"Actor: Simon"

• Damo & Ivor: The Movie | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £4.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Damo & Ivor are well-known characters from the massively popular satirical comedy about the lives of two identical twin brothers separated not long after birth. One of the boys, Damo, is left to grow up on the mean streets of Dublin to be raised by his maternal Grandmother, Grano, while the other, Ivor, is given a life of wealth and luxury in Dublin s affluent Foxrock by parents who shower their son with money and little else. The film follows on from the last TV series and sees Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures across Ireland to find the last piece of their family puzzle, their long-lost brother John Joe.

• Peak Practice - Series 5 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of ITV's most popular shows returns with this release of the complete fifth series of Peak Practice. Starring Simon Shepherd Saskia Wickham and Gary Mavers Peak Practice was filmed amid dramatic Derbyshire scenery and featured medical stories from the heart of the Peak District.

• Paul Simon - You're The One | DVD | (07/01/2002) from £23.76   |  Saving you £-8.77 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  You’re the One is a recording of Paul Simon’s intimate and critically acclaimed Paris concerts. Filmed at two informal venues in the city during October 2000, this live recording features songs stretching from his Simon and Garfunkel days (“Bridge Over Troubled Water”), to tracks such as “That’s Where I Belong” from his more recent You’re the One album. Containing footage shot at two venues on different days the recording is predominantly focused on the stage action. Adding a claustrophobic edge to the show, but reflecting his omnivorous musical tastes and influences, Simon gathers together a diverse array of his multi-cultural musical pals. At times, particularly when the songs are less familiar, the show does drag. Sporting a red baseball cap, and not moving from the same spot on stage for two hours, Simon’s demeanour and vocals do become rather irritating. Perhaps only true fans will appreciate such moments, but as his substantial back-catalogue demonstrates, the real magic resides in his intricate lyrics and rhythm. On the DVD: although the concert footage is particularly colourful and of excellent quality there are no substantial extras. The audio content is equally outstanding, with the soundtrack available in 5.1 and DTS Surround Sound, and PCM Linear PCM Stereo. Subtitles of the English song lyrics are also available on the disc. --John Galilee

• Dirty Dancing/When Harry Met Sally/Four Weddings And A Funeral | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four Weddings And A Funeral (Dir. Mike Newell 1993): The champagne is flowing - and so is the fun - in this ""delightful and sly"" (Roger Ebert) romantic comedy about two people who belong together but just can't seem to tie the knot. Ushering in two Academy Award nominations and starring Hugh Grant (Notting Hill) Andie MacDowell (Michael) and a superb ensemble cast that includes Oscar-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas Four weddings And A Funeral is truly ""a very special occasion"" - Rolling Stone. Charlie (Grant) is always the best man but never the groom. Determined to avoid even a hint of commitment this handsome English gentleman is notoriously late to every wedding. But today he's in for a surprise because not only did he forget the ring...but he also just caught a glimpse of the girl of his dreams. When Harry Met Sally (Dir. Rob Reiner 1989): Brimming over with style intelligence and flashing wit this splendid irresistible film from director Rob Reiner is one of the best-loved romantic comedies of all time. Featuring dazzling performances from Meg Ryan Billy Crystal Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby exceptional music from Harry Connick Jr. and an Oscar-nominated screenplay by Nora Ephron When Harry Met Sally is an explosively funny commentary on friendships courtship - and other hardships - of the modern age. Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) debate during their trip from Chicago to New York. And eleven years later they're sill no closer to finding the answer. Will these two best friends ever accept that they're meant for each other... or will they continue to deny the attraction that's existed since the first moment when Harry met Sally? Dirty Dancing (Dir. Emile Ardolino 1987): Summer 1963: during her family's annual summer vacation in the Catskills teenager Baby (Jennifer Grey) meets dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) who sweeps her off her feet. Baby becomes Johnny's dance partner despite her parents' disapproval and now she must decide whether to obey them - or her own heart...

• The Bunker - The Evil Is Within | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Thriller/horror set during World War II. A group of German soldiers in the Ardennes in 1944 take refuge from the advancing Allied troops in an underground bunker system. However during the night a series of strange and horrifying events occur.

