"Actor: Julian Sands"

• Robin Hood - Beyond Sherwood Forest | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  12 Century England: It is a deadly time of dark tyranny black magic and the outlaw archer known as Robin Hood (Robin Dunne of Sanctuary). But when the Sheriff of Nottingham (Julian Sands of 24 and Warlock) unleashes a winged monster upon the town and woods to massacre Robin's men and capture Maid Marian (Erica Durance of Smallville) hearts run cold with fear and streets red with blood. Before he can rob from the rich or give to the poor can The Prince Of Thieves survive the demonic onslaught of a winged beast from another world? Katharine Isabelle (Gingersnaps) co-stars in this chilling new take on the infamous hero from director Peter DeLuise filled with valour vengeance and nightmare creatures that take you behind the legend and Beyond Sherwood Forest.

• The Unknown Heart Collection | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £14.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Other Wife: Rebecca Kendall appears to have it all, but when her husband Richard is killed in a plane crash his lies and deceit become all too apparent. Not only has Richard left her penniless but he also has a second family on the other side of the Atlantic. When the two women eventually meet, they discover they have more in common than they could have imagined and both have been equally wronged; they are both The Other Wife. Unknown Heart: Elizabeth Lancaster's wish of a heart transplant comes true; but although the operation leaves her physically healthy she is emotionally estranged from her husband and children. When she meets the husband of the heart donor the two fall in love, however Elizabeth must decide which of the two men now in her life she wants to be with. A gripping story of love and betrayal, but will Elizabeth be given a second chance with her Unknown Heart? Valentine's Kiss: Famous for writing parenting guidebooks, Valentine would appear to be the perfect mother and wife; until her world falls apart when her husband leaves her and their children decide to live with him. With her publisher and her fans turning against her during a bitter divorce battle, Valentine realises she must fight back otherwise she will not only lose her family but her entire career.

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dario Argento's 1998 Phantom of the Opera is about as far from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version as it's possible to get. Grand Guignol isn't in it as he ransacks Gaston Leroux's poignant original for all its darkest elements and slathers them in gore. This phantom is no masked stranger, his scars sensationally exposed in the last reel. Instead he is Julian Sands in vampirical mode, an enigmatic wraith with extraordinary, literally mordant, powers, raised by rats in the sewer beneath the Paris Opera. Above ground, the authentically drawn twittering and jealous world of the opera house falls unsuspecting prey to his machinations. As his quest to turn sweet-voiced Christina (Argento's daughter Asia) into a prima donna gathers pace, so the horribly mutilated bodies mount up, meeting their demise in increasingly bloody ways. Sands generates an erotic charge verging on the kinky. His ratty friends share more than the festering food on his table. Somehow, the tragic romance at the heart of the tale survives this boisterous treatment and the overall effect is curiously stylish, marred only by a poorly dubbed soundtrack. A cult movie in the making; definitely one to enjoy after a good night out at the pub.--Piers Ford

• Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the true story of Spain’s most gruesome Werewolf murders.In 19th Century Spain, a travelling seller with a woman in every town is the keeper of an ancient secret. This handsome, charming ladykiller may also be leaving a trail of bloody murder in his wake that the locals attribute to “the Werewolf of Allariz”. Barbara lives with her sister, isolated in the deep forest. Her happiness comes when the mysterious seller comes to call, but why has he no fear of the wolves that lurk under the darkening trees and what does he keep hidden from view inside his wagon?Based on the true facts of a real murder case, starring Horror veteran Julian Sands (Warlock, Rose Red) and directed by Paco Plaza (REC 1&2), Romasanta is a sensual, horrifying and boldly original take on the Werewolf genre.

