"Actor: A Man"

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Cinderella story from the mean streets of Kingston, Jamaica, the alternately comic and gritty Dancehall Queen is an intriguingly dark crowd pleaser. Marcia (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter. Complicating things is Priest (Paul Campbell), a murderous hood who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems--Larry, Priest, and a lack of money---Marcia arrives at an inspired solution: develop an alter ego, a dancing celebrity called the Mystery Lady who can compete in a cash-prize contest and pit both of the men against one another. Which is exactly what she does, and it's great fun watching Marcia instigate her complicated plan with a little help from sympathetic friends. Colorful, rowdy, funny, and dangerous, Dancehall Queen is a clever and ceaselessy energetic movie steeped in Kingston street life and the desire to keep body and soul together at home. Reid is a delight as the everyday figure who transforms into an icon in the evenings, and the dance scenes are amazingly bawdy. --Tom Keogh

• Kill Bill: Volume 1 (4K UHD Bluray Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (31/03/2025) from £41.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The acclaimed fourth film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Volume 1 stars Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, and Vivica A. Fox in an astonishing, action-packed thriller about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta. Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback. Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she did not start, but one she will finish. Loaded with explosive action and outrageous humour, Kill Bill Volume 1 is a must-see motion picture event.

• Shaolin Soccer | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An over-the-hill ex footie player and a down-on-his-luck monk from the famous Shaolin temple team up to make a footie squad with a difference.

• Ali & Nino | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ali Khan Shirvanshir, the male descendant of a royal Muslim family, falls in love with the beautiful Nino Kipiani, a Georgian princess who is Christian, while he is in Azerbaijan during World War I.

• Alias: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £16.17   |  Saving you £30.08 (201.74%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Created by JJ Abrams, Alias plays like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and James Bond. Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a super (and super-sexy) spy, fighting nefarious villains and working for the good guys--or so she thinks. Recruited as a college freshman for espionage work, Sydney found her true calling with SD-6, a secret division of the CIA. When her hunky doctor-boyfriend proposes to her, she decides to let him in on the truth she's not supposed to tell anyone: she's not a grad student with a demanding job for an international bank, but a secret agent who constantly puts her life on the line for the free world. But when SD-6 discovers her security breach, her fiancé is brutally assassinated, and Sydney suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the truth: she's been working for the bad guys. Deciding to become a double agent for the CIA and bring down the evildoers, Sydney gets one more surprise--her estranged father (Victor Garber) is also working for SD-6, and the CIA as well. Welcome to the family, Syd! Confused? This is all just the first episode. With its double-edged tension (how long can Syd play double agent?) and one heck of a MacGuffin (the dreaded Rambaldi device, the mythic creation of a Renaissance genius), the show leads its viewers from episode to episode with visceral, compelling action, not to mention the nascent romance between Syd and her CIA handler, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her clashes with her heretofore distant father. Sharp, smart and always suspenseful, Alias' centre was held by the gorgeous Garner, a stellar action heroine and an even better actress who could pull off Sydney's exotic undercover missions and conflicted emotions with equal dexterity. By the end of this first series, which concludes with a breathtaking cliffhanger, you'll be seduced into Alias' world with, happily, no desire to escape. --Mark Englehart

• How High | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Grab your favourite munchies: Red and Meth, that dope-addled dynamic duo, are going to Harvard. And while it's not exactly demanding viewing, How High is destined to become a guilty pleasure of the cannabis crowd. The plot's a familiar one--take the basic selling points of any Cheech & Chong movie (a pair of shambolic protagonists who smoke lots of weed and drive funky 70s-style cars), graft them onto a generic "raising hell on campus" teen movie scenario and shake vigorously. The result is a prosaic effort that does contain some all-too-brief moments of genuine humour. Red and Meth, aka Redman and Method Man, may look like the world's oldest freshmen, but both offer genial performances, especially Method Man, who imbues the character of Silas with a dog-eared gentleness that raises him above the film's leaden script and plastic directing. --Rebecca Levine

• Erotic Ghost Story | Blu Ray | (09/08/2021) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the director of the legendarily bonkers The Story of Ricky comes an altogether more lubricious slice of adults-only action, one that more than lives up to its title.

