"Actor: Tod Davies"

• The Passionate Friends | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (118.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Through her marriage to a wealthy financier Mary Justin has the freedom and comfort she has always yearned for but her life is one that lacks emotional fulfilment. On a visit to Switzerland she runs into an old friend Steven Stratton with whom she once had a passionate love affair many years before her marriage. Her meeting with Steven rekindles old memories of a friendship of the most beautiful kind. If only they could begin again...

• Scourge Of The Worlds - A Dungeons And Dragons Adventure | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure is not a film sequel to Dungeons and Dragons (2000), but the DVD equivalent of an interactive role-playing novel. There are over 900 short digitally animated sequences, leading every so often to a choice to be made with the remote control, resulting after about 90 minutes in one of four possible endings. Just as the original D&D was inspired by The Lord of the Rings, the scenarios here are Tolkien rehashed: a newly arisen darkness is seeking an ancient ultimate weapon, against which stand a human warrior, Regdar, a halfling, Lidda and an elven wizard, Mialee. The CGI is closer to Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles than the pseudo-realism of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the electronic score is tiresome and the contemporary American voice acting, using such expressions as "head's up" and "…or something", is laughable. What of the interactive element? Essentially it offers two equally uninteresting paths at the end of every major scene--uninteresting because it's impossible to care what happens to the marionette-like stereotypes no matter what they do. While the adventure does offer plenty of well-choreographed cartoon-style action, interacting with Scourge of Worlds is ultimately about as much fun as watching someone else play a computer game--and that's just the first time through. On the DVD: Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons and Dragons Adventure fills the DVD with the 900-plus animated sequences, presumably leaving no room for extras. The only options are between stereo sound and far more involving Dolby Digital 5.1. The image appears to have been taken directly from a digital master and is flawless, the images only limited by the TV-standard computer rendering. --Gary S Dalkin

• Three Businessmen | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alex Cox's Three Businessman is an existentialist fable for the independent businessman. Two travelling art dealers staying in a labyrinthine Liverpool hotel, Frank King (Alex Cox) and Bennie Reyes (Miguel Sandoval of Clear and Present Danger), sit down for dinner only to find that the hotel staff have deserted them. They begin to walk the Mersey streets in search of sustenance, talking about dogs, dinner, the "Plutonium" credit card and the state of the world. But lost without a map, they inadvertently wander half way across the world on public transport in search of their hotel, touching down in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. In a desert, they come across a third businessman, Leroy Jasper (Robert Wisdom), clutching a replica of the Mir space station. Soon after, they stumble across a food stand outside a small abode that holds within it the true object of their quest. It is a destination that they have found without looking for. This small, mannered movie grows in stature as it progresses. Sandoval and Cox are amiably crotchety travelling companions. Aided and abetted by jump cuts, the surrealist conceit that allows the businessman to roam across the world without ever realising they have left Liverpool is distinctly Bunuelian (cf. the name of Cox's production company Exterminating Angel Films). On the DVD: An amusing commentary by Alex Cox and writing partner and producer Tod Davies has the added bonus of Cox acting out deleted scenes. The feature appears in widescreen format with an excellent sound and picture transfer, enhanced by Pray for Rain's melancholic soundtrack. But the Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop promo video promised on the sleeve and liner notes does not appear anywhere on the disc. --Chris Campion

• Doctor At Sea - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The massively popular Doctor at Sea series chronicles the further hilarious misadventures of doctors Duncan Waring and Dick Stuart-Clark. This time around Stuart-Clark is fired from St. Swithin's and Waring resigns in protest. Agreeing that a cruise is just what the doctor ordered the holiday quickly turns into something that neither of them had counted on! This complete series sees Waring trying to deal with shipboard operations (one of them on himself!) cranky passengers mutiny and the hunt for a stowaway. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sir John and Baby Doc 2. Oh I do like to be Beside the Seasick 3. A Healthy Ship is a Happy Ship 4. The Senior Officer's Perks 5. Go Away Stowaway! 6. Floating Profits 7. Goodbye Mr. Ships! 8. The V.I.P. 9. In A Little Spanish Town 10. Physician Heal Thyself 11. A Wolf in Ship's Clothing 12. Murder! He Said 13. But It's So Much Nicer To Come Home

