"Actor: Mario Van Peebles"

• Children Of The Night | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Based on actual events, Children Of The Night sees Kathleen Quinlan as a sociology student who when studyingcrimes committed by women discovers the plight of teenage prostitutes.

• Crazy Six | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-12.99 (-162.60%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Eastern Bloc has fallen and Communism is dead. In its place has come new opportunity but not without a deadly price. Powerful Mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative underground weapons and technology trade. Crazy Six (Rob Lowe) and Dirty Mao (Mario Van Peebles) are the leaders of two rivalling mob families who agree to form an uneasy alliance in order to overthrow Raul (Ice-T) the leader of one of the largest crime cartels in Europe. But when the mission goes awry the place turns into a deadly battleground with three world-class gangsters fighting each other to the death.

• Raw Nerve | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Good and evil collide in this high-stakes game of survival! Mario Van Peebles and Nicollette Sheridan lead this action-packed thriller where nothing is as it seems. Van Peebles plays Blair a hard-edged cop who crosses the line just once too often. Now with a shady business deal heading south Blair stands ready to be exposed by Internal Affairs. Sheridan plays his lover Izabel. Once enamored by Blair's strength Izabel is beginning to see him for the ruthless and self-destructive man he really is. With time running out Blair decides to take any chance and risk any life to cover up his underhanded dealings. But with Izabel's loyalty now in question the battle takes a sinister turn as lovers become pitted against each other.

• Solo | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £12.96   |  Saving you £10.02 (100.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There is a hint, albeit a very brief one, of James Whale's classic 1931 Frankenstein in this low-budget movie about a robot soldier, Solo (Mario Van Peebles), created by the Pentagon to be the perfect, unfeeling fighting machine. When Solo is sent into Central American jungles to battle guerrillas, a flaw in his program emerges when it is discovered that he has compassion and a conscience. Fleeing his keepers, the robot becomes part of a jungle village after its inhabitants get over the need to run from him (this is where the Frankenstein parallel comes in). The film isn't particularly clever, just noisy and ugly, and one can't help but think of it as a knock-off of The Terminator. Van Peebles doesn't seem the ideal choice for an action hero along the lines of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Kurt Russell--who do this kind of thing well--but then again this is straight-to-video fodder. --Tom Keogh

• Judgement Day | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the depths of space a giant meteor collides with an asteroid sending a deadly shower of fragments towards Earth. After a small piece makes impact eliminating everything around it the United States Airforce observes that the worse is yet to come - a 14 mile long fragment powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. Determining that their own 'Spaceguard' is not up to the job the military turns to Dr. David Corbett - inventor of 'Thor' an explosive device capable of eliminating the meteor. But deranged religious leader Thomas Payne has another plan. Kidnapping Corbett so that Thor cannot be used. Payne and his cult believe that the world is fated for the impending doom.

• Love Kills | DVD | (12/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Deceipt and treachery about inside the walls of the magnificent Heiss family mansion. Evelyn Heiss a recently widowed gold-digging trophy wife has fallen for her smooth-talking younger new age masseur Poe Finklestein. Poe is a striking hunk who massages his way first into Evelyn's affections and soon after her bed. The rest of her family are a source of constant irritation as they await with increasing anticipation the reading of the will. The eccentric Heiss family are heirs to a European dynasty with its fabulous wealth and jewels worth millions. What they hadn't counted on is the underbelly of Hollywood who have their own plans for the Heiss family fortune...

• Guardian | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £5.91   |  Saving you £13.07 (447.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman

• Thriller Films (Box Set) | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This box set contains the following four titles: Cosa Nostra: A writer gets entangled in the world of Mafia hardman. His break comes when his Mafioso novel is turnedinto a Hollywood movie... but he is dogged by his crusading past. Plato's Run: An explosive story about battle-hardened mercenaries in a daring 'do-or-die' mission to rescue escapees from a brutal Cuban prison. Valentine's Day: A member of a crime family agrees to give state evidence but is killed. The only witness is his girlfriend. Detective Jack Valentine allows his lust to cloud his judgement. Merchant Of Death: Hard-bitten cop Jim Randall's colleague is gunned down in an ambush. Jim becomes a one-man slaughterhouse in his mission of revenge.

• Stag | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ever felt the chill wind of déjà vu? You will with Stag, as its entire premise follows that of director Peter Berg's none-more-black comedy Very Bad Things to the letter--except that Stag actually came first. While Very Bad Things starred Cameron Diaz and Christian Slater and therefore got a cinema release, Stag stars (oh dear) Mario Van Peebles, ex-Brat Pack star Andrew McCarthy and Taylor Dayne, and therefore didn't grace the silver screen. Van Peebles plays Michael, the loyal best friend and housemate of Victor (John Stockwell) who is poised to leave the buddy fold for marriage and domesticity. So, being a pal, Michael organises a surprise stag party for Victor, and invites along a host of their old crowd--including, regrettably, drug dealer and racketeer Pete (McCarthy), and the obligatory pair of strippers, Serena and Kelly (Dayne and Jenny McShane). Of course, things swiftly turn rowdy, Kelly falls to her wholly accidental death, and the boys have to cover up the death fast. Having established this nightmarish scenario, Stag veers away from the Gap-ad Grand Guignol of Very Bad Things and instead attempts to juggle suspense, melodrama, and a fairly ponderous examination of modern-male morality. The results aren't particularly edifying, but they do display a certain conviction, even if it's never satisfactorily explained why Van Peebles spends the entire film without eyebrows. Them's the breaks. --Danny Leigh

