"Actor: Day"

• We Know Where You Live | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £3.11   |  Saving you £12.88 (414.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ever since the comedy greats stepped beyond the fringe for The Secret Policemen's Ball the annual Amnesty International concert has been one of the highlights of the comedy circuit. 2001's offering was called We Know Where You Live and let's face it, where else are you going to see the UK's top comedians and pop acts on one stage? Compeered by the "surreal stylings" of Eddie Izzard, this compilation of the night's highlights includes a new version of the classic "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch with Eddie, Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves and Alan Rickman. Rickman stubbornly sticks to the script while all around him improvise. There is also a great performance from Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse as the Self-Righteous Brothers and the Goodness Gracious Me team going out for "an English". As well as the comedy there are live performances from Tom Jones, Badly Drawn Boy and the Stereophonics, which seem rather abrupt and heavily edited. Some of the material is quite old, though--any fans of Izzard will already have seen him do the Star Trek phaser sketch where he talks about the other settings, other than stun and kill! On the DVD: What really makes this worth the price (apart from supporting a very worthwhile charity) is the extra footage. As well as some more performance stuff, including Phil impersonating Eddie Izzard which is frighteningly spot on, there is back stage material and a news report following the Amnesty bus round London. Buy it, because other wise you might get Eddie round your house! --Kristen Bowditch

• The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever - Part 1 | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £11.91   |  Saving you £8.08 (67.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The success of The Fast Show has always relied on the number of sketches devoted to your favourite characters. While this, the last ever series, suffers a little for the loss of Caroline Aherne (presumably busy with The Royle Family?), and from the fact that those sketches based on a single catch-phrase or joke--Jessie's Diets, "Which was nice", and even the cough-prone Bob Fleming--seem to be running out of steam, the show's more rounded creations are all back and still going strong. Swiss Tony has emerged from therapy a new man, Colin Hunt gets the sack from his beloved office job and Ralph struggles on with his unrequited love for handyman Ted. There are new characters: a ragged, Charlton Heston-like astronaut who runs into different situations screaming, "What year is this? Who is the President?!", and a cynical, middle-aged woman who meets every note of human kindness she encounters with a sarcastic "Hah!", are particular standouts. However, as always, the series works best when the regular characters collide with contemporary phenomena, so here we have Indecisive Dave being phoned by a friend who's appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; the "Suits You!" tailors harassing an incognito Johnny Depp; the cheeky criminal stealing a child's Pokémon cards; John Actor playing hard-nosed interior designer Laurence Lewellyn Monkfish in Changing Monkfish; the send-up of recent gangster Brit flicks A Right Royal Barrel of Cockney Monkeys (populated entirely by pseudo-cockney public schoolboys); and a sketch in which Channel 9's gardening presenter is assisted by a topless woman. Nice Dimmocks! --Paul Philpott

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Stewart and Doris Day in a rare dramatic role are superb in this brilliant suspense thriller from the undisputed master. Stewart and Day play Ben and Jo MacKenna innocent Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son Hank. After a French spy dies in Ben's arms in the Marrakech market the couple discovers their son has been kidnapped and taken to England. Not knowing who they can trust the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of international espionage assassinations and terror. Soon all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth and a chilling climatic moment in London's famous Royal Albert Hall. Special Features: The Making of the Man Who Knew Too Much Production Photographs Trailers

• Pillow Talk | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) have never met, but they're sworn enemies because of one small appliance in their lives: the telephone. The two share a party line, and Jan is outraged over the amount of time Bill spends wooing women over the phone. A convenient triangle emerges when a client (Tony Randall) of Jan's--she's an interior decorator--falls in love with her and happens to be Brad's old college chum. When Brad makes the connection, he decides to try to court Jan himself, to make her more sympathetic to his phone woes. Of course, she'd never go for such a heel, so he passes himself off as Rex Stetson, a Texas rancher visiting New York. The ensuing tale, albeit predictable, is lots of fun, with some quick-witted dialogue and some clever use of split-screens for the phone calls. Thelma Ritter is hilarious as Jan's always-hung-over maid, Alma; and the pairing of Rock and Doris works beautifully, as always. --Jenny Brown

