"Actor: Alan"

• The Blue Lagoon | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1980, Randal Kleiser's remake of The Blue Lagoon had its critics well and truly divided. On the one hand adolescent nudity, however tasteful, was enough to give the censors the vapours. On the other, the story--essentially a reworking of Robinson Crusoe based on Stacpoole's Edwardian adventure novel with two young children as the castaways growing up on a desert island--seemed just too removed from reality. Kleiser set out to make "the ultimate South Seas film", and indeed the location shooting is a richly beautiful complement to the intimate tale of two young people coming to terms with their own adulthood. He teases out touching performances from Brooke Shields (Emmeline) and Christopher Atkins (Richard) as the marooned pair, and a nicely ambivalent cameo from Leo McKern as Paddy, the ship's cook who gets them set up on the island before rum gets the better of him. A stilted script helps none of them. But the moments of awkward self-discovery and dawning sexuality are handled with a tenderness which ultimately triumphs over some of the more implausible elements: Shields' perpetually manicured nails, for example, or the fact that she unexpectedly gives birth without breaking sweat. To say nothing of the pair's extraordinary home-building skills, which would have been beyond the remit of the average Edwardian governess to teach. Today, for all its efforts to be taken seriously as a tale of preserved innocence and discovery, it succeeds best as a good old-fashioned adventure. On the DVD: This widescreen presentation positively bulges with extras. A choice of director's commentaries means that you can hear Randal Kaiser (who had previously directed Grease) reminiscing in fine detail with writer Douglas Day Stewart, and both Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. Some might think this overkill for a non-landmark film, but the discussions are genuinely interesting. The film was clearly a formative experience in Shields' adolescent career --she has also provided an album of personal snapshots as another extra--and it is fascinating to hear her talk about it from her current position as a star of sophisticated television sitcom. The crystal-clear digital remastering and anamorphic stereo picture and sound quality of the main film don't extend to this scratchy, sometimes inaudible documentary. --Piers Ford

• Alan Davies - Little Victories | DVD | (28/11/2016) from £5.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Throughout 2014 and 2015, Alan Davies toured his hugely successful stand-up show Little Victories to a rapturous reception in all corners of the UK, Australia and New Zealand with stops in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Dublin, Geneva & Zurich on the way. Following on from his impressive return to live stand-up, Life Is Pain, he immediately set about creating an even funnier, more personal and hilarious performance. This is classic stand-up from a master storyteller at the top of his game. 'A DENSELY FUNNY, MIDDLE-AGED HOWL OF ANGUISH MORE DEEPLY PERSONAL AND WRYLY FUNNY STUFF FROM A COMEDIAN HITTING HIS PRIME' - The Scotsman DAVIES COMES ACROSS AS WARM, FRIENDLY, AND SELF-DEPRECATINGLY FUNNY HIS GENTLE HONESTY IS REFERESHING, AND THERE ARE SOME GENUINE SIDE-SPLITTING MOMENTS' - whatsonstage Includes 40 minutes of extra material and backstage interview.

• The Inspector General | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Arrested for vagrancy in a strange town Georgi is then mistaken by the corrupt town officials as a passing Inspector General. Worried that he will reveal they have been pocketing tax money they make a series of attempts on his life....

• Young Adam | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £6.40   |  Saving you £7.59 (118.59%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The corpse of a young woman is discovered by a rootless young drifter who works on a barge on a Scottish canal. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?

• Queers (BBC) | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed and produced by Doctor Who and Sherlock stalwart Mark Gatiss, these eight short monologues explore an entire century of the LGBT experience in the UK. And it does so all from one pub: everything in Queers from a returning First World War soldier recalling a forbidden love, to an anxious husband-to-be prepping his speech for one of the first gay weddings takes places in a single room. Featuring: The Man on the Platform (Ben Whishaw) A Grand Day Out (Fionn Whitehead) More Anger (Russell Tovey) Missing Alice (Rebecca Front) I Miss the War (Ian Gelder) Safest Spot in Town (Kadiff Kirwan) The Perfect Gentleman (Gemma Whelan) Something Borrowed (Alan Cumming) Includes Subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Escape from Sobibor | Blu Ray | (01/04/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Few stories of triumph have emerged from the Holocaust, but Escape from Sobibor is one such story - depicting the events that led to a mass escape from one of the Nazi's most notorious death camps. Oscar-winner Alan Arkin, Golden Globe-nominated Joanna Pacula and cult favourite Rutger Hauer head an outstanding international cast in this acclaimed story of overwhelming courage under harrowing conditions. Expertly directed by Jack Gold, this Golden Globe-winning drama is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from the original film materials, presented in its original fullscreen aspect ratio alongside the world premiere of a brand-new widescreen version.

