"Actor: Robbins"

• On The Buses: The Complete Series Boxset | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £99.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.04%)   |  RRP £99.99

  One of the most successful TV series ever made running from 1969 to 1973 On the Buses is great British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan and Stephen Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake ('Blakey') who does his best to get the buses out in time whilst making their lives as miserable as possible. This behemoth of a release features every episode from all seven series!

• 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...

• Marty Robbins - Greatest Hits Anthology | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Presented by Robert K. Oermann and with Barbara Mandrell Merle Haggard and Ronny Robbins Marty Robbins performs 20 of his favourite tracks including: 'Singing The Blues' 'White Sport Coat' 'Devil Woman' 'Thats All Right Mama' 'Mr Shorty' and 'Some Memories Just Want Die'.

• Wrecked | Blu Ray | (29/08/2011) from £12.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (56.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Academy Award Winner Adrien Brody stars as a man who awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. Injured bleeding and in pain he is trapped inside with no memory of how he got there or who he is. There's money in the trunk and body on the back seat ... what happened? As he struggles to survive in the magnificent wilderness using his most primal instincts he discover clues to his identity and a dark side is revealed. Even if he survives the carnage he may face the horrible consequences of an earlier forgotten life.

• Miss Firecracker | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Carnelle isn't happy with her life so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. Few think she can win even her closest friends and relatives (e.g. slightly mad cousin Delmount) think she's heading for a big disappointment but Carnelle is ever hopeful seeing a win as a ticket to escape her small town in Mississippi.

• Luciano Pavarotti - Verdi - Un Ballo In Machera | DVD | (26/02/2008) from £25.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo In Maschera.Live At The Metropolitan Opera on 16 February 1980.

• My Dear Secretary | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £5.91   |  Saving you £2.07 (70.89%)   |  RRP £4.99

  If Charles Martin's wisecracking 1948 period-piece My Dear Secretary hasn't quite endured as a classic of its kind, it still commands attention as an appealing and often very funny curiosity. Kirk Douglas rightly earned his status as one of the titans of big-screen epic drama, so it's a surprise to encounter him in this romantic comedy as a feckless writer who can always find something to do rather than get down to work, leaving a string of outraged, frustrated or compromised secretaries in his wake. Douglas has a reasonably light comic touch and spars well with Laraine Day, in determined form as the secretary whom finally tames him and, in a notable strike for women's liberation, becomes a successful author herself in the process. But this is a film in which the supporting cast steal the best lines and scenes. Keenan Wynn is delightful as Ronnie, Douglas' neighbour and partner in the pursuit of pleasure. Some splendid high campery offers ample evidence that in a more enlightened age, Ronnie would surely have been openly gay. How else to explain his hilarious last reel marriage of convenience to the wealthy dragon of a landlady, played by the irrepressible Florence Bates? It isn't vintage screwball by any means, but My Dear Secretary is witty and literate enough to make you long for a revival in sophisticated cinema comedy. Truly, they don't make 'em like they used to. On the DVD: As the rush to release long-forgotten gems on DVD turns into a deluge, we will probably have to get used to the sort of disappointment on offer here: unrestored prints with no digital remastering and lousy sound quality, simply slammed onto the disc. The film could hardly be served less adequately. There isn't even any static background information on the production or the actors, making the package rather poor. --Piers Ford

• On The Buses - Series 2 - Episodes 4 To 6 | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set around a London bus depot, On the Buses starred Reg Varney as Stan, an ageing bachelor and driver of the No.11 bus who still lives with his Mum (Doris Hare), his plain sister Olive (Anna Karen) and disgruntled brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins). At work, he fraternises with the laddish and lecherous Jack (Bob Grant), with whom he pursues innumerable (and improbable) giggly, mini-skirted "clippies" (conductors) and cheeks the beady-eyed and punctilious bus inspector, Blakey (Steven Lewis) Despite its immense popularity, On the Buses hasn't dated well. Like the buses themselves, the jokes don't arrive very often and when they do, they're visible a long way off. The studio audience whoops cathartically at anything remotely alluding to sex--even a bared male nipple--making you wonder at the repressed nature of British society in 1969. In later decades it would come to be treasured as somewhat creaky kitsch by audiences nostalgic for an age of politically incorrect innocence. On the DVD: On the Buses has no extra features here. The original black and white versions have scrubbed up reasonably well, although defects such as fading sound and poor dubbing have proven beyond amendment. --David Stubbs

• Thelma And Louise/Bull Durham | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £14.97   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Thelma And Louise (Dir. Ridley Scott 1991): Thelma (Geena Davis) is a bored housewife. Louise (Susan Sarandon) is a waitress at a coffee shop. Together they sneak off in a T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip. However things don't go quite according to plan... An encounter with a drunken foul-mouthed would-be rapist transforms their quiet getaway weekend into a cross-country escape that will change their lives forever... Bull Durham (Dir. Ron Shelton 1988): The Durham Bulls are in a slump and have spent a hefty sum of money acquiring an untested young pitcher in the hopes of reversing their standings. Crash Davis a 12-year veteran ballplayer who has spent most of his time bumming around as a minor league catcher is assigned to mature the rookie pitching phenom named ""Nuke."" But a beautiful and enigmatic team groupie comes between the tutor and his student enlightening both with her game of life love and verse.

