"Actor: Dennis Quaid"

• The Express | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £3.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (81.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the real-life story of college football hero Ernie Davis, The Express will remind some moviegoers of the heart-tugging Brian's Song. Ernie Davis was a star athlete at Syracuse University and the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. Unlike other winners of that era, he wasn't allowed to attend his banquet dinner because the venue didn't serve blacks. He died of leukemia at the age of 23 in 1963. That element of his story is well known to football fans. What the filmmakers concentrate on in The Express isn't just Davis' athletic prowess, but the relationship he had with his coach Ben Schwartzwalder (Dennis Quaid). Rob Brown (Stop-Loss, Coach Carter) lends both gravity and charm to the role of Davis. He plays Davis as a strong willed and moral young man who refuses to let racism and discrimination dominate his life. He joins a Jewish fraternity, gets along with his predominantly white teammates and shows respect for his family and coach. The film is wise not to present Schwartzwalder as wholly colour blind. Though not overtly racist, he makes a few references that would not be acceptable in modern-day society. Overall though, the coach doesn't care what colour his players are, as long as they share the common goal of winning. Quaid is well cast in the role, adding just the right amount of gruff mannerisms without becoming a caricature. Brown has the difficult task of adding suspense to a character where most of the audience already knows his fate. Still, he manages to keep moviegoers on their toes--hoping for a miracle that we know will never come. --Jae-Ha Kim

• Vantage Point | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £6.11   |  Saving you £15.14 (312.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. With a "Rashomon" narrative style, the attempted assassination is told from five different perspectives.

• Postcards from the Edge | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine star as daughter and mother in this wickedly witty expos of life in the Hollywood fast lane based on the autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher.

• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra/ Retaliation Double Pack | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £10.00   |  Saving you £17.99 (179.90%)   |  RRP £27.99

  G.I. Joe The Rise of the CobraWhen all else fails... they don't! They are G.I. Joe a top-secret elite strike force featuring the best operatives from around the globe. After a high-tech secret weapon is stolen by the mysterious and evil Cobra organisation the G.I. Joes must race against time to stop Cobra from using the weapon and plunging the world into chaos. Starring Channing Tatum Marlon Wayans Sienna Miller and Dennis Quaid G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the ultimate action-thrill ride! G.I. Joe: RetaliationThe Joes are back and they've been set up to take the fall for a terrible crime they didn't commit. Now the G.I. Joes must once again face their mortal enemy Cobra as well as dangerous new threats operating within the government. When all else fails one option remains: Retaliation. Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) leads a new team (including Channing Tatum and Bruce Willis) on this explosive adventure that's 'packed with military mayhem!'

• Dragonheart | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.07   |  Saving you £0.92 (10.14%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Long ago when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies there lived a knight who would come face-to-face and heart-to-heart with the most remarkable creature that ever existed. Dennis Quaid stars with the voice of Academy Award winner Sean Connery in director Rob Cohen's heroic adventure that blazes with fantasy humour and the most amazing special effects since Jurassic Park. Co-starring David Thewlis Pete Postlethwaite Julie Christie and Dina Meyer this epic adventure will move and thrill the entire family.

• The Big Easy | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A hot and steamy thriller in more ways than one! To Lieutenant Remy McSwain life in New Orleans is all about the 'Big Easy' until a series of gang killings spiral out of control. When a beautiful investigator Ann Osborne arrives from the D.A.'s police corruption task force Remy realises he is caught between truth and lies honour and corruption. Soon he finds himself jailed for attempting bribes and life is far from 'The Big Easy'.

• Suspect | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £16.71   |  Saving you £-10.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A courtroom thriller about an exhausted public defender (Cher) who is saddled with an impossible case: clearing a deaf-mute and vagrant Vietnam vet of a murder charge. All the odds seem to be against her until one of the jurors a seductive and smooth Washington lobbyist decides to help her by searching for clues himself. In between bouts of snappy verbal sparring the unlikely team uncovers a sinister conspiracy.

• The Day After Tomorrow - Two Disc Edition | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £2.99   |  Saving you £22.00 (735.79%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A big-budget, mega-event epic motion picture that revolves around an abrupt climate change that has cataclysmic consequences for the planet.

• The Right Stuff | DVD | (21/09/1998) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humour, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicised (and sanitised) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim Emerson

• The Long Riders | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £6.91   |  Saving you £6.08 (87.99%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This terrific Walter Hill Western follows the careers of the James and Younger brothers--and uses the nifty idea of casting actual clans of acting siblings in the roles. Thus, the James brothers are played by James and Stacy Keach; the Youngers by David, Keith, and Robert Carradine; the Millers by Randy and Dennis Quaid; and the Fords by Christopher and Nicholas Guest. Hill, working with an evocative Ry Cooder score, creates a film that is at once breathtakingly exciting and elegiac in its treatment of these post-Civil War outlaws. The Keaches in particular bring a surprising dignity to the roles of Frank and Jesse James, while David Carradine is a hoot as Cole Younger--and the Quaids mimic real life (as it was for them then) in their battles as the Miller brothers. Bloody, to be sure, but also bloody good. --Marshall Fine

