"Actor: Rodney"

• Secret Admirer | Blu Ray | (07/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Opposite Of Sex | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Christina Ricci had a great year in 1998. The young actress continued to cast off her youthful image from the Addams Family movies and made a big splash on the independent movie scene, especially in this scathingly witty comedy in which Ricci has the central role. Here she plays Dedee, a buxom, sexually precocious teenager who's pregnant, cynical, and looking for a volunteer father for her unborn child. This takes her to the home of her gay half-brother (Martin Donovan) whose current lover (Ivan Sergei) becomes Dedee's latest target for seduction. That's just the start of the mischief that Dedee so masterfully orchestrates, and Lisa Kudrow (from TV's Friends) is also on hand to deliver some of the movie's most quotable dialogue while fending off the affection of a local policeman played by Lyle Lovett. If all this sounds rather sordid, rest assured that the movie's got a warm heart (well, sort of) beating beneath all of its sharp-edged sarcasm. Writer-director Don Roos (Single White Female) injects most of the movie's appeal and humour through Dedee's voice-over narration, which constantly reminds us that even the most familiar movie clichés can be cleverly overturned. As a result, The Opposite of Sex is the opposite of boring. --Jeff Shannon

• Dancing At The Blue Iguana | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £15.05   |  Saving you £-5.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A glimpse into the often misunderstood world of the strip club that follows the lives of five dancers and the lives of those around them as they all converge over a single week.

• Santana - Supernatural Live | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £12.18   |  Saving you £-2.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After nine global awards and the phenomenal success of his Supernatural album Santana performs hits from his current CD as well as classics such as 'Oye Como Va' and 'Black Magic Women' in this spectacular concert. Track Listing: 1. (Da Le) Yaleo 2. Love of My Life 3. Angel 4. Put Your Lights On 5. Africa Bamba 6. Do You Like The Way 7. Migra 8. Day of Celebration 9. Victory Is Won 10. Maria Maria 11. Apache 12. Smooth/Dame Tu Amor 13. Gypsy Queen/Oye Como Va 14. Encore: Make Somebody Happy/Right On Be Free

• DER MIT DEM WOLF TANZT-EX - MO | DVD | (12/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Crossing | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £3.94   |  Saving you £-0.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Sam returns home after a lengthy absence to find his girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend. The two friends then end up in a drunken race where the question of who gets the girl will be decided at a train crossing...

• The Jack Bull | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-44.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on American television network HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers to a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death. This terrier is Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse breeder of limited means who has a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L Q Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over and his men beat Redding's Indian horse trainer and friend (Rodney A Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered as the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket. So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law. Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticised Western—a full hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star/producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising and willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable but John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £22.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (11.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The famous performance of Verdi's romantic tragedy captures one of the most sensational debuts in operatic history. Singing Violetta for the first time was the young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu whose remarkable interpretation reached the front pages of the world's press and led the BBC immediately to film the production. Equally notable was the masterly conducting of Sir Georg Solti and director Richard Eyre's stylish staging. This DVD and highlights CD present the definitive record of a momentous occasion.

• Baryshnikov's The Nutcracker | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critically acclaimed Emmy-nominated production. Baryshnikov was at the height of his career as a classical dancer in 1977 when he staged this beloved holiday classic for the American Ballet Theatre. Gelsey Kirkland had left the New York City Ballet to dance with the Russian superstar and their partnership was magical. In this Soviet-influenced version Baryshnikov casts himself as the hero who is transformed from a wooden figure to a soaring prince and Kirkland plays an adolescent girl of delicacy and vulnerability. Alexander Minz portrays Drosselmeyer a mysterious wizard who not only conjures the fantasy but aslo dances with the romantic couple. Kenneth Schermerhorn conducts the National Philharmonic in a fast-paced performance of Tchaikovsky's music. Celebrated by critics and public alike Baryshnikov's The Nutcracker delivers a brilliant and sparkling adaptation of the famous E.T.A. Hoffmann tale along with Tchaikovsky's classic score.

• Mayor Of Sunset Strip | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £5.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (67.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One unlikely man made America listen. 'The Mayor Of Sunset Strip' is a wildly entertaining ride through rock-and-roll history as seen through the eyes of one supremely distinct figure Rodney Bingenheimer. Directed by acclaimed documentarian George Hickenlooper ('Hearts Of Darkness') the film examines the life of Los Angeles' ""Mayor of Sunset Strip."" Coming of age in LA in the 1960s just as rock-and-roll was bursting onto the scene Bingenheimer was obsessed with all thing

• Abs Conditioning - Yoga, Balanceball, Pilates | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Bizet - Carmen | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-18.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Bizet's powerful opera staged at London's Earls Court in Steven Pimkott's production.

