127.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Three episodes featuring the roguish antique's dealer. Episodes include: 'Just Deserts' 'The Italian Venus' and 'Bin Diving'.

• Young Charlie Chaplin | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (103.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Young Charlie Chaplin' is an epic mini-series charting the meteoric rise of the silent screen's greatest star. Featuring international superstar Twiggy as Charlie's mother 'Young Charlie Chaplin' is a fascinating chronicle of Chaplin's extraordinary childhood from the horrors of the workhouse to the bright lights of the music hall stage and the start of a legendary movie career

• American Pie Collection | DVD | (17/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: American Pie American Pie 2 American Pie: The Wedding American Pie: Band Camp American Pie: The Naked Mile American Pie: Beta House

• Les Miserables | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £5.07   |  Saving you £0.92 (18.15%)   |  RRP £5.99

  France 1796: in the Republic poverty is rife and crimes harshly punished. Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan) is sentenced to five years at the gallery for stealing a loaf of bread. There the Inspector of Guards Javert (Anthony Perkins) takes and intense loathing to him - and every rebellion on Jean's part is met with strict punishment and a longer sentence. Jean eventually escapes. Five years later he is living a respectable life as a Mayor when fate intervenes and brings him face to face with his old enemy Javert. Victor Hugo's enduring classic is lavishly recreated and performed by an outstanding cast.

• Angel | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Director Neil Jordan's gothic outing is a unique excursion into horror.

• Paddy McGuinness' All Star Balls Up | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £10.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paddy McGuinness the everyman working class hero shows you how footballers are overpaid oversexed and over rated in his latest DVD - All Star Balls-ups. Paddy has personally selected and provides his unique commentary on the funniest and most outrageous gaffs mistakes and bloopers he could find including up-to-date action from the Premiership season FA Cup and Champions League. With the help of a host of his famous football buddies Paddy comments shows us clips of the funniest humiliating and most outrageous balls-ups in football to date. The outright funniest and best comedy sports DVD available this coming Christmas.

• Blood Moon | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The reputation of a popular all-girl Catholic school is on the line when a serial killer launches a series of brutal attacks on its pupils...

• X-Men | DVD | (12/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers-the result of unique genetic mutations. Cyclops unleashes bolts of energy from his eyes. Storm can manipulate the weather at will. Rouge absorbs the life force of anyone she touches. But under the tutelage of Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart), these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind. Now they must protect those who fear them as the nefarious Magneto (Ian ...

• Contamination | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Branded as a video nasty in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi s Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott s classic Alien and peppers it with exploding guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack from celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin (Deep Red, Suspiria). A cargo ship drifts up the Hudson River. Its crew: all dead, their bodies horribly mutilated, turned inside out by an unknown force. Its freight: boxes upon boxes of glowing, pulsating green eggs. It soon becomes clear that these eggs are not of this planet, and someone intends to cultivate them here on Earth. But who? And to what end? Starring Italian horror veteran Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters), Contamination is an ultra-violent sci-fi epic that really gets under the skin. In space, no one can hear you scream but on Earth, the terror rings loud and clear!

• Ghosts Of Mars/Vampires | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Carpenter's Vampires (1998): In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village Of The Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines vampires. ""Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires"" warns Jack Crow (James Woods) the leader of Team Crow a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. When master Vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) decimates Jack's entire team Crow and the sole team survivor Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) set out in pursuit. Breaking all the rules Crow and Montoya take one of Valek's victims hostage. The beautiful prostitute (Sheryl Lee) is their sole psychic link to Valek and through her senses they will track down the leader of the undead. As Valek nears the climax of his 600 year search for the Berziers cross Jack and the new Team Crow do everything humanly possible to prevent him from possessing the only thing that can grant him and all vampires the omnipotent power to walk in the daylight... John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars(2001): 200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet.

