"Actor: Mel"

• Charlie Chaplin Marathon - Vol. 2 - A Dog's Life / The Kid / Behind The Screen | DVD | (09/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring 'A Dogs Life' and 'The Kid' and 'Behind The Screen'.

• Acoustic Fingerstyles | DVD | (02/02/2010) from £6.82   |  Saving you £13.17 (193.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mel Reeves introduces a programme which looks at the basic techniques needed to develop fingerstyle skills.

• Complete Electric Guitar | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £22.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Rock blues country jazz fusion play all of these guitar styles now! This DVD will show you by using one simple chord sequence how to create authentic solos and rhythm parts in any style. Mel Reeves introduces: Blues: Peter Green style Country: Albert Lee style and Rock 'n' Roll: Chuck Berry style and more.

• Air America | Blu Ray | (25/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eaten Alive | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  If you are a fan of Tobe Hooper's classic film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre then you are in for a treat. This was Hooper's follow-up film to Chainsaw. In fact it features the same damsel-in-distress Marilyn Burns and was co-written by Chainsaw collaborator Kim Henkel. An Academy of Science Fiction and Horror nominee Eaten Alive is a very disturbing movie and features some of the most truly horrific scenes ever filmed. Judd (Neville Brand) is the owner of a dilapidated motel buried deep in the bayou that caters to strangers passing through. Unfortunately for the guests he also caters to his pet alligator's veracious appetite. Eaten Alive also features a very early performance by Robert Englund (Elm Street's Freddy Krueger)

• Hester Street | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A woman arrives in New York at the turn of the century to join her husband who appears changed by the American way of life. Their marriage is soon over and each finds happiness with another person. Based on the story 'Yekl' by Abraham Cahan.

• Maniacts | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £4.28   |  Saving you £9.97 (330.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ever wondered what happens when two serial killers fall in love? This outrageous jet-black comedy takes a twisted look at a love that breaks all the rules! Joe (Fahey) and Beth (Waymire) both multiple murderers meet in a corrupt institute for the criminally insane. Despite their less than romantic surroundings the two killers develop a strong bond and fall for each other. When Joe escapes the staff torture Beth for information. Realising that he can't live without her Joe retu

• Bill Wyman - Willie And The Poor Boys | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Do you know of a film on a band that features Bill Wyman Ron Wood and Charlie Watts (it's not the Rolling Stones) - also features Kenny Jones and John Entwistle (and it's not The Who) - also features Ringo Starr (no - it's not The Beatles) plus a few other 'less well known' artists such as Andy Fairweather-Low Chris Rea Gary Brooker and Raf Ravenscroft (remember the Saxaphone solo in Baker Street?)... don't know? Well it's just got to be... Willie And The Poor Boys! This band in concert was filmed at the Fulham Town Hall London UK in 1985 and was a concept based on an original idea by Bill Wyman. This film is a real gem - unearthed by Classic Pictures from Bill Wyman's personal vault and will be a 'must have' for any collector of classic rock. Tracklist: 1. Chicken Shack Boogie 2. Baby Please Don't Go 3. You Never Can Tell 4. Let's Talk It Over 5. Poor Boy Boogie 6. Saturday NIght 7. All Night Long 8. These Arms Of Mine 9. Can You Hear Me?

• Longest Day, The / Tora! Tora! Tora! | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Longest Day: On June 6 1944 the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3 000 000 men 11 000 planes and 4 000 ships comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. Presented in its original black & white version 'The Longest Day' is a vivid hour-by-hour re-creation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast and told from the perspectives of both sides it is a fascinati

• Ransom: 15th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (05/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Uninvited Guest | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  He's the reason you never talk to strangers. Silk (Mekhi Phifer) is an escaped convict looking for some fast cash to get out of the country and he's not going to let anything or anyone get in his way. When Silk's car breaks down he stops at the house of Howard a struggling script writer. Befriending Howard Silk offers to assist him with his writing. Debbie Howard's supportive but neglected wife arrives home with her friend Tammy and the pair are enchanted by Silk's smooth persona. It is not long before Silk has seduced Debbie's mind and body. Now Silk is in control and he embarks on a killing spree to demonstrate his psychotic power. He will stop at nothing to achieve his evil objective...

