"Actor: Jane Jacobs"

• She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £7.87   |  Saving you £8.12 (103.18%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A humourous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from verying walks of life who have volunteered for a fugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes. Perhaps the most complex is wise cracking Fran (Julie Waters) a single girl of about thirty whose incessant cheerfulness often hides a sad loneliness. For a week thrown together in dormitory living they march climb swim and canoe. Often wet cold tired and hungry despondent too. And sometimes ver

• She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £12.15   |  Saving you £-6.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  She'll be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984) epitomises the early work of the FilmFour brand: solid productions, usually awash with issues, a strong dose of prickly humour and a reliable ensemble of British character actors. This tale of female bonding concerns a miscellaneous group of women thrown together on an Outward Bound course. They've all come for their own reasons--men (the lack of, or to escape from), midlife crisis, feelings of now-or-never--and as the course escalates, these are discovered and shared. Even the rather tiresome and bossy course leader has a moment of revelation. Think Steel Magnolias in a tent. Will they make it? The bonding scenes are sufficiently well counterpointed by the wet and muddy action to keep you guessing. There are plenty of laughs to keep the clichés at bay, although John Goldschmidt's direction could have been tighter. The performances, led by Julie Walters at her most attention-seeking, are good and often touching. All in all this is a brittle but warm-hearted little comedy about optimism and survival. On the DVD: She'll be Wearing Pink Pyjamas is presented in 4:3 picture format with a dull mono soundtrack, which betrays its made-for-television origins. There are no subtitles and, apart from a scene index, no extras. --Piers Ford

• Michael Caine Box Set: Alfie/The Italian Job/Zulu | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Zulu The year: 1879. The place: Natal Africa. One British garrison has already fallen to a huge army of Zulu tribesmen. The fearless native warriors are now heading for the isolated colonial outpost of Rorke's Drift which is manned by no more than a hundred South Wales Borderers. Alfie Alfie is a good-looking charmer who finds that the Swinging Sixties are a great time to be around in. He's always able to sweet-talk women into bed and he just doesn't care about t

• Citizen Jane: Battle for the City | DVD | (22/05/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1960, Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners' and architects' reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in fights in mid-century New York to stop 'master builder' Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs' prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today through the lens of one of its greatest champions.

• Ruby Sparks | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A struggling writer is encouraged by his shrink to create his dream girl. His reality is upended when Ruby suddenly manifests in his apartment in love with him and precisely as he's written her.

• Ruby Sparks | Blu Ray | (11/02/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A struggling writer is encouraged by his shrink to create his dream girl. His reality is upended when Ruby suddenly manifests in his apartment in love with him and precisely as he's written her.