"Actor: Davis"

• The Eddie Lockjaw Davies Quartet - Vol. 1 And 2 | DVD | (26/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  EDDIE 'LOCKJAW' DAVIS has one of those immediately recognizable sounds in jazz. It is virile swinging sometimes a little aggressive and rough sometimes very romantic but always extremely emotional.It is quite clear when you hear him that Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster and Herschell Evans were his favourite tenor players. Just like those three tenors 'Lockjaw' played quite a bit with big bands. Self-taught he began playing his first gigs - just eight months after buying his first horn - at Clark's Monroe's Uptown House in Harlem. In the early to mid 1940's he played in the big bands of Cootie Williams Luck Millinder Andy Kirk and Louis Armstrong. In 1945-52 he had his own combo which played mainly at Minton's in New York.Then the first of many associations with Count Basie began. After his first tenure with the Basie he lead his own group which featured Shirly Horn on organ.'Lockjaw' recorded a great deal as a leader with the Basie and with artists as varied as Gene Krupa Ella Fitzgerald Arnett Cobb Bennie Green Zoot Sims and Fats Navarro. He was also a fixture at many European festivals throughout the 1970's and 1980's. But oddly enough he made very few films or video appearances which makes this very good club date especially interesting. In the relaxed setting of Jazzhus Slukefter Davis plays full bodied solos that are both intense and swinging but at times very tender and romantic. Seeing Davis play on this club date reveals that he was a consistent inspired and extraordinary performer.Recorded in 1985 at Jazzhus Slukefter Copenhagen Demark1. Take The A Train / 2. Just Friends / 3. Out Of Nowhere / 4. The Shadow Of You Smile / 5. If I Had You / 6 Light And Lovely / 7. S'Wonderful / 8. Shiny Stockings / 9. Meditation / 10. I Can't Get Started / 11. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

• Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band / The Sign Of Four | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Speckled Band (Dir. Jack Raymond 1931): Helen Stoner becomes concerned when she hears a mysterious whistle - a sound her sister complained about right before her death. Sounds like a case of Holmes (Raymond Massey) and Watson (Athole Stewart). The Sign Of Four (Dir. Graham Cutts 1932): In this classic murder-mystery an escaped killer embarks on a ruthless quest to track down a missing treasure as well as the man who cheated him out of it.

• The Rock/Con Air | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Rock: (Dir. Michael Bay) (1996): Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage) a chemical weapons expert and John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery) a cunning federal prisoner who happens to be the only man ever to escape from Alcatraz must now break in and disarm the missiles. Con Air: (Dir. Simon West) (1998): On an aircraft carrying some of the most notorious criminals of all time the recently paroled Cameron Poe (Cage) is hitching a ride home to his wife and daughter. But he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a mid-air skyjacking masterminded by Cyrus 'The Virus' Grissom (John Malkovich). While Cameron fights to keep these savage convicts from massacring everyone on board as they career towards the famed Las Vegas Strip a Government agent on the ground (John Cusack) battles to keep this overzealous superiors from blowing the plane into oblivion! Amazing stunts and visual effects add heart-pounding suspense to this must-see action hit!

• Ninja And The Warriors Of Fire / Ninja In The Killing Fields (DVD) | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Soft Toilet Seats | DVD | (29/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Soft Toilet Seats

• Britney Spears - Britney: The Videos | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Not as definitive as its title suggests, Britney--The Videos is a bare 30 minutes long and contains only two actual promotional videos for singles "I’m a Slave 4 U" and "Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know". The only other item of interest to anyone (other than the sort of Britney Spears obsessive who is but a short step from a restraining order) is the undeniably spectacular performance of "I’m a Slave 4 U" at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, during which a boa constrictor briefly became the most bitterly envied creature on planet earth. The rest of The Videos is naked hucksterism of which all involved should feel thoroughly ashamed. Apart from a rendition of soppy ballad "I’m a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" lifted from an Australian television programme, everything else is an advertisement for other products: Pepsi, a forthcoming HBO concert special and Spears’ imminent movie debut. Someone is taking Britney fans for granted--and for mugs.--Andrew Mueller

• Sherlock Holmes - Terror By Night | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £12.23   |  Saving you £-6.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A wartime modernisation of Arthur Conan Doyle's urbane sleuth once again essayed by Basil Rathbone in which Holmes and Watson (Nigel Bruce) are called in to unravel the mystery behind mysterious wireless transmissions apparently from Nazi Germany being broadcast over the BBC...

• Time Bandits | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They are timeless yet always late; immortal; yet destructible; capable of intergalactic inter-cosmic travel yet unable to tie their own shoelaces. Six cheeky dwarves steal a precious map showing a series of time holes scattered across the universe enabling them to travel back in time. Whilst visiting the past they cause havoc and rob famous historical figures of their riches in the process. Watching from afar is the Evil genius who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their map for his own evil purpose. With 11 year old Kevin in tow a great time travelling adventure ensues full of superb make believe characters and very famous faces!

• Tarnation | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £5.70   |  Saving you £14.29 (250.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man charts an unexpected relationship that develops with his mentally-ill mother in this documentary.

• All About Eve | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  It's all about women... and their men! From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door Eve Horrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davies). The cunning Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo's Broadway role becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill) her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynic

• Black Rock | DVD | (15/02/2004) from £59.18   |  Saving you £-55.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  One party. One witness. No one's talking.; ; When a young schoolgirl is raped and murdered, the friendship and close bond between a group of surfers is sorely tested as the truth is slowly revealed...

