"Actor: Mia"

• Blood Of The Werewolf | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £4.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  These are not your ordinary wereolf stories! A three part anthology in gothic urban and sci-fi milieu titled 'Blood Reunion' 'Old Blood' and 'Manbeast'.

• Radio Days | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Woody Allen's gentlest and most unassuming movie, Radio Days isn't so much a story as a series of anecdotes loosely linked together by a voice-over spoken by the director. The film is strongly autobiographical in tone, presenting the memories of a young lad Joe (clearly a stand-in for Allen himself) growing up in a working-class Jewish family in the seafront Brooklyn suburb of Rockaway during the late 1930s and early 40s. In this pre-TV era the radio is ubiquitous, a constant accompaniment churning out quiz shows, soap operas, dance music, news flashes and Joe's favourite, the exploits of the Masked Avenger. Given Allen's well-publicised gallery of neuroses, you might expect childhood traumas. But no, everything here is rose-tinted and even the outbreak of war makes little impact on the easygoing, protective tenor of family life. Now and then Allen counterpoints his family album with the doings of the radio folk themselves (blink, and you'll miss a young William H Macy in the studio scene when the news of Pearl Harbour comes through). The rise to fame of Sally (Mia Farrow), a former night-club cigarette girl turned crooner, is the nearest the film comes to a coherent storyline. But most of the time Allen is content to coast on a flow of easy nostalgia, poking affectionate fun at the broadcasting conventions of the period and basking in the mildly rueful Jewish humour and small domestic crises of Joe's extended family. There aren't even any of his snappy one-liners, and the humour is kept low-key, raising at most an indulgent smile. A touch of Allen's usual acerbity wouldn't have come amiss. But for anyone who shares these memories, Radio Days will surely be a delight. On the DVD: Not much besides the theatrical trailer, scene menu and a choice of languages. The screen's the full original ratio, but nothing seems to have been done to enhance the soundtrack, and the dialogue's not always clear. A boost in volume may help.--Philip Kemp

• The Last Unicorn | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The story of a unicorn that fighs an evil king who is trying to capture all the unicorns...

• Crimson Peak | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.45   |  Saving you £12.80 (178.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers.

• The Great Gatsby (1974 - 2012 Re-pack) | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £5.24   |  Saving you £10.75 (205.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Perhaps no movie could capture F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby in its entirety, but this adaptation, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, is certainly a handsome try, putting costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he lost. And Sam Waterston is perfect as the narrator, Nick, who brings the dream girl Daisy Buchanan back to Gatsby. The problem seems to be that director Jack Clayton fell in love with the flapper dresses and the party scenes and the jazz age tunes, ending up with a Classics Illustrated version of a great book rather than a fresh, organic take on the text. While Redford grows more quietly intriguing in the film, Mia Farrow's pallid performance as Daisy leaves you wondering why Gatsby, or anyone else, should care so much about his grand passion. The effective supporting cast includes Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband, and Scott Wilson and Karen Black as the low-rent couple whose destinies cross the sun-drenched protagonists. (That's future star Patsy Kensit as Daisy's little daughter.) The film won two Oscars--not surprisingly, for costumes and musical score. --Robert Horton

• Timecop | Blu Ray | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the year 2004 where time travel is a reality and a new breed of crime has emerged. It is now possible to alter history and the Time Enforcement Commission has ruled that no-one goes back in time. But someone has broken the rule and Timecop Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) must prevent a change in history - and prevent the murder of his wife...

• Legend | Blu Ray | (06/02/2012) from £10.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (48.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This strange, 1985 experiment by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) starred the up-and-coming Tom Cruise in a fairy-tale world of dwarfs and unicorns and demons. After the horn of a unicorn is broken, darkness and winter descend upon the world. Cruise's character, helped along by a magic sprite played by David Bennent (The Tin Drum), descends into hell to save paradise. This movie is almost a classic case of art direction gone amok. The somewhat amorphous Cruise doesn't lend much dramatic focus or artistic definition, but the drama between Tim Curry's satanic majesty and Mia Sara's character, who becomes a sort of princess of the netherworld, is pretty captivating. A mixed experience all around that makes one wish it had been more successful. --Tom Keogh

