"Actor: Paul Wight"

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  • Meantime [1983]Meantime | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Meantime, made in 1983, was only Mike Leigh's second film to reach the big screen, though by now he was far from a novice director. Yet 10 years after his first movie, Bleak Moments (1971), he couldn't get funding for a single cinematic feature and was obliged to make films for television. Meantime, first shown on Channel 4, was given a limited theatrical release, heralding his eventual return to the cinema. The title is a double-edged pun. It suggests the waiting-around no-time-in-particular that the characters inhabit, but it's also Leigh's barbed comment on the mean-spirited politics of the Thatcher era, when millions of people were tossed on the scrapheap of unemployment. Leigh has sometimes been accused of caricaturing and being condescending to his characters, but Meantime is notable for wry compassion in its portrayal of a bunch of no-hopers stuck in their East End limbo. Not a lot happens. Mark (Phil Daniels) and his retarded brother Colin (Tim Roth) hang about the streets and pubs, banter with their skinhead mate Coxy (Gary Oldman), half-heartedly chat up local girls, bicker with their parents. Their aunt Barbara--who bettered herself and moved to the relative poshness of Chigwell--offers Colin a job helping her decorate, but he backs out of it. Nobody's going anywhere much. But the view's not totally forlorn. Leigh leaves us with a brief, unexpected moment of warmth and solidarity between the two brothers. On the DVD: It's paltry stuff. A so-called "trailer" proves to be a plug for other DVD releases in the same series. Otherwise it's just a scene menu, and English subtitles for the hard of hearing. The early 80s TV-quality images are badly shown up by the DVD's visual acuity. --Philip Kemp

  • Diamond GeezerDiamond Geezer | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £12.93   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

    The story of Des a career criminal pulling off a big scam while in prison.

  • Shadowmakers [1989]Shadowmakers | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Based on the true events surrounding the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built Shadow Makers is the story of brilliant scientist Robert Oppenheimer who supervised the work on the now infamous ""Manhattan Project"". Directed by Oscar-nominated Roland Joffe the film focuses on the link between the progress of science at all costs deep moral ambiguities and the effects of the project on the individuals involved. Paul Newman plays th

  • Midsomer Murders - Murder On St Malley's DayMidsomer Murders - Murder On St Malley's Day | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £9.95   |  Saving you £10.03 (144.11%)   |  RRP £16.99

    There is trouble at Devington School in the village of Midsomer Parva. During the annual St. Malley's Day race Daniel Talbot is stabbed. Daniel is a member of The Pudding Club a secret society which comprises of elite students from the school. Who committed the attack? If Barnaby and Troy are to unravel the mystery they must first break the silence that shrouds the club.

  • WWF - Wrestlemania 16WWF - Wrestlemania 16 | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  • Knucklehead [DVD]Knucklehead | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

    Knucklehead is a knock-out comedy in the vein of Blades of Glory Happy Gilmore or Dodgeball. Set in the very popular and exciting world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) our story follows a low-rent con artist named Eddie Sullivan (Mark Feuerstein). After incurring a large debt with a local criminal ringleader Eddie creates a get-rich-quick scheme and enlists a sweet gentle giant named Walter (Paul Big Show Wight) as his unwitting accomplice. Eddie's plan: travel from town to town with Walter and enter small unsanctioned MMA fighting competitions for prize money. Walter's orphanage - the only home he's ever known - also needs funds desperately so he reluctantly agrees. During their journey Walter discovers what life is like outside the orphanage while Eddie becomes morally conflicted over whether to take all the loot for himself or keep his promise to Walter the one person he can actually call a friend.

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