"Actor: Nigel"

• Cyber City Oedo 808 | DVD | (05/03/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  1 : In the year 2808 three criminals are offered a choice: Spend the rest of their lives aboard a maximum-security prison or return to Earth as agents of the Cyber Police. Parole Violations will be rare as each criminal is fitted with a booby trapped high-explosive collar which operates on a 24 hour timer. If ever a check-in is missed the consequences would be well gruesome. For every criminal caught the agents receive a bounty that reduces their total sentence so some day they may walk free-again. Terrorists have taken control of the City's tallest space-scraper. Not only does the building hold the primary nodes for the city's computer grid but 50 000 people are still trapped inside! In principle the job is simple: Break into the most secure building in the city; find and eliminate the terrorists; rescue the hostages. But there's no time to waste because the collars have a 24-hour time limit and the clock is ticking. 2 : A member of the Cyber Police has turned traitor and sold confidential Police data to a mysterious customer who could destroy the Cyber Police forever. But before that can happen the heroes have 24 hours to uncover the plot. The trail leads to an illegal black market dealing in stolen body parts. Goggles is re-united with his ex-partner-in-crime and together they find themselves face-to-face with MOLCOS the military's ultimate killing machine. 3 : The Vampire Case. One by one genetics researchers are turning up dead - all have suspicious fang Wounds on their necks. The most recent victim Ichiro Edajima use his own blood to scrawl on a cryptic message on the wall and left notes to a very unusual retro-virus on his computer. The trail points to the top of the space elevator and the cryogenic suspension facility tethered there. But the frozen death of cryogenic sleep may not have any meaning for one of the undead...and vampires can be very hungry when they wake up.

• Her Desperate Choice | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-3.09 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When the courts fail to protect her daughter from her suspected paedophile husband a mother is forced to join an underground network that protects mothers and abused children. Jody Murdock is convinced that her ex-husband has been molesting their daughter Samantha - but is unable to prove it. Now Jody feels she has no choice: she takes Samantha and heads 'underground' into a secret and well-run network that provides them with new identities and a safe place to live. But Jody's ex refuses to accept the loss of his daughter and sets off in relentless pursuit of the fugitives. Even if Jody now has a new love in her life will she and Samantha ever gain the peace and security they so desperately need?

• Darkman 3 - Die Darkman Die | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• The Single Play | DVD | (31/12/2099) from £16.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For half a century the single play was the dominant form of television entertainment and an art form in and of itself. Personal, political, comedic, dramatic a single play could be any (and all) of these, the fearlessness of the creatives and the willingness of the audience allowing a level of variety and experimentation that will never occur again.Showcasing specially selected plays from the archives, this ongoing collection shows how compelling and varied these shows could be, with many unseen since their original transmission.NEIGHBOURS (1970)Good fences make good neighbours; everyone is entitled to be alone. A woman sits in a room. A neighbour comes to call. But what does he want? And why won't he leave? And what will be the outcome of their disturbing hour together?Starring JUDI DENCH and CALVIN LOCKHARTWritten by JAMES SAUNDERS Directed by BRIAN MILLSA ROD OF IRON (1980)In David Mercer's International Emmy Award-winning drama, two brothers come home for the first time in years to be at their dying mother's bedside. They are stunned to hear their father confess his true feelings towards his wife and now adult sons.Starring ALFRED BURKE, NIGEL HAWTHORNE and EDWARD WOODWARDWritten by DAVID MERCER Directed by DAVID CUNLIFFE

• Admin | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £8.47   |  Saving you £11.52 (57.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sitcom pilot about a group of post room workers in a no-win-no-fee law firm who drive their bosses and each other to distraction. There's a promotion up for grabs and slimy Darrel tried to impress Mike the boss and bag the job. Tania is pregnant and confronts Danny one of five possible dads. Asif comes a cropper when his attempt to impress his father by pretending to be a hotshot lawyer goes belly up. Indie kid Kenny ends up in a saxy situation with jazz-loving solicitor Lee Ann.

• Sanctuary | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £15.56   |  Saving you £-9.57 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Confirming the testosterone-laced promise he showed in the earlier Drive, the charismatically lithe Mark Decascos stars as buff man-of-the-cloth Father Luke, whose plans for a successful food drive are put on hold when a covert kill squad forces him to confront his shadowy past in this surprisingly effective bullet ballet. The needlessly complex high-tech storyline may be somewhat shaky, but this adrenalised conspiracy thriller earns its wings by virtue of a strong cast (including a villainous Jaimz Woolvett, miles away from his role as the greenhorn gunslinger in Unforgiven), an impressively stylised lighting palette and a jaw-droppingly gonzo epilogue that cries out for--nay, demands--a sequel. Director Tibor Takacs was previously responsible for two unfairly forgotten 1980s horror gems The Gate and I, Madman. --Andrew Wright

• Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.2 | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The first films's disc features a behind-the-scenes documentary with the show's creators talking generally about the intent of the films, a text interview with Jeffrey Hirschfield on his dual role as writer and voicing robot head 790, plus a hilarious "Purity Test" quiz to see how much of a fan you are. The second film's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, a Sci-fi Channel featurette and another documentary containing a very frank interview with director Robert Sigl and hilarious outtakes from Malcolm McDowell. --Paul Tonks

• Hostage | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (20.77%)   |  RRP £5.99

  British Secret Service agent John Rennie becomes a liability to the Agency after a harrowing mission in Argentina. His ex-wife and children receive death threats and marked for murder he returns to Argentina with a plan that will either protect his family and the woman he loves or destroy them.

