"Actor: Brian Bennett"

• Planet of the Apes Triple | Blu Ray | (27/11/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Billed as a "re-imagining" of the original film, Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honourable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape make-up (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right. While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea. --Jeff Shannon

• Planet of the Apes Triple | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Billed as a "re-imagining" of the original film, Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honourable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape make-up (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right. While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea. --Jeff Shannon

• Lady Chatterley's Lover | DVD | (19/12/2002) from £20.13   |  Saving you £-7.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rich lady who becomes bored by her sexless marriage and seeks satisfaction with her husband's gamekeeper oblivious of the social scandal she is creating... D.H. Lawrence's controversial novel transformed into a sensual masterpiece from the makers of 'Emmanuelle'.

• Marty Wilde - Born To Rock 'N' Roll - The 50th Anniversary Concert | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following on from Marty Wilde's gold album in March this year and his sell-out UK tour this DVD was shot on the last night at The London Palladium May 27th 2007. It features special guests Hank Marvin Jet Harris Brian Bennett Bruce Welch and Kim and Roxanne Wilde. Tracklisting: DVD 1: 1. Endless Sleep 2. Little Girl 3. Rubber Ball 4. Nut Rocker 5. Sea of Love 6. Six Five Special 7. Freight Train (featuring Roxanne Wilde) 8. Puttin' on the Style 9. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) (duet with Roxanne Wilde) 10. Scarlett O'Hara (performed by Jet Harris with The Wildcats) 11. Theme For Something Really Important (performed by Jet Harris with The Wildcats) 12. Diamonds (performed by Jet Harris with the Wildcats) 13. Like I've Never Been Gone 14. I Will 15. I'd Never Find Another You 16. Halfway To Paradise 17. Apron Strings 18. Do You Wanna Dance 19. Kids in America (featuring Kim Wilde) 20. Interval 21. Jezebel 22. Danny 23. It Doesn't Matter Anymore 24. Bad Boy (featuring original Wildcats Brian Bennett Brian 'Licorice' Locking and Big Jim Sullivan) 25. Tomorrow's Clown 26. Jesamine 27. Here Comes That Feeling (featuring Roxanne Wilde) 28. Something Stupid (duet with Roxanne Wilde) 29. Nights in White Satin (duet with Justin Hayward) 30. Only Sixteen 31. I Remember You 32. Summer Holiday (featuring Brian Bennett and Bruce Welch) 33. Move It (featuring Brian Bennett Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch) 34. Donna 35. A Teenager in Love 36. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (duet with Kim Wilde) 37. Are you Lonesome Tonight 38. Roll Over Beethoven DVD 2: Features interviews and photo gallery

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 4K UHD | (03/07/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Big budget sci-fi action based on the original film series of the late 1960s and early 1970s. James Franco stars as Will Rodman, a genetic engineer working in present-day San Francisco who is performing scientific tests on apes in his attempt to find a cure for Alzheimer's. His first test subject is Caesar (Andy Serkis), the prototype of a new breed of apes with human-like intelligence. But when Caesar breaks free, a revolution is triggered and an epic war for supremacy breaks out between humankind and the primates of the world.

• A Killing In A Small Town | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a small town a woman is found brutally murdered by an axe. There are no suspects or witnesses to the killing. Based on the novel 'Evidence Of Love' by John Bloom who based the story on the actual events in a small American town.

• Bigfoot - The Unforgettable Encounter | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The legendary Bigfoot is sighted & an entrepreneur offers a million dollar reward for his capture. Bigfoot befriends a young boy who is now the only person who can save him.

• Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.1 | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The jam-packed pilot "I Worship His Shadow" is full of startlingly graphic imagery, skimpily clad women, and literally wall-to-wall computer graphics. TV sci-fi has never been introduced so explosively. "Super Nova" has the crew of the Lexx hunting for Kai's homeworld, and drawn to a planet by a holographic message from Poetman (Tim Curry). Essentially, the story has little to do with the overall arc, but is an experiment in format and testing boundaries (the most obvious example being Zev's naked shower scene). There's also a nutty song and dance moment for Kai and Zev, a cameo of the director floating in space, and Curry chewing scenery with gusto. The first movie's disc features a Sci-fi Channel trailer of interviews for the series, a behind-the-scenes documentary introducing the show's creators and their irreverent sense of humour, plus DVD-ROM Screen Saver and Weblinks. The second movie's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, cast biographies, and another documentary which this time looks at the enormous CGI work put into the first season. This is where the digital transfer really pays off, and the FX-heavy show looks gorgeous in crisp definition as opposed to the general murkiness of TV broadcast or the VHS releases. --Paul Tonks

• Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.2 | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The first films's disc features a behind-the-scenes documentary with the show's creators talking generally about the intent of the films, a text interview with Jeffrey Hirschfield on his dual role as writer and voicing robot head 790, plus a hilarious "Purity Test" quiz to see how much of a fan you are. The second film's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, a Sci-fi Channel featurette and another documentary containing a very frank interview with director Robert Sigl and hilarious outtakes from Malcolm McDowell. --Paul Tonks

• Britannia Hospital | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A farce set in an old hospital that alarmingly resembles Britain at its most chaotic. Everything starts to go wrong when the medical administrators are faced with a threatened strike angry scenes and a Royal visit.

