"Actor: Graham Johnson"

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  • Lost In Space [1998]Lost In Space | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £5.58   |  Saving you £14.41 (258.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Packed with more than 750 dazzling visual effects, this US$70 million adventure does more (and less) than give the 1965-68 TV series a state-of-the-art face-lift. Aimed at an audience that wasn't born when the series originally aired, the sci-fi extravaganza doesn't even require familiarity, despite cameo appearances by several of the TV show's original cast members. Instead it's a high-tech hybrid of the original premise with enough sensory overload to qualify as a spectacular big-screen video game, supported by a time-travel premise that's adequately clever but hardly original. Lost in Space is certainly never boring, and visually it's an occasionally awesome demonstration of special effects technology. But in its attempt to be all things to all demographics, the movie's more of a marketing ploy than a satisfying adventure, thankfully dispensing with the TV show's cheesy camp but otherwise squandering a promising cast in favour of eye-candy and ephemeral storytelling. --Jeff Shannon

  • She Wore A Yellow Ribbon [1950]She Wore A Yellow Ribbon | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    The second instalment of John Ford's famous cavalry trilogy, this meditative Western continues the director's fascination with history's obliteration of the past. It features one of John Wayne's more sensitive performances as Capt. Nathan Brittles, a stern yet sentimental war horse who has difficulty preparing for his impending military retirement. All things considered, he refuses to leave before fulfilling his obligation to the local Indian tribe. It's a film about honour and duty as well as loneliness and mortality. And Oscar-winner Winton C. Hoch beautifully photographs it in Remington-like Technicolor tones (you've never seen such stunning cloud-covered skies). The combination of melancholy and farce (Victor McLaglen makes a perfect court jester) evokes comparisons to Shakespeare. Best of all, the scene in which Wayne fights back tears when receiving a gold watch from his troops is unforgettably bittersweet. If you view the whole trilogy, it actually makes sense to save this for last. --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

  • Earth, Wind And Fire - Shining Stars - The Official Story [2001]Earth, Wind And Fire - Shining Stars - The Official Story | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

    There is nowhere you can go to see and hear the amazing stories and songs that form the history of Earth Wind & Fire. The story is told by the people who created it lived it and made it happen. Band members Maurice White Verdine White Philip Bailey as well as Eric Benet Wyclef Jean and others tell the Earth Wind & Fire story in their own words featuring the hit music of their career. Features cuts from Let's Groove Boogie Wonderland Got to Get You Into My Life Fantasy September Reasons Sing a Song Shining Star That's The Way of the World After the Love Is Gone Serpentine Fire Keep Your Head to the Sky and Thinking of You.

  • Downtime [1998]Downtime | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Down Time is a strange attempt to mix concrete Northern social realism and Bruce-Willis-style cliffhanger thrills, with balls of fire billowing up empty lift shafts and so forth. Paul McGann plays an ex-police psychologist, retired through ill health, drafted in to dissuade miserable single mother Chrissy (Susan Lynch) from throwing herself and her child off the top of a tower block. He succeeds, though in so doing betrays some of the problems that caused him to quit his job. He then pursues Chrissy romantically, during the course of which he, she and her little boy become stuck in the tower block lift, which then starts ascending and descending at random when hoodlum squatters break into the control box and mess about with it for an idle laugh. With its bizarre and somewhat improbable scenario, its odd mix of whimsical light romance, grim-up-North-style melodrama and explosive stunt action, Down Time as a whole doesn't really come off. The behaviour of key characters borders on the arbitrary, the "yobs" who cause all the problems go curiously unpunished and the ending barely makes sense. However, the lengthy mid-sequence in which McGann rescues (and is rescued by) Chrissy from the perilously dangling lift is, though predictable in its outcome, gripping enough. --David Stubbs

  • Voices Of Our Time - Felicity LottVoices Of Our Time - Felicity Lott | DVD | (01/04/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

    From the Theatre Musical de Paris Chatelet. ""Night And Day"" the new programme from Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson contains 24 songs from 24 different composers for the 24 hours of the day. Overall the programme follows the course of the day from daybreak to daybreak - but in an approximate poetic style.

  • Day Of The Zombie [DVD]Day Of The Zombie | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (-28.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

    When a strange flu-like virus starts killing people and turning them into flesh-eating zombies a group of strangers are forced to band together in a terrifying struggle for survival. The desperate battle for life comes to a head during a horrific stand off at the local grocery store. Against all odds some of the intrepid survivors flee into the wilderness of the surrounding countryside believing only the vast empty expanse that nature furthest reaches offer can save them. Once camp is built however they find that the living dead are not the only danger as they begin to turn on one another in a deadly struggle for power and control. Day of the Zombie is a 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'Night of the Living Dead' experience that will reintroduce you to your deepest primordial fear and make you question what it is to be human.

  • Felicity Lott & Graham Johnson Fallen Women and Virtuous Wives [DVD]Felicity Lott & Graham Johnson Fallen Women and Virtuous Wives | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (28.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

    World-renowned soprano Dame Felicity Lott performs a recital alongside pianist Graham Johnson at Champ's Hill to mark the 30th Anniversary of their first recital together at the Wigmore Hall.

  • Nightingale Sang In Berkeley, Square [1979]Nightingale Sang In Berkeley, Square | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

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