"Actor: Sam"

• Dead Sexy | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dead Sexy is yet another entry in the spurious "erotic thriller" genre. Although it attempts to pass itself off as a crime drama, the credibility of the whole affair is stretched somewhat by casting ex-Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed in the lead role of Detective Kate McBain, the police officer leading investigations into a suspected serial killer. This time, though, Tweed (who also produced the film) does a sterling job of both keeping her clothes on (most of the time) and acting her way through the movie. Every cliché in the book is utilised, but the movie might have stood up to repeated viewing if it took itself a little less seriously. As it is, the frequent sex scenes are crow-barred in to signal some sort of plot development as the whole thing moves towards its rather lame conclusion, unable to decide whether it wants to offer explicit adult entertainment or serious drama. Ultimately this is one for fans of Tweed, not those who relish a good whodunit. On the DVD: Dead Sexy is surprisingly high-budget and offers good picture and sound quality. Extras are limited to a filmography of Tweed and her wooden co-star John Enos, plus a theatrical trailer that does a fair job of summing up the movie's mix of sex and action. --Phil Udell

• London's Railways in the 1960s | DVD | (06/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  For the first time, unseen footage from The British Transport Films unit archive shows London railways in fabulous colour

• Gus Van Sant Double Pack | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £10.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (82.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gus Van Sant Double Pack (2 Discs)

• Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist | DVD | (18/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Drunken-style master Sam The Seed has another disciple that is ready for combat Li I Min. After dispatching numerous foes with no problem he comes up against the master of the Snake Style. Barely escaping with his life Li goes back to Sam The Seed for help. Sam teaches him to combine the Drunken Arts with the little known Crippled Fist style to defeat his wicked foe!

• Sam Bush - On The Road | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £16.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (2.60%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Sam Bush is energy personified and while his studio records provide a solid representation of Sam's diverse musical influences it is his live shows that keep fans coming back for more. Now we have a full concert captured on DVD perfect for the fan that needs a burst of Sam Bush and his excellent band of super musicians during those rare times when Sam isn't touring. This DVD also gives a close up view allowing aspiring musicians can get an eye full of amazing technique and lightning fast chord changes not just from Sam but from the entire crew. Recorded at the Sierra Nevada Brewery on August 30 2006.

• Black, White And Gray | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Black White And Gray is a documentary which documents the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith. Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth Wagstaff became Mapplethorpe's lover during the heady years of the 1970s and 19980s in New York City. The city was abuzz with a new spirit and Mapplethorpe would be at the centre of it. Wagstaff's death from AIDS In 1987 and later Mapplethorpe's in 1989 marked the end of an era. Black White And Gray reveals the the truth behind this powerful relationship and the influence their collective work continues to have over present-day art and culture.

• Intruder | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  It's 10pm the night before Walnut Lakes neighbourhood supermarket closes it's doors forever. The owners and night crew have a long shift ahead of them... longer than they think. Weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut... and the night crew starts dying... one by one in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

• Reilly - Ace Of Spies - Dreadnoughts And Crosses | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Two episodes from the popular show starring Sam Neill. Dreadnoughts And Crosses: Reilly is in St Petersburg and determined to profit from the arms sale of the century when the Czar announces a contract to replace the Russian Fleet. Dreadnoughts and Doublecrosses: Reilly has sided with the Germans in the battle to win the Russian contract; however it is not all plain sailing...

• Night At The Golden Eagle | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In Night at the Golden Eagle, a cross-section of decrepit people live out their desperate, dead-end lives over the course of a long night at an equally decrepit LA hotel. This is the jaundiced vision of director Adam Rifkin, best known for the raucously enjoyable Detroit Rock City and the cult curiosity The Dark Backward. He's corralled some good people for this low-budget offering (Natasha Lyonne and Ann Magnuson as hookers, Vinnie Jones as a cruel pimp), but the lion's share of screen time goes to a pair of small-time crooks (Donnie Montemarano and Vinny Argiro) planning to split for Vegas in the morning. It's diverting for a while, but the bleached-sepia look and unrelenting rancidity take their toll, grinding the picture down. Even a soft-shoe shuffle for Fayard Nicholas (of the awesome Nicholas Brothers), a grace note if there ever was one, can't lift the movie out of its determined sense of gloom. --Robert Horton

• Merchant-Ivory In America | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Bostonians The daughter of a faith healer is forced to choose between her mother's religious activities and her desire to use her speaking ability to further the women's suffragette movement. To complicate matters more the man she loves is strongly opposed to the feminist cause. The Europeans In 1850 a few miles outside Boston the household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe Eugenia and Felix the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude one of Wentworth's two daughters is instantly infatuated with her cousins and trouble brews... The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century Miss Amelia is the town eccentric... Jane Austen In Manhattan Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old... Roseland Three interlocking stories set in the legendary New York City dance palace make up this charming film the third to be shot by Merchant Ivory Productions in America. In the first segment 'The Waltz' Teresa Wright is a widow who comes to Roseland in order to sustain the memory of her late husband where she meets Stan (Lou Jacobi) a man who offers her an opportunity for happiness in the present. In 'The Hustle' Christopher Walken stars as a gigolo with three women in his life all of whom depend on him for different degrees of romance and companionship. In the final segment 'The Peabody' an older Vietnamese woman (Lilia Skala) sets out to win a dance competition despite warnings that it could imperil her health. The Proprietor A story of changing times constant relationships and reconciliation with the past.

