"Actor: Pauline"

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Dancehall Queen is a hugely enjoyable melodrama featuring a resourceful heroine, spectacularly slimy villains and a lot of very loud music. Street vendor Marcia (Audrey Reid) is under pressure from all directions--family friend Larry has made her dependent on his good will before putting sexual pressure on her teenage daughter while street thug Priest has killed a friend for minding her patch and is now trying to push his way into her bed. What is attractive about this film is that Marcia wins by playing to her strengths: she goes back to the wild-child dirty dancing she loved before having her children and becomes Mystery Lady, a contender for cash prizes in competition. Most of the film's occasional touches of wild comedy come from her attempts to keep this from her rather staid daughter and the ease with which, from behind silver foil fringes and jewelled nose-chains, she can take revenge on the men who mess with her quieter persona. This is a surprisingly classy little movie, whose rawness comes across as urgency: e en those of us who miss half the patois dialogue can't help but respond to its fizzy energy. On the DVD The DVD has digitally re-mastered music, the usual chapter index, a Web link and what is called "Hyperactive DVDROM" content which means it is very, very flashy and very, very loud. --Roz Kaveney

• Survival Research Laboratories - Ten Years Of Robotic Mayhem | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Before 'Battle Bots' 'The Matrix' 'The Terminator' or any of their imitators there was Survival Research Laboratories. Founded by the visionary Mark Pauline SRL utilizes incredibly complex props and robotics to create a unique spectacle unlike anything seen before. In this DVD collection Jon Reiss encapsulates the humour terror artistic bravado and technical genius behind the menancing machines and weaves it into a gloriously cacophonous whole.

• SEODA | DVD | (22/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Seoda, a new series of films from the Irish Film Archive. The series features a host of newly-restored gems which have been selected from thousands of films preserved in the national collection for their cultural and entertainment value. The season offers a glimpse of Irish life and times from 1948-1970: travelling alongside President Kennedy on his 1963 cavalcade visiting Dublin, Wexford and Galway; a tram journey from Howth in the company of Cyril Cusack; contrast the bustle of 1950s Dublin (Portrait of Dublin) with the quietly abandoned village of Crookhaven in Cork; and the renditions of traditional music keenly observed by Louis Marcus in Flea Ceoil (1957). The eleven films in the series cover a broad range of topics including emigration; politics; personal saving; TB; diphtheria; architecture. The programme themes are deeply rooted in Irish culture, heritage and experience and many are presented here as Gaeilge. Introductions to the programmes have been written by Ireland's leading documentary historian Dr. Harvey O'Brien and are presented in Irish by highly-respected actor Niall Toibin. The series, produced by the Irish Film Institute and IFI Curator Sunniva O'Flynn in collaboration with Lotus Films, is distinguished by the technical excellence of the archival images - all of the titles have undergone meticulous pictorial and audio restoration from original film formats using latest transfer technologies. IFI Curator, Sunniva O'Flynn said: "Seoda opens a window on the collections of the Irish Film Archive and provides access for a larger audience than ever before. The films are guaranteed to fascinate, educate and illuminate". "Intriguing.....a wealth of unique images"...Sunday Business Post

• Retour De Flamme Vol.6 | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

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• Successful Selling - The Easy Step By Step Guide | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  We are all in the business of selling. Selling our products and our services selling our company and especially selling ourselves. So whether you are selling business to business or business to consumer this DVD will tell you in simple steps how to close more sales and win more business. Topics covered include: How to build better rapport withyour prospects How to sell to the right people How to use a sales structure that works How to overcome objections How to read and understand body language How to close the sale and come away with the business

• Attila The Hun | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Straight out of the American television movie school of historical thought, Attila the Hun is a glossy, at times long and often ridiculous re-telling of one of the great stories of Ancient Rome. How much of it is historically accurate is debatable--much of the action is ludicrously far fetched--and the image that most of us have of Attila is quite different to the bare-chested, longhaired reject from an 80s soft rock band that is presented here. The film does have its own slightly warped charm, though. The storyline is surprisingly complex, involving plots and counter plots, and the movie does exhibit a sense of epic somewhat in the vein of Gladiator, but is sadly lacking the budget, style or talent. The acting is awful (as befits anything that stars Steven Berkoff) and reduces the political machinations of Rome to little more than Dynasty in togas. Gerrard Butler is a fine actor--as he proved in the recent TV drama The Jury--but is woeful here, delivering his lines in a bizarre trans-Atlantic Scottish accent. At three hours it's way too long, too. There does remain something strangely compelling about Atilla the Hun, though you'll find more reliable facts about Roman history in an Asterix book. --Phil Udell

• The Cream Of Irish Comedy | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After the death of her bullying husband the not-so aged and downtrodden housewife Thelma Caldicot is shipped off to the Twilight Years Rest Home by her money grabbing son and manipulative daughter in law. Apalled by the conditions Mrs Caldicot decides to take matters into her own hands....

• Blood Of A Poet / Testament Of Orpheus | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Strike Back - Vendetta | DVD | (04/05/2020) from £13.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Section 20's Warren Brown (Thomas ˜Mac' McAllister), Daniel MacPherson (Samuel Wyatt), Alin Sumarwata (Gracie Novin), Varada Sethu (Manisha Chetri) return with Jamie Bamber (Colonel Alexander Coltrane) back in command. Guess stars include Ivana Miličević (Banshee, Gotham, The 100) and Alec Secăreanu (God's Own Country, Baptiste). The kidnapping of a British scientist leads Section 20 into a conspiracy involving a terror group on the rise, who have seemingly emerged from nowhere. The mission takes them from the Mafia strongholds on Europe through Tel Aviv and Venice and beyond and when a terror attack rocks a European city, they realise even darker forces at work here. Loyalties will be tested, alliances shattered, and not everyone will make it home alive. Featuring fast-paced action and breath-taking stunts, Strike Back returns for one final mission.

• White Riot | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rubika Shah's energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by music's biggest colonialist' Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika'. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978's huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses.

• DAS HAUS AM EATON PLACE-S - MO | DVD | (27/04/2012) from £25.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A