"Actor: Alan"

• The Sword In The Stone | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £20.13   |  Saving you £-0.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, the skills that will help him become the future ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it underlines the problem with most of the film--most of its scenes are only played for laughs. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Younger children will like it, while older kids will find it slower compared with recent Disney films. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• Scopers | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £5.71   |  Saving you £12.27 (451.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a man with the ability to read people's minds. Looking to use this ability to their advantage, the NSA recruit him to spy on potential threats to the nation's security. Joshua has been told throughout his life that nobody else with his gift has lived beyond the age of 29 without going insane and with regards to this he lives a carefree and indulgent lifestyle. That is, until he meets Anna (Mia Maestro), who is the daughter of his latest target. Anna has the same.

• Crimean War | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the spring of 1854, British troops and their French allies were sailing east to the Black Sea, to help the Turks fight off Russia's advances. The British army that sailed that spring had been described as the finest ever to leave Britain's shores. But within months those British troops were dying in scores, falling victim to cholera and dysentery epidemics. The army's medical support was found to be scandalously inadequate. Battles were mismanaged, leading to infamous blunders like the Charge of the Light Brigade. When winter came, the archaic army support services meant British troops were left frozen and on the brink of starvation.

• Blade Of Doom | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The five heroes pose as gun dealers and acrobats in order to get close enough to exact a deadly revenge upon the criminals responsible for the death of one of their brothers...

• Lomax The Songhunter - A Film By Rogier Kappers | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £14.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was a song collector. For a big part of his life he travelled around the world with his recording equipment hunting for the prettiest folk songs. Lomax recorded ordinary people who gave their heart and soul in front of his microphone. In radio programs Lomax warned us that we were squandering age-old music traditions at rapid speed. The search is combined with conversations with colleagues and friends of Lomax. Throughout the movie we repeatedly return to a frail but happy 86-year-old Lomax. In this passionate and musical roadmovie we slowly discover why folk music can be so pretty and what may once have possessed the legendary Alan Lomax.

• The Hitchcock Collection, Volume 2 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A welcome second volume of classics from the Master of Suspense, this seven-disc Hitchcock Collection box-set consists of the following: The Birds: Based on a Daphne Du Maurier short story, The Birds (1963) is Hitchcock at his most terrifying, as the residents of a small town are attacked by thousands of apparently homicidal birds. Marnie: Tippi Hedren and newly Bonded Sean Connery star in this excellent 1964 thriller, which finds a calculating thief who robs her employers pursued by a her new boss, who is desperate to unlock her secrets Torn Curtain: This 1966 spy thriller, pairing Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, finds Newman as a world-famous physicist intent on defecting to East Berlin in order to obtain funding for his latest project. Topaz: Based on the Leon Uris novel, Hitch's 51st film, made in 1969, concerns a CIA agent who learns of Russian missiles in Cuba. With the aid of a French agent, they negotiate a plethora of corruption and murder. Frenzy: This critically acclaimed 1972 film was Hitch's first British-made film for more than 20 years. A classic Hitch story of an innocent man accused of being the "necktie murderer"--a vicious sex criminal terrorising London--he eludes the authorities and seeks the real killer. Family Plot: Hitchcock's final film, made in 1976, is a blackly funny mix of murder, theft and kidnapping as a cab-driver and a psychic team up to find a dead man--not actually dead--in exchange for a $10,000 reward. Bonus Disc--Vertigo: An irreducible masterpiece, this 1958 double-identity thriller finds Hitch serving aces, as Jimmy Stewart's detective is drawn in to a complex plot when the girl he loves apparently falls to her death. On the DVD: Like the first volume, this is an equally impressive package that will satisfy the rotund fright-master's fans. Along with the standard selection of trailers, production notes and picture galleries, each disc houses an impressive "making of" documentary, each expertly detailing Hitch's meticulous work. The Birds features Tippi Hedren's screen test and--in storyboard form--deleted scenes and the alternative ending. Topaz has no less that three alternative endings, while Torn Curtain includes scenes scored by composer Bernard Herrmann before his music was rejected by Hitch. The Vertigo disc features an excellent group commentary from producer Herbert Coleman and restoration experts Robert A Harris and James Katz, as well as a documentary, "Obsessed with Vertigo". Housed in attractive fold-out packaging, this is an excellent opportunity to obtain a rich slice of Hitchcock's dark magic.--Danny Graydon

• The Jerky Boys | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £6.46   |  Saving you £8.53 (56.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When a former high school classmate brags about his mob connections the Jerky Boys -- a pair of thirtysomething slackers who pride themselves on devious prank phone calls -- decide to have a little fun in the mafia underworld. However when a cop mistakes the Jerky Boys for actual hit men their innocent game causes more trouble than they would've ever imagined.

• The Hot, The Cool And The Vicious | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £11.97   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An all-action martial arts movie which focusses on an undercover agent's fight against corruption in Hong Kong. Flash Legs Tan stars in this dark spaghetti western style kung fu flick that has become a cult classic.

• Faces Of Death | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and satanic orgies using dead bodi

• He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe - Vol. 7 (Animated) (DVD) | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ""By the power of Greyskull! I have the power!!!"" Six more episodes from the adventure of Adam Prince of Eternia as he tries to keep his alter ego of He-Man secret when defending his planet from the evil Skeletor...

• Don't Open 'Til Christmas | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Don't Open Till Christmas' is a thrilling and bizarre murder mystery where nothing is sacred - even Santa Claus! A killer is on the loose in London and his sights are set on one target - Santa Claus - dozens of them. Jolly old Saint Nick is stabbed beaten and electrocuted in department stores at parties and even on crowded street corners. What sort of twisted mind is behind these barbarous acts of violence?

• Steal This Movie! | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £5.94   |  Saving you £-1.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  'Steal This Movie!' is a comic safari through one man's odyssey. Abbie Hoffman leads us through the music sex drugs politics and personal struggle of the late Sixities and Seventies.

• Santa Fe Trail | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £10.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  History and Hollywood have always made strange bedfellows. And there's no better example of that than Santa Fe Trail (1940) from director Michael Curtiz. Historical accuracy is never allowed to interfere with setting up a great action sequence. Errol Flynn is Jeb Stuart. Ronald Reagan is George Armstrong Custer (a part Flynn would play in 'They Died With Their Boots On'). Raymond Massey makes a flamboyant John Brown. And rounding out the cast are Oliveia de Haviland Alan Hale Van

• Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Dobie stars as Detective Sergeant Cribb a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit in Victorian London. Known for his wry sense of humour Cribb is aided and at times hindered by the ever-faithful Constable Thackeray... Featuring Episodes Swing Swing Together Abracadaver The Detective Wore Silk Drawers The Horizontal Witness Wobble To Death

• Confessions Of A Trickbaby | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Life in prison is the dismal future faced by 'White Girl' , a career criminal who specializes in armed robbery, often posing as a prostitute. Her cell-mate, Cyclona, is a psychotic young lesbian who is about to do life for murder. Cyclona develops a strong passion for White Girl which goes unreciprocated until the two girls manage to break out of prison.On the run, Cyclona reveals a horrifying secret about the victims of her murder conviction. Shocked by what she hears White Girl realizes she's in the company of a serial killer who is following the call of her hallucinatory visions an signs sent from hell, but is in no position to cope on her own, having been wounded in the escape.In a race for their lives, these two desperados tear across the States, leaving a trail of chaos and mayhem on their bizarre road-trip to Mexico

• The Knackery | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in the very near future The Knackery is the latest hard hitting feature film from Belfast's leading independent production house Yellow Fever Productions (makers of the award winning Battle Of The Bone). All is not as it seems on the country's most watched family game-show... Reality television has taken things to the extreme and given the public The Knackery a show where six contestants fight for the grand prize of 'one million pounds'. To liven things up the producers of the show release a horde of genetically modified zombies which puts a little bit more pressure on the fighters in this Big Brother style beat-em-up. As an undercover reporter tries to scoop the story he's been waiting for he soon comes across a kid who has entered the arena unaware of the consequences. Seeing this as another excuse for higher ratings the shows producers announce their new contestant as they witness the fighting skills of the youngster against others - but as the fighters get killed off things take a turn for the worse leaving the reporter and kid to team up against some very tough opponents... human and not-so-human. Six contestants... One million quid... And a sh*t load of zombies!

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (46.19%)   |  RRP £18.99

• 3 Ninjas - High Noon At Mega Mountain / Kick Back / Knuckle Up | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  3 Ninjas High Noon At Mega Mountain: When dastardly villains Medusa and Lothar Zogg and their evil cohorts invade a family fun park and take its summer visitors hostage it's up to the three ninjas to save the day with a little help from an aging action movie hero who needs to pull off the rescue to regain his street credibility. 3 Ninjas Kickback: Colt Rocky and Tum Tum are back in another action-packed story where they travel with their grandfather to Japan in search of a secret cave of gold closely followed by a band of heavy metal rockers. 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up: Rocky Colt and Tum Tum find themselves in action again as they get drawn into a struggle between an American Indian tribe and a ruthless businessman who is dumping toxic waste on their land.

• Kandyland | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Joni gets persuaded to enter a bikini contest by her friends and likes the attention. She talks to another contestant Harlow who suggests she try exotic dancing at Kandyland where she works. Joni gets fed up with her job at the dry cleaner's and boyfriend Frank won't commit so she gets a job at Kandyland. She finds others doing drugs and getting abused and tries to make her new job her lingering attraction to Frank and her strong friendship with Harlow coexist.

• Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things! | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Alan is an obnoxious theatre director who brings his acting troupe to a remote island to indulge in some black magic tomfoolery. The mouthy crew have mixed feelings about Alan's plans to raise the dead but he keeps threatening them with unemployment so they play along. The initial voodoo ritual turns out to be a prank Alan having organised for another actor to leap out of the grave on cue. But the demented director is eager for more fun and proceeds to dig up a real corpse demand t