"Actor: Marianne"

• Boxing Day | DVD | (28/11/2022) from £3.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for the holidays to introduce his American fiancé (Lisa) to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test, as she discovers the world Melvin left behind revolves around his ex-girlfriend (Georgia), who is now an international pop star!

• Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £9.87   |  Saving you £5.12 (51.87%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For pulse pounding suspense and relentless thrills nothing can match this DVD one of the most frightening chapters in the chilling 'Halloween' series! In one single horrifying night Michael Myers' masked reign of terror changed Halloween forever! Now six years after he was presumed dead in a fire Myers has returned to kill again and this time there's no escape! As the homicidal fury builds to a spine-tingling climax the long hidden secrets of the screen's most maniacal murderer

• Dust Devil | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  He's not a serial killer. He's much worse. A shape-shifter comes from the desert in search of victims a spirit the locals call the Dust Devil. He prays on the lonely and the unloved those that have already lost everything but life itself... Wendy has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer tracks the killer. Aide

• Prison | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.00   |  Saving you £11.99 (149.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A maths teacher approaches a former pupil now a film director with an idea for a film: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. Upon considering the idea for his next project the director shares his memories with a journalist while filming an ill-fated passage from his past... Based in and around a movie studio this experimental and intriguing film is essentially a film within a film and is notable for being the first Bergman film in which Death a key leitmotif makes an appea

• PETER STRICKLAND | A CURZON COLLECTION - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (15/07/2024) from £61.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Step into the weird and wonderful world of Peter Strickland with this comprehensive, limited edition, 6 blu-ray disc collection boasting his complete feature filmography to date: Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, In Fabric, Flux Gourmet, and Strickland's debut film, Katalin Varga, available on Blu-ray for the first time. Also included are more than a dozen short films spanning over 30 years of Strickland's filmmaking career, from his first forays into music videos to a brand-new short film exclusive to this collection. Many of these included shorts have never been seen before, and are newly restored, accompanied by a diary-like exploration featured in the editorial booklet, written by the director himself. Feature FilmsKatalin Varga (2009) Berberian Sound Studio (2012) The Duke of Burgundy (2014)In Fabric (2018) Flux Gourmet (2022)

• The Escapees (Limited Edition Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (09/12/2024) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Between the dystopian paranoia of The Night of the Hunted and the visceral excesses of The Living Dead Girl, director Jean Rollin takes a surreal detour into the Parisian demi-monde with The Escapees (Les Echappées, also known as Les Paumées du petit matin). When two young women, the wayward Michelle (Laurence Dubas) and the withdrawn Marie (Christiane Coppé), escape from an asylum, they find themselves drifting through a nightmarish world of burlesque troupes, lascivious sailors, and hardened criminals. After a violent confrontation, the police close in... With its supporting cast of key collaborators, including actors Brigitte Lahaie (Fascination), Louise Dhor (Requiem for a Vampire), Bernard Papineau (The Night of the Hunted), Jean-Loup Philippe (Lips of Blood), Natalie Perry (The Nude Vampire) and composer Philippe D'Aram (Two Orphan Vampires), The Escapees is at once atypical, yet unmistakeably Rollin. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES New 4K restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films Two presentations of the film: Les Échappées, Jean Rollin's original version; and Les Paumées du petit matin, the alternative version with re-ordered scenes Original mono audio Audio commentary with film expert Tim Lucas (2024) One Day in Paris (2008): far-reaching interview with Rollin in which he discusses The Escapees and his other films Quant à Louise (2024): regular Rollin collaborators Natalie Perrey and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou remember actress Louise Dhour Previously unseen interview with actor Jean-Loup Phillipe (2024) Critical appreciation by author and musician Stephen Thrower (2024) Image gallery: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes New and improved English translation subtitles Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Lucas Balbo, archival writing on the film by Jean Rollin, an archival interview with the director, an archival interview with composer Philippe D'Aram, a tribute to Rollin by fantastique cinema expert Nicolas Stanzick, and full film credits Limited edition of 10,000 individually numbered units (6,000 4K UHDs and 4,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US

