"Actor: Mark Joy"

• Cracker Complete Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £17.12   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.12

  All 11 feature length Cracker adventures in one box set! Robbie Coltrane leads an all-star cast in Jimmy McGovern's groundbreaking gritty drama as the uncompromising idiosyncratic Fitz a man whose psychological insight extends to everyone but himself. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Mad Woman In The Attic 2. To Say I Love You 3. One Day A Lemming Will Fly 4. To Be A Somebody 5. The Big Crunch 6. Men Should Weep 7. Brotherly Love 8. Best Boys 9. True Romance 10. White Ghost 11. Cracker

• Desperately Seeking Susan | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (37.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This likeable, feminist screwball comedy about several incidents of mistaken identity is remembered more as the film that made Madonna a movie star. She's flip, hip and energetic as Susan, the wild tramp with whom bored, suburban New Jersey housewife Roberta Glass (Rosanna Arquette) becomes obsessed after reading of her sexual conquests in the personal ads. Of course, since Madonna essentially played herself, the role's hardly a stretch. Director Susan Seidelmen presents a series of zany incidents too complicated to recount, but the result is that Roberta swaps lifestyles with her fixation to explore New Wave culture on New York's Lower East Side. It's territory Seidelmen knew well as her more offbeat, indie debut, Smithereens, revelled in the same setting. But where Smithereens took a more edgy approach to its characters, Susan is a fairy tale romantic comedy, and eventually becomes as conventional as the suburban characters it mocks by settling conflicts with predictable Hollywood formulae. Still, there's much to be enjoyed. The film's at its funniest when juxtaposing New York hip and New Jersey suburbia, like when Arquette's straight, suit-and-tie husband dances with Madonna in a punk club. The performances, too, are engaging, especially Arquette and Aidan Quinn, playing a romantic film projectionist who becomes her grubby Prince Charming. --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Series 1/2/3/4 | DVD | (14/11/2022) from £39.07   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shakespeare & Hathaway: The Christmas Special | DVD | (13/11/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blind Date | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £7.94   |  Saving you £-1.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bruce Willis’ first starring vehicle was 1987’s Blind Date, a Blake Edwards comedy in which the actor plays a yuppie set up on a blind date with a beautiful blonde (Kim Basinger). Everything goes swimmingly until Willis does what he was warned not to do: give the lady alcohol, which causes her to get entirely out of control. The one-note joke basically turns the film into a succession of set pieces in which Willis has to keep up with Basinger, bail her out of trouble, or get out of the way of her hot-headed former boyfriend (John Larroquette). Willis is fine, Basinger is impressively unhinged, Larroquette is hilarious, and Phil Hartman has a nice role as the friend who set up Willis’ evening from hell. The slapstick shtick is classic Edwards, but the film is not Edwards at his most inspired. Consider Blind Date the work of a good filmmaker in a holding pattern.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Way Of War | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (434.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In action thrillerThe Way Of War Cuba Gooding Jr plays a paramilitary operative who goes on a rampage after discovering a war conspiracy.

• Around the World in 80 Days | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.93   |  Saving you £11.06 (123.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An all-singing, all-dancing version of Jules Verne's classic novel finds eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg set out on a frantic, heart-pounding round-the-world race.

• Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Series 1/2/3/4 | Blu Ray | (14/11/2022) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon.

• Jack Rosenthal Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  One of Britain's greatest dramatists the award-winning playwright Jack Rosenthal created some of the most critically-acclaimed and popular single plays of the last forty years. Instantly recognisable by their warmth and humour Rosenthal's scripts were always popular with the viewing public and were invariably big ratings winners. Alongside single plays he also honed his craft on a diverse range of television shows - from Coronation Street (for which he was one of the key writ

