"Actor: Joan"

• I Love You To Death | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rosalie Boca the devoted wife of a philandering pizza maker (Kevin Kline). When Rosalie (Tracy Ullman) learns that he's been squeezing more than just tomatoes her homicidal instincts take over. With the help of a New Age busboy (River Phoenix) drug-addled cousins Harlan and Marlon (William Hurt and Keanu Reeves) and her own mother (Joan Plowright) Rosalie attempts to send Joey to that big bed in the sky.

• Death Race Steelbook With Digital Copy | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £18.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (21.77%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop - The famed Death Race!

• Joan Armatrading: Steppin' Out | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £18.25   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  These two concerts from the German TV series Rockpalast straddle the release of Joan Armatrading's classic album 'Me Myself I'. The first show from 1979 is an intimate show at the WDR Studio in Cologne in front of an appreciative audience. The second show from 1980 is in the vast surroundings of the Grugahalle in Essen and reflects her commercial success in the intervening year and contains several tracks from the new album. The DVD gives a fascinating contrast between the earlier low key show and the more electric upbeat style of the later event. Tracklist Cologne - 1979 1) Down To Zero 2) Barefoot And Pregnant 3) Cool Blue Stole My Heart 4) Baby I 5) Mama Mercy 6) Opportunity 7) Let It Last 8) Woncha Come On Home 9) Steppin' Out 10) Love And Affection 11) Show Some Emotion 12) You Rope You Tie Me 13) Kissin' And A Huggin' 14) Tall In The Saddle 15) Takin' My Baby Uptown 16) Back To The Night 17) Help Yourself Essen - 1980 1) Mama Mercy 2) Down To Zero 3) Cool Blue Stole My Heart 4) I Really Must Be Going 5) Me Myself I 6) Ma-Me-O-Beach 7) Love And Affection 8) Rosie 9) How Cruel 10) Turn Out The Light 11) You Rope You Tie Me 12) Kissin' And A Huggin' 13) Tall In The Saddle 14) Willow 15) When You Kisses Me

• Wayne Out West | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A collection of classic Westerns starring the icon John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. Dark Command 2. Tall in the Saddle 3. Angel and the Bad Man 4. The Fighting Kentuckian 5. The War Wagon 6. Rooster Cogburn

• Dawn Of The Mummy | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Deep in the heart of ancient Egypt the mummified corpse of a pharaoh is put to rest and a curse is placed upon anyone unfortunate enough to disturb the tomb. Jump to the present day and a group of New York models and photographers are in Egypt looking for a unique location to serve as a suitable backdrop for a fashion shoot. When the group comes across a band of grave robbers who have unearthed a previously undiscovered tomb they decide to hold the shoot there. Setting up their e

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• The Surgeon | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Detective Michael D'Angelo's state of mind has caused him to make a serious error of judgement allowing a cop killer to escape from him. As a result he has been suspended from duty. D'Angelo's life spirals further out of control following the split from his long-time girlfriend acclaimed attorney Theresa Marsh (Joan Severance) who deserted him and married a respected doctor peter Marsh (Mick Mancuso). What neither of them realise is that their lives are about to collide once more when Theresa is assigned to the prosecution of a widely-publicised homicide case. The defendant is presumed to be a serial-killer and Theresa is immediately besieged by menacing death threats as she prepares her case against the accused. Insisting on continuing with the case Theresa ignores the threats only to be stonewalled when her husband suddenly disappears. Her worst fears are confirmed when she's told to drop the prosecution if she wants to see her husband alive again. Terrified by the caller and scared to contact the Police she is forced to turn for help to her ex-lover D'Angelo...

• Britney Spears - Time Out With Britney | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (-38.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ever wonder what it's like to be superstar Britney Spears? Well now you can find out in this exclusive DVD Time Out With Britney Spears. You'll see what it was like for Britney growing up in Kentwood Louisiana as Britney personally shows you her family's private collection of photos. Plus you'll hear Britney talk first-hand about making her first album the multi-platinum Baby One More Time. You'll also go on a behind-the-scenes journey into the world of making music videos where you'll see just how Britney shot her now-famous videos for the hit singles Baby One More Time Sometimes and (You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!). Britney also gives you intimate details of what it's like traveling and performing on tour. As an added treat Britney revisits her Mickey Mouse Club roots with special performances of her hits Born To Make You Happy and From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart shot live for her Disney Channel special! Time Out With Britney Spears contains tons of footage never before shown anywhere so it's an absolute must-have for any Britney Spears fan. Video Listing: 1. Baby One More Time 2. Sometimes 3. (You Drive Me) Crazy

• The Only Way is Essex - Series 1-3 | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £8.01   |  Saving you £31.98 (399.25%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Welcome to the world of Essex! A place where being seen without a tan is a crime and the need to look 'Reem' is compulsory: the brighter, the tighter, the better (And that's just Joey Essex). For three series we've watched our favourite characters pout, preen and party their way around Essex as they've fallen in love and out with each other. Mark Wright gave us love triangles and even love squares; Joey Essex gave us the word 'Reem' and Nanny Pat gave us her sausage plait. We've seen miniature Chihuahuas and massive pigs (Mr Darcy), romances and bromances, boob jobs and Botox and of course...vajazzles. Make sure you don't miss a single Shut uuup with this brilliant box set, as you relive those magic moments that put Essex on the map.