• Postcards From The Edge | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A film by Mike Nichols of Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge is an intermittently hilarious, occasionally tear-stained account of an actress' struggle with addiction and with her competitive star mother. Meryl Streep turns in yet another flawlessly perfect performance as Suzanne, who is coping with cleaning up while making yet another idiot cop film. Shirley Maclaine is effective and overpowering as her hard-drinking Old Hollywood star mother perpetually trying to remould her daughter, singing Sondheim songs at parties, showing off her still-perfect legs and occasionally driving into trees. Among the many guest stars, Dennis Quaid is self-effacingly unpleasant as an unreliable boyfriend, Gene Hackman charismatic as a fatherly director and Annette Benning impressive in a cameo as a starlet rival. Nichols' standard slickness is very much on display here; this is perhaps too obviously manipulative a film in which the emotional detail is never quite as impressive as the central performances and script deserve. On the DVD: The DVD takes the rather subversive risk of giving the commentary role to Carrie Fisher, who discusses entertainingly how the screenplay evolved from her original novel, occasionally making clear that certain sentimentalisations of the characters were not her idea; she argues coherently that the film makes Meryl Streep's character a little too much the martyr. She also gives us a lot of faintly scurrilous Hollywood and family gossip. It also provides the theatrical trailer and filmographies for the director and major players. --Roz Kaveney

• G.I. Joe Triple Pack | Blu Ray | (15/11/2021) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience pulse-pounding stunts and intense battle sequences with the action-packed G.I. JOE 3-Movie Collection. Join the JOES for the first two missions, G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA and G.I. JOE: RETALIATION, as the elite strike force must race against time to stop COBRA, a diabolical organisation set on plunging the world into chaos with deadly technology. Then uncover the man behind the mask in SNAKE EYES: G.I. JOE ORIGINS, and take the journey with the iconic hero as he becomes the ultimate warrior in this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat adventure.

• Jaws 3 | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A DEADLY NEW ATTRACTION! The most famous shark of all time is back bigger and more terrifying than ever in Jaws 3 starring Dennis Quaid,Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale and Louis Gossett Jr. Everyone at Florida's Sea World is thrilled with the newUndersea Kingdom, a maze of underwater plexiglass tunnels that permits visitors to get closer to marine life than everbefore. The opening ceremonies include many important guests and one uninvited baby shark who accidentally enters thepark's lagoon through a faulty sea gate and subsequently dies. The young shark's 35-foot mother soon follows her offspring,creating the most horrifying tale of terror ever filmed in the water. Directed by Joe Alves, the original Jaws designer, andco-written by Carl Gottlieb who penned the first two blockbusters, this action-packed adventure will have you screaming for your life.

• I Can Only Imagine | DVD | (03/12/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Day The Earth Stood Still/Day After Tomorrow/Independence Day | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £18.43   |  Saving you £12.82 (74.67%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008): A remake of the classic 1951 science-fiction film and starring Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, a humanoid alien who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot, Gort, and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by a species watching from afar. This classic tale of man's arrogance, updating Cold War themes of nuclear warfare and incorporating current issues of environmen...

• Dreamscape (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is a talented young psychic who is frittering his gifts away betting on the ponies. That is, until he's coerced by his old pal and mentor Dr Paul Novotny (Max von Sydow) into taking part in a dream research project in which his psychic abilities make him indispensable. The project concerns "dreamlinking", whereby talented individuals like Alex hook up via electrodes and project themselves into some troubled subject's nightmares, in which they not only observe but participate in the dream, hopefully effecting some remedy. Alex is by nature a feckless guy, a charismatic scoundrel sporting a Cheshire cat's grin. But he warms easily to his new role as dream-dwelling psychotherapist, having a core of decency. Not so his nemesis, Tommy Ray Glatman (David Patrick Kelly), a dreamlink prodigy and pawn of Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer), who runs the research project for the government (he's described as the "head of covert intelligence"). Blair is worried about the President (Eddie Albert), whose nightmares of nuclear holocaust cause him to escalate disarmament talks with the Russians, much to Blair's dismay, being your basic evil, slick, smarmy covert kind of guy. Turns out Blair's real aim is to use the project to train dreamlink assassins, his star pupil being psycho Tommy Ray and his test case the President. Only Alex is there to stop them.Dreamscape is all business, with a well-structured screenplay that lays the groundwork for the film's many admirable performances. Kate Capshaw in particular is very dreamy as a research scientist and Dennis Quaid's love interest. And David Patrick Kelly is likely to become your worst nightmare, especially when he's the Snakeman, giving an often fantastical performance. But what you are most likely to remember from this wonderful thriller is the many vivid dream sequences, aptly surreal images from the troubled psyche. --Jim Gay

• The Intruder | DVD | (02/12/2019) from £6.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a young married couple (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) buy their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller (Dennis Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale.

• Jaws 3 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £8.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (22.58%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The brand new Sea World complex in Florida offers visitors the chance to view the undersea kingdom from the safety of glass tunnels on the sea-bed. All seems well until a thirty-five foot Great White shark appears on the scene.....

• Yours, Mine And Ours | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £5.60   |  Saving you £14.39 (256.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widow handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of her 10 and his 8 children.

• Pandorum | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (200.84%)   |  RRP £17.99

  What if you woke up with no memory, lost in deep space with no idea how you got there? And what if you weren't alone?