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• Britten: Owen Wingrave - Berlin/Nagano | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Owen Wingrave is perhaps Britten's most radical opera, both politically and artistically. Originally written for television, and here presented in a 2001 Channel 4 version, the 1970 score is based, like The Turn of the Screw, on a Henry James ghost story. Britten, though, is more in tune than James with the pacifism into which Owen revolts from a long family tradition of military service. The fluid, impassioned, often declamatory music given Owen makes him one of the most sympathetic of Britten's outsider protagonists, though he has a streak of self-centredness, which stops him being an implausible paragon. Gerald Finley is quite admirable in the part, conveying fully the sense that by losing and dying at the hands of family ghosts, Owen demonstrates the integrity which is central to his character. The other parts are admirably filled here, notably Martyn Hill as Owen's harsh General grandfather, Josephine Barstow as his aunt and Charlotte Hellekant as the fiancee who unknowingly sends him to his death. They and Elizabeth Gale are quite extraordinary in the first act quartet of recrimination and condemnation. This excellent performance compares vocally with the original on almost entirely equal terms--modern technology means that the ghost scenes are far more dramatic and plausible. Kent Nagano and the Berlin Orchestra do full subtle justice to the chamber orchestra sonorities of one of Britten's most interesting scores, never overstressing its complex musical architecture at the expense of the drama. On the DVD: Owen Wingrave is presented in a widescreen 16:9 visual aspect ratio with PCM stereo sound. It is accompanied by The Tender Heart, a documentary about Britten's career full of personal reminiscences by his surviving friends, colleagues and family, that concentrates on Peter Grimes, the War Requiem and Death in Venice, the three popular masterpieces of his early, middle and late career. It has menus and subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish. --Roz Kaveney

• The Matrix Reloaded (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Neo and the leaders of the human resistance discover that Sentinels are burrowing their way towards Zion. Estimating they have perhaps just 72 hours until an all-out assault Neo must return back into the Matrix and find the keymaker to gain access to the mainframe to ensure human survival...

• Becoming Jane | HD DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jane Austen lit up the world with her words wit and wisdom. But her life too was stoked by passion and romance. In this film Anne Hathaway is Jane Austen a woman who believes in Love but is destined via her parents wishes to marry for money. But then Jane meets the dashing young Irishman Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy). His intellect and arrogance ignite Jane's curiosity and her world spins head over heels! In Becoming Jane a young lady on the first rung of literary greatness risks a romance that was to shape her life and her work!

• Shaft / Changing Lanes / Rules Of Engagement | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (65.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Samuel L. Jackson Collection. Shaft: With Samuel L. Jackson in the starring role and John Singleton directing ""Shaft"" is a new approach to one of the great film icons of the 1970s. He's tough he's smart he's cool - just what you'd expect from a man whose uncle and mentor is John Shaft who now as then is played by Richard Roundtree. Also starring in the Paramount Pictures presentation are Vanessa Williams Jeffrey Wright Christian Bale Dan Hedaya Busta Rhymes and

• The Matrix Revolutions | Blu Ray | (03/08/2015) from £25.22   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook - Limited to 2000 copies. Neo is trapped in limbo between reality and the Matrix while Zion the last human city is attacked by hordes of machines. Meanwhile Morpheus Trinity and Seraph confront the ruthless Merovingian to secure Neo's release. As the fight for Zion grows more dire Neo and Trinity embark on a perilous journey into the heart of the machine city while Morpheus and Niobe rush to Zion's aid. Eventually Neo must face the increasingly powerful Agent Smith in a last battle for the fate of humanity. Extras: Written Introduction by the Wachowskis 2 Commentaries: Philosophers: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber; Critics: Todd McCarthy John Powers and David Thomson BEHIND THE MATRIX Documentary Gallery: 9 Featurettes including REVOLUTIONS RECALIBRATED and the 3D EVOLUTION Stills Gallery CREW Documentary Gallery: 4 Featurettes HEL Documentary Gallery: 6 Featurettes NEW BLUE WORLD Documentary Gallery: 5 Featurettes SIEGE Documentary Gallery: 5 Featurettes AFTERMATH Documentary Gallery: 4 Featurettes Theatrical Trailers TV Spots

• Daughter Of Darkness | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £12.96   |  Saving you £3.02 (30.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Ballyconnen Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until that is the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...

• Dracula's Daughter | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £4.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (65.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A series of murders take place in a remote European village which the locals believe to be the work of vampires and which the police dismiss as nonsense. The murders coincide with the arrival of the beautiful Luisa Karlstein (Britt Nichols) who has been summoned by the imminent death of her mother Baroness Karlstein who tells her daughter the family secret that they are all vampires! Loosely based on the classic Sheridan le Fenu short story Carmilla Franco's tale of lesbianism and vampirism is it must be said a disjointed and hotch-potch affair filmed almost back-toback with the Erotic Rites of Frankenstein. Yet despite its flaws it maintains enough of Franco's classic languid and dreamlike otherworldliness to include it among Franco's classic titles.

• Terrahawks - Collectors Set - Series 2 | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £45.88   |  Saving you £-10.89 (-31.10%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Space: 2020. Humans on the NASA Mars Expedition base make first contact with an alien species. Unfortunately the alien is Zelda Imperial Queen of the Planet Guk and she destroys the base as the first step in her plan to destroy all human life on Earth. Only the intrepid Terrahawks stand in her way...

