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• Danielle Steel's Heartbeat | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £9.25   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the book by Danielle Steel Bill Grant (John Ritter) is the popular producer of a top TV soap but separated from his ex-wife and two young sons he badly misses family life. Adriane (Polly Draper) is a happily married news executive at the same TV station. But when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant her child-phobic husband deserts her rather than compromise his career with the responsibilities of parenthood. Both alone and lonely Bill and Adriane eventually meet and quickly become close - their friendship soon deepening into love despite Adriane's pregnancy and inner longing for her husband. Caring and supportive right up to the birth Bill never doubts his love for Adriane though she secretly hopes the baby's arrival may rekindle her marriage. Will Bill's heart be broken again... or will Adriane finaly realise who will make more loving husband and father?

• Orpheus In The Underworld | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eurydice is married to Orpheus but has started an affair with a local shepherd called Aristaeus. However Aristaeus is really Pluto in disguise and he becomes so besotted with Eurydice that he lures her to a field where she is bitten by a snake. He then reveals his true identity and whisks her away to Hades so they can be together. Orpheus now a free man is happy about this new situation until his mother insists he rescues Eurydice from Hades. Meanwhile King Of The Gods Jupiter ha

• Martha Marcy May Marlene | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £7.96   |  Saving you £12.03 (151.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Martha Marcy May Marlene creates a sense of uneasy suspense within seconds of coming on screen: a young woman, who will be known by all the title names at various times in the movie, is escaping from a rural commune of some sort. And not just a commune, but by the looks of it, a cult--an impression that will grow as Martha flashes back to her experiences once she reaches the safety of her sister's antiseptic country place. It is part of director Sean Durkin's design that we experience the film as Martha's point of view, which means there may be some question about whether she's an emotionally unstable person to begin with or simply in a legitimate terror about the traumatising events that have unfolded for her in recent months. Although the film has one storytelling contrivance (Martha withholds her experiences from her sister, when a little exposition would help matters tremendously), in general Durkin keeps a lid on this simmering situation, and he's got a good compositional eye that only occasionally tips over into preciousness. Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy play Martha's complacent but concerned sister and brother-in-law, and John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) is a spellbinder as the commune leader, a manipulator of subtle skill. (With some stories like this, you have a hard time believing cult followers could fall for these creepy charismatics; in this one, Hawkes demonstrates how such things might happen.) The movie's most unexpected and alluring touch is the performance by Elizabeth Olsen, as Martha; this younger sister of the child-star Olsen twins brings a zonked-out centre of gravity to the part. She's got just a bit of blankness, too, which enhances the movie's well-wrought guessing game. --Robert Horton

• The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Watching The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a sobering experience, for the viewer must confront the painful truth that popular music, to judge by its increasingly infantile and banal state, will never see their like again. Either that, or admit The Doors were an irrelevant footnote in the history of pop--an idle thought that a few minutes of this extraordinary concert will dispel. Fortunately for posterity, this July 5, 1968 performance was captured by four cameras and recorded in 16-track audio, and has now been digitally remixed for DVD. The result is a crisp picture and generally excellent stereo sound that is far better than most archive footage of this band. On stage Jim Morrison has the aura of an intense performance artist, whose dark, smoky voice forms only a part of his complex persona; guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboard player Ray Manzarek and drummer John Densmore complement Morrison's free-associative outpourings with improvisational jazz-inspired interjections. They make music like no other band before or since: who else could segue effortlessly from Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song" to Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man"? And just when they're in danger of becoming too pretentious, Morrison bursts any lurking self-importance with a wry smile, a jokey aside or even a belch. But the seriousness remains, at least implicitly, throughout as Morrison's edgy lyrics--from "When the Music's Over" to "The Unknown Soldier" and "The End"--constantly hint at disturbing social undercurrents outside the concert arena. Is it fanciful to imagine that in the minds of his audience the ghosts of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement are hovering just out of view? Such thoughts are what make The Doors so unique: their music invites questions, positively dares the audience to ask them; that's why they remain so endlessly fascinating well over three decades later. And that's why this concert performance will find a home with any and every fan of the band. "The time to hesitate is through". --Mark Walker

• Rooster Cogburn | Blu Ray | (06/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An elderly marshal after a gang of outlaws is helped by a Bible-thumping schoolmarm the daughter of a priest. She joins up with the hard-drinking hard-fighting one-eyed marshal to capture the gang of incompetent outlaws who killed her father.

