"Actor: Terry"

• Monty Python's Life Of Brian | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £5.02   |  Saving you £14.97 (298.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  That rarest of rare treasures, Monty Python's Life of Brian is both achingly funny and seriously satirical without ever allowing one to overbalance the other. There is not a single joke, sight gag or one-liner that will not forever burn itself into the viewer's memory as being just as funny as it is possible to be, but, extraordinarily, almost every line and every indestructibly hilarious scene also serves a dual purpose, making this one of the most consistently sustained film satires ever made. Like all great satire, the Pythons not only attack and vilify their targets (the bigotry and hypocrisy of organised religion and politics) supremely well, they also propose an alternative: be an individual, think for yourself, don't be led by others. "You've all got to work it out for yourselves", cries Brian in a key moment. "Yes, we've all got to work it our for ourselves", the crowd reply en masse, "Tell us more". Two thousand years later, in a world still blighted by religious zealots, Brian's is still a lone voice crying in the wilderness. Aside from being a neat spoof on the Hollywood epic, it's also almost incidentally one of the most realistic on-screen depictions of the ancient world--instead of treating their characters as posturing historical stereotypes, the Pythons realised what no sword 'n' sandal epic ever has: that people are all the same, no matter what period of history they live in. People always have and always will bicker, lie, cheat, swear, conceal cowardice with bravado (like Reg, leader of the People's Front of Judea), abuse power (like Pontius Pilate), blindly follow the latest fads and giggle at silly things ("Biggus Dickus"). In the end, Life of Brian teaches us that the only way for a despairing individual to cope in a world of idiocy and hypocrisy is to always look on the bright side of life. --Mark Walker

• Hellraiser Puzzle Box | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Welcome to the singular vision of Clive Barker and his landmark horror opus! Hellraiser In a place between pleasure and pain there is sensual experience beyond limits. And in a world between paradise andpurgatory there is a horror that feeds the souls of evil. When Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites a world where the cruel sadists thrive on pain. Restored to life by the blood of his brother Larry Frank rises to fe

• Crocodile Dundee / Crocodile Dundee 2 | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Paul Hogan as the eccentric Australian crocodile poacher who becomes the subject of an article by an investigative journalist from New York the Crocodile Dundee 1 & 2 Boxset is a superb package of two of the funniest films of the 1980's. The original story of the outback crocodile wrangler who is taken back to America by the journalist doing an expos on him is a hilarious example of what can happen when two diverse cultures collide. Hogan's Mick Dundee is a fascinating

• Terry And June - The Complete First Series | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £4.71   |  Saving you £11.28 (239.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird had disappeared as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with a friendly next door neighbour Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise things were much as before wi

• Rabid | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe

• School For Scoundrels | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In School for Scoundrels wimpy Ian Carmichael wants to impress girls and get one over on all-round show-off and cad Terry Thomas (playing gloriously to type). Discovering Alastair Simms' unorthodox school Carmichael happily enrols and learns the quaint tricks of the day for securing the admiration of a fair lady. Ultimately as a star pupil he teaches the Master a thing or two about true love when everything turns out just fine in the end. Appealing to all male sensibilities is the idea of a magical set of simple rules for winning someone's affections. Set in the tweed-rich environment of an English boarding school makes this an even quainter notion. To watch this classic comedy is to cock one's snoot at womanisers everywhere while unavoidably making a mental list of anything that might actually work! The three central performances are brilliantly realised, particularly the role reversal between Carmichael and Thomas. Try playing a tennis match after a viewing without calling "hard cheese". -Paul Tonks

• DangerMouse 30th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  First broadcast in September 1981 and starring David Jason as the intrepid hero and Terry Scott as Penfold, his bumbling assistant, Danger Mouse has become a national institution.The Danger Mouse Collection contains every episode ever made, in broadcast order for the very first time!

• The Cutting Edge | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Cutting Edge is a 1991 romantic sports comedy-drama set in the allegedly exciting world of Olympic-level figure-skating. Ice maiden Moira Kelly has been reared from birth by her driving father (Stepfather star Terry O'Quinn adding a creepy touch) to be a champion, but is constantly let down because she's so unpleasant that no one wants to be her partner. On the other side of the tracks, macho jock DB Sweeney is invalided out of ice hockey and recruited by Kelly's Russian coach (Roy Dotrice) to team up with her. They hate each other on sight but develop into a potential winning team, and, in between being nasty to each other, fall in nauseating lurve. The tension builds up as to who is going to win that Olympic gold medal in the finale (guess!) and whether the leads will be able to hold off strangling each other in time for the big last-minute clinch. The whole thing is a stew of mismatched couple and underdog-triumphs-in-sport clichés, directed by ex-Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, but it really falls down because Sweeney and Kelly obviously can't skate for toffee. The on-ice sequences, choreographed by medal-winning Robin Cousins in an only-job-he's-fit-for turn, employ doubles and tricky editing, which means the climactic struggle has to be quite literally skated over. On the DVD: The Cutting Edge comes to DVD in an anamorphic widescreen print that’s in good shape but with that slightly feathery colour common in pre-digital transfers. There are English, German, French and Italian tracks; plus a single measly trailer.--Kim Newman

• Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £15.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (29.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Veteran documentary maker Nick Broomfield returns to the subject of one of his early films, America's first female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, in this compelling and compassionate film.