• The OC (Orange County) - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Live. Laugh. Lie. Cheat. Grow. Share. Connive. Love. In California's beach paradise they do everything under the sun. There's trouble (and plenty of fun) in paradise in this Season 2 collection of the smash-hit series set in Orange County's posh Newport Beach. Hook up with what's coming down as the core-four romances of Ryan-and-Marissa and Seth-and-Summer may (or may not) go from very over to very on; Sandy and Kirsten face choices that could trainwreck their 20-year

• Glengarry Glen Ross | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £10.39   |  Saving you £5.60 (53.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin star in this classic 1992 movie from director James Foley.

• Bob Dylan-Don't Look Back | DVD | (05/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Live footage shot during Dylan's 1965 concert tour of England. Songs include classics 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' 'Maggie's Farm' 'The Times They Are A'Changin'' and 'It's All Right Ma I'm Only Bleeding'. The DVD also features performances from Joan Baez Alan Price and Donovan.

• Leeds United - Season Review 2001/02 | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It was a season keenly anticipated by the Leeds United fans. It was a season they'll never forget... Relive all the highs (and lows) trials and tribulations joy and despair of the Leeds United 2001/02 football season.

• Alan Carr's Big Funny Package: Tooth Fairy Live / Now That's what I Call a Ding Dong / Spexy Beast Live | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (12.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tooth Fairy Live Tooth Fairy Live features Alan Carr, star of Channel 4's Friday Night Project and Alan Carr's Celebrity Dig Dong as he tears the roof off the world famous Hammersmith Apollo on the last night of his magnificent sell out run in May 2007. Alan is at the peak of his powers sprinkling his very own brand of fairy dust all over the Hammersmith audience. Alan Carr's Now That's What I Call A Ding Dong Are celebrities really as wonderful as we think they are? Well at last you can find out, as Alan Carr takes his star studded teams – captained by such showbiz luminaries as Chris Moyles, Davina McCall, Johnny Vegas, Louis Walsh and Lorraine Kelly – and pitches them against teams of ordinary civilians, in a no holds barred Celebrity Ding Dong. Can Jamelia fake a tear better than a Scottish shoe shop assistant? And... Who is taller: Tom Cruise – or a dwarf on the third step of a ladder? Find out the answers to all these questions and much, much more in this hilarious DVD from the hit Channel 4 show. Special Features: Over 45 minutes of previously unseen material and stand-up from the show Alan Carr's exclusive interview with the Queen of Celebrity – Liz Hurley. Spexy Beast Live Award winning stand-up comedian Alan Carr's long awaited second stand-up DVD Spexy Beast Live. Filmed in front of a sold out crowd of 13,000 fans at the Manchester Evening News Arena as part of his 33 date UK and Ireland arena tour, Spexy Beast Live sees Alan back on stage and follows on from where his debut best-selling DVD release Tooth Fairy left off.

• Circle Of Friends | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.56   |  Saving you £0.43 (7.73%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The same year as the BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995) writer Andrew Davies and star Colin Firth were also hard at work on Circle of Friends, an Irish romance brought to the big screen by director Pat O'Connor (Dancing at Lughnasa). It's 1957 and three small-town friends Benny (Minnie Driver), Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe) and Nan (Saffron Burrows) arrive at university in Dublin, the scene set for an entertaining obstacle course along the path to true love. Jack, an excellent Chris O'Donnell, is the object of Benny's affections, and as the still unsure young woman beginning to find her way Driver gives an extremely engaging performance. Alan Cummings has a rather stereotyped role, which involves him in an attempted rape scene, one not only out-of-character with the rest of the film, but not even in the original novel. The transfer of 1990s mores onto 1950s Catholic Ireland jars a little towards the end, but whereas the cinema usually portrays Ireland as either a backdrop to "The Troubles", or--Angela's Ashes-style--as a land of hard working-class struggle, it's appealing to see it taking a look at the adventures of decent, ordinary middle-class people. The plot never springs any serious surprises, but makes for beautifully photographed Sunday-night TV-style nostalgia. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Suntrap | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Woody (Kayvan Novak) is a master of disguise – the world’s number one undercover reporter. But when his corrupt editor blows his cover he’s forced on the run. The only problem is that charming motormouth Woody has trouble staying out of the spotlight… With nowhere else to turn Woody escapes to find his former mentor Brutus (Bradley Walsh) an expat now running a bar on a sunny Spanish island. Initially less than thrilled to see his trouble-making protégé Brutus soon realizes he can profit by putting Woody to work on a series of investigations. Adopting a dizzying range of larger-than-life personas Woody runs rings around the locals whether its tracking down a parrot with a valuable secret or taking on a hypnotist with a vendetta no challenge is too bizarre with Woody and Brutus leaving a trail of mayhem in their wake. Extras: Outtakes & Deleted Scenes

