"Actor: Laura Albert"

• Fame | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This early effort by director Alan Parker is lively but jagged as it follows four students through their years in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Rather predictably, the kids fall into four clearly defined stereotypes: brazen, gay and hypersensitive, prickly, shy. Fame makes up for a disjointed presentation with a lot of heart and a great soundtrack (for which it won two Academy Awards). The hopes and disappointments, failures and successes of these teens are fodder for emotional scenes and exuberant dancing in the streets. It also turned out to be the first of many imitators and spawned a popular television series. (It was the breakout film for the short-lived feature-film career of Irene Cara, who sang the title song.) --Rochelle O'Gorman

• The Night They Saved Christmas | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (20.77%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Experience a magical journey of discovery as three children race against time to stop a group of greedy Artic oil prospectors from accidently blowing up Santa Claus! The children's father Michael - also the prospector's head geologist - is under pressure from his boss to strike it big before Christmas. In a desperate bid to save his job he begins blasting with dynamite but unknowingly also starts to cause serious damage to North Pole City - the fantastical home of Santa Claus an

• Author: The JT LeRoy Story | DVD | (19/09/2016) from £7.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (50.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, the fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert.

• Unnamable, The / The Unnamable Returns | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A double bill of horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft: 'The Unnamable' (1988) and 'The Unnamable Returns' (1993). The Unnamable: It is rumoured that Joshua Winthrop was horribly murdered and mutilated by the creature born of his wife. Meanwhile college students at nearby Miskatonic University decide to disprove the rumours by spending the night in the house. They are later joined by Carter who now takes the legends more seriously when he learns that his buddy has disappeared the

• A Ma Soeur! | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Catherine Breillat's A Ma Soeur! is a touchingly honest but also highly disturbing account of two French middle-class teenage sisters' family holiday. As sexually explicit as Breillat's earlier picture, Romance, this film focuses on the travails of flabby 12-year-old Anais Pingot (Anais Reboux), who is the bane and the opposite of her glamorous elder sister Elena (Roxane Mesquida). Constantly having to live in the shadow of Elena and being nagged by her workaholic father (Romain Goupil), lonely Anais resorts to eating and her imagination for pleasure. Her 15-year-old sister, in contrast, is desperate to find romantic love. Their differences are harshly exposed when Elena starts a frantic affair with Italian law student Fernando (Libero De Rienzo). To minimise the risk of being discovered by their parents, Anais accompanies Fernando and Elena throughout their clumsy encounters. She's even present during the pair's sexual experimentation. Anais Reboux's depiction of an introverted young woman is both shocking and true to life, particularly the scene when she swims around a swimming pool kissing and conversing with the pool's diving board and steps as if they were imaginary lovers. The film actually thrives on very little, a simple plot, a 25-minute bedroom scene, and the monotony of the fatal motorway trip home. Like violence itself, the violent ending is a particularly pointless and baffling finale for an otherwise thought-provoking film. On the DVD: A Ma Soeur! on DVD can be viewed with or without English subtitles. The bonus material includes biographies of the leading actors and the director, a theatrical trailer and promotional images from the film. Tom Dawson's excellent notes booklet provide an informed insight into the production of the movie. The anamorphic picture is good, as is the Dolby Stereo soundtrack. --John Galilee

• Tinto Brass | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The legendary Tinto Brass the king of erotica presents this superb 8 disc DVD box set containing 8 of his greatest films. Known as 'Il Maestro' in his native Italy Tinto Brass is without doubt the world's most talented erotic cinematographer. The Key 'The Key' of the title opens the drawer where unknown to each other the husband and wife hide their diaries. Nino wants his wife who is 18 years younger than him to open up her soul sexually. To this end he sheds his inhibitions in his diary writing down his most bizarre sexual fantasies. He then discovers that his wife and their daughter's fiance Laslo are attracted to each other. Nino tries to stimulate an affair by taking explicit photographs of Teresa and having Laslo develop them... Cheeky Carla is an attractive carefree young woman from Venice who comes to London to find a place for her lover Matteo and herself to live. At an estate agency the proprietress Moira makes some explicit sexual overtures to Carla which she finds intriguing... All Ladies Do It Diane and Paul are happily married mainly due to Diane's sexual adventures. She can't resist casual affairs and recounts them to her husband who finds them arousing. Yet when Diane returns from a visit to Venice with bite marks on her Paul's suppressed jealousy erupts... Paprika In a masterful combination of provocative showgirl revue incisive parody scandalous erotica and tender romance Madame Colette's delicious brothel becomes the fantastic surreal world where the generously endowed Mimma takes her first steps as lady-of-the-night Paprika. Miranda Miranda is the landlady of a tavern in a small village somewhere in post-war Italy who is looking for a husband. During her quest she tries out an assortment of lovers for size including: a rich politician a passing American GI and a local gigolo while all the time leading on and teasing the waiter she employs. Frivolous Lola Lola is a young lively and beautiful girl who has just got engaged to Masetto the local baker's son. Unfortunately he is a little old fashioned and convinced that she has to remain a virgin until after their wedding. Things become complicated when Lola starts feeling dangerously attracted to Andre her mother's lover a much more experienced man... Private Lies subterfuge betrayal and mischief: 'Private' is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women... Black Angel 1945: with the war and fascism coming to an end Livia is travelling from Asolo to Venice to meet her secret lover Helmut Shultz (Gabriel Garko). Livia begins to vividly relive the high points of the devastating sexual abandonment that has shaped her life...

• Empire Of The Wolves | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £15.28   |  Saving you £7.70 (62.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you can't remember your past... you can't save your future. Anna Heymes (Arly Jover) the wife of a senior government official is experiencing the loss of memory and terrifying hallucinations. In the Turkish neighborhood of Paris two police officers Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin) and Schiffer (Reno) are trying to solve the mystery of the sadistic murders of three women all clandestine Turkish laborers. While the upright Nerteaux is determined to stop the killings Schiffer

• La Cenerentola | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £2.86   |  Saving you £16.39 (1,024.38%)   |  RRP £17.99

  La Cenerentola is Rossini's version of the popular Cinderella story an entertaining mixture of comedy pathos coloratura fireworks and masquerade.

• Ja'mie: Private School Girl | DVD | (16/06/2014) from £19.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ja'mie: Private School Girl is the story of Ja'mie King (Chris Lilley) a conniving Year 12 student and Queen Bee of Hillford Girls Grammar. As School Captain and unchallenged diva she stops at nothing to climb her way to the top dissing Boarders and conquering members of the opposite sex. Clothes cars boys parties and a hot-girl entourage... Ja'mie has it all until her quest to win the Hillford Medal triggers a series of outrageous events that change her life forever.

• From the Basement | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £4.89   |  Saving you £12.10 (71.20%)   |  RRP £16.99

  From The Basement is a new series showing on Sky which has a simple premise: put the music first. There is no presenter no big production no bullshit. The acts go into the studio set up and play their hearts out in front of the cameras. The mix of artists is eclectic but with an overriding common factor - they really know how to deliver a performance. This DVD brings together some of the best performances from the series so far and reflects the breadth of talent and styles that have graced the basement studio. Tracklist: 1. Radiohead: Weird Fishes / Arpeggi 2. Radiohead: Reckoner 3. White Stripes: Blue Orchid / Party ... 4. White Stripes: Red Rain 5. Beck: Motorcade 6. Beck: Cell Phone's Dead 7. Jamie Liddel: In The City 8. The Shins: Turn On Me 9. The Shins: Phantom Limb 10. Jarvis Cocker: Fat Children 11. Neil Hannon: A Lady Of A Certain Ag... 12. Laura Marling: Your Only Doll (Dora... 13. Sonic Youth: The Sprawl 14. Sonic Youth: Pink Stream 15. Eels: Millicent Don't Blame Yoursel... 16. Eels: It's A Motherfucker 17. Albert Hammond Jr: Everyone Gets A ... 18. Albert Hammond Jr: Postal Blowfish 19. P.J. Harvey: The Piano 20. P.J.Harvey: The Devil 21. Super Furry Animals: Let The Wolves... 22. Super Furry Animals: The Gift That ... 23. Damien Rice: Delicate 24. Damien Rice: Blower's Daughter 25. Autolux: Let It Be Broken 26. Jose Gonzalez: Abraham 27. Jose Gonzalez: High Low 28. Thom Yorke: Down Is The New Up 29. Thom Yorke: Videotape