"Actor: Jan"

• The Good Companions - The Complete Series | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Jan Francis leads a lively cast in Beiderbecke writer Alan Plater's definitive adaptation of J.B. Priestley s celebrated novel. Charting the rollercoaster fortunes of a struggling concert party Francis co-stars alongside Bryan Pringle John Stratton and Moody and Pegg's Judy Cornwell with guest appearances by Roy Kinnear Denis Lawson and Nigel Hawthorne. Priestley's defining work and one which established him as a national figure The Good Companions has been a mainstay of English literature since its initial publication in 1929. Jess Oakroyd discontented with his home his work and his football team tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton but instead finds himself on the ragged edges of show business. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.

• Fanny and Alexander (2-disc Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/02/2023) from £22.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One tumultuous year in the life of the Ekdahl family is viewed through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, whose imagination fuels the magical goings-on leading up to and following the death of his father. When his mother remarries a stern bishop, Alexander and his sister Fanny are banished to a gothic world. Directed by Ingmar Bergman and drawing heavily on his own memories, it highlights the young protagonist's fascination with storytelling, while also serving as a kind of confessional critique of Bergman-s films and reworked themes, with trademark scenes of marital infighting, desperate grief, and searching existential enquiry. This two-disc Blu-ray features both the OSCAR-winning theatrical cut and original television miniseries, both presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

• The Musketeer | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £9.07   |  Saving you £8.91 (146.55%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Musketeer is director-cinematographer Peter Hyams fresh new take on Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure tale, The Three Musketeers.

• Ronin | Blu Ray | (14/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, a.k.a. "ronin." With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors with nothing but time on their hands. Their mission, as defined by the woman who hires them (Natascha McElhone), is to get hold of a particular suitcase that is equally coveted by the Russian mafia and Irish terrorists. As the scheme gets underway, De Niro's lone wolf strikes up a rare friendship with his French counterpart (Jean Reno), gets into a more-or-less romantic frame of mind with McElhone, and asserts his experience on the planning and execution of the job--going so far as to publicly humiliate one team member (Sean Bean) who is clearly out of his league. The story is largely unremarkable--there's an obligatory twist midway through that changes the nature of the team's business--but legendary filmmaker John Frankenheimer (Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate) leaps at the material, bringing to it an honest tension and seasoned, breathtaking skill with precision-action direction. The centerpiece of the movie is an honest-to-God car chase that is the real thing: not the how-can-we-top-the-last-stunt cartoon nonsense of Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon), but a pulse-quickening, kinetic dance of superb montage and timing. In a sense, Ronin is almost Frankenheimer's self-quoting version of a John Frankenheimer film. There isn't anything here he hasn't done before, but it's sure great to see it all again. --Tom Keogh

• Scenes From A Marriage | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage opens with a couple--Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johann (Erland Josephson)--being interviewed for a magazine. Every moment seems to teeter on the brink of some rupture; just as they start to get comfortable, the interviewer has them freeze for a photograph. After making some bland, general statements, they both start admitting intimate details, confessing that they were brought together by mutual misery, then cheerfully claiming that theirs is a model marriage. The entirety of Scenes from a Marriage--which chronicles their emotional relationship even after a divorce and marriages to other people--continues to have these contradictions, moments of honesty and self-deception, of cruelty and kindness, concern and self-obsession, all laid bare by the skilful actors and the subtle, constantly shifting screenplay. Every scene is a small movie unto itself; in fact, Scenes from a Marriage was originally a six-episode TV show, carefully edited down into a unified film. This is one of Bergman's most immediate and accessible works, concerned more with the facts of human behaviour than symbolism or abstract themes. Bergman understands how to balance what could be horrible pain and despair with the characters' earnest efforts to improve their lives. His imitators reduce everything to sheer suffering and alienation; Bergman sees the best in his characters, even when their actions are terrible. This 1973 film won numerous awards, including several acting honours for Ullmann. --Bret Fetzer

• Intimate Lighting | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Award-winning comedy (American National Society of Film Critics) revealing the hilarious lifestyles of the residents in a small country town. Brilliantly photographed by cinematographers Josef Strecha and Miroslav Ondricek (Amadeus A League of Their Own) this spirited farce is never timid never afraid to reach for the outlandish or sublime. With stunning performances and an unforgettable ending director Ivan Passer (Cutter's Way) wonderfully illustrates

• Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Russian soldiers accidently unleash the hound of Dracula while excavating a field in Romania.

