"Actor: Allen"

• The Philadelphia Experiment | DVD | (19/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Philadephia 1943 a top-secret experiment is underway to make U.S Navy ships invisible to enemy radar but something goes horribly wrong and the Battleship Eldridge disappears completely! Two sailors jump overboard and are mysteriously transported 41 years into the future. On the run and trapped by the past can they stop the experiment that has torn a hole in time?

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 1 | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  Of all the spin-off TV incarnations of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine had the hardest job persuading an audience to watch. By all accounts, Gene Roddenberry had concerns about the idea before his death in 1991. It took two more years to develop, and when it finally aired in 1993 reasons for that concern were evident right away. The show was dark (literally), characters argued a lot, no one went anywhere and the neighbouring natives were hardly ever friendly. Yet for all that the show went against the grain of The Great Bird's original vision of the future, it undeniably caught the mood of the time, incorporating a complex political backdrop that mirrored our own. In the casting, there was a clear intent to differentiate the show from its predecessors. Genre stalwarts Tony Todd and James Earl Jones were considered for Commander Sisko before Avery Brooks. The one let down at the time was that Michelle Forbes did not carry Ensign Ro across from TNG, but when the explosive Nana Visitor defiantly slapped her hand on a console in the pilot episode, viewers knew they were in for a different crew dynamic. In fact, the two-part pilot show ("The Emissary") is largely responsible for DS9's early success. Mysterious, spiritual, claustrophobic, funny and feisty, it remains the most attention-grabbing series opener (apart from the Classic original) the franchise has had. The first year may have relied on a few too many familiar faces--like Picard, Q and Lwaxana Troi--but these were more than outweighed by refreshingly detailed explorations of cultures old and new (Trill, Bajoran, Cardassian, Ferengi). As it turned out, Deep Space Nine was the boldest venture into Roddenberry's galaxy that had been (or ever would be) seen. On the DVD: Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Series 1's hour of special features is split between seven featurettes that really would have worked better edited together. Covering the show's origins and most aspects of Year One's production design, they all crib from interviews with actors and crew from the 1992 shoot (exclusively so in the 10 "Hidden Files"). Other interviews conducted in 1999 and 2002 tend to be more revealing, although the solo section on Major Kira is curiously lacking in recent input. While the designers describe their work with passion, creators Michael Piller and Rick Berman come off as stiff and lacking in knowledge. Hopefully this is something that will improve through the next six box sets. The interactive CD-ROM to build a DS9 database on your PC is something that will become more involving, too. Obviously the most important thing is the episodes themselves, and despite the lack of a commentary to enhance the best of them, sound in 5.1 and the crisp full-frame picture do them ample justice. --Paul Tonks END

• The Big Tease | DVD | (12/03/2001) from £21.25   |  Saving you £-7.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Anyone who's suffered the misfortune of stumbling upon Kevin Allen's nauseous debut Twin Town--a ramshackle Trainspotting transposed to the cinematic slag heap of Swansea--will be pleasantly surprised by this gentle sophomore effort. The Big Tease follows gay Glaswegian hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie (Craig Ferguson), a flamboyant character who stays just the right side of caricature, as he heads to LA to represent bonny Scotland in the World Freestyle Hairdressing Championship. Only there's a hitch: once in Hollywood, Crawford discovers he's only been invited to be a spectator at the event, which means the huge hotel bill he's racked up will have to come out of his own pocket. Undeterred, the stubborn stylist sets about gaining a union card and, ultimately, entry to the competition, frantically trying to establish Beverly Hills contacts with a mind to pulling a few much-needed strings. Allen's movie is an interesting hybrid, half Hollywood satire (the greed, the self-importance, the insincerity) and half sports-movie with a twist (events inevitably lead to a climactic showdown, as Crawford goes blade-to-blade with the wonderfully pompous Norwegian champ). And yet, by and large, it works, the loquacious Ferguson giving us someone to hold onto in a slippery world populated by disdainful creeps, his probity alone ensuring our heartfelt support come competition night. The filmmakers' decision to opt for a "mockumentary" format à la The Blair Witch Project and Drop Dead Gorgeous also pays dividends, for it is Crawford's candid confessions to camera that allow us to navigate beyond his carefully constructed plumage and discover the person beneath.--Jamie Graham

• Bulletproof | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £8.50   |  Saving you £11.49 (135.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Billy Budd | DVD | (01/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Benjamin Britten's opera 'Billy Budd' in two acts tells of the sadism and injustice abroad a British man-of-war.

