"Actor: Russell"

• Gladiator | Blu Ray | (07/05/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marveling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general Maximus, Crowe firmly cements his star status both in terms of screen presence and acting chops, carrying the film on his decidedly non-computer-generated shoulders as he goes from brave general to wounded fugitive to stoic slave to gladiator hero. Gladiator's plot is a whirlwind of faux-Shakespearean machinations of death, betrayal, power plays, and secret identities (with lots of faux-Shakespearean dialogue ladled on to keep the proceedings appropriately "classical"), but it's all briskly shot, edited, and paced with a contemporary sensibility. Even the action scenes, somewhat muted but graphic in terms of implied violence and liberal bloodletting, are shot with a veracity that brings to mind--believe it or not--Saving Private Ryan, even if everyone is wearing a toga. As Crowe's nemesis, the evil emperor Commodus, Joaquin Phoenix chews scenery with authority, whether he's damning Maximus's popularity with the Roman mobs or lusting after his sister Lucilla (beautiful but distant Connie Nielsen); Oliver Reed, in his last role, hits the perfect notes of camp and gravitas as the slave owner who rescues Maximus from death and turns him into a coliseum star. Director Scott's visual flair is abundantly in evidence, with breathtaking shots and beautiful (albeit digital) landscapes, but it's Crowe's star power that will keep you in thrall--he's a true gladiator, worthy of his legendary status. Hail the conquering hero! --Mark Englehart

• K-1 - Battle Of Britain 2000 / K-1 Battle Of Britain 2002 | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-15.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Last Man Standing K-1 2002 - Battle Of Britain: Heavyweight Martial Arts Tournament - 8 men enter - 1 man survives! K-1 fuses centuries of tradition from the martial arts into a thoroughly modern and electrifying spectator sport. The K-1 World Grand Prix is a heavyweight tournament with rules that are acceptable to all standing martial arts. The letter K appears in Karate Kung Fu Kickboxing and Taekwondo and the number 1 simply means the best and the strongest martial arti

• American Gangster/Layer Cake | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £6.13   |  Saving you £8.86 (144.54%)   |  RRP £14.99

  American Gangster: Drug-kingpin Frank Lucas smuggles heroin into the US by hiding it with the bodies of soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. By delivering a product that is far superior to his competitors Lucas has rapidly established his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer. While Lucas delicately constructs his own criminal empire Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) one of the few honest detectives in a corrupt system senses a sizeable shift within the hierarchy of the drug underworld and sets out to investigate this hitherto unknown power player that has come out of the shadows to dominate the drug trade. But with Detective Trupo (Josh Brolin) Roberts' crooked and jealous colleague wanting to obstruct and ruin the integrity of his idealistic counterpart Roberts is left with little option other than to take desperate measures to end Lucas' rule in Harlem. Layer Cake: Daniel Craig plays a successful cocaine dealer who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However big boss Jimmy Price (Cranham) hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward (Gambon) a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstacy a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings.

• Swimming With Sharks | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A motion picture executive's assistant puts up with his abusive boss up to a point and then completely snaps in this ultra-dark comedy from first-time director (and former Hollywood assistant) George Huang.

• Death List | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A professional assassin is double crossed and left for dead. Only to be saved by a mysterious crime fighting organisation. They send him to a fabled martial arts master in Hong Kong. There he learns Kung Fu and embarks on his new mission - cleaning up the mean streets! No wires tricks or special effects the director and star Ara Paiaya performs all his own stunts in this deadly martial arts feature!

• West End Jungle | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-7.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  West End Jungle

• Patriot Games | Blu Ray | (24/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Angel & The Badman | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Brenda Russell - Live In Concert | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Brenda Russell performing live including: Expect A Miracle / Catch On / She's In Love / Way Back When / If Only For One Night / Walkin' In New York / Love And Paris Rain / In An Ideal World / Piano In The Dark / Please Felipe / Something About The Dark / So Good So Right And Here

• Gangstresses | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Street Life Is Tough. These Women Are Tougher. Meet The Gangstresses... Filmed over a 2 year period Gangstresses gets up close and personal with the hard core female hustler. They lie cheat steal pack heat sell dope and even their own bodies to finance a better tomorrow for their families. To achieve their goal they must navigate treacherous terrain and try to come out alive. More shocking than fiction Gangstresses chronicles the voices of a world rarely seen or acknowledged. This is the story you only thought you knew!

