"Actor: Sam"

• Clash of the Titans Double Pack | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £6.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Piano | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ada her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for a lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper into a complex emotional sexual bond remarkable for its nave passion and frightening disregard for limits... Winner of 3 Oscars for Best Screenplay (Jane Campion) Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Suporting Actress (Anna Paquin) and 11 awards from the Australian Film Institiute.

• The Pelican Brief | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £8.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (56.31%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Another John Grisham legal thriller comes to the screen, pairing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Alan J Pakula, who is known for dark-hued suspense pictures such as Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men, and Presumed Innocent. The Pelican Brief isn't up to the level of those films, but it is a perfectly entertaining movie about a law student (Roberts) whose life is endangered when she discovers evidence of a conspiracy behind the killings of two Supreme Court justices. She enlists the help of an investigative reporter (Washington) and the two become fugitives. The charisma and chemistry of the leads goes a long way toward compensating for the story's shortcomings, as does a truly impressive supporting cast that includes Sam Shepard, John Heard, James B Sikking, Tony Goldwyn, Stanley Tucci, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, William Atherton and Robert Culp. --Jim Emerson

• Oppenheimer | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  ""I am become Death destroyer of worlds..."" - J. Robert Oppenheimer A thrilling miniseries biopic of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer who led the U.S efforts during World War II to develop the atomic bomb only to find himself suspected as a risk to national security from Communist sympathies stemming from an increasing ambivalence toward's his life's work... Nominated for a Golden Globe for Sam Waterston in the title role.

• The Last Picture Show | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £20.80   |  Saving you £-7.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the novel by Larry McMurty The Last Picture Show is a more bitter than bittersweet drama about growing up and winding down in the dusty nowhere town of Anarene, Texas, during 1951-52. Unusually shot in black and white while the rest of Hollywood was going psychedelic in 1971, it's an interesting contrast with the rock 'n' roll nostalgia of American Graffiti (the films share a key moment in which the boy who is leaving town gives a precious car to his stay-at-home friend and both make oblique references to Vietnam). It visits a recent past already nostalgic for a heroic Western era and discovers that whatever was wonderful has already gone by the time of these teenagers. Introspective Timothy Bottoms and outgoing Jeff Bridges are best friends and stalwarts of the school's losing football team. Cybill Shepherd is the blonde teen queen who innocently spreads chaos, ditching long-time boyfriend Bridges to run with a richer, faster set. She steals Bottoms away from an older married woman (Cloris Leachman) which prompts a vicious falling-out between Bottoms and Bridges. As the kids run around heedless, the town's older generation remember their own wilder days and wonder how they came to be so unhappy. Ben Johnson, in Academy Award-winning form, is "Sam the Lion", the wise old cowboy who runs the movie house and pool hall. He muses about his long-ago affair with Shepherd's feisty mother (Ellen Burstyn), who is currently throwing herself at a callous oilman stud (Clu Gulager). A soap in essence but director Peter Bogdanovich plays it as a John Ford-style "closing of the frontier" Western, with ugly-beautiful images of a West that has swapped cattle for oil but failed to strike it rich. He layers in evocative snatches of Hank Williams among the whistling winds and the whining locals. It perhaps has a tragedy too many in its last act and can't quite work up the tears with an actual martyrdom, but it does deliver a signature line of wistful regret, "nothing's been right since Sam the Lion died".On the DVD: this is an anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1 version of the 121-minute 1974 re-release, with one additional scene for Eileen Brennan's waitress, now labelled "the director's cut". It boasts a great sounding mono track, with alternate soundtracks and subtitles in a bunch of languages; a tiny promo piece from 1974 with a Bogdanovich interview; a solid hour-long retrospective documentary with interviews from a lot of the cast and crew (including future director Frank Marshall, an assistant and bit-player) and some trailers. Oddly, Bogdanovich has done a full-length commentary for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane but not for his own best film. --Kim Newman

• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (02/07/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Christmas Princess | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £4.22   |  Saving you £4.77 (113.03%)   |  RRP £8.99

  An enchanting tale that will touch your heart and leave you full of the festive spirit! It's Christmas time and when Jules receives an unexpected invitation from a distant relative she travels to Europe with her niece and nephew to a fairytale castle. As they try to instill, in their stuffy, British family, the true magic of Christmas, Jules discovers that sometimes what you're searching for can be found in the mostunexpected of places... Featuring an all-star cast, this heart-warming and magical motion picture can be enjoyed by the whole family over and over again.

• Last Night | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £8.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (116.75%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael (Sam Worthington) are a married couple in Manhattan who face temptation when they spend a night apart.