• My Name Is Joe | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  My Name Is Joe: A former alcoholic who is currently out of work keeps himself busy by coaching a football team in Glasgow. When one of his players becomes involved with local gangsters their lives are changed forever... Bread And Roses: Maya and Rosa are Mexican sisters living and working in downtown Los Angeles working for a pittence and in very hostile conditions. When they happen upon a young activist there seems to be hope as he vows to help them both get the justice they deserve.

• Nomads | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  French anthropologist Jean-Claude Pommier staggers into a Los Angeles emergency ward and grabs Dr Eileen Flax before falling dead. Following the incident she collapses and has a series of visions where she comes to re-experience the last few days of Pommier's life and realizes that he has somehow transferred his memories to her via his touch. In the visions she sees how he became obsessed with and began to follow a street gang watching as they conducted random acts of violence. But

• The Matrix Reloaded | Blu Ray | (03/08/2015) from £39.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook - Limited to 2000 copies. In the second chapter of The Matrix trilogy freedom fighters Neo (Keanu Reeves) Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation. In their quest to save the human race from extinction they gain greater insight into the construction of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind. Extras: Written Introduction by the Wachowskis 2 Commentaries: Philosophers: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber; Critics: Todd McCarthy John Powers and David Thomson BEHIND THE MATRIX Documentary Gallery: 4 Featurettes including THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS RELOADED ENTER THE MATRIX : THE GAME Documentary ENTER THE MATRIX: View 23 Live-Action Scenes Shot for the Video Game that Plug into the action of THE MATRIX RELOADED CAR CHASE Documentary Gallery: 9 Featurettes TEAHOUSE FIGHT Documentary Gallery: 2 Featurettes UNPLUGGED Documentary Gallery: 5 Featurettes I'LL HANDLE THEM Documentary Gallery: 4 Featurettes THE EXCLIES Documentary Gallery: 2 Featurettes P.O.D. SLEEPING AWAKE Music Video Theatrical Trailers TV Spots

• Folks! | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jon Aldrich an all around nice guy inadvertently becomes the target of an FBI sting. But compared to everything else in his life that doesn't seem so bad.

• Flash Gordon Space Soldiers - Volume 3 - Episodes 9 To 13 | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £8.15   |  Saving you £-3.16 (-63.30%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Flash battles Ming the Merciless once more in this thrilling conclusion to the sci-fi serial. Episodes include: Fighting The Fire Dragon / The Unseen Peril / In The Claws Of Tigron / Trapped In The Turret / Rocketing To Earth

• She's The One / Picture Perfect / The Good Girl | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  She's The One: Mickey (Burns) a free-spirited New York cabbie and Francis (Mike McGlone) a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's (John Mahoney) influence. Though they disagree about nearly everything they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fianc'' Heather (Cameron Diaz) is Francis' secret lover. Though the brothers have beautiful wives (Maxine Bahns and Jennifer Aniston) Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry with uproarious and unexpected results. Picture Perfect: As adorable as she is ambitious Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and equally determined to snare Sam the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to meet Nick sending Kate's personal and professional worlds spinning out of control... The Good Girl: Thirty-year-old Justine Last longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart Justine's good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse...

• Chailly Conducts Mendelssohn | DVD | (30/12/2005) from £5.61   |  Saving you £18.64 (428.51%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A performance of Mendelssohn recorded live at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig in September 2005 Riccardo Chailly's inaugural concert as Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra captures the full atmosphere of a unique musical occasion a feast of Mendelssohn from the orchestra the composer founded. Includes an overwhelming performance of Mendelssohn's Second Symphony 'Lobgesang' with its celebratory choral last movement in a new edition as well as the ever-popular overture 'A Mi

• Terrahawks - Vol. 7 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Includes the episodes: Two For The Price of One: It's time for the final battle as Tiger Ninestein plans a surprise attack on Zelda's martian base. (Includes footage not shown on TV.) Child's Play: Cyster's baby Itstar proves to take after his/her mother and produces a super powerful explosive. Jolly Roger One: Zelda teams up with her most bizarre ally yet the pirate Captain Goat with his space galleon ready to take on the ultra-modern Terrahawk fleet.

• Anne-Sophie Mutter - Mozart - Sonatas | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

• Lucky Chances 1/Lucky Chances 2 | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jackie Collins' sweeping story of passion power greed and betrayal spans over 40 years from the tough streets of depression bit New York to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and Las Vegas.

• Watching The Detectives | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £9.72   |  Saving you £10.27 (105.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A four disc DVD set of classic detective films. With Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Peter Lorre as Mr Moto; Boris Karloff as Mr Wong and Ralph Byrd as Dick Tracy. Mr. Moto's Last Warning (Dir. Norman Foster 1939): A Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto of the International Police is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr Moto is already in Port Said investigating a conspiracy against the British and French government

• College | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £9.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (101.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl and takes up sports. His attempt at the high jump is a classic piece of clowning, and as the cox in a boat race Buster displays his full genius for comic invention. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. If not quite the equal of The Navigator (1924) or its immediate predecessor The General (1927), College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is reasonable. In addition there are two excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920) and The Blacksmith (1922).-- Ed Buscombe