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• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Cologne/Conlon | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovanni that suits the promiscuous protagonist's restless energy more than some more ponderous and serious productions. He relies on Thomas Allen's tough Don to give the work much of its dark menace and on Holle's terrifying Commendatore to provide the moral outrage--his job is to keep things moving, and he does. The exteriors--blank city spaces reminiscent of the paintings of Giorgio De Chirico--and moodily claustrophobic interiors mirror effectively the anguish of the orphaned Anna and the abandoned Elvira; this is a performance in which the two women victims of the Don function effectively as correctives to his libertine charm. Andrea Rost as Zerlina brings real delicacy to her role, reminding us that "La ci darem la mano" is a duet about her flirtation with Don Giovanni and not just a famous stand-alone moment. This is an admirable presentation of a fine performance. The only special features of the DVD are subtitles in the standard languages. --Roz Kaveney

• The Rare Breed | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Veteran western director Andrew V. McLaglen puts his brand on this exciting story based on America's acquisition of English Hereford cattle (which would phase out Texas longhorns). In the 1880s Englishwoman Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) come to America to sell their prize Hereford bull at an auction. When he is purchased by Bowen a wild Scotsman (Brian Keith) the woman hire a footloose cowhand named Burnett (James Stewart) to help them transport the animal to its new owner. So begins an adventure that tests the mettle of all involved as they battle killers cattle stampedes - and each other. But when they reach Bowen's ranch even greater obstacles force them to summon up extraordinary courage if they and the prize bull are to survive.

• Space Precinct - Vol. 3 And 4 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Snake: An alien extortionist and explosives expert known only as The Snake threatens the executives of Brett Interplanetary. Precinct 88 becomes a task force to track him down and Jane reunites with her old ECPF colleague Bill Gray. The Snake reveals his next target - The Princess an Omega Class tanker en route to Altor with two hundred million gallons of liquefied hydrogen! Body and Soul: Caught in the radiation field of Merlin's Asteroid a prototype spaceship created by recluse industrialist Alden Holmes returns to Altor after being lost in space for twenty years. Brogan finds a body on board opening an investigation into a homicide that took place two decades ago. As he tracks down the killer Brogan is haunted by the ghost in the machine..... Time To Kill: A routine sweep on a counterfeiting operation goes horribly wrong for the officers of Precinct 88 when they are suddenly attacked by a violent Cyborg and Took is caught in the crossfire. The Cyborg has Brogan marked for death and one by one Brogan's colleagues fall victim to the creature... Deadline: Brogan and Haldane discover a capsule containing the body of a Tarn male. The autopsy reveals that the Tarn is missing vital organs removed with surgical precision... and Brogan and Haldane find themselves on the trail of organ leggers from Danae - vicious killers who murder for profit and target Brogan as their next donor.

• The Maisie Collection: Volume 2 | DVD | (26/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Driller Killer | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £8.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (-49.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Driller Killer is one of the most notorious films ever. It almost single-handedly spawned the media ""video nasty"" hysteria of 1984 and the introduction of the video recordings act. It is also the film that launched the career and reputation of critically acclaimed director Abel Ferrara. Away from the hysteria The Driller Killer is a powerful and compelling study of one man's descent into madness and violence. Reno is struggling artist close to breaking point. The loud pun

• James May's Big Ideas | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Top Gear presenter James May explores flying cars petrol made from air and other mind-boggling innovations in James May's Big Ideas a new Open University TV series seeking out the science that could shape our future. Energy transport and robotics are the themes that May explores in a follow-up to his earlier Open University TV show James May's Twentieth Century. Not content with merely pondering the questions that keep him up at night James travels the world and into the realms of cutting edge science with a surfeit of his trademark wit and imagination. The series is shot in the UK US Spain Germany Holland Japan Russia Eire and over three episodes looks at the issues that trouble him.

