"Actor: Wells"

• The Bobo | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia a 'shrewd merciless beauty' who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count.

• Trailer Park Boys: Complete Season 1 & 2 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Matt Frei explores the unique city of Berlin an artificial metropolis - one that has not grown organically but always been contrived and redefined. Throughout its history it has been a laboratory of human behaviour thought and art. What began as a provincial town in the 17th century on a central European marsh became the very image of the messy development of human-kind during the 20th century. It is a place whose history we all feel caught up in in some way. Even if we have never visited we all feel touched by events that have taken place there because they are the universal stories of our time. Matt Frei is the BBC's Washington correspondent. Born in Germany he was sent by the BBC to Berlin in 1989 to report on the fall of the Wall. Now 20 years later he returns to take us on a fascinating journey through Berlin's history to reveal the true spirit of the city. Over three hour-long documentaries he explains this incredible city's ideas buildings and people. Dangerous Ideas explores how Berlin has been a crucible for radical thought - giving birth to communism and fascism theories of sex and sexuality eugenics and the atomic bomb - and how the price of such experimentation has been a history of bloodshed tyranny and violence. Ruined Visions tells a story of human creativity and destruction through the buildings of Berlin. From Friedrich the Second's imperial city and Bauhaus to the impact of Speers' Neo-classical Nazi dream and the Wall; what began as a 17th century provincial town became a city unique in the world. Ich Bin Ein Berliner reveals the spirit of Berlin's people characterised by their struggle for freedom. Having flocked to enjoy the city's religious toleration they took on the Nazis and risked their lives to cross the Wall - the iron rod of oppression and a thirst for liberty have shaped the Berliner.

• Shatter Dead | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £6.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (39.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There's no more room in heaven either. Winner of the Best U.S. Independent feature film at the Fantafilm Festival this is a modern take on the zombie genre. When the dead stop dying they want to live normally amongst the living. When the living refuse to have zombies in their midst a bloody war breaks out between the living and the dead. Previously unreleased in the UK.

• Genocide | DVD | (05/07/2007) from £5.83   |  Saving you £10.16 (63.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Genocide tells the story of the millions of men women and children who fell victim to Hitler's Final Solution. It combines historical narrative with actual stories of ordinary people caught up in the Nazi's reign of terror. Winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Documentary.

• MacGyver - Season 1 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is a modern-day ""knight-errant"" a person people turn to in a crisis. He has a penchant for arriving on the scene in the eleventh hour when the clock is ticking ominously and innocent lives often are at stake. MacGyver is a packrat collecting ordinary items of seemingly little value and stashing them in his knapsack ""for a rainy day"". And it is these same items that he uses to improvise his way out of trouble. MacGyver's ingenious solutions to see

• Harlan County War | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It's Her Turn To Fight Back. Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter (The Piano) stars as Ruby the wife of a coal miner in Harlan County Kentucky. After two senseless deaths the union calls a strike against the mining company. What follows is one of the most violent bitter and notorious union battles in history. With no end to the strike in sight Ruby decides to fight the company her way. Ted Levine (Georgina) and Stellan Skarsgard (Good Will Hunting) also star in this fictional

• The Return Of The Superfly | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ex-drug dealer Superfly is persuaded to return to America in order to trap the current dealers....

• A Different Kind Of Christmas | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £5.26   |  Saving you £0.73 (13.88%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Amazing things happen when you believe....A quiet neighbourhood is reeling with the shock of Santa Claus moving into town. The children are in seventh heaven but the traffic jams reindeers and popping snow machines prove too much for Santa's neighbours and they call in local mayoral candidate (Shelley Long) to shut down Santa's Dream World.Reporter Frank Mallory (Barry Bostwick) is intrigued by Elizabeth's lack of Christmas spirit and interested in what makes Santa tick.Santa has used his magic to light up other lives but is it too late to reunite his own family?

• Get Some In! - Series 5 - Complete | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Get Some In: Series 5

• Junior Wells - Live At Nightstage | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The legendary Nightstage performance by junior Wells joined on stage by special guest Buddy Guy in an unforgettable evening of all time Blues favourites! Tracklisting: 1. Look Over Yonders Wall 2. Crazy About You 3. I Just Want to Make Love to You 4. Everything's Gonna Be Aright 5. Tribute to Muddy Waters 6. Trouble No More 7. Juke 8. My Younger Days 9. Got My Mojo Workin' 10. Super Bad 11. I Got You 12. Little by Little

• Leonard Rossiter, British Comedy Heroes | DVD | (08/11/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Leonard Rossiter's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best loved comedy heroes. Laugh again at some of the best sketches ever written for television and film and a few that may have escaped you from his earlier career. In addition to archive interviews with Mr Rossiter himself we also hear the first hand reflections of co-stars and friends Bruce Bould John Barron John Wells Sue Nicholls Eric Chappel and Don Warrington who all pay tribute to the comic genius that was Leonard Rositter. Although sadly missed Leonard Rossiter will continue to entertain us on TV screens for years to come via the comic legacy that is 'Rising Damp' 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' 'Billy Liar' and 'The Losers' and much more.

• The Gruesome Twosome | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Herschell Gordon Lewis' most weird and wonderful films The Gruesome Twosome saw a return to form for its director after a short diversion into less gory (and less commercially successful) celluloid territory. Mrs Pringle's Little Wig Shop is a family business specialising in hairpieces crafted from human hair. Located on a college campus the shop is well served by the number of young women eager to change their style. But the laws of supply and demand are such that the Pringles are forced to make a few sacrifices... human sacrifices. Wielding his trusty electric carving knife Mrs Pringle's son Ronald helps his Mom out by scalping those unfortunate enough to enquire about the room that the old lady has to rent. This outrageous and blackly comic movie features a truly surreal opening sequence that has to be seen to be believed. You'll flip your wig!