• Lexx - Season 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Seductive sci-fi from the Lexx universe. The crew of the Manhattan-sized insect return with a new twist: the voluptuous Xenia Seeberg takes over from Eva Habermann for adventures with their tongue planted firmly in someone else's cheek! 2.04 LUVLINER A desperate Stan and a frisky Xev come across a floating bordello and decide to give it a try. Needless to say it doesn't live up to the brochure and Xev Stan and 790 are all in danger - with 790 about to give 'head' a new meaning! 2.05 LAFFTRAK The name of the game is survival and ratings are the key. Xev and Stan accidentally involve themselves in a planet of television and have to keep the audience amused for fear of getting cancelled. Permanently. 2.01 MANTRID Kai is possessed with the essence of His Divine Shadow and takes the LEXX to see Mantrid the mad former Bio-Vizier to the insect lord. With Kai feeling a shadow of his former self Zev Stan and 790 have to contend with Mantrid's new plan for universal domination. 2.02 TERMINAL Kai mortally wounds Stan and the crew have to take him to the MedSat Medical Facility in order to save his life. Dishy Doctor Kazzan saves Stan's life and sweeps Zev off her feet but can Kazzan be trusted? Or is his attraction to Zev a mere ruse and he finds the LEXX a far more appealing being?

• Lexx - The Complete Season 3 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It's been 4 000 since the crew of living spaceship the Lexx fled the destruction of a universe. Now undead asassin Kai cluster-lizard sex bomb Xev anti-hero Stanley Tweedle and robot head 790 are involved in a war - and their involvement has far reaching consequences. This complete four disc box set containd all 13 episodes of the strangest and most imaginative Sci-Fi show ever. A must have for ANY fan! Episode titles: Fire And Water May Gametown Boomtown Gondola K-Town Tunnels The Key Garden Battle Girltown The Beach Heaven And Hell.

• Lexx - Season 2 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  LEXX 2.3 takes the crew of the LEXX to hitherto unseen areas of rudeness and adventure and continues the adventures where no other crew would even dare to go before! 2.11 NOOK: Xev Stan and Kai visit Nook a quiet settlement inhabited by monks -all of which haven 't seen a woman before.As Xev sends temperatures soaring can Nook survive her visit? 2.12 NORB: Mantrid 's representative arrives on the LEXX intent on showing them up close what the madman 's game is.Soon the LEXX is being taken apart from the inside out ... 2.13 TWILIGHT: On a planet with properties to heal the dead Xev brings Stan to recover from an accident.But the dead are animated and can smell their flesh -and they 're hungry ... 2.14 PATCHES IN THE SKY: Stan takes a trip into a drug-fuelled nightmare and encounters his nemesis Gigarotta.His only hope of escape has flipped because of all the patches in the sky ... 2.15 WOZ: Xev 's body is about to shut down and Stan and Kai have to take her on a magical journey to see the wonderful Wuzzard of Woz and show her there 's no place like home!

• The Shadows - The Final Tour | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Filmed at the Cardiff Indoor Arena in spring 2004 The Final Tour captures Hank Marvin Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett together as The Shadows for one last time. This release features both the music DVD and the 2CD set for a complete audio visual experience. DVD Tracklist: 1. Intro - Apache Medley 2. Riders In The Sky 3. The Frightened City 4. Theme For Young Lovers 5. Peace Pipe 6. The Savage 7. Let Me Be The One 8. The Stranger 9. Kon Tiki 10. Going Home (theme from Local Hero) 11. Dance On 12. Nivram 13. Lady Of The Morning 14. My Home Town 15. Guitar Tango 16. Geronimo 17. Sleepwalk 18. 36-24-36 19. Shazam 20. Don't Cry For Me Argentina 21. Equinox V 22. Mountains Of The Moon 23. Shadoogie 24. Gonzales 25. Don't Make My Baby Blue 26. The Rise And Fall Of Flingle Bunt 27. Atlantis 28. Shindig 29. Man Of Mystery 30. Foot Tapper 31. Please Don't Tease 32. In The Country 33. I Could Easily Fall 34. The Day I Met Marie 35. Gee Whiz It's You 36. Summer Holiday 37. Bachelor Boy 38. Little B 39. Theme From The Deerhunter 40. Wonderful Land 41. FBI 42. Apache CD Disc 1 - Tracklist: 1. Intro - Apache Medley 2. Riders In The Sky 3. The Frightened City 4. Theme For Young Lovers 5. Peace Pipe 6. The Savage 7. Let Me Be The One 8. The Stranger 9. Kon Tiki 10. Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) 11. Dance On 12. Nivram 13. Lady Of The Morning 14. My Home Town 15. Guitar Tango 16. Geronimo 17. Sleepwalk 18. 36-24-36 19. Shazam 20. Don't Cry For Me Argentina 21. Equinox V CD Disc 2 - Tracklist 22. Mountains Of The Moon 23. Shadoogie 24. Gonzalez 25. Don't Make My Baby Blue 26. The Rise And Fall Of Flingle Bunt 27. Atlantis 28. Shindig 29. Man Of Mystery 30. Foot Tapper 31. Please Don't Tease 32. In The Country 33. I Could Easily Fall 34. The Day I Met Marie 35. Gee Whiz It's You 36. Summer Holiday 37. Bachelor Boy 38. Little B 39. Theme From The Deerhunter 40. Wonderful Land 41. FBI 42. Apache

