"Actor: Pam Grier"

• Jackie Brown | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £7.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (55.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more "rum" than "punch" and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country. The money belongs to Ordell (Samuel L Jackson), a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend--a loose term with Ordell--Louis (Robert De Niro) is just taking up space and could be interested in the money. However, his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordell's doped-up girl (Bridget Fonda). Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40-ish flight-attendant (Pam Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's working for them. The end result is rarely in doubt, and what is left is two hours of Tarantino's expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town. Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture and language, something he has a gift and passion for. He said this film is for an older audience although the language and drug use may put them off. The film is not a salute to Grier's blaxploitation films beyond the musical score. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster: glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work. --Doug Thomas

• Bones | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £8.04   |  Saving you £11.95 (148.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sleepy-eyed hip-hop luminary Snoop Dogg stars in Bones, an energetic horror film about a hustler who returns from the dead. Jimmy Bones used to rule his street, but now his body lies in the basement of a gothic abandoned house. When a troupe of young DJs and promoters decide to turn the house into a nightclub, dark forces are, unsurprisingly, unleashed. Bones has a cutting sense of humour, and Ernest Dickerson's direction snaps, crackles and pops. It's not exactly subtle--the opening scene launches into gore and special effects--but there is some evocative imagery, particularly a large black hell-hound that the club kids foolishly adopt as a pet. Snoop casts an effectively spectral aura and Pam Grier, as the hustler's psychically gifted former girlfriend, has her usual presence and energy. All in all, a dynamic and enjoyable horror flick. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Snow Day | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £16.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There's nothing cooler than a Snow Day. It's like someone gave you the best birthday present ever-and it's not even your birthday! A Snow Day means no school, no rules and endless possibilities.

• The Big Doll House | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Director Jack Hill (COFFY SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy funny thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier) rebel girl Bodine (Pat Woodell) tough blonde Alcott (Roberta Collins) and Harad (Brooke Mills) a strung-out junkie. The girls race cockroaches fight in the mud shower and get it on while the sadistic head guard (Kathryn Loder) conducts nightly torture sessions for the pleasure of the mysterious Colonel Mendoza. Eventually the girls escape and all hell breaks loose as they race to join the rebels their machine guns blazing a path through the jungles.

• Drum | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in 1860 in New Orleans this is the story of Drum the son of a plantation owner's beautiful wife and her black slave... Based on the novel by Kyole Onstott.

• Black Mama White Mama | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cult blaxploitation star Pam Grier stars in this U.S.-Filipino co-production in which a pair of chained-together women inmates escape from a Filipino prison pursued by an array of bad guys and girl guards...

• Blacula/Scream Blacula Scream | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Blacula: Cultivated and articulate African Prince Mamuwalde is bitten by Count Dracula as is his destiny. He develops the requisite insatiable hunger for blood and must do all that he can to satisfy the craving. Two centuries later the princely ghoul is unwittingly transported to modern day Los Angeles where bloodthirst is a way of life. Blaxploitation and the horror genre mingle in this creature feature that inspired the sequel Scream Blacula Scream. Scream Blacula Scream: When the voodoo high priestess dies her son Willis expects to inherit his mother's powers and be made leader of the cult. But this is not the case and Willis bent on revenge reincarnates Blacula. With Willis as his slave they infiltrate the voodoo cult until a police investigation leads to a bloody confrontation between police and the small army of vampires.

• Mafia | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £2.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (85.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Be Careful Who You Trust... Striving to fulfil his obsessions with power and money, criminal boss Renzo (Ving Rhames- Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible 1-4) and his gang wreak havoc across the streets, leaving the bodies of anyone who crosses them in their stead. Hot in pursuit, and on a mission for revenge is Detective Womack (Pam Grier Jackie Brown) who will stop at nothing to bring these thugs to justice - even if it means breaking the law. But as the net closes in on Renzo, his hunger for ...

• Baad Asssss Cinema - A Bold Look At 70's Blaxploitation Films | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring a wealth of footage from classic films such as Superfly (1972) Shaft (1971) and Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's BaadAsssss Song (1971) and interviews with such key players as Richard Roundtree Quentin Tarantino and Pam Grier Baadasssss Cinema thoroughly explores blaxpolitation films from their breakout casting and the unforgettable soundtracks to the outrageous fashions and hilariously over-the-top storylines that together helped the genre ach

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Women so hot with desire they melt the chains that enslave them. Inside the women prison hell called The Big Bird Cage... inmates like The Price is Right's Anitra Ford struggle to survive. They get their chance at escape when scheming revolutionary Pam Grier engineers a prison break... from the outside in!

