"Actor: Frances"

• Blood Simple | DVD | (30/10/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance) and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Audrey Hepburn Story | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party Of Five I Know What You Did Last Summer) as Audrey Hepburn and featuring Frances Fisher (Titanic) as her mother this miniseries reveals the dramatic life lead by this most appealing of performers - her childhood in Holland during the Nazi occupation her meteoric rise to stardom on Broadway and in films her doomed love affair with William Holden her troubled marriage to Mel Ferrer and her life long search for her father a collaborator during the War. Concealed behind the dazzling smile of Audrey Hepburn was a woman who had known great difficulties and overcame them to become the top international film star in the world an Academy Award winning actress and a fashion designer's dream. Her every change of hair-style was copied by young women all over the world. Featured in the series are her teenage years during the war in which deprivation and hunger forged her determination to survive and her work with the Resistance almost cost her life. After the war she and her mother fled to London where Audrey supported them dancing in revues until she was spotted by the famous French author Collette who personally chose her to play Gigi on Broadway in which she became an overnight sensation. She then went on to star in such films as Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck (for which she won an Academy Award) Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden who would become her lover Funny Face with Fred Astaire and perhaps her crowning role Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's where she clashed with its author Truman Capote. Her affair with the womanizing star William Holden was threatening to her new success but he was perhaps the great love of her life and their break up drove her into the arms of Mel Ferrer who was to become her first husband. As his own career was on the wane Audrey's was spiraling ever upward and Ferrer devoted himself to being her protector and sometimes jailer. He did fulfil her long dream of having a child but the marriage eventually terminated. Her role as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's best described Audrey's own life; a lost beauty looking for love in the arms of the protector/father she never had known.

• Hidden Agenda | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  American activists Paul Sullivan (Dourif) and his fiancee Ingrid Jessner (McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of brutal human rights abuses by British security forces. When Paul is killed under mysterious circumstances the official reports list him as an I.R.A. accomplice. But Ingrid and British policeman Paul Kerrigan (Cox) question the findings and begin to uncover a shocking high-level conspiracy. Now with their safety in jeopardy they must decide whether to risk

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £11.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Steven Spielberg's futuristic sci-fi classic A.I. dazzles! When a prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to love, his human family isn't prepared. Now alone in a dangerous world, David befriends a streetwise robot (Jude Law) and embarks on a spectacular quest to discover the secret of his own identity. SPECIAL FEATURES Documentary on bringing A.I. to the screen Interviews with Steven Spielberg, Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law Behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of A.I. Interview with Sound Designer Gary Rydstrom at Skywalker Ranch Visit to Stan Winston Studios with early Teddy footage Interviews with Lucasfilm's ILM special effects group Trailers, storyboards, drawings and hundreds of photos And much, much more!

• Big School | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hilarious new comedy from David Walliams about a dysfunctional staff room unrequited love and chess club! Deputy Head of Science Mr Church (David Walliams) has been at Greybridge School for 15 years. Disillusioned with teaching he is about to resign after a particularly dramatic experiment with liquid nitrogen and 1000 ping pong balls is met with apathy by his pupils. However the arrival of the new French teacher changes everything! Taking up her post following the tragic death of her predecessor Miss Postern (Catherine Tate) is determined to make a difference in the classroom with new teaching methods - anyone for Vocab Tennis? PE teacher and would-be lothario Mr Gunn (Philip Glenister) is also interested in the new French teacher and is determined to plough Miss Postern - probably on Friday night when his mum is at seniors' Zumba.

• Misery | Blu Ray | (12/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rising Damp: The Works | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring all the episodes from Series 1 to 4 including: 'Rooksby' 'Black Magic' 'Charisma' 'Night Out' 'All Our Yesterdays' 'The Prowler' 'Permissive Society' 'Food Glorious Food' 'A Body Like Mine' 'The Perfect Gentleman' 'The Last Of The Big Spenders' 'Things That Go Bump In The Night' and 'Moonlight And Roses'. Includes the unreleased episode 'Stand Up And Be Counted'.

• Big School: Series 2 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hilarious smash hit comedy returns starring an award winning cast; David Walliams (Gangsta Granny Mr Stink Come Fly With Me Little Britain) Catherine Tate (Catherine Tate’s Nan The Catherine Tate Show Doctor Who) Philip Glenister (Mad Dogs Ashes to Ashes Life on Mars) and Frances da la Tour (Harry Potter Rising Damp Vicious). It may be start of a new year at Greybridge School but the teaching staff is as dysfunctional as ever. Series 2 features the arrival of Dr Dalton (Jimmy Akingbola; Rev Holby City Silk) an unwelcome visit from Offsted a challenging parents evening and a member of staff goes to meet his maker…

• Nutcracker 3D DVD | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £1.50 (22.29%)   |  RRP £8.23

  Set in 1920s Vienna, this a tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.

