"Actor: Richard"

• Little Richard - Keep On Rockin' | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (5.11%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Little Richard was one of the greats of early rock & roll. His superb voice and outrageous stage performances captured the world's imagination and artists from The Beatles to Prince have acknowledged his influence. In this concert film from the Toronto Peace Festival in 1969 the ultimate wildman of rock & roll takes you through his repertoire. Tracks: Blueberry Hill Lucille Good Golly Miss Molly Rip It Up Tutti Frutti Keep a-Knocking Hound Dog Jenny Jenny Long Tall Sally.

• Hell's Angels on Wheels | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Hell's Angels on Wheels takes you back to an era of drug and gasoline fuelled rebellion. Photographed by Lazlo Kovacs (Paper Moon Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and starring Jack Nicholson in one of his finest roles this movie goes hog wild! The director Richard Rush worked alongside the notorious Sonny Barger and the Oakland Hells Angels as a major background source. Adam Rourke plays Buddy the head of the Angels and Nicholson plays Poet a gas jockey who joins the brotherhood. Nicholson soon comes to realise that there are a lot of slaves in Buddy's hell and he doesn't want to be one of them. Until that realisation however he delights in the violence and the orgies - which allows Nicholson to give his baby-faced killer grin a thorough work-out.

• Into The Night | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When two strangers stumble into international intrigue in the middle of a Los Angeles night anything can happen... and it does in this zany comedy directed by John Landis! Ed Okin is an insomniac with a cheating wife and a dull job. His chance for excitement looks hopeless until a mysterious blonde named Diana drops onto the bonnet of his car. She is being pursued by a gang of Iranian gunmen and despite Ed's reluctance he gets involved and Diana leads him on a murderous chase where

• Cabin Fever | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (57.20%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Off-beat horror about a group of college friends who go on holiday in the forest and catch a flesh-eating virus.

• Timecode | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £6.58   |  Saving you £13.41 (203.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Mike Figgis' experimental movie was shot on digital video and uses a screen split in four to show us the events of the film happening simultaneously in four different locations.

• Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story -- The Making of the Recording | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed in 1984 for the BBC, the feature-length documentary Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story follows the composer through one week as he records the first-ever complete album of his musical theatre masterpiece. (The previous Broadway cast and original soundtrack albums had both been cut down to single LP length.) Virtually the entire documentary takes place in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra, session singers and headliners Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita) and Kurt Ollmann (Riff). The 89-minute programme alternates rehearsal footage with complete final takes of the main numbers--including "Tonight", "America", and "Maria"--with a limited amount of comment from the principal players. Te Kanawa explains how much the music means to her, Troyanos notes how she grew-up in the very streets depicted on stage and Carreras provides a rare moment of tension when a session ends unsatisfactorily. Bernstein himself is by turns commanding, charming, enthusiastic or weary. For anyone wanting an extensive insight into what happens as a major album is recorded this is fascinating, though others who just want to enjoy the wonderful music will be better served by the resultant two-CD set. On the DVD: Though filmed for British television, Deutsche Grammophon have chosen to release a single region-free (Region 0) DVD for the entire world. Unfortunately this means the disc is in NTSC format rather than PAL, and requires an NTSC-compatible television for playback. It also means that while the sound has been effectively remastered for PCM stereo the picture shows all the signs of a bad NTSC copy--weak, washed-out colours and poor definition with a serious lack of detail. Most videos are far better. The DVD has subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Chinese. There are no extras, though the booklet adapts an interesting article by producer Humphrey Burton which originally appeared in Gramophone magazine in 1985.--Gary S Dalkin

• Doctor T. And The Women | DVD | (07/01/2002) from £11.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (40.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dr. Sullivan Travis is the envy of his buddies at the Dallas country club. As they freely and frequently point out, he's the luckiest kind of doctor.

• The Longest Day | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £6.70   |  Saving you £13.29 (198.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Longest Day, producer Darryl F Zanuck's epic account of June 6, 1944, is Hollywood's definitive D-Day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers are more vividly realistic, but Zanuck's production is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate a depiction of events as possible. Zanuck picked three different directors to handle the German, French and Allied sequences respectively and the result should have been a grittily realistic semi-documentary work of unparalleled authenticity. That it is not is due to the unfortunate decision to populate the movie with an apparently endless parade of stars: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery and Kenneth Moore to name a few all pop up from time to time; while Roddy McDowall and Richard Burton, on leave from the set of Cleopatra, also get cameos. The end result is an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power. Add to that the need for every character to provide almost endless explanatory exposition and the film falls a little flat for too much of its running time. The set-piece battles are still spectacular, however, and if the landings on Omaha beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. Despite its top-heavy cast, The Longest Day is still the best D-Day movie ever made.On the DVD: The black and white print is in excellent condition, as is the remixed Dolby 5.0. Made in 1969, the 50-minute supplementary documentary "D-Day Revisited" has producer Zanuck revisiting key locations in Normandy, chatting to the locals in rather stiff French and providing a personal narrative of the events of June 6, 1944 intercut with scenes from his film. The sight of the elderly Zanuck standing on Omaha Beach or beside the headstone of an unknown soldier is easily as poignant as the bookend scenes of Saving Private Ryan, but without the Spielbergian sentiment. --Mark Walker

• The Last of Sheila (blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (09/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bond Remastered - Moonraker (1-disc) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £5.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (99.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Agent 007 (Roger Moore) blasts into orbit in this action-packed adventure that takes him to Venice Rio de Janeiro and outer space. When Bond investigates the hijacking of an American space shuttle he and beautiful CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) are soon locked in a life-or-death struggle against Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) a power-mad industrialist whose horrific scheme may destroy all human life on earth!

