"Actor: Oliver"

• Das Experiment | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's German-language movie Das Experiment finds a group of 20 volunteers randomly divided into 12 prisoners and eight guards and asked to play out their roles for a fortnight while scientists study their reactions. A conflict arises between undercover reporter Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu), a con with a hidden agenda and the apparently mild-mannered Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), a guard with a megalomaniac streak. The film begins as a psychological drama as ordinary people settle into the game, with joking displays of resistance by the "prisoners" greeted with increasing brutality from the "guards", but detours into suspense and horror as Fahd, who needs the experiment to get out of hand in order to make his story more saleable, deliberately ratchets up the tension between the factions only to see the situation spiral nightmarishly out of control as various test subjects in both camps edge closer to snapping. With a terrific display of ensemble acting and unforced use of the currently popular claustrophobic semi-documentary look, Hirschbiegel's movie takes its time to get underway, with apparently irrelevant cutaways to Fahd's outside girlfriend (Maren Eggert), but works up to a powerful second half that delivers a sustained symphony of psychological and physical anguish. On the DVD: Das Experiment on disc has an excellent-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer with English subtitles. The only extra feature is the trailer. --Kim Newman

• The Queen & I | DVD | (30/09/2019) from £4.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Made-for-TV comedy drama based on the novel by Sue Townsend. Following the election of the Republican Party, the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister, Jack Barker (David Walliams), carries out his campaign promise to abolish the country's monarchy. Stripped of their vast wealth, the Royal Family is forced to relocate to a council estate in the Midlands, where they struggle to fit in and adjust to their new surroundings.

• Fanny Hill | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of John Cleland's infamous erotic novel this is the sensual story of nubile virginal country girl Fanny Hill forced into the oldest profession in the world. Throwing herself body and soul into her new work Fanny comes to derive enormous pleasure from her new-found ability to please yet all the while longing for her innocent first love...

• The Last Explorers | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Neil Oliver presents this four-part BBC documentary series about the golden age of exploration. In each episode Neil traces the footsteps of a different explorer from Scotland, visiting locations including the Zambesi river, the Antarctica, Yosemite Valley and Japan, and discussing subjects such as slavery, science, conservation and war along the way. The episodes are: 'Livingstone', 'William Speirs Bruce', 'John Muir' and 'Thomas Blake Glover'.

• Die Unendliche Geschichte (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Project X | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £3.59   |  Saving you £16.40 (82.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Nima Nourizadeh and produced by Todd Phillips (The Hangover) and Joel Silver (The Matrix), Project X is an out-of-control comedy that follows a group of friends who set out to throw the most epic 17th birthday party ever.

• Rammstein - Live Aus Berlin | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Berlin's industrial metal sextet Rammstein was already provocative when the band nabbed unwanted U.S. press attention as favorites of the two young sociopaths behind 1999's tragic high school shootings in Columbine, Colorado. This concert video, expertly produced during a huge outdoor concert the previous summer, won't dissipate the tension between Rammstein's fans and social critics looking to find the links between such violence and the band's intense, sweeping music, especially on this uncensored edit of their nearly 100-minute set. Sonically, the band lashes the clangorous legacy of industrial countrymen like Einsturzende Neubaten to the simpler, head-banging power chords of metallurgists like the Scorpions, Rammstein's front line of rasping, squealing guitars laced with synthesizer and pummeled by splashy drum work. The music's focal point is vocalist Till Lindemann, who half-sings, half-bellows in a guttural bass that makes most metal men sound like countertenors, an effect underscored by Lindemann's beefy, muscular physique as he stalks the stage. His macho growl and restless movement contrast with the largely motionless postures of his bandmates, which include a vampiric guitarist, a rail-thin keyboardist, and an even more spectral, bald bassist whose black-taped skull nods to S&M couture. A massive stage set that's one part Borg, one part Blade Runner, onstage pyrotechnics, and piercing klieg lights that sweep the vast crowd pointedly synthesize Third Reich with apocalypse as rapturous fans sing along with "Du Hast" ("You Hate") or "Heirate Mich" ("Worship Me"). When the mesmerizing sturm und drang finally pauses, it's due to a graphic, simulated homosexual rape (on "Bueck Dich") that earns this tape its advisory, and will repulse all but the most ardent fans. --Sam Sutherland

