"Actor: Patrick"

• Fame Academy | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Fame Academy the Extended Remix tells the whole story of Fame Academy from the Auditions to final live showdown and the winner getting their amazing prize. See the students arrive at the Academy Carrie's first dressing down Kevin working them hard the first expulsion David's arrival. You'll see everything warts and all - the highs and lows the tears the romance and of course the amazing music. With footage of the live final including backstage stuff you won't have seen before the masterclasses singing for survival and the highlights of the fantastic live final this is an unmissable treat for all Fame Academy fanatics!!

• Valentine's Day | Blu Ray | (12/07/2010) from £7.94   |  Saving you £17.05 (214.74%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A love story. More or less. Valentine's Day follows the intertwining storylines of a group of Los Angelinos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine's Day. Directed by veteran film maker Garry Marshall the film features a star studded ensemble cast.

• Carry On Jack | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £9.10   |  Saving you £6.89 (75.71%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's set after the Battle of Trafalgar and the sea is awash with Spanish galleons and pirates as the British navy sets about defending its shores with as much incompetence as possible. Sally, a barmaid at the Dirty Duck (Juliet Mills in feisty principal boy mode), knocks Bernard Cribbins on the head and steals his uniform so that she can go in search of her childhood sweetheart. He is promptly press-ganged and they end up on the same ship. Williams, on the brink of his ascendancy as a star turn, just about keeps the mannerisms under control enough to build the character of the naïve and neurotic captain. Familiar Carry On faces on top form include Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale, while Peter Gilmore--in his pre-Onedin Line days--appears as a pirate. Peter Rodgers' script is not quite vintage Carry On but the jokes keep coming and it's all good, clean fun. On the DVD: This was one of the first Carry On films to be made in colour. The print is in reasonable condition. The picture quality, apart from a couple of scratchy scenes of sailing ships that were probably drafted in from stock footage, is fair, as is the sound. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. --Piers Ford

• Sir Patrick Moore - The Apollo Story | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £4.01   |  Saving you £0.98 (24.44%)   |  RRP £4.99

  ... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.' With these words delivered in a speech at Rice University on 12th September 1962 President John F. Kennedy signalled the start of a space race that was to end with Neil Armstrong stepping on to the surface of the Moon. But what of the history of the Apollo programme of their great exploratory successes and the human cost of their spectacular failures? On this DVD and with unique NASA footage and access to the Science Museum''s fantastic Space Expedition Sir Patrick Moore to many the voice of the actual Moon Landings explains the Apollo project in great detail including the launch pad disaster of the Apollo 1 mission which lead to the deaths of the three astronauts Virgil Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee Neil Armstrong''s first historical 'giant leap for mankind'' on to the lunar surface and to the explosion on board Apollo 13 where the world held it''s breath and prayed for the safety of its three astronauts.

• Ladder 49 | Blu Ray | (16/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  When Joaquin Phoenix's Baltimore fire fighter gets trapped in the worst blaze of his career, his fellow firemen do all they can to rescue him.

• Gioacchino Rossini - La Cenerentola | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gioacchino Rossini: La Cenerentola

• Dirty Dancing | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Patrick Swayze returns to our screens as rebellious dance teacher Johnny Castle in the re-release of this classic '80s hit.

• Welcome Aboard | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Taillandier (Patrick Chesnais) is a well-known painter in his sixties, but despite his success he finds himself overwhelmed by depression and decides to give up on his art. With no direction or destination in mind, he leaves his home without giving an explanation to even those closest to him. During his travels he has an unlikely encounter with Marylou (Jeanne Lambert), a young girl rejected by her own mother and also seeking out her path in life. As the pair travels together the bond between them grows closer, akin to a father-daughter relationship, as they give each other the helping hand they both need to make sense of their lives once more.

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1963/1964 (Box Set) | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete initial adventures of the upper crust crimefighter John Steed...

• Jimmy Neutron - Box Set | DVD | (24/06/2016) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this adventure based on NICK's first 3-D cartoon (JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS) a ten-year-old boy genius Jimmy Neutron is forced to deal with typical pre-adolescent pressures: hopelessly clueless parents fitting in with his peers and of course the inner workings of an intergalactic jet propulsion system stored under his playhouse. This film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Animated Feature Film.