• Lexx - Season 2 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The episodes in this second collection from the second series are: "Stan's Trial", "Love Grows", "White Trash", "791" and "Wake the Dead". In "Stan's Trial", he's still desperate for some "bingo bongo yum yum time", which blinds him to a sting operation laid at the Celes Pleasure Liner. His alleged traitorous past finally catches up, and the events of "Giga Shadow" are made clear. A new, shorter title sequence opens the gender questioning "Love Grows". The Lexx accidentally eats a rubbish dumper and the toxic cargo has an adverse effect on everyone--to say the least. Their sex organs are swapped! A cliffhanger surprise leads directly into "White Trash", where we find the yokel clan family have been stowed away since before the destruction of The Cluster. On a crashed ship a cyborg pilot has been decapitated, which gives 790 an idea. While Kai and Xev find a hold full of prisoners with their hearts removed, 791 is born--with more than just a little personality re-programming. This homage to Alien ends with Xev's immortal line: "You may still only be a head 790. But you're the best head I ever had." Then we're back into spoof territory as "Wake the Dead" enjoys turning The Lexx into the stomping ground for a crazed teen killer. Still asleep from a joyride begun 287 years before, the group of "deserving" kids are dispatched with glee in a great performance by Michael McManus. There's even a shower murder with a musical nod to Psycho from composer Marty Simon. And we finally see a Lexx toilet--and its tongue! On the DVD: the most exciting extra for fans is a commentary from Brian Downey (Stan) and writer Lex Giggeroff on the episode "Wake the Dead". They have great fun discussing Xenia Seeberg's wigs and confirm that this was indeed pitched as a "teen slasher flick". Also featured is a gallery of nine stills, some hilarious text "Faxx" about all five episodes, biographies of Stan and Lyekka, and a "Story So Far" re-cap. The 10-minute "Making of Lexx the Series Part 2" documentary is the same as the VHS release. --Paul Tonks

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• Lexx - Season 2 - Vol. 4 | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the fourth collection of episodes from the second series of Lexx the crew finally acknowledge that they're worried about Mantrid taking over the universe, and decide to test "The Uncertainty Principle" to be found at the centre of the universe. The Lexx is ensnared by "The Web", and everyone begins behaving peculiarly. Worst of all--Stanley can't find his hat. This extremely clever instalment should be watched back-to-back with the following "The Net", where all is revealed. It's the same show all over again, but with extended shots and external footage of what is happening to the Lexx. Some TV shows cobble together a "clips episode" in order to save budget. Lexx proves itself different yet again with this ingenious idea. The difference continues into "Brigadoom", which is a musical: a theatre appears from nowhere to put on a show telling the tale of the Brunnen-G. Kai and Xev take to the boards, and singalong quite oblivious to the fact TV SF usually can't pull this sort of thing off. They do. Desperate to call Mantrid's bluff, the Lexx crew are even prepared momentarily to trust his old tutor the Bio Vizier "Brizon". They know he has some treacherous agenda, but never guess what until it's almost too late. The storyline links straight into "End of the Universe", and the season finale sees every player of Mantrid's game attempting checkmate. 790 builds a counter army of drone arms, but it's Lyekker's efforts that once again save the day. The show ends with the very definition of a Big Bang, and leaves everything under one enormous question mark. On the DVD: Lexx Series 2 Vol. 4 has the most extras yet. There's one last commentary from Brian Downey (Stan) and writer Lex Giggeroff on the episode "End of the Universe". The humour remains, but it's fun to hear their awe for the CG interpretation of their original idea: putting 790's head on a Drone Arm. We also learn about the writer's arguments about the physics. Also featured is a gallery of stills, some hilarious text "FAXX" about all five episodes, four Sci-Fi Channel character spots, a fascinating interview with composer Marty Simon, biographies of 790, The Lexx, Brizon and Mantrid, and a story so far recap. Best of all, is a Sing-A-Long-a-Brunnen-G karaoke lyrics option for "Brigadoom", surely one of the greatest ideas ever had for a DVD. --Paul Tonks

• Phase IV | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simon thinks it strange that four of his classmates have died and Doctor Ben Roanic cannot believe that it's because they were his patients. Soon the doctor is on the run and the only person he can turn to is Ben....