• Slugs | Blu Ray | (26/09/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THEY SLIME. THEY OOZE. THEY KILL. From celebrated Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón, the man behind the truly demented slasher flick Pieces (1982), comes a terrifying tale of mutant slugs on the rampage in small-town America. The townsfolk of a rural community are dying in strange and gruesome circumstances. Following the trail of horrifically mutilated cadavers, resident health inspector Mike Brady is on the case to piece together the mystery. He soon comes to a terrifying conclusion giant slugs are breeding in the sewers beneath the town, and they're making a meal of the locals! Based on the novel by acclaimed British horror author Shaun Hutson, Slugs outdoes its creature feature peers by adding an extra dose of gross-out gore into the equation, culminating in one of the most squirm-inducing animal attack movies ever to slither its way across screens. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new restoration from original film elements Original Stereo audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by writer and filmmaker Chris Alexander Here's Slugs In Your Eye an interview with actor Emilio Linder They Slime, They Ooze, They Kill: The Effects of Slugs an interview with special effects artist Carlo De Marchis Invasion USA an interview with art director Gonzalo Gonzalo The Lyons Den an interview and locations tour with production manager Larry Ann Evans 1988 Goya Awards promo reel Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Wes Benscoter Fully-illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by writer Michael Gingold

• Dangermouse 3 - Hickory Dickory Docks Dilemma | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £4.28   |  Saving you £6.97 (230.79%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""He's the greatestHe's fantasticWhere ever there is danger he'll be there. He's the ace He's amazing.He's the strongest he's the quickest he's the best. Dangermouse Dangermouse Dangermouse!"" The world's greatest mouse detective Dangermouse together with his bumbling sidekick Penfold embark on a series of devilishly dangerous and definitely death defying missions.

• Hallow's End | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Eight college students become trapped in a haunted house when an ancient spell turns them into their Halloween costumes!

• Shakespeare's Globe on Screen: A Midsummer Night's Dream | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £20.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Monty Python: Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy)

• Rollin' With the Nines | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (66.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Finny Rage and Too Fine are known as 'Time Served' an up and coming hip-hop act who seem to be on the verge of breaking into the big time. However their dreams are shattered when Too Fine is brutally murdered for unpaid 'street debts'. The remaining group along with his sister Hope are left to pick up the pieces. Dropped by their record company and gripped by revenge they are sucked back into the world that they had tried so hard to escape - an uncontrollable spiral into drugs guns and street violence. At Hope's instigation Pushy Rage and Finny soon become heavily involved in the distribution and sale of crack cocaine on the dark and dangerous streets of South London. It is only a matter of time before the wrong type of people start to ask the wrong type of questions. Based on an original idea by Pikki and Biggs Rollin' With The Nines is an action packed fascinating insight into the underground world of London drug dealing and gun culture. It explores themes of revenge ambition wasted dreams and the daily dose of bitter street justice. Featuring music from Dizzie Rascal Kano Rodney P Simon Webbe Sizzle Ms Dynamite and more!

• Nothing Barred | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (44.99%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Master farceur Brian Rix joins fellow Whitehall Theatre stalwart Leo Franklyn and a host of famed character comedians - including Naunton Wayne Charles Heslop Irene Handl and Bernard Cribbins - for this hugely entertaining quintessentially English romp. Released in 1961 Nothing Barred (aka The Night We Sprang a Leak) is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture and his fortunes fade even further with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

• DOA: Rites of Passage (Dual Format Edition) | Blu Ray | (10/09/2018) from £13.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1978 The Sex Pistols embarked on the legendary American tour that they would never finish. DOA: A Rite of Passage is the unique, grainy and up-close document of a unique moment in music history, packed with live footage of The Pistols' incendiary American shows, as well as live performances from Terry and The Idiots, Dead Boys, Generation X, Rich Kids, X-Ray Spex, Sham 69 and additional music from The Clash and Iggy Pop. The cameras also go behind-the-scenes into bars, clubs and car parks and features the now infamous Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen bed interview. Special Features: Dead on Arrival: The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was: A feature length documentary produced by Richard Schenkman and featuring exclsuvie new interviews with Punk magazine founder and Ramones cover-artist John Holmstrom, co-director & music journalist Chris Salewicz, photographer Roberta Bayley, Sex Pistols' historian Mick O'Shea, former Rich Kid guitarist Midge Ure and original D.O.A. crew members David King, Mary Killen, Rufus Standefer plus never-before-seen interview footage with Malcolm McLaren O.A. A Punk Post Mortem - A brand-new exclusive interview with co-director and music journalist Chris Salewicz Includes both Blu-ray and DVD versions Limited Edition booklet written by Tim Murray with additional article by Phelim O'Neill

• The Lost Weekend | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £11.27   |  Saving you £-1.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don Birnam long-time alcoholic has been ""on the wagon"" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Actor Best Screenplay Best Director and Best Film.

• The Complete and Utter History of Britain | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £26.92   |  Saving you £-6.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by and starring Michael Palin and Terry Jones The Complete and Utter History of Britain was among a handful of series that formed a template for Monty Python's Flying Circus. This series offered a typically Pythonesque look at British history - as if television had been around to cover events as they unfolded. Thus we find Richard the Lionheart relating his exploits in the Crusades in the manner of a laddish holidaymaker and William the Conquerer engaging in post-match analysis (following an unspectacular scuffle in which King Harold is finally felled by a baguette). Studio sketches and filmed inserts are interspersed with the meandering insights of historian Professor Weaver (Roddy Maude-Roxby) with links by faintly bemused continuity presenter Colin Gordon. Sadly incomplete in the archives this set contains all remaining episodes along with the film inserts which Terry Jones has kept safe for nearly fifty years.

• Young Guns / Young Guns II | DVD | (06/08/2021) from £14.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A