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• A Touch Of Frost - Mistaken Identity | DVD | (04/04/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  David Cronenberg's signature obsessions flower in Eastern Promises, a stunning look at violence, responsibility, and skin. Near Christmas time in London, a baby is born to a teenage junkie--an event that leads a midwife (Naomi Watts) into the world of the Russian mob. Central to this world is an ambitious enforcer (Viggo Mortensen) who's lately buddied up with the reckless son (Vincent Cassel) of a mob boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl, doing his benign-sinister thing). Screenwriter Steve Knight also wrote Dirty Pretty Things, and in some ways this is a companion piece to that film, though utterly different in style. The plot is classical to the point of being familiar, but Cronenberg doesn't allow anything to become sentimental; he and his peerless cinematographer Peter Suschitzky take a cool, controlled approach to this story. Because of that, when the movie erupts in its (relatively brief) violence, it's genuinely shocking. Cronenberg really puts the viewer through it, as though to shame the easy purveyors of pulp violence--nobody will cheer when the blood runs in this film. Still, Eastern Promises has a furtive humour, nicely conveyed in Viggo Mortensen's highly original performance. Covered in tattoos, his body a scroll depicting his personal history of violence, Mortensen conveys a subtle blend of resolve and lost-ness. He's a true, haunting mystery man. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com Stills from Eastern Promises (click for larger image). Photos by Peter Mountain. Vincent Cassel (left) and Viggo Mortensen (right). Armin Mueller-Stahl. Viggo Mortensen (left) and Naomi Watts (right) Viggo Mortensen (left) and Naomi Watts (right). Naomi Watts. Armin Mueller-Stahl (left) and Naomi Watts (right). Mina E. Mina (left), Vincent Cassel (center) and Viggo Mortensen (right). Vincent Cassel. Viggo Mortensen.

• Popeye And Son - Attack Of The Sea Hag | DVD | (11/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Strongman sailor Popeye and his spindly girlfriend Olive Oil have finally got themselves hitched. They star with their son Popeye Jr. Popeye Olive and Junior live in the seaside town of Sweethaven where Popeye runs a health club and Olive teaches aerobics. Son Junior is a chip off the old block. He and his best friends enjoy a childs dream of endless summer activities; swimming diving and surfing. The only fly in the ointment is Popeye's archrival Bluto and his son Tank. Adventures with Popeye in 'Attack Of The Sea Hag' 'Happy Anniversary' 'The Sea Monsters' 'Poopdeck Pappy And The Family Tree' 'Bluto's Wave Pool' and 'Here Today Goon Tomorrow'.

• Kalifornia / Misery / Shallow Grave | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £15.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (33.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kalifornia: When urban intellectuals Brian (Duchovny) and Carrie (Forbes) set out a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers they share the ride with a couple they barely know - Early Grayce (Pitt) and his girlfriend Adele (Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westword the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect Early's violent nature abruptly emerges and the petrified Brian and Carrie realise they don't need to go very far to learn about ruthless killers... because they're already face to face with one! Misery: When author Paul Sheldon suffers a car accident in a blizzard he thanks his lucky stars that nurse Annie Wilkes was on hand. That is until he discovers that she's his number one fan and has no intention of ever letting him go... Shallow Grave: Juliet David and Alex find that their new reclusive roommate has not left the bedroom for days. After kicking in the door they discover this drug overdosed corpse; and a suitcase full of cash! Fatefully choosing to keep the money they know they have to get rid of the body. But the remains won't stay buried and a careless trail from the shallow grave leads the police and two money-hungry thugs back to the trio. As the stakes get higher so does the body count not to mention their paranoia which is quickly putting their friendship in deadly jeopardy!

• Coppelia | DVD | (16/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded live at The Sydney Opera House this timeless ballet tells the story of Dr. Coppelius who tries to bring to life his beautiful doll Coppelia.

• Puccini: La Boheme (Sydney Opera 2011) (Opera Australia: OPOZ56018BD) (Ji-Min Park/ José Carbó/ Opera Australia Chorus/ Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra/ Shao-Chia Lü/ Gale Edwards) | Blu Ray | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Giselle | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £18.32   |  Saving you £-2.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Adam: Giselle (Smith The Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra)

• Cinderella Man / Hurricane | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cinderella Man (2005): James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) dubbed 'Cinderella Man' was a once-promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand became synonymous with the Great Crash. With one good hand Braddock was forced to labour on the docks of Hoboken while only his manager (Paul Giamatti) still believed in him finding fights for Braddock to help support his wife (Renee Zellweger)and children. One of the sport's oddest couples

• Pearl | Blu Ray | (15/11/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 4 - Episodes 1 To 7 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £12.91   |  Saving you £5.07 (51.11%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this collection of episodes from Series Four of 'Upstairs Downstairs' a series of dramatic events befall the residents of Eaton Place. The events of World War I are having some harrowing effects on British society as the country is struggling to get through the hardships that take place from 1914-1918...