• Operavox | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the master animators that brought the three time Emmy Award-winning 'Shakespeare the Animated Tales' to the screen comes 'Operavox'. Through stunning cell and stop frame animation to oils and elaborate puppetry this exhilarating series vividly renders some of the world's most beloved operatic compositions bringing them to life as never before creating a unique accessibility to traditional opera. Skillfully translated from the full-length works the half hour adaptations of 'C

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (29/05/2001) from £10.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Please Note: The studio has not sealed this disc in shrinkwrapped plastic. Please rest assured you that these discs are new. This early version of The Phantom Of The Opera is regarded by many as the first great horror film and certainly the best of the silent era. Lon Chaney is Erik the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Paris Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful primadonna he kidnaps her and

• Changeling | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Clint Eastwood directs Oscar Winner Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a riveting and unforgettable true story. Los Angeles, 1928. When a single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son; but he isn't her boy. Driven by one woman's relentless quest for the truth, the case exposes a world of corruption, captivates the public and changes LA forever. This emotionally gripping story illustrates the profound power of a mother's love.

• 31 North 62 East | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A female Captain in the SAS who survives an attack on her unit in Afghanistan, later discovers that her unit was sacrificed for political reasons.

• I Accuse | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £12.58   |  Saving you £-6.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After a well-respected small town doctor (John Hannah) drugs and sexually assaults a beautiful longtime patient (Estella Warren) she attempts to press charges. But given her promiscuous past no one will believe her story especially when a series of DNA tests conclusively prove the doctor's innocence. Determined to have justice she sets out to expose the doctor's lies leading to the discovery of bizarre and damaging new evidence in this gripping psychological thriller based on actual events.

• Rising Damp - The Best Of | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £10.64   |  Saving you £-0.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers. Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby--stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards--remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. --David Stubbs

• Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Doctor Helder (Briant) is sent to an asylum for experimenting on cadavers. There he is rescued by Doctor Carl Victor (Cushing) the original Doctor Frankenstein now living under a new identity who learns that a new monster is set to walk the earth...

• The Skeleton Key | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £34.00 (486.41%)   |  RRP £40.99

• Untamed Love | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £5.91   |  Saving you £0.08 (1.35%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on real events this story follows a special needs teacher's efforts to break down the barriers of silent aggression in a highly-disturbed child.

• Fraternity Vacation | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's summer vacation and like all good frat house boys Bruce Tucker and Joe Gillespie are off to Palm Springs to sample the local delicacies and view the native wildlife. Their only problem comes in the form of travelling partner and nerd-extraordinaire Wendell Tvedt. In return for teaching his astronomy major son 'the ways of the world' Wendell's father has agreed to let the boys use his summer apartment. The fun starts when two members of a rival fraternity Charles Lawlor III an

• 3rd Rock From The Sun - The Complete Season 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete second series of the Emmy award winning comedy series about alien beings studying life on Earth and experiencing everything for the first time. All 26 episodes of the Emmy award winning show. Episode titles: See Dick Continue to Run Part 2 See Dick Continue to Run Continued Hotel Dick Big Angry Virgin From Outer Space Much Ado About Dick Dick the Vote Fourth and Dick World's Greatest Dick My Mother The Alien Gobble Gobble Dick Dick Dick Jokes Jolly O

• Le Nozze Di Figaro | DVD | (23/07/2004) from £11.27   |  Saving you £4.98 (49.75%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1973.

• The Story Makers | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time ever on DVD this hugely popular CBeebies TV show is set to rival Balamory! Episodes comprise: 1. Park 2. Responsibility 3. Homes 4. The Unknown 5. Music

• Jagged Edge | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A grisly homicide... a sensational trial... a forbidden affair. It's Jagged Edge a razor-sharp suspense-thriller about crime punishment and passion. Jeff Bridges is the prime suspect and Glenn Close plays the attorney who falls in love with him. When a San Francisco socialite is viciously murdered her publisher husband Jack Forrester (Bridges) is accused of committing the crime. Teddy Barnes (Close) decides to defend the charming manipulative Jack only to disregard legal ethics by having an affair with him. With the help of private eye Sam Ransom (Robert Loggia) she takes on a ruthless D.A. (Peter Coyote) who's using the case as a political steppingstone. However a startling revelation puts Teddy in jeopardy of becoming the next victim of the 'Jagged Edge'.

• The Early Bird | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £16.24   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker