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• The Irish Film Collection | DVD | (24/11/2014) from £58.99   |  Saving you £-34.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Collection of five classic Irish films. In 'In the Name of the Father' (1993), Daniel Day-Lewis plays Belfast wideboy and petty crook Gerry Conlon, who, along with his father (Pete Postlethwaite) and two friends, is forced into a false confession claiming responsibility for bombing a soldiers' pub in 1974. In 'Angela's Ashes' (1999), Alan Parker directs and co-scripts this big screen adaptation of Frank McCourt's best-selling quasi-autobiographical book. Although born in Brooklyn in 1935, Fra.

• Offenbach: Des Contes D'Hoffmann | DVD | (25/04/2001) from £19.85   |  Saving you £6.40 (34.43%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unfortunately the qualities that make Jacques Offenbach's operetta The Tales of Hoffmann an irresistible melodic profusion of wit, dash and unfailing high spirits are only in evidence in the playing of the Lyon Opera Orchestra under Kent Nagano: operetta, more than its serious cousin, continues to be fair game for the whims of producers and designers. In this case an excellent cast including Daniel Galvez-Vallejo as Hoffmann, Natalie Dessay as Olympia, Brigitte Balley as Nicklausse and Isabelle Vernet as Giulietta, as well as Gabriel Bacquier who sings three roles, are obliged to perform Offenbach's operetta in a lunatic asylum designed by Philippe Starck as a three-dimensional grey set, topped with barbed wire. The production by Louis Erlo adapts and cuts scenes to fit this concept, so the tavern scene where Hoffmann sings his celebrated number "The Legend of Kleinzack" disappears, as do the chorus who are banished to the wings. In this environment there's no room for charm or even a kind of mad-hatter behaviour. The cast are reduced to stereotypes and of necessity singularly unlovable ones. What a wasted opportunity. The sound is excellent as it is on two fillers: a short film of Penderecki conducting his choral work, The Seven Gates to Jerusalem from the Midem festival at Cannes and a trailer for a Lyon Opera House production of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust. --Adrian Edwards

• Archangel | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Maverick academic and Soviet historian Fluke Kelso is expecting to leave Russia for good. That is until a surprise visit from Papu Rapava a former NKVD officer reveals some information that could lead him to uncover one of Russia's most closely guarded and unimaginable national secrets. Starring Daniel Craig (Layer Cake Road To Perdition Enduring Love) in the lead role of Fluke Kelso this is a BBC adaptation of the best selling novel by Robert Harris

• The Decline Of The American Empire | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You've never seen a sex comedy quite like The Decline of the American Empire. That's because there's no sex in this comedy--just a lot of entertaining talk about it (and a few discreet flashbacks). The speakers are eight Montreal academics. For most of the film, the men--Rémy (Rémy Girard), Claude (Yves Jacques), Pierre (Pierre Curzi), and Alain (Daniel Brière)--fix dinner while talking about sex. The women--Dominique (Dominique Michel), Louise (Dorothée Berryman), Diane (Louise Portal), and Danielle (Geneviève Rioux)--work out while talking about sex. That evening, they all gather for dinner... and talk about sex. The Decline of the American Empire made the reputation of writer-director Denys Arcand, but his greatest success would arrive 17 years later with The Barbarian Invasions. In that 2003 Oscar-winner, Arcand revisits the lovably loquacious characters from the first film, all of whom are older, wiser--and just as obsessed with sex. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Story Of O / The Story Of O - Untold Pleasures | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Story of O (Dir. Just Jaeckin 1975): This film is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who is taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation

• Karaoke Hits - Various Artists - Vol. 1 | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Karaoke DVD packed full of hits with something for everyone. From today's funksters the Black Eyed Peas and the sassy Pussycat Dolls to classics by Lionel Richie and Extreme. Together with original videos and vocals the extras include vocal coaching and the ability to change the pitch octave to suit all vocal ranges. Tracklist: 1. Barbie Girl - Aqua 2. Shut Up - Black Eyed Peas 3. Linger - The Cranberries 4. Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Beddingfield 5. Dreams - Gabrielle 6. Original Sin - INXS 7. Hello - Lionel Richie 8. Switch - Will Smith 9. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer 10. More than Words - Extreme 11. Celebration - Kool and the Gang 12. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 13. Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls 14. Show Me Heaven - Maria McKee 15. No Diggity - Blackstreet 16. Year 3000 - Busted

• Sator | DVD | (22/02/2021) from £5.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A