"Actor: Bob Hoskins"

• The Wind In The Willows | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bob Hoskins and Matt Lucas head an all start cast in a lavish adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic book The Wind In The Willows which was served up as one of BBC One's festive treats over the 2006 Christmas period. Adapted from Grahame's book by Lee Hall writer of the Oscar nominated and multi-award winning film Billy Elliot the film also stars Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen Starter for Ten) as Rat Lee Ingleby (The Street Nature Boy) as Mole and BAFTA Award winner Anna Maxwell Martin (Bleak House). They are joined by Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake Nanny McPhee) as the Barge Lady and Jim Carter (The Way We Live Now Brassed Off) as the Engine Driver.

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £19.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (50.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dennis Potter's astonishing six-part miniseries Pennies from Heaven remains one of the edgiest, most audacious things ever conceived for television. The story tells of one Arthur Parker (Bob Hoskins), a sheet-music salesman in 1930s England. Beaten down by economic hard times and the sexual indifference of his proper wife (Gemma Craven), Arthur cannot understand why his life can't be like the beautiful songs he loves. On a sales trip through the Forest of Dean, he meets a virginal rural woman (Cheryl Campbell) he suspects may be his ideal. Ruination follows. Punctuating virtually every scene is a vintage pop song--lip-synched and sometimes danced out by the characters. This startling innovation makes the contrast between Arthur's brutish life and his bourgeois dreams even more dramatic. Potter's dark vision digs into British stoicism, sexual repression, the class system and even the coming of fascism in Europe. But it is especially poignant on the subject of the divide between art and reality. Piers Haggard directs the long piece with deft transitions between songs and story. (It was shot partly on multi-camera video, partly on film.) The cast is fine, especially the extraordinary Cheryl Campbell, who imbues her character with keen intelligence and no small measure of perversity. Bob Hoskins triumphs in his star-making part, bringing a demonic energy to his small-time Cockney, nearly bursting his button-down vests with frustration and appetite. Pennies from Heaven was remade in 1981 for the big screen (with Steve Martin), in an interesting, Potter-scripted adaptation; it's one of the reasons the original has been unavailable on home video for so long. --Robert Horton

• Super Mario Bros: The Motion Picture | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nintendo video game perennials Mario and Luigi come to life as plumbers who are thrust into a parallel dimension peopled by the descendents of dinosaurs. It seems that the meteor that hit the earth 65 million years ago (in Brooklyn, no less) didn't kill the dinosaurs, but hurled them into a world in which they have developed into a species of intelligent humanoids. And it is up to the Mario brothers to save Princess Daisy, and life as we know it, from the megalomaniacal Koopa, who wants to me.

• Brazil | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Acclaimed story of an unambitious civil servant who escapes the harsh realities of a totalitarian future with frequent daydreams. Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro star with Michael Palin and Bob Hoskins in this chilling black comedy directed by former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam.

• Mona Lisa | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mona Lisa

• Nixon | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £10.27   |  Saving you £5.72 (55.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nixon takes a riveting look at a complex man whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power - when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States! With a phenomenal all-star cast.

• Doomsday | Blu Ray | (01/09/2008) from £19.53   |  Saving you £6.72 (36.78%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After a deadly virus ravages Scotland, a thirty-year quarantine is set in place. Yet the Reaper virus has returned and now an elite team must venture north to find a cure.

• Stay | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £15.96   |  Saving you £4.03 (25.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  New York psychiatrist Sam Foster tries to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited from carrying out a planned suicide.

• Outside Bet | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £6.40   |  Saving you £8.59 (134.22%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For Mark and his mates in eighties South London, life doesn't promise much more than a day job at the printers and nights out at the local boozer. But when they're given a chance to buy a young racehorse, Mark sees an opportunity to change everyone's lives forever. After some gentle persuasion, the six lads and their beautiful friend Katie pool their savings and take a gamble on this potential winner. Can 'The Mumper' really go the distance and win Mark the girl of his dreams?Join Bob Hoskins, Calum Macnab, Jenny Agutter, Emily Atack and a great British supporting cast for a feelgood adventure that beats the odds.Because sometimes getting what you want, means making an Outside Bet.

• Dennis Potter | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This mammoth box set features eight works of Dennis Potter spread over eleven discs. The Singing Detective:Slowly recovering from a terrible skin disease in a busy National Health hospital cynical thriller writer Phillip Marlow continues to unravel the traumas of his wartime boyhood while working through the plot of his greatest detective story - with himself as a crooning '40s detective on the trail of murderous Nazi plotters. But what is real and what is imagined? As childh

• Zulu Dawn | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Cy Endfield cowrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives--the British contingent was outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's opinion of events is made immediately clear in its title sequence: ebullient African village life presided over by King Cetshwayo is contrasted with aristocratic artifice under the arrogant eye of General Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole). Chelmsford is at the heart of all that goes wrong, initiating the catastrophic battle with an ultimatum made seemingly for the sake of giving his troops something to do. His detached manner leads to one mistake after another and this is wryly illustrated in a moment when neither he nor his officers can be bothered to pronounce the name of the land they're in. That it's a beautiful land none the less is made clear by the superb cinematography, which drinks in the massive open spaces that shrink the British army to a line of red ants. Splendidly stiff-upper-lipped support comes from a heroic Burt Lancaster and a fluffy, yet gruff, Bob Hoskins. Although the story is less focused and inevitably more diffuse than the concentrated events of Rorke's Drift that followed soon after, Zulu Dawn is an unflinchingly honest depiction of British Imperial diplomacy. --Paul Tonks

• If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A thought provoking drama about racism.