• Kevin And Perry Go Large / South Park The Movie / Ace Ventura - Pet Detective | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Kevin & Perry Go Large: Kevin and Perry the two gormless teenagers from the Harry Enfield Show go feature-length. This film tells the complete story of Kevin and Perry's adventure in Ibiza. It's the summer holidays and Kevin and Perry know that there is only one place where the DJ reigns supreme and girls will shag anyone - Ibiza. The boys are ready to set out armed with top gear and a suitcase full of condoms. The only problem is Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are coming too. On arrival the boys spy the girls of their dreams - Candice and Gemma - superstar DJ Eye Ball Paul. It looks like Kevin and Perry may have the best summer ever. South Park - Bigger Longer Uncut: If you're male or female or of any particular ethnic sexual religious or national persuasion you may be offended by this movie. Or perhaps this movie may make you laugh more than any other recent comedy. Fame. Authority. Show tunes. The military. Race. Sex. Religion. The way to a woman's heart. The creators of TV's South Park skewer all in a feature-length story that plunges an outraged U.S. into war with Canada after South Park schoolkids sneak into a restricted Canadian-made film and emerge their fragile little minds warped spouting expletives that would make a sex-shop proprietor blush. What? Your mind is already warped? Well friend looks like this movie is perfect for you. Stan Kyle Kenny and Cartman sneak into an R-Rated movie and it warps their fragile little minds. Soon their indignant parents declare war on Canada and our young heroes are America's last hope to stop armageddon. Ace Ventura Pet Detective: He's the best there is. In fact he's the only one there is! He's Ace Ventura Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover under fire or underwater he's always gets his man..or beast!

• Entertaining The Troops | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A wonderful insight into the activities of American Entertainers during World War II

• The Cursed | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  For Terry and her family everything that can go wrong has. When her brother-in-law commits suicide it seems like the whole family curse will never spare them. Now with the bank threatening to repossess their house Terry and her husband are prepared to do almost anything to end their run of misfortune. Tempted by fate they decide to retrieve the money that was stolen and bury in a secret location near her dead brother-in-law. But with their greed lies the sinister secret

• Children's Classic Adventures | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the little boy who lives in the animal kingdom is a well-loved and enchanting tale that teaches honour and respect for all creatures. The Adventures Of Moby Dick There is nothing fishy about this tale - it's pure excitement from start to finish. A classic story with some new characters and some great sea songs too. Black Beauty This time-honoured tale follows a beautiful ebony horse on his journey through the ro

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (12/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The 1990 Metropolitan Opera performance of Die Walkure ("The Valkyrie") with James Levine conducting is a solid, four-square performance with few frills and no gimmicks, just extraordinarily fine singing and orchestral playing. There is no point in this where you find yourself asking why the director did something: this is the sort of production which could be criticised as unimaginative but defended as serving Wagner's intentions for this instalment of his Ring cycle. Levine and his orchestra give the music an emotional intensity that never overwhelms its grandeur, though perhaps in Wotan's farewell to Brunnhilde, we feel him more as father than as god. James Morris as Wotan has real stature, making us feel that he has finally created the free agents he needs to avoid the curse he has unleashed on the world, but he has broken his heart in the process. Jessye Norman is surprisingly good and erotically self-assured as Sieglinde; the Act 1 love duet with Gary Lake as Siegmund has an ardour that makes the incestuous aspect less a matter of perversity than of the conduct of heroes. Kurt Moll makes Sieglinde's rapist and husband Hunding, a three-dimensional sinister villain; and Christa Ludwig almost manages to sell us Fricka's interminable paean to family values. The most impressive performance here, though, is Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde, the steely godling who sacrifices everything because she learns to feel and to know what is right. On the DVD Die Walkure on disc comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• The Mexican | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Together for the first time, superstars Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts take a hilarious, action-packed tour south of the border with James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) in what People Magazine calls a quirky romantic comedy with plenty of gunplay and intrigue.Before reckless Jerry can make amends with Samantha, he has to take one more wild ride down to Mexico to pick up a priceless antique pistol and settle his debts. As things begin heating up with mob bosses and hit men, the action boils over with surprise twists and turns in the film Roger Ebert give a Thumbs Up.

