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• Van Helsing (Two Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. A sequel is virtually guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon

• Derailed/Legionnaire/Desert Heat | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £3.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (76.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Derailed (Dir. Bob Misiorowski): A train rockets across Eastern Europe. On board are agent Kristoff (Van Damme) and Galina a beautiful high-tech thief. Holding the passengers hostage are a band of terrorists who have come to steal the bioweapon on board. With the train off course and on a collision course for danger Kristoff becomes a one-man army taking on the terrorists and trying to save the lives of everyone on board. Legionnaire (Dir. Peter MacDonald): The year is 1924 and Alain Lefevre (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a headstrong boxer who has been declared the victor in a heavily wagered boxing match. Two people are dead and the blame has fallen at his feet. With his pockets stuffed with cash he runs through the alleyways desperately hiding in the shadows hunted like an animal. As both the Police and a mobster's henchmen close in Lefereve escapes to the French Foreign Legion. By dawn he is launched into a brutal conflict in a strange and unfamiliar country. What he learns there will change the course of his life forever. Desert Heat (Dir. Danny Mulroon): International star and martial arts master Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks into high gear in Desert Heat a scorching high-intensity action thriller. Desperate to flee the inner demons raging inside him mysterious loner Eddie Lomax (Van-Damme) rides to the last outpost of an abandoned desert highway prepared to end it all. But when a savage gang steals his prized cycle and leaves him for dead Eddie's life is saved by a soulmate from his past. Burning with a new reason to live Eddie sets off on a one-man search-and-destroy mission against his attackers. Fuelled by Van Damme's powerful performance Desert Heat is an explosive and sensational adventures from first to last.

• The Pool | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £16.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  School's out exams are over and it's time for real life to begin. But before 13 friends from the International High School in Prague disappear to the four corners of the earth they intend to throw the best party of their lives. The idea to stage the party in Prague's biggest swimming pool is illegal but cool. And when Gregor the laid back leader of the group thinks an idea is good then no one else from the group objects. But what begins as a night of all nights quickly turns into

• She | DVD | (15/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  SHE is the beautiful warrior-queen who rules by the sword in a land wasted by atomic holocaust. Women battle men are used for ritual sex and sacrifice but the arrival of three strangers plunges SHE into a nightmare quest for survival. Together SHE and her ill-matched companions cross the forest of Yellow Death to encounter a tribe of innocents by day and man eating werewolvers by night and the invincible sailor who literally multiplies when attacked. They make a last stand on B

• The Red Squirrel | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Red Squirrel sees Jota, an ex-pop star with a penchant for doing nothing very much, standing on a bridge contemplating suicide. He’s pulled back to reality by a dramatic motorcycle accident and goes to help the victim, an attractive young woman apparently physically unscathed but with severe amnesia. At the hospital he is assumed to be her boyfriend, and so the deception begins, as he invents everything from her name (Lisa) through to the details of their imaginary four-year relationship. Though based on a lie, it gradually becomes real but is Lisa really an amnesiac or is she deceiving the deceiver? Who is the mysterious Felix, leaving pleas on a late-night radio programme to his missing, mentally disturbed 25-year-old wife, Sofia? As an array of incidental characters get drawn in, each seems to be practising their own deceit. This is a beautifully wrought, endlessly thought-provoking film, complemented by Alberto Iglesias's fabulous score. The two leads are superb: as Jota, Nancho Nova is both fey and hypnotic while Elisa (Emma Suárez) is wonderfully whimsical. Not surprisingly, it garnered a whole heap of awards, from Best Foreign Film at Cannes to Best Score at the Goya Awards. And the significance of the title? Red squirrels are, apparently, quick and cunning creatures; just like human beings. On the DVD: The Red Squirrel is presented in Dolby Digital original Spanish soundtrack with option of English subtitles and anamorphic widescreen print. The usual stuff is on offer as special features, including trailers for other world cinema films, filmographies of the director and two leading characters, and a concise but considered analysis of the plot.--Harriet Smith

• Nostalgia | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film his first to be made outside Russia explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist Gorchakov a Russian poet researching in Italy. Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia his beautiful Italian interpreter Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children and he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task. The film is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary

• Van Helsing / Bram Stoker's Dracula / Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Van Helsing (Dir. Stephen Sommers 2004): Hunted as a murderer by those who do not understand his calling Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) travels the globe as a fugitive. Accompanied only by Carl (David Wenham) a friar entrusted with providing Van Helsing's safety and a weapons arsenal to rival James Bond Van Helsing is despatched to the shadowy world of Transylvania. Home to the ravishing Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) one of the last remaining descendents of a powerful royal family Van Helsing has been sent to terminate the evil and undefeatable Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) and his alluring bloodthirsty vampire brides. Herself a fearless hunter Anna joins forces with Van Helsing to confront her family's life long adversary and avenge the deaths of her predecessors. In a stunning showdown Van Helsing comes face to face with his mortal enemy but is also forced to confront his past... Bram Stoker's Dracula (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1992): Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula to create a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder)... Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Dir. Kenneth Branagh 1994): It is the late 18th Century. After the death of his beloved mother young Victor Frankenstein leaves his father and Elizabeth the adopted sister he passionately loves to attend university. Here he becomes obsessed with the teachings of Professor Walman who believes that living creatures can actually be created from dead matter. One electrifying night Frankenstein's efforts are rewarded as his Creature struggles to life. Alone despised and driven by a rage of emotional agony it sets off to find its maker. And so begins the nightmare that will engulf Victor Frankenstein...

• Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin | DVD | (04/09/2013) from £21.38   |  Saving you £3.61 (16.88%)   |  RRP £24.99

  OA 1120D; OPUS ARTE - BBC - Inghilterra; Classica Lirica

• Final Fantasy Unlimited Volume 1 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £15.97   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Twelve-year-old twins Ai and Yu Hayakawa take a mysterious subway to Wonderland to look for their missing scientist-parents. Wonderland is a hostile place, ruled by the petulant Earl Tyrant and his assorted hench-creatures. Ai and Yu are attacked by monsters and saved first by Lisa, a practitioner of the "Kigen Arts," then repeatedly by the taciturn, gun-totting Kaze. The first episodes are cluttered with characters who appear briefly then vanish. Although Ai, Yu, and Lisa do a lot of traveling, the series doesn't really go anywhere: the filmmakers seem more interested in showcasing the elaborate CG effects at their disposal than in coherent storytelling. The effects are very flashy, but they never meld satisfactorily with the drawn animation. Based on the popular videogame franchise, Unlimited borrows from Matsumoto's Galaxy Express and Miyazawa's Galactic Railroad, but offers none of their mystery and magic. (Rated 12 and older: violence, tobacco use)

• Hierro | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (61.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Emotionally devastating, visually stunning and truly terrifying, a Spanish genre thriller, Hierro depicts one woman's desperate journey into a nightmare vortex of horror and loss.

• Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mussorgsky's loveless and brutal drama of the transformation of Russian society, which led to the rule of Peter the Great within the epic history of Russia, is powerfully modernised through Stein Winge's dramatic and uncompromising production. Performing the version completed by Shostakovich, the outstanding Russian-dominated cast and the orchestra and chorus of the Liceu are led by Michael Boder.

• Looking For Alibrandi | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A teenage Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life. These include her difficult relationship with her single mother the unexpected return of her long-lost father the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school the acceptance of her schoolmates and romantic dilemmas over two very different boys.

• Il Viaggio A Reims - Rossini | DVD | (22/10/2004) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From theGRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU BARCELONAGIOACHINO ROSSINIIl Viaggio a ReimsOssia l'Albergo del Giglio d'OroDramma giocoso in one act

• The Harvesting | DVD | (18/07/2016) from £3.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (552.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.

• Boom | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £14.29   |  Saving you £1.70 (11.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A comedy about a man in debt who conspires to sell one of his eyes to cover his loses and remain a success in the eyes of his wife.