• Blood Simple | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance) and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh

• Darkman Trilogy | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Darkman: Dr Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is on the verge of realising a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when a gang led by the sadistic Robert G Durant (Larry Drake) obliterates his laboratory. Burned beyond recognition and altered by an experimental medical procedure Westlake attempts to rebuild his laboratory and re-establish ties with his former girlfriend Julie (Frances McDormand). But his most challenging task lies within himself. Torn between his desire to create a new life with Julie and his quest for revenge the man known as Darkman begins to assume alternate identities in this stunning fast-paced action thriller from director Sam Raimi. (Dir. Sami Raimi 1990) Darkman 2: Dr Peyton Westlake alias the crime-fighting master of disguise Darkman is still trying to find a way of healing his disfigured features. But a tragic turn of events causes him to re-live the nightmare that disfigured him... (Dir. Bradford May 1994) Darkman 3: The Darkman pits himself against a drug dealer as he attempts to protect his research and his team. (Dir. Bradford May 1996)

• Manchild - Series 1 | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stockbroker Terry orthodontist James art dealer Patrick and decking king Gary are friends from schooldays. Except for Gary who is still married there is nothing to stop the boys as they indulge what they believe is their last chance to recapture their youth. Their efforts to bring back their heady carefree bachelor days mostly make them look absurd. They have the money for the hip clothes motorbikes and beautiful young girlfriends but these things really are the domain of much younger men. And although they'd never admit it there are worries about health impotence ex-wives and children that will not go away.

• Agatha Christie's Marple - The Complete Collection | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £29.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Geraldine McEwan takes over the coveted mantle of the titular super sleuth in a box set of all-star cast adaptations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels. Episodes Comprise: 1.Sleeping Murder 2.The Sittaford Mystery 3.The Moving Finger 4.By The Pricking Of My Thumbs

• Unforgiven - 10th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £17.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in Wyoming in 1881 during the sunset years of the Wild West, 1992's Unforgiven was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, and is generally considered to be the towering achievement of his twilight years. Eastwood plays William Munny, once a vicious, whisky-swilling bounty hunter, brought to heel by his marriage to a good woman. When she dies, he must raise two children and run a hog farm alone, something which we see him make a comically poor fist of doing. Then, in a twist of fate, a young outlaw called the Schofield Kid trots up to his farm and invites him to collect on a $1,000 reward raised by a group of prostitutes. However, Clint must not only face up to his own somewhat rusty skills as a gunslinger, but also to genial-but-psychopathic lawman Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman in superb form). Unforgiven ultimately conforms to the expectations of the genre, while subverting quite a few of them on the way. There's brooding on the consequences of violence ("It's a hell of a thing to kill a man"), as Munny's ineptitude with a rifle is matched by his feelings of penitence for his younger wrongdoings. Finally, however, Eastwood casts aside age and inhibition in a chillingly ruthless shootout, his powers miraculously (improbably?) restored, in what could also be seen as an assertion on the part of the ageing Eastwood of his own potency as a major player in Hollywood. On the DVD: Unforgiven is presented in this Special Edition release in a 2.35:1 widescreen transfer that gives due emphasis to what critic David Thomson described as the "drained, wintry" feel of the movie. There are numerous bonus features in addition to the original trailer. Eastwood official biographer Richard Schickel offers a particularly copious and detailed audio commentary which touches on all aspects of the film. The 64-minute 1997 documentary Clint on Clint offers a detailed if inevitably worshipful account of Eastwood's career. Finally, there's a 47-minute 1959 episode of Maverick, the old James Garner TV series, guest-starring a 29-year-old Clint, several years away from his big Hollywood break. --David Stubbs

• Yankee Doodle Dandy | Blu Ray | (14/10/2014) from £19.62   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• American Horror Story - Season 3 (Coven) | Blu Ray | (20/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  American Horror Story: Coven tells the secret history of witches and witchcraft in America. Over three hundred years have passed since the turbulent days of Salem and those who managed to escape are now facing extinction. Mysterious attacks have been escalating against their kind and young girls are being sent away to a special school in New Orleans to learn how to protect themselves. Wrapped up in the turmoil is new arrival Zoe who is harboring a terrifying secret of her own. Alarmed by the recent aggression Fiona the long-absent Supreme sweeps back into town determined to protect the Coven and hell-bent on decimating anyone who gets in her way.

• Good Omens | DVD | (15/11/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bedazzled | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £6.20   |  Saving you £6.79 (109.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A remake of the classic Peter Cook & Dudley Moore comedy, with Brendan Fraser as the young man given seven wishes in order to turn his life around from Liz Hurley’s sultry Satan.

• Friends With Money | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £5.91   |  Saving you £17.07 (584.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jennifer Aniston stars in this drama about three married women, their husbands and their lone single friend.

• Capturing The Friedmans | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £8.09   |  Saving you £14.89 (291.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Extraordinary documentary about a seemingly typical, upper-middle class family whose world is destroyed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.