"Actor: Mel"

• Four All Action Favourites | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-4.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Titles Comprise: Get Carter (2000): Jack Carter (Stallone) has spent his life collecting for other people - debts agendas retribution. He stands alone and always stands apart. But when his brother is killed in an accident it takes Carter home; to the family he abandoned to the debts that were never paid and a mystery that will take him to the center of his own soul. For Jack the trip home to Seattle is a second chance to make amends for past mistakes. He re-connects with his brother's wife Gloria (Richardson) and her teenage daughter Doreen (Leigh Cook) who are both suspicious of his sudden interest. But when he discovers that his brother's death has murder written all over it his purpose quickly changes from redemption to revenge... Cobra: Like Sylvester Stallone's Rocky and Rambo the hero of Cobra is another original: Lt. Marion Cobretti a one-man assault force whose laser-mount submachine gun and pearl-handled Colt 45 spit pure crime-stopping venom. Rambo: First Blood Part II director George P Cosmatos rejoins Stallone for this thriller pitting Cobretti against a merciless serial killer. The trail leads to not one murderer but to a New Order - and killing the inadvertent witness (Brigette Nielsen) to their latest blood spree. Fortunately Cobra is her protector. And full-throttle screen excitement doesn't get any better. Payback (1999): Mel Gibson portrays hard-boiled Porter in 'Payback' a fast frequently funny and ecstatically twisted blend of action and noir atmosphere co-written and directed by Brian Helgeland Academy Award winner for 'L.A. Confidential' based on the 'Point Blank' novel by Richard Stark. Porter makes his living outside the law. So when his partners in a heist rip off his 000 share and leave him for dead there's only one way for Porter to settle things: his way. And that sends him on a vendetta that will have a lot of lowlifes gaping at the talking end of Porters fat revolver. Crooked cops street gangs spineless flyspecks crime bosses anyone and everyone standing between Porter and his 70 grand are going to know he's back with a vengeance. The Specialist: Two dynamic stars combine fiery action with steamy sensuality in 'The Specialist'. Sharon Stone is May Munro a beauty with a fatal past: she's sworn death to the mobsters who murdered her parents. To do the job she recruits ex-CIA explosive experts Ray Quick (Stallone). Miami grows white-hot as May lures the killers and Ray detonates them into ashes. But a vicious mob boss (Roy Stieger) his brash son (Eric Roberts) and a psychotic hired gun (James Woods) with a lethal grudge against Quick won't go without a fight. The passion the two avengers share can't hide Ray's ominous question: is May falling for him or setting him up too?

• The Sullivans | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Sullivans: On The Brink Of War

• Curdled | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A young women named Gabriela has been fascinated with murder ever since she was a child. Moving one step closer to her obsession, Gabriela takes a job with a crime scene cleaning service in Miami, all the while fantasising about meeting the notorious 'Blue Blood' serial killer. Gabriela's dream is soon filled with a chilling face-to-face encounter with the psychopath... but will she live to tell the tale?

• Western Classics Collection | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of 7 classic westerns! Broken Arrow: By 1870 there has been ten years of a cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apache Indians. Tom Jeffords an ex-soldier saves the life of a young Apache boy and starts to reassess his opinions of the Indians. As an ambassador of goodwill he enters Cochise's stronghold but is peace achievable? (Dir. Delmer Daves 1950 Cert. PG) Broken Lance: Tyrannical cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) has raised his ol

• Sparky's Magic Piano | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This is a classic animation about a little boy who learned to love the piano featuring the voices and music of some of Hollywood's most celebrated talent.... Piano performances by Leonard Pennario with the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Schifrin. Works by Chopin Beethoven Liszt Schumann Mozart and Rachmaninoff.

• Hamlet | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £7.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Franco Zeffirelli's stripped-down, two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as a rather robust version of the ambivalent Danish prince. Gibson is much better in the part than many critics have admitted, his powers of clarity doing much to make this particular Hamlet more accessible than several other filmed versions. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. Zeffirelli's vigorous direction employs a lively camera style that nicely alters the viewer's preconceptions about the way Hamlet should look. --Tom Keogh

• 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Little Shop Of Horrors / Bat / Bride Of The Monster | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £3.53   |  Saving you £2.72 (119.82%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Little Shop Of Horrors: The original movie of this classic black comedy/horror about a rather dim-witted young man Seymour (Jonathan Haze) working for $10 a week in Mushnick's flower shop on skid row who develops an intelligent bloodthirsty plant. He names the plant ""Audrey Jr"" and as it grows it demands human meat for sustenance and Seymour is forced to kill in order to feed it. Jack Nicholson has a notable cameo part as an undertaker Wilbur Force who is a masochistic d

• Lethal Weapon 2 | DVD | (22/03/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. --Tom Keogh

• Death Trap | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £10.57   |  Saving you £-4.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  VIPCO proudly presents Tobe Hooper's much-villified follow up to his wildly successful 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. 'Death Trap' tells the story of a deranged madman who uses the guests of his rundown hotel not only to be victims for his demented thirst for blood but also as food for the crocodile he keeps under the hotel... Whilst 'Texas Chaisaw Massacre' was almost gore free and relied on music atmosphere etc. 'Death Trap' goes straight for the jugular and delivers the goods

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 4 - Part 3 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jack loses his fortune in the Wall Street crash. He returns to Liverpool illegally with gangsters pursuing him across the Atlantic. He becomes involved in the Spanish Civil War and agrees to run arms for an ex-Sergeant Major. Episodes include: 'Action! Comrades In Arms!' and 'Roll Of Honour'.

• Summer City | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.12   |  Saving you £-0.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  1950s rock 'n' roll road movie detailing the escapades of four buddies (one played by Mel Gibson in his movie debut) who head out of Sydney for a surfing weekend.

• Mel Lewis & His Big Band | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Jazz icon Mel Lewis represents what American Big Band is all about. Giving his players the creative and expansive freedom to solo Lewis is known for his unselfish and innovative approach to big band music and his ability to make a big band swing like a Bebop quartet. In this exclusive live DVD concert performance Grammy award winner Mel Lewis leads his top-flight 19-piece band with Joe Lovano Dick Oatts Gary Smulyan and Ralph Lalama. Song Selections include Little Pixie I'm Getting Sentimental Over You I Get A Kick Over You I Wanna Be Happyand Ding Dong Ding.

• Devil In A Blue Dress | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Despite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel never found a mass audience. Too bad, because Carl Franklin's film is nearly perfect in every way, from its rich, shadowy look to its depiction of life in post-World War II black America (LA-style) to the acting of Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle and others. Washington plays Easy Rawlins, an aircraft factory worker who is laid off only to find his true calling: as a private eye, albeit an unlicensed one. Hired to find a missing woman, he becomes entangled in a complex but satisfying case involving sex, corruption, racism and, of course, money. Devil In A Blue Dress is top-notch from top to bottom--and Cheadle is dangerously funny as Easy's best friend, a killer named Mouse. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Hideous! | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A scientist acquires a mutant born out of toxic sewage but can not prevent the homicidal little critter from escaping...

• Pinocchio | DVD | (24/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This legendary animated feature is surely beyond criticism by now and, furthermore, it's unlikely that we'll see such forceful narrative in a kids' cartoon ever again. Disney's treatment of Collodi's story of the little wooden puppet who wants nothing more than to be a real boy is always guaranteed to have audiences entranced. While some of the movie's success is derived from its liberal use of the kind of imagery no children's film-maker would even attempt to get past the storyboard stage today--a mysterious island where children smoke cigars, get drunk and turn into donkeys, a monstrous, malicious sea-creature which is devoid of any trace of cuddliness and a pair of villains who routinely abduct children, to give just a few examples--the characters are depicted with the finest attention to detail, most of the songs have become classics in their own right ("When You Wish Upon a Star" being only one of many) and the graceful, stylised animation positively glows with fine detail. Essential family viewing. --Roger Thomas

