"Actor: Kate Simon"

• Christmas Carol - The Movie | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A new animated version of Charles Dickens' classic tale of Scrooge and the three ghosts that visit him one Christmas Eve.

• The Hollow One | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £3.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In an isolated coastal community, Rachel Wade is sent down an emotionally destructive path after the tragic death of her mother. Forced to leave home, Rachel and her younger sister return years later to find their father missing and the community deserted. What starts as a search for answers quickly turns into a race for survival. In order to escape, Rachel must face her family's dark history and a mysterious figure with sinister intentions.

• The Tango Lesson | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master-dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically the woman, to yield to the other--and the expectations of the film-maker to do things on her own terms. Can Potter simultaneously surrender and control for the duration of this circular project? The question is made more complicated by Veron's desire to be in one of Potter's films--in other words, to follow her lead. Potter may not be Veron's equal on the dance floor, but that isn't the point of this interesting movie and its provocative, internal debate. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Last Minute | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Billy Byrne (Max Beesley) wants to be famous. He thinks he'll get eveything he wants when he's famous. He has a talent for selling himself for making people think he should be famous and he gets an agent who promises him the world. And then it all goes wrong. The world is indifferent to his talent. Billy's world is shattered and and he descends into a hostile 21st century version of a Victorian underworld squirming with all manner of thieves beggars and low lifes rejected by society...

• TV Party: The Sublimely Intolerable Show | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £14.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start - the sound person is late overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux a droll singer songwriter is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist soprano Klaus Nomi does one of his post-modern arias; Adny Shernoff of the Dictators plays the Beach Boys' Be True to Your School backed up by pom pom girls Tish and Snooky the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film Kidnapped with Arto Lindsay Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the white people talk about reggae segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos it's art. Tracklist: 1.Glenn on Mardigras 2.'Lil Rico' Amos Poe 3.Nile Rodgers Call In 4.Luigi Ciccolini Intellectual Talk