• Berserker | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based upon an old Nordic legend a Berserker was a bloodthirsty warrior kept in chains and used as the first line of assault in Viking raids. Because they ate human flesh they were cursed by the God Odin forbidden a restful death and fated to be reincarnated in their blood kin. Now in present day America the Berserker has risen out of hell to stalk a mixed group of college students camping in the woods. When the blood feast begins the screaming suspense starts clawing at the nerves can anything human destroy the Berserker or will the carnage continue over the centuries?

• Dances With Wolves (DVD/CD) (1990) (Movies & Music - The Movie On DVD + The CD Soundtrack) | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BOX SET - The complete experience on 2 discs - DVD :the film + special features including Kevin Cosner profile - CD : soundtrack , 18 tracks.

• The Godson | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £7.63   |  Saving you £12.35 (266.16%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Mob boss Sunny Calzone was tough real tough. He had been shot stabbed hit by a truck and thrown from a 50 foot building only to meet his maker when he tripped over his own shoelace. Now his warm hearted brother Guiseppe 'The Guppy' Calzone has been thrust into the ultimate position of power. He is the head of the Calzone family...

• 666 The Child | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £9.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (73.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A lone child survives a plane crash and he is adopted by a childless couple. Soon the couple realizes that their son isn't human at all but the Beast and his appearance is to usher in the Beginning of the End.

• Dubplate - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This pioneering multi-platform urban TV series became the world's first viewer-led interactive television drama. Using online and text votes when the show originally aired it allowed viewers to truly impact the storyline and direction of the forthcoming episode. Now for the first time on DVD watch the results of your votes as the story of Dionne (Shystie) unfolds. We follow the young female MC as she tries to make her way in the UK music scene and this blisteringly fast-paced first series features some of the UK's hottest grime and Hip Hop stars such as Rodney P Kele Le Roc and Ms Dynamite. As Dionne searches for success she has to deal with issues of drugs guns violence and crime. Watch how your decisions shape the plot of the show and the fate of Dionne.

• Delivery Boys | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £11.95   |  Saving you £-7.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys hence they call themselves the ""Delivery Boys"". They form a dance team and enter a local break dance contest sponsored by a woman's panty manufacturer. A rival gang's sponsor intimidates their employer into thinking she must keep the boys working so they won't be harmed. She gives the boys some ""specialized"" deliveries to make them late for the contest. The

• Previn: A Streetcar Named Desire | DVD | (28/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  André Previn's first opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, is an intelligent adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, written to be performed by two very strong principals. Renée Fleming's performance as Blanche Dubois is one of the best things she has done, full of a dangerous bravado and a vulnerability that wins us despite our irritation. The role is one which gives her voice ample opportunity both for extended displays of controlled, passionate singing and for those moments when singing by itself is enough and the voice has to break off in sorrow or madness. Rodney Gilfrey as Stanley Kowalski is equally fine--his voice has the right dangerous energy. In the important subsidiary roles of Stella and Mitch, Elizabeth Futral and Anthony Dean Griffey are also remarkable. Futral in particular gives a total performance in which we forget to make a distinction between her acting and her singing. The opera itself is, as you would expect, one of the most accessible new scores to arrive on the opera stage for some years, drawing heavily on the legacy of jazz and with that nervous musical intensity we associate with the play. Previn conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra effectively. A complete CD recording with the same cast is also available.On the DVD: The DVD comes with menus in English, French, German and Spanish and sub-titles in French and German. It is presented in 4:3 ratio and with PCM stereo sound. The booklet gives a moderately interesting account of the opera's genesis. --Roz Kaveney

• Gaiam Yoga - Yoga For Energy | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Everything about Yoga for Energy is minimal, yet like the concept of minimalism in interiors and fashion, less is more. With no introduction this video assumes some existing knowledge of and interest in yoga. A beautiful, lean man practises silently on a secluded, peaceful beach. A softly spoken male narrator provides the clear and concise instructions. While the title suggests this might feature the more energetic astanga yoga, this is a meditative, deep hatha yoga session with no intrusions. The man and the voice belong to Rodney Yee, a student of philosophy and physical therapy and a professional dancer. Yee flows through every posture in a mesmerising, poetic way. As the sequences progress one or two graceful women join Yee in an almost balletic vision of yoga. Though not immediately obvious the five sequences, filmed on the exotic island of Maui, are intended to connect with different times of the day and states of the body. Gentle warming stretches warm up the body for an initial awakening, standing poses ground and connect, the sun salutation sequence boosts vitality and energy, a series of forward bends initiates tranquillity and finally there is total surrender to relaxation. It’s an approach that encourages a thoughtful, solitary and more regular practice and one which is as calming as it is energising and as grounding as it is soul searching. --Lorna V