• Babar - Three Episodes | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-13.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Charmed Life: Burdoned with the heavy demands of running his kingdom and looking after his family Babar wishes that he was not king. To surprise and dismay he is granted his wish. Celesteville has become Rataxesville! Boys Will Be Boys: When Babar sets off with Uncle Arthur and Zephir to renew a childhood treasure hunt Rataxes seizes the opportunity to try and beat him to it! Alexander The Great: Alexander's flying skills get him into hot water when he crash lands his plane in the jungle and makes friends with a tribe who invite him for dinner!

• Bananas | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £4.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (138.43%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Puny New Yorker and gadget tester Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is in love with Nancy (Louise Lasser), a beautiful political activist who is herself obsessed by the battles being waged in San Marcos between the dictator General Vargas (Carlos Montalban) and his revolutionary opponents. Thus, in an attempt to impress his beloved, Mellish makes for San Marcos and in a bizarre and bewildering series of events, ends up the president of the country. An early spoof from Allen, in much the same vei...

• MAGNIFICENT ELEVEN, The (DVD) | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £7.54   |  Saving you £5.45 (72.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A feel-good British comedy in a similar vein to The Full Monty and Bend it like Beckham with a nod to Slumdog Millionaire, released on DVD 13th May 2013 The Cowboys are a local Sunday soccer team who always seem to finish bottom of the league. Now, they've finally run out of money and after losing yet another match they do what they always do to drown their sorrows - go to the pub and head off for an Indian. Barred from every Indian restaurant in town due to their bad behaviour, there's only the Taj Tandoori left to go for the Cowboys last team meal. When it comes to paying the bill the realization of not having enough money finally hits home but instead of calling the Police the owner offers the Cowboys a sponsorship deal they just can't refuse. Financing the team to keep it going the Cowboys in exchange must work as waiters in his restaurant, rename the team the Taj Cowboys and sport a ridiculous new football strip. Unknown to the Cowboys the restaurateur is really using them as security against a local racketeer run by a psychotic gangster known only as American Bob (Robert Vaughn). Reasoning with American Bob only leads to more misery and destruction but when the chips are down the Cowboys and the Indians form the most unlikely of alliances as they take on American Bob and his mighty bandits head on. Together they'll prove that... Eleven united can never be defeated. Special Features: Trailer Commentary with Director Jeremy Wooding and Producer John Adams Four Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes.

• Britten: Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach | Blu Ray | (06/01/2014) from £29.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.30%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• The Firm | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  These days people are dangerously nostalgic about the sinister tackiness of the 1980s, but there's no stiffer antidote to such delusion than Alan Clarke's The Firm. This unforgettable film was made as a one-off drama for the BBC in 1988, but its cult following has grown steadily through video, thanks to a startling central performance from a young Gary Oldman, and the riveting manner in which Clarke captures the lethal, mindless energy of football hooliganism. Oldman plays Clive "Bexy" Bissell, working-class East London boy done good: a prosperous estate agent, proud homeowner, happy husband and doting father. But his chief pleasure is to be team leader ("top boy") of a bunch of overgrown yobs who attend football matches in order to cause violence. At weekends Bexy leads his "Inter City Crew" into rucks with rival warlords such as Yeti (Phil Davis) and Oboe (Andrew Wilde), in search of what he calls "the buzz", no matter the cost to his young family and his future prospects. The Firm was entirely shot on SteadiCam, enabling Clarke to drop the viewer right into the thick of the action and exploit some hair-raisingly authentic rowdiness from his talented cast. Among these thugs, soap fans will spot Eastenders' Steve McFadden and Charlie Lawson of Coronation Street. The Firm is a masterpiece of social-realist drama, and one of the most virulently anti-Thatcherite films of its time. An avid supporter of Everton FC, Clarke responded to Al Hunter's script because he felt that the vicious idiots spoiling football were a new breed of disgrace. The tabloids raised a stink about the film's violence, and the BBC delayed its broadcast until 1989. A year later, Alan Clarke died of cancer, But The Firm is a tremendous last testament from the finest English director of his generation. --Richard Kelly