• The Jazz Channel Presents Brenda Russell | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Premier vocalist Brenda Russell's live recording for the famous Jazz Channel Presents series. The tracklist includes 'Expect A Miracle' 'Catch On' 'She's In Love' 'Way Back When' 'If Only For One Night' 'Walkin' In New York' 'Love And Paris Rain' 'Piano In The Dark' 'Please Felipe' 'Something About Your Love' 'So Good So Right' and 'Get Here'.

• Grimm Love | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £16.20   |  Saving you £-6.21 (-62.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Katie Armstrong is an American student studying Criminal Psychology in Germany. She has selected as the subject for her thesis paper the true story of Oliver Hartwin a cannibal killer who advertised on the internet for a lover willing to be murdered and devoured as the ultimate act of love and self-sacrifice. While researching Oliver Katie becomes obsessed with his perverse life and begins to delve deeper and deeper into his past trying to discover what made him become what he is today. She is caught in a downward spiral into a deeply alienated lifestyle culminating in the discovery of the video-tape made by Oliver recording the final moments of his victim's life.

• The Warrior's Path | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £3.90   |  Saving you £12.09 (310.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Warrior's Path is a stunning action-adventure featuring some of the most jaw-dropping fight scenes ever seen on screen - brought to you by the action team behind the incredible Ong-Bak. When a priceless treasure is discovered deep in the dark heart of the Thai jungle a young explorer thinks all his dreams have come true. Little does he know that this artefact harbours a dark secret and will set in motion a series of catastrophic events... Only the most skilled truly courageous travellers will survive in the perilous depths of the mysterious jungle on this deadly journey of discovery where danger intrigue and your darkest fantasies wait around every corner. Dare you set out on The Warrior's Path?

• Leon Russell And The New Grass Revival | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £17.43   |  Saving you £-6.44 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Leon Russell And The New Grass Revival

• Edgar Winter Live With Leon Russell | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Although he's often skirted the edges of blues music at heart saxophonist keyboardist and composer Edgar Winter is a blues musician. His collaboration and legendary performance with the ultimate rock n' roll musician Leon Russell is captured live on stage from May 4 1988 in Tennessee USA. Tracks include: Key To The Highway / Harlem Nocturne / Back To The Island / Dixie Lullaby / Against The Law / Lady Blue / Fly Away / Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms / Free Ride / Fannie Mae /