• The Legacy (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written by the late, great Jimmy Sangster (The Revenge of Frankenstein, Taste of Fear), this supernatural riff on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is a gruesome, hugely entertaining chiller. Two American architects (real-life couple Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott, who met on the set of this film) are holidaying in England and find themselves trapped at a country mansion where the various guests become victims in a series of unexplained and increasingly violent deaths. Director Richard Marquand (Return of the Jedi, Jagged Edge), making his feature-film directing debut, deftly balances horror and grisly black humour. The film also boasts sumptuous photography by the great Dick Bush and Alan Hume, a wonderfully eccentric score by Michael J Lewis and a superb supporting cast which includes Charles Gray, Margaret Tyzack, Ian Hogg, John Standing and The Who's Roger Daltrey. Extras: Two presentations of the film: the US theatrical cut, presented in widescreen from a High Definition master (100 mins); the UK theatrical cut, presented open matte from a Standard Definition master (102 mins) Original stereo audio New and exclusive audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television An Editing Legacy (2015, 14 mins): award-winning editor and second unit director Anne V Coates recalls her work on the film The Make-up Effects of ˜The Legacy' (2015, 11 mins): Robin Grantham discusses his specialist make-up creations for the film Ashes and Crashes (2019, 4 mins): interview with second unit director Joe Marks An Extended Legacy (2019, 11 mins): an analysis of the differences between the US and UK cuts Between the Anvil and the Hammer (1973, 27 mins): The Legacy director Richard Marquand's acclaimed documentary short film, made for the Central Office of Information, about the Liverpool police force Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity material

• A Fistful of Dollars | Blu Ray | (31/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Without A Trace - Series 4 | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £25.25   |  Saving you £24.74 (97.98%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Without a Trace is a fast-paced procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The sole responsibility of the special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the layers of the victims' lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they have been abducted been murdered committed suicide or simply run away. The team reconstructs a ""Day of Disappearance"" timeline that details every minute of the 24 hours prior to the disappearance following one simple rule: learn who the victim is in order to learn where the victim is. Episodes Comprise: 1. Showdown 2. Safe 3. From The Ashes 4. Lost Time 5. Honour Bound 6. Viuda Negra 7. The Innocents 8. A Day In The Life 9. Freefall 10. When Darkness Falls 11. Blood Out 12. Patient X 13. Rage 14. Odds Or Evens 15. The Stranger 16. The Little Things 17. Check Your Head 18. The Road Home 19. Expectations 20. More Than This 21. Shattered 22. Reqiuem 23. White Balance 24. Crossroads

• Without a Trace: The Complete Seventh Season | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Fistful of Dollars Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (12/05/2025) from £29.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It wasn't really the first film of its kind, but the western all'Italiana or spaghetti Western was never the same again after Sergio Leone's groundbreaking A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood in the classic role that made him an international icon. A nameless stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel and quickly finds himself in the middle of a bloody battle for power between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. Cannily realising there's money to be made from playing each side against the other, the Man with No Name soon finds himself caught in the crossfire as the body count escalates, his only chance of escape a standoff against the Rojos' mercilessly cruel leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté). Leone's clever and contemporary inversion of Western archetypes was not only the first entry in a much-beloved trilogy, but the director's first collaboration with the brilliant composer Ennio Morricone. Now fully uncut and freshly restored in glorious 4K with an arsenal of new and old bonus material, the Man with No Name rides again like never before! 4K ULTRA-HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella ¢ Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Pasquale Iannone and Eloise Ross ¢ Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella DISC 1 FEATURE (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) ¢ New 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative ¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) ¢ Original English and Italian front and end titles ¢ Newly restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio ¢ Optional newly remixed lossless English and Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack ¢ Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack ¢ Audio commentary by film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling ¢ Audio commentary by film historian and critic Tim Lucas ¢ Trailers, TV spots and radio spots DISC 2 EXTRAS (BLU-RAY) ¢ When It All Started, a newly filmed interview with film historian and critic Fabio Melelli ¢ Four Fingers Four Picks, a newly filmed interview with guitarist Bruno Battisti D'Amario ¢ Wind & Fire, a newly filmed interview with Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa ¢ A Night at the Movies, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker Paolo Bianchini ¢ A Fistful of Outtakes, highlights from the original rushes ¢ The Day the Soundtrack Changed, a new visual essay by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon exploring the film's iconic score ¢ Marisol: Leone's Madonna of the West, an archival interview with co-star Marianne Koch ¢ The Frayling Archives and A New Kind of Hero, two archival interviews with Sir Christopher Frayling ¢ A Few Days in Spain, an archival interview with Clint Eastwood ¢ Tre Voci, an archival featurette with Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi ¢ Opening scene with Harry Dean Stanton filmed for the film's US TV debut in 1975, plus an archival interview with the prologue's director Monte Hellman ¢ Restoration Italian Style, an archival featurette on the film's remastering for DVD ¢ Location Comparisons 19642004, an archival featurette ¢ Alternate credits sequences ¢ Three comprehensive image galleries: A Fistful of Pictures, On the Set and Promoting ˜A Fistful of Dollars' COMING IN MAY 2025... FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE! COMING IN JUNE 2025... THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!