• A Matter of Life and Death (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (24/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 2 Point 4 Children - Series 1 To 3 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  On the surface the Porters are a normal family - indeed even the series' title 2 Point 4 Children the fabled average family size alludes to their normality (as well as the fact that the husband/father is still a bit of a child himself). Yet though the individual members - central-heating engineer Ben; his wife catering worker Bill; and their teenage children David and Jenny - are unexceptional the situations in which the family find themselves are anything but. Bad luck strang

• Robin Hood - Complete Series 1 | Blu Ray | (29/10/2007) from £27.69   |  Saving you £2.30 (8.31%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Robin of Locksley (Armstrong) returns home from defending King and country in the Holy Land to find a corrupt and changed Nottingham. The ruthless Sheriff of Nottingham (Keith Allen) is now in charge crippling the poor with greedy taxes. The ever-gallant Robin and his faithful manservant Much (Sam Troughton) are determined to fight for the good of these hapless people. Aided by a gang of talented outlaws including Will Scarlett (Harry Lloyd) Little John (Gordon Kennedy) and Djaq (Anjali Jay) they seek to relieve the poverty and hunger of the good people of Locksley.

• Richard Pryor - Here And Now/Live On The Sunset Strip | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £12.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (38.92%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Live On The Sunset Strip: The often caustic and always funny comedian is in top form in this film which is comprised of two sold-out concerts at the Hollywood Palladium. Pryor often draws from his own experiences which include the accident that almost cost him his life. Here And Now: Part live stand up performance part documentary this film is one of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Adventure Of The Italian Nobleman / The Chocolate Box | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £6.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (51.59%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Adventure Of The Italian Nobleman: Hastings decides to buy an elegant car from Mr Vizzini's showroom. Whilst he is there Vizzini receives a message saying that his time is up. Later that day the messenger is found dead in his flat and Poirot and Hastings are drawn into the gangland underworld of London's Little Italy in a baffling case of elaborate blackmail. The Chocolate Box: Poirot is in Brussels accompanying Japp on a trip to receive the 'Branch d'Or' for services to Belgium. They meet up with some former colleagues who still have memories of a case that has apparently remained unresolved for twenty years.

• Volpone (3 discs) | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

• Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This ain't 'Bend it Like Beckham'... this ain't 'East is East'... this is Southall. WHO RULES LONDON TOWN? BLACK WHITE OR BROWN? Welcome to London home of many creeds and cultures. The modern criminal underworld reflects the diverse races that call London home. West London is ruled by the 'Holy Smokes' crime syndicate. At their head is the ruthless Chacha (Jas Bassi). His mob includes various psychopathic killers pimps and drug dealers. North London is the territory of the Triads. These ruthless Chinese gangsters will do anything to protect their honour. Leading them is the young Billy Chan. South London is governed by the Yardies the Jamaican mafia. At the head of this notorious crew is Lloyd. This gang lives purely for the day and their motto is Live Fast and Die Young! East London is home to The Firm. The last stronghold of the original Anglo-Saxon cockney gangsters The Firm is ruled by Mad Dave (Dave Courtney). They cannot understand how London has come to be ruled by the ethnic mobsters. Someone is muscling on the Holy Smokes cocaine deals and they are not amused. Added to this deadly event is the theft of six million dollars from Heathrow Airport making an explosive cocktail! Hot on the trail of the missing money is the Metropolitan Police's most corrupt officer Detective Inspector Greaves (Jonathan Reason) and Singh (Manish Patel) London's most ruthless feared hitman. It's a roller-coaster ride as the Holy Smokes wage war against the Triads the Yardies and The Firm ruled by Mad Dave (Dave Courtney).

• The Windsors Royal Wedding Special | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Windsors return for the royal wedding. Harry (Richard Goulding) and Meghan (Kathryn Drysdale) take Charles (Harry Enfield) to America to meet Meghan's mum, Doria (Suzette Llewellyn), but Charles fails to reassure her about Meghan marrying into the royal family. Wills (Hugh Skinner) is forced to protect his subjects from Windsor's evil Trampcatcher (Paul Kaye). Beatrice (Ellie White) is swept off her feet by a hunky political firebrand. Fergie (Katy Wix) finds an ingenious way to get a wedding invitation. Camilla (Haydn Gwynne) continues to cause trouble for the junior royals. And Pippa (Morgana Robinson) has a violent reaction to Harry's marriage.

• The Arrival | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Radio astronomer Zane Ziminski becomes intrigued by some strange wavelengths and noises he picks up over his transmitter. But when Zane alerts his boss to his findings he's fired. So Zane conducts an investigation on his own tracing the sound waves to a Mexican village. After more sleuthing (and some odd occurrences) Zane discovers a power plant -- that turns out to be the headquarters of some very deadly extraterrestrials.

• The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian / Voyage Of The Dawn Treader | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two adventures adapted from the timeless novels of C.S. Lewis. Prince Caspian: Evil King Miraz and his Queen Prunaprisma are making plans to take over the kingdom. Heir to the throne Prince Caspian is forced to flee to safety... Voyage Of The Dawn Treader: Edmund Lucy and Eustace travel to Narnia to help King Caspian find the seven missing Lords of Narnia...