"Actor: Ruth"

• The Fight Before Christmas | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While their Ma (Ruth Buzzi) frets about a Christmas family reunion estranged bounty-hunter brothers Travis (Terence Hill) and Moses (Bud Spencer) sniff around the idea of re-teaming. Whereas Travis risks his life freeing desperadoes like Sam Stone from the hangman's noose to insure their gratitude as a future annuity Moses divides his time between raising a large clan and rounding up outlaw gangs. Mistrusting his goof-off brother Moses is too tempted by a record-breaking reward not to accept Travis's assistance in tracking the very same Sam Stone. The Fight Before Christmas is the last pairing of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer who appeared in many films together including They Call Me Trinity Trinity Is Still My Name Boot Hill Odds And Evens and Miami Supercops.

• Caged Women | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hidden deep in the remote South America jungle is a place of hideous terror. Surrounded by deadly impenetrable swampland stands a dark and desolate castle - a prison of depravity run for the twisted tastes of rich aristocrats. It is a place of misery and despair where beautiful young women are held captive as helpless sexual play-things for their masters. All the mercy of brutal guards the enslaved inmates can only wait in dread for their turn to be used as 'sport' in a series of vile rituals - the most feared of which is the terrifying jungle 'hunt'. The women find comfort in each other's hearts and bodies as their passion for sex is enhanced within the prison walls. When Janet a pretty American tourist is arrested and framed for a crime she never committed she soon falls victim to the prison's evil superintendent. Frightened alone and seemingly without hope of rescue Janet's horrific nightmare is only just the beginning...

• Ladies Sing The Blues | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This acclaimed compilation brings together full-length rare performances from the great ladies of song: Billie Holiday Bessie Smith Peggy Lee Lena Horne Dinah Washington Sarah Vaughan and Ethel Waters. Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as ""a grand parade of American miracles"" ""Ladies"" captures the excitement of the most distinctive female vocalists in Jazz. Tracks include: 1. St Louis Blues - Bessie Smith 2. Darkies Never Dream - Ethel Waters 3. Quicksand - Ethel Waters (with

• High Hopes (Mike Leigh's) | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film by one of Britain's most celebrated film makers and multi-award winning director of Life Is Sweet Naked Secrets and Lies Topsy Turvy and most recently Vera Drake. Fabulous Films presents for the first time on DVD this critically acclaimed slice of life dark comedy Mike Leigh's High Hopes. Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family but gets no encouragement from Cyril who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job a place to live and enough to eat. This disparate cast of characters swim in and out of each others lives against a background of London and its suburbs seamlessly orchestrated by director Mike Leigh.

• The Larkins - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Meet the Larkins - the put-upon but crafty Alf his domineering wife Ada son Eddie daughter Joyce and her American ex-GI husband Jeff a barely employable writer of stories for cowboy comic 'The Bullet'. They all live in a state that falls somewhat short of domestic bliss at 66 Sycamore Street in a suburb of London next to inquisitive neighbour Hetty and her family. This classic early ATV sitcom was created by Clapham-born Fred Robinson and based upon his youthful scripts for plays about a fictional Cockney family. With skilful comic playing from a renowned cast and a script that ATV production controller Bill Ward described as the funniest he had ever read The Larkins inspired great affection throughout its run between 1958 and 1964. This second series was first screened in 1959 and has been transferred from the original film telerecordings specifically for this release.

• Living Nightmare | DVD | (12/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It all began with what seemed a simple nightmare but it kept recurring and soon it became too terrifying to ignore as much as Michael tries to push it to one side it will not leave him.... The more he dreams the more the fear grows and the more his personality changes. The dream takes over his world completely making him become blind to what is a dream and what is reality.

• Citizen Kane | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful a film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle storyline inventive cinemato

• Gavin and Stacey - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £8.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (66.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gavin is an ordinary boy from England Stacey is an ordinary girl from Wales. After speaking on the phone to each other every day at work - they finally met fell in love and got married. Now in Series 2 the honeymoon's over for the newlyweds and their married life begins in earnest at the Shipman family home in Essex. But as the reality of living so far away sinks in Stacey starts missing her home in Barry Island along with her mum and her Uncle Bryn. Meanwhile Gavin and Stacey's best friends Smithy and Nessa are coming to terms with their own stark reality: they're not even friends and yet they're having a baby together!

