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• Fahrenheit 451 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with petrol and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfield wakens an instinct towards reading and individual thought. (That's why books are banned--they give people too many ideas.) In an intriguing casting flourish, Julie Christie plays two roles: Montag's bored, drugged-up wife and the woman who helps kindle the spark of rebellion. The great Bernard Herrmann wrote the hard-driving music; Nicolas Roeg provided the cinematography. Fahrenheit 451 received a cool critical reception and has never quite been accepted by Truffaut fans or sci-fi buffs. Its deliberately listless manner has always been a problem, although that is part of its point; the lack of reading has made people dry and empty. If the movie is a bit stiff (Truffaut did not speak English well and never tried another project in English), it nevertheless is full of intriguing touches, and the ending is lyrical and haunting. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie | DVD | (08/04/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shift into turbo! The legendary Power Rangers must stop the evil space pirate Divatox from releasing the powerful Maligore...

• Gettysburg (Ridley Scott's) | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ridley Scott brings the bloodiest battle in US History to life as you've never seen it before.

• Gettysburg (Ridley Scott's) | Blu Ray | (16/07/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (-12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ridley Scott brings the bloodiest battle in US History to life as you've never seen it before.