"Actor: Derek Thompson"

• Harry's Game | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Harry's Game is the story of two killers. One is Billy Downes (Derek Thompson) cold-blooded assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. The other is Harry Brown (Ray Lonnen) Captain by rank and with orders to eliminate the IRA hitman in his own backyard - the Falls Road Belfast. Both men believe their cause is just. But only one can win. Harry's game - to find the identity of the killer and destroy him before his cover is blown... With powerful performances from Ray Lon

• Friday Night Lights | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £4.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (226.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Billy Bob Thornton stars as a straight arrow coach in this High School football flick set in the west Texas town of Odessa

• The Long Good Friday | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £7.30   |  Saving you £12.69 (173.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Intricately plotted and smartly paced, this gangster saga clicks as whodunit, social satire and explosive thriller. The piece is crowned by Bob Hoskins' career-making turn as a London mobster courting respectability and Helen Mirren's subtly detailed performance as his upper-crust mistress. Cockney wiseguy Harold Shand is a would-be burgher whose domination of the city's underworld stems from his shrewdness as a mediator and his skill at harnessing political and economic clout. As Easter approaches, he's poised to launch an aggressive real estate development scheme along the depressed Thames waterfront when all hell breaks loose: a trusted lieutenant is brutally murdered, Shand's mother is nearly killed in a car bombing, one of his pubs is blown apart and the visiting American don crucial to the pending deal is quickly growing wary.Barrie Keeffe's original screenplay keeps the viewer a step ahead of Shand, providing us with a telling but teasingly incomplete glimpse of the misstep by his underlings that has set chaos loose. At the same time, Keeffe underlines the bourgeois pretensions of the rough-hewn, barrel-chested Shand, how the elegant Victoria (Mirren) helps serve those ambitions and the myriad parallels between Shand's minions and the local politicians and police only too willing to join in his scheme. Tart, funny dialogue and alternately playful and pungent Eastertide imagery complete Keeffe's shrewd design--two key scenes, in a meat locker and a warehouse, invoke the Crucifixion itself. Even with lesser performances, the script and John Mackenzie's solid direction would make The Long Good Friday a keeper but Hoskins's explosive portrait of Shand and his descent toward brutal revenge elevates the film into the very front rank, earning admiring comparisons to TheGodfather, Scarface, GoodFellas and other classics of that genre. --Sam Sutherland

• Yanks | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £13.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Yanks' is the moving story of American servicemen stationed in England during the Second World War and the impact that their presence had on the lives of people in a small Lancashire village. This beautifully filmed drama follows three American soldiers and the relationships that they form with three local women: Jean Helen and Mollie. The relationships that blossom would affect their lives forever. This romantic and memorable movie highlights the cultural differences that ex

• The Price - The Complete Series - Ch4 | DVD | (16/04/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Peter Barkworth (Where Eagles Dare) and Harriet Walter (The Sense of an Ending) star in Peter Ransley's twisting BAFTA-nominated drama, set at the height of The Troubles. Geoffrey Carr (Barkworth), a major player in the emerging computer industry, is newly married to the impetuous Frances (Walter), a much younger woman with a wilful daughter from a previous marriage. He'll go to any lengths to make her happy, and stretches his finances to buy a crumbling Georgian estate in County Wicklow where Frances spent part of her childhood. Aside from commitments on the new house, Geoffrey's continuing control of the company depends on an uncertain research deal with a visiting Japanese consortium. Frank Crossan (Derek Thompson) is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities in the North, and from his own commanders. Seeking refuge with old flame Kate (Aingeal Grehan), he hatches a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a hefty ransom to fund a major arms deal. The two worlds collide when Frances and daughter Clare are brutally snatched and removed to a bleak hideaway. Geoffrey's immediate impulse is to cave in to the kidnappers demands but nothing is straightforward when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance, and the full glare of the media. First broadcast in 1985, the series is written by Peter Ransley (Fingersmith, Fallen Angel) and directed by Peter Smith (No Surrender, A Perfect Spy), with a haunting soundtrack by David Earl and the RTE Concert Orchestra. In a rare acting role, a pre-teen Susanna Reid (Good Morning Britain) plays Clare, and the cast also includes Simon Jones (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brideshead Revisited) and Adrian Dunbar (The Crying Game, Line of Duty).

