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• Vivaldi - Ercole Su'l Termodonti (Pascoe) | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £20.10   |  Saving you £-0.11 (-0.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  To atone for killing his children in wrath, Ercole must carry out twelve tasks, one of which consists in stealing the arms from the Queen of the fierce Amazons. The enterprise, however, has unexpected results...The world premiere performance of a lost Vivaldi masterpiece, reconstructed by Alessandto Ciccolini and edited by Alan Curtis, directed and designed by John Pascoe for the Spoleto Festival del Die Mondi.

• Love Potion #9 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Biochemist Paul (Tate Donovan) has no luck at all with women and is persuaded by his friends to visit a fortuneteller who gives him a love potion # 8 to make him irresistible to women. Being a scientist Paul believes none of this until his cat accidentally gets a taste and attracts every female cat in the neighborhood. He enlists fellow scientist Diane (Sandra Bullock) to help him analyze it and after experimenting on monkeys they decide to test it on themselves and both embark on a quest to find romance. In the end they discover that they really want each other; but before they can get married an old boyfriend of Diane's returns with his own dose of love potion number 8. Paul's only hope is to get something even more powerful Love Potion #9.

• Flirting With Disaster | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-15.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labelled as a sophomore slump. David O Russell shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is compelled to discover his origins, despite the protests of his neurotic adoptive parents (a wonderful Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal). To give away the plot any more would be a crime, but as the title states, Mel is on a collision course of Oedipal proportions. Russell, who made incest an intriguing black-comedy topic in Spanking, is very liberal with sex, and permits dangerous situations. The two women along for the ride are not just bit players: Leoni (Deep Impact) keeps her high-energy comic routine flying, while the grounded Arquette looks after the baby, despite the mad wanderings of her husband. Stiller is a perfect comic foil.--Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• South Park: Vol. 6 | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £4.57   |  Saving you £8.42 (184.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join Stan Kyle Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural the extraordinary and the insane. For them it's all a part of growing up in South Park. Chickenpox: The kids' parents arrange for them to be exposed to the chickenpox virus and the boys plot revenge. Kyle's mother plans a fishing trip for her husband and Kenny's dad. Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods: Is the planetarium the site of a diabloical plot to control the minds of South Park's citizens? Will Cartman appear on TV singing the Cheesy Poofs song? Clubhouses: The boys build rival clubhouses to impress the girls and Stan tries to come to terms with his parents' untimely divorce. Cow Days: The Wild West arrives in South Park as the 14th annual Cow Days celebration pulls into town. Stan Kyle Cartman and Kenny become obsessed with a carnival game in which the prizes include Terrance and Phillip dolls. Almost broke and still empty handed the boys are forced to come up with a plan to decide which one of them must enter the bull-riding contest to win the grand prize of five thousand dollars.

• South Park: Vol. 12 | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The insanity that is South Park is captured in these four outrageous episodes from Series 4 - where the extraordinary and the unbelievable are just part of everyday life. Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000: Cartman is sent to juvenile hall and it takes time to get used to life on the inside. Stan Kyle and Kenny miss Cartman's biggest asset his weight in a contest with the girls. The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000: Cartman impersonates the Tooth Fairy and the boys build a thriving bus

• Looking For Miracles | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in 1935 this is the story of sixteen year old Ryan Delaney who takes a job as a camp counsellor. He is surprised to learn that he will be responsible for his younger brother Sullivan who has spent most of his life living away with relatives. Together the brothers discover the meaning of 'family'.

• The Beggar's Opera | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Peter Brook's bold adaptation of John Gay's opera - a cynical satire of eighteenth century London life. This weird and wonderful movie version of the first ever English musical to be written boasts a gloriously outlandish set and characters adorned in stunning primary colours that will dazzle and delight. A period piece that remains true to its original form it features non-stop sing-along songs spirited melodies and a real sense of embellished drama. The story follows the escapades of a jailed highwayman and stars Laurence Olivier Dorothy Tutin and Stanley Holloway.