• Kiri Te Kanawa - Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - A Portrait | DVD | (24/08/2001) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A portrait of one of the most famous sopranos of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries filmed over a year. The camera follows her on her trips to New Zealand and the San Francicsco Opera. The DVD also includes recordings of Arias by Handel Charpentier Puccini Cilea and Richard Strauss.

• Wedlock | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Frank Warren an electronics expert is imprisoned in an experimental 'high-tech' prison for being convicted of a diamond robbery. Here inmates are secretly connected by collars which explode if separated by more than 100 yards.

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 7 | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The first part of series 3 of the acclaimed serial spanning the pre-war period of 1912-1914. Episode comprise: Miss Forrest / A House Divided / A Change Of Scene / A Family Secret / Rose's Pigeon / Desirous Of Change / Word Of Honour

• Father's Little Dividend | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Having finally accepted that his daughter is married Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) has now to deal with the news that she is pregnant! The news leads to a dispute between both the maternal and paternal grandparents... A sequel to Father Of The Bride which also starred Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett.

• The Boxer | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £22.95   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Jim Sheridan links up once more with Daniel Day-Lewis for 1997's The Boxer, a study of a violent Belfast's uneasy crossover into the peace process (they had previously worked on My Left Foot among other films). Day-Lewis stars as Danny Flynn, imprisoned in his late teens for terrorism, now out after 14 years. A once promising boxer, he's initially looking to resume what's left of his career. However, his rekindled love for Maggie (Emily Watson), daughter of local IRA boss (Brian Cox), is coupled with a need to be a part of the healing process in Northern Ireland. With the help of his former trainer (Ken Stott), he reopens a non-sectarian gym. However, the non-pacific wing of the IRA, personified by Gerard McSorley, resents Flynn, not least for consorting with Maggie, who is another IRA prisoner's wife. Day-Lewis plays Flynn as an almost spiritual figure, still caught in the introspection that enshrouded him during his years in jail. Ironically, the well-executed boxing scenes provide a respite from the air of serious violence that pervades the rest of the film, symbolised by the ominous rotorblades of the ever-present helicopters, from which much of the action of this sad, yet gripping and ultimately uplifting movie, is shot.On the DVD: Generous extras include commentaries from producer Arthur Lappin, who offers a tourist's guide to various locations, as well as one from director Jim Sheridan, who offers technical info and remarks drily of a brief, tart exchange between Maggie and Flynn, "This is an Irish love scene". There's also an alternative (though not that alternative) ending, extra scenes which probably deserved to stay on the cutting room floor and, most illuminatingly, a featurette on the movie. This reveals that the career of Barry McGuigan (boxing advisor here) provided Sheridan with the impetus to make The Boxer, inspired by the courage and grace he showed in the ring to rise above partisanship. --David Stubbs

• The Battleaxe | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-9.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Francis Matthews and Jill Ireland star as Tony Evers and Audrey Page an engaged couple whose pre-marital bliss is shattered by the future bride's domineering mother. Unable to withstand this wicked witch of the Northlands Matthews tries to weasel out of the marriage by suing for breach of promise: the broken promise being that mother would stop meddling. Joan Haythorne plays the domineering mother in-law Mrs Page who has made it her business to keep the two apart and ensure her daughter doesn't marry such a crooked character.

• Let It Rock - Vol. 1 | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A fascinating though often unintentionally hilarious miscellany of guitar-based music from the late 1960s to the early 80s, Let It Rock consists of performances--most live, some mimed--lifted apparently randomly from the archives of German TV. The common factor throughout seems to be a predilection for excessive facial hair (Joan Jett and Heart excepted). Otherwise the selection is entirely haphazard: the ordering is certainly not chronological, as neither the programme nor the minimal booklet notes mention broadcast dates of any kind. This is a shame, because there are some genuinely rare performances here: Yes playing "Yours Is No Disgrace" live in the studio (spoiled by silly psychedelic effects) and the Doobie Brothers' "China Grove", for example, as well as little-known tracks from Spooky Tooth ("That Was Only Yesterday"), The Grease Band ("Wild Side of Life"), Stone the Crows ("Danger Zone") and Man ("Daughter of the Fireplace"). Elsewhere, more silly camera effects detract from Free's "All Right Now" and Deep Purple's vintage "Highway Star" (the latter mimed, not live), among others. There is much that raises a chuckle, too: mad flautists in Family's "The Weaver's Answer" and (naturally) Jethro Tull's "The Witches Promise" (great song, silly video), the off-Broadway camp of Meatloaf's "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and the extraordinarily shambolic Ginger Baker's Air Force. On the DVD: Let It Rock may lack any kind of documentation or context for the music, but at least the sound is excellently remixed Dolby 5.1 or DTS. --Mark Walker

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £13.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (43.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney

• Unternehmen Feuergürtel (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) | Blu Ray | (13/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Cartier Affair | DVD | (23/07/2004) from £5.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Curt Taylor is a handsome con manstraight out of prison. He's paid his dues but not his debts. Underworld King Pin Phil Drexler wants back payment for protecting Taylor while he was inside. He makes Taylor an offer he can't refuse - and through a string of coincidences gets him a job as a secretary to the beautiful star Cartier Rand. But it's Iarceny Drexler's after and demands that Taylor steal the key to the security system of the star's mansion and plans a daring plot to heist her jewels. But the tables turn when the unlikely pair eventually fall in love and plan a heist themselves - to steal the jewels back....

• Rich And Strange / Young And Innocent | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Double bill from legendary Director Alfred Hitchcock. Contains: 'Rich and Strange' and 'Young and Innocent'.