• Le Nozze Di Figaro - Mozart | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Though performed in the original Italian Peter Sellars' production of Le nozze di Figaro relocates Mozart's social comedy to the tinted-glass elegance of New York's Trump Tower high above the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America.

• Whisper Kill | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £7.87   |  Saving you £-0.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Ambitious reporter Liz Bartlett secretly wishes that Jerry Caper her business associate were dead. Yet her hidden desire soon becomes a reality when he is brutally murdered. Investigative reporter Dan Walker is assigned to the murder case and becomes intrigued by the pretty reporter. They begin a passionate affair but Dan can't dispel his suspicion of Liz's guilt. When a second murder is commited Dan probes deeper looking for clues in Liz's past. But just as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into plac Dan follows a lead bringing him face to face with the killer in a shocking ending filled with suspense.....

• Secretary | Blu Ray | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After a bout of illness Lee Holloway moves back in with her dysfunctional family ready to start anew. Despite a few strikes against her she applies for a secretarial position at the law office of E. Edward Grey. Although she's never had a job in her life Lee is hired by the mysterious lawyer who seems unconcerned by her lack of experience. At first the work seems quite normal and boring - typing filing and coffee-making - but Lee tries hard to please him and her family are desperate for her to succeed. Slowly Lee and Mr. Grey embark on a more personal relationship behind closed doors crossing lines of conduct into a deep realm of human sexuality a unique love affair in which the roles of dominance and submission suit both of them perfectly. 'Secretary' is a powerful and unique love story bold unflinching humour and strange yet seductive eroticism help explore the notion that love doesn't always occur the way we might have expected....

• Donnie Darko / Limited Steelbook Edition | Blu Ray | (23/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Talons Of The Eagle | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two DEA agents and a Toronto cop infiltrate the domain of a tyrannous crime lord in this action-packed film. When you're fighting one crime killing is a way of life.

• S.W.A.T | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Terminator / Rollerball / Robocop | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robocop: A sadistic crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit the situation is so bad a private corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has assumed control of the police force. The executives at the company think they have the answer - until the enforcement droid they create kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive seizes the opportunity. He and his research team at Security Concepts create a law enforcement cyborg from the body of a slain officer. All goes well at first. Robocop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly piercing and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street and within Security Concepts itself that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated... Terminator: In 2029 giant super-computers dominate the planet hell-bent on exterminating the human race! And to destroy man's future by changing the past they send an indestructible cyborg - a Terminator - back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) the woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace to save the life of her unborn child? Or will the human race be extinguished by one mean hunk of mutant metal? Rollerball (1975): Set in 2018 Rollerball is a sensation glimpse of a future where the world is ruled by six giant corporations; a place where there is no war no poverty and no unrest but also no free will and no God. There is still a place for violence in this antiseptic world of plenty and mankind''s vicious and sadistic impulses are vented in the Rollerball arena a violent and deadly game broadcast world-wide to satisfy the bloodlust of millions. James Caan is outstanding as Jonathan E the game''s greatest player a man whose devastating talent threatens to make him a hero - and a threat to the Corporations'' grip on power. When Jonathan is asked to retire he refuses electing instead to captain his team to the world finals in an escalating spiral of carnage.

• Cracker - The Big Crunch | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An illicit rendezvous discovered in a park initially appears to be a clear case of adultery but on closer inspection a darker picture develops. A man abuses his position of trust to recruit young girls into his religious sect. Morality is turned on its head when an innocent young girl is 'punished' for the wrong doings of her 'priest'. Bearing all the symbolism of the serpent rearing its ugly head in the Garden of Eden a world of religious fanaticism hypocrisy and perversity unfolds. Appearances can be deceptive as Fitz attempts to unearth the most sinister truths behind the religious faade with spine-chilling consequences.