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• As I Lay Dying | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Rusalka - Dvorak | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Pountney's landmark English National Opera staging of Dvorak's haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl on the brink of sensual awakening dreams of first love. Her story is that of Rusalka the wood nymph who like Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid sacrifices all for love destined to be betrayed. High above the stage Rusalka dreamily swings as the picturesque gives way to the surreal.

• Lucky Texan, The / Randy Rides Alone / Man From Utah | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £6.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (46.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 'The Lucky Texan' Jerry and Jake are betrayed when they hand in their gold to a local assayer but the 'officials' follow them back to the mine. In 'Randy Rides Alone' a man enters a saloon filled with murdered patrons where he finds himself accused of being the killer. 'Man From Utah' finds John Weston who is sent to investigate the killings of rodeo riders and enters the local competition. When it appears that John will win the contest one of the other riders tries to fix

• Pelleas Et Melisande | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Debussy's haunting opera Pelleas et Melisande based on a tragic fairy tale recounts the ill fated love of half brothers Golaud and Pelleas for the same woman the enigmatic Melisande. Graham Vick's beautiful fin-de-siecle production for Glyndebourne Festival Opera filmed in 1999 stars Christiane Oelze as Melisande Richard Croft as Pelleas and John Tomlinson as Golaud.

• House Of Blues Guitar Level 2 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  House of Blues and The Rock House Method created this blues guitar program to take you from beginner to an intermediate-level of play in no time. The 90+ minutes of one-on-one lessons with instructor and guitarist John McCarthy help you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing techniques needed for creative playing. Learn advanced techniques such as full-form blues chords blues scales triplet lead patterns shuffle feel and swing effect. Learn challenging riffs turnarounds and techniques made famous by blues legends.

• Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - the Magic Sun | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  A film by Phill Niblock featuring Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra. Composer photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra! Shot in the mid '60s when the Arkestra was based in New York this film was produced using a unique negative process andultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands and mouths of the musicians. The result is a virtually abstract music film mastered from a new print in all its incredibly sharp black & white glory.

• Walk Hard -The Dewey Cox Story | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A wild and wicked send-up of every musical biopic ever made Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story stars John C. Reilly as one of the most iconic figures in rock history - Dewey Cox! America loves Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral Cox sleeps with 411 women marries three times has 22 kids and 14 stepkids stars in his own 70's TV show collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man... but despite it all Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.

• Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World - The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Explore with host John Romer the influence of ancient eastern civilisations. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon in what now is Iraq were rumoured to be part of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar. Today scientists believe that the exotic gardens were actually more fable than fact. The Temple of Artemist at Ephesus in modern day Turkey was built to honour the mother goddess. She was a powerful voice for many different people - the Romans knew her as Diana the Anatolians as Kybele - and her

• La Cambiale Di Matrimonio - Rossini | DVD | (31/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival with excellent direction acting and stagecraft.This production of La cambiale di matrimonio represented yet another piece de resistance that sets a standard in musical buffoonery for the other all too rare productions in this genre.Recorded live at the Rococo Theatre Schwetzingen May 1989.

• Zathura / Jumanji | UMD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Blue Valentine | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Love blooms and dies at the same time in the delicate dance between Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain). Gosling's Dean, a high-school dropout, works for a New York moving company. While relocating a frail widower into a retirement home, he spots Cindy, a nursing student who's visiting her grandmother, but the film actually begins six years later. Married with a daughter, they live in rural Pennsylvania. Heavy drinker Dean's looks are fading, while Cindy still turns heads. In his elegantly constructed second feature, writer-director Derek Cianfrance pirouettes between past and present, with each scene commenting on the next (set to the bittersweet tones of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear). The Dean of the early years pursues Cindy, who resists at first, but a spontaneous date ends with her tap dancing (badly) and him singing (not so badly). She leaves her domineering boyfriend (Mike Vogel) for this attentive stranger, leading to scenes of intimacy that are far more suggestive than pornographic--even if the MPAA briefly rated the film NC-17. Later, when the family dog goes missing, the cracks in their marriage intensify, so Dean arranges for a night of romance, which plays out like a negative image of their first date. If the two actors, who are very good, are meant to carry equal weight, Gosling has the more difficult task. It's harder to like the clingy, insecure Dean, who loves more intensely and less wisely, but that makes Gosling's the braver performance. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• The Big Trees | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from California's famous giant redwood trees. The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by a religious colony that begs him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias...