• Tornado | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tornado

• Gian-Carlo Menotti - the Consul | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £24.22   |  Saving you £0.77 (3.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Consul.A Musical Drama in Three Acts.

• My Left Foot / The Fiel | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Daniel Day-Lewis won a much-deserved Oscar for My Left Foot, with a wily and passionate performance as Irish artist and writer Christy Brown, whose cerebral palsy kept him confined to a wheelchair. Filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) adapts Brown's own autobiography for this spirited piece, focusing on the, sometimes difficult, fellow's formative years in his large family and in love with sundry women. Day-Lewis is inspired, and Brenda Fricker (also a recipient of an Oscar for her part in this movie) is almost luminous as Christy's dedicated mother. So, too, are Ray McAnally as the hero's stormy father, and Hugh O'Conor (The Young Poisoner's Handbook) as the child Christy. All in all, this is a complete pleasure for viewers. --Tom Keogh , Amazon.com

• Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice? | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? sees a change of direction for Robert Aldrich's unofficial trilogy which all involve "ageing actresses" in macabre thrillers (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte). The busy Aldrich only produced What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, calling in TV director Lee H Katzin (a Mission: Impossible regular) to handle the megaphone. Aldrich also opted to shoot the film in pastel colours appropriate to the unusual Arizona desert setting rather than the gothic black and white of the earlier films. The film cast the less iconic Geraldine Page as the genteelly unpleasant Mrs Clare Marrable. Left apparently penniless by her departed husband, Mrs M opts to keep up appearances by hiring a succession of timid elderly housekeepers, bossing them around with well-spoken nastiness, duping them out of their life savings and, on the pretence of getting help with a midnight tree-planting program, lures them into their own graves, batters them to death and plants lovely pines over them. Page gets her own way with the meek likes of Mildred Dunnock, until the feistier, red-wigged R!uth Gordon applies for the job and gets down to amateur sleuthing. While Bette Davis and her partners went wildly over the top in previous films, Page and Gordon play more subtly, finding odd pathetic moments in between the monstrous, irony-laced horror stuff. The supporting cast of pretty or handsome young things, mostly putty in the hands of the manipulative Page, contribute striking little cameos (Rosemary Forsyth sports a pleasing 1969 hairdo as the kindly but intimidated neighbour), but the film belongs to its leading ladies, delivering a fine line in twist-packed cat-and-mouse theatrics. The video is handsomely letterboxed, as befits a film made before widescreen films were shot with all the action in the middle of the frame to facilitate television sales. --Kim Newman

• The Disco Exorcist | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Get down or get dead! Fangoria DVD of the month! Rex Romanski is a swinger - a suave womaniser and nightclub dancer. His aim in life is to seduce women and then casually dump them. He meets his match in Rita Marie a black magic priestess. When he seduces her and spurns her she reins all hell down on him and the nightclub in a rampage of murder and mayhem in this sex-filled outrageous homage to 1970's exploitation movies. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Director's Commentary Out-takes Trailer

• Strong Language | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £5.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Inspired by late nineties youth culture Strong Language uses a fast pace talking-heads style to tell a story of ordinary lives in an extraordinary place and time. A narrator relates a night of terror that changes his life forever inter-cut with 16 young people talking about everything from ecstasy to one night stands. Strong Language combines entertaining revealing and often hilarious insights with an unforgettable chain of sinister events that will appeal to all fans of 'Human Traffic' and 'Trainspotting'.

