"Actor: Timothy Spall"

• Cider With Rosie | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Samantha Morton and Jessica Hynes star in this BBC adaptation of the novel by Laurie Lee, narrated by Timothy Spall. Set in post-war Gloucestershire in a sleepy Cotswold village, dreamy days spent sampling Granny Wallon (June Whitfield)'s home brew give way to a darker vision of country life. As young Lol (Archie Cox) suffers at the hands of his sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he experiences his first love with the precocious Rosie (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis).

• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire | UMD | (20/03/2006) from £24.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (4.00%)   |  RRP £25.99

  When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools - the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series everything changes as Harry Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined.

• Life Is Sweet | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £19.93   |  Saving you £-6.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Life is Sweet, Mike Leigh's 1990 snapshot of the suburban family condition at the tail end of the Thatcher era, is often depressing and occasionally harrowing. It is also ultimately joyous, not just for the sharpness of Leigh's satire--the script was improvised with and by the cast--but also for the real affection that binds the family together. Through a series of minor crises, channels of communication silted up by the daily grind and terminal self-absorption are gradually eased open and the film ends on a note of genuine hope. As parents Wendy and Andy, Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent give virtuoso performances: two adults who use fantasy, mundane work and a stream of banal chatter to keep reality at bay before a freak kitchen accident forces them to stop and take stock. They have two daughters to perplex them: one a plumber (Claire Skinner) and the other an angry anorexic (Jane Horrocks, unsparing in a gut-wrenching bulimic scene). Timothy Spall is hilarious as family friend Aubrey, a would-be restaurateur whose efforts to establish a gourmet eatery in Enfield collapse in hopeless, drunken farce. This is not an overtly political film, but the sense of a stake being driven through the heart of the 1980s enterprise culture is unmistakeable. Inspiring. --Piers Ford

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1 - Vol. 2 : Episodes 4-6 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes include: 'Suspicion' 'Home Thoughts From Abroad' and 'The Accused'.

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 1 - Vol. 1 : Episodes 1-3 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £7.24   |  Saving you £5.75 (79.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Contains the episodes: 'If I Were A Carpenter' 'Who Won The War Anyway?' and 'The Girls They Left Behind'.

• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2-disc Special Edition) | DVD | (27/05/2005) from £7.65   |  Saving you £17.34 (226.67%)   |  RRP £24.99

  If you spliced Charles Addams, Dr. Seuss, Charles Dickens, Edward Gorey, and Roald Dahl into a Tim Burtonesque landscape, you'd surely come up with something like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Many critics (in mostly mixed reviews) wondered why Burton didn't direct this comically morbid adaptation of the first three books in the popular series by Daniel Handler (a.k.a. "Lemony Snicket," played here by Jude Law and seen only in silhouette) instead of TV and Casper veteran Brad Silberling, but there's still plenty to recommend the playfully bleak scenario, in which three resourceful orphans thwart their wicked, maliciously greedy relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who subjects them to... well, a series of unfortunate events. Along the way they encounter a herpetologist uncle (Billy Connolly), an anxious aunt (Meryl Streep) who's afraid of everything, and a variety of fantastical hazards and mysterious clues, some of which remain unresolved. Given endless wonders of art direction, costume design, and cinematography, Silberling's direction is surprisingly uninspired (in other words, the books are better), but when you add a throwaway cameo by Dustin Hoffman, Law's amusing narration, and Carrey's over-the-top antics, the first Lemony movie suggests a promising franchise in the making. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Early Man 4K UHD | 4K UHD | (28/05/2018) from £21.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Early Man is the new prehistoric comedy adventure from four-time Academy Award®-winning director Nick Park and Aardman, the creators of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun The Sheep. Shot in Aardman's own distinctive style, the film will take audiences on an extraordinary journey into an exciting new world, unleashing an unforgettable tribe of unique and funny new characters voiced by an all-star British cast. Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of courageous caveman hero Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his best friend Hognob, as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy, Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston), and his Bronze Age City to save their home.

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2 - Vol. 3 : Episodes 7-9 | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers, such as Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002. --David Stubbs

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £33.01 (275.54%)   |  RRP £44.99

  First broadcast in 1983, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likeable stereotypes from all over England: there’s Wayne (the late Gary Holton), a cockney charmer and womaniser; Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable Scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies; nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The show spawned a second series in 1986 then a belated follow-up in 2002. The plotlines were entertaining--capers usually involving misunderstandings or hangovers or both: Oz eating rat poison, Oz attempting to smuggle porn, Neville waking up after a large night out with a German girl’s name mysteriously tattooed on his arm; Dennis’s tentative relationship with a German woman named Dagmar while on the rebound from his recent divorce. However, the real meat of Auf Wiedersehen Pet was in the interplay of the characters--who were confined in prison camp-style conditions--and Clement and Le Frenais’ rueful sense of the comedy of men in crisis. Tim Healy’s Dennis in particular was a classic example of the indignity of the traditional grafter who suddenly finds himself struggling in mid-life, a condition exacerbated at having to "wet nurse" a bunch of wayward geezers, as he frequently complains. --David Stubbs

