"Actor: Tim House"

• Shooting The Past | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £8.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (78.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A country house situated in the London suburbs holds a collection of photography dating back through the last century. Plans have been raised to divide the collection and turn the house into a business school.... Three-part drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff about the battle to save a vast photographic library. A US property developer finds the library employees still ensconced in a London building he's come to renovate. After unsuccessfully trying to sell the pictures to an advertising agency Marilyn makes a personal plea to Anderson. Meanwhile Oswald begins an investigation into Anderson after seeing a picture of his mother in the library.

• Abigail's Party | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Originally screened as part of BBC's Play for Today series in 1977, Abigail's Party is among Mike Leigh's most celebrated pieces, with his then-wife Alison Steadman appallingly brilliant as what Alan Bennett described as the "brutal hostess" at a ghastly suburban soiree. The Abigail of the title never appears--rather, the dull thud of her lively teenage party forms a distant backdrop (and contrast) to an excruciating evening of chilled red wine, olives and the music of Demis Roussos. Steadman plays the overbearing Beverley, an Amazonian mass of frustrated sensuality in a low-cut party frock. Tim Stern is her small, stressed estate-agent husband. The guests are Janice Duvitski as Angela, a nurse whose quite spectacular gormlessness shields her from the stilted social awkwardness quietly raging around her, John Salthouse as Tony, her taciturn husband and Harriet Reynolds as Sue, the gangly and miserably nervous mother of Abigail. Rather than play for gags, Leigh and his actors mercilessly turn the screw of embarrassment through a series of too-true-to-life exchanges of dialogue, the stuff of all our collective worst memories of encounters with neighbours, aunts and office colleagues. Often misread as a satirical parade of suburban grotesques, Abigail's Party probes deeper than that, touching on nerves of anxiety and repression that throb behind the net curtains of modern England, culminating not in farce but tragedy. Decades on, Abigail's Party is as psychologically true and close to home as ever--hard to bear but utterly brilliant. On the DVD: Abigail's Party is perfectly reproduced here in all its 1970s garishness. The one extra is a short featurette, focussing on Alison Steadman's playing of Beverley, with comments from the original actors in the TV series and Peter York marvelling at her "paint-scraping" voice. --David Stubbs

• The Safety Of Objects | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A series of overlapping stories about four suburban American families experiencing momentous days in their lives.

• Mulberry Street | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £6.54   |  Saving you £9.45 (59.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A mysterious virus carried by mutated rats creates pandemonium on the streets of New York City when rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie focuses on six tenants on a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street. They must fight to survive the night against the rats and the multiplying mutants.

• Code 46 | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £9.68   |  Saving you £6.31 (65.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.

• Maddigan's Quest | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a strange post-apocalyptic world the city of Solis is the centre of human civilisation. But dark forces are at work in Solis. There are rumours of spies and betrayal. And the city is cut off from the solar cells it needs for power. Without power Solis is doomed. Solis' only hope lies with Maddigan's Quest; a circus troupe that travels the dangerous shifting roads of their world visiting outlying communities performing entertaining and telling stories. At the heart of the tr

• Code 46 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-10.99 (-110.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.