• Naked Lunch | Blu Ray | (17/08/2015) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-8.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  You are now entering Interzone, William S Burroughs' phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia and crawly things. Best travel advice: "Exterminate all rational thought". In David Cronenberg's superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch, the novelist himself becomes a main character (played in an implacable monotone by Peter Weller), with elements from Burroughs' life--including the shooting of his wife during a "William Tell" game, and bohemian friends Kerouac and Ginsberg--added to frame the book's wild visions. This is, ironically, a somewhat rational approach to an unfilmable book (and it makes a hair-curling double bill with Barton Fink, another look at writerly madness, with both films sharing Judy Davis). Cronenberg is a natural for oozing mugwumps and typewriters that turn into giant bugs, of course. But in the end, this is really his own vision of the artistic process, rather than Burroughs' hallucinatory descent into hell. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Leaving Las Vegas - 20th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £19.15   |  Saving you £-1.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An alcoholic (Nicolas Cage) decides to travel to Las Vegas to drink himself to death, but when he arrives he embarks on a strange love affair with a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue). He never asks her to change her profession whilst she never asks him to stop

• Tale of A Vampire | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A cross-cultural oddity, Tale of a Vampire feels like a 1970s British horror movie retranslated from the Japanese and mounted as a vehicle for Julian Sands. Director-writer Shimako Sato takes a gloom-haunted approach to the undead, allegedly influenced by the necrophile romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe (it claims to be based on Poe's poem "Annabel Lee") but also draws on the popular blood-sucking posiness of Anne Rice's bestselling novels. Alex (Sands), is a style-conscious vampire whose white shirts are always immaculate although he spends most of his nights messily pouring gore over his face. Living in a spartan docklands pad, Alex haunts a library of long-forgotten lore where he sets his cap at a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) who may be the reincarnation of his lost love. Unfortunately, a hat-wearing rival vampire (Kenneth Cranham) has been nurturing a grudge against Alex for lifetimes and sticks his oar in, complicating the relationship between vampire and willing victim, setting up for a big stake-shoving climax. For all its vampire feuds and dodgily S&M-flavoured blood-drinking scenes, this is somewhat staid and solemn, with few locations and a low budget abstraction reminiscent of those old episodes of The Avengers where they could only afford to build a corner of a set and there wasn't any money left to hire actors. While Sands, with aptly vampirish poise, and Cranham, with a sinister Southern accent, are interesting and poised antagonists, making the most of Sato's allusive dialogue, heroine Hamilton lets the side down with an awkward performance that hardly suggests anyone worth giving up immortality for. Cranham's character is supposed to be Poe himself, oddly transformed from his historical stature: he seems to have put on a bit of weight since his death in 1849, but Cranham's sly nasty way of ordering gruesome nouvelle cuisine and tormenting a harmless crackpot is aptly Poeish. The slow-paced film takes a long time to confirm what is obvious from the outset (even from the title) and then shudders to a halt with all the characters' fates left vague. However, it has a unique and disturbing atmosphere--the few familiar vampire images of a bloody Sands are outweighed by weirder moments like Cranham's presentation of a pale Hamilton, tied to a bed with red ribbons, as an offering to his nemesis--that makes it more insidiously memorable than many of its higher-budgeted, splashier cousins. On the DVD: A no-frills (no trailer, no cast notes, no nothing), full-screen presentation, which sometimes cramps Sato's careful compositions, this also has a mixed blessing transfer which lends a mouldy or rusty fuzz to some of the blacks in the many night scenes. There is, however, a nice animated menu. --Kim Newman

• Naked Lunch Steelbook | Blu Ray | (03/08/2015) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa... LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY STEELBOOK.

• After Darkness | DVD | (27/08/2002) from £11.15   |  Saving you £-5.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lawrence Hunningford (Julian Sands) becomes insane when as a child he witnesses the tragic drowning of his twin brother in the sands. He becomes gradually schizophrenic and is committed to the clinic. His elder brother Peter (John Hurt) accepts an invitation to teach at the University near the clinic. After Lawrence attempts to end his life Peter discharges his brother from the clinic and moves with him into a huge run down apartment and commits to take care of his brother. But the

• The Browning Version | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) a teacher of Greek and Latin at a private school is dubbed the 'Hitler of the Lower Sixth' by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school--forced into retirement by the headmaster and made a cuckold of by the infidelities of his wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) - Crocker-Harris finds his love for learning rekindled by the interest and sympathy of a young student named Taplow (Ben Silverstone) who gives him Robert Browning's translation of Aeschylus' Agamenon as a parting gift. Based on a Terence Rattigan play The Browning Version is a character study that finds pathos in British stodginess and makes a subdued plea for the nobility of teaching. Finney is the powerful centre of the film portraying a man whom time and opportunity have passed by. As humiliations are piled upon his character Finney registers nothing but silent resignation even as he ratchets up his stoicism to face the next disappointment.

