"Actor: Margaret"

• Trouble In Store | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Perhaps surprisingly, the British comedy legend Norman Wisdom has made just 20 films, from his debut in Date With a Dream (1948) to the thriller Double-X (1992). From 1948 on he had his own TV series, Wit and Wisdom, but 1953 was the real turning point. Not only was his son Nicholas born, but he became an instant movie star with the release of Trouble in Store. Playing a character called Norman he brought his familiar stage and television personality to the big screen as a young man with the ambition to become a window dresser in a major department store. Ever loveable victim of his own clumsiness, all Norman's efforts to improve himself result in chaos. That is, until he meets Sally (Lana Morris), the girl of his dreams. Then things turn disastrous. Co-starring Margaret Rutherford, Trouble in Store introduced Wisdom's self-penned song which would become his theme, "Don't laugh at Me ('Cause I'm a Fool)". The film became a massive box-office hit and won Wisdom a BAFTA Award. Very much of its time, yet still highly entertaining, this video release provides the opportunity to nostalgically revisit and reassess one of Britain's greatest stars. Wisdom's follow-up was another substantial hit, One Good Turn (1954). --Gary S. Dalkin

• Classic Thriller Collection | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Lady Vanishes:Intrigue and espionage, and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge, when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday, strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who, during the journey mysteriously disappears from her compartment. The girl, seeking an explanation for the disappearance, is accused of hallucinating and is nearly convinced that her new friend does not exist. Howev...

• Public Access | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £9.81   |  Saving you £-3.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Into the idyllic town of Brewster comes Whiley Pritcher an intense and enigmatic stranger who begins a public access show that asks the question What's wrong with Brewster? The question soon has neighbour turning on neighbour and before long there are some that are ready to confide in Whiley and reveal the town's darker secrets. But is it wise to talk to strangers? A winner at the Sundance Film Festival 'Public Access' was the debut film of director Bryan Singer.

• Death Warmed Up | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Michael Tucker is programmed into killing his parents by genetic surgeon Dr Archer Howell and is incarcerated in a psychiatric institution for the crime. Years later Michael and friends travel to an isolated island where Howell now runs Trans Cranial Applications experimenting on humans and turning them into mutant machines. Michael must have revenge on Howell for the death of his parents and also stop him for the sake of mankind.

• Little Monsters - Dangerous Dave Plus Other Stories | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Nothing was too dangerous for Dave. He had the fastest skateboard. He climbed the highest trees. He did the most daring wheelies on his mountain bike. Everyone said Don't do that Dave! It's much too dangerous! But Dave took no notice. He did it anyway. This DVD in the Little Monsters series also features episodes with Sulky Sue Ticklish Timmy Grown-Up Gabby TV Trevor and Rude Roger.

• The Cho Show | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £7.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (105.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sitcom starring American comedian Margaret Cho as she interacts with her family and friends. Sandra Bernhard, Wanda Sykes, Michelle Rodriguez, Kat Von D, Nina Hartley and Joan Rivers all make guest appearances on the show.Episodes include: Korean of the Year Cho-universe Pageant Off the Grid Two Chos, One Cup Dr. 9021-Cho Haunt-Gina Cho Place Like Home. Margaret’s quick wit and razor sharp humour have been the driving forces behind her rise to the top of the comedic ladder. Her fresh and unique outlook on everything from politics to Pilates has kept Cho fans rolling in their seats for over twenty years.