• Poltergeist 2 - The Other Side/Poltergeist 3/Stigmata | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Poltergeist 2 (Dir. Brian Gibson 1986): They're baaaaack! The ghastly ghosts and edge-of-your-seat suspense that made you cringe and cower in the original return in this heart-pounding other-worldly sequel filled with jolting state-of-the-art special effects. The Freeling family may have settled into a new home... but the spirts of the dead have not given up their desire to possess Carol Anne. Led by Kane a demon disguised as a preacher the spirts attempt to convince Carol Anne to join them on ""the other side"". But when the plan fails Kane Unleashes the hellish fury of the Poltergeist on the Freelings.... forcing the desperate family to turn for help to a mysterious medicine man a medium a grandmother and most of all to each other. Poltergeist 3 (Dir. Gary Sherman 1988): They're back... again! And they're still looking for Carol Anne (the late Heather O'Rourke) in this riveting and climactic finale to the Poltergeist trilogy. Sent by her parents to live in a Chicago high rise with her aunt (Nancy Allen) uncle (Tom Skerritt) and cousin (Lara Flynn Boyle) Carol Anne must face demons more frightening than ever before as they move from invading homes to taking over an entire skyscraper! Stigmata (Dir. Rupert Wainwright 1999): A lost soul has just received the wounds of Christ...and a shocking message that will alter history. Stunning performances from Patricia Arquette (True Romance) Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Jonathan Pryce (Ronin) and a cutting edge score by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Elia Cmiral make Stigmata ""a visual and visceral feast. Frankie Paige (Arquette) has absolutely no faith in God. All of that changes when she suddenly begins to suffer the stigmata - the living wounds of the crucified Christ. Frankie's miraculous bleeding comes to the attention of the Vatican's top investigator Father Kiernan (Byrne). But when Cardinal Houseman (Pryce) discovers that Frankie is actually channeling an extraordinary and provocative message that could destroy the Church he's convinced that she - and the force possessing her - must be forever silenced. Determined to stop this deadly conspiracy Kiernan risks his faith - and his life - to save her and the message that will change the destiny of mankind forever.

• Toy Story/Toy Story 2 | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Toy Story: As six-year-old Andy's favourite toy Woody (Tom Hanks) a take-charge pull-string cowboy is confident in his role as room leader. But after Andy's birthday party newcomer Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) a flashy space ranger with laser action and pop-out wings crash-lands into Woody's world. Buzz instantly wins the admiration of Andy's other toys igniting a rivalry that lands the duo inside the home of Sid - the toy-torturing boy next door. To escape Sid's evil plans Woody and Buzz must work together and realize they've got the perfect friend...in each other! Toy Story 2: A Masterpiece of great story telling 'laugh out loud' humour wonderful music and state of the art animation - Toy Story 2 is great fun from both kids and adults! This enormous box office hit won a Golden Globe award for Best Picture! Toy Story 2 features the original voice cast headed by Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear. Joining them is a round-up of unforgettable new characters including Jessie the cow girl Bullseye the horse and Stinky Pete the prospector. While Andy is away at summer camp Woody is toynapped by Al a greedy toy collector. His best friends including Buzz Mr Potato Head Slinky Dog and Rex set out on a heroic rescue mission to save him. Along the way they meet a whole host of new friends including Jessie the cow girl and Bullseye the horse. Together the Toy Story 2 gang set out to make sure Woody is home safely before Andy returns.......

• Nicholas Cage Collection - The Rock / Face/Off / Gone In 60 Seconds | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.04%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Gone In 60 Seconds: Remake of the 1974 classic car-chase movie. Nicolas Cage is Randall 'Memphis' Raines a legendary car thief. When he retired car crimes fell by almost 50% but he is being forced out to retirement to save his brother Kip from an evil mobster Raymond Calitri. Kip has to find 50 cars by Friday or he will be killed. Randall gets his old team back (including Robert Duvall and Vinnie Jones) to save his brother's life. With the police on his case and Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip time is soon running out... The Rock (2-Disc Set): Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage star in the action-adventure blockbuster. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away a chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery) - who happens to be the only man to have broken out of Alcatraz - must now break in and disarm the missiles! Face Off: Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo! To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) undergoes radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy (Cage) and assume his identity. But when Castor awakes and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife (Joan Allen) and daughter!

• Big Trouble | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this new comedy the lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with dangerous results.

• Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £25.52   |  Saving you £4.47 (17.52%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Cowboys And Angels | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  How far will you go? An award-winning exhilaratingly funny coming-of-age film Cowboys And Angels tells the witty story of two Irish lads - one straight and one gay - from their youthful career ambitions to romance and entanglements with the law. Shane is a shy civil servant striking out on his own; Vincent is a gay fashion design student looking for a roommate. When they cross paths a friendship begins with Vincent helping pull Shane from his shell and sending

• King Of The Hill | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When the world turns upside down the trick is coming out on top. The saga adapted from the memoirs of A.E. Hotchner based on his own childhood in St.Louis. The story follows twelve year old Aaron who perseveres with his family amid the strange characters and persistent dangers of a transient hotel.

• Puccini: Manon Lescaut | DVD | (01/01/2024) from £6.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Death Race (2008)/ Death Race: Frankenstein Lives | Blu Ray | (27/12/2010) from £22.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (9.37%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Death Race 1: From director Paul W.S. Anderson comes Death Race an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop. A penitentiary full of felons has inspired the jailers to create a grisly pastime ripe for lucrative kickbacks. Now adrenalized inmates a global audience hungry for televised violence and a spectacular arena come together to form the Death Race. Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames (Statham) is an expert at survival in the harsh landscape that has become our country. Just as he thinks he has turned his life around the ex-con is framed for a gruesome murder he didn't commit. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein - a crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill - Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's warden (Joan Allen): suit up or rot away in a cell. His face hidden by a metallic mask one convict will be put through an insane three-day challenge. Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in the country's toughest prison to claim the prize of freedom. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns flamethrowers and grenade launchers one desperate man will destroy anything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth. Death Race 2: Get ready for the drive of your life with Death Race 2 the adrenaline pumping car crunching action packed prequel to Death Race (2008) starring Luke Goss (Tekken Hell Boy II: The Golden Army) Sean Bean (Lord Of The Rings Red Riding) and Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible Trilogy Piranha 3D). In the not too distant future the United States economy is in decline and violent crime is spiraling out of control. In an attempt to regain power over the growing criminal population a vast network of for-profit private prisons has opened up. But rather than solving society's problems they have created a lawless subculture run by gangs killers and sociopaths. On his arrival at Terminal Island Prison convicted cop-killer Carl Lucas (Goss) finds himself thrown into the spotlight as a ruthlessly ambitious television personality September Jones (Lauren Cohen; Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj Supernatural) launches the ultimate reality show Death Race with him as her star driver. The brutal prison yard demolition derby pits the already violent and uncontrollable prisoners against each other in heavily reinforced and seriously dangerous armed vehicles. The prize is freedom; but will anyone survive to enjoy it?! With the stakes so high the prisoners will do anything they can to win and as a series of death-defying races take their toll on Lucas his transformation into notorious Death Race driver Frankenstein begins. As the brutality of the race increases Lucas is left so horribly disfigured by the violence he begins to wear a terrifying iron mask to hide his scars and a legend is born.

• The Christmas Pony Boxset | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £6.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Collection of three festive family equine movies. In 'My Christmas Pony' (2015) teenager Juliet (Nadine Crocker) and her mother Karen (Krista Allen) move back to their old home in the country to visit her late grandfather's ranch. Initially unhappy to leave the city, Juliet soon warms to life at the struggling ranch when she discovers her grandfather's horse Rodeo and meets a young cowboy named Monty (Zeb Halsell). Together, will Juliet, her family and her new friends be able to save the ranch? In 'My Christmas Gift' (2017) city-dwelling accountant and single father Michael (Patrick Muldoon) struggles to see eye-to-eye with his teenage daughter and decides to accept an offer from a family farm out in the country who are currently engaged in a battle with a relentless bank manager. Thinking that a new start is all that the father-daughter team need, Michael and Chloe (Mandalynn Carlson) set up home in the country. Not entirely convinced by the move, Chloe continues to play the teenager card, but when Michael meets the farm owner's daughter Samantha (Charisma Carpenter), sparks begin to fly and a new life looks to be on the cards. In 'A Christmas Wish' (2013) the Kamp family are struggling to make ends meet in depression-era America. With his son's rising medical bills and the recent loss of his wife, things begin to take their toll on the family patriarch William (Brian Krause). As Christmas draws closer the children are expecting another holiday of festivities but their hopes are tested when their father gives them a dollar in change and challenges them to buy each other gifts with it. Facing a seemingly impossible challenge, will the children change their view of Christmas?