"Actor: Jamie"

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 2) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Red Dust | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by Gillian Slovo Red Dust is Tom Hooper's debut film. Police officer Dirk Hendricks (Bartlett) files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo (Ejiofor) a member of the South African Parliament who can't remember the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. South African-born attorney Sarah Barcant (Swank) meanwhile returns to her homeland to represent Mpondo as well as Steve Sizela Mpondo's friend who arrested along with him and never heard from

• I Think I Do | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Matt has Carol. Carol has Prozac. Beth has everyone. Bob wants Brendan – and has done for years. Sarah wants Brendan – for old times’ sake. Sterling loves himself and themed weddings. Eric just loves getting stoned. Question is what does Brendan want? The screwball who-will-marry-who antics of The Philadelphia Story are given a gay update for the 90’s in this deliriously romantic comedy. Bob (Arquette) has a mad crush on college frat boy room-mate Brendan (Maelan). Brendan finds out freaks out and sleeps with Sarah. Five years later they and college chums all reunite for a wedding. As everyone parties and consumes just enough booze libidos are inflamed and inhibitions are lowered. Is the bedroom-eyed Brendan really longing for Bob? Will Sarah bed Brendan if only for old times’ sake? Will Sterling marry Bob and get his hoped-for themed wedding? The disastrous possibilities make for great hilarious comedy.

• Breakin' All the Rules | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.44   |  Saving you £1.55 (15.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Breakin' All The Rules is a romantic comedy about Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx) - a man who after being unceremoniously dumped by his fianc''e pens a how-to book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate he gives them advice on dumping their mates. What ensues is a hilarious comedy of errors!

• Jamie Foxx - The Foxx Box | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £8.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (123.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of America's top and hottest comedians brings his brand of humour for all to see he is now an oscar nominee and is sure to be at the top for many years includes the titles: 'Unleashed' and 'I Might Need Security'.

• Baseline | Blu Ray | (12/07/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Layer Cake | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Billy Elliot | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The winner of the audience award at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival.

• Hotel Decadence (DVD) | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (-12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Rio | DVD | (14/05/2013) from £9.95   |  Saving you £6.03 (86.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the Creators of Ice Age, Rio is comedic adventure that tells the story of Blu, a likeable 'nerdy' bird who can't fly, who embarks upon a wild adventure in one of the most exotic and magical places on earth where he makes incredible friends, discovers his inner hero, and finds that he has what it takes to soar!

• Yoga Towards A Stress Free Life - Jamie Heseltine - Fit for Life Series | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £7.10   |  Saving you £7.89 (111.13%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Namaste in an increasingly stressful and demanding world achieving a sense of relaxation and well being can become just another thing on a long to-do list. Finding time to destress has become stressful in itself! Yoga towards a Stress-free was conceived as an easy way for you to bring the many healthy relaxing benefits of this ancient practice into a busy life without any added pressure. Your age size or stiffness are no barriers to a fruitful practice. This easy-to-follow format is designed to show you that Yoga is about developing a relationship with yourself. Ultimately this Yoga programme is about feeling good. In this programme you will learn how to: Shift stress and release anxiety. Let go of emotional baggage and fears. Enhance the production of endorphins 'happy vibes'. Systematically release tension from your whole body. Release toxins from all your body organs and systems to help you feel cleansed calm and revived. Feel emotionally energetically and physically rejuvenated. Open your joints and strengthen your spine. Build core strength balance and flexibility. Tone and lengthen muscles. Use your breath to manage stress. Deeply relax and find inner serenity Enhance your concentration and stamina. Enter deeper states of self awareness. Open to meditation and contemplation. Experience a workout as a warm sensuous and fluid personal experience as opposed to rigid empty exercise for mere cosmetic benefits. This DVD includes warm up main practice; cool down; short relax; Yoga Nidra deep relaxation; a number of yoga practice explanations. Props recommended: Yoga 'sticky' mat (non-sports branded ideally) i.e. one from a yoga mat specialist; regular cushion or yoga block; long scarf or yoga strap; chair or stool (optional) blanket (optional). Wear loose comfortable clothing. Jamie is an Omega Institute certified teacher having completed her teacher training at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica in 2003. She has worked and written for Yoga Magazine and is currently based in London where she was one of Timeout's leading personal trainers in 2010. Jamie's philosophy is of Yoga for feeling good as opposed to finding new ways to twist yourself into a pretzel.

• Cross Training In The Martial Arts - The Anatomy Of Combat | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  For the first time ever the UK's most celebrated martial arts instructors all on one DVD! The DVD features interviews techniques from a wide variety of styles and never seen before footage on this unique martial arts documentary. From Rick Young and Mo Teague who teach their versions of Bruce Lee's cross-training concept of Jeet Kune Do to the realistic streetwise approach to training of Geoff Thompson and Peter Consterdine to Chris Rowen who presents the startling argument that

• Beneath The Dark | Blu Ray | (04/07/2011) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Driving to a wedding in Los Angeles through the Mojave Desert, Paul and Adrienne seem destined for a life of genuine love and happiness. Road-weary, they decide to stop for the night at lonely Roy's Motel and Caf. This roadside artifact proves to be a strange and surreal place with an unsettling mix of travellers, including front-desk manager Frank and his promiscuous wife Sandy. Ultimately, these ill-fated lovers lead Paul and Adrienne down a path of tense and emotionally charged experiences. In the end, a horrifying secret from Paul’s past is revealed with grave consequences for all parties involved.

