"Actor: Norman"

• Rockers | DVD | (01/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Writer-director Theodoros Bafaloukos responded to Jamaica's siren call all the way over in Greece and came to the island to make this 1977 movie about a band of Rasta men/Robin Hoods getting their own back at the expense of those perennial bloodsuckers, the "uptown top rankings", as men of money and position are called in Jamaica. The reggae star-studded cast is undoubtedly the movie's most rewarding feature, though some fans have objected to the demeaning sight of the incomparable late singer Jacob Miller threatening a friend with a knife over a purloined chicken leg or the equally great singer Gregory Isaacs exacting chump change for unlocking a tourist's rental car. However, these and other great reggae figures are also seen here in full and glorious performance at their peak. In fact, this film provides our only extended visual record of Miller's kinetic performance style and one of the best pieces of footage on Isaacs. Although Rockers doesn't approach the multi-layered complexity of The Harder They Come and it does betray a little superiority now and then to its characters, there are plenty of laughs as well as insights into life at the time for Jamaica's growing Rastafarian movement. Drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace makes an unlikely though quintessentially Jamaican leading man as he moves between wooing the rich man's virginal daughter and making pit stops at the shack he shares with his wife and children. His band of accomplices is priceless, and the scene in which each struts in his own "stylee" to Peter Tosh's "Stepping Razor" is alone worth the price. --Elena Oumano

• The Barbarian And The Geisha | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1856 U.S. Counsel General Townsend Harris arrives in Japan docked in the port of Shimoda at a time when foreigners were not welcomed. Harris is testing a previous open-door agreement between the two nations although Japan has no intention of going through with it. While international diplomacy moves at a snail's pace a nobleman ""gives"" Harris a geisha Okichi to ease his boredom...

• Rebellious Reign | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  During the Ching dynasty Ming Kang Yau a kung fu expert allies himself with the 4th Prince in a struggle for the rite of succession as the Emperor is dying...

• Nighthawks | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After the end of his workday staid schoolteacher Jim explores the disco's and secret meeting places of London's gay underground unable to reconcile his sexual identity with the rest of his life - until the strain of living a lie threatens to take its toll at last.

• Drive-In Massacre | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Danger UXB 2 | DVD | (06/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Classic military drama series revolving around a World War Two bomb disposal squad. This volume includes the episodes 'Cast Iron Killer' 'The Silver Lining' and 'The Quiet Weekend'.

• Paranormal Entity 1 & 2 Double Pack | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £12.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Paranormal Entity: Twenty-three year old Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister Samantha as well as the murder of fifty-two year old Edgar Lauren a Professor and paranormal investigator. In the early morning hours Police were called to the scene by Thomas Finley himself. He was found inside with his sister's body cradled in his arms. After questioning Thomas was taken into custody. In his police statement Thomas claimed that the victims were attacked by a demonic entity of unknown origin. Days later he committed suicide. It is the opinion of those closely related to the family that this video found at the scene be shown to the public as a final testament to what actually happened inside the Finley home in those final days. Paranormal Entity 2: In 2004 a film crew set out to find the ghost of John Wayne Gacy. They did.

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• The Girl On The Boat | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sam Marlowe travels to the States with the intention of convincing his aunt to let him rent out her summer house in England. But when the aunt discovers that Eustace Sam's cousin is planning to secretly marry she sends them back to England. On the return trip Sam meets and falls for Eustace's ex-fiancee Billie with hilarious results. Adapted from the P.G. Wodehouse novel.

• Muhammad Ali - The Greatest | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (653.27%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This programme is the definitive biography of Muhammad Ali the true story of his ups and downs both in and out of the ring. With the backdrop of racial segregation find out how a young loud overconfident boy from Southern USA started on his long journey to success. Defeating Sonny Liston Ali (born Clay) would carry on the legacy left by the likes of Johnson and Louis. But Ali's life is as peppered with lows as it is with highs. His refusal to be drafted for service in Vietnam an

• Luster | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Street poet Jackson opens his eyes to a sea of bodies. The naked cowboy-junkie shooting up in the bathroom confirms that last night was another orgy of fun. However for Jackson the weekend has only begun! Clean-cut Derek declares that he loved Jackson from the moment he saw him. Jackson doesn't believe in love at first sight! Sam Jackson's best friend also loves Jackson - the problem is he's straight. Jackson thinks he's in love with Billy who he met at the orgy. Then Jackson's

• A Hard Days Night (Special Edition, 4K-UHD+Blu-ray+2 Bonus-DVDs) | Blu Ray | (23/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Angry Silence | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Guy Green's film represented the beginning of a lack of solidarity in unions as Tom Curtis (Richard Attenborough) with wife Anna (Pier Angeli) expecting a child refuses to join an unofficial strike in his machine shop and becomes the victim of assaults both mental and physical. Acclaimed as one of the most moving and powerful films ever made in Britain The Angry Silence won unprecedented acclaim. Within a week of its opening it had become the most talked-about film in the country

• Iron Monkey / Thai Chi Boxer / Wing Chun | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This box set features a collection of titles from the master of modern-day action choreography Yuen Woo-Ping. Iron Monkey - Platinum Edition: One of the most visually spectacular films ever produced by a Hong Kong studio this is a traditional epic style movie boasting fight choreography by Yuen Woo Ping action director of ""The Matrix"" ""Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"" and ""Kill Bill vol 1"" and soon-to-be Hollywood star Donnie Yen. This film is credited by fans and critics a

• Killer Eye | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Terror Vision In an attempt to prove that the human eye is the gateway to another dimension a brilliant opthalmologist performs his final experiment on an unwitting homeless subject. When the dead man's eye rises into the air and expands to an enormous size a new life form begins - A seemingly invincible being of pure light energy -- driven by a hunger for knowledge...and a taste for young women. It's feeding time.

• Sandstorm | DVD | (24/11/2000) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-6.97 (-116.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Directed by Academy Award Nominee Matt Palmieri 'Sandstorm' is an engrossing psychological thriller packed with violence and high drama. In an attempt to escape from his troubled past Jack has settled in a small Californian coastal town and begins to prosper in love and work. However his past catches up with him in the form of his renegade father and delinquent half brothers all of whom are on the run from the law and determined to destroy Jack's new life.

• Saboteur | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 3 Of 4 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Van der Valk - Series 1 (Part 3)

• Cutting Class | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Welcome to Wurleigh High School, where the pressures of student life can be seriously crushing. The night janitor hates teenagers, the students are turning to drink. Brian's just returned from a mental hospital, and everyone else is losing their mind. Somebody is cutting classes at Wurleigh High, and the bodycount's rising.

• Norman Wisdom - Trouble On Tour | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring Norman Wisdom live at his annual show.