• Capricorn One | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The mission was a sham. The murders were real. What if one of the greatest space adventures was really a hoax? The whole world is watching the first manned flight to Mars prepare. Suddenly its astronauts (James Brolin Sam Waterson and O.J. Simpson) are taken from the craft to an abandoned desert hanger where NASA's director (Hal Holbrook) tells them their life support systems have failed. Because the mission's success is crucial to future space programs he orders them to ta

• Baby Boom | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The writing-directing team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) made this sweet satire about a high-powered yuppie executive (Diane Keaton) who unexpectedly becomes a mom and finds she can't successfully integrate the role into her busy life. Typical of the Shyer-Meyers films prior to Myers taking the director's reins on the wonderful Parent Trap, Baby Boom is a little wooden and more sentimental than genuine. But there are entertaining moments, for sure, and Keaton is a delight. --Tom Keogh

• The Spy Who Dumped Me | Blu Ray | (26/12/2018) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey's ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.

• Superintelligence | DVD | (12/04/2021) from £6.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nothing extraordinary ever happens to Carol Peters (played by Melissa McCarthy), so when she starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone and microwave, she thinks she's being punked. Or losing her mind. In fact, the world's first superintelligence (voiced by James Corden) has chosen to study and observe Carol's attempt to romantically reconcile with her former boyfriend (played by Bobby Cannavale) to better understand the human condition. Soon, the all-powerful entity takes over her life... with ominous plans to possibly take over the world. Now, Carol is potentially humanity's last chance before this AI-with-an-attitude decides to pull the plug. Features: The One That Got Away-Discover how the empathy between Carol, George and the SI ultimately triumphs over technology and saves the world. Voicing the SI-Join Carol's favorite celebrity, James Corden, as he voices the Superintelligence, and discover how the cast and crew filmed scenes without having James on set. Fashion According to A.I.-Enjoy the fun between Melissa McCarthy, Usman Ally and Jenna Perusich as Carol gets a no-limit makeover Superintelligence-style, courtesy of the top designers at J'Adore Boutique. Agents-Laugh with Sam Richardson and Ben Falcone as Agents Donahue and Kuiper survey and capture Carol in their attempts to secure her safety from the SI. What Money Can't Buy-Watch the relationship between Carol and George rekindle with a little help from the SI, and learn what money can and cannot buy. Georgia Film Commission

• The Commuter | DVD | (21/05/2018) from £6.19   |  Saving you £2.56 (41.36%)   |  RRP £8.75

  Liam Neeson (Taken) and Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows) team up again after RUN ALL NIGHT and NON-STOP for an exhilarating race-against-time thrill ride with explosive twists around every bend. Insurance salesman Michael (Neeson) is on his daily commute home when he is contacted by a mysterious stranger (Vera Farmiga, The Conjuring, The Departed), and forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on his train before the last stop. As he works against the clock to solve the puzzle, he realises a deadly plan is unfolding and is unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy. One that carries life and death stakes, for himself and his fellow passengers.

• Last Exit to Brooklyn | Blu Ray | (02/11/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hailed as an uncompromising look at life on the dark side, Last Exit to Brooklyn follows a gang of young hoodlums, a down and out call girl, an alcoholic father, and a low level union official as they attempt to survive in the harsh underbelly of lower class 1950s Brooklyn. Adapted from the cult classic best-selling novel by Hubert Selby Jr., The New York Times calls Last Exit harrowing yet savagely beautiful. Extras: Audio Commentary With Director Uli Edel And Screenwriter Desmond Nakano Making Of Deleted Scenes

• One-Eyed Jacks | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £12.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One-Eyed Jacks is a film with a troubled history. It was almost the feature debut of emerging television director Sam Peckinpah, who penned the original draft screenplay, and it was almost the only Western to be directed by Stanley Kubrick before he too left the project. The eventual director was Marlon Brando, stepping behind the camera for the first and only time. Brando is Rio, a bank-robber who is double-crossed by his friend and mentor, Dad (Karl Malden). Rio is imprisoned for his role in the crime, but escapes with thoughts of revenge. He tracks down Dad only to find that, during those years spent behind bars, Dad has used his ill-gotten wealth to become the sheriff of Monterey... A strange, baroque Western, One-Eyed Jacks met with bewilderment by critics and audiences upon release, but slowly developed a cult following despite a succession of below-par masters. Now, thanks to an outstanding new 4K restoration from Martin Scorsese s The Film Foundation, audiences can finally see the film as intended once again and recognise the masterpiece it always was.

• Mask | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.33   |  Saving you £-1.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sometimes the most unlikely people become heroes. Based on the true story of a teenager with a facial deformity from a rare disorder that no child has been known to survive. Cher won Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance as Rocky's mother in this emotional and spirited drama.

