"Director: Ron Mann"

• Altman | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £5.69   |  Saving you £12.30 (68.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Altman is a touching respectful illuminating survey of the life and works of one of the most innovative influential and truly independent directors in American cinema history. While refusing to bow down to Hollywood's conventions or its executives Altman's unique style of filmmaking won him friends and enemies earned him world-wide praise and occasionally scathing criticism. With a career spanning M*A*S*H The Player Gosford Park and more Altman proved that it is possible to make truly independent films.

• Grass | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £7.93   |  Saving you £-1.94 (-32.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Award-winning director Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential Twist) hooks up with actor/activist Woody Harrelson to deal you Grass a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America's most deeply rooted cultural myths: ""the evils of marijuana."" Utilizing hilarious footage from U.S. Government propaganda films and eye- popping animation from underground artist Paul Mavrides Grass blows the lid off the war on marijuana. Find out how a nice person like yourself became a dangerous

• Martina Coles Ladykillers | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: Why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction. The first programme looks at Myra Hindley, who along with Ian Brady was responsible for a spate of child murders in the 1960s, and features interviews with Hindley s lawyer and prison chaplain. Crime writer Martina Cole examines the backgrounds, personalities and behaviour of the notorious female murderer, re-examining evidence and providing a portrait of the sociological backgrounds that may have moulded her. The case of Rose West, who is currently serving a life sentence without parole for 10 separate counts of murder, committed during the 1970s and 80s. Her husband and partner in the sexually motivated crimes committed suicide in prison in 1995. Herself a victim of abuse, Rose directed her appetites toward her own children as well as at least eight other girls, whose dismembered remains were found buried at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester. Profile of nurse Beverley Allitt, dubbed the Angel of Death, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 for the murders of four children in her care at a hospital in Lincolnshire. Although she had repeatedly failed her exams, she was granted a six-month nursing position, during which she attacked 13 young patients before being arrested and eventually charged. Bristol-born Amelia Dyer qualified as a nurse and became a baby-farmer, looking after others babies. After deaths of children in her care she was charged with neglect and served six months in jail. Later she spent time in a mental asylum but carried on baby-farming. In 1896 she was hanged for the murder of Doris Marmon, a child in her care, but is suspected of having killed many more infants.

• Comic Book Confidential | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hey gang! Check out this comic book movie!!! The only movie with your favourite artists and writers. See Marvel Master Stan Lee brings Spiderman's money worries to life! Hear underground artist Robert Crumb confess why he killed Fritz the Cat! Wonder at congressional hearings from the 1950s ""proving"" the link between comic books and juvenile delinquency! Comic Book Confidential is a funny smart eye popping history that finally gives comic books the respect they deserve.