• Fury | 4K UHD | (28/05/2018) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Special features: Presented in SD or HD resolution 4K ultra HD: Tanks of Fury Documentary No Guts, No Glory: The Horrors of Combat Featurette Tiger 131 Featurette Heart of Fury Featurette Clash of Armour Featurette Theatrical Trailers Blu-Ray: Over 50 Minutes of Deleted & Extended Scenes Director's Combat Journal Armoured Warriors: The Real Men Inside the Shermans Featurette Taming the Beasts: How to Drive, Fire & Shoot Inside a 30-Ton Tank Featurette Blood Brothers Featurette

• Final Destination 1, 2 and 3 Box Set | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £19.24   |  Saving you £7.01 (38.99%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Three features. We're going to tell you not once, but twice. You can't cheat what fate has in store for you, particularly if it involves death. FINAL DESTINATION 1 and FINAL DESTINATION 2 are considered by fans and critics alike as the thinking persons' horror films, showing the usual group of teens put in the peculiar position of - could it be - having to use their smarts to outwit the grim reaper. This package of films is a roller coaster ride of funs and thrills. See individual titles for complete descriptions of this fabulously fun duo. Also includes 'Final Destination 3'.

• Shaolin Soccer | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An over-the-hill ex footie player and a down-on-his-luck monk from the famous Shaolin temple team up to make a footie squad with a difference.

• Wwe: Macho Man - The Randy Savage Story | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  OOOOHH YEEAAAH!! WWE Fans you have waited long enough! Randy “Macho Man” Savage captivated the sports-entertainment world for over a quarter century. His glistening wardrobe often-imitated cadence and grandiose style was outshined only by his virtuoso performances in the ring. Macho Man with his gorgeous leading lady Miss Elizabeth embodied the raging 80s in WWE and later compounded his success in WCW. Now the complete story of his incredible life can finally be told in Macho Man: The Randy Savage Story. In this 90 minute documentary get brand new exclusive commentary from family friends and his contemporaries as they chronicle his ascent from young baseball phenom through all the pomp and circumstance of his incomparable career. Featuring Hulk Hogan Lex Luger Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat Bret “Hit Man” Hart Ric Flair Kevin Nash DDP his brother Lanny “The Genius” Poffo and much more!

• Nine Queens | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £18.02   |  Saving you £1.97 (10.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom--and how, and why--it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up. The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully--but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. –-Philip Kemp

• Erotic Ghost Story | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £23.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This triple-bill of paranormal perversion delivers everything you'd want from a Category III movie, plus a bit more besides. In the first tale from Story of Ricki director Ngai Choi Lam, a trio of sexy spirits fall for the same hunk. The second movie, the directorial debut of Peter Ngor has the God of Carnal Desire, God Wu Tung on a quest for revenge after his favourite conquest is zapped by other god like beings and in the third piece from Kai-Ming Lai, a man journeys into the afterlife only to be greeted by a very powerful woman. A trilogy like no other, this one hits the spirited saucy spot.

• Creature From The Black Lagoon | DVD | (02/10/2002) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (55.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Scientists drug and capture the creature who becomes enamoured with the head scientist's female assistant. The lonely creature escapes and kidnaps the object of his affection. leaving it up to the chief scientist to rescue his assistant and cast the ominous creature back to the depths from which he came.

