"Actor: Alex"

• Beyblade : Volume 3 (Giftpack) | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Beyblade is an animé tie-in to the high-tech spinning top toys. It has some of the standard faults of the cheaper Japanese animations--such as static backgrounds and overly perky facial design--but it makes inventive use of the idea that the competitions of the Beybladers are the outward manifestation of more occult conflicts in another realm. Young Tyson is a keen and inventive Beyblader--in the first episode, he works out a way of quadrupling the speed and force of his top--but it helps that his Beyblade is inhabited by the spirit of an ancestral dragon. Thus equipped, he moves through one round after another of an international competition, sometimes in alliance with the haughty Kai and his gang and sometimes opposing them, and always helped by Kenny and Dizzi, the spirit beast that inhabits Kenny's laptop. How much of this you want to watch will ultimately depend on how many duels between spinning tops you are going to be interested in, but the byplay between physical and spirit realms, and the conflict of characters is moderately interesting as well. --Roz Kaveney

• 17000 Block | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld 17 000 Block tells the story of Buck a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck finds himself running from the law and the streets.

• Blazing Saddles | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started logic is lost in a blizzard of gags jokes quips puns howlers growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all! Cleavon Little as the new lawman Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid Brooks himself as a dimwitted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale it just proves the Old West will never be the same!

• Sensational Alex Harvey Band P | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Sensational Alex Harvey band were considered to be the leading live act in the world in the late 1970's lauded by fans as diverse as Robert Smith and the Cure AC/DC John Lydon and Alice Cooper. This comprehensive review of the band includes rare archive footage of the SAHB in performance and through revealing interviews with Alex Harvey in person before his tragic death in 1982. This fascinating material is complimented by the candid insights of band members Hugh and Ted McKenna and Chris Glenn plus ex-band mate Zal Cleminson. Add to that the views and analysis of a leading team of industry experts and musicologists including Woody Woodmansey of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars and Doogie White of Rainbow and Ynqwie Malmsteen fame. Also featuring complete performances from the classic line up: Runaway Gamblin' Bar Room Blues and Delilah

• Drift Annual | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Grip video have combined all the drifting from their videos and created a ""Drift Yearbook"" of the past year. Grip Video takes you step by step through from elementary to advanced in six easy to understand lessons by Grip Video driver Ross Petty. If you've collected Grip Video before you definitely don't want to miss this one.

• Tirez Sur Le Pianiste | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The opening of Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut's second feature film, is one of the signal moments of the French New Wave--an inspired intersection of grim fatality and happy accident, location shooting and lurid melodrama, movie convention and frowzy, uncontainable life. A man runs through deserted night streets, stalked by the lights of a car. It's a definitive film noir situation, promptly sidetracked--yet curiously not undercut--by real-life slapstick: watching over his shoulder for pursuers, the running man charges smack into a lamppost. The figure that helps him to his feet is not one of the pursuers (they've oddly disappeared) but an anonymous passer-by, who proceeds to escort him for a block or two, genially schmoozing about the mundane, slow-blooming glories of marriage. The Good Samaritan departs at the next turning, never to be identified and never to be seen again. And the first man--who, despite this evocative introduction, is not even destined to be the main character of the movie--immediately resumes his helter-skelter flight from an as-yet-unspecified and unseen menace. At this point in his career--right after The 400 Blows, just before his great Jules and Jim--the world seemed wide for Truffaut, as wide as the Dyaliscope screen that he and cinematographer Raoul Coutard deployed with unprecedented spontaneity and lyricism. Anything might wander into frame and become part of the flow: an oddball digression, an unexpected change of mood, a small miracle of poetic insight. The official agenda of the movie is adapting a noir-ish story by American writer David Goodis, about a celebrated concert musician (Charles Aznavour) hiding out as a piano player in a saloon. He's on the run as much as the guy--his older brother--in the first scene. But whereas the brother is worried about a couple of buffoonish gangsters, Charlie Koller is ducking out on life, love and the possibility that he might be hurt, or cause hurt, again. Decades after its original release, Shoot the Piano Player remains as fresh, exhilarating, and heartbreaking--as open to the magic of movies and life--as ever. --Richard T Jameson

• Cruzin' | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cruzin' chronicles a 12 day, 1000 mile bike ride from northern to southern Vietnam. The film focuses on former Olympian, Antonio 'Tony' Cruz and 13 of his closest friends and bike enthusiasts. It's considered one of the most rigorous leisure rides due to steep climbs and massive rollers. This is an entirely experimental film: the cameras are always on the riders which allows the audience to be immersed in their actual journey. The idea was to depict the camaraderie between friends and...