• Million Dollar Hotel | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A gang of unique outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, known locally as the

• Romasanta - The Werewolf Hunt | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  1850. Wolves plague the forests. More and more people are disappearing. The mutilated cadavers present precise surgical cuts along with savage gashes. It's a contradiction that terrorises the local villagers who are too frightened to enter the forests. The legend of the 'Werewolf Of Allariz' expands throughout the land. Barbara and her sister Josephine live in an isolated house in the forest. They only feel safe when a travelling vendor by the name of Manuel Josephine's lover and w

• The Witching / After Darkness / Blood Sabbath | DVD | (06/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Withcing: A strange and sinister man Mr Cato (Orson Welles) wields extraordinary power in the small town of Lilith. Almost supernatural power. The townsfolk indulge in weird ritual in their pursuit of necromancy... bringing the dead back to life. Against this disturbing background it is a young beautiful girl Lori (Pamela Franklin) who becomes the human catalyst between life and death... After Darkness: Lawrence Hunningford (Julian Sands) becomes insane when as a child he witnesses the tragic drowning of his twin brother in the sands. He becomes gradually schizophrenic and is committed to the clinic. His elder brother Peter (John Hurt) accepts an invitation to teach at the University near the clinic. After Lawrence attempts to end his life Peter discharges his brother from the clinic and moves with him into a huge run down apartment and commits to take care of his brother. But the strain begins to show as more and more he neglects his family and work. Pascale (Victoria Abril) Peter's young assistant at the University worries about the strange changes she noticed in him. She follows him to his apartment and encounters Lawrence. Not suspecting anything and in spite of Peter's violent jealousy she interferes in the brother's relationship by answering Lawrence's desires. But more and more Lawrence's illness spreads to Peter whose jealousy and eventual madness end in tragedy and Lawrence is freed from his darkness. Blood Sabbath: When travelling through the woods young David is captured by a members of a witches' coven. Soon he is involved in a bizarre power struggle with a beautiful witch and the coven's evil queen...

• Criterion Collection: Naked Lunch | Blu Ray | (09/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Leaving Las Vegas | HD DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After getting fired by his production studio alcoholic script writer Ben Sanderson (Nicholas Cage) decides to leave everything to go to Las Vegas. In the city where the bars never close he diligently goes about drinking himself to death - that is until he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue) a young prostitute on the run from her former pimp. The two lost souls find solace together; making Ben realise there may be something to live for after all...

• The Killing Fields | Blu Ray | (27/02/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot’s bloody cleansing campaign which claimed the lives of 2 million innocent civilians.

• Hotel | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Irene is a shy reserved girl who starts working in an isolated mountain hotel. Her employers seem obsessed with cleanliness but she's not fazed by that. But she soon discovers that her predecessor has mysteriously disappeared and whenever she tries talking about it to the other employees or even the police she's met with indifference. And what are the connections to the cave nearby with its connections to witchcraft?

• Ken Russell Collection - Gothic/The Rainbow/Women In Love | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Gothic:A richly detailed delightfully chilling horror tale centering around the romanticism's poetic elite. When Lord Byron Percy and Mary Shelley and other assorted artistic guests gather at a secluded mansion they enjoy a frightfully scary drug-induced evening that ultimately inspires the writing of both Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" and Polidori's ""The Vampyre."" The Rainbow:Defying the moral constraints of Victorian England and her parents a young woman engages in unbridled promiscuity with two partners before setting out to capture the full sensuality of life itself. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. Women In Love:Growing up in sheltered 1920s England Gudrun and Ursula know little about the ways of love. So when they pursue thrilling torrid affairs with a notorious playboy and a brooding philanderer what they discover about themselves and their lovers may be more all-consuming than they ever dared imagine.