• Xena: Warrior Princess - The Complete TV Series | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £289.99

  First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess boasts a loyal (and vocal) cult following. Strap on your breast plate and follow the adventures of the charismatic and highly-skilled female warrior from ancient times! This set is available exclusively on the internet; each limited edition box set is individually numbered and features all 133 episodes! 1. Sins of the Past 2. Chariots of War 3. Dreamworker 4.Cradle of Hope 5.The Path Not Taken 6. The Reckoning 7. The Titans 8. Prometheus 9. Death in Chains 10. Hooves & Harlots 11. The Black Wolf 12. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts 13. Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards 14. A Fistful of Dinars 15. Warrior... Princess 16. Mortal Beloved 17. The Royal Couple of Thieves 18. The Prodigal 19. Altared States 20. Ties That Bind 21. The Greater Good 22. Callisto 23. Death Mask 24. Is There A Doctor in the House? 25. Orphan of War 26. Remember Nothing 27. The Giant Killer 28. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 29. Return of Callisto 30. Warrior... Princess... Tramp 31. Intimate Stranger 32. Ten Little Warlords 33. A Solstice Carol 34. The Xena Scrolls 35. Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis 36. Destiny (1) 37. The Quest (2) 38. A Necessary Evil 39. A Day in the Life 40. For Him The Bell Tolls 41. The Execution 42. Blind Faith 43. Ulysses 44. The Price 45. The Lost Mariner 46. A Comedy of Eros 47. The Furies 48. Been There Done That 49. The Dirty Half Dozen 50. The Deliverer 51. Gabrielle's Hope 52. The Debt (1) 53. The Debt (2) 54. The King of Assassins 55. Warrior... Priestess... Tramp 56. The Quill Is Mightier 57. Maternal Instincts 58. The Bitter Suite 59. One Against An Army 60. Forgiven 61. King Con 62. When In Rome... 63. Forget Me Not 64. Fins Femmes and Gems 65. Tsunami 66. Vanishing Act 67. Sacrifice (1) 68. Sacrifice (2) 69. Adventures in the Sin Trade (1) 70. Adventures in the Sin Trade (2) 71. A Family Affair 72. In Sickness and In Hell 73. A Good Day 74. A Tale of Two Muses 75. Locked Up and Tied Down 76. Crusader 77. Past Imperfect 78. The Key To The Kingdom 79. Daughter of Pomira 80. If The Shoe Fits... 81. Paradise Found 82. Devi 83. Between The Lines 84. The Way 85. The Play's The Thing 86. The Convert 87. Takes One To Know One 88. Endgame 89. The Ides of March 90. Deja Vu All Over Again 91. Fallen Angel 92. Chakram 93. Succession 94. Animal Attraction 95. Them Bones Them Bones 96. Purity 97. Back in the Bottle 98. Little Problems 99. Seeds of Faith 100. Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire 101. Punch Lines 102. God Fearing Child 103. Eternal Bonds 104. Amphipolis Under Siege 105. Married with Fishsticks 106. Lifeblood 107. Kindred Spirits 108. Antony & Cleopatra 109. Looking Death in the Eye 110. Livia 111. Eve 112. Motherhood 113. Coming Home 114. The Haunting of Amphipolis 115. Heart of Darkness 116. Who's Gurkhan? 117. Legacy 118. The Abyss 119. The Rheingold (1) 120. The Ring (2) 121. Return of the Valkyrie (3) 122. Old Ares Had A Farm 123. Dangerous Prey 124. The God You Know 125. You Are There 126. Path of Vengeance 127. To Helicon and Back 128. Send in the Clones 129. The Last of the Centaurs 130. When Fates Collide 131. Many Happy Returns 132. Soul Possession 133. Friend in Need