• All About My Mother / Live Flesh / Talk To Her | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  All About My Mother: A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single mother Manuela (Cecilia Roth) when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' starring his favourite actress Huma Roja (Marisa Paredes). Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt Manuela goes to Barcelona to finally tell his father about the son he never knew he had. There the reason why she has kept the identity of her forbidden lover a secret for so long is revealed. He is a transvestite named Lola who is dying from an AIDS related illness. However in confronting her own past Manuela forges a new future with Lola's transsexual best friend Agrado (Antonia San Juan) church social worker Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz) and Huma when her play comes to town. But even as the women from different fringes of society form a bond further heartbreak misfortune and ultimate joy lies in store for each. Live Flesh: Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) is a child of Franco's Spain born on a bus that was taking his mother a prostitute to the hospital. In spite of this Victor is young and life has not destroyed his trust in people particularly Elena (Francesca Neri) the daughter of a diplomat and the woman with whom he shares his first sexual experience. Victor believing the experience was not a casual one soon discovers things are not usually as straightforward as one would hope. Nerves a gun and two policeman are involved when Victor tries to see Elena again and a violent encounter changes all their lives. A policeman Sancho (Jose Sancho) precipitates a violent incident into which Victor is dragged. David (Javier Barden) is hit by a stray bullet that leaves him paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Victor is blamed and sent to prison where he watches helplessly as David becomes a paralympics star with Elena - now his wife. Fate however intervenes again. When Victor is released from prison he visits his mother's grave only to find Elena and David at the cemetery. Now Victor has the chance to settle old scores - but from his moment on they are all locked in a game which has only just begun. Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella): After a chance encounter at a theater two men Benigno and Marco meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma Alicia a young ballet student...

• Weber - Euryanthe (Korsten, Prokina, Fogasova, Chung) | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £19.33   |  Saving you £0.66 (3.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After his success with Freischtz Weber wanted to write a grand romantic opera and in the end the subject of Euryanthe was chosen a tale inspired by a legend going back to the thirteen century. Euryanthe is music of inspiration and originality such as is rarely found in the history of German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Italianisms that are occasionally glimpsed in Freischtz are eliminated almost completely. Euryanthe is set to music in its entirety with

• Final Fantasy Unlimited - Vol. 7 | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £13.23   |  Saving you £6.76 (33.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Twelve-year-old twins Ai and Yu Hayakawa take a mysterious subway to Wonderland to look for their missing scientist-parents. Wonderland is a hostile place, ruled by the petulant Earl Tyrant and his assorted hench-creatures. Ai and Yu are attacked by monsters and saved first by Lisa, a practitioner of the "Kigen Arts," then repeatedly by the taciturn, gun-totting Kaze. The first episodes are cluttered with characters who appear briefly then vanish. Although Ai, Yu, and Lisa do a lot of traveling, the series doesn't really go anywhere: the filmmakers seem more interested in showcasing the elaborate CG effects at their disposal than in coherent storytelling. The effects are very flashy, but they never meld satisfactorily with the drawn animation. Based on the popular videogame franchise, Unlimited borrows from Matsumoto's Galaxy Express and Miyazawa's Galactic Railroad, but offers none of their mystery and magic. (Rated 12 and older: violence, tobacco use)

• House Of Fools | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Janna lives in a small Russian mental hospital close to the Chechen border convinced that the rock star Bryan Adams is her fiance. When fighting starts the hospital doctor becomes concerned for the welfare of the patients and goes out to find transport to move them leaving them to their own devices. When a friendly group of Chechen soldiers enter the hospital Janna falls head over heels in love with one of them but will Bryan give her up without a fight? Directed by Andrei Konc

• Elliot Loves | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the creative mind of Terracino comes this wildly entertaining NYC tale of wide-eyed Elliot a young gay man seen both as an inquisitive 10-year-old boy and an idealistic 21-year-old searching for love in all the wrong places. Elliot is handsome and charismatic but unlucky in love. He can’t seem to hold down a relationship for more than a few weeks but things look promising with Kiko a sexy young go-go dancer who seems smitten with Elliot. As Elliot's heart is repeatedly broken in the present the film flashes back to situations in the past that fuels his current need for love as he struggles through adolescence with his abused mother. Although heavy in theme Elliot Loves bounds with a consistent optimism and features captivatingly nuanced performances throughout. Charming fresh and engrossing Elliot Loves is a classic gay feature in the making.