• The Blood Drinkers | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £16.20   |  Saving you £-10.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Blood into the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! Plus lots of exclamation marks! Plus lurid trailers! In The Blood Drinkers a bald vampire in New Wave sunglasses tries to revive his dead girlfriend using her twin sister's heart. This is an unusual vampire effort with special tints to indicate normality (lovely pastel colour), night-time and the presence of evil (blue shadow) and vampires acting viciously (cherry blood red). Plus Basra the Bat! --Kim Newman

• Matrix Revolutions | UMD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The opening reels of Matrix Revolutions do nothing to dispel the feeling of exhausted disappointment that set in during the second half of The Matrix Reloaded. There's plenty more talky guff combined with the picking-up of hard-to-remember plot threads as Neo (Keanu Reeves) lies in a coma in the "real" world and is stranded on a tube station in a limbo "beyond the Matrix" while his allies do a reprise of the shooting-their-way-past-the-bodyguards bit from the last film (this time, the baddies can walk on the ceiling). A new Oracle (Mary Alice) makes some pronouncements about the end being near and more things happen--including the evil Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) manifesting in reality by possessing a minor character and perfidiously blinding our hero, who wears a becoming ribbon over his wounded eyes and perceives the world in an impressive "flaming truth vision". What about the action? The equivalent of the last film's freeway chase scene is a huge face-off as the Sentinels (robot squids) finally breach the caverns of Zion, "the last human city", and swarm against a battalion of pilot-manipulated giant robots: here, the effects are seamless and the images astonishing, though the fact that none of the major characters are involved and the whole thing goes on so long as if designed to top any previous robot-on-robot screen carnage means that it becomes monotonously amazing, like watching someone else play a great computer game. After a too-easily-managed major realignment of the enmities, the film--and the series--finally delivers a sign-off sequence that's everything you could want as Neo and Smith get into a kung fu one-on-one in a rain-drenched virtual city, flying as high as Superman and Brainiac in smart suits. It comes too late to save the day and the wrap-up is both banal and incoherent, but at least this single combat is a reward for hardy veterans who've sat through seven hours of build-up. --Kim NewmanOn the DVD: when the first Matrix DVD was released, with never-before-seen features such as the "Follow the White Rabbit" option, it set a benchmark against which subsequent discs were judged. But neither sequel has lived up to the original's high standards. The Matrix Revolutions two-disc set is an unexceptional package, with a routine "making of" featurette being the main bonus item. Amid all the usual backslapping guff about how great everyone is and what a great time they've all had, it's possible to glean some nuggets of useful information about the baffling plot--though cast and crew can't repress a note of weariness creeping in when discussing the horribly protracted shooting schedule. The feature on the CG Revolution is the most informative for people who like to know how everything was done, and, in the same vein, there's also a multi-angle breakdown of the Super Burly Brawl. A 3-D timeline gives a handy summary of the story so far, and there's a plug for The Matrix Online game. The anamorphic 2.40:1 picture is, of course, a real treat to look at, even if the movie is mostly shades of dark grey and dark green; soundwise the dynamic range of the Dolby Digital surround is extreme: all conversations are conducted in throaty whispers, while the action sequences will push your speakers to the limit. No DTS option, though. And as with Reloaded, there's no audio commentary either: the Wachowski's policy of not talking about their creation begins to seem like a ploy to avoid answering awkward questions. --Mark Walker

• Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill / The Many Faces Of Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £8.85   |  Saving you £-2.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A beautiful woman and her gang of criminals attempt to match their wits with Sherlock Holmes in this murder/mystery set in Dartmoor and London's antique auction rooms. Rathbone and Bruce gave the screen's greatest interpretation of the legendary detective duo created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

• Little Annie Rooney | Blu Ray | (20/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dick Van Dyke Silver Screen Collection | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Six classic episodes from the second series of The Dick Van Dyke Show starring Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore as husband and wife Rob and Laura Petrie. Created and produced by Carl Reiner (later the mentor of Steve Martin) The Dick Van Dyke Show proved a masterpiece of comedy programming establishing both lead characters in the minds of the viewing public. Episodes Comprise: 1. Never Name A Duck 2. Bank Book 6565696 3. Hustling The Hustler 4. The Night The Roof Fell In 5. A Man's Teeth Are Never His Own 6. Give Me Your Walls!

