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• Ghost Hunt - Series1 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £28.33   |  Saving you £11.66 (41.16%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Do You Believe In Ghosts? The appeal of the unknown is undeniable and seventeen year old Mai Taniyama is hooked. This fact coupled with her burgeoning psychic powers leads Mai to join the ranks of the Shibuya Psychic Research team. Led by enigmatic Kazuya Naru Shibuya she works alongside a spirit medium and a shrine maiden an exorcist and a monk to uncover the darkest mysteries of the unseen. Using state-of-the-art technology and their respective spiritual gifts evil is confronted and vanquished time and again.

• Christmas Oratorio - Johann Sebastian Bach | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Christmas Oratorio, Bach's six-part cantata cycle, was presented by The Monteverdi Choir under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner at the Heiderkirche in Weimar in December 2000 as the culmination of a year-long pilgrimage. Gardiner's mission had been to perform Bach's complete canon of liturgical cantatas, in appropriate religious settings, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. This is a magical record of a splendid musical occasion. Although the Oratorio is seasonal, the tale and the manner of its telling repay repeated listening regardless of the time of year. The commitment of Gardiner, his singers and musicians is deeply moving and is heightened by the splendid Baroque surroundings. The story, related largely by tenor Christoph Genz, is a rich tapestry of musical textures, ranging from the celebratory pastoral opening to the poignancy of many of the solo passages (soprano Claron McFadden's bell-like tones soar, in particular). In one of the accompanying brief documentaries, Gardiner says that at a time when we're weighed down with wallpaper music, Bach provides a means of escape through his sacred music. The proof is in the holistic nature of this piece, with its combined senses of nature at work and order, represented by the discipline of the music itself, of almost mathematical proportions. Sublime. On the DVD: two discs each contain three parts of the Oratorio with a short documentary providing some useful background to Gardiner's pilgrimage and an exploration of his belief that through music, "Bach tells us what it's like to be a human being as part of the universe." The picture format is 16:9 and provides ample digital quality; the setting inevitably imposes its own limits on the viewing experience. The segment for the "Third Day of Christmas" features a choice between the concert camera and the conductor camera so you can vary the picture, but this is really just a gimmick soon forgotten if you're mainly interested in the music. You can listen to the soundtrack in LCPM stereo (best), AC3 Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 surround. --Piers Ford

• A MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH IRELAND FEATURING CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH, MARY DUFF, DANIEL O'DONNELL, DOMINIC KIRWAN, MICK FLAVIN, MICHAEL ENGLISH, JOHN HOGAN | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  15 CLASSIC IRISH SONGS

• Willie Nelson - Live in Amsterdam | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Willie Nelson has won the admiration of fans all over the world with his awesome talent. Though his unmissable voice and outlaw spirit have forever earned him a place among country music's superstars his equally remarkable talents performing gospel standards blues and many other types of music are also evident This one-of-a-kind video marks the kick-off of Nelson's European tour on June 7 2000 with an intimate concert at the Paradiso Theatre in Amsterdam. This amazing evening sp

• The Fabulous Baker Boys | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £9.66   |  Saving you £0.33 (3.42%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An inspired casting gimmick, a wonderful mood, a grown-up love story--all this in The Fabulous Baker Boys, but the only thing anybody ever talks about is Michelle Pfeiffer on top of a piano. Granted, it's a showstopper: clad in a slinky dress, Pfeiffer rolls around on the Steinway while she purrs out a languid version of "Makin' Whoopee". Adding to the seductive vibe is the fact that she's not singing to the audience, but to the sullen piano player (Jeff Bridges) whose fancy she has captured. Bridges and his real-life brother, Beau, play two lounge entertainers whose act has grown stale; they're not above doing "Feelings" for the tourist crowd. They've hired songbird Pfeiffer (who does her own sexy singing) to spice up the routine, a strategy that pays off in spades. The three actors are terrific, with the fabulous Bridges boys playing neatly off their own sibling rhythms. Writer-director Steve Kloves captures the feel of second-rate Seattle clubs, and Dave Grusin's jazzy score keeps propelling the film forward. The story itself might have come from a 1940s romance, yet Kloves and his actors keep it unusually modern and thoughtful. And then there's Michelle Pfeiffer rolling around on top of a piano.... --Robert Horton

• Mary Stuart | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This famous production of Donizetti's Mary Stuart was one of English National Opera's most memorable from the 1980's. Dame Janet Baker chose the title role of Donizetti's Scottish queen for her farewell to the London operatic stage in 1982. It was a triumph for Dame Janet in one of the most rewarding of operatic roles. As Mary she displays her full range as a great singing actress at times imperious and confrontational yet during the quieter reflective moments intensely moving. H

• Ghost / Sliding Doors | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sliding Doors: The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the tantalising 'what if?' in this delightful romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow plays London publicist Helen effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a morning train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth overlap then surprisingly converge in the most romantic comedy in years. Don't miss it - romance was never this much fun! Ghost: A romantic thriller in which yuppie banker Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is murdered but returns to Earth as a ghost to protect his grief-stricken young girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) and solve his own murder. As he cannot communicate directly with his love he turns to fake medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) for help. Nobody is more shocked than Oda Mae to discover she has the genuine power to contact the dead. Goldberg won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance and Bruce Joel Rubin won the statuette for Best Original Screenplay.