• Va Savoir | Blu Ray | (28/04/2025) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Returning home with her travelling theatre troupe, actress Camille (Jeanne Balibar, Les misérables) finds the affections of her director lover Ugo (Sergio Castellitto, Conclave) have waned after he takes an interest in Dominique (Hélène de Fougerolles, Innocence), a vivacious student helping him search for an infamous missing play. In a bid to make him jealous, Camille reunites with her former lover Pierre (Jacques Bonnaffé, Prénom Carmen), now happily married to Sonia (Marianne Basler, Midnight in Paris), and a farce-like series of love triangles ensue. Theatrically exploring attraction, jealousy, and every emotion in between, Jacques Rivette's quick-witted and zesty romantic drama turns a satirical lens on the city's intelligentsia - for whom Paris will always be their home - to ask whether even they know what love is all about.

• Ghost Story | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stephen Weeks's dreamlike chiller is the perfect definition of a cult British Horror film. Reunited in a country mansion in 1930s England, former public schoolmates Larry Dann (The Bill), Murray Melvin (The Devils) and Vivian MacKerrell (the inspiration for Bruce Robinson's creation Withnail in his only major screen role) are visited by the spirit of former resident Marianne Faithfull (The Girl on a Motorcycle). who was wrongly incarcerated in a local asylum. Via her demonic doll, we are transported to a surreal and sinister world of incest and murder, and her revenge on the corrupt asylum s sadistic doctor. Featuring Barbara Shelley (Dracula, Prince of Darkness), Leigh Lawson (Hammer House of Horror), Anthony Bate (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Beasts) and Penelope Keith (The Good Life, To The Manor Born) with a soundtrack by Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin, Ghost Story Now beautifully restored and packed with bonus features, Ghost Story successfully combines 1970s horror with 1930s charm in this high definition premiere!

• Wes Craven's New Nightmare | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £7.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (25.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Halfway through A New Nightmare Heather Langenkamp goes to visit Wes Craven to discuss resurrecting the Freddy Krueger series for one last film. Craven's script focuses on a malevolent demon that has escaped from the stories in which he was trapped because they have lost their power to scare. Sound familiar? This script-within-a-film refers, of course, to the real-life fate of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and is an idea typical of this intelligent movie which successfully blurs the line between this horror film and its real-life production context. Langenkamp plays herself, in virtually her own life: a D-list actress unable to match the success she found in the original Nightmare on Elm Street films. She, like the rest of the cast and crew of the original films (also played by themselves--most notably Craven and Robert Englund, camping himself up as an adored celebrity and part-time "artist"), is haunted by dreams of the Freddy Krueger character. Craven's script reveals that if Freddy is not trapped within a story more powerful than the Elm Street sequels--i.e. this film--he will become real.New Nightmare is an interesting precursor to the Scream series, and it attempts to capitalise on its self-reflexivity in a similar way. The idea is that, having openly revealed that the rest of the Elm Street series were "only films", New Nightmare can then set about scaring your pants off. The biggest hindrance, however, is the Freddy character himself. Despite the fact that we are told that this is the "real" Freddy, rather than the cinematic incarnation we've seen many times before it is still difficult to shake off a persistent sensation of déja-vu. Freddy just isn't scary any more: his face looks a lot less gnarled than it used to be and even the once-terrifying claw seems to have lost its edge. Similarly, having hammered home the fact that this movie is real, those elements of the film which require a little more imagination--such as Freddy's body-stretching, the surreal scare sequences and the Gothic-fantasy finale--appear absurd. Thus, if certainly not as good as the original, New Nightmare is at least an intelligent, fresh and occasionally scary film: which makes it head and shoulders above most of its genre and certainly better than most of this series. --Paul Philpott

• 28 Days | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £4.72   |  Saving you £1.27 (26.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  28 DAYS, the story of Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock), a successful New York writer living in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl.