• Ed And His Dead Mother | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Poor Ed. He really loved his mother and did his heart break when she passed away... But a traveling salesman told Ed that he had an inexpensive potion that could resurrect his mom. So Ed pushed aside his suspicions and decided to try it. Lo and behold his mother came back to life. Now that she's alive again however there's something odd about her. She runs she makes enormous pots of soup she sleeps in the refrigerator. Time to discuss that maintenance contract with that salesman!

• Charlie's Angels | Blu Ray | (23/08/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Happily Charlie's Angels is a surprisingly successful TV-into-movie update of the seminal 1970s jiggle show. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore (who also produced) and Lucy Liu star as the hair-tossing, fashion-setting, kung-fu fighting trio employed by the mysterious Charlie (voiced by the original Charlie, John Forsythe). When a high-tech programmer (Sam Rockwell) is kidnapped, the angels seek out the suspects, with the daffy Bosley (Bill Murray in a casting coup) in tow. A happy, cornball popcorn flick, Charlie's Angels is played for laughs with plenty of ribbing references to the old TV show as well as modern caper films like Mission: Impossible. McG, a music video director making his feature film debut (usually a death warrant for a movie's integrity), infuses the film with plenty of Matrix-style combat pyrotechnics, and the result is the first successful all-American Hong Kong-style action flick. Plenty of movies boast a New Age feminism that has their stars touting their sexuality while being their own women, but unlike something as obnoxious as Coyote Ugly, Angels succeeds with a positive spin on Girl Power for the new millennium (Diaz especially sizzles in her role of crack super agent/airhead blonde). From the send-up of the TV show's credit sequence to the outtakes over the end credits, Charlie's Angels is a delight. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• Bluegrass Mandolin | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-4.04 (-15.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Sam Bush details the dominant mandolin styles from Bill Monroe to Newgrass! He demonstrates powerful techniques while teaching ten classic tunes: 1.Paddy On The Turnpike 2.Grey Eagle 3.Sugarfoot Rag 4.Sapporo 5.Bill Cheatham 6.East Virginia Blues 7.Wayfaring Stranger 8.Manzanita 9.Banks Of The Ohio 10.Sittin' On Top Of The World Includes music and tab. Intermediate / Advanced level

• Reign In Darkness | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £11.55   |  Saving you £4.44 (38.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Molecular biologist Michael Dorn (Kel Dolen) is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing and his life takes a dramatic turn for the worst. The virus which he believes is a cure for HIV harbours something far more sinister; turning it's victims into vampires. Now a threat to the very organisation for which he worked Michael is on the run a tortured soul living off the streets as he battles to come to terms with his violent new existence as a blood-lusting predato

• The Sam Bush Mandolin Method | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £31.49   |  Saving you £22.50 (41.70%)   |  RRP £53.99

  This terrific two-part series will help aspiring mandolin players improve their technical prowess build repertoire and develop formidable musicianship on their instrument. Teaching traditional fiddle tunes Bill Monroe-style instrumentals and his own compositions Sam provides detailed instruction in pick technique rhythm chopping speed building warm-up exercises tremolo improvised soloing and much more. You'll learn how to create variations on melodies use drone strings fo

• The Royal Family | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £10.77   |  Saving you £9.22 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An adaptation of Edna Ferber's play...

• Fink | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Larger-than-life action/comedy of crime and coincidence which interlocks four fiercely outlandish hit men three seasoned slackers and two idealist computer hackers around sadistic crime lord Terence Fink.

• Superman Returns | UMD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure.

• Reilly - Ace Of Spies - After Moscow | DVD | (08/08/2003) from £12.62   |  Saving you £4.37 (25.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Based on a true story and originally broadcast in 1983 Reilly - Ace Of Spies stars Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. The world's first international agent Reilly was absolutely unscrupulous and ruthless. Moving seamlessly from the gentlemen's clubs of Edwardian London to the gates of the Kremlin itself Reilly influenced world history with extraordinary brilliance and audacity. INcludes the episodes 'After

• Peter Cushing - The Peter Cushing Collection | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This terrific box set features a profusion of Peter Cushing-led horror films. The Abominable Snowman (Dir. Val Guest 1957): The final film collaboration between director Val Guest and writer Nigel Kneale. Starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing The Abominable Snowman tells of an expedition to the Himalayas to track down the mythical Yeti. A wonderfully atmospheric chiller from the heyday of the Hammer Studios. Island of Terror (Dir. Terence Fisher 1966): When oh when will scientists learn to stop playing with radiation? Island of Terror takes place on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. No phones no regular transport to and from the mainland but there is a well-equipped cancer research center where the well intentioned - but foolish! - scientists are irradiating lumps of tissue. The local constable finds a body with no bones in it ('No bones?' 'No bones!') and soon a team from London led by the ever-game Peter Cushing arrives to investigate. Let's hope that darned generator doesn't give out... Island of Terror isn't going to keep you awake at night but it is a lot of silly fun. Be warned though - whatever the evil menace is it can climb trees! The Blood Beast Terror (Dir. Vernon Sewell 1968): A Victorian English entomologist whose daughter happens to be a giant moth moves with her to a quiet village where he can begin work on an insect mate for her. His family problems worsen when his winged daughter starts killing people and drinking their blood. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Dir. Terence Fisher 1974): Doctor Helder (Briant) is sent to an asylum for experimenting on cadavers. There he is rescued by Doctor Carl Victor (Cushing) the original Doctor Frankenstein now living under a new identity who learns that a new monster is set to walk the earth...