• Mozart: Symphony In C Major Jupiter / Symphony In C Major Linz | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £3.00   |  Saving you £13.25 (761.49%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Mozart's 'Symphony In C Major - Jupiter KV 551 and 'Symphony In C Major - Linz KV 425'. Recorded at the Viennese Schloss Schonnbrunn.

• The Fairy Queen - Purcell | DVD | (25/05/2001) from £20.88   |  Saving you £7.10 (39.69%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Pountney and Quinny Sacks' production of Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen caused something of a sensation when it hit the ENO stage in 1995. It has the feel of a decadent 17th-century masque re-invented with late-20th-century energy: half the principals and chorus are in cross-dressing costumes, female characters are played by men (leading to some rather wonderful polymorphous perversity), and everything has an air of mad, hallucinogenic hipness about it. While Robert Israel's wild sets don't appear to their full advantage on the small screen, Dunya Ramicova's costumes look fantastic (the details are simply stunning). The very fine singing is recorded with excellent clarity: while this is obviously a live performance, there are remarkably few moments that go out of microphone range, and the balance with the orchestra is handled very sensitively. The ENO band, under the baton of Nicholas Kok, respond to Purcell's wiry lines and spiky harmonies with glee, and sound like they're having a ball, as do the singers. In particular Jonathan Best as The Drunken Poet is hilarious, and it is a wonderful testament to his acting skills that he is as funny close-up as he was from the auditorium stalls.--Warwick Thompson

• Mozart: Great Piano Concertos - Vol. 4 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart: Great Piano Concertos Vol. IV features Mozart's piano concertos No's 5 8 17 & 27.

• Naruto Series 1 Part 2 | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Uzumaki Naruto is a lonesome young boy from the Hidden Leaf Village a town with several young ninjas-in-training who aspire to reach the village's one-of-a-kind highest ninja rank the Hokage. Naruto is treated as an outcast by the rest of the village ever since a deadly fox-demon was sealed inside him when he was a baby. He now has a penchant for mischief but all Naruto really wants is some attention and respect. Accompanied by his secret crush Sakura his skilled rival Sasuke and his mentor Kakashi Naruto will have to overcome many challenges as he comes of age and pursues his dream of becoming the Hokage. The Naruto anime is adapted from the extremely popular Naruto manga series created by Masashi Kishimoto which has sold in excess of 59 million copies in its native Japan. Featuring episodes 14 to 26!

• The Real McCoy | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They said there wasn't a man on earth who could pull off a bank job like this. They were right! After six long years in prison for a foiled bank robbery legendary criminal Karen McCoy (Basinger) wants nothing more than to turn her life around. But her hopes are soon shattered: no one will hire her; she's stuck with a sleazy parole officer and her ex-husband has told their son that she's dead. To make matters worse crime lord Jack Schmidt (Stamp) is forcing her to pull off a seemin

• Percy | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Something very vital has been lost! When Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) has an accident and wakes up in hospital the last thing he is expecting is to find someone else's 'Percy' down below! Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many many girlfriends...

• Handel: Ariodante | DVD | (23/06/2000) from £19.61   |  Saving you £8.37 (50.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ariodante makes extraordinary vocal and acting demands, which the English National Opera brilliantly fulfils in a curious combination of baroque music and post-modern production styles. Handel's intensely emotional arias and the surreal staging combine their energies with powerful impact, aided by some imaginative choreography and a remarkable English singing translation of the Italian text. The subject is the painfully complex love entanglements of five characters: pure idealism and raging jealousy, nefarious plots and deceptions, unscrupulous exploitation, and opportunism, hopelessness mounting to the brink of insanity. The plot, as often happens in baroque opera, is riddled with improbabilities, exaggerations, and coincidence, but they matter not at all. It is essentially no more than a framework on which Handel mounts music of tender passion, rage, delirious joy, hope, resignation--nearly three hours of unrestrained emotional intensity and vocal brilliance. Ann Murray and Joan Rodgers are appealing as the young lovers Ariodante and Ginevra, but the show is nearly stolen by countertenor Christopher Robson as the villainous Polinesso, who convinces Ariodante that Ginevra has been unfaithful. Lesley Garrett performs brilliantly as Polinesso's dupe and accomplice, Dalinda, and Ivor Bolton conducts with a fine sense of baroque style. --Joe McLellan, Amazon.com

• Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  Under intense scrutiny, the debut season of Enterprise earned a passing grade from critics and Star Trek fans alike. Voyager ended its seven-season run just four months earlier, and fans were skeptical when Enterprise premiered (on Sept. 26, 2001, on UPN) with a theme song ("Where My Heart Will Take Me," composed by Diane Warren and performed by Russell Watson) that defied Trek's revered theme-music tradition. This and other early reservations were dispelled when "Broken Bow" got the series off to a satisfying start, beginning in the year 2151 and establishing a pre-Federation focus on humanity's delicate relationship with the Vulcans, the controversial launch of the NX-01 Enterprise on an exploratory mission, and the potentially devastating consequences of the mysterious Temporal Cold War involving a time-traveling splinter group of the Suliban, a nomadic alien race. While establishing a testy relationship between Enterprise Capt. Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and his smart-and-sexy Vulcan Sub-Commander, T'Pol (Jolene Blalock, in a short-banged wig and form-fitting "cat-suit" that were later redesigned), the series introduced engineer "Trip" Tucker (Connor Trineer), whose surprise pregnancy in "Unexpected" made him a fan favorite; communications officer Hoshi Sato (Linda Park); helmsman Travis Mayweather (Anthony Montgomery); weapons expert Lt. Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating), and chief surgeon Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley), a well-mannered Denobulan recruit from Earth's Interspecies Medical Exchange. As a "prequel' series that predates the original Star Trek by 150 years, Enterprise built upon established Trek lore with episodes involving Vulcans ("Breaking the Ice"), Klingons ("Sleeping Dogs"), the blue-skinned Andorians ("The Andorian Incident," "Shadows of P'Jem"), and the Ferengi ("Acquisition") while offering stand-alone episodes (notably "Dear Doctor," "Fortunate Son," and "Shuttlepod One") that further acquainted fans with the Enterprise regulars. Early Trek technology is also introduced (including "phase pistols" and the rarely-used, still-risky transporter), and the series drew strength from what many felt would be its primary weakness: unwritten history and the initial indecisiveness of Archer's bold foray into the unknown. Ending with a dazzling "Shock Wave" cliffhanger that leaves Archer stranded in a decimated Temporal Cold War future, Enterprise set a strong foundation for the events of Season Two. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• For The Love Of Ada | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them... However things start to go wrong early in the day when Walter's business partner Arthur almost lets slip the news of the party. The day continues to go downhill from there with the happy couple falling out over Ada's new blonde wig Walter is losing the money he was using to buy Ada's present and then finding it has been spent on a n

• John Eliot Gardiner - In Rehearsal | DVD | (13/06/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The In Rehearsal series continues to offer fascinating insights into the technique of conducting with this film about John Eliot Gardiner rehearsing Bach's Cantata BWV63 (Christen, ätzet diesen Tag). The venue is EMI's Abbey Road Studios, so there are the obligatory hackneyed shots of that zebra crossing at the beginning, but there's nothing else hackneyed about the rest of this engrossing film. The devil is in the detail: what Gardiner says about Bach and period performance (enlightening though it is) is less interesting than the way he says it. After one rousing chorus, for example, he leaves everyone breathless in silence while he digs some dirt from his fingernails before giving them a cool "Well done". A mild contretemps with the first trumpet leads to an interview in which the brass player nervously and darkly hints at even greater conflict under the surface of the rehearsal. It's remarkable to hear the sublime music-making that results despite, or perhaps because of, the tension: Gardiner continually urges the musicians to swing the beat and feel the pulse as if it were a dance, and they do. One quibble: the names of the soloists aren't credited anywhere, so here they are: Ann Monoyios, Sara Mingardo, Rufus Müller and Stephan Loges. On the DVD: John Eliot Gardiner in Rehearsal is presented in 4:3 ratio, with PCM Stereo sound format. The picture quality is clear without being lustrous, but perfectly adequate for the needs of the subject. The disc has subtitles available in English, German, French and Spanish. --Warwick Thompson

• Love Thy Neighbour | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The 70's sitcom smash that explored the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth. In this 1973 movie the happy family hilarity comes to a head when they enter the local 'Love Thy Neighbour' competition. Each is determined to win even if they have to lie through their teeth!

• House Of Fears | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The night before a notorious haunted house is opened for a Halloween party six teenage friends break in for a few hours of spooky fun. But before the night is over they will not only discover the meaning of fear but the meaning of hell itself.

• Follyfoot Series 1 | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Young Dora is sent to stay with her uncle on his farm in rural England while her parents travel overseas for a year. Seeing as she has a love for horses her uncle suggests she visit Follyfoot Farm which is a part of his estate that looks after unwanted and unloved horses. It is only here that Dora feels truly happy but what will happen when her parents return? Episodes Comprise: 1. Dora 2. Steve 3. Gypsy 4. Shadow 5. One White Foot Charley 6. The Charity Horse 7. Know-All's Nag 8. Moonstone 9. Stryker's Good Deed 10. Mr. She-Knows 11. The Standstiil Horse 12. Birthday at Follyfoot 13. A Day in the Sun