• Balto | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £5.30   |  Saving you £4.69 (88.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Buried like a bone in a snowdrift, Balto never achieved the theatrical success it should have, but it's worth digging up. The film is structured on the true tale of a lead sled dog, Balto, that brought a diphtheria antitoxin to the small town of Nome, Alaska. The film balances comedy, villainy and drama very well and the voice work is above average. This is safe family viewing, as even the villain's comeuppance manages a civilised resolution. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• The Long Good Friday Steelbook | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-11.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.24

  Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is a businessman with great ambitions. Spotting the development potential of London’s derelict Docklands area years before the Thatcher government he tries to broker a deal with his American counterpart (Eddie Constantine) that will make them both millions. But who is killing Harold’s other associates and blowing up his businesses - and why? Universally regarded as one of the greatest British gangster films ever made The Long Good Friday rocketed Hoskins to international stardom. He’s given sterling support from Helen Mirren (as his upper-crust mistress) Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Derek Thompson (Casualty) and there’s even an early appearance from future James Bond Pierce Brosnan. But it’s Hoskins’ film through and through his towering performance taking on a Shakespearean intensity as he’s forced to resort to the down-and-dirty methods that he thought he’d put behind him in order to find out who’s muscling in on his territory on what should be the best day of his life. He quickly finds out that this will be a very long Good Friday indeed… Special Edition Contents: Limited Edition SteelBook™ Packaging featuring original artwork. High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD presentation of a brand new restoration sourced from the original camera negatives and approved by cinematographer Phil Meheux. Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound. Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Audio commentary by director John Mackenzie. Bloody Business a documentary about the making of the film including interviews with John Mackenzie stars Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Pierce Brosnan producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux. Brand new interviews with Barry Hanson writer Barrie Keeffe and Phil Meheux. Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and BFI curator Mark Duguid illustrated with original production stills. More to be announced!

• The Long Good Friday | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-22.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In the savage and deadly world of the gangland king the man at the top is ruler only for as long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man the rewards can be infinite but so are the dangers. Harold Shand is enjoying the height of his powers and he is on the verge of something that would make his current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day of terror an Easter Good Friday he is to see his empire begin to crack and crumble.

• The Cotton Club | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Cotton Club is routinely eclipsed by the controversies that surrounded its tumultuous production, but the film itself offers abundant pleasures that should not be overlooked. If Apocalypse Now represents the triumph of director Francis Coppola's perilous ambition, then The Cotton Club represents the ungainly glory of uncontrolled genius, as brilliant as it is out of its depth. As an upscale homage to classic gangster films it's frequently astonishing, cramming a thick novel's worth of plot and characters into 129 minutes, gloriously serviced by impeccable production design, elegant cinematography, and stylistic flourishes that show Coppola at the top of his game. What The Cotton Club lacks is cohesion. Written by Coppola and novelist William Kennedy (then enjoying the peak of his critical acclaim), the film struggles to exceed the narrative scope of The Godfather, but its multiple early-'30s plotlines fail to form any strong connective tissue. It's three (or four) movies in one, with cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere, playing his own jazzy solos) drifting from one story to the next--loving a young, ambitious vamp (Diane Lane, with whom Gere shares precious little chemistry), enjoying the success of a hot-shot hoofer (Gregory Hines), and protecting his brazen brother (Coppola's then-newcomer nephew, Nicolas Cage) from the deadly temper of mob boss "Dutch" Schultz (James Remar). Bob Hoskins and Fred Gwynne also score big in grand supporting roles, but The Cotton Club is perhaps best appreciated for its meticulous recreation of Harlem's Cotton Club heyday, and the brilliant music (Ellington, Calloway, etc.) that brought rhythm to gangland's rat-a-tat-tat. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• 10 British Leading Men | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Contains 10 films featuring British leading actors: The Barber: As 24 hour darkness descends upon the town of Revelstoke Alaska barber Dexter Miles knows all too well the signs of an approaching winter. But it's while cutting Sheriff Corgan's hair that he is surprised to overhear that the body of Lucy Walters has been found a woman he murdered days prior and hoped no one would find until the spring. When FBI Agent Crawley arrives in Dexter's sleepy town the barber finds a

• Hook | DVD | (10/09/2018) from £5.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (59.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A highflying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, HOOK stars Robin Williams as a grownup Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook. Joining the fun is Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Bob Hoskins as the pirate Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy Darling, who must convince middleaged lawyer Peter Banning that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, friendship and magic. A classic tale updated for children of all ages, HOOK was nominated for five 1991 Academy Awards® including Best Visual Effects.

• Super Mario Bros - The Original Motion Picture | DVD | (04/09/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This ain't no game. It's a live-action thrill ride! Buckle up and hang on tight-the discovery of a parallel universe launches you into the adventure of a lifetime! Mario and Luigi two wacky plumbers undertake a daring quest to save a princess in ""Dinohattan""-a hidden world where the inhabitants evolved from dinosaurs! Mario (Bob Hoskins-Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Luigi (John Leguizamo-Regarding Henry) face deadly challenges from a diabolical lizard king (Dennis Hopper-Hoosiers) and must battle giant reptilian goombas outwit misfit thugs and undermine a sinister scheme to take over the world! Blast off for non-stop excitement with Super Mario Bros the live-action thrill ride that dazzled moviegoers everywhere!

• Vanity Fair | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (234.11%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reese Witherspoon stars as the most calucating, funny and manipulative anti-heroine of English literature in a big-screen version of William Thackeray's classic novel.