"Actor: Alan"

• Planet of Snail | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £5.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it himself, “In the beginning there was darkness and silence, and the darkness and silence were with god. And when ‘I’ arrived, they came to me.” Young-Chan has no idea how to participate in the world until he meets Soon-Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He marries her and learns to communicate with the outside world through her. By softly tapping each other’s finger, they can understand one another; it is sometimes as if they are tenderly playing a piano. This documentary follows the couple in the same gentle tempo as Young-Chan moves through his life. We see them replacing a lightbulb together, receiving friends, working on a theatre piece, reading a book, and gliding on a sleigh down a mountain. These everyday scenes are accompanied by a poetic voice-over by Young-Chan, in which he reflects on his existence without sight and hearing. He feels like an astronaut, but that doesn’t mean he is without a sense of beauty in the world. This becomes palpable when Young-Chan touches the bark of a tree, runs his hand through sand, or brushes raindrops on a window pane with his fingertips.

• More Secret Gardens | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £9.39   |  Saving you £9.60 (50.60%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Alan Tichmarsh visits an array of England's most wonderful gardens exploring the beauty diversity and imagination used in so many of the nation's small gardens.

• Niagara Niagara | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two shoplifters find themselves thrown together for an adventure. Seth a thief and Marcy a girl suffering from Tourette Syndrome set off for Toronto where Marcy hopes to find a special doll.

• The Long Riders (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Serenity | HD DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Can't stop the signal... Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel) makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with Serenity the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series Firefly. A mix of space western comedy and drama Serenity follows captain Malcolm Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his ragtag crew as they trade their way around the edges of civilized society. Of particular interest are two passengers they take on Simon and River Tam (Sean Maher and Summer Glau) a brother and his telepathic sister on the run from the corrupt governing Alliance. As notorious former members of the anti-Alliance opposition Mal and his crew make it difficult for Simon and River to stay hidden. Everything goes completely awry when a government assassin is sent to retrieve River. As Mal is forced to choose between his close-knit crew and the brother and sister newcomers it becomes apparent that River harbors both a dangerous secret and astounding fighting powers and Mal decides that discovering the truth about what she knows might just be worth his time. Many of the film's action sequences revolve around Summer Glau's martial arts skills in her portrayal of River. Glau prepared for her role with Hong Kong stuntwoman Ming Lu as well as stunt coordinators Chad Stahelski and Hiro Koda and as a result performed nearly all the stuntwork herself. In addition to the stellar stunts realistic graphics and an often haunting score the film's actors display a rare chemistry that brings viewers both into their lives and into a possible version of humanity's future.

• Victim | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Victim is quite simply a watershed moment in cinema history. The first mainstream film to portray sympathetically and realistically homosexual society, it did so at a time when homosexuality was still a crime in Britain. Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay makes Dirk Bogarde's Melville Farr a deeply conflicted man; married and in love with his wife, he also has relationships with men; while as a lawyer he is bound to uphold the law, even as he is compelled to break it. When Jack Barrett (a young Peter McEnery) commits suicide to avoid the consequences of blackmail, Farr sees this as murder, and decides to end the extortion even if it costs him his career. Rather more skilfully plotted than it initially appears, Victim generates considerable tension, and boasts fine performances from an ensemble cast including Sylvia Syms as Farr's wife, Norman Bird, Donald Churchill and John Barrie. Basil Dearden, who memorably featured Bogarde in an early role in The Blue Lamp (1950), directs with professional assurance. Not just a historical document--though the location footage of central London circa 1961 is fascinating in its own right--Victim was instrumental in changing attitudes, which led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality. A turning point for Bogarde too, the film marked a move from matinee idol to the more serious fare of The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). On the DVD: Victim is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer, which beautifully captures the noir-ish black-and-white cinematography of Otto Heller. There is occasional print damage, but it is minimal and doesn't distract from the film. The mono sound is very good. The disc also includes the original trailer, an annotated gallery of production photographs and a 28-minute television interview with Dirk Bogarde. This excellent feature was filmed in the actor's house just prior to the release of Victim and finds him discussing his career with particular reference to Hunted (1952), the Doctor comedies, Song Without End (1960) and his latest, "bitterly controversial" picture, which he says couldn't have been made even two years earlier. --Gary S Dalkin

• 6th Day, The / Gattaca / Flatliners | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The 6th Day: Superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger is Adam an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An illegal corporation illegally cloned him and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement. From the director of Tomorrow Never Dies The 6th Day also stars powerhouse actors Robert Duvall and Michael Rapaport. Prepare for a high-tech sci-fi blast with twice the Arnold and twice the action! Flatliners: A group of ambitious medical students are about to die... and live to describe the experience. Embarking on a daring and arrogant experiment the five aim to reach through the confines of life and touch the face of death. In their search for knowledge however the five discover the chilling consequences of daring to tamper with immortality! Gattaca: Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is an outsider a natural birth or In-valid living in a world in which designer people - forged in test tubes - rule society. Determined to break out of his imperfect genetic destiny and fulfil his dreams Vincent meets Jerome (Jude Law) a Valid willing to sell his prime genetic material for cash. Using Jerome's blood urine skin and hair samples Vincent is able to forge a new identity and pursue his goal of a mission to space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation and enjoy a blossoming romance with Irene (Uma Thurman) another Valid. However a week before his flight a Gattaca mission director is brutally murdered and Vincent finds himself pursued by a relentless investigator (Alan Arkin) threatening to expose his counterfeit life and reveal him as In-valid ending his dreams forever.

• Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 2 Of 4 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Van der Valk - Series 1 (Part 2)

• The Incredible Hulk 1982 Complete Season | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Incredible Hulk: Complete 1982 Series

• The Four Seasons | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Four Seasons revolves around three couples who take vacations together during each of the seasons. After this pattern has been established Nick (Cariou) leaves his wife Anne (Dennis) for a much younger woman Ginny (Armstrong). Nick then brings Ginny on the couples' shared vacations causing the other two couples to be uncomfortable with the situation.

• The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (The Kurt Russell Collection) | DVD | (14/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lured | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A serial killer in London lures young women into his clutches by posting ads in the personal columns of newspapers. After each murder he informs the police by means of a cryptic poem earning himself the tag the 'Poet Killer'. But when the poet killer murders a dancer her best friend decides to assist the police by answering one of his ads...

• Crazy Six | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-12.99 (-162.60%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Eastern Bloc has fallen and Communism is dead. In its place has come new opportunity but not without a deadly price. Powerful Mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative underground weapons and technology trade. Crazy Six (Rob Lowe) and Dirty Mao (Mario Van Peebles) are the leaders of two rivalling mob families who agree to form an uneasy alliance in order to overthrow Raul (Ice-T) the leader of one of the largest crime cartels in Europe. But when the mission goes awry the place turns into a deadly battleground with three world-class gangsters fighting each other to the death.

• Sonic Rock Solstice 2002 | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tracks include:As Above So BelowRock PalaceAncient LightDagger DanceElric The EnchanterOne Moon CirclesWingsChasing The DragonCoded LanguagesRecorded live at the 'Sonic Rock Solstice' event during June 2002 at Hamilton House Farm near Blackpool in the North West of England. The DVD also features 'The Full Program' a documentary style look at the full event featuring performances by HARVEY BAINBRIDGE SPACEHEAD MR. QUIMBYS BEARD DOGHOUSE STEREOVACCINE & GUN LAW

• Gifted | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A compelling drama about scandal celebrity and sex - written by and starring Kay Mellor. Part-time lap dancer Sharon Harrison goes on a rare night out with the girls but when she claims that she's been drugged and raped by none other than Jamie Gillam the famous Castlefield football player he readily admits to having consensual sex but denies rape. When Sharon suddenly drops her case against Jamie Maxine Norris becomes suspicious and confides in her aunt determined to find out

• Blood Feast 2 | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  First they greet you then they eat you. From the godfather of gore Herschell Gordon Lewis comes the most eagerly awaited sequel in the blood red history of splatter cinema! The cannibal caterer is back with a new recipe for gross-out comedic carnage that literally blows chunks across the silver screen! From the groundbreaking production team of H.G. Lewis and David Friedman the maniacal masterminds responsible for Blood Feast 2000 Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red Blood Feast 2 is a gorehounds's wet dream!

• Depeche Mode - Videos 86>98+ | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Video 86 - 98 (2 Discs)

• Labyrinth -- Superbit | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £17.96   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Labyrinth is a major fantasy feature film with a cast of incredible creatures created by The Jim Henson Creature Shop and produced by Star Wars director George Lucas. Starring rock legend David Bowie who performs five original songs Labyrinth is the perfect family film combining music adventure comedy and fantasy. Frustrated with baby-sitting on yet another weekend night Sarah - a teenager with an active imagination - summons the Goblins from her favourite book ""Labyrinth""

• Sweet Liberty | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's Alan Alda vs. Hollywood in the writer-director-star's hilarious madcap comedy about the bawdy barbaric and beautifully crazed world of moviemaking. College professor Michael Burgess' life and town are turned upside down when a film company arrives to make a movie out of his best selling book on the American Revolution. To the earnest heartfelt Professor's horror leading man Michael Caine is a philandering adventurer the movie's director wants to turn his historic story into a youth-oriented lusty romp and female star Michelle Pfeiffer is so obsessed by Burgess' heroine that he begins to inexplicably fall in love with the zany actress. Spilling over with charm wry observation and riotous comedy the divine and delightful Sweet Liberty co-stars Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins and the legendary silent film goddess Lillian Gish.

• Gardens Of The National Trust - Vol. 1 | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (217.03%)   |  RRP £18.99

  In this beautifully filmed programme Alan Titchmarsh follows six of the National Trust's loveliest gardens through the changing seasons. There's Killerton in Devon which boasts one of the most spectacular rhododendron displays in the south of England. Barrington Court Somerset the finest example of Gertrude Jekyll's work in the Trust's hands. Peckover House Cambridgeshire a charming riverside town garden where clematis and roses thrive in a setting of rare trees. Dunham Massey