• Rita, Sue And Bob Too | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  British films about sex are fairly rare, and mostly embarrassing: from the painfully anxious (Brief Encounter) to the hopelessly naff (the Carry On films). What a treat then is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke's filming of a stage play by young Andrea Dunbar. It's an unsentimental, gleefully lewd comedy about shagging. Tagged for its cinema release in 1987 as "Thatcher's Britain with its knickers down", it even provoked a minor moral hullabaloo in the newspapers. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two giggly Bradford lasses stuck on a ramshackle housing estate. They keep themselves in fags by occasional baby-sitting for nouveau riche couple Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Bob fancies himself rotten, but Michelle has ruled that sex is off the menu. So one night, driving Rita and Sue home, Bob detours to the Yorkshire moors and offers the girls a little something extra in his front seat. Rita and Sue decide to grab it while they can. Alan Clarke's cult following is founded on his bleak, brilliant films about violent young men (Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain). But Rita, Sue is a tribute to Clarkey's ribald sense of humour. It even sports a cameo from novelty pop-act Black Lace, performing their non-hit "Gang-Bang". Teenage debutantes Holmes and Finneran are terrific--just watch them dancing lustily around Bob's red leather sofa to Bananarama. In support, Clarke wisely cast skilled northern comedians like Patti Nicholls and Willie Ross, as Sue's foul-mouthed mum and dad. Amid the laughs, Clarke as usual doesn't stint from showing us the harsh, unlovely side of life. He shot the film on location at Bradford's Buttershaw estate, where Andrea Dunbar grew up and where, tragically, she died of a brain haemorrhage only a few years after the film's release. --Richard Kelly

• The Virtues | DVD | (12/08/2019) from £14.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stephen Graham stars as Joseph, a moral yet troubled man who's lost everything he ever held dear. Joseph finds himself compelled to travel to Ireland to confront the demons that continue to haunt him from a childhood spent in the care system, a journey that will have savage and brutal consequences. His path soon crosses with that of Dinah, played by Niamh Algar. She's fiery and more than able to stand up for herself, but like Joseph she's also deeply guarded, holding close a secret she's hiding from all those around her. Joseph and Dinah's lives spiral intensely in and out of control as they both try to ground themselves, torn between morality and self-indulgence, defined by drug-induced self destruction, traumatised by their own harrowing histories, and yet enlightened by their dual faith in companionship. Survival instincts kick in as they pave their way to an unnerving and tormented future. Neither of them thought their lives would ever tangle into a delicate love story.

• Desperately Seeking Susan - Deluxe Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (21/11/2022) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  If you know what to look for, you can find almost anything in the personal ads...including the love of your life! Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction) is irresistible and, in her first starring role, pop star Madonna (Evita) gives a marvellously comic performance in this delightfully mad-cap comedy about mistaken identity. Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Arquette) fills her days by reading the personal ads and following an ongoing romance between Jim (Robert Joy) and Susan (Madonna), a mysterious drifter who appears to lead the kind of free-spirited life about which Roberta can only dream. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arrange rendezvous in New York City...and after a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan and opens the door to intrigue, laughter and love! Product Features Brand new interviews with director susan seidelman, producer sarah pillsbury & author of Madonna: like an icon lucy o'brien. Postcards, booklet & poster Bespoke cover art.

• Morons From Outer Space | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A space ship stops at an intergalactic fuel station. While the captain's refueling one of his idiotic companions plays with the controls and accidently starts the ship and crashes into the earth. This causes a sensation: the media celebrates the extraterrestrials the military interrogates them for eternal wisdom. However soon they recognize that the fellows are dumb as bricks - although some generals believe it's just a mask.

• Down To Earth | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £5.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (63.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chris Rock stars as Lance, a struggling Brooklyn comic who dies a moment too soon and is returned to earth in the body of Robert Wellington, a rich white man whose wife and lover are plotting to kill him.

• Black Rainbow | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father Walter (Robards) make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband Tom. The problem is Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist

• Black Rainbow | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father Walter (Robards) make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband Tom. The problem is Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist Gary Wallace (Hulce) who discovers that Martha's premonition also revealed to her the identity of Tom Kuron's murderer...

• Backstreet Justice | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A complicated chain of murders uncovers a conspiracy that spans three decades. A young female PI is hired to solve a number of local murders. With no luck coming from the courtroom she has to take matters into her own hands.