• The Complete Coen Collection: 1984 - 2004 | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Modern-day auteurs of the cinematic world the Coen Brothers have built a reputation as one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmakers of the late 20th century. Combining thoughtful eccentricity wry humour arch irony and often brutal violence the films of the Coen brothers have become synonymous with a style of filmmaking that pays tribute to classic American movie genres -- especially film noir -- while sustaining a firmly post-modern feel. For the first time ever all eleven of the Coen Brothers titles available in one box set which cover the first 20 years of their output Blood Simple (1984): A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But when blood is involved nothing is simple. Raising Arizona (1987): When a childless couple of ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another familys quintuplets their lives get more complicated than they anticipated. Miller's Crossing (1990): Tom Reagan an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. Barton Fink (1991): In 1941 New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle Barton develops severe writers block. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994): A nave business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. Fargo (1996): Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson. The Big Lebowski (1998): 'Dude' Lebowski mistaken for millionaire Lebowski seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to get help O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000): Set in 1930s Deep South three stumblebum convicts escape to go on a quest for treasure and meet various characters while learning where their real fortune lies. The Man Who Wasn't There: (2001) A laconic chain-smoking barber blackmails his wifes boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning but his plan goes terribly wrong. Intolerable Cruelty: (2003) A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverley Hill lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce. The Ladykillers: (2004) An eccentric if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord: a sharp old woman.

• Five Corners | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £9.94   |  Saving you £1.04 (14.96%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A young psychotic man returns to his neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks the young lady he previously tried to rape and the young man who protected her with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

• Wes Craven's Don't Look Down | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Wes Craven acts as executive producer on this psychological horror film. Carla's (Megan Ward) sister accidentally falls off a cliff when the railing becomes loose while Carla's boyfriend takes photos. She has a hard time getting over her death and keeps having visions of her sister yelling at her for not saving her. It seems that every time she gets next to the edge of a high area she gets terrified. She then starts to take a class with other acrophobiacs. Then the people in the group start getting killed one by one. She starts to suspect that someone wants her never to get over her fear and that he loose railing was meant for her...

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £18.70   |  Saving you £-8.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Running from 1969 to 1973 On The Buses was one of the most successful comedy series ever made. Re-live the flares and wide collars with the On The Buses crew. 'On the Buses' is British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan Bob Grant as his chirpy conductor Jack and Stephen I'll 'ave you Butler! Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake who does his best to get the buses out on time while making their lives as miserable as possible. Episode titles: Going Steady The Squeeze On The Make Brew It Yourself.

• Code 46 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-10.99 (-110.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the most successful TV series ever made running from 1969 to 1973 'On the Buses' is great British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan and Stephen Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake ('Blakey') who does his best to get the buses out in time whilst making their lives as miserable as possible.

• Dead Man Walking | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A serious film on a serious subject, Dead Man Walking (1995) is enriched by two excellent performances: Sean Penn as a murderer and rapist facing execution on Death Row, and Susan Sarandon as a nun who visits and befriends him. Tim Robbins, the writer and director of the film (and Sarandon's husband), based the film on a true story, and there's not much narrative tension since it's obvious Penn will not escape his fate. But the film is a clear-eyed look at the realities of capital punishment and its grisly rituals, which at the same time never sentimentalises the people or the issues. There is no shying away from the evil of the murderer's acts and their effects on the victims' families, but this is balanced against the heartlessness and cynicism of those in the prison system and their political masters. It's hard to say whether the film is ultimately against capital punishment; it certainly encourages you to think for yourself. On the DVD: The image and sound quality is excellent, in widescreen ratio 16:9. There's a theatrical trailer and a TV commercial for the film, which also has language tracks in English, French and Spanish and subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Hungarian. There's also an audio commentary on the film by director Tim Robbins which gives valuable insights into the political background of the film and the shooting process. --Ed Buscombe

• The Plague Dogs | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  An animated adventure from the artistic team behind 'Watership Down'. A pair of dogs Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) and Snitter (John Hurt) escape from an animal research facility situated in a remote part of the English countryside. Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of humans having only known the tortured existence of being a laboratory animal. Snitter on the other hand had previously enjoyed life as a domestic pet and longs to be loved and cared for by a human master once again. Unprepared for life in the wild the pair befriend a fox The Tod (James Bolam) who helps them learn to survive in the bleak environment by feeding on the area's livestock. As the authorities attempt to track down the escapees things take a turn for the worse when a deliberately leaked story suggests the dogs may be infected with the bubonic plague...

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Running from 1969 to 1973 On The Buses was one of the most successful comedy series ever made. Re-live the flares and wide collars with the On The Buses crew. 'On the Buses' is British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan Bob Grant as his chirpy conductor Jack and Stephen I'll 'ave you Butler! Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake who does his best to get the buses out on time while making their lives as miserable as possible. Episode titles: Mum's Last Fling Radio Control Foggy Night The New Uniforms.

• Noise | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When David Owen moves to New York he likes everything about the city except the Noise. At first even the noise seems to him the throb of urban vitality which makes New York so exciting. Yet gradually this incessant and unnecessary din begins to drive him crazy. So David begins to take arms. He quietly vandalises cars whose alarms are going off lets the air out of tyres leaves notes on the windshield. This has no effect so he goes further keys the paintwork cracks a tailight... Eventually caught in the act he is arrested and spends the night in jail. He promises to stop - but can't... Will David win his battle or will the noise get the better of him? Noise is the latest film from Henry Bean (The Believer) and stars Tim Robbins as David a successful lawyer who is caught in an impossible conundrum: He is in love with his new hometown New York City but driven mad by its noise!

• Top Gun | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99