"Actor: John Richardson"

• Time Bandits | UMD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• John Osborne And The Gift Of Friendship | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With his 1956 play 'Look Back in Anger' British dramatist John Osborne renewed the emotional and rhetorical intensity of English theatre. Unfortunately misunderstanding and controversy surrounded most of his career. This program reconstructs Osborne's life and artistic journey using rarely seen archival films and firsthand accounts from the author's inner circle. A veritable who's who of the London stage appears here-including Laurence Olivier Albert Finney Nicol Williamson Rich

• Terminator / Rollerball / Robocop | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robocop: A sadistic crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit the situation is so bad a private corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has assumed control of the police force. The executives at the company think they have the answer - until the enforcement droid they create kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive seizes the opportunity. He and his research team at Security Concepts create a law enforcement cyborg from the body of a slain officer. All goes well at first. Robocop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly piercing and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street and within Security Concepts itself that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated... Terminator: In 2029 giant super-computers dominate the planet hell-bent on exterminating the human race! And to destroy man's future by changing the past they send an indestructible cyborg - a Terminator - back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) the woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace to save the life of her unborn child? Or will the human race be extinguished by one mean hunk of mutant metal? Rollerball (1975): Set in 2018 Rollerball is a sensation glimpse of a future where the world is ruled by six giant corporations; a place where there is no war no poverty and no unrest but also no free will and no God. There is still a place for violence in this antiseptic world of plenty and mankind''s vicious and sadistic impulses are vented in the Rollerball arena a violent and deadly game broadcast world-wide to satisfy the bloodlust of millions. James Caan is outstanding as Jonathan E the game''s greatest player a man whose devastating talent threatens to make him a hero - and a threat to the Corporations'' grip on power. When Jonathan is asked to retire he refuses electing instead to captain his team to the world finals in an escalating spiral of carnage.

• Catchfire | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman

• From Hell - Definitive Edition | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  FROM HELL referring to the return address on a letter penned by the Ripper is about people who are in hell trying to survive the grimmest circumstances. At the core are five impoverished prostitutes who share a desperate friendship drawn tighter as their ranks are terrorized by a gruesome murderer. Mary Kelly Kate Eddowes Liz Stride Dark Annie Chapman and Polly exist on the brink earning a meagre living with their bodies in a society that concurrently dishonours and feeds upon them. Owning virtually nothing of value they are threatened by a monster that would steal from them their only possession: existence.

• Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin The Untold Story | UMD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Picasso - Magic, Sex And Death | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the end of the twentieth century interest in Picasso is on the increase and there are more exhibitions of his work than ever before. No one expected this fascination with Picasso to continue growing so fiercely after his death in 1973. But then few realised how much more there was to learn about the century's greatest artist. One of those who did was Picasso's friend and award winning biographer John Richardson. John Richardson now writes and presents a three part documentary ser

• Picasso - Magic, Sex And Death | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Channel 4's acclaimed series on the 20th Century's greatest artist. Women drugs outrage and scandal run like rich threads through Picasso's long and brilliant life. Critics lavished praise on this outstanding series which captures the essence of his life his women and his work. The DVD offers 'zoom' facility for pictures.

• Hannah House | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £10.50   |  Saving you £5.49 (52.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They came for prairie life. They got the afterlife... In 1904 a young couple desiring to own land is convinced by a distant cousin to leave their comfortable city life to pursue homesteading in the Nebraska prairie. A neighbour's house and land has become vacant and the couple is told they can have it. Possibilities of a new life and future for their unborn child overshadow any questions about the mysterious events to befall the previous occupants... Based on a true story this chilling account portrays the hardships and desolation of prairie life as the young family unearths the horrifying details of the house and its past.

• Empire of the Sun | Blu Ray | (12/12/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun is an inspiring, action-packed epic of a small boy in a great war. That boy is Jim Graham, a young Briton whose unconquerable spirit soars high and free above the harsh confines of a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Through his eyes we see the fascination and horror of war. And we see Jim's hold on childhood weaken as his struggle to survive grows fiercer.Based on J. G. Ballard's memorable best-seller, this first major Hollywood studio production ever to shoot in the People's Republic of China earned 1987 National Board of Review awards for Best Picture and Director, as well as a special citation for Outstanding Juvenile Performance for Christian Bale as Jim.IncludesAll-New Digital Transfer Remastered in 1080p Hi-DefBehind-the-Scenes Documentary The China Odyssey: 'Empire of the Sun,' a Film by Steven Spielberg

• From Hell (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Adapted from the acclaimed graphic novel this dark film follows the police investigation into the Jack The Ripper killings in Victorian London, with Johnny Depp as Scotland Yard Detective Fredrick Abberlines.

