"Actor: James R"

• Fantasia 2000 - Platinum Edition | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £9.15   |  Saving you £-4.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.72

  More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical, and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000 features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to Respighi's The Pines of Rome is magical to watch, but ends all too soon; a forest sprite's dance of life, death, and rebirth to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring too clearly echoes the original Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence. But when it's on target, Fantasia 2000 is glorious enough to make you giddy. Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a perfect narrative set to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Donald Duck's guest appearance as the assistant to Noah (of ark fame) set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches is a welcome companion piece (though not an equal) to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the one original Fantasia piece included here. The high point of Fantasia 2000, though, is a fantastic day-in-the-life sequence of 1930s New York City set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and animated in the style of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld; it's a perfect melding of music, story, and animation. Let's hope future Fantasias (reportedly in the works) take a cue from the best of this compilation. The music is provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, interspersed with negligible intros by Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones, and others. --Mark Englehart

• Happy Valley - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £13.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 12 episodes from the first two series of the BBC drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a police sergeant in a rural West Yorkshire valley. In series 1, Catherine Cawood (Lancashire) receives a visit from Kevin Weatherill (Steve Pemberton), a distressed member of the Yorkshire community she oversees, and is drawn into a ransom case in which the life of Ann Gallagher (Charlie Murphy) is at stake. Kevin employed local thug Ashley Cowgill (Joe Armstrong) to kidnap Ann in the hope of extracting a ransom from his boss, and his remorse has come too late to prevent the crime. Can Catherine get to the girl in time? In series 2, while investigating a case of sheep-stealing, Sgt Cawood discovers the decomposed body of a murdered prostitute who she later discovers is the mother of Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton). This revelation places Catherine at the centre of the investigation as a possible suspect while Royce continues to torment her from inside his cell with the help of his new accomplice Frances (Shirley Henderson). While she takes on a new case of human trafficking, Catherine deals with more complications in her personal relationships and is recommended by her bosses to undertake a course of counselling therapy.

• The Godfather Trilogy | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £33.25   |  Saving you £-20.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.69

  The Godfather: (1972) Considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Oscar winner Marlon Brando as the head of the Corleone family. Coppola paints a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America and the passage of rites from a father to a son who was previously uninvolved in the business. Godfather Part II: (1974) The Godfather Part II is one of the rare breed of cinematic sequels which is as good as and perhaps better than the original. Al Pacino heads the star cast as Michael Corleone heir to the criminal empire established by his Mafioso father the late Don Corleone. Michael is now in charge of all gambling activities in Nevada making certain that any and all political or mob enemies are quickly bought off compromised or disposed of. Throughout the film Michael's travails are paralleled with the early experiences of his father played in flashbacks by Robert DeNiro. The Godfather III: (1990) In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimise his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld. Now in his sixties Michael is dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor. That successor could be fiery Vincent (Andy Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hopes of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence.

• Belgravia season 1 (DVD) | DVD | (09/11/2020) from £21.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two young lovers forge a legacy that will create scandal for generations to come. Years later, when the humble Trenchards (Tamsin Greig and Philip Glenister) move to Belgravia, they find themselves mixing with the venerated Brockenhursts (Harriet Walter and Tom Wilkinson). The families share a history that threatens inheritances and reputations, and there are those who would do anything to ensure secrets remain buried. Pride and loyalty will be tested as forbidden love blossoms amongst the rivalry and lives hang in the balance. This six-part drama is adapted by Julian Fellowes from his bestselling novel and features a stellar ensemble cast which also includes Jack Bardoe, Alice Eve, James Fleet, Tara Fitzgerald, Bronagh Gallagher, Richard Goulding, Diana Hardcastle, Adam James, Ella Purnell, Saskia Reeves and Paul Ritter.

• Blade Runner 2049 | Blu Ray | (01/07/2019) from £5.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K [Ryan Gosling], unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard [Harrison Ford], a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

• West Side Story DVD | DVD | (07/03/2022) from £4.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From producer and director Steven Spielberg, with a script by screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, comes West Side Story. An adaptation of the 1957 musical, the film tells the tale of forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

• The Way | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (111.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An American father travels to France to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling El camino de Santiago from France to Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

• X-Men: Apocalypse | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-3.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.38

  Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £15.74   |  Saving you £46.25 (293.84%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme-makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include the hapless efforts by Chris (Michael Imperioli) to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme-makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, and devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• Fisherman's Friends 2 film box set | Blu Ray | (07/11/2022) from £29.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Only When I Laugh - Series 1 - 4 - Complete | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £42.99

  Only When I Laugh was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp Home to Roost) and directed by Vernon Lawrence (Duty Free The Bounder). The series starred James Bolam (Beiderbecke) Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) and Christopher Strauli (Raffles) as three congenital hypochondriac layabouts forever haunting the ward patrolled by the droll Doctor Thorpe (Richard Wilson - One Foot in the Grave). This 4 DVD collection includes every episode from all four series!