• Infestation | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The not too distant future a deadly virus has swept across Earth. Billions have perished. The survivors moved underground... 30 years on and plagued with guilt following a devestating crash pilot Loki is coaxed back from the edge by his partner Sash. Together they must take on a new mission; go Topside. Retreive missing recon team. Hostility unknown. After a thunderous journey through the Earth's crust they discover the planet surface is not what it once was; only death survives. As they quickly uncover the fate that befell the first team they are forced to make a choice; stay and die or stay and fight. But what will kill them first....the mutants or the virus?

• Tom Brown's Schooldays | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This classic BBC adaptation of Thomas Hughes' novel is set amongst the class rooms playing fields and dormitories of Rugby school. Tom (Anthony Murphy) is initially overjoyed to find out that he has a place at the prestigious Rugby school. An altercation with Sir Richard Flashman whose son is the resident bully ensures that Tom is in for a rough ride...

• You're Dead | DVD | (20/03/2000) from £4.00   |  Saving you £15.99 (399.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the surface, it is a seamless caper. A beautiful bank robbery staged by a veteran expert and two exuberant heirs apparent.

• Komodo | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  I think they're contesting our place in the food chain", quips an Imperilled teen at an especially low moment of Komodo, a regulation trapped-with-monsters straight-to-video quickie. There was a millennial blip of such nature-on-the-rampage horrors in the year 2000 and Komodo settles comfortably onto the shelf with King Cobra, Blood Surf, They Nest, Crocodile, Spiders and Octopus. If you've seen all of them, you'll probably want to see this too--but don't say we didn't warn you. Komodo familiarly packs a few no-name actors to an island supposedly off the shore of Carolina (actually somewhere in Australasia and has them menaced by CGI creatures, then fighting back and beating the beasts. Though the title gives away the nature of the menace, ex-effects technician-turned-director Michael Lantieri keeps the monsters off-screen and purportedly mysterious for half the running time. Teenage Patrick (Kevin Zegers) is traumatised by the deaths of parents (and his dog) and retreats into an amnesiac fugue, but his psychiatrist Victoria (Jill Hennessy) brings him back to the site of the tragedy to stir his memories. It turns out that the local evil oil company has always known that a bunch of giant, flesh-eating lizards were on the loose but kept quiet about it for nebulously nefarious purposes. Oates (Billy Burke), a rebellious company minion, hooks up with Patrick (who shows unexpected resourcefulness in whipping up lizard traps) and the shrink and they have a last-reel confrontation with the monsters that allow for some very distant echoes of Jurassic Park. The CGI and model work is seamless but the monsters have too little personality and, despite their voracious appetites, require all manner of contrivances to bring their victims within snapping distance. Nice bit at the end though with a gory if not dramatic finale. --Kim Newman

• Into the West: The Miniseries | Blu Ray | (30/09/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• House Of Anubis - Season 2, Volume 1 | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's a new term and soon, a major new mystery will unfold at Anubis House - one that is infinitely more dangerous than anything the students have encountered before.

• Home For Christmas | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £15.81   |  Saving you £-5.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She wanted a grandfather. He needed a family. It was a Christmas they'd never forget. The movie centers around a wealthy young girl who takes in a homeless man (Mickey Rooney) during the Christmas Holidays. A bond of friendship and trust grows between them that results in both of their lives being dramatically changed. However, when a secret from the man's past surfaces, he returns to the streets without any goodbye or explanation to the young girl or her family. Will an unexpec...

• Kill Me Three Times | Blu Ray | (04/01/2016) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the Australian surfing town of Eagle's Nest, a young woman is the thread that binds three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge.

• The Bounty | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Bounty is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty. Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic. On the DVD: There is an excellent 52-minute "making of" documentary that mixes historical information with on-location interviews. A 12-minute overview of previous screen versions of the story is narrated by the film's historical consultant, Stephen Walters, who also provides a somewhat stilted but nevertheless informative audio commentary. The second audio commentary is from director Roger Donaldson, Producer Bernie Williams and Production Designer John Graysmark, who genuinely appear to enjoy reminiscing and have real enthusiasm for the movie. Also included is a fascinating 28-page booklet. This is the stuff Special Editions should always be made of, and this would be one of the finest DVDs on the market were it not for the transfer of the film itself, which appears to be a reprocessed version of the same NTSC anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer found on the bare-bones Region 1 DVD, with no sign of PAL speed-up. The picture not only shows considerable grain in some scenes, but also demonstrates marked compression artefacting and enhancement shimmer on all horizontal lines, making some scenes extremely ugly. For such a beautiful film it is a most disappointing transition to the digital format. Most unusually for a UK release, the disc is region free.--Gary S Dalkin

