"Actor: Dance"

• Dance Theatre Of Harlem | DVD | (28/02/2001) from £34.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Dance Theatre of Harlem has long since entered the history books as the world's foremost black classical ballet company, founded in 1969 by School of American Ballet graduate Arthur Mitchell. In 1989, RM Arts and Danmarks Radio produced a studio repertoire of four of the company's most popular works, encapsulating the extraordinary mixture of grace and physicality that have captivated audiences globally. Quite possibly, too, they have attracted and inspired a different audience for whom the traditional trappings of classical ballet--tutus and tights--hold little appeal. Take "Troy Game", a short piece for six male dancers who tumble, fight, swagger, jostle and play in a joyful, gladiatorial celebration of male muscularity. It's ironic, sometimes challenging, and very funny. Or take "John Henry", an interpretation of the life of the legendary factory worker who resisted the increased automation of the steel industry but wore himself out in the process. These are ballets that draw heavily on folklore to create tension which is almost tangible. "Fall River Legend" is a reworking of the Lizzie Borden story (choreography by Agnes de Mille) and "The Beloved" is based on the story of an over-zealous minister who throttles his wife over a bible. It seems invidious to pick out individual artists but Virginia Johnson as Lizzie and Eddie J Shellman as John Henry embody the dramatic, character-driven dancing which is the foundation of the Dance Theatre of Harlem's reputation: exhilarating and compelling. On the DVD: PCM stereo-sound quality is adequate for the music, much of it derived from American folk tunes. The 4:3 picture format favours some fine camera work which moves in among the dancers. This is especially effective for the fast-moving "Troy Game" and the stylised settings of "Fall River Legend", where the choreography generates an electric air of personal meltdown around axe murderess Lizzie Borden. An important feature is an introduction to the Dance Theatre of Harlem by its founder, the genial Arthur Mitchell. The accompanying booklet provides a potted history. --Piers Ford

• St George's Day/The Fall Of The Essex Boys | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  St. George's Day: A British crime thriller that follows the story of infamous gangster cousins Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw. Having long since graduated from the terraces they now run the top firm in London. But when they lose a drug shipment belonging to the Russian Mafia, a turf war threatens to tear their empire apart. The Fall Of The Essex Boys: The rise and fall of the Essex Boys Gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The gritty...

• Learn to Dance Ceilidh - Volume 1 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Shortcut To Paradise | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A mysterious stranger named Quinn arrives at the Paradise Condo claiming to be the new superintendent. But Quinn has a terrifying secret and by the time Paradise's residents figure it out it may be too late.

• Contractor, the | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £3.68   |  Saving you £7.57 (312.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wesley Snipes is back in this explosive action-thriller about a deadly assassin who finds himself on the run when an attempt to kill a terrorist mastermind in London goes terribly wrong. Retired marksman James Dial (Snipes) lives a secluded lifeon his ranch in Montana. Haunted by his failure to exterminate one of the world's most notorious terrorists he is approached by his old employers to finish the job in London where the terrorist leader has been captured and is under heavy protection. What would be a routine mission for the sniper turns into a nightmare as Dial is forced into hiding and relentlessly pursued by the British police and their lead investigator Windsor (Charles Dance). But when Dial is framed for Windsor's murder he begins to realize that he has been seriously double-crossed. His only hope is a 12-year-old girl whom Dial reluctantly befriends as he desperately searches to find the killer and the truth behind his betrayal.

• The Rambert Dance Company - Pulcinella And Soldat - Rambert Dance Company | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The original version of Pulcinella was choreographed by Massine with designs by Picasso in 1920. Like the original Richard Alston's greatly-admired version of the complicated love-story has a Neapolitan setting and is based on traditional Commedia dell'Arte characters. British choreographer Ashley Page used the suite from Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat for his ballet Soldat - the traditional folk tale of the soldier and the devil in a battle of wits for the soldier's soul.

• Learn Street Dance-Breaking | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Do you want to be a better dancer have fun and learn some sik moves along the way? Breaking is the must have DVD for old school Street Dance and one of the most energetic and stylish dance styles. Learn Street Dance: Breaking is the definitive Street Dance DVD series. Feel the essence and excitement of real street dance performed by top instructors. You will learn all the foundation skills and 3 fully choreographed fresh routines broken down ranging from beginner all the way up to advanced. Every move is broken down step by step with clear instruction so you can progress at a pace that suits you and uses multi-angle to be able to step clearly from different angles. No matter what level you are this DVD will help you become the dancer you've always wanted to be.

• Classical Ballet 2 - From Dream To Reality - The Dancing Lesson Years 1 And 2 | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £8.90   |  Saving you £-0.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Chloe's dream is coming true. The ballerina of her imagination has magically appeared and is going to introduce her to classical ballet. Chloe is going to start her training by taking part in a dance lesson. This programme is divided into four main parts: Barre Exercises Centre Work The Enchainement The Reverence (Acknowledgement) You will then find a retrospective - The development of classical ballet up to the neo-classical style. At the end of the DVD you will discove

• Learn Street Dance-Locking | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (-26.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Do you want to be a better dancer have fun and learn some sik moves along the way? Locking is the must have DVD full of the coolest moves seen on any Dance TV series today. Learn Street Dance: Locking is the definitive Street Dance DVD series. Feel the essence and excitement of real street dance performed by top instructors. You will learn all the foundation skills and 3 fully choreographed fresh routines broken down ranging from beginner all the way up to advanced. Every move is broken down step by step with clear instruction so you can progress at a pace that suits you and uses multi-angle to be able to step clearly from different angles. No matter what level you are this DVD will help you become the dancer you've always wanted to be.

• Yo Yo Ma - Cello Suites No. 3 And No. 4 | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The sound of the Carceri: featuring Yo Yo Ma and Suite No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello by Bach. Falling Down Satirs: Although he knew the music well Mark Morris had never thought to choreograph a dance based on Bach's Third Suite. He felt the music was complete in itself. But through a close collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma an astonishing dance emerges - a true three-way collaboration between musician dancers and filmmaker Barbara Willis Sweete. Sarabande: A great mu

• Neverland - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Back in 1991, Steven Spielberg came something of a cropper when he dug into the story of Peter Pan, and tried to establish what happened once everyone had grown up. Neverland has a lot more luck going the other way, though. It sets its story before the well known adventures of Peter Pan, and tries to find out just how he became who he was. To do this, it moves the story back to the start of the 20th Century, and crucially, pulls in a really impressive cast. Writer and director Nick Willing has brought together Charlie Rowe as Peter, along with Bob Hoskins as Smee--reprising the role he played in the aforementioned Hook. Then there's Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Keira Knightley voicing Tinkerbell, and Rhys Ifans stealing any scene he's let near as James Hook. It's Ifans who you long to see as much of on the screen, and Neverland doesn't disappoint. He does the role proud. This release sees the original mini-series brought together in one, and it's all the better for it. It's a rollicking adventure, with its ambitions firmly in entertaining a family audience. What's particularly impressive is that it finds interesting things to do with a bunch of characters familiar to most, if not all, of us to some extent. And, more than that, that familiarity adds to the fun. An excellent family adventure, with good, broad appeal. --Jon Foster

• Terminator 3 / The 6th Day / Last Action Hero | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £22.75   |  Saving you £0.23 (1.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  T3 - Rise Of The Machines (Dir. Jonathan Mostow 2003): A decade has passed since John Connor (Nick Stahl) helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 22 Connor lives off the grid - no home no credit cards no cell phone and no job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Until... ...out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X (Kristanna loken) Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor the T-1000 this machine is as relentless as her human guise is beautiful. Now Connor's only hope for survival is the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) his mysterious former assassin. Together they must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming threat of Judgment Day...or face the apocalypse and the fall of civilization as we know it. The 6th Day (Dir. Roger Spottiswoode 2000): Superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger is Adam an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An illegal corporation illegally cloned him and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement. From the director of Tomorrow Never Dies The 6th Day also stars powerhouse actors Robert Duvall and Michael Rapaport. Prepare for a high-tech sci-fi blast with twice the Arnold and twice the action! Last Action Hero (Dir. John McTiernan 1993): Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) a young cinema fan is crazy about his all-time great movie hero L.A. cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenneger). Having received a magic golden cinema ticket Danny is blasted through the big screen and into the action alongside his celluloid hero who is more than a little puzzled by his presence. Fasten your seatbelt as the dare-devil duo dodge bullets bombs and bad guys in a whirlwind world where anything is possible! But. ..disaster strikes when the baddies grab half the magic ticket and make their escape into the real world where they find life a doddle for two rogues intent on madness and mayhem.With Jack and Danny in hot pursuit hold your breath as the action addicts discover that real life can be even more exciting than the movies.

• The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - An Evening With | DVD | (20/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A studio recording of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Featuring: 'Divining' 'Revelations' 'The Stack Up' and 'Cry'. Choreographers include Judith Jamison Alvin Ailey and Tally Beatty.

• Black And White | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £8.48   |  Saving you £9.27 (137.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Australia 1958. A nine year old white girl is found murdered in a remote cave and the local police are quick to arrest an illegitimate Aborigine by the name of Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the the killing and signs the statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country and a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics from institutional racism gifted but naive lawyers David O'Sullivan (Carlyle) and Helen Devaney (

• Elvira-Mistress of the Dark | DVD | (12/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dance Hall Crashers - Live At The House Of Blues | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (25.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dance Hall Crashers: Live At The House Of Blues

• The Parsons Dance Company | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £80.27   |  Saving you £-54.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Parsons is one of the golden boys of American dance, combining great popular appeal with quality and integrity of ideas and execution. As artistic director, choreographer and dancer, he has transferred to his own troupe, The Parsons Dance Company - eight exceptionally polished and energetic dancers - the charm, virtuosity and physical power that made him a star of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.Parsons work is featured in three studio recordings, which demonstrate the diversity of his influences and his mastery of a wide range of styles. The music he chooses ranges from Mozart and Rossini to Robert Fripp and specially-commissioned scores. Lighting designs by Howell Binkley enhance all the staging's.David Parsons himself introduces each of the seven pieces presented in these programmes and it is easy to see why his charm, energy and integrity have won him such a considerable following.

• Last Action Hero | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John McTiernan (The Hunt for Red October) imaginatively directs this action comedy, which is an interesting failure with some fascinating ironies that make it well worth seeing. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays both a character named Jack Slater--a fictional cop hero who exists only in the movies (ie, the movies seen by the characters in this movie) and the actor who plays Jack Slater in the real world (ie, in the movie we're actually watching). McTiernan's hall-of-mirrors effect is fun, though Last Action Hero never quite identifies itself as a pure action movie, science fiction, a kid's movie, or anything else. (The expensive film suffered at the box office as a result and was roundly criticised for this ambivalence.) What lingers in the memory, however, is Schwarzenegger, playing himself, being confronted by Slater for having created an alter ego for film in the first place. It's a provocative moment: how often have we seen a major star blatantly wrestle with his actor's legacy in this way? --Tom Keogh

• The Imitation Game | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook. The Imitation Game is a gripping, acclaimed thriller that tells the incredible true story of unsung war hero Alan Turing, the British mathematician responsible for cracking the German Enigma code during World War II. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Fifth Estate, Star Trek Into Darkness, and TV's Sherlock) and Keira Knightley (BAFTA nominee for Atonement, Oscar® nominee for Pride and Prejudice) star as Turing and his ally and fellow code-breaker Joan Clarke, alongside a top-notch cast, including Matthew Goode (Stoker, A Single Man), Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Charles Dance (Gosford Park, TV's Game of Thrones), Allen Leech (In Fear, TV's Downton Abbey) and Matthew Beard (An Education).

• Bill T. Jones - Dancing to the Promised Land | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bill T. Jones is one of the post powerful figures in the modern dance world. His style is fresh and unique creating contemporary classics known for their energy and innovative partnering and technical virtuosity. Built around rehearsal and performance of his epic masterpiece ""Last Supper At Uncle Tom's Cabin / The Promised Land"" this film guides through the life work and creative process of Bill T. Jones and his extraordinary company. The choreographer himself is our charismati