• Icons: Barbra Stanwyck - Double Indemnity (1944)/The Lady Eve/The Bitter Tea Of General Yen/The Golden Boy (1939)/The Miracle Woman/All I Desire | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The Queen' Barbara Stanwyck! Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder 1944): Director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler ('The Big Sleep') adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But of course in these plots things never quite go as planned and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who has a feeling that not all is as it seems... The Lady Eve (Dir. Preston Sturges 1941): In 1941 Barbara Stanwyck was offered two screwball roles equally suited to her tart intelligence deft comic timing and undeniable sex appeal and it's a photo finish as to which was funnier; showgirl-on-the-lam Sugarpuss O'Shea the title character in Howard Hawks's 'Ball of Fire' or con artist Jean Harrington a.k.a. Lady Eve Sidwich the delirious fulcrum for this classic Preston Sturges comedy. Under Sturges's typically antic microscope the collision between the gold-digging Harrington and the very rich very hapless brewery-heir-turned-herpetologist Charles Pike (a wonderfully callow guileless Henry Fonda) yields ample opportunity for the writer-director to skewer issues of class and sex; as always Sturges is bold in pushing the censors' envelope capturing a palpable erotic heat between the canny Jean and the literally feverish Charlie who after a year up the Amazon is instantly smitten by the mere sight of her shapely ankles (in hindsight a precursor to her subsequent effect in 'Double Indemnity'). The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (Dir. Frank Capra 1933): Caught in a Chinese rebellion newly-arrived American Megan Davis (Stanwyck) is rescued by a cultured bandit General Yen. When she realises she is being held captive she sets about undermining her captor. In time however she finds that it is not her confinement she must fight against - rather it is her growing attraction to the man... The Golden Boy (Dir. Rouben Mamoulian 1939): The tale of Joe Bonaparte; a boy encouraged by his father to pursue his dream of playing the violin who turns to boxing when poverty sets in. What he witnesses is the tough and uncompromising world of major league boxing; the widespread corruption; and the alluring qualities of one hot dame! The Miracle Woman (Dir. Frank Capra 1931): Barbara Stanwyck stars as Sister Faith Fallon the charismatic leader of a Pentecostal sect. David Manners plays John Carson the blind man whose life is changed by her powerful sermon. Little does he know that Faith works alongside a con-man performing hoax miracles to boost the coiffeurs. Will John's love for Faith finally steer her back onto the right path? All I Desire (Dir. Douglas Sirk 1953): Barbara Stanwyck stars as Naomi Murdock a wayward mother and struggling actress who yearns for her old life before she walked out on her family. Returning to town she finds herself the subject of hearsay and loose speculation from the locals. More importantly her husband is striking up a relationship with a local school teacher and her oldest daughter remains hostile to the mother who abandoned her. Will Naomi be able to repair the damage done and rest her demons?

• Edgar Winter And Leon Russell - Live On Stage | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-3.84 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Edgar Winter And Leon Russell: Live On Stage

• The Best Of Marilyn Collection - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Seven Year Itch/How To Marry A Millionaire | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  How To Marry A Millionaire: Three screen goddesses - Betty Grable Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe - star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell David Wayne Fred Clark Alex D'Arcy and William Powell playing the desired millionaires the ladies are pushed to the end of their wits as they try to decide whom to wed.... 'How To Marry A Millionaire' was the first movie to be filmed in CinemaScope but 'The Robe' (1953 directed by Henry Koster) beat it to the cinemas. The Seven Year Itch: Marilyn Monroe proves that no man can resist her - especially a married man - in this sexy romp directed by Billy Wilder and heralded as one of the quintessential comedies of all time! When a seductive starlet (Monroe) moves in upstairs a married man (Tom Ewell) has his fidelity put to the test. Keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves hilariously tough when challenged by the notorious ""Seven Year Itch."" Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls Dorothy the sassy one looking for true love Lorelei the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire with her sights set on Gus Esmond a wealthy nerd stuck under his father's thumb. When Lorelei and Dorothy take a transatlantic cruise to Paris an undercover detective follows to find out if Lorelei is really a gold-digging schemer. Unfortunately the irrepressible Lorelei is a born flirt and soon finds herself in a compromising position with Sir Francis Beekman (Charles Coburn) owner of a diamond mine. The girls have to use all their wits to get out of trouble and still find love and marriage. Thanks to the talents of the luminous stars and director Howard Hawks plus stunning technicolor cinematography 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' emerges as one of the most charming entertaining musicals of the 1950s. Marilyn Monroe never more luminous sings her legendary musical number ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"" (which later inspired Madonna's 'Material Girl' video). 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' is based on the hit Broadway musical which was adapted from the book by Anita Loos.

• Deadly Discovery | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When narcotics detective Ike Walters visits his former partner Stetson Avery in rural Greentown he inexplicably finds himself the target in a deadly game of deceit befriended by the alluring yet suspicious Renee Dupa Ike discovers that his life has been placed on the line and that nothing is what it seems to be....

• A Beautiful Mind | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Russell Crowe stars as the mathematical genius John Forbes Nash Jr, a man who made a great discovery early in his life before descending into a notorious life of depravity and self discovery.