• Fast Show Live and Farewell Tour Live double pack | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring The Fast Show: Farewell Tour and The Fast Show: Live! The Fast Show - Farewell Tour: In October and November 2002 The Fast Show favourites took to the stage.... to rapturous applause. This sell-out tour represented the final outing for a host of favourite characters from the 'suit you' tailors to a musical incarnation of Ted and Ralph to the office joker Colin Hunt. The Fast Show - Live: The sell out stage show based on the hit TV series filmed at the Apollo theatre in 1998. ""Aaaah the theatre! Gielgud Richardson Rodney Bewes - the thrill of the spotlight the gasp of the audience. But who would have expected to see these chaps - Arthur Atkinson Brilliant Suit You Jazz Club Rowley Birkin Swiss Toni Jesse Ted and Ralph (in a musical!) and all the other Fast Show fellows in a ripping stage show? And who would hve expected to find me the 13th Duke of Wybourne in the Royal box with a magnum of fizzy a box of Havanas and a clutch of the finest fillies from the chorus line..."" Bingo!

• Tycoon (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.12   |  Saving you £3.87 (63.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An action-packed romantic movie about an engineer's attempt to build a railroad tunnel in the Andes Mountains. Johnny Munroe is a tough builder who along with partner Pop Mathews has been hired by tycoon Frederick Alexander to pull off the difficult task. Although Johnny and Pop think that it would be far easier to lay the train tracks on a bridge spanning a river Frederick insists on a tunnel.

• Andy's Wild Adventures: Volume 2 | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £9.98   |  Saving you £4.50 (56.32%)   |  RRP £12.49

  Collection of episodes from the Cbeebies series centred around Andy Day, a park ranger at Pickles' Animal Park who has a passion for learning about the planet's wildlife.

• The Bounty | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Bounty is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty. Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic. On the DVD: There is an excellent 52-minute "making of" documentary that mixes historical information with on-location interviews. A 12-minute overview of previous screen versions of the story is narrated by the film's historical consultant, Stephen Walters, who also provides a somewhat stilted but nevertheless informative audio commentary. The second audio commentary is from director Roger Donaldson, Producer Bernie Williams and Production Designer John Graysmark, who genuinely appear to enjoy reminiscing and have real enthusiasm for the movie. Also included is a fascinating 28-page booklet. This is the stuff Special Editions should always be made of, and this would be one of the finest DVDs on the market were it not for the transfer of the film itself, which appears to be a reprocessed version of the same NTSC anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer found on the bare-bones Region 1 DVD, with no sign of PAL speed-up. The picture not only shows considerable grain in some scenes, but also demonstrates marked compression artefacting and enhancement shimmer on all horizontal lines, making some scenes extremely ugly. For such a beautiful film it is a most disappointing transition to the digital format. Most unusually for a UK release, the disc is region free.--Gary S Dalkin

• The Fluffer | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £13.35   |  Saving you £-3.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Johnny Rebel is a charismatic hetrosexual man who makes his living acting in gay porn movies. Sean is a 22 year-old who wants to get into the business. His obsession with Johnny will change both of their lives forever.

• James Cagney - The Signature Collection Volume 2 : West Point Story / Torrid Zone / The Fighting 69th / The Bride Came C.O.D. | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £43.65   |  Saving you £-12.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The Oscar winning screen icon, James Cagney, comes to life in this DVD collection The Bride Came C.O.D., The Fighting 69th, Torrid Zone and The West Point Story. Special features on each title in the Collection include the entertaining Warner Night at the Movies short subject galleries with vintage newsreels, vault treasures and classic cartoons. The Bride Came C.O.D. Comedy comes from numerous sources in this screwball farce headlined by the ebullient pairing of James Cagney and Bette Davis, scripted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace). Whether up in the clouds, or underground in a mine, the stars (in their second and final film together) spar with harebrained zest as a pilot hired to kidnap an about-to-elope heiress, and the happy result from start to end is C.O.D. Comedy on Demand. The Fighting 69th In the seventh of their nine movies together, off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien play soldiers of the famed, largely Irish-American World War I regiment, the Fighting 69th. O'Brien is Father Duffy, the brave chaplain whose statue stands today in Manhattan's Times Square. Cagney is Jerry Plunkett, a street-tough braggart turned yellow by the horror of No Man's Land, but inspired to redemptive heroism by Duffy's courage under fire. The Torrid Zone Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien team for the eighth time in this snappy action comedy set in a Central American Banana Republic. In a role widely cited as putting her on the movie fan's map, Hollywood's Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan portrays wisecracking chanteuse Lee Donley who's the lure to keep the plantation's best man (Cagney) from leaving the company. With superb support, zippy repartee, plus 950 banana trees planted over 5 backlot acres, the heat is on. The West Point Story James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for this merry musical comedy packed with spirited starpower and lively tunes by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