• Space Precinct - Vol. 1 - Double Duty / Protect And Survive | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (-53.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Space Precinct is one of the oddest science-fiction shows ever. Launched at the same time as Babylon 5, and looking like a cross between that series and Blade Runner (1982), it is like B5 about a group of interplanetary peacekeepers on a space station around an alien planet. Except that, rather than any extrapolated SF future, an entire New York police unit has been transferred into space, lock, stock and two smoking raygun barrels. Produced by Gerry Anderson, the result seems too adult for children, too juvenile for adults. "Double Duty", the first episode, for example, involves our cop heroes hunting the alien monster that is slaughtering Demiter City's drug dealers, and the copious blood and one particular sexual reference suggest an adult show at odds with the nice children, cute aliens, comic relief robot and simplistic scenario. On the plus side, the special effects are especially lavish by TV standards, and the "Making of" documentary offers an interesting if brief introduction to modern SFX. Human actors wearing complex animatronic alien heads suggest aspects of Anderson's puppet shows (Stingray, Thunderbirds) meeting his live action series (UFO, Space 1999). Technically accomplished, Space Precinct is a genuine curiosity in search of a cult-audience. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Sparrows | Blu Ray | (21/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Nobody's Baby | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Two prisoners escape from jail and end up causing a car accident where the only survivor is a little baby. Upon rescuing the child these simple rednecks embark on parenthood in a journey of robbery blackmail and nappies.

• Ghosthouse | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A radio enthusiast and his girlfriend travel to an old deserted house to investigate strange transmissions they received through their ham radio. They encounter a group of campers who are spending the weekend on the estate and strange things begin to happen including the appearance of the ghost of a little girl and her eerie clown doll.

• Laurel And Hardy Collection - Vol 1 (Silent Comedy) | DVD | (27/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Stan Laurel in 'The Home Wrecker' Discharged from the 372nd infantry on account of a bean shortage Smithy (Laurel) seeks employment as a labourer. Given a note to take to the Foreman who upon reading it asks ""Do you know anything about building?"" ""No "" Smithy replies to which the foreman says ""Just the man we're looking for"". So starts a wonderful little comedy. Oliver Hardy in 'The Four Wheeled Terror' Hardy plays ""Dangerous Dan McGraw"" who along with his henchmen try to pr

• South Park: Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (-61.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join Stan Kyle Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural the extraordinary and the insane. For them it's all a part of growing up in South Park. An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig: The boys attempt to breed an elephant with a pot-bellied pig and the town/s geneticist creatures an evil clone from Stan's DNA. Death: While their parents are out of town protesting against the kids' favourite TV shoe Terrance and Phillip Death pays a visit to South Park Pinkeye: On Halloween a mishap at the morgue transforms the residents of South Park into brain-eating zombies interfering with the school's costume and the boy's trick or treating. Tom's Rhinoplasty: Mr. Garrison deserts his class for a visit to Tom's Rhinoplasty and Wendy is afraid that substitute teacher Ms. Ellen has her eye on Stan.

• Scarface | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Scarface (Dir. Howard Hawks 1932): Generally regarded to be the best - and most brutal - of the classic gangster films the original Scarface tells the story of orginised crime's pinch on the city of Chicago during prohibition. Paul Muni plays Tony Carmonte an ambitious hood with a Napoleonic urge to fight his way to number one gang boss. When the last of the old-style crime bosses is brutally slain down the finger is pointed at Tony and Johnny Loro a rival gangster. However Tony's desire to move up the ladder is about to put him in the firing line of his peers and the police. Produced and directed by the mercurial Howard Hawks Scarface is the movie which established both Paul Muri and his coin flipping aide George Raft as major Hollywood stars. Scarface (Dir. Brian De Palma 1983): Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping cult crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire and makes some ruthless friends and enemies on the way to oblivion...

• Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with 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-wideni