• The Fall Of The Roman Empire | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption and intrigue that tore apart the Roman empire. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of characters and stories. At the centre are handsome but stiff Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the ageing emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness), and Christopher Plummer as Commodus, the corrupt heir to the throne. They are boyhood friends turned enemies when the latter accedes to the throne and sells out the values of his father for greed and hedonistic pleasures. The three-hour running time is filled out with the tales of Sophia Loren (as the beautiful Lucilla in love with Livius but coveted by greedy Commodus) and a gallery of heroes and villains that includes James Mason, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif and Eric Porter. The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes--a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome--which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power. Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, but lacking the central core and magnetic hero of its superior predecessor. Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) tackles almost the same story with a more crowd-pleasing action-adventure slant. --Sean Axmaker

• Mel Gibson Collection | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mel Gibson DVD Collection (7 Discs)

• The Essential War Collection | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £34.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set Comprises: Battle of the Bulge (1965): For this epic recreation of one of World War II's most crucial confrontations director Ken Annakin (The Longest Day) captures the explosive action of massive forces squaring off as well as the brave individual ingenuity of weary GIs trying to survive a cruel European winter. The cast is a juggernaut of stars: Henry Fonda Robert Shaw Robert Ryan Charles Bronson Telly Savalas and more. Full Metal Jacket (1987): Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has foreseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle's torment and Joker's unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker's psyche and the repeated referral to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondent is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer. Memphis Belle (1990): Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz head the dynamic cast of Memphis Belle an adventure inspired by true World War II heroics. During spring 1943 they took to the war-torn skies for the most dangerous mission in defence of freedom. If the ten-man crew of the bomber Memphis Belle returned they would receive a hero's welcome and renew flagging public morale. But the odds were stacked heavily against them in the true courageous story of the brave fly-boys who each fought mortal fear while fighting the enemy together. Where Eagles Dare (1968): Commandos posing as German soldiers parachute into a small mountainside town to rescue a supposed allied general from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car. Escape to Victory (1981) This is no ordinary soccer match: this is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another proof of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins? Better yet guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape? Sylvester Stallone Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climatic match is a heart-in-the-throat hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pele Bobby Moore Osvaldo Ardiles Co Prins Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for 'Victory'! Kelly's Heroes (1970): In this less-than-serious look at World War II Lieutenant Kelly (Clint Eastwood) learns about a German gold shipment destined for France. With his ragtag fellow soldiers he is determined to slip behind enemy lines and retrieve it. The Dirty Dozen (1967): Atten-hut! Twelve jailbirds will earn their freedom... if they survive a suicide mission against the Nazi brass. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin leads a nothing-to-lose convict squad in this all-time action trendsetter.

• The Eyes Of Tammy Faye | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This unique documentary charts the incredible real-life story of the spectacular rise fall and resurrection of Tammy Faye Bakker one of the most loved - and hated - women of our time. Through extensive and revealing interviews we are taken on a journey through the headline-grabbing scandals and million dollar lies that devastated the televangelical empire that she and her husband Jim Bakker built together and which consequently destroyed her family. Featuring RuPaul in the role

• Romantic Comedies | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Rumour Has It: Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston) is in a fog. She's finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff (Mark Ruffalo) but isn't at all sure that marriage is what she really wants. Now she's on her way home to attend her sister's wedding which means spending a lot of time with the tennis-obsessed Pasadena family that she's never felt quite a part of. It isn't until Sarah stumbles into a well-kept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have the answers she's looking for (Kevin Costner). What Women Want: Meet Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson). A successful advertising executive Nick has the world and its women at his fingertips. Or so he thinks. The world of advertising is fast becoming a woman's world and slick-talking chauvinistic womanising Nick is out of touch. Enter Darcy McGuire (Helen Hunt). Darcy is hired by the agency as Nick's superior to bring a woman's perspective to the agency in a bid to win new clients from the untapped female market. But Nick's problems are just beginning. To his dismay a freak accident allows him to hear the thoughts of all the women around him. After consulting a psychiatrist (Bette Midler) he decides to use his newfound ability to his advantage both professionally and personally. However Darcy McGuire is no pushover and romance inevitably gets in the way. Must Love Dogs: Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mis-matches and first dates Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that no matter what it's never a good idea to give up on love!