• Black Beauty | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £14.25   |  Saving you £-8.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It would be easy to pass by this movie, based on Anna Sewell's famous novel Black Beauty, on the assumption that it's dated and twee. Well, perhaps it is a little, but the sheer quality of the whole enterprise places it in the front rank of children's cinema classics. Screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz's ability to harness both literary and popular techniques in the same work (also true of his written fiction) remains unsurpassed in this captivating tale of Beauty's eventful life, from being raised as a foal by the devoted Joe (Lester), then passing through the hands of various owners before being purchased by, supposedly, Miss Sewell herself, to be once more cared for by a now-adult Joe who is in her employ. Along the way, Beauty passes through the hands of gypsies, a circus owner, a family of aristocrats and is even ridden into war, with each episode being expertly cast (Mower is in particularly fine form as a mad, bad and dangerous army officer) and produced to the highest cinematic standards--even the exterior lighting is perfect. Absolutely recommended. The 4:3 DVD is a transfer of exceptionally high quality and includes the cinema trailer, an image gallery of stills and collector-enthusing promotional ephemera (presented in a thumb-saving slideshow format) and, rather incongruously, a trailer for Help! I'm a Fish!--Roger Thomas

• Jane Eyre | DVD | (11/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was made just two years after Citizen Kane, and it certainly looks like star Orson Welles muscled his way behind the camera much of the time. (In fact, co-star Joan Fontaine--who plays the title character--has maintained that Welles methodically did just that every day on the set.) Not that the film's official director was a hack: Robert Stevenson gets the credit, a man who later had a busy career at Disney making numerous live-action hits such as Mary Poppins. But there's no mistaking Welles' masterful hand in this film's bold and creative look, and there's no getting away from his enigmatic charisma as Rochester, the widower who takes in Jane as a governess to his daughter. An engrossing, gorgeous film, there's even a small role for Elizabeth Taylor at the beginning as Jane's unlucky, doomed friend at a cruel boarding school. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want | DVD | (09/01/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (30.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Named one of Entertainment Weekly's Great Performances of the Year in 1999, the critically acclaimed I'm the One That I Want is comedian Margaret Cho's raunchy and hysterically funny stand-up concert. Filmed live at the Warfield in Margaret's hometown of San Francisco, I'm the One That I Want is Margaret Cho at her very best - funny, shocking and irreverent. As one of the country's visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance. As one of the country's funniest and most quoted personalities, she takes no prisoners. I'm the One That I Want is filled with dead-on insights about the experiences of being a woman in the spotlight from someone who has seen the highs and lows of life.

• Verdi: La Traviata (Sydney Opera House 2013) (Emma Matthews/ Gianluca Terranova/ Opera Australia Opera and Ballet Orchestra/ Brian Castles-Onion/ Francesca Zambello) (Opera Australia: OPOZ56030BD) | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Susannah Of The Mounties (Shirley Temple) | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rescued by kindly mounted police officers after barely surviving an Indian attack on the Canadian frontier cute orphan Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) befriends the Mounties especially Inspector ""Monty"" Montague (Randolph Scott). Moreover the adorable Susannah proves a capable negotiator between the tribes and the Mounties.

• Spoof Horror: Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th, The Bogus Witch Project, Weekend At Bernies | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13thIn every horror movie there is a phone waiting to ring... a victim waiting to scream... a killer waiting to strike. And the only way to survive is to keep one thing in mind: stay one step ahead of the killer... even if the killer is a klutz! Bogus Witch ProjectA spoof on 'The Blair Witch Project': suddenly everyone's getting lost in the woods shopping malls and public parks searching for that Witch! Weekend At BerniesWhat starts as a typical carefree labour day at the beach for two young insurance company employees turns into a few days of murder mayhem romance and hilarious misadventures!

• Crime True Stories 6 dvd Box set | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Titles Comprise: In The Eyes Of A Stranger: When Lynn Carlson witnesses a brutal slaying of a stranger on the subway she tells police that the dying woman gave her a message she didn't understand right before she died. Soon it becomes clear that the murders were part of something much bigger - a gold heist and two million dollars in cash that's gone missing. The Heart Of The Lie: Who was Bambi Bembenek? Lindsay Frost stars as the attractive enigmatic Bembenek a former Milwaukee cop and one-time pin-up girl convicted of the brutal slaying of her husband's ex-wife. Her sensational Midwest murder trial and subsequent prison break-out turned her into an international cause c''lebr''. Hit And Run: In the stifling suburban world inhabited by Joanna Kendall very little happens to change the meticulously planned existence. That is until she accidentally hits an eight-year-old girl who has dashed in front of her car. Her nightmare only worsens when after calling for help she chooses to drive on rather than take responsibility for what's happened. Dangerous Child: A divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her. Murder Of Innocence: A woman who seemingly has everything becomes increasingly unhinged and a danger to everyone around her... The Ultimate Betrayal: The true story of one daughter's fight to bring her father to justice for years of physical and mental abuse...