• Class of 1999 | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Even though this violent indie film has "exploitation" stamped all over it--with its gratuitous car chases, shootouts, and anarchistic characters--it is a guilty pleasure. Unfolding in the future--well, at least at the time of its release it was a decade ahead of schedule--this movie shows how US urban schools have deteriorated to the point that gangs run the classroom and the police, scared to even go near these educational wastelands, use hired goons to keep law and order there. (In fact, the US government now has a Department of Educational Defence.) In Class of 1999, a corporate representative (Stacy Keach), eager to rake in potential billions in government contracts, convinces a Seattle-area school principal (Malcolm McDowell) to test out three lifelike android teachers (including Pam Grier). This technological trio possesses intelligence and superhuman strength, which offer to both educate and discipline the bad apples at school. Unfortunately, the androids quickly move from harsh discipline such as spankings and beatings to murder, and Keach's corporate scumbag convinces McDowell's educator that despite this, the program needs to stay its course. Thus it is up to a newly paroled ex-gang member (Bradley Gregg) and the principal's daughter (Traci Lind) to uncover the teachers' identities and alert students and rival gangs to the impending danger. Despite its formulaic approach and some plot implausibilities, Mark Lester's film is entertaining to watch, especially with such exchanges as this: "So they've been waging war with my students." "Well, isn't that what all teachers do?" --Bryan Reesman, Amazon.com

• 3 A.M. | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The lives of four night shift cab drivers intertwine while a serial killer is on the loose... 3 A.M when fate thumbs a ride....

• Love The Hard Way | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Claire a brilliant student is searching for life's answers in the quiet logic of her biology laboratory. One day at the local cinema she meets the mysterious Jack and becomes intrigued by the sense of danger than surrounds him. Jack is in fact a bona-fide con artist. With his loyal partner Charlie and two struggling actresses he runs a regular scam conning foreign businessmen. An unlikely romance begins between innocent Claire and hardboiled Jack but Jack won't allow anyone

• Class Of 1999 | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Even though Class of 1999 has "exploitation" stamped all over it--with its gratuitous car chases, shoot-outs, and anarchistic characters--it is a guilty pleasure. Unfolding in the future--well, at least at the time of its release it was a decade ahead of schedule--this movie shows how our urban schools have deteriorated to the point that gangs run the classroom and the police, scared to even go near these educational wastelands, use hired goons to keep law and order there. (In fact, the US government now has a Department of Educational Defense.) In Class of 1999, a corporate representative (Stacy Keach), eager to rake in potential billions in government contracts, convinces a Seattle-area school principal (Malcolm McDowell) to test out three lifelike android teachers (including Pam Grier). This technological trio possess intelligence and superhuman strength, which enable them to both educate and discipline the bad apples at school. Unfortunately, the androids quickly move from harsh discipline such as spankings and beatings to murder, and Keach's corporate scumbag convinces McDowell's educator that despite this, the programme needs to stay its course. Thus it is up to a newly paroled ex-gangbanger (Bradley Gregg) and the principal's daughter (Traci Lind) to uncover the teachers' identities and alert students and rival gangs to the impending danger. Despite its formulaic approach and some plot implausibilities, Mark Lester's film is entertaining to watch, especially with such exchanges as: "So they've been waging war with my students". "Well, isn't that what all teachers do?"--Bryan Reesman, Amazon.com

• The Arena | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Terry a social - climbing young woman accidentally gets caught up in the activities of two revolutionaries Blossom and Django and finds herself in a concentration camp for women. In the centre of the camp is a towering wooden machine (The Big Bird Cage) in which the women risk their lives processing sugar as the evil warden looks on. The prisoners are subjected to sadistic cruelty from the guards and fellow prisoners and all attempts at escape are dealt with... permanently. Terry's only hope for escape lies in Blossom and her revolutionary allies.

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Written and directed by one of Quentin Tarantino's heroes Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters Foxy Brown Coffy) The Big Bird Cage is considered one of the definitive exploitation movies of the 1970s and stars Pam Grier as Blossom and Sid Haig as Django a pair of revolutionaries whose heist on a tropical nightclub doesn't quite go according to plan. The ensuing confusion leads to the wrongful arrest of a scandalous social climber Terry (Anitra Ford) who finds herself incarcerated in a notorious jungle prison populated by scantily-clad inmates. Brutalized and subjected to numerous indignities Terry and her fellow inmates' only hope for survival lies in a rescue plot hatched by Blossom and Django.

• No Tomorrow | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the underworld a big city mobster an extreme militia force and the FBI enter the clandestine mix blurring the lines of loyalty and trust. With the deal in place and fortune at their fingertips it becomes apparent that no one is quite who they seem to be....

• Serpent And The Rainbow, The / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sleepwalkers: Charles Brady and his mother Mary aren't your average American family. They are Sleepwalkers nomadic shape-shifting creatures with human and feline origins. Vulnerable only to the scratch of a cat they thrive on the life-force of virginal flesh... And now's the time to eat... Master of the unimaginable Stephen King creates a new force in fear as high school student Tanya Robertson takes on the terror of the blood-sucking creatures as they unleash an horrific campaign of murder and mutilation in their deadly quest for flesh. Ghosts Of Mars: It's their planet: we are the aliens... 200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet. Serpent And The Rainbow: Wes Craven directs this terrifying story of one man's nightmarish journey into the eerie and deadly world of voodoo. A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

• No Tomorrow | DVD | (03/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the underworld a big city mobster an extreme militia force and the FBI enter the clandestine mix blurring the lines of loyalty and trust. With the deal in place and fortune at their fingertips it becomes apparent that no one is quite who they seem to be....