• Stag | DVD | (26/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ever felt the chill wind of déjà vu? You will with Stag, as its entire premise follows that of director Peter Berg's none-more-black comedy Very Bad Things to the letter--except that Stag actually came first. While Very Bad Things starred Cameron Diaz and Christian Slater and therefore got a cinema release, Stag stars (oh dear) Mario Van Peebles, ex-Brat Pack star Andrew McCarthy and Taylor Dayne, and therefore didn't grace the silver screen. Van Peebles plays Michael, the loyal best friend and housemate of Victor (John Stockwell) who is poised to leave the buddy fold for marriage and domesticity. So, being a pal, Michael organises a surprise stag party for Victor, and invites along a host of their old crowd--including, regrettably, drug dealer and racketeer Pete (McCarthy), and the obligatory pair of strippers, Serena and Kelly (Dayne and Jenny McShane). Of course, things swiftly turn rowdy, Kelly falls to her wholly accidental death, and the boys have to cover up the death fast. Having established this nightmarish scenario, Stag veers away from the Gap-ad Grand Guignol of Very Bad Things and instead attempts to juggle suspense, melodrama, and a fairly ponderous examination of modern-male morality. The results aren't particularly edifying, but they do display a certain conviction, even if it's never satisfactorily explained why Van Peebles spends the entire film without eyebrows. Them's the breaks. --Danny Leigh

• Ali | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Crazy Six | Blu Ray | (17/08/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the newly emergent countries of Eastern Europe Mafia families have taken control of all weapons and technology smuggling. Billie (ROB LOWE) is an American junkie who is trying to escape his problems and make some good money they call him Crazy Six because he is the sixth child of his family and he is crazy for drugs. Raul (ICE-T) is the drug lord who deals plutonium on his spare time. Things get ugly when Crazy Six and an Arabic-French gangster called Mao (MARIO VAN PEEBLES) steal the plutonium from the Mao. However when Mao double crosses him Crazy Six finds himself on the run from the Mafia with a US federal agent Dakota (BURT REYNOLDS) as his only ally.

• Guardian | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Guardian

• Crazy Six | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-16.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The eastern bloc has fallen and Communism is dead. In it's place has come new opportunity-but not without a deadly price. Powerful Mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative underground weapons and technology trade. Crazy Six and Dirty Mao are the leaders of two rival mob families who agree to form an uneasy alliance in order to overthrow Raul the leader of one of the largest crime cartels in Europe. But when the mission goes awry the place turns into a deadly battleground with three world-class gangsters fighting each other to the death.

• Judgement Day | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Judgement Day

• South Bronx Warriors | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-4.03 (-23.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Now HE'S Calling The Shots! Deep in the heart of New York City's The Bronx two young children are being brutally exploited as their foster home moonlights as the headquarters for one of the city's largest pornography rings. Amazingly the two children escape to the streets where they enlist the help of an undercover cop (Mario Van Peebles) and his partner to capture the porn king and his accomplices. South Bronx Warriors is a realistic depiction of life on the

• Jaws 4 - The Revenge | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lorraine Gary repeats her role of Ellen Brody widow of Chief Martin Brody in this suspenseful sequel starring Oscar-winner Michael Caine. After Deputy Sean Brody is killed by a shark off Amity Island she joins her other son Michael a marine biologist his wife Carla and their daughter Thea in the Bahamas. There she falls for Hoagie a carefree pilot and starts putting her life back together - until a Great White threatens Thea and Ellen knows she has no choice but to face her

• Ali | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The true life story of Muhammad Ali (Will Smith), the world champion boxer who both ignited and mirrored the conflicts of the 60s & 70s and became one of the most admired fighters in the world.

• Crazy Six | DVD | (17/08/2015) from £6.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (47.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the newly emergent countries of Eastern Europe Mafia families have taken control of all weapons and technology smuggling. Billie (ROB LOWE) is an American junkie who is trying to escape his problems and make some good money they call him Crazy Six because he is the sixth child of his family and he is crazy for drugs. Raul (ICE-T) is the drug lord who deals plutonium on his spare time. Things get ugly when Crazy Six and an Arabic-French gangster called Mao (MARIO VAN PEEBLES) steal the plutonium from the Mao. However when Mao double crosses him Crazy Six finds himself on the run from the Mafia with a US federal agent Dakota (BURT REYNOLDS) as his only ally.

• Blow Back | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99