• Hoffman | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hoffman is an odd cross between There's a Girl in My Soup and The Collector and is clearly one of the few film projects Peter Sellers took seriously enough to work hard on, rather than one of the many he breezed through on a talent for funny voices and unleashed chaos. The set-up is that secretary Miss Smith (Sinead Cusack) is blackmailed by meek, middle-aged Mr Hoffman (Sellers) into spending a week of domesticity with him in his flat, while she tells her fiance (Jeremy "Boba Fett" Bulloch) that she's with her gran in Scarborough. At first, the tone is creepy as Cusack dreads the terrors of sharing a bed with Sellers and he mutters darkly about an absent wife in terms that recall Crippen and the brides-in-the-bath murderer, but it becomes more poignant as both characters learn to see each other as people. The worst Sellers does in bed is snore loudly, while the unattainably glamorous young woman suffers from minor ailments like a bruised heel and night-time constipation, and the at-first simple relationship between them deepens as the girl comes to understand the half-life Hoffman has been leading. The script gives Sellers a lot of funny business, acid lines and whimsical turns, but he plays Hoffman as a repressed soul half-ashamed of his attempts to be funny, telling genuinely good jokes as if he expects no one will laugh. Cusack, more interesting than the expected dolly bird, keeps up with her co-star, and almost makes the strangely upbeat last reel believable. On the DVD: Hoffman comes to disc in a nice widescreen print. Otherwise, nada. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection.--Kim Newman

• Anyone Can Play Harmonica | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £17.66   |  Saving you £1.33 (7.00%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Master the heart-warming sounds of the country Harmonica with this comprehensive tutorial. Starting from your first few notes this DVD will guide you as you learn the phrasing blowing patterns and bending techniques that characterise the sound of an authentic Harmonica melody. Peter 'Madcat' Ruth shows you basic breathing patterns that then become the basic 'Train Rhythm' of Harmonica comping. Ruth also demonstrates a variety of hand positions that will enable you to master a good vibrato and the 'Wah Wah' sound. Such techniques are useless without a good tune to play and Ruth shows you some of his campfire favourites including Down In The Valley and Camptown Races.

• On The Border | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jack Barnes a tall handsome Texan once was part of a foiled bank raid and now works as a security guard in a sleepy Texas border town bank. His boss Ed asks Jake to moonlight and spy on his sultry and very sexy wife Rosalita who Ed suspects is fooling around. Ed owns the bank and is not adverse to handling a little money laundering for a drug cartel. He is expecting another money drop soon millions of dollars in unmarked bills that must be stored in his bank before being smuggled over the border. One evening Jack is crossing back over the border after a passionate liaison with his lover Rosalita when in the dark street he almost runs down Kristen a heart stopping blonde who tells him she has fought with her boyfriend and needs help. Kristen is really a set up. She is controlled by Barry a ruthless and violent man who has been following the drug money and is planning on robbing the bank the night the drop is made.

• The Old Fashioned Way | Blu Ray | (09/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The 13th Sign | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The 13th Sign is a no-budget horror-action flick in which a solar-eclipse provides the backdrop for all manner of cultish goings-on in rural England. Obvious fans of The Wicker Man, directors Adam Mason and Jonty Acton gamely try to imbue the action with that film's sinister tones, most notably through the creepy rural setting and the appearance of a suave, philosophy-spouting country lord. Sadly they don't stop there, also throwing in (among a plethora of other jarring and disparate elements) a copious dose of supernatural mumbo-jumbo and a trio of cyberpunk hitmen. The film's miniscule budget is an Achilles' heel that cannot be disguised by enthusiasm alone. It is all very well staging a Desperado-style face-off to wow your audience, but its impact will inevitably be dampened somewhat if it has to take place outside the village Co-op. What we are left with then is a buxom, blood-drenched heroine gamely fighting a losing battle against bizarre bounty-hunters, lazily possessed rednecks, unconvincingly fiery-eyed demons and production values that make The 13th Sign look like the goriest and most convoluted You've Been Framed clip of all time. --Paul Philpott

• Bearskin | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Johnny Fortune is no good to anyone not mean but just no good. To escape Casino bosses who want him for stealing money he flees to England. He gets a job dressed as a bear for Punch & Judy shows which is an effective disguise. But when the Casino thugs track him down it's up to his two resourceful bosses to help him.