"Actor: Paula Yates"

• Mystify Michael Hutchence | DVD | (09/12/2019) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Lowenstein directs this biographical documentary centred on the turbulent personal life and career of INXS singer Michael Hutchence. The film explores Hutchence's personal relationships, musical fame and events that led him to losing control of his inner demons.

• She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £12.15   |  Saving you £-6.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  She'll be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984) epitomises the early work of the FilmFour brand: solid productions, usually awash with issues, a strong dose of prickly humour and a reliable ensemble of British character actors. This tale of female bonding concerns a miscellaneous group of women thrown together on an Outward Bound course. They've all come for their own reasons--men (the lack of, or to escape from), midlife crisis, feelings of now-or-never--and as the course escalates, these are discovered and shared. Even the rather tiresome and bossy course leader has a moment of revelation. Think Steel Magnolias in a tent. Will they make it? The bonding scenes are sufficiently well counterpointed by the wet and muddy action to keep you guessing. There are plenty of laughs to keep the clichés at bay, although John Goldschmidt's direction could have been tighter. The performances, led by Julie Walters at her most attention-seeking, are good and often touching. All in all this is a brittle but warm-hearted little comedy about optimism and survival. On the DVD: She'll be Wearing Pink Pyjamas is presented in 4:3 picture format with a dull mono soundtrack, which betrays its made-for-television origins. There are no subtitles and, apart from a scene index, no extras. --Piers Ford

• The Tube - Vol. 1 | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The best live performances from the first series of The Tube - the groundbreaking and anarchic Friday night music programme hosted by Jools Holland and - the late - Paula Yates. As well as featuring up-and-coming acts The Tube also played host to a number of well-established groups giving live performances which for the most part have not been seen since their original transmission and have never been released in any format before now. The live spirit of the series (first broadcast on Bonfire Night 1982) is further underlined with the inclusion of live interviews and behind the scenes footage as well as original linking sequences from Jools and Paula. Including sets from The Jam (in their last performance) Culture Club Robert Palmer Soft Cell Iggy Pop Depeche Mode The Stranglers Thin Lizzy Madness The Eurythmics The Undertones and U2.