• Ivor The Invisible | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-1.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.58

  From the renowned children's author Raymond Briggs writer of 'The Snowman' 'Father Christmas' and 'The Bear'. One Saturday morning John wakes up to find an invisible something sitting on the end of his bed. The something seems to be gigantic but John can't work out how big it is. He tries to measure it but the invisible giant won't let him. When John asks this strange new friend its name the letters IVO appear on his mirror so John decides to call him Ivor. The invisible giant plays tricks on John's mum and dad and gets up to lots of mischief especially when John takes Ivor to the park and to school.

• The Street - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £16.47   |  Saving you £2.51 (18.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Return of the acclaimed drama from Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) where six stories are told through neighbours living on the same street. Starring Timothy Spall (Auf Wiedersehen Pet) Mark Benton (City Lights) David Thewlis (Harry Potter) and Gina McKee (The Forsyte Saga) the drama explores unconventional lives in a street so tough that no-one wants to live there and yet so tight-knit that no-one wants to leave.

• Ginger & Rosa | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (55.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sally Potter's latest film is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war Britain, as seen through the eyes of Elle Fanning's impressionable young teenager. She plays Ginger, who finds herself increasingly estranged from her mother (Christina Hendricks) and drawn further into the world of her pacifist and anti-nuclear activist father (Alessandro Nivola). However, her friendship with the fiery Rosa (Alice Englert) is severely tested by his unconventional lifestyle and their relationship threatens to explode like the bomb that threatens them all... The result is a passionate, moving and intelligent examination of political and personal responsibility, portrayed in exquisite detail by some of the greatest acting and directing talents.

• Heartless | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.

• The Damned United | Blu Ray | (31/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "The Damned United" centres around controversial football manager Brian Clough, set in 1974 but flashing back to the 1960s, about the famed manager's ill-fated 44-day reign as coach of Leeds United, then one of the country's most successful teams.

• Still Crazy | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Twenty-one years after an acrimonious split '70's rock band Strange Fruit are about to regroup and go on the road again. Their goal is to perform at the Wisbech Open Air Rock Festival the venue of their final disastrous performance which heralded their demise two decades earlier. The intervening years have seen the band members settling in to lives ranging from simply ordinary to the outright poverty stricken. 'Still Crazy' takes a sharp and acutely funny look at what it takes to get yourself back on stage with a group of people you haven't spoken to since glam-rock and platform shoes were all the rage! This hilarious film charts Strange Fruit's increasingly desperate efforts to recapture the magic the music the lost opportunities and the missed romance of their prime. Are they 'Still Crazy' enough to succeed?

• The Sheltering Sky | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Master filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci applies his considerable talent to this haunting adaptation of the Paul Bowles novel. John Malkovich and Debra Winger play Port and Kit Moresby, characters loosely based on Bowles and his wife Jane, who flee New York for North Africa, where they hope to find mystical truths that will reignite the spark of their marriage. But instead they lose their moral bearings (with help from a friend, played by Campbell Scott, who has an affair with Kit) while travelling deeper and deeper into the Sahara. Before long, what started as a vacation at exotic lodgings has descended into a tour of hell, as they stumble farther and farther into an unknowable spiritual territory. Though long and at times slow-moving, The Sheltering Sky features marvellously nuanced acting by Malkovich and Winger and visionary filmmaking that makes the landscape at once picturesque and threatening. --Marshall Fine

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2 - Vol. 2 : Episodes 4-6 | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers, such as Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002. --David Stubbs

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Series 2 - Vol. 1 : Episodes 1-3 | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £5.01   |  Saving you £7.98 (159.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes include: 'The Return Of The Seven (Part 1)' 'The Return Of The Seven (Part 2)' and 'A Law For The Rich'.

• The Damned United | Blu Ray | (20/10/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £19.60 (98.00%)   |  RRP £39.60

  Brian Clough was one of a kind. In 1974 Clough was already a renowned figure just as much for his dynamic personality as for his fantastic managerial ability. Having led Derby County to the first league victory in their history Clough left in a cloud of controversy and after a brief spell at Brighton found himself in the Leeds United hotseat after Don Revie's departure for the England job. The Damned United based on David Peace's book of the same name follows the tempestuous 44 days that Clough managed Leeds United. After alienating the side's star players and a string of awful results Clough was sacked but that was only half the story...

• Secrets and Lies | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mike Leigh's superlative drama at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) a young black optometrist has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow she embarks on a search for her birth mother who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family except Cynthia's brother Mauri