• Dirty Pair Flash - Vol. 2 - Episodes 7-11 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With a gang of android hit-women and cross-dressing assassins on their tails the Lovely Angels find that it's a very small world after all when a mysterious killer wants them dead. The ultimate vacation becomes the ultimate nightmare a the deadly chase leads Kei and Yuri through haunted houses five-star restaurants and a painstaking recreation of the most barbaric century of all the 20th! Episodes comprise: Tokyo Holiday Network / Seventeen Mysterious High School / Hot Springs S

• One Good Turn | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

• Get Down | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Smart savvy advertising executive Murray Roberts is in control of his urban world. But a wrong turn in a large metropolitan park reveals the limits of his control and the limitations within himself. Murrays path is blocked by Carter a 14 year old would be mugger. When Carter persists Murray reacts and shoves him to the ground. The act has alarming consequences as a menacing youth gang emerges from the surrounding forest. Murray does what anyone would do in this situation he runs! Cornered and exhausted Murray seeks refuge in a massive old tree. A single misstep atop the branches and his hiding place is revealed. Now what can Murray do? Deep in the woods at the end of the day no one answers when Murray calls for help!

• David Leadbetter - The Short Game | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  For players of all standards the key to a lower score lies in ""The Short Game"".

• Surgical Spirit - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (14.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sheila Sabatini is a brilliant surgeon but her sharp tongue gets her into trouble with fellow consultant surgeons George Hope-Wynne and Neil Copeland...

• Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (Daughter of the Regiment) | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Daughter Of The Regiment - Opera in Two Acts by Gaetano Donizetti.Recorded at the Wolf Trap Festival 1974.

• Merlin | DVD | (19/03/2004) from £21.21   |  Saving you £8.78 (29.30%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An opera in three acts from the Teatro Real Madrid. Enjoy the world premiere of the full and original version of Merlin by Isaac Albniz over a century after he completed the work. Albniz composed this 'Wagnerian' opera to an English libretto by his patron Francis Burdett Money-Coutts between 1898 and 1902. Many believed the score was lost until the conductor Jos De Eusebio reconstructed it from various manuscript sources and publishers' proofs. For this stunning production dire

• Complete Buffy Collector's Edition Box Set (Series 1-7) | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  A specially created box set containing all 7 Seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer in limited edition numbered packaging. Also includes a letter from series creator Joss Whedon a book containing episode information and a run-down of Joss Whedon's favourite episodes. Over 100 hours of vampire ass-kicking action across 39 discs.

• Friends, Series 7 - Episodes 17-20 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 7: Lots happened behind the scenes between seasons and early on in the seventh year of the hit comedy, leaving audiences speculating this might be the last. Perry became seriously ill again, and returned looking more emaciated than ever. Cox regained weight, but despite finishing Scream 3 happily, things were already rocky with David Arquette. Much was made in the press about Aniston marrying Brad Pitt, of course, but the real news (allaying fans' fears) was NBC's expensive renewal of the cast for two years at $750,000 per episode each (more than six times their previous increase). On-screen, at least there was Chandler and Monica's engagement lasting the whole year, despite predictable ups and downs (eg: "T.O.W. the Truth About London" revealing that Monica fancied Joey). By the time we finally get to "T.O.W. Chandler's Dad" (Kathleen Turner), it seems inevitable that the two-part finale will be an insane mess--but with a happy-ish ending. Sure enough, "T.O.W. Chandler and Monica's Wedding" features Gary Oldman joining in the chaos as Chandler repeatedly goes missing. Other star turns in the year were Seinfeld's Jason Alexander as a suicidal Office Manager, Susan Sarandon as soap queen bitch Jessica Lockhart, Denise Richards as one of Ross and Monica's endless number of cousins and Winona Ryder as a surprise old friend, prompting "T.O.W. Rachel's Big Kiss". But perhaps the most telling instalment of this weirdly atmospheric year was "T.O.W. They All Turn Thirty". It suggested that maybe the Friends are all getting too old to carry on living their frivolous lives the same way after all. --Paul Tonks

• Pitch Black/Doom/The Chronicles of Riddick | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pitch Black: The daylight can burn you but the darkness will kill you! Experience the psychological terror when a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light. With little power and dwindling numbers the doomed passengers turn to a vicious convict (Vin Diesel) with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness... (Dir. David Twohy 2000) The Chronicles Of Riddick: The wanted criminal Riddick arrives in Helion Prime and finds himself against the invading Necromongers an army that plans to convert or kill all humans... (Dir. David Twohy 2004) Doom:No one gets out alive! Based on the hugely popular video game Doom is an explosive action-packed thrill ride! A frantic call for help from a remote research station on Mars sends a team of mercenary Marines into action. Led by The Rock and Karl Urban they descend into the Olduvai Research Station where they find a legion of nightmarish creatures lurking in the darkness killing at will. Once there the Marines must use an arsenal of firepower to carry out their mission: nothing gets out alive. (Dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak 2005)

• Dawn Of The Dragon Slayer 2 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (11/08/2014) from £8.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (88.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a country ruled by an occupying foreign empire Elenn an arrogant young noblewoman accompanies her aunt on a mission to bring an ancient relic to the secret coronation of the rightful king of their people. When her aunt is murdered Elenn hires a smuggler and criminal to escort her across the dangerous country to take her aunt's place at the coronation. But when Corvus a rogue magister employs a dark magic to retrieve the ancient relic for his own evil designs Elenn must find the humility and strength within herself to fulfill her aunt's calling to unite her people before the power of the relic falls into the hands of the empire.