• Heathcliff - Vol. 2 - The King Of Beasts | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  If ever there was a cat about town it's Heathcliff. The cherished pet of Nutmegs Heathcliff's life is anything but boring. With tricks galore up his furry little sleeve he's constantly playing pranks on others or planning daring raids on the local milkman. However Heathcliff is not the only cat in town... Episodes: The King Of The Beasts Cat Can Do Smoke Get's In My Eyes Much Ado About Bedding City Slicker Cat House Of The Future

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• Love For Lydia - Episodes 1 To 5 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first five episodes of the lavish ITV costume drama series set in the late 1920s as Lydia Aspen a provincial heiress who develops from an awkward teenager into a wild flapper toys with the affections of the men around her...

• Killing Spree | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From the creator of Truth or Dare comes a new kind of madness! A jealous husband murders his wife's lovers only to be terrorized by their bloodthirsty zombified corpses. However he displays plenty of invention in disposing of his undead love-rivals! Featuring special effects by the legendary Joel Harlow (Basket Case 2 Toxic Avenger).

• Ice Age / Chicken Run | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ice Age: A star-studded cast provides the voices for the prehistoric creatures in this computer-animated feature set 20 000 years ago as the Ice Age approaches. Seemingly anti-social Manny a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) acts as if he just wants to be left alone. When he meets Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) a sloth the two become unlikely traveling companions. The plot thickens when the duo finds a human infant and decides to try to return the child to its herd. Manny slowly but surely reveals his heart of gold while Sid continues to provide comic relief. Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) a saber-tooth tiger with ulterior motives soon joins them in their search for the humans. Ultimately this group of misfits becomes its own herd learning about friendship and loyalty as they brave snow ice freezing temperatures predators hail and even boiling lava pits. All the while a saber-tooth squirrel Scrat provides comic relief as he valiantly struggles with an acorn. A well-written humorous script and endearing characters mesh well with the state-of-the-art technology and effects. Other stars lending their voices to the feature include Goran Visnjic Jack Black and Jane Krakowski. Chicken Run: Trouble is brewing down on Mrs Tweedy's poultry farm: the chickens are revolting (yes that old chestnut) and clucky hen Ginger (voiced by Julia Sawalha) is planning her latest coop um coup. Getting one or two birds out of the farm is no problem whatsoever. Unfortunately Ginger plans to get everyone out at the same time and when one of the would-be escapees happens to be kind-hearted but bird-brained Babs (Jane Horrocks) Ginger is fighting a losing battle. Despotic owner Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) plans to turn the birds into the tender filling of her new range of homemade chicken pies and is waiting until the hens have fattened up. Ginger knows that time is of the essence but every daring scheme ends in disaster. Ginger needs a miracle. And fast. As she contemplates her next escape attempt with Scottish engineering genius Mac (Lynn Ferguson) Ginger sees their salvation in the form of a rooster named Rocky (Mel Gibson) if the cocksure Rocky can teach all of the hens how to fly then they can all fly out of Tweedy's clutches before she gives them the chop.

• Mad Max | UMD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised between our industrialised world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an overcharged cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society they take everything dear to Max, who then has to exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films. --Alan E Rapp, Amazon.com

• Acoustic Blues Guitar | DVD | (02/02/2010) from £24.65   |  Saving you £-4.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mel Reeves introduces a guide to the various techniques required to play blues guitar.

• Play Jazz Guitar Now! | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £24.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (1.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Whether you are a dedicated jazz fan or just wish to add a little jazziness to your amoury of guitar styles Mel Reeves can show you how to play those cool chords and stunning solos.

• Hangman's Curse | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bizarre occurances continue to take place at Rogers High School and the students and teachers are still haunted by the infamous Abel Fyre a kid taunted and teased until he hanged himself in a forever feared corner of the school ten years earlier. A family of undercover supernatural agents aim to excorcise the evil forces at work....