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• Havana | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Havana was released in 1990, a lot of reviewers unfavourably compared it to Casablanca, and those comparisons (in addition to audience indifference) turned the film into a box-office disaster. It deserved a better fate, because, while this is certainly no masterpiece, it's an intelligent and lavishly produced film about a chapter of history--the final days of Cuba under the collapsing Batista regime--that remains largely unfamiliar. It's a compelling political backdrop for the story of a high-stakes gambler (Robert Redford) who comes to Cuba seeking the big score in poker games, following his expectation that high rollers will bet wildly as the Cuban government crashes around their heads. In Havana, Redford meets the wife (Lena Olin) of a Communist revolutionary (Raul Julia) with ties to Fidel Castro, and their attraction becomes powerfully mutual after her husband is presumed killed by Cuban police. What follows, as Cuba falls and Redford's character is forced into a crisis of conscience, is a mini-epic love story with tragic overtones, handled with great skill (albeit lagging pace) by long-time Redford collaborator Sydney Pollack. True, it's not nearly as memorable as Casablanca, but this is a worthwhile film, especially if you are interested in the political upheavals in pre-Castro Cuba. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Rigoletto | Blu Ray | (03/01/2012) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Van Der Valk - Series 1 - Part 4 Of 4 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Van der Valk - Series 1 (Part 4)

• The One | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £16.50   |  Saving you £1.49 (8.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Soldier's Story, A / The Beast / Anzio | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Anzio: Robert Mitchum Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy star in the rivetting war drama Anzio a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest WWII battles ever fought. After landing with Allied troops at Anzio Italy in 1944 war correspondent Dick Ennis (Mitchum) and buddy Corporal Rabinoff (Falk) tell Anzio commander General Lesley (Kennedy) that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead. Four months and over 30 000 casualties later the Allied forces smash through the German lines and victoriously march to Rome. Directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny Back To Bataan) Anzio is a powerful film and a symbol of heroic tenacity. The Beast: War brings out the beast in every man. Afghanistan 1981 and the Soviet Union is locked in a futile and bloody battle with the Mujahedeen guerillas. Separated from their patrol the crew of a Russian T-62 tank engages in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the local insurgents led by Taj (Steven Bauer). The tyrannical tank commander Daskal (George Dzundza) wreaks havoc on a peaceful Afghani village pushing the moral boundaries of the tank driver Koverchenko (Jason Patric) to the limits. Sensing mutiny the psychotic Daskal abandons the disenchanted tanker to die in the desert at the hand of rebels only to find he's sealed his own fate. A Soldiers Story: Tensions flare in this gripping film about a murder on a black army base near the end of World War II. Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) a proud black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal Louisiana to investigate the ruthless shooting death of Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar). Through interviews with Waters' men Davenport learns that he was a vicious man who served the white world and despised his own roots. Was the killer a bigoted white officer? Or could he have been a black soldier embittered by Waters' constant race baiting? Directed by Norman Jewison from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Soldier's Story is both a spellbinding mystery and a superb drama that transcends race.

• 3 Modern Classics - The Stepfather / Glengarry Glen Ross / The Last Seduction | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Stepfather - This is the chilling tale of a congenial family man whose engaging smile and staid demeanor insidiously mask a deep-seated dementia. His obsessive desire to live the ideal family life ultimately leads to the family's very destruction. Glengarry Glen Ross - He's an animal of instinct. Ferocious. Hungry. Driven by the kill. He's an endangered species. A dying breed. And he's going down fighting. He is The Property Salesman. Cinema's star players chase le

• Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of his own 1979 production which was largely responsible for beginning modern interest in Vivaldi's stage work. The composer first premiered Orlando finto pazzo in 1714, but the Orlando Furioso finalised in 1727 was so heavily reworked as to be virtually an entirely new opera, and so successful Handel set the same epic poem by Aristo under the title Alcina in 1735. Vivaldi's opera is not of that calibre, offering rather too much functional recitative and only a handful of truly memorable arias. However, the cast perform with such commitment and style as to make the work thoroughly enjoyable. It is a tale of romantic and magical intrigue on a small island, inevitably echoing Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the classically elegant set-design and colourful costumes evoke a suitable sense of fantasy. Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne makes the title role her own while Susan Patterson is a characterful and strong-minded Angelica. William Matteuzzi makes a sympathetic Medoro, notably outmanoeuvred in love, while as the sorceress Alcina Kathleen Kuhlann is a appropriately complex and powerful in revealing the loneliness at the heart of her corruption. On the DVD: There are no features other than the two trailers which appear on almost all Arthaus releases. The production is presented in the original television 4:3 and the image is little better than a good video. The picture is not especially detailed and too often the performer's faces are slightly out of focus while the sets are pin-sharp. Overall the image suffers the usual problems from originally being shot on professional video, in addition to which some compression artefacting is noticeable. The prologic sound is fine, though appears simply to down mix the main stereo signal to the rear channel and the result is more accurate if switched to straight stereo. --Gary S Dalkin

• Eve Of Destruction | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Its creator made it in her own image. The military made it deadly. Now only one man can stop her! The perfect wartime machine Eve III is an android armed with a nuclear warhead designed to infiltrate any hostile area. When she is caught in the crossfire of a bank robbery she locks into battlefield mode and will self-destruct unless her creator and a counter-insurgency expert can overcome their personal differences and stop her.

