"Actor: Armstrong"

• The Son of Kong | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) returns to Skull Island where he found the original Kong in search of rumoured treasure. He finds the diamonds and something even more remarkable - Kong's son who has a winning personality and amazing strength. Denham along with damsel in distress (Helen Mack) rescues Kong from a quicksand pit and in return the appreciative and playful ape makes sure to defend them from any creatures that threaten Denham and his crew. But when a mighty earthquake strikes Skull Island even the son of Kong may not be powerful enough to save them...

• Danielle Steel's Mixed Blessings | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of life's greatest blessings is the birth of a child. But unfortunately for many the pleasure of becoming parents does not come without hardship. Danielle Steel brings to life three interwoven stories of couples facing the joys and challenges associated with having children. Newlyweds Andy (Bruce Greenwood) and Diana (Gabrielle Carteris) are crushed to discover they can't have children. Searching for options they discover the delight and heartaches of adoption. Brad (James Naughton) and Pilar (Bess Armstrong) want to have children late in life. Although the risks are high they take the chance. Charlie (Scott Baio) longs for children but his wife Barbie (Julie Condra) doesn't. Is their marriage strong enough to keep them together? This powerful and uplifting drama is filled with inspirational and touching moments that every family will relate to.

• Birthday Girl | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nadia is the mail-order bride of sweet but dull bank clerk John, and although she's as beautiful as he hoped she's hardly the ideal non-smoking, English speaking wife he hoped for...

• Match Point | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £7.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  And so Woody Allen picks up his camera and moves the location of his latest film across the channel to London. In the process? Match Point becomes one of his finer efforts of recent times. Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads the cast as Chris Wilton, a former professional tennis player, who quickly lands himself a job as a coach. As he goes about his business, he meets Chloe (Emily Mortimer), and a relationship soon ensues, much to the delight of her family. With some speed, he quickly finds himself working for her father (Brian Cox), and wedding bells aren’t too far away. Yet there’s a fly in the ointment, in the shapely form of Chloe’s brother’s girlfriend, played by Scarlet Johansson. Johansson’s powers of attraction--and bluntly, she looks terrific here--aren’t lost on him, setting the stage for an intriguing mix of thriller and drama that comes very much alive in the final act. Allen wisely utilises London not just to give his film a different feel to usual, but also to embellish it with a strong cast of primarily British actors. And while Match Point doesn’t deliver the clever humour and wry laughs you find in the majority of the prolific writer-director’s work, this is still very much an engaging film. Ironically, those likely to warm to the film the least are Allen’s most loyal fanbase. Save for the minimalist credits and the jazz soundtrack, it’s hard to tell he’s behind the camera with Match Point, and that has the trade off of making it accessible to those not usually won over by Woody Allen’s talents. And yet still, there’s something for everyone here, and while Match Point is far from the peak of Allen’s work, it’s still a fine addition to an exemplary body of work.--Simon Brew

• RKO 281 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Orson Welles arrives in Hollywood hailed as the boy genius but is stuck for the subject of his first movie. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle he has an argument with Hearst and decides to make a film about him. Some time later he gets the green light and starts to make his movie but Hearst gets to find out more about the film and sets about making sure that the whole project is stopped.

• Elvis Meets Nixon | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (-317.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The President lives in the White House. The King lives in Memphis! Elvis Meets Nixon is a 'mockumentary' about The King's - supposed - real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA but meets 'Tricky Dicky' President Nixon instead. Along the way the film lampoons Elvis's humour; his resentment of The Beatles; his drug problems; and even reveals him pulling out a gun in a doughnut shop! Uh-huh.

• Overhaulin' - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £12.47   |  Saving you £22.52 (180.59%)   |  RRP £34.99

  What happens when a world-famous singer wants to give her equally well-known boyfriend (world champion cyclist Lance Armstrong) the stock GTO he has always wanted as a surprise gift? Well the press report on the gift and ruin the gesture! So what is Sheryl Crow to do...? She calls in the Overhaulin' team of course. This is just one of the great projects in the second series of this cult Discovery Real Time show where the owner gets tricked and the car gets tricked out. Join hosts Chris Jacobs and Courtney Hansen and world renowned designer Chip Foose as they pose as lawyers repo men surf enthusiasts and tow truck drivers to lure the keys away from the poor unsuspecting 'marks' for a week of devilish pranks and laughter all for a good cause. The OverHaulin' cameras follow all the twists and turns as the team try desperately to keep the car away from its panicking owner while following every step of the renovation process of a once boring vehicle. But will the victims the put upon 'marks' love their new dream car? Episodes Comprise: 201: Body Off (64 Corvette) 202: Cherry Nova (67 Chevy Nova) 203: The 4-4-New (68 Oldsmobile 442) 204: The Monte Fuego (70 Monte Carlo) 205: Dude Where's My Skylark? (67 Buick Skylark) 206: Rustang (65 Ford Mustang Fastback) 207: The Falcon And The Snow-Job (63 Ford Falcon) 208: Challenging Mopar (71 Dodge Challenger) 209: Live Strong (70 Pontiac GTO) 210: California Performance Bel Air (62 Chevy Bel Air) 211: Coolest Cars (Various Oh Cars) 212: Gambler 514 (70 Ford Mustang Fastback) 213: Butterscorched (52 GMC Pickup) 214: Thieven Teacher (70 Camaro) 215: Soldiers Ride (66 Chevelle)

• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Act 3 (Hamlet & The Tempest) | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £14.47   |  Saving you £-8.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A double bill of animated Shakespeare plays abridged and adapted by Leon Garfield. Set in Denmark Hamlet is the story of a young man's revenge of his father's murder. The Tempest is tells the story of Prospero the Duke of Milan who is overthrown by his wicked brother and together with his baby daughter cast adrift in the ocean. The pair come upon a strange enchanted island - and with the aid of his magic books Prospero becomes the chief of the island.

