"Actor: Clarke"

• Huge | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Feuding comedy duo Warren & Clarke (BAFTA-nominee Johnny Harris and BAFTA-winner Noel Clarke) dream of making it HUGE. As they gig around the comedy clubs of London they discover an unforgiving, cut-throat comedy circuit that is incredibly difficult to break into. With the odds stacked against them, do Warren & Clarke have what it takes to be the next big thing? This is one double act you won't want to miss. Comedian Ben Miller's (The Armstrong & Miller Show, Johnny English, Comic Relief) first feature film exposes the dark side of stand-up-comedy and the lengths people are willing to go to achieve their dreams. Also stars Thandie Newton, Michelle Ryan and comedy's finest names including Eddie Izzard, Jack Dee, Harry Hill, David Baddiel, Jo Brand and more.

• The Tomorrow People - The Doomsday Men | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Tomorrow People are investigating the Doomsday Men a secret organisation that glorify war as character building. Their leader is reputed to be Sir Arthur McLelland who's only living relative is his grandson Douglas who attends Glen College a boarding school in Scotland...

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Bayreuth | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Die Walkure is the 'first day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen.Conducted by Pierre Boulez and directed by Patrice Chereau this 1976 production commemorating the centenary of the first Bayreuth Ring has come to be seen as the most illuminating and significant of modern times.

• Green Mile, The / Pay It Forward / Proof Of Life | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying on the mile. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his movie brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comPay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitises the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. One may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humour, clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. --Jim Gay, Amazon.comWhen someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging", you can bet they're going to be left hanging. There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long March to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Russell Crowe (the soldier-turned-"K&R") and Meg Ryan adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to David Morse's captivity. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favouring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Most Fertile Man In Ireland | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Whilst the rest of the male population of Belfast are firing nothing but blanks Eamonn is blessed with 'tadpoles on speed that could impregnate a stone'. Realising that there is cash to be made out of his fellow man's infertility this 24 year old virgin transforms himself overnight into Belfast's very own one man sperm bank. Business is booming until Eamonn is sucked into the 'troubles' and finds his crown jewels dangling in the fires of political distrust and religious intolerance!

• Cubix - The Unfixable Robot | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete first series of this hugely successful television series starring John Thaw as the legendary Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as sidekick George Carter. This is first of four box sets featuring all 13 episodes from series 1. Most of these episodes are new to DVD and 2 episodes have never been previously released on any format. Episodes comprise: 1. Ringer 2. Jackpot 3. Thin Ice 4. Queen's Pawn 5. Jigsaw 6. Night Out 7. The Placer 8. Cover Story 9. Golden Boy 10. Stoppo Driver 11. Big Spender 12. Contact Breaker 13. Abduction

• Saber Rider And The Sheriffs - Volume 1 | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs explore the new frontier the wide open ranges of outerspace where the legendary honour and virtue of the Wild West combines with vibrant alien adventure. Saber Rider is the dashing leader of the Star Sheriffs. Their mission is to establish peace and unity against the Outriders mysterious vapour beings led by the powerful Nemesis. Joined by assorted rustlers and desperados the Outriders challenge the Star Sheriffs to action packed showdowns. Indepe

• Tomorrow People, The - The Vanishing Earth | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £5.53   |  Saving you £0.46 (8.32%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's time once again to buckle your belts and jaunt back to the 1970s as the intergalactic teenage force for good The Tomorrow People return for a third thrilling story - The Vanishing Earth. In an adventure that takes in a fairground's haunted house an alien spaceship and a trip to the seaside the Tomorrow People find themselves pitted against the terrifying Spidron an evil villain with the ability to conjure up earthquakes and volcanoes at will. Seemingly hell bent on the destruction of all humanity only the Tomorrow People stand in the way of the full force of Spidron's fury. How can the Tomorrow People defeat a menace able to inflict such catastrophic damage? Is the end of the world finally at hand?

• Doctor Who - The New Series - Vol. 1 | UMD | (12/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Risk | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The world of insurance hasn't exactly inspired a wealth of memorable cinema, but Australian film Risk is a feisty, funny, clever and, yes, insurance-related movie. Drawing on a range of cinematic themes (good cop/bad cop, the young newcomer and his guiding light, a love triangle) the film offers a fresh insight by virtue of its unusual setting. Ben Madigen (Tom Long) finds himself working in the business by default and is soon taken under the wing of the charismatic John Kreisky (Brown). While trying to undertake his job without compromising his principles, Madigen is unwittingly lured into a scam by Kreisky and his girlfriend, lawyer Louise Roncaldi (Claudia Karvan). The burgeoning and later unravelling relationship between the three is the film's key story, as Long finds himself torn between the other two. Brown is excellent as the scheming Kreisky, once again proving that his failure to move into a more major acting league is little short of baffling--but then, this type of imaginative film offers him more scope than Cocktail or FX ever could and serves as a welcome advertisement for the growing Australian movie industry. This is a highly intelligent film that keeps its plot-cards closely to its chest, keeping the viewer guessing throughout. On the DVD: the usual scene selection is coupled with the trailer, which presents the film (slightly misleadingly) in pulsating, high-action tones. The "making of" featurette offers the viewer an insight into not very much happening (look, there's a man pushing something) and gives the cast an opportunity to take themselves a little too seriously. --Phil Udell

• Puccini - La Boheme (Schirmer, Vienna So, Villazon) | DVD | (08/08/2006) from £23.24   |  Saving you £2.75 (10.60%)   |  RRP £25.99

• Simply Painting Watercolours - Idyllic Locations | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £9.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (25.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Have fun painting four subjects presented by Frank Clarke: Wales Highest MountainCarnarvonNorth WalesThe Most Famous Place Name

• Seventeen Again | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a divorced couple of grandparents are unwittingly exposed to a secret formula, they find themselves 17 years old once more. As their son and grandchild race to find a 'cure' for their condition, will the grandparents want to go back to being old again?

• Discovery Channel - Pirates | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Pirates' story is inextricably linked to one of the most exciting and tumultuous periods of seafaring history. As Europe battled to extend her colonies and trade routes flourished so men of all ages hungry for adventure and keen to capitalise upon the New World braved the open seas. Lured by the promise of golden treasure and an easy life they soon joined ranks to sail under the black flag. Meet some of the wiliest and most cunning characters ever to have set sail. Many of the myths and romances that surround them are dispelled but the reality proves to be just as colourful.

• Die Zauberflote - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £10.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (99.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart - Die Zauberflote (Welser-Most Miller)

• One Way | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the producer of Hostage comes a chilling story of deception betrayal and savage vengeance. Eddie Snyder is New York City's advertising wunderkind. Successful and charming he has it all. But in one impulsive moment Eddie's dream life will be torn from his grasp. When his fiancee's brother Anthony is accused of a grueling assault on a co-worker at the ad agency the cracks in Eddie's life are wrenched wide open. In return for Anthony's silence over a less-than-salubrious private life Eddie is forced into to give false evidence thereby protecting his future brother-in-law. Eddie's colleague and Anthony's alleged victim Angelina is left devastated and betrayed. But the worst crime is yet to come as one by one the players in this terrible deception come face to face with the consequences of their lies and the reality of bitter cold-hearted revenge...

• The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Daredevil | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £14.56   |  Saving you £1.43 (8.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: A hunter a scientist a vampire an invisible man an immortal a spy a beast....when a masked madman known as ""The Fantom"" threatens to launch global Armageddon legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) commands a legion of superheroes the likes of which mankind has never seen. Now despite fighting their own personal demons - and each other - they must join forces to save the world. Daredevil: Ben Affleck is Matt Murdo

• Humphrey Bogart Crime Collection | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  THE BIG SLEEP: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers pornographers nightclub rogues the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall) a brisk pace and atmosphere galore in this certified classic. KEY LARGO: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Awardwinning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. THE MALTESE FALCON: A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who's gonna take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut film history's first film noir and Bogart's breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player. When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade - and launched the most acclaimed period of his career.

• Aladdin | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Go on a magical journey the whole family will enjoy with this exotic adventure that will capture the imagination of children and parents alike. It's made to be watched and treasured over and over again. With the help of the loyal Genie of the lamp Aladdin woos the Sultan's beautiful daughter Princess Leila and builds a magnificent palace but then the evil Haseem steals the lamp and the princess too.

• All In Good Taste | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A man with a screenplay to sell sets out to find a backer. Unfortunately all those he approaches with money and influence insist that the screenplay be 'sexed up' and made more violent...