• Shirley Temple Collection - Captain January/Dimples/Littlest Rebel/The Little Colonel/Baby Take A Bow/Bright Eyes/Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm/Just Around The Corner/Susannah Of The Mounties | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  9 Classic Shirley movies starring America's favourite sweetheart. This special edition collectors tin includes the following films; Captain January Dimples Little Colonel Little Rebel Baby Take A Bow Bright Eyes Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm Just around the Corner Susannah Of the Mounties

• Violette & Mr. B | DVD | (26/07/2007) from £17.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (8.83%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Documentary directed by Dominique Delouche. Dancer Violette Verdy coaches dancers in the choreography of George Balanchine. 2001.

• Colin's Sleazy Friends, The Best Of | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Billed as "Wayne's World for Adults", Colin's Sleazy Friends has become America's most notorious cult cable-television viewing since struggling comedian Colin Malone started it back in 1992. Subtle it ain't. The premise is simple: to invite sex industry insiders, porn stars--on the whole, it must be said, of the female and spectacularly breasted variety--and the occasional outsider to provide a very thin veneer of intellectual analysis into the studio to chat, demonstrate their art or strut their foul-mouthed stuff for the overweight, uncouth and hairy Colin. According to Malone, it's first and foremost a comedy show. And occasionally it is very funny indeed. Eye-popping moments include Veronica Brazil's frank account of masturbatory over-indulgence, a demonstration of a sling on a bungee rope and a shaving session that leaves nothing to the imagination. Once you've heard one raucous discussion about the merits of double penetration, though, you've probably heard them all. And unless your appetite for silicon-enhanced girl-on-girl nipple nuzzling and amateur gynaecology is insatiable, a little of Colin's Sleazy Friends goes a long way. On the other hand, it presents a lack of inhibition which will be a whole new world for the average terrestrial viewer and certainly generates a voyeuristic appeal all its own. And as an ironic take on the porn trade, stripped of any aura of eroticism, it works very well. Whether Malone had that in mind is another question. On the DVD: The Very Best of Colin's Sleazy Friends on DVD is, depending on your point of view, either of simply dismal sound and picture quality or an authentic evocation of home video transmitted over cable. Plenty of extras include outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage, all of which shed more light on the bizarre studio world in which acres of naked female flesh are paraded, poked, prodded and jiggled by Malone, his sidekick Dino and their totally uninhibited guests.--Piers Ford

• Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dramma giocoso in due atti K588 in two acts.Recorded live at The Kleines Festspielhaus Salzburg August 1983.

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• Reception | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £12.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (19.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in a beautiful house in wintery up-state New York French writer Jeanette and African-American artist Martin live as man and wife. Except this is no ordinary relationship because Martin is a HIV positive gay man. The two have an all consuming love despite the fact that it's obviously not been consummated and live an idylic yet simplistic life. Suddenly their world is rocked when Jeannette's estranged daughter Sierra comes to stay with her new husband Andrew in order to collect an inheritance due to her. The plan is that once she gets her hands on the money she'll be on her way but Jeanette throws a spanner in the works when she decides to hold an impromptu wedding reception for the newlyweds. As the secrets and lies of each of the characters is slowly revealed it's obvious that nothing is as it seems and that all of their lives are set to change forever.

• Dawson's Creek - Series 1 Vols. 1-3 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The complete first season of the super successful TV show in which four teenagers from a small coastal town near Boston struggle to come to terms with adolescence...