• Desperate Romantics | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.47   |  Saving you £-1.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.92

  Set in and among the alleys galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London Desperate Romantics follows the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a vagabond group of English painters poets and critics. A relationship drama from the perspective of this iconoclastic group of dysfunctional male romantics the series follows their lives and relationships as they shamelessly scheme and strive to find fame fortune and success as well as love and sex along the way.

• Bloodshot (2020) | Blu Ray | (08/06/2020) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the best-selling graphic novel, BLOODSHOT is the origin story of the world's ultimate super soldier Ray Garrison. After returning from deployment, Ray and his wife both get kidnapped and killed by a complete stranger. Ray wakes up, miraculously resurrected by a team of scientists who've injected him with nanotechnology that provide healing and regenerative powers, superhuman strength, and near-immortality. He uses his second chance at life to get revenge. But, it turns out the very scientists who saved Ray are manipulating him. They rewrite his memories so every mission he believes he's an honourable hero, righting the wrong of his wife's death, but is actually an unwitting weapon assassinating their designated targets. When Ray finally realises it's all been a lie and he is merely a pawn in their game, he must fight for his freedom and find a way to stop the cycle.

• Jurassic Park Trilogy | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £13.93   |  Saving you £14.05 (128.43%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Own all three jaw dropping Jurassic Park films in this new collection now including Ultraviolet so that you'll never be far from the action. Jurassic ParkA millionaire builds a theme park on a remote Pacific island where real dinosaurs have been grown from long dormant DNA molecules. The millionaire's two grandchildren two dinosaur experts a mathematician and a lawyer discover the power of nature: but it's no longer a game when the dinosaurs run amok. Special Features: The Making of Jurassic Park Early Pre Production Meetings Location Scouting's Phil Tippet Animatics Raptors In The Kitchen Foley Artists Theatrical Trailers Dinosaur Encyclopaedia Storyboards Production Photographs Production Notes Talent Profiles Jurassic Park: The Lost WorldThe sequel to the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as the unconventional mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm. It's been four years since the secret disaster at John Hammond's Jurassic Park. On InGen's second Costa Rican island the dinosaur manufacturing and cloning facility code named Site B has been destroyed by a hurricane. Now Malcom finds himself with the terrifying realisation that not only has something survived but the animals now live and breed in the wild. Special Features: The Making of Deleted Scenes Trailers: Jurassic Park The Lost World Jurassic Park III Back to the Future Trilogy Jurassic Park Theatrical Trailer The Lost World Theatrical Trailer Jurassic Park III Theatrical Trailer ET Trailer Marketing: Posters and Toys Industrial Light and Magic The World of Jurassic Park Dinosaur Encyclopaedia Illustrations and conceptual drawings Models Storyboards Production Photos Production Notes Talent Profiles Jurassic Park IIIThe saga of genetically modified dinosaurs running amok continues. Special Features: The Making of Jurassic Park III New Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III Tour of the Stan Winston Studio A Visit to ILM (includes concepts/process/muscle/simulation/compositing) Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs Behind the Scenes (Spinosaurus Attacks the Plane/Raptors Attack Udesky/The Lake) Storyboards to Final Feature Comparison (Lake/The Aviary/Boat Attack) Jurassic Park III Archives (Production Photos and Poster Gallery) Dinosaur Turntables Feature Commentary

• British & Irish Lions Tour 2017: The Official Highlights | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Re-live the British & Irish Lions Tour to New Zealand in 2017, deemed by many as the greatest series ever, with this DVD which features all the key action from each of the three tests. Up against the best team in world rugby this series was never going to be an easy feat for the tourists, and what followed was an epic, closely fought battle, ending with honours even and the Lions standing proud and untamed. The first test was played at the All Blacks' Auckland fortress, Eden Park, where they have not lost a game since 1994. After one of the greatest tries in Lions history the match was fairly even heading into halftime, but the All Blacks proved too strong in the second half and broke away to win 30-15. A must-win second test lay ahead for the Lions on a rainy night in Wellington. In a match packed with drama, including a red card for Sonny Bill Williams, the Lions were trailing 18-9 with 20 minutes to play. What followed had Lions fans watching in disbelief and delight as two brilliant tries and a late penalty kick from Owen Farrell secured the win and sent the series to a decider. The final test is a contest that no rugby fan will ever forget. The All Blacks started the game on fire, scoring two tries in the first half to lead 12-6 at the break. Still, the game was not over and in true Lions fashion they fought their way back to 3 points behind with just 10 minutes to play. Another Owen Farrell penalty sailed over in the 77th minute to bring them level, and ultimately draw the test series for the first time against New Zealand and re-write the history books. Featuring highlights of the first test and every second of action from the second and third tests, as well as post-match interviews, watch the enthralling story of this historic tied series between the Lions and the All Blacks unfold. No one will ever forget the Lions Tour of 2017.