• The Flintstones/the Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Flintstones: After an aptitude test mix-up Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) trades his job as Slate & Company Bronto-crane operator for a vice presidency. But there's trouble brewing in Bedrock: An evil executive (Kyle MacLachlan) and his sinister secretary (Halle Berry) are now plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme! (Dir. Brian Levant 1994) The Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas: Best pals Fred (Mark Addy) and Barney (Stephen Baldwin) down tools at Bedrock Mining Company to woo Wilma (Kristen Johnston) and Betty (Jane Krakowski) during a long vacation in Rock Vegas. All goes well until Fred's gambling addiction gets the better of him and he is framed for stealing Wilma's prized pearl necklace by love rival Chip Rockerfeller (Thomas Gibson) who oozes malice out of every prehistoric pore. Meanwhile Wilma's high fallutin mother Pearl (Joan Collins taking over from Elizabeth Taylor) thinks that Fred is too downmarket for her daughter and does everything within her power to push Wilma and Chip together... (Dir. Brian Levant 2000)

• Infernal Affairs - The Complete Trilogy | Blu Ray | (11/10/2010) from £14.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (106.97%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Three features now in High Definition. Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, Infernal Affairs is a tense thriller featuring Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau and Tony Leung. The film follows the parallel lives of Ming (Lau), a cop who secretly reports to ruthless Triad crime boss Sam (Eric Tsang); and Yan (Leung), an undercover police officer who poses as a Triad member in Sam's gang. For Yan, the years of living in the criminal underworld have taken their toll, and he longs to return to regular police duty. However, the only person who knows Yan's true identity is his mentor Superintendent Wong (Anthony Wong), also the unsuspecting superior of Ming. When Wong's officers come face to face with Sam's gang, both leaders realise there are moles in their midst. Soon Yan and Ming must track each other down, leading to an inevitable confrontation. Unlike many contemporary Hong Kong films, Infernal Affairs steers clear of over-the-top action in favour of a more stylised and subdued story that builds on emotional and psychological tension. Leung is riveting as the undercover cop who desperately wants a normal life, while Lau instils his corrupt character with confidence and charm that mask his deep inner conflict. These two stellar turns are ably supported by veteran actors Wong and Tsang, along with Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. A huge blockbluster in Asia, Infernal Affairs is a landmark of Hong Kong cinema that deserves the same status abroad. Part of the New Directors/New Films 2003 series presented by The Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. Also features: 'Infernal Affairs II' and 'Infernal Affairs III'.

• House of Lost Souls (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (14/12/2009) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  HOUSE OF LOST SOULS is part of a four-part movie series made for Italian television under the umbrella title House of Doom. Legendary Italian horror maestros Umberto Lenzi and Lucio Fulci each contributed two films for the series: Lenzi made HOUSE OF LOST SOULS and HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT while Fulci offered HOUSE OF CLOCKS and SWEET HOUSE OF HORRORS. Lenzi's first contribution to the series centres on a group of young geologists who spend the night in an abandoned hotel haunted by the previous landlord's murders of his family and all the hotel's guests. The bloody past come back to life with eerie occurrences like ghostly cries of pain the appearance of corpses and tarantulas and blood dripping from the ceiling. Soon the murders begin anew as the geologists are killed in bizarre and horrific ways including one unlucky fellow who loses his head in a washing machine. Full of extreme gore and graphic bloodletting HOUSE OF LOST SOULS reaffirms Lenzi's position as one of the kings of splatter films.

• Exorcist - The Beginning | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a prequel to legendary horror "The Exorcist," priest Lancaster Merrin encounters unspeakable evil in the deserts of East Africa.

• Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World / Braveheart / Dances With Wolves | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Master & Commander: In Peter Weir's Master And Commander Russell Crowe stars as Captain ""Lucky"" Jack Aubrey renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy. After a French ship almost sinks them in a battle the ship's surgeon and Aubrey's closest friend Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany) cautions him about letting revenge cloud his judgement. With the HMS Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he pursues a high-stake

• This Property Is Condemned | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the play by Tennessee Williams and scripted by Francis Ford Coppola (amongst others) 'This Property Is Condemned' features an outstanding performance from Robert Redford as Owen Legate; the man sent to shut down much of Dodson town's railway. Owen meets Alva a beautiful girl whose affections are keenly sought after in Dodson. Whilst axing jobs Owen tries to woo Alva in an attempt to whisk her off to New Orleans so they can start a new life together. Now Alva must make

• Bob The Builder - Feast Of Fun | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £7.39   |  Saving you £2.60 (35.18%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Television's most popular construction worker Bob The Builder has become a phenomenal international success. Set in and around the construction yard Bob and his crew of construction machines exhibit a can-do attitude as they solve problems and work together as a team. `Feast of Fun' includes a whole host of episodes including `Lofty and the Giant Carrot'. While Bob is building a roadside stall to help Farmer Pickles to sell his produce Spud simply can't resist borrowing Mr. E