• Deadlier Than The Male | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A rarely seen 1966 tongue-in-cheek spy thriller starring Richard Johnson as Hugh Bulldog Drummond investigating the attempted sabotage of oil deals and assassination of a Persian King. Elke Sommer co-stars.

• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Act 1 (The Taming Of The Shrew & Macbeth) | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A double bill of animated Shakespeare plays abridged and adapted by Leon Garfield. In The Taming of the Shrew the rebellious Kate finds true happiness by bowing to the wishes of husband Petruchio. Macbeth Shakespeare's darkest play is a tale of greed murder witchcraft and madness set in ancient Scotland.

• Handel - Agrippina (Malgoire, Grande Ecurie, Chambre Du Roy) | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £27.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Agrippina was staged for the first time in late December 1709 - or possibly at the beginning of 1710 - at Venice's Teatro San Grisostomo and met with enormous success as testified by twenty-seven following performances a record number even for 18th-century standards. Agrippina's triumph sanctioned Handel's definitive investiture as an operatic composer. After nearly 300 years this opera appears as a masterpiece of 18th-century music and an innovative work considering that when Handel composed it he was just twenty-four years old. The composer's melodic creativity and sense of theatre are quite remarkable. The cast conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire includes Vronique Gens in the title role.

• Corridors Of Blood | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic to which he gradually becomes addicted. In order to provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction he falls in with a den of murderers who use his signature to sell corpses to the local hospital.

• The League Of Gentlemen | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which Jack Hawkins plays an embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could justify turning their military experience to armed robbery. Unfortunately the tale is neither particularly amusing or thrilling, with an overlong central detour via an army camp prefacing the exciting heist and a largely anti-climactic ending. Nevertheless Hawkins effectively subverts his heroic officer type from The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and there's excellent support from a great cast including Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Roger Livesey. Bryan Forbes not only wrote the cynical screenplay but costarred with wife Nanette Newman in her first significant screen role. More influential than truly classic, The League of Gentlemen has lent its name to a modern BBC comedy, an "Extraordinary" comic strip-turned-movie, and proved the template for heist films ever since, including both versions of The Italian Job (1969 and 2003). On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer from an excellent condition print and mostly looks and sounds fine. There's minimal print damage, though sadly Philip Green's ironically patriotic main title music suffers from significant distortion. The only extra is the original trailer, which is now something of a period piece itself. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Ipcress File | Blu Ray | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michael Caine cuts a cool dash as the sceptical working-class secret service man Harry Palmer...stylistically extravagant slyly anti-American and pays homage to classic movies' Philip French This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies jettisoning the excesses of 007 and introducing the sly dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer played by Michael Caine relishing a role that marked him for stardom. The story based on Len Deighton's novel centres on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing kidnap and murder and finds a traitor is operating at the heart of the secret service. Will the mysterious 'Ipcress File' reveal who the traitor is? Produced by Harry Saltzman (the early Bond movies) and with an evocative score by Academy Award winning John Barry The Ipcress File emerges as one of cinema's wittiest and grittiest thrillers.

• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - Dual Format Edition | Blu Ray | (09/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally released in 1951, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN is iconoclastic director Albert Lewin's deliriously romantic and contemporary Technicolor visualisation of the often told legend of the sea.

• Micro Safari | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  What's the best way to explore the miniature wilderness of a garden? Become miniature yourself! This special show sees Nigel Marven and his team shrunk down to the size of bugs to get close to the tiny creatures that surround us every day. With ultra high-speed video thermal imaging goggles and remote-controlled spy cameras the amazing events that happen in your backyard jungle are captured on film.

• Nigel Kennedy Plays Bach | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Nigel Kennedy: Kennedy Plays Bach

• Chariots of Fire (30th Anniversary Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (16/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesised score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson

• Gardens Of Cornwall | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Think of Cornwall and you imagine wild seas barren moors...and some of the most romantic gardens in the world. Garden writer and broadcaster Nigel Colborn introduces the Royal Horticultural Society's official tour of some of Cornwall's horticultural gems. In this hour long journey we visit a variety of gardens both large and small from the romantic sub-tropical lushness of Trebah and the Mediterranean exuberance of Tresco to the dramatic charms of Headland. Warmed by the gentle ef

• Invasion Earth | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four friends hike into the Pinewood forest to find evidence of the Chupacabra, a creature believed to be responsible for the disappearance of a group of experienced hikers a year earlier. As they journey deeper into the forest, they are introduced to a darkness that leaves these four victims fighting for their lives. One by one these friends are faced with the reality of survival.