• New Tricks - Series 3-5 - Complete | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £63.63   |  Saving you £8.12 (13.12%)   |  RRP £69.99

  A motley crew of retired police officers are assigned to re-open troublesome cases that were never laid to rest.

• Mighty Joe Young | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jill Young (Terry Moore) has brought up Joe her pet gorilla since she was a child in Tanzania Africa but when the gorilla becomes fully grown its strength is incredible. Hollywood promoter Max O'Hara (Robert Armstrong) convinces Jill to bring her extraordinary gorilla back to America to star in his nightclub floorshow with Jill as the Jungle Queen commanding the Mighty Joe Young. The opening night is a resounding success but as Joe becomes more exploited the novelty soon wears off for the caged animal and his loving owner. As Joe rests in his basement cage a group of drunks torment him with alcohol and cigarettes until Joe bursts from his shackles and goes on a destructive rampage...

• The Mummy / The Mummy Returns / The Scorpion King | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £23.73   |  Saving you £-3.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Drifting along on a prayer and a song. Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way though this charming and delightful story of a wanderer who drifts into the lives and hearts of the residents of the small town of Middletown New Jersey. Featuring music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston including the classics ""So Do I "" ""Pennies From Heaven"" (Academy Award nominee for Best Music/Song) ""Skeleton In the Closet"" and ""Lets Call A Heart A Heart.""

• Paranormal Activity 2 | Blu Ray | (14/05/2013) from £14.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (86.85%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The sequel to last year's global, horror phenomenon is back and picks up from Paranormal Activity's terrifying ending.

• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seven year old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.

• Garrow's Law Series One and Two | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-7.24 (-18.10%)   |  RRP £39.99

  18th Century England - a time of turbulence when the world was up for grabs and belonged to those who used both hands. Lawyer William Garrow came to the courts of London's Old Bailey where defence of the accused and cross-examination in pursuit of justice was almost unheard of. Bounty hunters roamed the land in search of reward often creating villains where none existed. Judges were in the pocket of politicians and the public gallery of a courtroom was a place to witness spectacle. Garrow would give them that and more.

• The Fourth Angel | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £16.54   |  Saving you £-3.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They took all he had. Revenge is all that's left... Respected journalist Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) watches his life is destroyed before his very eyes when his wife and daughters perish during a botched terrorist hijacking then forced to watch helpless in disbelief as the perpetrators are caught before being set free. Jack comes to the conclusion that he is the one person that must bring these killers to a cold kind of justice...

• J. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (20/02/2004) from £24.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Johann Strauss II's wonderfully convoluted and ingenious Viennese farce Die Fledermaus is a masterpiece of operetta. The tale spins waltz-like around the philandering Von Eisenstein (Thomas Allen), his wife Rosalinde (Pamela Armstrong), who is tempted by singing teacher Alfred (Par Lindskog), and Adele (Lyubov Petrova), Rosalinde's maid. Following Shakespeare's romantic comedy template there is much mistaken identity, confusion of purpose and cross-dressing, with the events unfolding around an increasingly drunken masked ball and the morning after in the local jail. The champagne-fuelled entertainment carries various satiric undertones, but this adaptation by director Stephen Lawless and Daniel Dooner emphasises colour, wit and flamboyance, always ensuring the jokes work well for a modern audience. The production requires acting as strong as the excellent singing, and Thomas Allen delivers a subtly layered interpretation of Eisenstein, while Pamela Armstrong's Rosalinde offers a winning study in smouldering sensuality, well contrasted with Lyubov Petrova's more directly sexual Adele. The revolving set mirrors the swirling Strauss dances and the elegant design is a perfect match for the boldly extrovert costumes. If this Glyndebourne 2003 production doesn't match Dame Joan Sutherland's retirement performance at the Royal Opera House in 1977 for historic value, it is easily as much fun and the production values are second to none. On the DVD: Die Fledermaus is presented on a two-disc edition with Acts 1 and 2 on the first disc and Act 3 and 37 minutes of extras on the second DVD. The 16:9 anamorphically enhanced image is as strong and detailed as BBC live digital video recording can be and the sound is offered in excellent stereo, as well as superb 5.1 DTS, which places the listener in the acoustic equivalent of the best seat in the house. The extras begin with 20 minutes of short but worthwhile interviews with Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Hakan Hagegard, conductor Vladimir Jurowski and director Stephen Lawless. There is a five-minute feature on the history of the waltz and a four-minute humorous interlude in which Udo Samel explores the pleasures of champagne in his character as the gaoler Frosch. More substantial if less entertaining is Return of the Architect (8 min), a look at the design and construction of the modern Glyndebourne opera house. The set is completed with routine photo and costume galleries and a nicely produced booklet illustrated with good quality colour photographs. Optional subtitles are available in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. --Gary S Dalkin

• New Tricks Series 9 | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman heads The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), cracking previously unsolved crimes from the past. Her team are ex policemen who have opted for early retirement. In series nine Jack Halford deals a devastating blow to UCOS - he's quitting. But before the team can question the reasons behind his decision and persuade him to stay, shadowy Whitehall Intelligence figure Stephen Fisher arrives with one of his secret cases, the unsolved murder of a woman dating back 100 years. UCOS have just 24 hours to solve it. This three disc set contains all ten episodes from the ninth series which also sees Denis Lawson joining the team as DI Steve McAllister. Special Features: Behind the Scenes Cast Filmographies Subtitles

• A Sound Of Thunder | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When a group of hunters travel back in time to the prehistoric era, they mistakenly set off a series of events that threaten to erase humanity from existence.

• Van Helsing (Two Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. A sequel is virtually guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon