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• Wagner: Das Rheingold -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  It takes a certain amount of forethought if Das Rheingold is to be more than a series of special effects scenes, though moments like the appearance of the giants through the mist or Alberich's transformations need to be as thrilling as they are here. As always in his Wagner, and perhaps especially in this very traditional 1990 Metropolitan Opera production of the Ring cycle, James Levine keeps to the forefront the underlying humanity of Wagner's gods and monsters. In the first scene, for example, he brings out the thoughtless, callous frivolity of the Rhine maidens as they precipitate the events of the four operas by taunting the gnome Alberich: it helps that they swirl around, green and gold, in a convincing representation of the bottom of the Rhine, but the emotions are the point. Ekkehaard Wlaschiha is a convincingly menacing Alberich partly because Levine brings out his vulnerability as well as his evil temper. James Morris is splendid as the younger less care-worn Wotan and Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge enjoys the sarcasm of his cynical commentary on Wotan's aspirations. The smaller parts have luxury casting: Matti Salminen as Fafner and Christa Ludwig as Fricka, for example. On the DVD: Das Rheingold comes with a photo gallery of the Metropolitan Opera production and with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese. Disappointingly though it is presented in American NTSC format with standard TV 4:3 visual ratio. But it does have an excellent clear acoustic in all three of its audio options: PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1. --Roz Kaveney

• Bruce Lee 30th Anniversary Commemorative Box Set | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  The ultimate Bruce Lee collector's box set! Contains: The Big Boss: In an emotive rollercoaster storyline of friendship betrayal revenge and deadly confrontation Bruce Lee plays Cheng a migrant worker who travels to Thailand in search of work but finds and breaks open a drug trafficking ring with his fists of steel. In his quest for justice and revenge Lee is an unstoppable force of nature breaking down wave after wave of opponents with powerful Wing Chun hand combi

• The Living Daylights | Blu Ray | (04/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Living Daylights, new boy Timothy Dalton's first Bond outing, gets off to a rocking start with a pre-credits sequence on Gibraltar, and culminates in a witty final showdown with Joe Don Baker's arms dealer, set on a model battlefield full of toy soldiers. While the Aston Martin model whizzing through the car chase has been updated for the late 1980s--including lethal lasers and other deadly gizmos--the plot is pretty standard issue, maybe a little more cluttered and unfocused than usual, involving arms, drugs and diamond smuggling. Nevertheless, the action-formula firmly in place, this one rehearses the moves with ease and throws in some fine acting. Maryam d'Abo, playing a cellist-cum-spy, is the classy main squeeze for 007 (uncharacteristically chaste for once). Dalton, with his wolfish, intelligent features, was a perfectly serviceable secret agent, but never caught on with the viewers, perhaps because everyone was hoping for a presence as charismatic as Sean Connery's in the franchise's glory days.--Leslie Felperin On the DVD: Casting the new Bond takes up much of the "making-of" documentary: first Sam Neill was in the running, but vetoed by Cubby Broccoli, who wanted Timothy Dalton and had considered him as far back as On Her Majesty's Secret Service (but Dalton felt he was just too young at the time). When Dalton proved unavailable, Pierce Brosnan was hired. Then, at the last minute, Brosnan's Remington Steele contract was renewed and he had to drop out. Dalton came back in, on the proviso that he could give Bond a harder, more realistic edge after the action-lite of the Roger Moore years. The second documentary attempts to profile the enigmatic Ian Fleming, who was apparently as mysterious and chameleon-like as his alter ego. The commentary is a miscellaneous selection of edited interviews from various members of the cast and crew. There's also Ah-Ha's "Living Daylights" video, and a "making-of" featurette about it. A brief deleted scene (comic relief--wisely dropped) and trailers complete another strong package. --Mark Walker

• Yesterday's Enemy | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Burma, 1942. Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) leads the remnant of his unit through the steaming jungle swamps, pursued by Japanese soldiers. Langford and his men secure a small village and discover a map which Langford believes holds crucial information about Japanese troop movements. He is prepared to murder a Burmese informer and innocent villagers to unlock the maps secret. The tables are turned when Langford is captured by the similarly ruthless Major Yamazaki (Philip Ahn). He reminds the Captain that in total war, honour is the finest casualty... Yesterdays Enemy was nominated for numerous BAFTAs on its original release and is now regarded as one of Hammer Films greatest achievements. This DVD has been digitally remastered from the Columbia archive print and is presented in its original MegaScope aspect ratio. Special Features: - Photo Gallery - 24 Page Booklet - History of Hammer Films

• Ben 10: Top Ten Alien Battles | DVD | (28/10/2019) from £4.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While on a seemingly endless summer vacation with his Grandpa Max and Cousin Gwen, Ben Tennyson Discovers an alien watch the Omnitrix. This amazing device gives Ben the ability to transform into any one of ten spectacular and powerful alien heroes! Ben, Gwen and Max travel the country in their motor home, affectionately known as the Rust Bucket; Seeing the sights, sticking their foot in it, and beating down would-be vilains while generally having a blast! Blending fast-paced action with great comedic timing, the show is bursting to life with crisp graphics, bold colours and the powerful punch of 10 aliens. Includes episodes: Max to the Max ~ Villain Time ~ Riding the Storm Out ~ Something I Ate ~ Rustbucket RIP ~ Need for Speed ~ Animo Farm ~ Steam is the Word ~ Bon Voyage ~ Tomorrow Today

• Station Six Sahara | DVD | (10/02/2020) from £6.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A beautiful blonde (Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

• The Mentalist - Season 1-5 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

• Vault of Horror DVD UK Release | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £10.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (36.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Five unsuspecting hotel guests step into an elevator, which leads them into an underground vault. Trapped with no way out, each guest shares a gruesome tale of an encounter with death. But as the stories unfold, the men begin to suspect that their presence in the vault is no coincidence, and that the only way out is death.

• Ike: Countdown To D-Day | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £9.90   |  Saving you £10.09 (101.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The fate of millions rests on the fortitude of one... 'Ike: Countdown To D-Day' follows the 90 terrifying days leading up to the invasion of Europe as Commander In Chief of the Allied forces General Dwight D. Eisenhower decides the fates of thousands of soldiers while managing complex strategic relationships with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French President Charles de Gaulle as well as the feuding American General George S. Patton and Britain's Field Marshall

• Living Daylights | Blu Ray | (14/09/2015) from £8.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (111.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Living Daylights, new boy Timothy Dalton's first Bond outing, gets off to a rocking start with a pre-credits sequence on Gibraltar, and culminates in a witty final showdown with Joe Don Baker's arms dealer, set on a model battlefield full of toy soldiers. While the Aston Martin model whizzing through the car chase has been updated for the late 1980s--including lethal lasers and other deadly gizmos--the plot is pretty standard issue, maybe a little more cluttered and unfocused than usual, involving arms, drugs and diamond smuggling. Nevertheless, the action-formula firmly in place, this one rehearses the moves with ease and throws in some fine acting. Maryam d'Abo, playing a cellist-cum-spy, is the classy main squeeze for 007 (uncharacteristically chaste for once). Dalton, with his wolfish, intelligent features, was a perfectly serviceable secret agent, but never caught on with the viewers, perhaps because everyone was hoping for a presence as charismatic as Sean Connery's in the franchise's glory days.--Leslie Felperin On the DVD: Casting the new Bond takes up much of the "making-of" documentary: first Sam Neill was in the running, but vetoed by Cubby Broccoli, who wanted Timothy Dalton and had considered him as far back as On Her Majesty's Secret Service (but Dalton felt he was just too young at the time). When Dalton proved unavailable, Pierce Brosnan was hired. Then, at the last minute, Brosnan's Remington Steele contract was renewed and he had to drop out. Dalton came back in, on the proviso that he could give Bond a harder, more realistic edge after the action-lite of the Roger Moore years. The second documentary attempts to profile the enigmatic Ian Fleming, who was apparently as mysterious and chameleon-like as his alter ego. The commentary is a miscellaneous selection of edited interviews from various members of the cast and crew. There's also Ah-Ha's "Living Daylights" video, and a "making-of" featurette about it. A brief deleted scene (comic relief--wisely dropped) and trailers complete another strong package. --Mark Walker

• Dumb And Dumber / Dumb And Dumberer | DVD | (29/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dumb And Dumber: Harry (Daniels) and Lloyd (Carrey) are too lame to live (and too dense to die) as a pair of deliriously dim-witted pals on a cross-country road trip to return a briefcase full of cash to it's rightful owner. Along the way they'll confound cops kidnappers and anyone and everyone who has the misfortune of crossing their paths in this comic caper for every idiot in the family! Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd: Now in their formative high school y

• The Official Story Of Churchill - The Finest Hours | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £5.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (151.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An account of the defiant actions of perhaps Britain's greatest leader. This authorised documentary chronicles Sir Winston Churchill's war years.

• True Blue | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £17.08   |  Saving you £-7.09 (-71.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On one level, True Blue is a distillation of the brutal physicality and unique focus demanded of participants in the annual University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge. Based on legendary oarsman and Oxford coach Dan Topolksi's book about the 1987 race, it is also a tale of revenge; dominant Oxford had been defeated the year before and wanted the title back. More than that, though, it is a story of sporting obsession and the Machiavellian resources required to last the course in an event shrouded in ritual. When a clutch of lantern-jawed American international rowers muscle in on the Oxford team and threaten, quite literally, to rock the boat with their disregard for any of the tradition surrounding the race or Topolski's coaching methods, the fragile concept of team spirit is splintered. Ferdinand Fairfax's film, full of fine performances, builds the tension through a series of confrontations and a constantly shifting balance of power over the year leading up to the race. The intuitive relationship between the besieged Topolski (the excellent Johan Leysen) and the President of the College Captains, Donald McDonald (the quietly impassioned Dominic West) is particularly well drawn. With more than a hint of Chariots of Fire, not least in the Vangelis-like soundtrack, this is a moving and beautifully observed film about sporting passion.On the DVD: True Blue is presented in widescreen with a 16:9 anamorphic video aspect ratio that makes excellent use of the sweeping vistas of the Thames for the racing and training scenes which dominate the film. Stanislas Syrewicz's brooding score underpins the action at every stage and, thanks to the quality of the Dolby Surround soundtrack, helps to bring an appropriately epic, theatrical feel to your home viewing. --Piers Ford

• Monarch Of The Glen - Series 4 - Part 1 | DVD | (29/12/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Return to Glenbogle to see the trials and tribulations that go on in the most breathtaking of surroundings. Molly returns from Africa to try to put Hector's untimely death behind her and Archie has a new vision for the Estate - wolves! Lexie is forced to choose her future :- cook or Laird's wife.

• Another Earth | Blu Ray | (02/04/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

• Constantine (Two Disc Edition) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £13.90   |  Saving you £3.09 (22.23%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Irreverent detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) teams up with a skeptical policewoman (Rachel Weisz) to investigate a murder and the world of demons and angels that exist just beneath the landscape of L.A.

