"Actor: Chris Cox"

• Batman: Hush | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £11.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mysterious villain puppeteering Gotham's most dangerous forces leads the Dark Knight into uncharted waters in Batman: Hush, the next entry in the popular series of DC Universe Movies. An adaptation of the seminal DC classic tale, Batman: Hush centres on a shadowy new villain known only as Hush, who uses Gotham's Rogues Gallery to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career, as well as Bruce Wayne's personal lifewhich has already been complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman.

• Avengers: Earth's Mighties Heroes Vol. 1-8 | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Volume 1 - Heroe's Assemble Join the best of the Marvel ® Universe for the first episodes from Season One of the electrifying animated series The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Get ready for nonstop action as Iron Man Thor Captain America the Hulk Ant-Man the Wasp Hawkeye and the Black Panther join forces to battle a legion of villains bent on the total destruction of humanity. Volume 2 - Captain America Reborn Get ready for more action-packed adventure with Volume 2 of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! The excitement reaches new heights as the best of the Marvel ® Universe stand together to battle Klaw Baron Zemo The Enchantress and a horde of the Leader’s Gamma-Mutated Monsters. Volume 3 - Iron Man Unleashed The pulse-pounding action continues with these unforgettable episodes in volume 3 of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Enjoy all the thrills as Iron Man Thor Captain America Hulk and the rest of the Avengers face off against Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil and defend earth from a full-scale alien invasion led by the time traveling Kang the Conqueror. Volume 4 - Thor's Last Stand Get ready for the ultimate adrenaline rush with Volume 4 of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! In the final episodes of Season One Iron Man Thor Captain America Hulk and the rest of The Avengers attempt to stop Ultron and his army of robots from ending all of humanity and prevent Loki from unleashing armies from Asgard on Earth! Volume 5 - Holding Back the Storm Prepare for nonstop intergalactic action with Volume 5 of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Join Iron Man Captain America Hulk Thor and the rest of The Avengers as they battle Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil. Volume 6 - Secret Invasion Don’t miss a moment of the mayhem as the world’s greatest team of Super Heroes face off against a sinister squad of super villains in Volume 6 of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Iron Man Thor Hulk and Captain America join forces with other favourite characters of the Marvel Universe in a quest to save the earth from the hands of their fiercest foes. Volume 7 - Battle of the Universe Prepare for the ultimate battle! In Volume 7 of the The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! — The Avengers’ world is turned upside down as they must join forces with a band of super villains to fend off an army of strange aliens. When the world hangs in the balance and all seems hopeless for these mighty heroes who will save the day? Volume 8 - End of the Cosmos Experience the astonishing conclusion to Marvel’s epic animated series with Volume 8 of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! When the planet is threatened by time-traveling conquerors alien invaders or mythical beasts bent on the total destruction of humanity the world’s only hope is to assemble The Avengers. Iron Man The Hulk Thor and Captain America team up with more of Marvel’s most amazing Super Heroes for the ultimate battle.

• The Lord of the Rings (Animated Version) | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the movie's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well-conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• Fahrenheit 451 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with petrol and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct towards reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Batman: Hush | DVD | (12/08/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mysterious villain puppeteering Gotham's most dangerous forces leads the Dark Knight into uncharted waters in Batman: Hush, the next entry in the popular series of DC Universe Movies. An adaptation of the seminal DC classic tale, Batman: Hush centres on a shadowy new villain known only as Hush, who uses Gotham's Rogues Gallery to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career, as well as Bruce Wayne's personal lifewhich has already been complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman.

• Batman: Soul of the Dragon | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the midst of the swinging 1970s, this Elseworlds adventure finds Bruce Wayne training under a master sensei. It is here that Bruce, along with other elite students, is forged in the fire of the martial arts discipline. The lifelong bonds they form will be put to the test when a deadly menace arises from their past. It will take the combined efforts of Batman and world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner and Lady Shiva to battle the monsters of this world and beyond! Bonus Features Batman: Raw Groove-From the explosion of gritty cinema and kung fu to the cultural changes spreading across the U.S., we explore the early '70s and how they inspired Batman: Soul of the Dragon Producer Jim Krieg's Far-Out Highlights A Sneak Peek at the Next Animated DC Universe Movie: Justice Society World War II A Preview of Superman: Red Son A Preview of Gotham By Gaslight From the DC Comics Vault: Batman: The Animated Series, Day of the Samurai and Night of the Ninja

• Promising Young Woman | DVD | (02/08/2021) from £4.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.

• Promising Young Woman | Blu Ray | (02/08/2021) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.

• Batman: Soul of the Dragon | DVD | (15/02/2021) from £3.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the midst of the swinging 1970s, this Elseworlds adventure finds Bruce Wayne training under a master sensei. It is here that Bruce, along with other elite students, is forged in the fire of the martial arts discipline. The lifelong bonds they form will be put to the test when a deadly menace arises from their past. It will take the combined efforts of Batman and world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner and Lady Shiva to battle the monsters of this world and beyond! Bonus Features A Sneak Peek at the Next Animated DC Universe Movie: Justice Society World War II A Preview of Superman: Red Son A Preview of Gotham By Gaslight

• From the Earth to the Moon (Tom Hanks Signature Edition) | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £11.99   |  Saving you £34.00 (283.57%)   |  RRP £45.99

  Tom Hanks in collaboration with HBO presents From the Earth to the Moon the dramatic story of the unforgettable Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech through the first manned expeditions into space to the defining moment of the space program- putting a man on the moon. ""One small step for man... one giant leap for mankind."" Powerfully told as never before though the unforgettable performances of Cary Elwes Sally Fiel

• Stargate SG-1: Season 2 | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The success of the first year meant that Stargate SG-1's second series could afford to spread its wings. In only the second episode, Carter is temporarily possessed by a good Goa'uld. This immediately allowed for both any amount of quick fix inside knowledge as well as story off-shoots, now that the show was bent on franchise longevity. There appeared to be information overload (splinter group Tok'ra, Earth's second Gate, Machello, endless Apophis encounters), as the finely interwoven threads of alien histories and inter-relationships were developed. But thankfully, SG-1 never lost sight of the need for great individual stories. There was a planet of Native American Indians; a planet on the edge of a Black Hole; a planet of aliens sensitive to sound. Even a planet run by Dwight Schultz! Better still, they found time to have fun with their universe, too. "1969" remains one of the best comic romps the series has enjoyed, and is a near-perfect self-contained time-travel story to boot. The team of actors had obviously bonded early on in the first year. It may be a bit of a military faux pas that there is only ever four of them leading every major explorative expedition, but the limited number of principals is actually something else the show has always had in its favour, allowing quality screen time to be spent on each of them from the outset (although Richard Dean Anderson would probably rather not have spent an entire episode impaled by a spike). --Paul Tonks

• Shine | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This tearjerker by Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks is a surprising story about real-life classical pianist David Helfgott, an Australian who rose to international prominence at a very young age in the 1950s and 1960s, and suffered a psychological collapse after enduring years of abuse from his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Hicks has three very fine actors portraying Helfgott at different stages of his life, including the adorably wry and goofy Noah Taylor (Flirting), who takes up the character's teen years, and Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, giving a great performance playing the musician as a schizophrenic adult. Despite the Helfgotts' compromised psychological health, Shine is hardly a depressing experience. If anything, the story is really about how long one person's life can take to make glorious sense of itself. Sir John Gielgud, in golden form, plays Helfgott's teacher. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Bad Santa 2 | Blu Ray | (06/11/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  BAD SANTA 2 returns Academy Award®-winner BILLY BOB THORNTON to the screen as everyone's favourite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (TONY COX), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.

• Better Than Chocolate | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookshop, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother. Even when she tries, Lila steamrollers through the conversation, as if she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookshop's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-coloured lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give it some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savour. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• The Bourne Identity | Blu Ray | (30/03/2009) from £9.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (108.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set against European backdrops, the story tells of a man near death with no memory, salvaged from the ocean by an Italian fishing boat.

• Prince Of Jutland | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The original tale on which Shakespeare based his immortal Hamlet The Prince of Jutland set in 6th century Denmark is a story of corruption intrigue and passion. King Herdal and his son are brutally murdered by the King's evil brother Fenge (Gabriel Byrne) who claims the crown and the grieving queen (Helen Mirren). But the King's remaining son (Christian Bale) who witnessed the murders takes a bloody revenge for the slaying of his family.

• Avengers - Earth's Mightiest Heroes Volume 3 | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £5.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (92.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The pulse-pounding action continues with six unforgettable episodes in volume 3 of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Enjoy all the thrills as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk and the rest of the Avengers face off against Baron Zemo's Masters of Evil and defend earth from a full-scale alien invasion led by the time-traveling Kang the Conqueror! Bonus Features: Avengers Unmasked: Masters of Evil - An animated in-episode comic book experience loaded with fun facts on Marvel's Avengers and the Villains that challenge them.

• No Angels - Series 2 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £41.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Channel 4's critically acclaimed comedy drama No Angels returns to DVD for its second outrageous series. Featuring all 8 episodes!

• Bad Santa 2 | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £7.05   |  Saving you £-2.05 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.00

  BAD SANTA 2 returns Academy Award®-winner BILLY BOB THORNTON to the screen as everyone's favourite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (TONY COX), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.

• Family Guy, Series 1 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Family Guy shouldn't work at all. Even by the witless standards of modern television, it is breathtakingly derivative: does an animated series about the travails of a boorish, suburban yob with a saintly wife, a hopeless son, a clever daughter and a baby sound familiar at all? Even the house in Family Guy looks like it was built by the same architects who sketched the residence of The Simpsons. However, Family Guy does work, transcending its (occasionally annoyingly) obvious influences with reliably crisp writing and the glorious sight gags contained in the surreal flashbacks which punctuate the episodes. Most importantly, the show's brilliance comes from two absolutely superb characters: Stewie, the baby whose extravagant dreams of tyrannising the world are perpetually thwarted by the prosaic limitations of infanthood, and the urbane family dog Brian--Snoopy after attendance at an obedience class run by Frank Sinatra. Family Guy does not possess the cultural or satirical depth of The Simpsons--very little art in any field does. But it is a genuinely funny and clever programme. --Andrew Mueller