• Deceived | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £13.06   |  Saving you £1.93 (14.78%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In her fist dramatic role screen superstar Goldie Hawn gives a critically acclaimed performance as Adrienne Saunders a woman whose perfect life as a wife and mother disintegrates into a waking nightmare of betrayal and deception. Adriennes's world begins to unravel when her husband Jack (John Heard Home Alone; Awakenings) is apparently killed in a freak car accident After his mysterious death she discovers the shocking truths about the man she loved and chilling evidence of mu

• Jiminy Glick In La La Wood | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (73.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How a legend was born! Ruthless. Shameless. Clueless! Celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) tackles the big screen with his first feature film: a wildly irreverent laugh-till-it-hurts movie experience. Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere the small-time journalist with big aspirations and an even bigger appetite drags his wife and kids across the country to the star-studded Toronto Film Festival. But in between t

• NIGHTWING & SHADOW OF THE HAWK (Eureka Classics) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (15/03/2021) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release a 1970s Killer creature double feature of NIGHTWING & SHADOW OF THE HAWK, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, presented as part of the Eureka Classics range from 15 March 2021. The first print run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition Collector's Booklet. Are a wave of mysterious deaths on a Native American reservation being caused by killer vampire bats, or a curse from beyond the grave? Featuring special effects work by Carlo Rambaldi (Alien, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial), Nightwing was one of many creature features produced to cash in on the success of Jaws, but director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) also imbues the film with a humanitarian edge. Described in recent years as an eco-gothic Western, and a great exploration of social change and race relations, Nightwing comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever in the UK. An ageing medicine man (Academy Award nominee Chief Dan George; The Outlaw Josey Wales) recruits his sceptical grandson (Jan-Michael Vincent; Airwolf, The Mechanic) to aid him in a spiritual battle against evil spirits and black magic. Filmed in the forests of British Columbia to stunning effect, Shadow of the Hawk features a number of eerie and effective sequences of supernatural terror, and Eureka Classics is proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time ever on home video in the UK. Special Features: O-card Slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling | English SDH subtitles | Nightwing Brand new audio commentary by film historians Lee Gambin and Amanda Reyes | Shadow of the Hawk Brand new audio commentary with film writer Mike McPadden and Ben Reiser | Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood Audio essay by John Edgar Browning | Trailers | PLUS: A Limited-Edition Collector's Booklet featuring essays by film historian Lee Gambin and film scholar and author Craig Ian Mann (First Print Run of 2000 Copies Only)

• Airwolf The Movie | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £9.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (65.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Airwolf: The Movie is a futuristic high action adventure about an awesome billion dollar helicopter equipped with a twin-turbine drum rotor system capable of propelling it to 300 knots plus 14 firepower options. When the helicopter is purloined by Libyan mercenaries Michael Archangel (Alex Cord) project director of the CIA enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and his father's best friend Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine) in an attempt to recover the Airwolf. A deadly mission which takes them to the Middle East where they come face to face with the enemy in a dirty battle to repossess the deadliest aerial weapon ever made.

• Little Secrets | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £7.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (156.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Little Secrets is a delightful cautionary tale about modern childhood. Blair Treu's film manages to be reassuring about the reality of a world in which kids are perceived to grow up too quickly, without patronising them about the scale and scope of the problems that preoccupy them. At 14, Emily (Evan Rachel Wood) has it all mapped out. Wise beyond her years, she is a musical prodigy who also runs a neat sideline keeping the secrets of the neighbourhood children for a small fee: broken china, kittens hidden in the bedroom, money stolen from dad's wallet to buy his own birthday present. These enjoyable scenes owe a huge debt to Peanuts. But Emily has a secret of her own, and over one cataclysmic summer the burden of this and all the others she is keeping on behalf of her friends becomes insupportable. Moralising is kept to a minimum as events resolve themselves in a dramatic way and saccharine levels are modest thanks to the determinedly unsentimental performances of Wood, David Gallagher and Michael Angarano. All told this is a pleasing family film of some quality. On the DVD: Little Secrets might be a small film, but it has a big picture feel, enhanced by the anamorphic widescreen presentation and a super-clear Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Extras include a good director's commentary in which Treu stresses the childish truths that make the story so touching, a short making-of documentary and a not particularly funny blooper reel. --Piers Ford

• Jan Fennell - The Dog Listener | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £3.51 (20.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Acclaimed dog trainer Jan Fennell is the author of countless books and has already appeared in her own television series on Channel 5 The Dog Listener. Now she brings her expertise to DVD... Inspired by the world famous Monty Roberts and his 'Horse Whispering' technique Jan has developed an approach that gets to the very core nature of the dog understands it then uses the knowledge to deliver incredible results. 'Dog Listening' teaches owners to understand the true nature of dog

• Witnesses The Complete Season 1 | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £12.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (55.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Desecrated graves, dead bodies dug up and left in model homes… Every time, the same ritual: a woman, a man, a teenager, who weren’t related but who form a new family. Amid the bodies, a photo: the one of Paul Maisonneuve, a Crime Squad legend in the North of France, now retired but forced to return to duty. Who is digging up the bodies? Who is leaving them in model homes and why? Young female detective Sandra Winckler, in charge of the case, must work with Paul Maisonneuve to find out just who is behind these macabre stage settings. During her investigation, she will have to delve into Paul’s past, believing him to know more than he lets on. Because that’s where the truth must lie: somewhere in Paul’s past. For the detective and the ex-cop, life will never be the same… For in the shadows, is a man who will stop at nothing to gain his revenge – a long planned out revenge

• Hostel | Blu Ray | (08/04/2007) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (75.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel and discover the grim reality behind it.