• Dark Star | Blu Ray | (13/10/2023) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shadow Fury | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the near future a group of genetic engineers at the Nova Corporation make an amazing breakthrough in human cloning. But the renegade scientist Dr Oh has created an obediance strain that allows him mind control over any human clone created. Exiled from the Nova corporation for misconduct Dr Oh vows revenge on his former colleagues by creating Tekeru the perfect killing machine...

• Santa Fe Trail | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Errol Flynn is Jeb Stuart. Ronald Reagan is George Armstrong Custer (a part Flynn would play in 'They Died With Their Boots On'). Raymond Massey makes a flamboyant John Brown. And rounding out the cast are Oliveia de Haviland Alan Hale Van Heflin and Ward Bond. With a talent roster that includes cinematographer Sol Polito ('Sergeant York') and composer Max Steiner ('Gone With The Wind') 'Sante Fe Trail' is lousy history but great Hollywood!

• Diminished Capacity | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £26.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (-34.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How much is a good memory worth? That's the question that faces newspaper editor Cooper (Matthew Broderick) after a debilitating concussion takes him from the political pages to comic strip detail.

• Leeds United vs Manchester United - 14th September 2002 | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The full historic match which took place at Leeds' Elland Road stadium in which Manchester United were vanquished by their Yorkshire rivals.

• Secret Gardens / More Secret Gardens | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £11.99 (37.50%)   |  RRP £31.99

  In this double DVD pack Alan Titchmarsh travels the land to show us these unique gardens including the spectacular Lake District home of the Victorian author John Ruskin Akenfield a tiny former council house in Suffolk and Gertrude Jeykll's magnificent garden at Hestercombe House in Gloucestershire. We visit cottage gardens in Cumbria and Wales a spectacular hillside garden in Devon the outstanding gardens of an Elizabethan country house and the bizarre Kensington Roof Garden s

• Home Town Story | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £4.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (30.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hometown Story: Released in May 1951 featuring a stunning young Marilyn Monroe on the brink of stardom. It is a rare glimpse of Monroe before her breakthrough roles in 'Niagara' and 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' which catapulted her to fame... and into history. Monroe plays Iris Martin a secretary whose boss is an editor of a newspaper who suspects that big business is reponsible for his recent defeat in a state legislature election. He begins a campaign against his opponent...

• Verdi - Simon Boccanegra | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Sir Georg Solti - Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

• The F.A Premier League Super Quiz 2007 (With Alan Hansen) | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The F.A. Premier League Super Quiz was the ground-breaking interactive football DVD returns! This unique concept features a football quiz in a format that allows the players to score goals and make saves just like real football. Answer questions to hit the back of the net in an interactive format suitable for the whole family officially endorsed by the premier league. Featuring single and multi-player modes with 1 500 new questions and 150 F.A. Premier League action highlights!

• Serving Sara / Bedazzled | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Joe Tyler is a process server who will do anything it takes to deliver legal documents to unsuspecting victims. But nothing in Joe's bag of tricks prepares him for Sara the stunning soon-to-be ex-wife of a playboy cattle baron named Gordon Moore. When Joe serves Sara with Gordon's divorce papers Sara presents an offer Joe can't refuse: serve Gordon with Sara's papers first and earn a cool million dollars! Pursued by Joe's greedy boss and bumbling office rival Joe and Sara begin a wildly funny journey to find Gordon and discover that nothing heats up romance like riches and revenge... Included in this DVD double pack is the Brendan Fraser / Elizabeth Hurley movie 'Bedazzled'!

• Leeds United - End of Season Review 2002/03 | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Relive all the highs and lows of Leeds United's 2002/03 Premiership season.

• Alan Jackson - Greatest Video Hits | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Tracklist: 1. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (feat. Jimmy Buffett) 2. I'll Go on Loving You 3. Little Bitty 4. It's Alright to be a Redneck 5. When Somebody Loves You 6. Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning (Live) 7. Remember When 8. Who's Cheatin' Who 9. Little Man 10. Pop a Top 11. www.memory 12. Drive (For Daddy Gene)