• Girl on a Motorcycle | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £21.25   |  Saving you £-19.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Caught midway between 1970s soft-porn clunker The Story of O and Bunuel's sado-masochistic fantasy Belle de Jour, the 1968 erotic curio Girl on a Motorcycle is one of Marianne Faithfull's chief claims to notoriety. She stars as Rebecca, a leather-clad, former bookstore clerk in search of sexual fulfilment who flees her dependable schoolteacher husband for a dangerous liaison with Daniel (Alain Delon), a dashing Professor addicted to speed. The story is told entirely in flashbacks as Rebecca rockets along the road, having donned her leathers and walked out on her sleeping husband at the crack of dawn. It all must have seemed fairly daring and provocative in 1968, providing viewers with ample opportunities to view a naked Faithfull at the height of her allure. But today the existential musings of the lead character seem achingly pretentious, the erotic symbolism merely gawky and unintentionally amusing: the sight of Alain Delon with a phallic pipe dangling from his mouth is like something out of a Rene Magritte painting. The sex scenes between Delon and Faithfull are all swamped in a polarised visual effect that, while garish and psychedelic, is dated and distinctly unerotic. Director Jack Cardiff is better known as a cinematographer on classics such as The African Queen and Black Narcissus. Among Cardiff's other directorial credits is a worthy adaptation of DH Lawrence's Sons & Lovers, but Girl on a Motorcycle is a saucy road movie with no final destination. On the DVD: This DVD version is misleadingly presented as being the fully restored and uncut version of the film. Yet it was the US version not the European one that was heavily cut (and titillatingly re-titled "Naked Under Leather"). The restoration certainly does not refer to the print quality: although the colours are vivid and bright, the print used to master the DVD (in 16:9 anamorphic format) is extremely grainy and, at times, speckled with dirt and scratches. Included as one of the special features, a theatrical trailer loaded with innuendo shows just how much the film was marketed to a prurient audience. Director Jack Cardiff provides an audio commentary but has few revelatory things to say about his film beyond technical considerations, and even makes several clunking errors (recalling his casting decisions concerning a scene that takes place in a provincial German café, he raves about how he strove to find authentic French locals!). He does reveal that the film's use of a voice-over was inspired by the internal monologue that forms the basis of James Joyce's Ulysses. Given Cardiff's age and experience one feels that he must have more interesting anecdotes and insights, making this commentary feel like a wasted opportunity. --Chris Campion

• Charlie Chan | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.24

  Though the Charlie Chan film franchise has earned brickbats for its casting of Caucasian actors as the Asian sleuth, the movies have retained popularity among aficionados of '40s-era B-crime pictures, and the six-disc Charlie Chan Chanthology, all featuring Sidney Toler as Chan, should please that crowd. The Missouri-born Toler starred in 11 Chan pictures for Fox before purchasing the rights to the character from creator Earl Derr Biggers's widow and bringing it to budget studio Monogram, where he starred in 11 more Chans before his death in 1947 (Roland Winters replaced him in six more features until 1949). At Monogram, Chan became a Secret Service Agent (a move calculated to cut down on exotic locations and sets), and comedy was integrated into the plots via Mantan Moreland's chauffeur Birmingham Brown; Benson Fong also joined the cast as Number Three Son Tommy, with occasional appearances by daughter Frances (Frances Chan) and son Eddie (Edwin Luke, brother of Keye Luke, who played Number One Son Lee in the Fox Chans). Other than that, the six films collected here (the first six Chans for Monogram, and all but five directed by Phil Rosen) are largely indistinguishable from one another save for the murder victims and their demises. In The Secret Service, Chan investigates the death of a wartime inventor; a San Francisco socialite expires in The Chinese Cat; daughter Frances is involved in the murder of a psychic in Meeting at Midnight (a.k.a. Black Magic); another government scientist is killed in The Jade Mask, and death by remote control is the focus of The Scarlet Clue. Director Phil Karlson (Kansas City Confidential) adds some noirish atmosphere to The Shanghai Cobra, which has bank employees dying from apparent snakebites. Dated and controversial as they may be, the Chan films are engaging diversions for vintage mystery fans. No extras are featured in the set. --Paul Gaita

• Wallander: Collected Films 14-20 | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Seven more feature-length episodes of the acclaimed Swedish crime drama based on the novels by Henning Mankell. Krister Henriksson stars as Kurt Wallander a jaded police detective ground down over the years by difficult events in his personal life. As he investigates a string of grisly crimes in the cheerless town of Ystad Wallander is accompanied in his work by his troubled daughter Linda (Johanna Sallstrom). Episodes are: 'The Revenge' 'The Guilt' 'The Courier' 'The Thief' 'The Cellist' 'The Priest' and 'The Leak'.

• Intimacy | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-6.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adapted from the short stories of acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy is an intelligent, thought provoking and frank adult drama about relationships, jealousy and the inability to love.

• Secrets and Lies | DVD | (22/07/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young, black optometrist whose adoptive parents have recently died. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter Roxanna (Claire Rushbrook). Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) is a successful photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice & Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues and some painful truths are revealed.