"Actor: Stuart Brennan"

• Fatal Attraction | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fatal Attraction was the most controversial hit of 1987, a film nominated for six Oscars that launched a whole up-market psycho sub-genre. In an elaboration of Play Misty for Me (1971), Michael Douglas plays a married middle-class everyman who has an opportunistic weekend affair with New York publishing executive, Glenn Close. The twist is that Close's Alex is a borderline psychotic. She won't let go, and the film moves from a study of modern sexual mores to an increasingly tense thriller about neurotic obsession. The performances are exceptional and two set-pieces, one which gave us the term "Bunny Boiler" and another in a fairground, provide metaphorical and literal rollercoaster rides. Only a laughable sex scene--in a sink, anyone?--and a melodramatic finale shamelessly ripping-off the 1955 French classic Les Diaboliques and Psycho (1960) prevent a good thriller being a great one. Even so, Fatal Attraction is still a film worth seeing again, even if it's hard to wonder what all the fuss was about in 1987. On the DVD: Fatal Attraction on disc has a new 28-minute documentary featuring the principal players explaining how wonderful each other are. More substantial is a 19-minute feature on creating the visual look, with sections on cinematography, costume and make-up design. A worthwhile 10-minute piece examines the social impact of the movie and the controversy it generated. Seven minutes of the three stars in rehearsal is intriguing, but more interesting is the opportunity to see the original, low-key ending, rejected after test screenings. Much of the best documentary material focuses on how the finally released ending came about, while Lyne's commentary is thoughtful and illuminating. The original trailer is included and there are 16 sets of subtitles, including English for the hard of hearing, as well as an alternative German dub. The sound has been remixed from stereo into a subtly involving Dolby Digital 5.1, and the 1.78:1 anamorphic transfer looks fine, though there is some very minor print damage. --Gary S Dalkin

• Risen | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £5.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (117.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of Howard Winstone is both remarkable and compelling. As a young man he was one of the biggest rising talents in amateur boxing until a factory accident crushed his fingers the tips of three were amputated meaning that hand could no longer make a proper fist! His father wouldnt let him gripe and he was soon punching a coal bag to keep his spirits up. Under a new trainer Eddie Thomas he started to learn a new style and once again rise up victoriously through the amateur ranks. He had completely changed the way he boxed and from there remarkably went on to become Champion of Britain and Champion of Europe.

• Trojan Eddie | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A small time businessman on the make fancies himself for the big time but spends his days fetching and carrying for the local traveller community leader John Power who just happens to be a forceful and dangerous Godfather of the local travelling community. A tense story of violent retribution interwoven with wicked Irish humour.

• The Reverend | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £5.48   |  Saving you £10.51 (191.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Batman Begins) delivers a haunting performance as the bringer of death in this terrifying take on the vampire tale, as he unleashes a horrifying brand of religious purification upon a small town. When a Reverend (Stuart Brennan - Risen) arrives to a new parish in a troubled town, he embarks upon a holy crusade to purge the neighborhood of hooligans, criminals and thugs. However, what the locals have yet to realize is that his divine service is driven by an uncontrollable thirst for blood and they soon find themselves sucked into his diabolical world of death and devastation.

• Plan Z | DVD | (30/01/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror directed by and starring Stuart Brennan, alongside Mark Paul Wake and Victoria Morrison. In the event of a zombie outbreak, Craig (Brennan) is about as prepared as anyone could be. All of his planning pays off when a sinister and virulent contagion begins to spread and mutate, bringing the dead back to life. Craig enacts his plan, that seems to be working, until a friend calls him desperate for help. His best laid plans are thrown to the wind, along with his caution as he and his fellow survivors force themselves to be brutally violent in order to survive the apocalypse.

• Fatal Attraction | Blu Ray | (13/09/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A