• Little Secrets | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £7.60   |  Saving you £12.39 (163.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Little Secrets is a delightful cautionary tale about modern childhood. Blair Treu's film manages to be reassuring about the reality of a world in which kids are perceived to grow up too quickly, without patronising them about the scale and scope of the problems that preoccupy them. At 14, Emily (Evan Rachel Wood) has it all mapped out. Wise beyond her years, she is a musical prodigy who also runs a neat sideline keeping the secrets of the neighbourhood children for a small fee: broken china, kittens hidden in the bedroom, money stolen from dad's wallet to buy his own birthday present. These enjoyable scenes owe a huge debt to Peanuts. But Emily has a secret of her own, and over one cataclysmic summer the burden of this and all the others she is keeping on behalf of her friends becomes insupportable. Moralising is kept to a minimum as events resolve themselves in a dramatic way and saccharine levels are modest thanks to the determinedly unsentimental performances of Wood, David Gallagher and Michael Angarano. All told this is a pleasing family film of some quality. On the DVD: Little Secrets might be a small film, but it has a big picture feel, enhanced by the anamorphic widescreen presentation and a super-clear Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Extras include a good director's commentary in which Treu stresses the childish truths that make the story so touching, a short making-of documentary and a not particularly funny blooper reel. --Piers Ford

• Jackass Forever | Blu Ray | (02/05/2022) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Older but not wiser, Johnny Knoxville and the crew are back for the most unbelievably outrageous Jackass yet. Brace yourself as they reach new levels of immaturity and with a little help from some brave new friends and guest stars, their wildly outrageous pranks and dangerously bone-crunching stunts will have you laughing until it really, really hurts. Some people never learn.

• Jay & Silent Bob Reboot | DVD | (20/01/2020) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Jay & Silent Bob discover that a reboot of the Bluntman & Chronic movie is being made, they head off to ChronicCon in Hollywood to stop it. Along the way, they run into Jay's old girlfried Justice (Shannon Elizabeth) and Jay discovers he has a daughter he never knew he had one who forces Jay & Silent Bob at knifepoint to take her and her 3 friends with the to Hollywood so they can be extras in the new movie. A reboot of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, in which they find out a movie is being made based on a comic book based on them and head off to Hollywood to stop it, this movie takes on remakes, reboots and sequels, whilst simultaneously being all 3! Filled to the brim with cameo appearances from a myriad of past characters from the View Askewniverse, as well as some new, but very familiar, faces. BONUS FEATURES Jay & Silent Bob Hair Highlight Reel Cast & Crew Interviews

• Shaft (2019) | DVD | (15/06/2020) from £3.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Legendary bada** John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) agrees to help his estranged son, JJ (Jessie T. Usher), uncover the truth behind his friend's suspicious death. The popular opposite of his foul-mouthed father, JJ is a book-smart cybersecurity expert who needs an education only Shaft can provide: how to navigate Harlem's underbelly. But if flying fists and bullets weren't enough of a challenge, JJ finds his political correctness clashes wildly with Shaft's shut your mouth style in this nonstop action-comedy that proves the Shaft name is still the ultimate in cool. Extra Content - Can Ya Dig It? The Making of Shaft

• WWE: Wrestling's Greatest Factions | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £11.79   |  Saving you £23.20 (66.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  For decades Superstars have sought allies and banded together for strength in numbers. From the Four Horsemen to the n.W.o DK The Nexus The Shield and everyone in between factions are as woven into the fabric of sports-entertainment as the rules they tend to ignore. Now WWE celebrates the biggest baddest and coolest factions in history. From those who influenced generations of Superstars to those who just ran roughshod over the competition this 3-disc DVD/2-disc Blu-ray presents a brief history of the top factions from all eras and collects several of the greatest matches and moments that made each one a household name. Also featuring The Fabulous Freebirds The Nation of Domination Evolution The Heenan Family Straight Edge Society and much more!

• WWE: SummerSlam 1992 - 30th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Highlights and footage from the WWE pay-per-view event held at Wembley Stadium in London on August 29th 1992. In the main events, brothers-in-law Bret 'Hit Man' Hart and The British Bulldog battled for the Intercontinental Championship while The Ultimate Warrior and Randy Savage competed for the WWE Championship. Other matches include Shawn Michaels Vs Rick Martel and The Undertaker Vs Kamala.