• The Thrill Of It All / Lover Come Back / It Happened To Jane | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £14.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (34.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Thrill Of It All (Dir. Norman Jewison 1963): This romantic comedy takes a satirical aim at the frenetic world of television. Happily married Beverly Boyer is the ultimate housewife but her life is about to change dramatically. It seems that the president of a soap company who she has just met sees the clean-cut Beverly as the perfect TV pitchwoman for his product. After the ads air Beverly becomes famous from coast to coast and an even better breadwinner than her husband - who isn't coping with either of these occurrences very well. Can the Boyers patch up their crumbling marriage before it's too late? Lover Come Back (Dir. Delbert Mann 1961): Jerry Webster (Hudson) and Carol Templeton (Day) are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other's methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret VIP campaign in order to persuade the mystery product's scientist to switch to her firm. Trouble is the product is phony and the scientist is Jerry who uses all his intelligence and charm to steal her heart! It Happened To Jane (Dir. Richard Quine 1959): A little-known gem from 1959 this romantic comedy stars Doris Day Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs in a classic tale of a small-town underdog triumph over corrupt big-business interests. Jane Osgood (Day) is a widowed mother who runs a struggling lobster business in coastal Maine while Harry Malone (Kovacs) is a wealthy businessman who has bought out the local railroad. He harbors big plans for it aiming to transform it into a luxury passenger train replacing the freight train the residents of the area depend upon. When a large lobster shipment of Jane's is rerouted and returned to her dead she decides to fight back and sues Malone with the help of her longtime friend and lawyer George Denham. This instigates a battle of increasingly epic proportions as Malone uses every trick in the book--as well as his massive bank account--to quell the resolve of the spitfire businesswoman; Jane for her part has public sympathy on her side. A reporter for the national news doing a story on Jane (Steve Forrest) begins to fall in love with her and she is forced to decide between the romantic journalist and her childhood friend George. The magical pairing of Lemmon and Day is augmented by the beautiful location photography in Maine and a stellar supporting cast including Mary Wickes Russ Brown and a rare film appearance from Kovacs.

• Ironclad 2: Battle For Blood | Blu Ray | (28/07/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £17.26 (301.22%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Travelling back to the dark brutal past of 13-century England IRONCLAD: BATTLE FOR BLOOD plunges us headlong into one of the most violent periods in English medieval history - a few good men fought against insurmountable odds to defend their country from bloodthirsty Celtic Tribes. IRONCLAD: BATTLE FOR BLOOD is the continuing story of honour and action and excitement. BLOOD WILL RUN. Gathered together by young HUBERT (Tom Rhys Harries) a small band of hired swords gather inside his families castle intent on holding off evil Celtic Tribesmen hell-bent on revenge for the death of their leaders’ son: a young mercenary named GUY (Tom Austen) whose soul is wracked with guilt over the atrocities he has committed during the days and years after the great battle of Rochester Castle and his burgeoning feelings for Kate his cousin (Roxanne McKee) ; battlehardened mercenaries such as BERENGER (David Caves) who fight not for God and country for money and bloodlust. IRONCLAD marks the fourth feature as director of Jonathan English from a script written by himself and Stephen McDool. The producers are Rick Benattar (SHOOT ‘EM UP REAL STEEL) Andrew Curtis (LOST IN LA MANCHA LIVING GODDESS) and Jonathan English who have assembled a high-impact team including director of photography Zoran Popovic and editor Laurens van Charante.

• Pacific Ri | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £11.91   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When legions of monstrous alien creatures started rising from the sea, a deadly war began. To combat them, humans devised massive robots called Jaegers as weapons. But even the Jaegers proved nearly defenceless against the creatures. Now on the verge of defeat, mankind must turn to two unlikely heroes, teamed in a seemingly obsolete Jaeger, as the last hope against a mounting apocalypse. SPECIAL FEATURES 13 featurettes provide in-depth looks at Kaijus, Jaegers, sets, stunts, sounds, effects, and the mythology and making of the film. Also includes an audio commentary and more!

