"Actor: Jackie"

• The Lonely Guy / Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / The Jerk | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £18.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (11.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Lonely Guy (Dir. Arthur Hiller 1984): The one and only Steve Martin stars along with Charles Grodin and Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in this funny and poignant romance inspired by Bruce Jay Friedman's tongue-in-cheek survival manual. The Lonely Guy follows the progress of Larry (Steve Martin) and his buddy Warren (Charles Grodin) as they attempt to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple. They're losers until one day Larry writes a book that turns loneliness into the ultimate love potion and life is never the same! Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Dir. Carl Reiner 1982): As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton and others Reardon gets his man. An exciting action-fun packed film the way 40's films used to be! The Jerk (Dir. Carl Reiner 1979): That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the opti-grab handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today.

• Duel Of The Tough | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young Kung Fu practitioner man is given the task of escorting some sacred Buddhist scriptures back to Shaolin from Canton. On his journey he encounters untold merciless fighters and masters of the martial arts. Are the young man's skills up to the job?

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• Superman - The Movie | HD DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The movie that makes a legend come to life. The planet Krypton is doomed. Only one man Jor-El knows it and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-El''s son grows to manhood he learns that he possesses super-powers he must hide from ordinary mortals around him. It takes a big movie to contain the considerable talents of Marlon Brando Gene Hackman Jackie Cooper Glen Ford Margot Kidder Valerie Perrine and at its heart the most human portrayal of the Man of Steel Christopher Reeve. Superman an Academy Award winner (1978) for special achievement in visual effects is more than big enough. Directed by Richard Donner Superman: The Movie makes us believe this epic story all over again.

• Skeletonman | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Casper Van Dien.- Four soldiers in Army Special Forces go missing on training mission. When an investigation is launched into their disappearance they find the horror that is Skeleton Man.

• The Kid | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Tramp and an abandoned child (6 year old Jackie Coogan) triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.

• Tis Autumn - The Search For Jackie Paris | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £6.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1991 Raymond De Felitta was listening to the radio and heard a singer by the name of Jackie Paris. Entranced by his style and unique technique De Felitta began researching Paris and learned that he had opened for Lenny Bruce and that his voice was admired by among others Ella Fitzgerald Nat Cole and Sarah Vaughn. However his research abruptly ended when he read that the notoriously volatile Paris had died in 1977. De Felitta thought that was the end of the story but one night he spotted an advertisement listing Paris' comeback. Stunned he wondered where had Paris been all these years what had come of his life and why had a singer of this talent fallen into such obscurity.

• FRANK SINATRA - The Premier Collection Vol 2 | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Hound Dog Entertainment proudly presents three fantastic hour long episodes of The Frank Sinatra Show starring the cream of musical entertainment including Lena Horne Jackie Gleason Jack Benny and Barbera Heller.

• Veer | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the misty pages of history comes a story of extreme valour, fierce pride and poignant love.

• Aan - Men At Work | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of one young police officer's struggle to bring justice to a corrupt town. When DCP Hari Om Patnik is assigned to Mumbai Crime Branch he finds an abused system controlled by a collaboration of the mob the authorities and big business. Despite all the inherent danger he begins to put together a squad capable of restoring order.

• Flix Mix - Ultimate Fights | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fistfights Swordfights Streetfights Gunfights Girlfights Gangfights...And More! A Knockout Collection of 16 Incredible Fights From: 'Blade' 'Scarface' 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' 'Snatch' 'Fist Of Legend' 'Gladiator' 'Legend Of Drunken Master' 'Black Mask' 'They Live' 'The Killer' 'First Blood' ...And More!

• Soldier Girls | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £12.60   |  Saving you £-2.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nick Broomfield travels to Fort Georgia where he follows the lives of a number of inductees as they go though Basic Army training. It soon becomes apparent some are far less suited to this rigorous lifestyle than others and in a fashion honed over several subsequent films Broomfield zeroes in on only the most interesting funny sad and strange figures there. Including those in charge!

• Forbidden Kingdom | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £4.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A 21st Century American teenager takes a spellbinding, dangerous journey into martial arts legend in the new action/adventure epic "The Forbidden Kingdom".

• Miami Supercops | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Here's the very lastest in the riotous series of action-packed comedies from the dynamic Hill/Spencer duo! In 'Miami Supercops' our heroes are two courageous crimefighters on the trail of $20 million stolen in a heist some years before. It's murder mayhem and pandemonium all the way as they track down the money - and their man - with of course a little help from two beautiful girls!

• Bachelorman | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In these times of enlightened sexual politics Ted Davis is a womanising machine. Ted has become a guru to his pals who are in awe of his charm and chat up technique. When the woman of his dreams moves in next door Ted's ordeal begins. She is beautiful athletic and rampant. The thin walls of their apartments echo the constant howls of amourous pleasure and its driving bachelorman insane.

• Eagle Shadow Fist | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Chan plays a famous actor of the Chinese Theatre who becomes a legendary resistance fighter against the Japanese. This was Jackie Chan's first martial arts film.

• Snake Fist Fighter | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-3.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  At age 17 Chan plays Jackie a young man who is intrigued with martial arts but forbidden by his father to learn. He meets a beggar (Siu Tien Yuen) who offers to teach him. Jackie learns in secret until local mobsters put the squeeze on the family business.

• Martial Arts Films (Box Set) | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This box set contains four films: Hidden Tiger: The boss of the Asian underworld has offered a deadly gladiator contest to fuel his gambling appetite and entertain his mafia colleagues. Fist Of Fury 2: Chen Shan journeys to Shanghai to honour the dying wish of his brother. He takes on the karate master and there can only be one outcome a fight to the death. Master With Cracked Fingers: Kung Fu King Jackie Chan seeks revenge on the evil master-mind behind the murder of his father. Tiger Heart: Eric and his buddy take on the bad guys who are trying to evict his girlfriend and her uncle from their store. A great non-stop kickboxing movie.

• Superman - The Movie | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £11.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (39.65%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The movie that makes a legend come to life. The planet Krypton is doomed. Only one man Jor-El knows it and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-Els son grows to manhood he learns that he possesses super-powers he must hide from ordinary mortals around him. It takes a big movie to contain the considerable talents of Marlon Brando Gene Hackman Jackie Cooper Glen Ford Margot Kidder Valerie Perrine and at its heart the most human portrayal of the Man of Steel Christopher Reeve. Superman an Academy Award winner (1978) for special achievement in visual effects is more than big enough. Directed by Richard Donner Superman: The Movie makes us believe this epic story all over again.

• Fearless Hyena 2 | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Jackie revives his classic role after the huge success of his directorial debut in 'Fearless Hyena'. Excellent fight action with a pull-no-punches finale makes 'Fearless Hyena 2' a worthy sequel.