• A Sense Of Freedom | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the autobiography of former criminal Jimmy Boyle 1979's A Sense Of Freedom was one of the most controversial and influential dramas of its time. Directed by John Mackenzie (The Long Good Friday) and featuring the camerawork of Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges (The Mission; The Killing Fields) it was justifiably hailed by critics and the public alike for its unflinching depiction of prison life and criminal rehabilitation. A Sense Of Freedom tells the moving and ultimately uplifting story of Jimmy Boyle. Born and bred on the tough streets of Glasgow's notorious Gorbals area Boyle followed in his criminal father's footsteps to become one of the city's most well-known and most violent racketeering hardmen. His life of crime came to a sudden end in the late 1960s when he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a rival gangster. Incarcerated in the controversial special rehabilitation unit of Glasgow's infamous Barlinnie Prison Boyle discovers the meaning of rough justice when full of rage and hostility he attempts to take on the prison system and the authority of the wardens in the only way he knows how. Slowly and painfully he comes to realise there is more to life than violence and crime as he begins the long process of turning his life around. An extremely powerful film A Sense Of Freedom perfectly illustrates the futility and severe brutality of life behind bars. It is also a deeply moving testament to the strength of the human spirit and a reminder that in life it is never too late to change for the better. Starring David Hayman (Trial And Retribution) and Fulton Mackay (Porridge) the film features original music by legendary blues artists Frankie Miller and Rory Gallagher.

• Trouble Every Day | DVD | (04/01/2015) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (14.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

• CHILD'S PLAY 2 - CHILD'S PLAY 2 (1 BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (28/08/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Romper Stomper | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £4.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (22.49%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The burning intensity of Russell Crowe (LA Confidential) first lit up screens as a hate-filled, Mein Kampf-spouting skinhead in this brutal Australian drama. Crowe glowers from under his deep-set eyes as Hando, the creepy but charismatic leader of a racist gang who declares war on the Asian immigrants pouring into Melbourne. His rage erupts in violent attacks on the local Vietnamese community, but when his victims fight back his gang breaks up, and Hando flees the city with his best buddy Davey (Daniel Pollock) and redheaded hellion Gabe (Jacqueline McKenzie), a rich girl runaway who turns the dynamic duo into a splintered love triangle. Writer-director Geoffrey Wright's matter-of-fact treatment of this subculture eschews social commentary for visceral immediacy. His portrait of white supremacist punks living like squatters on the fringes of Australian society is powered by coiled anger and simmering frustration, which finds its outlet in brutal fights and murderous rampages. The lack of moral position may bother some people, especially in light of Wright's sympathetic treatment of particular members of Hando's racist army, and the cold, hate-driven violence is sometimes hard to watch, but his vivid characters and richly drawn world create a compelling drama for adventurous filmgoers. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Soft Toilet Seats | DVD | (29/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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• Cyborg | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jean-Claude Van Damme, aka "the Muscles from Brussels", had only a few movies to his credit when he played the hero in this lame post-apocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's really just another martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that is threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic torture and torment. If you've made it this far (and if you have, why?), you are probably a founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: don't say you weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever screen writing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Alex Higgins - The People's Champion | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A BBC Sport production profiling one of the most dramatic World Championships in snooker's history. The unpredictable genius Alex Higgins was snooker's first superstar. Includes his sensational semi final with Jimmy White!

• Detention | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Soldier...Teacher...Hero! Teacher Sam Decker (Dolph Lundgren) doesn't care anymore. He's quitting. Sam marks his last day in the battleground of public education by getting stuck with the detention class after hours playing warden to a group of rebellious students who hate authority! But Hamilton High is about to become an all too real battleground when a well-organized group of killers armed with automatic weapons use it as an operating base for an armed car robbery. Sam and the detention students band together against the thugs and discover a sinister conspiracy that reaches to the police department and even the highest level of government. But Sam Decker still has a few tricks to teach the kids...the lesson is survival!

• The Infiltrator | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £10.32   |  Saving you £-7.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A Jewish journalist infiltrates a neo-Nazi group to shed light on their organised racist atrocities. Based on a true story.

• Direct Action | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Can One Man Make A Difference? Frank Gannon (Dolph Lundgren Universal Soldier Rocky IV) is a veteran cop in the Direct Action task force. When his fellow officers learn that he's blown the whistle to the Feds on police corruption they implicate him in a deadly drug scam. Now with the help of rookie cop Billy Ross (Polly Shannon Snowboard Academy) he's got just one day to prove his innocence and see that justice is served...if he can stay alive.

• Def Comedy Jam - More All Stars: Volume 5 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For nine seasons throughout the 1990s Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam exposed hilarious, predominantly African-American comedians to the public via HBO, and created many new superstars in the process. Unfettered by censors, the show allowed up-and-coming stars such as Martin Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, and more to be be as raw and wild as they wanted to be. This all-star episode includes performances by Martin Lawrence, Queen Latifah, Adele Givens, and more!

• Expect No Mercy / The Expert | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Expect No Mercy: Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the Virtual Arts Academy in search of another operative Eric. In this high-tech facility controlled by Warbeck a new generation of assassins trains for actual killings in a virtual reality arena. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit Justin finds Eric and joins forces with the idealistic Vicki. Together they must bring down Warbeck before another assassination is committed. Combatting holographic programs of limitless power Justin and Eric combine their skills to escape the computer generated world and confront Warbeck in an explosive battle where the pain is very real. The Expert: John Lomax a special operations expert finds out that his sister has been murdered. In his attempt to discover the perpetrator he helps the police. However when the killer gets a minor sentence Lomax turns vigilante and decides to take justice into his own hands.

• Shame | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £6.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From award winning director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.