• And God Created Woman | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £14.08   |  Saving you £5.91 (29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Despite being directed by Roger Vadim, this And God Created Woman is not the 1956 classic but a loose remake from some 30 years later (1987) which attempts to update the original's themes. Rebecca De Mornay takes the central role, this time as Robin, a woman released from jail on parole due to her recent marriage to Billy (Vincent Spano). Once on the outside, she pursues her dreams of rock stardom and enters into a love triangle with state governor elect, James Tiernan (Frank Langella). Whereas Vadim's own original film may have exuded unspoken sexual tension (in no small part due to its star, Brigette Bardot), any pretence of subtlety here is lost as De Mornay sheds her clothes at every possible opportunity in the film's series of soft porn sex scenes, all accompanied--as indeed is virtually every moment of the film--by an appalling 80s rock soundtrack. The acting is uniformly awful, with De Mornay taking the prize for the worst performance of all, fighting a losing battle for the viewer's attention with her seemingly ever-growing hair. Indeed, And God Created Woman is best recommended to those who gleefully indulge in the worst that the cinematic arts have to offer and it would easily feature in a top ten of most awful films of recent years.On the DVD: Alongside the chapter selection facility, the various filmographies point to what a waste of potential talent this film is. With the picture quality unable to improve on the TV-movie feel of the whole project, the audio presents the horrible American rock backing in all its glory--despite that fact the music sequences are amongst the most laughingly unconvincing ever committed to celluloid. --Phil Udell

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vols. 4-6) | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £33.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• Match Fishing Masterclass | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (-24.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jamie Masson is one of the few professional anglers in the UK and after dedicating his life to match fishing he's a regular winner on the commercial circuit. The rigs the gear and the correct feeding patterns are all discussed in great detail as he puts together two very impressive spring catches! Filmed at the prolific Maver Larford complex and containing two 30-minute (approx) programmes the DVD offers a real insight into why Jamie wins far more than his fair share of matches

• Battlestar Galactica - Seasons 1 And 2 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The world is over. The fight is just beginning. ""The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. They evolved. They look and feel human. Some are programmed to think they are human. There are many copies. And they have a plan."" Welcome to the radical re-imagining of 1970s sci-fi favourite Battlestar Galactica featuring both season 1 and 2! Episodes comprise: Season 1: 1. 33 2. Water 3. Bastille Day 4. Act of Contrition 5. You Can't Go Home Again 6. Litmus 7. Six Degrees Of Separation 8. Flesh and Bone 9. Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down 10. The Hand Of God 11. Colonial Day 12. Kobol's Last Gleaming (Part 1) 13. Kobol's Last Gleaming (Part 2) Season 2: 1. Scattered 2. Valley of Darkness 3. Fragged 4. Resistance 5. The Farm 6. Home - Part 1 7. Home - Part 2 8. Final Cut 9. Flight of the Phoenix 10. Pegasus 11. Resurrection Ship - Part 1 12. Resurrection Ship - Part 2 13. Epiphanies 14. Black Market 15. Scar 16. Sacrifice 17. The Captain's Hand 18. Downloaded 19. Lay Down your Burdens - Part 1 20. Lay Down your Burdens - Part 2

• Peach - The Look Of Passion | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Ray | HD DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Skilfully edited and with a keen eye for period detail the narrative weaves in and out of the past in an interlocking tapestry of the man's rise to fame in the 1950s and '60s. Growing up poor black and blind in the rural south Charles learns under the tutelage of his tough-love mother (Sharon Warren) to turn these handicaps into assets. With this training Ray eventually plays his way into a major deal with Atlantic records and earns icon status as an American legend. Along the way the high cost of fame leads him to engage in abusive relationships manipulative behaviour and struggles with drug and alcohol problems. This is a dynamite film for the music alone (Charles's actual recordings are used in the film) but Foxx's career-benchmark performance transcends Ray's biopic roots turning this into a piercing full-on character study: unflinching sometimes harrowing and ultimately deeply moving. The sheer joy of Charles's music comes alive in Foxx's movements and his character matures convincingly and powerfully. A stellar supporting cast is on hand to back him up every step of the way including Larenz Tate as producer Quincy Jones and Kerry Washington as Ray's long-suffering wife Regina.

• Dead Hate The Living | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Dead Hate the Living is a love letter to the nightmarish scenarios and visual freakouts of Italian horror pictures, although it also echoes with such American genre classics as Phantasm, The Evil Dead, and Scream. What could be better than a bunch of Italian horror buffs making their own zombie flick in a spooky abandoned hospital? Being attacked by the real thing, of course. The hapless crew discover a creepy black altar (complete with its own decorative corpse) and incorporate it into their film. When their scripted ceremony opens a portal from another dimension and unleashes an army of rampaging zombies, the hallways become flooded in red and blue and green pools of light for no good reason other than it looks cool. The hospital is suddenly adrift in an alternative reality because... well, just because. Writer-director Dave Parker never tries to explain the madness (a zombie's exclamation, "Hate the living! Love the dead!" is as much motive as we're offered), choosing instead simply to plunge viewers into the inspired mayhem. What makes it all work is a love of the genre, a cast of energetic, likable performers, cool zombie makeup, and a sure, stylish hand. Horror movie mavens will pick up on oodles of clever references (a bumper sticker that reads "Fulci lives"; a zombie king commanding, "Make them die... slowly"), but these are merely asides in an accomplished, clever, and remarkably entertaining indie horror riff. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com