"Actor: Alex"

• Taggart - Vols. 34 To 37 | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four further investigations from the famed Scottish detectives.

• Bill And Ted's Collection | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pink Floyd - The Wall | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd's The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters' great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humour that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualise The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed. The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerising film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof (in his screen debut) is a fine choice to play Waters's alter ego--an alienated, "comfortably numb" rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waters's autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. It's a rich, bizarre, and often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. --Jeff Shannon

• Courageous Legacy (aka Courageous) | Blu Ray | (08/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Bounty | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Bounty is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty. Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic. On the DVD: There is an excellent 52-minute "making of" documentary that mixes historical information with on-location interviews. A 12-minute overview of previous screen versions of the story is narrated by the film's historical consultant, Stephen Walters, who also provides a somewhat stilted but nevertheless informative audio commentary. The second audio commentary is from director Roger Donaldson, Producer Bernie Williams and Production Designer John Graysmark, who genuinely appear to enjoy reminiscing and have real enthusiasm for the movie. Also included is a fascinating 28-page booklet. This is the stuff Special Editions should always be made of, and this would be one of the finest DVDs on the market were it not for the transfer of the film itself, which appears to be a reprocessed version of the same NTSC anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer found on the bare-bones Region 1 DVD, with no sign of PAL speed-up. The picture not only shows considerable grain in some scenes, but also demonstrates marked compression artefacting and enhancement shimmer on all horizontal lines, making some scenes extremely ugly. For such a beautiful film it is a most disappointing transition to the digital format. Most unusually for a UK release, the disc is region free.--Gary S Dalkin

• Taggart - Vols. 42 To 45 | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Episode 42 - Death Trap When the son of a Glasgow politician is assassinated the Taggart team are brought in. Episode 43 - Fire Burn A body is found in a burnt out factory. When the bombmaker's body turns up the race is on to find the real culprit before he plants more bombs and kills again. Episode 44 - Watertight When a young prostitute is found dead in a river Ross enlists the help of police informant Sadie wo gets killed. It is Ross's job to find out who killed Sadie.

• My Brother The Pig | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When her younger brother is turned into a pig a young girl her brother's friend and their nanny head south to Mexico to reverse the spell before the parents get home!

• American Gun | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Penny Tillman (Virginia Madsen) travels home to Vermont to spend the holidays with her parents Martin (James Coburn) and Anne (Barbara Bain). Their warm reunion is cut tragically short when a last-minute errand ends in Penny's untimely death and the holiday cheer is abruptly silenced by the sorrow of burying a loved one.

• Dragoness | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £9.15   |  Saving you £6.84 (42.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alex Van Hagen: World class female martial arts expert who after a failed marriage to millionaire moves to Brazil in a desperate attempt to separate herself from her past and begin a new life. She chose the right place and the right time but the nightmare she is trying to escape continues to haunt her. Causing a relentless chain of events that will force her to fight for her life and that of her daughter.... The Brazilian Paradise heats up when betrayal intense Martial Arts action

• Phantoms | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-4.09 (-102.50%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Next of Kin | Blu Ray | (26/02/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Demons | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (-24.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A teenage girl, Billie, endures a miserable existence with her alcoholic mother. The mother punishes her daughter every day just for being born. Billie has never been to school, she is not allowed to get a job, and she is not permitted to leave the house ever. As such, Billie’s bizarre upbringing has resulted in her becoming a virtual prisoner in her own home. During a three day drinking binge, the mother forgets to buy groceries, forcing a starving Billie to sneak out of the house in search of food. Unfortunately, her mother catches her and Billie’s chained to the laundry sink as punishment. When Billie agrees to run away from home with her new friend, Sean, her mother uncovers the plan and refuses Billie to go. Billie repressed anger is unleashed and, in fury, she mortally wounds her mother. Burying the body in the backyard, Billie hides all traces of the crime. As she waits for Sean to arrive, it soon become clear that the mother’s evil, vengeful spirit remains in the mortal world. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying Billie her freedom.

• Taggart - Hardman | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A man's mangled body is found in a Clydeside shipyard and it becomes clear many people wished him dead. The atmosphere within the investigating team remains fraught - though the arrival of forensic specialist Sheila Crombie could improve Burke's mood.

• Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the haunting imagination that unearthed Dracula comes the epic struggle between good and evil. A supernatural shadowbuilder blazes a terrifying trail of destruction possession and mayhem in pursuit of the unsuspecting and innocent youth of Grand River.

• Home Alone/Home Alone 2/Home Alone 3 | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Home Alone: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Home Alone 2: Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back. But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist. Home Alone 3: International crooks hide a top-secret computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of eight-year-old Alex Pruitt who's home alone with the chicken pox. Madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends his house against the bumbling bad guys armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps.

• Australia: Land Beyond Time | Blu Ray | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Australia, the world's largest island and smallest continent is an exotic, intriguing land shaped by its isolation from all other lands. With thousand of miles of red desert sand dunes that characterize its famous Outback and lush coastal rainforests rich with unique wild life, Australia is a place of extremes. Australia: Land Beyond Time takes viewers on a breathtaking journey back in time to witness the birth and evolution of a mysterious land that harbors remnants of Earth's earliest life ...

• Romeo And Juliet | DVD | (17/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  'Romeo an Juliet' is Shakespeare's tragic story of young impetuous love thwarted by a bitter Veronese family fued. Romeo heir of the Montague family attends a masquerade dance at the home of the Capulets where he meets Juliet the Capulets daughter. It is love at first sight. Their love is torn asunder by the fued between their families. It is only after the double suicide of the young lovers their long divided kinsmen are reconciled in sorrow.

• The Caravan Show | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £27.51   |  Saving you £-7.52 (-37.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A journey into the captivating world of the caravan. Many regard them merely as a convenient way of bringing the A330 to a total standstill in the rain sodden months the British laughingly call summer; merely a mobile receptacle for awkward teenagers to argue over a badminton set... Not anymore! The Caravan Show alters this old stereotype and endeavours to show the nation that the caravan is something that they can grow to love. These unique programmes humorously show

• Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure / Van Wilder: Party Liaison / Slackers | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure: Bill and Ted are two cool dudes, but to their teacher they are high school no-hopers. They fantasise about forming a band called 'Wyld Stallyns' - one day they'll put themselves together and learn to play guitar. But unless Ted achieves the seemingly impossible and passes a history presentation, he will be shipped off to military school. End of friendship. ; A figure from the future appears in the nick of time, providing a time-travelling phone booth...

• Spainish Islands | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £6.30   |  Saving you £6.69 (51.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On his first Globe Trekker experience Alex Riley explores the Spanish Islands taking in the world famous Balearics in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands located off the west coast of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. best known for their party resorts and the overwhelming influx of British summer holiday makers. Alex sets out to discover the less well known aspects of these islands.