• Frank Herbert's Dune--TV series | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part, four-and-a-half-hour television adaptation of the author's bestselling science fiction novel, telling a more complete version of the Dune saga than David Lynch's 1984 cinema film. The novel is a massive political space-opera so filled with characters, cultures, intrigues and battles that even a production twice this length would have trouble fitting everything in. While television is good at setting a scene, it loses the novel's capacity to explain how the future works, and as with Lynch's film, Frank Herbert's Dune focuses on Paul Atreides, the young noble betrayed who becomes a rebel leader--an archetypal story reworked everywhere from Star Wars (1977) to Gladiator (2000). Top-billed William Hurt is only in the first of the three 90-minute episodes, and while he gives a commanding performance, carrying the show falls to the less charismatic Alec Newman. This version is at its strongest in the ravishing Renaissance-inspired production and costume design and gorgeous lighting of Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor). The TV budget special effects range from awful painted backdrops to excellent CGI spaceships and sandworms. The performances are variable, from the theatrical camp of Ian McNeice as Baron Harkonnen to the subtlety of Julie Cox's Princess Iruelan. John Harrison's direction is less visionary than Lynch's, but he tells the story more coherently and ultimately the tale's the thing. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Hostel/Hostel 2/Hatchet | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Hostel: A trio of teenagers two American one Icelandic backpack around Europe looking for a good time. While in Amsterdam they are told of a youth hostel in Slovakia where all their wildest dreams will come true. Jumping onto the first train there the three stumble into a hedonistic travellers' paradise. Soon however one of the three boys goes missing and slowly but surely the holiday from hell begins to unfold... Hostel 2: Director Eli Roth (Hostel Cabin Fever) and producer Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs) up the ante in the brutal and terrifying sequel to the smash hit Hostel. Starring Bijou Phillips (Almost Famous Venom) Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries Scream 3) and Roger Bart (The Producers TV's Desperate Housewives) Hostel Part II takes place directly after the events of the first film and once again also features Jay Hernandez (Hostel Ladder 49) as the revenge-seeking but ultimately hapless Paxton. After the outrageous events of Hostel Hostel Part II follows a group of female backpackers as they are lured to the apparently perfect youth hostel for a holiday packed with hedonistic fun. However the truth once again turns out to be far more terrifying as the girls are subjected to a brutal ordeal at the hands of the sick tourists who pay to exercise their darkest desires. Hatchet: It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Ben (Joel David Moore) has reached booze and boobs overload. Recently dumped and pining after his girlfriend he enlists his pal Marcus (Deon Richmond) to accompany him on a swamp tour in a boat that travels the spooky murk surrounding the city. Marcus is less than enthused until the crew of the low low low (low) budget movie Bayou Beavers signs on including amateur cameraman Shapiro (Joel Murray) pneumatic Misty (Mercedes McNab) and ditzy Jenna (Joleigh Fioreavanti). Joining them on the rickety cruiser are the painfully wholesome couple Mr. and Mrs. Permatteo (Richard Riehle and Patrika Darbo) and the beautiful-but-sullen Marybeth (Tamara Feldman). Led by the P.T. Barnum of the swamp tour industry fast-talking but slow-thinking showboater Shawn (Parry Shen) the tourists are decidedly underwhelmed by the fog low-hanging branches and aggressively quiet sounds that Shawn tries to pass off as frightening. He launches into the story of Victor Crowley - yup a legend in these parts - who is known to haunt the swamp. The boaters wave off the story as part of Shawn's continuing nonsense - except for Marybeth who is notably discomforted.

• Home From Home - A Chronicle of A Vision | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £8.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (81.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Edgar Reitz (director of the Heimat Trilogy) continues his visionary journey through German history with a domestic drama and love story set against the backdrop of a forgotten tragedy. In the mid-19th century, hundreds of thousands of Europeans emigrated to faraway South America. It was a desperate bid to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Jakob, the younger of two brothers, dreams about leaving his small village for adventures in the wild Brazilian jungle. Everyone who encounters Jakob is drawn into the maelstrom of his dreams: his parents, his belligerent brother Gustav, and above all, Henriette, the daughter of a gem cutter fallen on hard times. His brother's imminent return from military service, however, is destined to shatter Jakob's world and his love for Henriette.

• Airwolf - Complete Season 4 (5 disc set) | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £20.15   |  Saving you £19.84 (98.46%)   |  RRP £39.99

• Changeling / Girl, Interrupted / The Good Shepherd | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Changeling: Los Angeles 1928: On a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son Walter and left for work. When she came home she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues and months later a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old is returned. Dazed by the swirl of police reporters and her conflicted emotions Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As she pushes authorities to keep looking she learns that in Prohibition-era L.A. women don't challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich) who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy. Girl Interupted: After a botched suicide attempt Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) checks herself into a renowned psychiatric hospital where she meets a group of troubled young women including the charming sociopath Lisa (Angelina Jolie) and soon realizes she'll have to fight for her sanity and her freedom. The Good Shepherd: Edward Wilson the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Central Intelligence Agency. While working there his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually he becomes an influential veteran operative while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.