• Andy's Prehistoric Adventures - Gigantoraptor & Feather | DVD | (24/10/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (80.16%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Andy Day sets off on another mission into the past, travelling back 85 million years to meet a giant feathered dinosaur, as tall as a house. Along the way he helps protect a nest full of prehistoric eggs and gets caught in a super-sized sandstorm.

• My Dream Is Yours | DVD | (06/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Demon House | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £19.93   |  Saving you £-13.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the director of Nightmare Man (1999) and sundry episodes of Due South and The Outer Limits TV series comes Demon House, a schlocky horror flick re-titled to disguise the fact that it's actually Night of the Demons III. Here we see yet another visit by a group of stupid teenagers to a house wherein lies a doorway to Hell. Amelia Kinkade returns as evil hostess Angela, but that's all there is to link back to the previous two movies--they even use an entirely different house! As for the plot: it's Halloween and two girls with car trouble hitch a lift from a vanload of clichéd "kids" who accidentally hold up a Kwik-E-Mart. They hide in the out-of-bounds funeral parlour, Hull House, which--you'll never guess--has a history of mysterious murders. Then, in a surprising twist, they begin to be picked off one-by-one and transformed into a variety of demons. A race ensues to see who will survive until sun-up. The camera trickery is right out of Sam Raimi's vastly superior Evil Dead trilogy, while even the titillating nudity is dispensed with in the first few minutes. At least the CGI credits sequence is impressive. On the DVD: Check out the extras: a trailer! 12 "interactive" chapters! 4:3 screen ratio! Plastic case! --Paul Tonks

• Midnight Lace/That Touch of Mink/Ballad | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Midnight Lace (Dir. David Miller 1960): The beautiful Kit Preston becomes disconcerted when she starts receiving crank calls claiming that her life is in jeopardy. Although She tells police about the messages her somewhat hysterical manner leaves them convinced that the danger is all in her imagination... or fakes in order to get attention from her neglectful husband. However two people know that the peril is very real indeed... That Touch Of Mink (Dir. Delbert Mann 1962): How much should a girl sacrifice to get the man of her dreams? That's the question facing an innocent country girl (Doris Day) who is swept into the whirlwind of the rich and famous when a Rolls Royce splashes her with mud. Profound apologies come courtesy of a romantic business tycoon (Cary Grant) who becomes enchanted with the girl's simple direct manner and open honest heart. But he's not interested in marriage...and she's never been interested in anything else. It's a delicious game of cat-and-mouse as working girl and wealthy bachelor pursue each other with hilarious results. The Ballad Of Josie (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1967): Period comedy Western starring Doris Day as Josie Minick a spirited widow who after being acquitted for accidentally killing her drunken husband is forced to fend for herself in the harsh man's world of sheep and cattle farming.

• John Wayne: Complete Paramount Collection | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Box set containing fourteen John Wayne films: True Grit (1969), El Dorado (1966), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), In Harm's Way (1965), The Shootist (1976), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Rio Lobo (1970), Big Jake (1971), Donovan's Reef (1963), Hatari! (1961), McLintock! (1963), Island in the Sky (1953), Hondo (1953) and The High and the Mighty (1954).

• Quatermass 2 | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £54.98   |  Saving you £-38.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed...

• The Locket | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £28.38   |  Saving you £-15.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Men worshipped...cursed...hated...loved her!!! Nancy (Laraine Day) appears to be the perfect bride for her fianc''e John Willis (Gene Raymond) and everything is set for a perfect wedding ceremony...until her former husband Harry Blair (Brian Aherne) approaches Willis and explains how Nancy ruined his life eventually leaving him in a psychiatric ward. As Blair's story unfolds in flashbacks he recounts how Nancy's previous lover the renowned artist Norman Clyde (Robert Mitchum) warned him of Nancy's kleptomania incessant lying and involvement with murder; and at the time Blair refused to believe Clyde believing him to be the jilted lover. But is Blair's story also that of the jilted lover; or is he trying to save Willis from marrying a woman with a dark secret?