• The Element Of Crime | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Way, way before he dreamt up his famous Dogme manifesto, Lars von Trier launched his feature-film career with The Element of Crime and proved that, 400 years after Hamlet, the Danes can still do melancholy like nobody else. Less a film noir than a film jaune sale, this ultra-enigmatic thriller is shot entirely in tones of grimy sepia in a world where nightfall seems to be an unceasing condition. A police detective, Fisher (Michael Elphick), is summoned from Cairo to "Europe" (the location never gets any more specific than that) to investigate a series of gory child-murders. He comes to suspect that the killer may be a mysterious character called Harry Grey and sets out to retrace Grey's movements. The film takes its title from a treatise written by Fisher's old mentor Osborne (Welsh actor Esmond Knight, a veteran of Powell and Pressburger's films), but it might as well refer to water. Von Trier conjures up a world not only permanently benighted, but dank, sodden and dripping both indoors and out, cluttered with mouldy, antiquated industrial machinery. There are echoes (or pre-echoes) here of half-a-dozen other movies--Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Welles' The Trial--and at times it feels as though von Trier has just set out to show he can do art house as well as anybody and possibly better. The plot makes no sense whatever and clearly isn't meant to, and Elphick's bemused expression, one suspects, derives from the actor as much as from the character he's playing. As always with von Trier you can't help wondering if whole thing isn't an elaborate put-on, especially since the director himself shows up, epicene and shaven-headed, playing a personage called "Schmuck of Ages". But what it lacks in coherence (either narrative or visual) Element of Crime makes up for in atmosphere, which it has, literally, by the bucketful. This release, incidentally, is the English-language version. --Philip Kemp

• Throwback | Blu Ray | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two pest exterminator's head into the bush to search for the legendary lost treasure of the bushranger 'Thunderclap Newman'. The pair find their bounty but what they didn't count on was an encounter with Australia's mythical Yowie a giant ape-like killing machine hungry for human flesh! Starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max) Throwback is a good old fashioned monster flick a thrilling joyride from start to finish and a prime example of the new wave of Australian genre cinema. Special Features: 'Making of' Documentary Cast and Director Commentaries Trailer

• Curse Of The Forty Niner | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.29   |  Saving you £4.70 (42.80%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Six friends unwittingly stir up a ghostly spirit... Legend has it that Jeremiah Stone was the meanest man who ever lived. Seeking the lost gold of the fabled Forty-Niner Nick Claire Tori Roxanne Axl and Hayden succeed only in resurrecting the Evil spirit of Jeremiah Stone. Now the Legendary ghost has become virtually unstoppable flesh and bloodkilling machine. The Forty-Niner is after them! One by one they are stalked and killed until Old Nellie a reclusive mountain woman tells them how to destroy the deadly creature...

• The Free Man (DVD) | DVD | (24/04/2017) from £8.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Freedom is defined as the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity. To reach that level of liberty is a physical and mental endeavor that many will risk their life to obtain. Is life worth risking for the feeling of conquering fear and becoming free? Olympic Freestyle skier, Jossi Wells, meets extreme sports performing artists, The Flying Frenchies, to find out what it really means to be free and what drives individuals to chase such a powerful right. Directed by Toa Fraser, this is the story of men who push themselves to the point of no return. There is no going back when death is at your door and you realize that this is the most important moment of your life because it could be your very last. Click Images to Enlarge

• Vampire Clan | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on the true story of the murder of a girls parents in Eustis Florida. Five teens in a vampire cult on the run are captured by police in New Orleans Los Angeles and tell their tale of how they got there....

• Anatomy Of An Illness | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Judgement Day | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the depths of space a giant meteor collides with an asteroid sending a deadly shower of fragments towards Earth. After a small piece makes impact eliminating everything around it the United States Airforce observes that the worse is yet to come - a 14 mile long fragment powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. Determining that their own 'Spaceguard' is not up to the job the military turns to Dr. David Corbett - inventor of 'Thor' an explosive device capable of eliminating the meteor. But deranged religious leader Thomas Payne has another plan. Kidnapping Corbett so that Thor cannot be used. Payne and his cult believe that the world is fated for the impending doom.

• Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of his own 1979 production which was largely responsible for beginning modern interest in Vivaldi's stage work. The composer first premiered Orlando finto pazzo in 1714, but the Orlando Furioso finalised in 1727 was so heavily reworked as to be virtually an entirely new opera, and so successful Handel set the same epic poem by Aristo under the title Alcina in 1735. Vivaldi's opera is not of that calibre, offering rather too much functional recitative and only a handful of truly memorable arias. However, the cast perform with such commitment and style as to make the work thoroughly enjoyable. It is a tale of romantic and magical intrigue on a small island, inevitably echoing Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the classically elegant set-design and colourful costumes evoke a suitable sense of fantasy. Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne makes the title role her own while Susan Patterson is a characterful and strong-minded Angelica. William Matteuzzi makes a sympathetic Medoro, notably outmanoeuvred in love, while as the sorceress Alcina Kathleen Kuhlann is a appropriately complex and powerful in revealing the loneliness at the heart of her corruption. On the DVD: There are no features other than the two trailers which appear on almost all Arthaus releases. The production is presented in the original television 4:3 and the image is little better than a good video. The picture is not especially detailed and too often the performer's faces are slightly out of focus while the sets are pin-sharp. Overall the image suffers the usual problems from originally being shot on professional video, in addition to which some compression artefacting is noticeable. The prologic sound is fine, though appears simply to down mix the main stereo signal to the rear channel and the result is more accurate if switched to straight stereo. --Gary S Dalkin