• The Long Good Friday | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In the savage and deadly world of the gangland king the man at the top is ruler only for as long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man the rewards can be infinite but so are the dangers. Harold Shand is enjoying the height of his powers and he is on the verge of something that would make his current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day of terror an Easter Good Friday he is to see his empire begin to crack and crumble.

• The Gentle Touch: The Complete Series | DVD | (17/09/2018) from £49.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first police series to show a woman at Detective Inspector level, The Gentle Touch stars Jill Gascoine as Maggie Forbes a tough but compassionate cop who is also a single mother to a teenage son following the murder of her police constable husband. Reflecting a time when there were very few ranking female officers, the series not only showed police procedure within a Metropolitan Police CID unit but also offered an insight into how a woman might cope with such a role in what was still very much a man's world. Instantly successful with the public, The Gentle Touch ran for five series and featured guest appearances by Catherine Schell, Brian Croucher, Joanne Whalley, Liz Smith, Art Malik, Lynda Bellingham and Louise Jameson, among many others.

• Interactive Frankie Dettori Race Night | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Legendary Jockey Frankie Dettori brings you 30 races for the top UK race courses for you to host your own race night in the comfort of your own living room. Once you've selected one of the 10 racecourses Frankie will give you the inside track on the form as well as hints and tips to improve your chances of picking the winning horse before placing your bets with your nominated bookie. Frankie's chomping at the bit to take you and your family to the races so giddy-up let's get crac

• Casualty - Series 1 | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the BBC's flagship dramas Casualty depicts the lives of the patients doctors nurses and paramedics attending the frantically busy accident and emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Now approaching its twentieth year on television this is where it all started: the hard-hitting storylines; the accurate portrayal of life in the casualty department; and that theme tune. At a time when medical dramas produced in the UK were thin-on-the ground this was

• Casualty - Series 2 | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the BBC's flagship dramas Casualty depicts the lives of the patients doctors nurses and paramedics attending the frantically busy accident and emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Now approaching its twentieth year on television this is where it all started: the hard-hitting politicised storylines; the accurate portrayal of life in the casualty department; and that theme tune. At a time when medical dramas produced in the UK were thin-on-the groun

• The Gentle Touch - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jill Gascoine stars as Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in this exciting and ground-breaking ITV police series from the 1980s. Maggie is assigned to Seven Dials Police Station in the heart of Central London right next to the city's infamous Soho district - an area where life is cheap and rank corruption and depravity are everywhere. Unlike her cynical and hard-edged male colleagues on the force she has a gentler more sympathetic approach to the human tragedies she encounters - and it's an approach that gets results. Maggie Forbes seems like a woman with a brilliant career ahead of her - until a devastating family tragedy almost shatters her life. Hugely popular and original (Maggie Forbes was British television's first ever female detective!) all seven episodes of the first series of The Gentle Touch are collected here to enjoy on DVD for the very first time. Episodes Comprise: 1.Killers 2.Recoil 3.Help 4.Shock 5.Blade 6.Rogue 7.Melody

• Casualty | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of the BBC's flagship dramas Casualty depicts the lives of the patients doctors nurses and paramedics attending the frantically busy accident and emergency department of Holby General Hospital. Now approaching its twentieth year on television this is where it all started: the hard-hitting storylines; the accurate portrayal of life in the casualty department; and that theme tune. At a time when medical dramas produced in the UK were thin-on-the ground this was a truly ground-breaking show often eclipsing equivalent drama programmes from the other side of the pond. This 4 disc box set contains all the episodes from the third series. Episodes comprise: 1. Welcome To Casualty 2. Desperate Odds 3. Drake's Drum 4. Absolution 5. Burn-Out 6. A Quiet Night 7. A Wing And A Prayer 8. Living Memories 9. Inferno 10. Caring

• Lester Piggott - A Classic Tribute | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.84   |  Saving you £-3.85 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Lester Piggot is the greatest jockey the world has ever known. In a career spanning over 40 years he dominated the sport of flat racing becoming the housewife's choice the punter's favourite and the man his fellow jockey's feared above all others. This film presented and narrated by Derek Thompson is an historical tribute to Piggot's Classic record-breaking performance and includes coverage of all his Classic victories. Interspersed with interviews with many of the great names in racing including the legendary Vincent O'Brien Clive Brittain and the voice of racing Sir Peter O'Sullivan O.B.E. this programme is a must have for all true racing fans.

• Breaking Glass | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An old, old story as told circa 1980, Breaking Glass, written and directed by Brian Gibson, follows the path of Stardust not to mention A Star is Born and most other films about showbusiness, by following the rise of a talented young hopeful who learns that success comes with strings. Kate Crowley (Hazel O'Connor) begins as a bleached New Wave ranter, fly-posting on the tube and yelling songs about dehumanisation over fascist chants in rowdy pubs, but ends up a stoned glam zombie dressed as a robot, packaging her anger for the benefit of corporate music biz baddies and retreating to a sanatorium. The plot may be familiar, but the film still works, thanks to persuasive central performances from O'Connor, who wrote her own songs and shows real acting muscle that sadly didn't lead to anything like a film career, and Phil Daniels as her hustling manager/boyfriend/conscience. The fine supporting cast includes Jon Finch and Jonathan Pryce as a Bond villain-style record producer and a deaf junkie sax player, with glimpses of later perennials such as Jim Broadbent and Richard Griffiths. Made and set at the start of the 1980s, it catches its times exactly: a "Rock Against 1984" outdoor gig that turns into a riot, a routine police harrassment of a band rehearsal, a power cut that transforms a concert into a before-its-time "unplugged" session. Credits trivia: the executive producer was Dodi al Fayed. On the DVD: A nice letterboxed transfer looks a bit soft and grainy--but that's the way it's supposed to be. The only extras are cribbed-from-the-IMDB filmographies, a trailer with a wonderfully unconvincing narration and an image gallery (posters, ads and stills). --Kim Newman

• Rock Follies Of '77 | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £16.03   |  Saving you £-6.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The 'Little Ladies' are back! The papers call them the 'band that wouldn't die' and that remains their motto as they gig at night and struggle to survive against the predators and cons of the rock world. Will they be able to survive the roller-coaster ride of the music industry and fulfil their dreams? This 2 disc set contains the complete second series: Disc 1 'The Band That Wouldn't Die' 'The Empire' and 'The Hype'. Disc 2 'The Loony Tunes' 'the Divorce' a

• Lester Piggott - His Classic Story | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Lester Piggott - His Classic Story | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £9.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (29.06%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Lester Piggott is the greatest jockey the world has ever known. In a career spanning over 40 years he dominated the sport of flat racing becoming the housewife's choice the punter's favourite and the man his fellow jockeys feared above all others. In the 1984 St. Leger at Doncaster Lester powered home the resolute Commanche Run to break Frank Buckle's long-standing record of 27 Classic wins. However in 1990 at the age of 54 Lester stunned the racing world by resuming his riding career after completing a two year prison sentence. Like everything in Lester's riding life his comeback was triumphant culminating in his 30th and final Classic success on Rodrigo de Triano appropriately owned by Robert Sangster.

• Ghost Club | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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• The Ghost Club | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Four kids learn about a phantom that haunts the nearby forest. Ghost-buff Carrie immediately convinces her friends to track and capture the ghost. When inventor Jesse devises an ingenious way to trap the spirit The Ghost Club is off and running! But dark clouds roll in as Carrie and her brother Chris find out that Mom is about to lose the family ice cream parlour business to a ruthless developer. Against all odds they band together and devise a plan to bring down the evil businessman. Can they save the day? With a little luck high tech gadgets and a bit of help from a ghost they might just pull it off!