• The League Of Gentlemen | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which Jack Hawkins plays an embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could justify turning their military experience to armed robbery. Unfortunately the tale is neither particularly amusing or thrilling, with an overlong central detour via an army camp prefacing the exciting heist and a largely anti-climactic ending. Nevertheless Hawkins effectively subverts his heroic officer type from The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and there's excellent support from a great cast including Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Roger Livesey. Bryan Forbes not only wrote the cynical screenplay but costarred with wife Nanette Newman in her first significant screen role. More influential than truly classic, The League of Gentlemen has lent its name to a modern BBC comedy, an "Extraordinary" comic strip-turned-movie, and proved the template for heist films ever since, including both versions of The Italian Job (1969 and 2003). On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer from an excellent condition print and mostly looks and sounds fine. There's minimal print damage, though sadly Philip Green's ironically patriotic main title music suffers from significant distortion. The only extra is the original trailer, which is now something of a period piece itself. --Gary S Dalkin

• Madonna - Ciao Italia | DVD | (24/05/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Direct from her 1987 world tour Madonna stars in a dazzling concert video that features over a dozen of her top hits. Featuring : Open Your Heart Lucky Star True Blue Papa Don't Preach White Heat Causing a Commotion The Look of Love Medley Dress You Up/Material Girl/Like a Virgin Where's the Party Live to Tell Into the Groove La Isla Bonita Who's that Girl Holiday

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1967 (Box Set 3) | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  1967 was a good year for the Avengers: The Definitive Dossier, Files 5 and 6 contains six classic episodes in which Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg get to flirt with stylish decadence as John Steed and Mrs Emma Peel. As they are at pains to point out at the end of one episode, their adventures often start with the mysterious death of an agent, and their involvement usually means at least one more death along the way--one of them gets tied up and the other has to engage in some perfunctory martial arts to save them. Yet none of this is important--it is the charm that matters, and the fact that the show was so aware of its own clichés is part of that charm. Another factor was the parade of British character actors in minor roles. Here Peter Cushing is a silkily vengeful villain, John Laurie a railway enthusiast and, in a body-switching episode, Freddie Jones and Patricia Haines are Steed and Emma themselves. The plots involve killer robots, engineered premonition in nightmares and hypnotic regression to childhood; the touches of surreal are part of The Avengers style blended with 60s fashions and loopy plots to create something effectively original and hugely influential. On the DVD: the DVDs are presented in a standard 4:3 television visual aspect with good mono sound for their date. As with other releases in this series, the special features consist of short biographies, a picture gallery and a "Follow the Hat" feature (modelled on the "White Rabbit" from The Matrix) in which Patrick McNee introduces each episode and interesting facts about cast and designers are flashed onto the screen.--Roz Kaveney

• The Bleeding House | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £4.75   |  Saving you £6.24 (131.37%)   |  RRP £10.99

  In this taut horror/thriller an isolated family home is invaded by a sweet-talking Texan psychopath who is intent on draining the family's blood. What he doesn't expect to encounter is an occupant even crazier than he is.

• Steel Dawn | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Martial arts warrior Nomad is drifting through a post-apocalyptic desert in search of those responsible for the murderer of his friend and mentor Cord when he comes across a small farming community. The farmers are under threat from Damnil an evil warlord and landowner with his sights set on the local water supplies. Hired to work on the farm of a feisty widow named Kasha Nomad finds himself caught in the middle of the brewing conflict when he discovers his friend's murderers are part of Damnil's gang. Steel Dawn is a violent futuristic kind of Spaghetti Western with Swayze in full-on action hero mode as the nomadic drifter bent on revenge.

• A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £11.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (109.12%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Following years of growing apart Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrive at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve his attempts to redirect it to Harold’s house ends with the “high grade” contents – and Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree – going up in smoke. With his in-laws out of the house for the day Harold decides to cover his tracks rather than come clean. Reluctantly embarking on another ill-advised journey with Kumar through New York City their search for the perfect replacement tree takes them through party heaven – and almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.

• Les Girls (1957) | Blu Ray | (17/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Best Friend | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £5.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (118.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kristen feels like the luckiest girl in the world; she has it all. But when she moves away from the city she has to leave her friends behind and start again. Arriving at her Grandma's ranch, Kristen has to adjust to a new life in the country, to new friends and to a totally different style of fashion. With the help of her new BFF, a talking horse named Stanford, she's finally fitting in and the two become inseparable. But sometimes, even best friends can become jealous of other friends!

• Phantasm II | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £17.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Tall Man is back with a vengance. Armed with his lethal band of flying silver spheres the deadly mortician who was thought to have killed his last victim nine years ago returns more dangerous than ever. Once again young Michael Pearson and his pal Reggie take on the master of the killer orbs as they race against time and risk their lives to thwart his murderous rampage forever...

• Purple Storm | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Terrorist Soong Chow's son Todd sustains a serious head injury but wakes from his coma to find he's been given a new life... Produced by action movie legend Jackie Chan this is one of the most acclaimed films in Hong Kong movie making history and winner of 10 awards at the year 2000 Hong Kong Critics Awards & Golden Horse Film Festival!