• Dead Head | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  London based petty crook, Eddie Cass (Denis Lawson) agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off address Eddie opens the package and finds a woman's severed head in a hatbox. He panics and dumps it in the River Thames. Returning home Cass is kidnapped by the mysterious Eldridge (George Baker) and his heavies who inform Eddie that he has been framed for the murder. The hatbox belonged to his ex-wife and his fingerprints are all over it. Eddie panics and goes off the rails - boozing and sleeping rough. Eventually he ends up at his ex-wife Dana's house, played by Lindsay Duncan. Whilst he sleeps there, his former partner informs on him, and Eddie once again has to go on the run. The next morning the newspaper headlines reveal the discovery of the gruesome hatbox. Eddie's own private atom bomb has gone off... Written in 50-minute episodes by playwright Howard Brenton and directed by Rob Walker the series has a top-notch cast including Denis Lawson (Bleak House, Holby City, Perfect Sense) as Eddie Cass, Don Henderson, George Baker (The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Hopscotch), Simon Callow (Amadeus, Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Lindsay Duncan. (Rome, Under the Tuscan Sun) Special Features: Commentary on Episode 1 and 2 with Writer Howard Brenton.

• Campbell's Kingdom | Blu Ray | (06/04/2015) from £7.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (97.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dirk Bogarde gives an intense performance as a young man who refuses to allow a family dream to die in this powerful adaptation of Hammond Innes' best-selling novel. Scripted by BAFTA winner Robin Estridge and featuring an outstanding supporting cast – including Zulu legend Stanley Baker – Campbell's Kingdom is a moving story of courage boasting one of cinema's most thrilling and spectacular climaxes. This classic film is featured in a High Definition transfer made from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Bruce Campbell a young Englishman recently diagnosed with a terminal illness travels to the Canadian Rockies to claim an unexpected inheritance of land from his grandfather. Determined to prove the old man's conviction that there is oil in his 'Kingdom' Bruce resolves to devote his final months to vindicating the claim – meeting determined and unscrupulous opposition from almost everyone in the valley... Features Original theatrical trailer and textless material. Four image galleries including behind-the-scenes and publicity shots

• The Big Boss | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £22.48   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This seminal martial arts film was instrumental in creating the legend that is Bruce Lee. Shot in Pak Choi in Thailand with this film Bruce Lee introduced his magnetic charisma and ground-breaking fight choreography to the world. In an emotive rollercoaster storyline of friendship betrayal revenge and deadly confrontation Bruce Lee plays Cheng a migrant worker who travels to Thailand in search of work but finds and breaks open a drug trafficking ring with his fists of steel. In his quest for justice and revenge Lee is an unstoppable force of nature breaking down wave after wave of opponents with powerful Wing Chun hand combinations and lighting fast precision kicking...

• Will and Grace: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £5.87   |  Saving you £44.12 (751.62%)   |  RRP £49.99

  After a first season made controversial by the mere presence of openly gay characters, Will & Grace returned triumphantly with renewed confidence and vigour. In their second season, sidekicks Jack and Karen (the very, very funny Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally) are more snide and gleefully obnoxious than ever; Will (Eric McCormack) has perfected his prickly panache; and in particular Grace (Debra Messing) has entered a whole new plane of sexy goofiness, diving even more headlong into physical comedy--such as the episode when, in order to woo a high school crush, she gets a water-padded bra that springs a leak. The writing has also become tighter, grown more deft in its gay and pop culture references (which were often self-conscious in the first season) and at juggling sustained storylines, such as the Immigration department investigating Jack's marriage to Karen's Salvadorian maid Rosario (Shelley Morrison), Grace and Will struggling to become less emotionally incestuous, and Jack seeking his biological father. The show excels at tackling emotional subjects (like Will discovering that his father, who has accepted and even embraced his homosexuality at home, has told his co-workers that Will is married to Grace) with a sharp comic eye. Guest stars start to accumulate: Molly Shannon returns, Sydney Pollack and Debbie Reynolds play Will's dad and Grace's mom, Joan Collins appears as a rival designer, Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, MD) plays the leader of a going-straight support group, and Gregory Hines takes on a recurring role as Will's new boss, a high-powered lawyer who seduces Grace. Will & Grace mixes superb sitcom farce with sly sociopolitical commentary; the fusion is smart and consistently entertaining. --Bret Fetzer