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 16 | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. --Mark Walker

• John Miller - The Guitar Of Bo Carter | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £21.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (24.10%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Bo Carter was a great guitar player who played with absolute facility in a variety of tunings and keys with a unique harmonic sense. This DVD lesson presents songs by this great master of country blues: Let Me Roll Your Lemon; Pussy Cat Blues; Policy Blues; Dinner Blues; My Baby; and Arrangement for Me Blues. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. NTSC all region, 91 minutes.

• Andromeda - Season 4 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sci-Fi heavy-hitter Andromeda is back for a 4th season! This first volume contains the episodes: 1. Answers Given To Questions Never Asked 2. Pieces Of Eight 3. Waking The Tyrant's Device 4. Double Or Nothingness 5. Harper/Delete

• Face/Off / Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Face Off (Dir. John Woo 1997): Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo. To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer undergoes a radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife and daughter! Brilliant performances and mind-numbing visual effects make Face/Off the explosive stylish action thriller you've got to see to believe! Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with big-screen favourite Gary Sinise. Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy intrigue and danger! Bringing Out The Dead (Dir. Martin Scorsese 1999): Nicholas Cage plays EMS paramedic Frank Pierce. It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years. Surrounded by the injured and the dying Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life - two days and three nights on the job - as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.

• Tripfall | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A summer vacation turns into a nightmare as rising executive Tom Williams (John Ritter) takes his beautiful wife Gina (Rachel Hunter) and his children on a long-awaited break. Tom and his family are thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse when they are kidnapped by a vicious gang led by the psychotic Mr Eddie (Eric Roberts) the last in a line of white trash criminals lured to the west coast by the promise of easy pickings. Tom is given an ultimatum find .2 million or his family will die! But all is not what it seems as it becomes clear to Tom that the sadistic Eddie has no intention of turning his family free. Unable to ask for help Tom must summon up every ounce of moral and physical courage to save his family from almost certain death!

• Mind Ripper | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A scientific experiment designed to create a superhuman being has gone wrong. The creators become trapped in a remote desert outpost pursued relentlessly and mercilessly by their own creation. James Stockton the scientist whose research was used despite his protests to create the monster is called the outpost to help undo the horror that now lurks somewhere within the dark halls. James together with his son and daughter soon find themselves trapped inside with the others trying desperately to survive. And with the outpost sealed from within there is no way out...

• South Park: Vol. 8 | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £19.20   |  Saving you £-6.21 (-47.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rainforest Schmainforest: The boys are sent to the rainforests of Costa Rica as part of the Getting Gay with kids Choir Tour. All is well until the native tour guide is killed! Cartman heads out on his own in search of food. Spontaneous Combustion: The citizens of South Park are exploding randomly and it's up to Stan's dad to find out why. Meanwhile the boys are recruited by Priest Maxi to act out the Stations of the Cross. Succubis: Chef has found love in the form of his new guitar playing girlfriend. It's up to the boys to save him from a succubus defined by Mr Garrison as 'A woman sent from Hell to suck the life out of man'. Tweek Vs Craig: Who is tougher Tweek or Craig? Stan Kyle Cartman and Kenny set up a contest to find out. Meanwhile Mr Adler the 'shop' teacher is having a hard time forgetting his past. Jakovasaurus: The boys make an exciting discovery whilst out camping - a loud stupid and very annoying creature: a Jakavosaur. The citizens of South Park are forced to take dramatic action in a bid to return life to 'normal'.

• The West Wing - Complete Seasons 1-3 (Amazon.co.uk Exclusive) | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This box set containing the complete first three series of The West Wing is available exclusively from Amazon.co.uk. Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funniest and moving US TV series of all time. Martin Sheen leads a strong ensemble cast: his Jed Bartlet is such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs