"Actor: Davies"

• 2 Point 4 Children - Series 1 To 3 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  On the surface the Porters are a normal family - indeed even the series' title 2 Point 4 Children the fabled average family size alludes to their normality (as well as the fact that the husband/father is still a bit of a child himself). Yet though the individual members - central-heating engineer Ben; his wife catering worker Bill; and their teenage children David and Jenny - are unexceptional the situations in which the family find themselves are anything but. Bad luck strang

• Metal Hurlant Resurgence: Season Two | Blu Ray | (19/10/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (233.59%)   |  RRP £29.99

  As the remains of a blazing asteroid travels across the universe, six adventures are uncovered which herald danger at every turn. Starring (Scott Adkins, The Bourne Ultimatum, Zero Dark Thirty), Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight), Michelle Lee (Pacific Rim, The Pirates of the Caribbean series) and John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), The Metal Hurlant heroes are back.With a planet devastated by war between human and alien races, an icy hush spreads as ashes settle across the charred landscape. Meanwhile, a loyal warrior seeks an elixir to cure his beloved princess from a terrible disease while, across the galaxy, two brothers battle for control of an almighty kingdom, each drawing upon their powerful and supernatural skills to claim victory.In the follow up to Metal Hurlant Chronicles and based on the popular comic book franchise comes an action-packed, sci-fi adventure exploding with peril, destruction and the bravery of a select few in a vast universe.

• Anaconda - Offspring | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David Hasselhoff stars as a ruthless mercenary on the hunt for a pair of giant snakes that have escaped and are on a mega-sized feeding frenzy.

• The Art Of Piano - Great Pianists Of The 20th Century | DVD | (01/08/2000) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary which presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short chapters on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Egveny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninov, Richter, Rubinstein and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion programme The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as can a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings.On the DVD: There are no special features, though the booklet provides a useful, very detailed chapter breakdown, an overview of the film, photographs and short biographies of many of the pianists. Because all the archive footage was shot that way, the film is presented in 4:3 television ratio. The archive material varies considerably in picture and sound quality, ranging as it does from early black and white to colour television video footage, all in mono. The new interviews are letterboxed within the 4:3 frame and are in colour and stereo. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Grand National Night (1953) | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £11.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A murder mystery without peer. Gerald Coates is a simple man with a reckless and glamorous wife. After throwing one of her usual tantrums she disappears until her body is found in an abandoned car.

• Doctor In The House: Series 1 | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Doctor In The House follows the misadventures of medical students Michael Upton (Barry Evans) Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell) Paul Collier (George Layton) and Dick Stuart-Clark (Geoffrey Davies). Albeit well intentioned the three medical students are easily distracted form the task in hand by the lure of the latest nurse on the scene and this infuriates the ferocious Professor Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark). Features the complete series 1. Episodes Comprise: 1. Why Do You Want To Be A Doctor 2. Settling In 3. It's All Go 4. Peace And Quiet 5. The Students Are Revolting! 6. Rallying Around 7. If In Doubt...Cut It Out! 8. The War Of The Mascots 9. Getting The Bird 10. The Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Casino 11. Keep It Clean! 12. All For Love 13. Pass Or Fail

• Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 6 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £11.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (42.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From a northern working-class background James Kavanagh has climbed to the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law. But his dedication to work the long hours and difficult cases have taken their toll on lfe at home with his wife and two teenage children. Episodes comprise: Mute Of Malice Blood Money Ancient History Diplomatic Baggage The Ties We Bind In God We Trust.

• A Mind to Kill - The Pilot Movie | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Mind To Kill: The Pilot Movie

• Janacek: Kat'a Kabanova -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (26/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kát'a Kabanová, Janácek's 1921 tragedy, is proof if any were needed that tales of personal oppression and turmoil will always make fine raw material for opera composers. Janácek took Ostrovsky's tumultuous drama of infidelity , The Storm, and created a compelling piece in which his music heightens the relationship between the troubled landscape of Kát'a's inner mind and the elements doing battle outside. In 1988, this Glyndebourne Festival production successfully distilled the heroine's wretched journey from put-upon wife and daughter-in-law to suicide via the ecstasy of a forbidden love affair into 100 minutes of intensely emotional operatic drama. At its heart, Janácek's unique tonal score underlines a powerful, almost naturalistic dialogue and exposes the impact of Kát'a's experiences on her escalating self-destruction. Felicity Palmer's Kabanicha--the mother-in-law from hell and the real instrument of Kát'a's downfall--is curiously remote and muted rather than the domineering figure of fear that we might expect. But the singing, particularly by Nancy Gustafson (tremendously affecting and emotionally convincing in the title role) and Ryland Davies as Kát'a's weak husband Tichon, is outstanding. Gustafson's performance alone makes this essential viewing for anybody with a passion for the great modern soprano roles. On the DVD: Sadly the only additional features are trailers for Seven Gates of Jersualem and The Damnation of Faust. The sound quality (PCM stereo) is more than fair, but inevitably the film of the production is constrained by the design: the stylised set is either very light or very dark and we don't get as close as we'd like to the characters in what is, after all, a disturbingly intimate piece. Arthaus Musik's booklet meets the expected high standards of information and background. --Piers Ford

• Edgar Wallace present: Five Golden Dragons | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £7.83   |  Saving you £2.16 (27.59%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Christopher Lee, George Raft and Brian Donlevy are among the villainous 'dragons' encountered by Hitchcock hero Robert Cummings in this exotic British feature from 1967, adapting one of Edgar Wallace's celebrated 'Commissioner Sanders' stories. Directed by ITC stalwart Jeremy Summers and produced by B-movie legend Harry Alan Towers, Five Golden Dragons combines glamorous locations, gorgeous girls, mystery and adventure. The film is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original e...

• British Comedies of the 1930s: Volume 2 | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £6.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (91.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience – making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller Hal Gordon Bobby Howes Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard. Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. This ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features each presented uncut in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. LET ME EXPLAIN DEAR (1932) A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket! Black and White / 73 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English. THE OUTCAST (1934) A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound. Black and White / 73 mins / 1.33:1 / Mono / English.

• ReGenesis | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Have we gone too far? The future is here. Bioterrorism. Designer babies. Frankenfoods. Suddenly Humanity possesses the ability to play god. But is it progress-or madness? Will cutting-edge science be our salvation? Or our demise? ReGenesis is a 13-part dramatic series about NorBAC an organization formed to investigate questionable advances in biotechnology. The Pandora's box of biotech is wide open. It's a modern gold rush where billions will be made and g

• Terrahawks: Volume 3 | Blu Ray | (08/05/2017) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gerry Anderson, the hugely influential creator of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, made a spectacular return to puppet animation in the early 1980s with an exciting new series co-created with Christopher Burr. Thrilling yet another generation of children (and adults!), Terrahawks introduced a new elite force to defend 21st century Earth against a host of alien invaders. Led by the heroic Tiger Ninestein, the Terrahawks crew consists of Captain Mary Falconer, his second-in-command; fighter-pilot and pop star Kate Kestrel; the poetically inclined Lieutenant Hiro; and Lt. Hawkeye the gunner with computer-enhanced vision. Assisted by a legion of charismatic spherical robots known as the Zeroids, they battle a cabal of evil adversaries none more terrifying than android crone Zelda, the would-be conqueror of all Earth-Scum ! The final thirteen episodes of Terrahawks are presented here for the first time in High Definition from the best available materials, in their original as-transmitted aspect ratio. SPECIAL FEATURES TBC

• Psycho Beach Party | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fun fun fun! 'Psycho Beach Party' discovers a post-Freudian nightmare world of repressed violence and kinky sex bursting to get out. - The New York Times From screenwriter and dragtress extraordinaire Charles Busch comes this audaciously funny whodunit and psycho thriller parody set on the sun-drenched beaches of '60s Malibu. When pouty-lipped misfit Chicklet finally makes her way into the cool crowd she begins having insanely bizarre blackouts. At precisely the same time all of her beefcake surfer pals mysteriously drop like flies and she quickly becomes the chief suspect. A madcap romp filled with shirtless hunks a wannabe surf babe with a split personality oh and a few severed body parts.

• Beauty | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Simon Nye's modern reworking of Beauty And The Beast stars Martin Clunes as Tom Fitzhenry an ugly reclusive aristoccrat who lives on his beautiful slightly decaying estate. He despairs of ever having a relationship with a woman. Tom never leaves his home unless venturing out to attend to his roses. Tom is forced to hire a plumber for an urgent job to the mansion. Along comes cathy a quirky vivacious barmaid from the council estate in the village who carries out the plumbing work

• Black Dawn | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £5.24   |  Saving you £14.75 (281.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stephen Seagal returns as Jonathan Cold a former CIA agent who goes undercover in a dangerous group of terrorists planning to bomb Los Angeles for revenge. When they kidnap Cold's protge Amanda (Tamara Davies) however his cover threatens to be blown and it's a race against time before the city is likewise blown to bits.

• Vincent - Series 2 | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £16.81   |  Saving you £6.17 (44.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The daddy of all private investigators. Featuring all the episodes from series 2 Vincent stars Ray Winstone as the eponymous private investigator; a headstrong passionate man whose methods often bring him into conflict with the authorities.

• The Racing Game | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £6.91   |  Saving you £13.08 (189.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sid Halley Champion National Hunt Jockey faces the end of his racing career and his marriage. Crippled by an accident on the turf he is forced into the murky underworld of man's richest sport to take his chances with playboys punters touts and crooks. Inspired by the Dick Francis novel Odds Against.

• Look-Back on 70s Telly - Issue 3 | DVD | (02/05/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Back in the day when childrens' programmes were, by turns, fun, challenging, dramatic, spooky, hilarious and fantastic, tea-time programming was a staple part of the lives of millions of kids. Diverse and highly popular, it fired imaginations and was invariably an integral part of any worthwhile playground antics the next day.

• The Watchmaker's Apprentice: Collector's Edition | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A compelling film about two of the world s greatest watchmakers their extraordinary craft, their touching relationship and their unique personalities. The Watchmaker's Apprentice tells the inspirational story of how Dr. George Daniels rose from Dickensian poverty to become the finest watchmaker of the modern era and how Roger Smith embarked on an obsessive, seven-year quest to become his apprentice and eventually, his equal. George Daniels CBE was perhaps the greatest horologist in the world before his death in 2011 and regarded as the best watch maker in 250 years some watches now sell for over a million pounds. Narrated by acclaimed British actor, John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones). Special Collector's Edition includes DVD, CD, booklet and art cards