"Actor: Richard Conti"

• The Norman Conquests | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This masterly adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated trio of plays encompasses a remarkable range of talent - from multi-award-winning producers Verity Lambert and David Susskind to a cast that includes Tom Conti Penelope Keith Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton. Employing a typically inventive device (which Ayckbourn would further explore in 1999 with the simultaneous staging of the two-act House and Garden) the trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives as family and in-laws gather at the decaying country home of their bedridden mother the drink flows and hidden enmities intimate secrets and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility. The Norman Conquests was phenomenally successful both in London's West End in 1974 and on Broadway the following year and this Thames production similarly triumphed at the BAFTA Awards in 1977 earning Keith an award for Best Actress and a joint nomination for Best Drama Series for Lambert and director Herbert Wise.

• Channel 4's Comedy Gala 2013 | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Filmed at the world famous O2 Channel 4's Comedy Gala sees the cream of the UK's comedy crop come together for one rip roaring comedy night all in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. This Comedy Spectacle of 2013 includes 22 of the biggest names in TV and Comedy along with an alternative dance performance from the amazing Diversity and their new recruits all guaranteeing your biggest laughs of the year. Starring: Adam Hills Alan Carr Diversity Jack Dee Jason Byrne Jo Brand Jon Richardson Jonathan Ross Josh Widdicombe Kevin Bridges Lee Evans Michael McIntyre Miranda Hart Nina Conti Paddy McGuiness Paul Chowdhry Rhod Gilbert Rich Hall Russell Brand Seann Walsh Tom Stade Warwick Davis

• Stripshow | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Coming soon to a hotel pay channel near you, Stripshow, with its rednecks and top-heavy trailer-trash, is the American softcore equivalent of movies like Bridget Jones's Diary, which are more-or-less targeted at the kind of people who are in them. Tane McClure plays a stripper who acquires a suitcase full of money from an aged punter who expires during a show. She than attempts to track down an ex-lover, who eventually wanders off into the desert to die rather than risk appearing in the sequel. The end. Actually, there's rather a lot of wandering off into the desert in this movie. There's also some--but not much--of the usual faked bonking, but the closest thing to a genuinely erotic scene is the obligatory lipstick-lesbian encounter which takes place in a Native American teepee (although you can't help thinking that, somewhere off-camera, Fox Mulder is being distracted from communing with a shaman), and even that's a pretty truncated episode--after all, Billy-Bob, it just ain't natural. Anyone who'd like to see McClure in a real film may prefer to check out Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas instead. On the DVD: Stripshow has nothing extra on this 4:3 release other than a few cast biogs--not even subtitles, so listening to the dialogue is unfortunately compulsory. --Roger Thomas

• Stolen Innocence | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £3.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (82.07%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A rebellious American teenager's plan to assert her independence runs an explosively violent course when she falls for the charms of an alluring ex-convict in Stolen Innocence a gripping drama based on a true story. Eighteen-year-old Stacy Sapp (Gold) runs away from her overbearing mother Becky (Armstrong) and passive father John (Searcy) for a life of freedom and adventure on the road. The nave girl meets Richard Brown (Calabro) a handsome charismatic young man travelling

• Stolen Innocence | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a criminal who attempts to extract money from her parents...