• George And Mildred - Series 1 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George and Mildred was a spin-off from Johnny Mortimer and Brian Cookes successful 1970s sitcom Man About the House, and ran from 1976 to 1980. This release features the first six episodes. Starring the late, great Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper, a sex-starved cockney housewife with pretensions to the middle classes, and Brian Murphy as George, her hopeless and incorrigible husband, this series sees them make the upward move to posh Middlesex suburbia, despite George being on supplementary benefit--mortgage conditions were evidently easier in 70s sitcomland. Their neighbours are snooty estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, his wife Ann and son Tristram. Jeffrey is perturbed that the Ropers arrival will lower the tone of the neighbourhood ("Tristram will get nits!") as they stink up the street with their three-wheel car and cheap wartime furniture. Much mildly amusing comedy at the expense of the working/middle class divide ensues, with no double-entendre left unturned and some period gags to match the Ropers interior decor. Situations involving a local MP, Mildreds even snobbier sister and an unsightly caravan brought out the best in Joyce and Murphys excellent characters, while Nicholas Owen as Tristram was among the least annoying of child sitcom stars. --David Stubbs

• He Who Dares | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  HE WHO DARES is a tense and brutal tale of six SAS soldiers who are called in to infiltrate a building which has been taken over by a gang of ruthless terrorists. With the terrorists barricaded deep within the building and holding the Prime Minister’s daughter hostage the elite team of SAS troops are left with only one way in and one way out. With the odds of coming back out of the building alive stacked against them their only option is to take the fifteen-storey building one floor at a time in the hope of reaching the hostages before it’s too late. Starring Tom Benedict Knight (Kick Ass 2) Ben Lloyd Thomas (Skyfall) Simon Phillips (The Fall of the Essex Boys) and martial arts bombshell Zara Phythian HE WHO DARES is an explosive action-packed thriller that keeps the tension on a knife edge.

• The World of Drunken Master | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two orphans Sam the Seed (Lee Yi Min) and Tai Pei (Jack Long) are caught stealing grapes from an orchard by wine blender Chang (Chan Hiu Lau). He puts the two lads to task in his distillery as compensation. In time boss Chang takes a shine to the two lads and teaches them drunken boxing. They soon become experts at the art and decide to test out their new skill on the unsuspecting town thugs. But the duo do not know that the the leader of the thugs is none other than Yeh Hu (Lung Fei) who happens to be the enemy of the boss Chang. Yeh Hu gathers up all his lackeys and storms the distillery. The rest is drunken history. This Joseph Kuo offering was one of the best Drunken Master cash-ins to come out of Taiwan. The film told in flashback by the two reminiscing old winos is packed to the gills with top notch fight work and some off the wall training sequences by Taiwan's dynamic duo Jack Long and Lee Yi Min. A must-see for any high impact viewer. Choreographed on the style of Drunken Master by Yuen Cheung Yan who later was responsible for the high kicking action in Charlie's Angels.

• The Commissioner | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £2.27 (61.02%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A member of the British government is sent to Brussels to become British Commissioner to the European Community where he uncovers political and industrial corruption...

• Teletubbies - Look | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This special DVD combines original Teletubbies programmes with the new 10 minute treat-sized Teletubbies Everywhere. Teletubbies Everywhere is a comedy of first concepts - numbers colours shapes - bringing togther for the first time children from around the world speaking their own language. The teletubbies enjoy looking at their reflections in a mirror. Watch children take photographs of each other. Bright and colourful playful and affectionate the Teletubbies trusted format means that the youngest child can watch with understanding and laughter. Where's Laa Laa? Is that her bouncing ball? ... Later the Teletubbies have great fun when Dipsy makes some adjustments. Don't pull the lever again Dipsy!

• George Thorogood And The Destroyers - Live In '99 | DVD | (03/08/2013) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-1.09 (-15.60%)   |  RRP £6.99

  George Thorogood & The Destroyers recorded live in St. Louis Missouri USA 1999. Setlist: 1. Be Bop Grandma 2. Who Do You Love 3. Night Time 4. I Drink Alone 5. 1 Bourbon 1 Scotch 1 Beer 6. Half A Boy Half A Man 7. As Long As I Have You 8. Get A Haircut 9. Bad To The Bone 10. Gear Jammer 11. Nothing New 12. Move It On Over 13. I Don't Trust Nobody 14. You Talk Too Much