• Chapelwaite: Season One | Blu Ray | (29/04/2022) from £19.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Whoops Apocalypse | DVD | (27/06/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  MASH's Loretta Swit stars alongside comedy icon Peter Cook, Seinfeld's Michael Richards and the immortal Rik Mayall in the riotous feature film version of one of television's most outrageously controversial satires! Co-starring Ian Richardson, Alexie Sayle and Herbert Lom, Whoops Apocalypse is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Chaos ensues when a US-backed Central American regime invades a nearby British dependency. When subsequent peace talks are sabotaged by a corporately-funded world-class assassin, events begin to run away with themselves - in the direction of nuclear armageddon! Product Features Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• Shark Attack - The Thresher Sharks And Man Eaters | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ian Gordon dodges dynamite blasts to check out an unusual gathering of Pelagic Thresher Sharks in waters off the island of Cebu in the Philippines. Ian sets out to prove his theory that these sharks are using this area as a cleaning station. Ian then takes on one of his most daring experiments yet as he drops in on an ocean classroom in the Bahamas where students dive amongst feeding sharks in their bid to understand why sharks attack people and what can be done to stop them.

• 700 Miles Western (Bite the Bullet) | Blu Ray | (25/02/2021) from £17.88   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Paul McCartney - Live At The Cavern Club | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Paul McCartney's Live at the Cavern is essentially the video counterpart to his album Run Devil Run and is equally addictive. The legendary Liverpool club--where the Beatles and a great many other Mersey bands cut their musical teeth--has relocated to new premises in the same street, but it's still the most intimate of venues (it holds all of 300 punters) and is of course the obvious place for Macca to stage this wonderful rock & roll retro extravaganza. Oh yes, there was also a secondary audience of several million who watched the show as a Webcast, but at least this meant they weren't queuing at the bar. The music, however, isn't obvious at all. Rather than go down the tried and tested route of rehashing all the rock & roll classics everyone knows, McCartney decided instead to create a show focusing on his own personal favourites from his formative years. This means that we get stuff like "Fabulous", "Blue Jean Bop" and "Honey Hush" rather than the usual over-revived material. This combination of an instantly recognisable style with rather less recognisable songs is as refreshing as an ice-cold Tizer. The all-star band includes Dave "Floyd" Gilmour, Ian "Purple" Paice (looking alarmingly like Mel Smith) and even Pete "Eighteen with a Bullet" Wingfield. The performance is preceded by an interview with His Macship conducted by Jools Holland. --Roger Thomas

• Lilies | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lilies an extravagantly mannered revenge fantasy opens in a men's prison in Quebec in 1952. A certain Bishop Bilodeau is lured into hearing the dying confession of a prisoner Simon Doucet only to be held captive by the gay contingent in the prison and forced to watch their re-enactment of a play This play however soon turns into the story of a lethal gay triangle set in a Catholic boy's school 40 years earlier involving an 18 year old Bilodeau Simon and doomed third party Val

• Who Needs Enemies | DVD | (03/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When local London gangster and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie, Da Vinci's Demons) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell, Essex Boys) he soon discovers the private party involves something so atrocious and unspeakable that it sparks a bloody feud between the two old friends and their foot soldiers in a story of morality, loyalty and betrayal.

• Robot World | DVD | (02/05/2016) from £4.59   |  Saving you £8.40 (183.01%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a galaxy far, far away, an experienced shuttle pilot, Captain James, is midway through his one-man mission through deep space. Travelling amidst the stars, his sole objective is to orbit and investigate a distant planet believed to be populated by intelligent life. But when an unexpected encounter leads to a crash-landing and a spacecraft beyond repair, he is left stranded on the mysterious planet he was due to investigate. Soon however, he discovers he is not alone a breed of predatory machines stalk his every move. With rations depleting and time running out, he has to use his ingenuity to learn how to communicate with his robot hunters in order to return to orbit, and escape a bleak and solitary future. Prepare for danger in its rawest form, as Robot World transports you to a distant realm where only one man s determination can help him survive against all the odds.