"Actor: Vera Madeline"

• Roseland (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-4.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  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 companionshiop. 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. Ruth Prawer Jhabvalas understated screenplay received accolades and delivers an uncharacteristic bit of sentiment not present in other Merchant Ivory efforts.

• The Collingswood Story | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Rebecca went away to college John thought webams could help them stay in touch. But idle curiosity leads to a dark mystery when they meet Vera Madeline an online psychic who senses something is wrong... terribly wrong. The Collingswood Story is an offbeat thriller with an exciting twist. Its macabre tale of murder ritual and mystery is told through an immersive webcam interface. Each character uses the webcam for their own voyeuristic purposes - to communicate to inv