• Westworld: Season 2 | DVD | (03/12/2018) from £11.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the first season, the hosts didn't understand the nature of their reality. They didn't have an element of choice. All that changes with the pull of a trigger. In Season Two, chaos takes control as the rancher's daughter, Dolores Abernathy (series star EVAN RACHEL WOOD) takes charge, Maeve Millay (series star THANDIE NEWTON) is on a mission and the mysterious Man in Black (series star ED HARRIS) is back. A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life on Earth, and the evolution of sin, the series also stars JEFFREY WRIGHT, JAMES MARSDEN, TESSA THOMPSON, LUKE HEMSWORTH, RODRIGO SANTORO and more.

• The Spider-Man Complete Five Film Collection | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £22.89   |  Saving you £-12.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  SPIDER-MAN TRILOGY The Spider-Man trilogy features the three critically-acclaimed Spider-Man films directed by Sam Raimi. Follow Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) in these three adventures as he swings into action fighting super-villains Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman and Venom and wins the heart of Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). Special Features: Commentaries Webisodes (Spider-Man 1 and 2 only) THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 1 & 2 Catch up to the beginning of the Peter Parker saga with THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Then, when Spider-Man's enemies are united in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, Peter Parker finds that his greatest battle is about to begin. Special Features: The Amazing Spider-Man Deleted Scenes Filmmaker Audio Commentary Stunt Rehearsals The Oscorp Archives The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Filmmakers Commentary 4 Deleted Scenes with Commentary By Director Alicia Keys It's On Again Music Video

• Atonement | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £5.25   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keira Knightley and James McAvoy headline this lavish adaptation of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel.

• Downton Abbey The Movie | DVD | (27/01/2020) from £2.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This autumn, the worldwide phenomenon DOWNTON ABBEY, becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Written by series creator Julian Fellowes and starring the original cast.

• The Queen | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Helen Mirren stars as Queen Elizabeth II in this drama set in the days following the death of Princess Diana.

• Twin Peaks 1-3 Boxset | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For The First Time, In One Collection, The Complete Television Phenomenon Twin Peaks: All 29 episodes of the original groundbreaking seasons All 18 parts of the Limited Event Series - the return to Twin Peaks - that captivated audiences 25 years later, written by the series co-creators and entirely directed by David Lynch A wealth of intriguing, behind-the-scenes special features So grab a cup of coffee, a slice of cherry pie, and experience the legendary mystery...again and again!

• Buffy Complete Season 1-7 - 20th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-35.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The teen years can be brutal. Especially when you're Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) a Sunnydale High School student destined to slay supernatural, blood-sucking baddies instead of hanging out at the mall. Over the seven seasons of this thrilling, witty show, Buffy struggles to maintain allies in the fight against evil, while also engaging in on-off romances with a moody vampire (David Boreanaz) or two (James Marsters). Now you can own this 39-disc set containing all 144 episodes of one of the smartest, funniest, most action-packed series ever to slay on the small screen also starring Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head and Nicholas Brendon. Special Features: Join Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Angel, Spike, Cordelia and Dawn for hours and hours of high voltage vampire action! Enjoy all 144 episodes over seven seasons on 39 discs. Cast and crew commentaries Featurettes Outtakes Easter eggs Trailers Cast biographies Photo galleries Episode Scripts Karaoke sing alongs

• It's A Wonderful Life | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £3.75   |  Saving you £2.69 (71.73%)   |  RRP £6.44

  Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton

• Comes A Horseman (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (16/09/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the American West of the 1940s, director Alan J Pakula's (All The President's Men, Sophie's Choice) Comes A Horseman gives us a pair of little-guy ranchers (Jane Fonda, James Cann) who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron (Jason Robards) determined to expand his empire at any cost. Shot by the incomparable Gordon Willis, with music by the great Michael Small, and featuring an indelible Oscar®-nominated performance from long-time stuntman Richard Farnsworth. Special features: Presented in High Definition Jane Fonda in Conversation (2018, 68 mins): recorded at the BFI Southbank, the Oscar winning actress discusses her career with Samira Ahmed Original trailer ***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits Other extras TBC