• Thug Life | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Boo is living the straight life now but he still owes Mecca. So when the favour is called in he has to ride shotgun with Mecca and Vee to deliver some hot wheels to a Southside chop shop. But when the shop owner sets them up to take the rap for a rival gang member it'll take all they've got to make it out of Southside alive...

• Original Intent | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £2.90   |  Saving you £4.09 (141.03%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Jessica Cameron works for a high-powered Los Angeles ad agency. Her husband Matthew is a successful attorney. Although they are happy with their career-driven lives they reconsider their values after Matthew's old college pal Alex drops in for a visit. The guest convinces Matthew to come to the rescue of a homeless shelter that a cold-blooded developer has been trying to shut down. However a major complication develops for the lawyer when he learns that his wife's company represents the villain in another capacity.

• 3 Favourite Action Heroes - Action Man / Butt Ugly Martians / Sleepy Hollow | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Action Man' features the super hero and his team doing battle against the Earth's evil enemies. 'Redwall' tells the story of the characters who live at Redwall Abbey. 'Sleepy Hollow' is based on the Washington Irving tale.

• Watership Down | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  From Richard Adams' best seller comes a beautifully realized animated adventure about a nomadic band of rabbits. Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened a small group of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside in search of a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver the courageous Bigwig the clever Blackberry and the honerable Hazel they face daunting challenges and use their strength and cunning to survive while pursuing their dream. Along their trek they make an unlikely friend - a looney seagull named Kehaar - and battle the vicious General Woundwort the cruel leader of another warren.

• Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Beaches/When A Man Loves A Woman | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beaches: (Dir. Garry Marshall) (1988): Two very different young girls meet on a beach in a 1950s American resort. CC Bloom (Bette Midler) is a brash confident minx determined to make it in the glitzy world of show business. Hillary (Barbara Hershey) is a wealthy restrained and privileged WASP who seems destined for a life as a trophy wife. Against all odds their friendship survives through broken marriages diverging careers and the trials of life. When A Man Loves A Woman: (Dir. Luis Mandoki) (1997): Alice and Michael Green are a passionate couple who have worked hard to build a good life for themselves and their two young daughters. But a dark secret from Alice's past is about to surface - a secret that threatens to destroy them as lovers as a family and as individuals.

• Finding Neverland/The Hours | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Finding Neverland: (Dir. Marc Forster) (2004): This is a tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of Peter Pan author James Barrie. Set in London 1904 the film is a fictional account of Barrie's creative struggle to bring Peter Pan to life from his first inspiration up until the play's premiere - a night that will change not only Barrie's own life but the lives of everyone close to him. The Hours: (Dir. Stephen Daldry) (2002): An adaptation of the novel by Michael Cunningham this is the story of three women living in different time periods of the Twentieth Century all linked by a work of literature. In 1923 Virginia Woolf starts to write her novel 'Mrs Dalloway' whilst struggling to cope with depression and mental illness. In 1951 Laura Brown a dissatisfied housewife contemplates her own life after reading 'Mrs Dalloway'. In 2000 editor Clarissa Vaughan struggles to look after her ex-lover Richard Brown who is losing his battle with Aids. Richard nicknames her 'Mrs Dalloway'.

• Nip/Tuck - Series 5 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  L.A. City of Angels. Tinseltown. La-La Land. The place thats made a bundle selling glamour illusion and dreams the perfect place for the newly relocated plastic-surgery practice of McNamara/Troy. Its also the place for Lights! Camera! Scalpels! as Sean and Christian go from consulting on a TV drama about plastic surgery to being on-camera players (and rivals for stardom). Its the place for wavering Kimber to become porn again for strung-out Matt to try to go straight for Julia and Christian to rekindle a flame for all the personal and professional entanglements that are McNamara/Troy. And its the place for skilled surgical procedures some silly some heartrendingly serious. Welcome to L.A.!

• Time Bandits | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They are timeless yet always late; immortal; yet destructible; capable of intergalactic inter-cosmic travel yet unable to tie their own shoelaces. Six cheeky dwarves steal a precious map showing a series of time holes scattered across the universe enabling them to travel back in time. Whilst visiting the past they cause havoc and rob famous historical figures of their riches in the process. Watching from afar is the Evil genius who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their map for his own evil purpose. With 11 year old Kevin in tow a great time travelling adventure ensues full of superb make believe characters and very famous faces!