"Actor: Michael"

• Michael Ball - This Time... It's Personal | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A special concert at the Cafe De Paris in London's West End. Tracks include 'Walking In Memphis' 'Think Twice' and 'No Matter What'. Also features exclusive footage of Michael in New York and Washington DC.

• Ealing Classics DVD Collection - Went The Day Well?/Dead Of Night/Nicholas Nickleby/Scott of the Antarctic | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £27.42   |  Saving you £7.57 (27.61%)   |  RRP £34.99

  While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts certain events will happen as they do in his dreams and when they do, the other guests relate their own experiences with the supernatural, including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy and an eerie premonition of death. Throughout the group meeting, the protagonist fears something horrible will happen to him and we are left to wonder what it might be. The film's final, revelatory sequence offers an unexpectedly horrific surprise. It may have been made in 1945 but Dead of Night is still spooky. --Bryan Reesman

• Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  You can't kill the bogeyman", the children insist to a terrorised Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the original Halloween. How right they are. Laurie is gone, but guess who's back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? Acting as if the third entry never existed, this instalment picks up 10 years after the original, with mad maniac Myers in a coma and moved to a new facility. But wouldn't you know it that as soon as a loose-lipped orderly lets slip that Myers has a surviving niece he springs back into action, leaving a bloody trail of corpses on the road to Haddonfield. Donald Pleasance returns as Dr Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage. Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an ageing hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorised by her homicidal uncle. Director Dwight Little has managed a generic if professional slasher picture, rife with improbabilities and dominated by a killer whose superhuman powers reach near-mystical dimensions, but he delivers the goods: shocks, stabs and cold, cruel killings. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Philadelphia Experiment | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £23.39   |  Saving you £-17.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on an ""actual event"" that took place in 1943 about a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and sent two men 40 years into the future in 1984.

• Behind the Mask | Blu Ray | (17/05/2021) from £15.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Redgrave gives a striking performance as a distinguished surgeon fighting against the depersonalisation of progress in this engrossing medical drama from director Brian Desmond Hurst. Also featuring Niall MacGinnis, Tony Britton, Ian Bannen and Vanessa Redgrave in her film debut, Behind the Mask is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Backroom rivalry at the Graftondale Royal Hospital surgical unit is unspoken but self-evident. Sir Arthur Gray, a staunch traditionalist, is determined to keep things going his way in spite of his rival's ambitions to turn the hospital into a laboratory . Then, while carrying out a delicate heart operation, Sir Arthur has a momentary blackout.

• Streamers | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this adaptation of David Rabe's savage play Robert Altman offers an intense dramatic film in which a group of young recruits in desolate Vietnam-era barracks come to terms with their prejudices. Billy and Roger have learnt to ignore their racial differences and have become good friends. Richie's obviously effeminate personality alarms the others but it is not until Carlyle an angry black man arrives that these tensions boil over. This film is brimming with anger violence confusion and fear.

• The Alien Conspiracy - Grey Skies | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £3.30   |  Saving you £1.95 (95.59%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two invading alien species known as the Greys and the Morphs battle for control of Earth with mankind caught in the crossfire.

• The Man In The White Suit | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) works quietly at Michael Corland's (Michael Gough) textile mill until his mysterious costly lab experiment is discovered. Fired by Corland Stratton takes a menial job at Alan Birnley's (Cecil Parker) mill in order to continue his work on the sly. When Daphne (Joan Greenwood) Corland's fiance and Birnley's daughter discovers his secret she threatens to expose Stratton. The desperate scientist reveals to Daphne that he has invented an indestructible cloth that never gets dirty. Close to realizing his vision Stratton celebrates by having a white suit made of the fabric (because it repels dye). The trouble however is just beginning. The lowly mill workers (who spout market economics in rough accents) fear for their jobs while the mill owners led by the decrepit Godfather-esque Sir John Kierlaw (Ernest Thesiger) worry about their profits.

• On The Buses - Series 6 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £9.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (35.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the most successful TV series ever made running from 1969 to 1973 On the Buses is great British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan and Stephen Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake ('Blakey') who does his best to get the buses out in time whilst making their lives as miserable as possible. Episode Listing: 1. No Smoke Without Fire 2. Love Is What You Make It 3. Private Hire 4. Stan's Worst Day 5. Union Trouble 6. Bye Bye Blakey 7. The Prize

• Secret Army - Series 1 | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £34.86   |  Saving you £15.13 (43.40%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Classic BBC TV series about the struggles of the Low Countries population during their occupation by the Nazi's during World War II. Episodes comprise: Lisa - Code Name Yvette Sergeant on the Run Radishes with Butter Child's Play Second Chance Growing Up Lost Sheep Guilt Too Near Home Identity in Doubt A Question of Loyalty Hymn to Freedom Bait Good Friday Suspicions Be the First Kid in Your Block To Rule the World.

• Incredible Hulk - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £24.47   |  Saving you £10.52 (42.99%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Metamorphosis 2. Blind Rage 3. Brain Child 4. The Slam 5. My Favorite Magician 6. Jake 7. Behind the Wheel 8. Homecoming 9. The Snare 10. Babalao 11. Captive Night 12. Broken Image 13. Proof Positive 14. Sideshow 15. Long Run Home 16. Falling Angels 17. The Lottery 18. The Psychic 19. A Rock and a Hard Place 20. Deathmask 21. Equinox 22. Nine Hours 23. On the Line

• Everything Must Go | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £14.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (37.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When an alcoholic relapses causing him to lose his wife and his job he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

• The Scorpion King 2 - Rise Of A Warrior | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £9.16   |  Saving you £15.83 (172.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  See how the legend of The Scorpion King began! When a young Mathayus witnesses his father's death at the hands of the king his quest for vengeance transforms him into the most feared warrior of the ancient world. From the director of Resident Evil: Extinction and Highlander comes a heroic adventure filled with heart-stopping action and thrilling visual effects!

• Sean's Show - Series 1 | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stand-up comedian Sean Hughes wrote and starred as a fictionalised version of himself aware of the fact he was living in a sitcom. The show poked fun at the 'standard sitcom' with a series of running gags such as constantly killing off characters and have them return as their 'identical twin'!

• American Dragons | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murders in the Korean capital Seoul and in America brings together a mis-matched pair of no-nonsense cops; one from the West (Biehn) one from the East (Park). In their efforts to solve the crimes their investigation leads them deep into a gang war between the Mafia and Yakuza one which they discover may not be of the making of either side. Complicating matters and escalating the body count is the presence of two hitmen one from each side each of whom may be persuing his own ag

• Orcs! | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £5.88   |  Saving you £10.11 (171.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two park rangers must defend their turf against hordes of rampaging orcs.

• Sam - Series 1 - Part 3 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £21.77   |  Saving you £-1.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change? Episodes Featured Where The Heart Is Home From Home No Going Back Breadwinners

• Sweet Liberty | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In Sweet Liberty Alan Alda plays a college history professor whose factually-based historical novel has been bought by Hollywood and is being turned into a film starring two huge stars: the egotistical lothario Elliot James (Michael Caine) and the seemingly airheaded and flirtatious Faith Healy (Michelle Pfieffer).

• Lovely And Amazing | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A bittersweet comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters...

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 1) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com