• Oliver Stone Presents: The Putin Interviews | DVD | (03/09/2019) from £25.67   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Lion Of The Desert | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The year is 1929 and dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 20 year long war waged by Bedouin patriots to combat Italian colonisation in Africa. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed) governor of Libya confidant that he can crush the rebellion and restore the glories of Imperial Rome. Inspirational in the Bedouin resistance toward the oppressors is the leadership of one man - Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn). A teacher by profession guerilla

• Doctor Who: Series 9 - Part 2 | Blu Ray | (04/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Peter Capaldi returns as the Doctor alongside Jenna Coleman as Clara in the final six thrilling episodes of Series Nine. THE ZYGON INVASION THE ZYGON INVERSION SLEEP NO MORE FACE THE RAVEN HEAVEN SENT HELL BENT BONUS FEATURES: 4 X DOCTOR WHO EXTRA

• Problem Child/Problem Child 2/Problem Child 3 | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Problem Child: Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is he really just a little angel trying to get out? Find out in this hilarious satire on modern-day family life. Problem Child 2: Junior the monster is now back as him and Ben his adoptive father move to Mortville 'the world's capital of divorce'. There Ben falls in love with a beautiful but mean-minded rich woman Lawanda Dumore who wants to marry him and eliminate Junior. As Junior and his new friend Trixie (she's another monster the daughter of Annie another woman) try to avoid this disaster and get their parents in love they get into a lot of trouble as we notice that ONE monster was already a headache TWO of them is really the apocalypse! Problem Child 3: That little devil Junior is back once more and he's just as naughty as ever! In this the third edition in the hilarious Problem Child series Junior is persuaded to join in with other children in various fun activities - including dancing. His father's plan appears to work when yes - Junior falls in love! - with the beautiful and ever popular Tiffany. But this only incites Junior to greater heights of mayhem-making as he sets about getting rid of the competition for Tiffany's affection.

• Hannibal Brooks | Blu Ray | (02/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Kinsey | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £2.86   |  Saving you £18.39 (1,149.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Liam Neeson stars as American sociologist and sexual pioneer Alfred Kinsey in this biopic.

• Three Stooges In Colour / Laurel & Hardy - Way Out West / Marx Bros - Duck Soup | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Three Stooges In Colour: Four remastered colourised comedy shorts featuring American vaudeville act The Three Stooges: Disorder in the Court (1936) Brideless Groom (1947) Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) Malice in the Palace (1949). Way Out West: Stan and Ollie arrive in Brushwood Gulch bearing the deed to a gold mine. They are to deliver the deed to Mary Roberts but are intercepted by her employer villainous saloon-owner Mickey Finn. Finn passes off his wife Lola as the heiress but Stan and Ollie discover the truth and set about retrieving the deed. Finn has the Sheriff on his side so our heroes must resort to burglary - with the aid of ropes pulleys and their mule! Duck Soup: Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand the Paul Revere parody the We're Going To War number (a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals) the hilarious mirror scene and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone including Woody Allen!

• The Big C - Season 2 | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  As the failure of her chemotherapy sends her in search of a clinical trial that could save her life, Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney) returns to work and lands a job coaching the high school swim team. But just as she begins getting her life back on track and agrees to house a student whose family is moving to Africa, her husband, Paul (Oliver Platt), loses his job and their health insurance. Meanwhile, Cathy must confront a fellow trial patient’s difficult battle with cancer and the baby that her best friend is having with her mentally unstable brother, Sean (John B. Hickey), all while her son, Adam (Gabriel Basso), struggles with his emerging sexuality. And in the wake of a Thanksgiving dinner gone awry, a series of tragic events serves to underscore the harsh realities of the difficult road ahead for Cathy. Season two guest stars include Alan Alda, Cynthia Nixon, Hugh Dancy and Parker Posey.