• The Nutty Professor/Look Who's Talking/Bicentennial Man | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nutty Professor (1996): Eddie Murphy stars as Dr Sherman Klump a kind calorically challenged genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum Sherman becomes Buddy Love a fast-talking pumped-up plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late or will Buddy have the last laugh? Look Who's Talking (1989): Starring Kirstie Alley John Travolta and the wise-cracking voice of Bruce Willis Look Who's Talking is the box-office smash which takes an hilarious off-beat look at motherhood and romance from baby Mikey's point of view. Led on and let down by boyfriend Albert (George Segal) 32 year old Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is looking for a proper father for her son. Little Mikey favours cab driver-turned-baby-sitter James (John Travolta). It's a case of baby knows best but by the time he learns to talk it could be too late! Bicentinnial Man (1999): From director Chris Columbus comes this original funny and heart-warming film. When Richard Martin (Sam Neill) introduced a robot named Andrew (Robin Williams) to the family nobody expects anything more than an ordinary household appliance. But this is no ordinary robot! Andrew is a unique machine with real emotions a sense of humour and a burning curiosity to discover what it means to be human. Over the course of his service with the Martins spanning two hundred years and several generations Andrew discovers much about the intricacies of life and love and finds there are many things he can teach as well as learn. Will Andrew ever achieve his goal to become human and possess the freedom to pursue a life of his own? And will he be prepared to pay the cost? Karate Kid (1984): Daniel (Ralph Macchio) arrives in Los Angeles from the East Coast and faces the difficult task of making new friends. However he becomes the object of bullying by the Cobras a menacing gang of karate students when he strikes up a relationship with Ali (Elisabeth Shue) the Cobra leader's ex-girlfriend. Eager to fight back and impress his new girlfriend but afraid to confront the dangerous gang Daniel asks his handyman Miyagi (Noriyuki Pat Morita) whom he learns is a master of the martial arts to teach him karate. Miyagi teaches Daniel that karate is a mastery over the self - mind and body - and that fighting is always the last answer to a problem. Under Miyagi's guidance Daniel develops not only physical skills but also the faith and self-confidence to compete despite tremendous odds as he encounters the fight of his life in the exciting finale to this entertaining film.

• I.D. | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £20.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When you go undercover remember one thing: who you are. In an effort to halt the escalating violence of fanatical football supporters four young policemen are sent undercover. One of these John (Reece Dinsdale) soon finds his own personality changing and feels a sense of belonging he never felt on the force...

• The Haunting Of Marsten Manor | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £1.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (771.81%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Haunting Of Marsten Manor

• Of Human Bondage | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In this memorable adaptation of Somerset Maugham's classic novel Leslie Howard plays Philip Carey a student of medicine in London who becomes besotted with Mildred (Bette Davis) a waitress. Phillip falls in love with her and pursues her only to have her break a date with him to go out with a salesman and subsequently run off. She returns to him pregnant and he takes her back only for her to run off again with another medical student. Once again he takes her back but with her n

• Who Dares Wins Special Edition | DVD | (31/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Who Dares Wins: Special Edition

• Suite Seduction | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sister sister oh so fair why is there blood all over your hair? The film that paired two of the greatest screen-actresses not only lived up to its promise but provided years of Hollywood gossip at the expense of the two warring stars! Baby Jane (Davis) was a child star. When she grows up she is forgotten by the public. Instead her sister Blanche (Crawford) becomes famous as a Hollywood actress overshadowing her sister who is increasingly bitter. After a mysterious car ac

• Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Residing in an eerie hilltop mansion are Dr. Maria Frankenstein and her brother Rudolph conducting the same bizarre and deadly artificial brain transplant experiments that forced them to flee their European homeland. In a nearby town the legendary Jesse James and his companion Hank Tracy are caught in a gunfight that leaves Hank seriously wounded. Jesse brings back the only nearby doctor...the sinister Maria Frankenstein. Hank will be the perfect subject for her next experiment and Jesse the perfect target of her romantic desires. She successfully transplants an artificial brain into the skull of Hank transforming him into a monstrous creature named Igor.

• Charlie Chaplin - Circus | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £14.36   |  Saving you £-0.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Made in 1928 while he was in the middle of a painful divorce case, Charlie Chaplin's The Circus was so associated with bad memories for its maker that he refused even to mention it in his 1964 autobiography. Consequently, it has enjoyed less of a reputation than films such as The Gold Rush (1925) and City Lights (1931). However, while it's not quite in their league, The Circus undoubtedly deserves to be rescued from relative obscurity. Here, Chaplin's Tramp is taken on as a clown at the circus, having been chased into the big tent by a policeman wrongly suspected of theft and wowing the audience with his pratfalls. He falls in love with the ill-treated ringmaster's daughter (Merna Kennedy) but is swiftly rivalled by a new addition to the circus, a handsome tightrope walker. To try to win back her affections the Tramp attempts the same act, culminating in the best sequence of the film, when he is assailed by monkeys as he totters amateurishly and precariously along a rope suspended high in the tent. Although The Circus is marred by the rather hackneyed and (even in 1928) stale melodramatic device of the cruel father and imploring daughter, it scores high on its slapstick content, with routines involving a hall of mirrors and a mishap with a magician's equipment demonstrating Chaplin's dazzling ability to choreograph apparently improvised mayhem. On the DVD: The Circus features a generous trove of extras on this two-disc set, including extracts from Lord Mountbatten's home movies of Chaplin, a deleted scene involving a prankster prize-fighter, as well as original footage showing how the perfectionist Chaplin would shoot and reshoot scenes. An introduction from David Robinson explains the adverse circumstances which held up the shooting of The Circus, including a fire and gales, which destroyed the set, while a further documentary delves into Chaplin's earliest work to provide context for the film. On the first disc, the film itself is an excellent transfer. --David Stubbs