• Romy And Michele's High School Reunion | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £6.29   |  Saving you £8.70 (138.31%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino play ditzy best friends who decide to attend their 10-year high school reunion, but they completely make over their styles and identities first in order to impress the people who tormented them. The two stars keep Romy and Michele's High School Reunion going despite various lapses and potholes in David Mirkin's direction and despite a sneaking sense that the idea can't sustain the length of an entire feature. A midsection dream sequence underscores the latter problem through blatant padding, but Sorvino and Kudrow--both of whom became established stars playing airheads on other projects--are worth the weaknesses. --Tom Keogh

• Death On The Nile | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A visually sumptuous and quintessentially British production, Death on the Nile won an Oscar® for Anthony Powell's costume design and introduced Peter Ustinov in his first portrayal as the Belgian detective Poirot. Abroad a luxury Nile steamer a mystery assassin takes the life of an heiress. EXTRAS Making Of Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell Interview with Dame Angela Lansbury Interview with producer Richard Goodwin Behind the scenes stills gallery Costume designs stills gallery

• The Hundred Year Old Man | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. After a long and eventful life Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health and in one day he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works but Allan really isn't interested and decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey.

• Infinity Pool | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors. Includes a Blu-ray & DVD Disc.

• Timecop | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £11.70   |  Saving you £-5.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  1994 and time travel has become a reality! The USA sets up the Time Enforcement Commission: a police force tasked to prevent criminals from tampering with the past headed by the ambitious Senator Silver. At the same time Washington policeman Max Walker is attacked by a group of hit men from the future. He survives but his wife is killed. Ten years later Walker now a Timecop finds out that Silver has been meddling in the past to gather funds to finance his presidential campaign. Walker has to return to 1994 but discovers a strange link to his own past!

• Maps to the Stars | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £7.20   |  Saving you £12.79 (177.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Weiss family are an archetypical Hollywood dynasty - Dr Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a psychotherapist whose self-help books have made him a fortune. His wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) is the overbearing mom-ager of their thirteen-year old son Benjie a prodigious child star fresh out of drug rehab and their estranged daughter Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital. Agatha is now back in Hollywood making friends with a wannabe actor named Jerome (Robert Pattinson) and has landed a new job as PA to one of Stafford’s clients - the neurotic and tempestuous actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore) whose dream of reprising her dead mother’s starring role from the 1960s is beginning to haunt her.

• Defiance | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on an extraordinary true story, "Defiance" is the epic tale of family, honour, vengeance and salvation in World War II.

• Suspiria | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

• MaXXXine | DVD | (21/10/2024) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Be Kind Rewind | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man (Jack Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's (Mos Def) video store. In order to satisfy the store's customers the two men set out to remake the lost films themselves.

• Rosemary's Baby 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £21.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Concieved in terror. Born in fear. The chilling classic that birthed a new direction in horror, based on the bestseller by Ira Levin and produced by William Castle. Newlywed Rosemary (Mia Farrow) has no idea that her wedded bliss is about to come to a horrific end. After she becomes pregnant, her husband becomes odd, her neighbours (Sidney Blackmer and Oscar winner Ruth Gordon) border on obsessive, and her normal life turns into a surreal nightmare. Slowly, she begins to realise that a seed of evil has been planted and she is its host. Product Features Rosemarys Baby A Retrospective Mia and Roman Theatrical Trailer 50th Anniversary Redband Trailer

• The Motorcycle Diaries | Blu Ray | (16/06/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (82.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Latino heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal stars as the young Che Guevara in this road movie with a difference.

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Like a soda pop left open all night, Ferris Bueller's Day Off seems to have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who takes one memorable day off from school. Jeffrey Jones is nasty and scheming as the principal who's out to catch him. Jennifer Grey is winning as Ferris' sister (who ends up making out in the police station with a prophetic vision of Charlie Sheen). But there's a definite sense that this film was of a particular time frame: the 80s. It's still fun, though. There's Ferris singing "Twist and Shout" during a Chicago parade, and a lovely sequence in the Art Institute. But don't get it and expect your kids to love it the way you did. Like it or not, it's yours alone. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com