• All Quiet On The Preston Front - Series 1 | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another fine comedy series from the BBC All Quiet On The Preston Front charts the everyday lives and mis-adventures of a group of friends most of whom belong to the local unit of the Territorial Army; Hodge and Eric are the best of friends and have known each other since school; Spock is the specky history teacher; Lloydy the man mountain; Ally the solicitor's wife desperately searching for her real self; Dawn the gorgeous college student; and Diesel the human dynamo with

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 8 - Blackmail/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £0.49 (8.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Chickens Come Home (b/w) Chickens Come Home (colourised) Politiquerias (Chickens Come Home in an extended Spanish-language edition with Laurel & Hardy speaking their own Spanish dialogue!) Come Clean (b/w) Love 'Em and Weep (b/w silent with music score) Sugar Daddies (b/w silent with music score) Early to Bed (b/w silent with music score) A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts based around the theme of blackmail - actual or implied! In one of the team's best shorts 'Chickens Come Home' Ollie is a candidate for Mayor whose campaign is endangered by the reappearance of a girl from his past. Alongside the familiar version of this film is its feature-length Spanish equivalent 'Politiquerias' with L&H speaking their own foreign dialogue plus the early silent short 'Love 'Em And Weep' on which it was based. Another early silent 'Sugar Daddies' provides a variant on the idea (plus the same climactic gag!) while in the sound short 'Come Clean' regular foil Mae Busch - the blackmailer in 'Love 'Em And Weep' and its remake - is once again demanding money from Stan and Ollie. In the classic silent 'Early To Bed' Ollie has money to spare - and this time it's Stan who learns the power of blackmail!

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 12 - L & H and the Law/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.22   |  Saving you £3.03 (102.36%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Scram! (b/w) Scram! (colourised) Night Owls (b/w) Night Owls (colourised) Night Owls (Spanish version) The Second Hundred Years (silent with musical score) The Call Of The Cuckoo (silent with musical score) Duck Soup (silent with musical score and sound effects) 45 Minutes From Hollywood (silent with musical score) Big Business (silent with musical score) A collection of classic shorts with Stan and Ollie finding themselves - mostly - on the wrong side of the law. In 'Scram!' a judge orders them to leave town after finding them guilty of vagrancy. 'Night Owls' sees Stan and Ollie in the same condition but the local cop is willing to let them go if they are willing to pose as burglars. 'Ladrones' is an extended Spanish-language version of 'Night Owls' with L&H speaking their own dialogue. Stan and Ollie are shaven-headed convicts in 'The Second Hundred Years' a silent classic in which they escape from jail disguised as painters. The shaven heads are still visible in a guest appearance made at the same time in the Max Davidson comedy 'Call of the Cuckoo'. In 'Duck Soup' they elude the sheriff by taking refuge in an empty mansion posing as owner and maid for the benefit of prospective tenants. '45 Minutes From Hollywood' the first Hal Roach film in which both Laurel and Hardy appeared casts Oliver Hardy as a hotel detective. The all-time classic 'Big Business' - sometimes hailed as the greatest of all the L&H films - involves them in battle with irascible James Finlayson following their attempts to sell him a Christmas tree.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 17 - Swiss Miss/Animal Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Swiss Miss (b/w) Swiss Miss (colourised) The Chimp (b/w) The Chimp (colourised) Flying Elephants (b/w silent with musical score) In 'Swiss Miss' Stan and Ollie visit Switzerland in the hope of selling mousetraps only to find themselves having to work in a hotel to pay off their bill. One of the most memorable scenes is that in which they are required to transport a piano across a flimsy rope bridge where they meet an escaped gorilla! Another large ape is Ethel the title character of 'The Chimp' while large creatures of a quite different kind appear in the Stone-Age comedy 'Flying Elephants'.

• Redirected | DVD | (12/01/2015) from £4.53   |  Saving you £11.46 (252.98%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four friends - John, Ben, Tim and Michael - turned first-time robbers, get stranded in Eastern Europe through a series of misadventures and have to find their way back home.