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• Peter And The Wolf / L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It was a happy idea to couple the Royal Ballet School production of Peter and the Wolf with the Netherlands Dance Theatre's L'enfant et les sortiléges, for in each story the boy is the protagonist, in one instance leading a wolf hunt and in the other wreaking revenge on his toys after his mother has locked him in his room to finish his homework. Neither work in their final form was conceived for dancing: the Prokofiev comes from the concert hall and the Ravel from the opera house. Colette, the authoress of Gigi penned the story of L'enfant et les sortil&ecute;ges, which is related here in an introduction by the choreographer Jiri Kylian with charm and a nod back at his own childhood pranks. Viewers coming to this dance version of the opera for the first time maybe be surprised that Ravel composed the boy's role for a girl and a rather buxom one in this instance. The somewhat gloomy, heavily embroidered production misses no opportunity in bringing to life the toys in the boy's room or the animals in the garden that turn on him in retribution. In conclusion as an act of compassion of binding the paw of an injured squirrel, the boy and the animal kingdom are reconciled in music of a truly sublime nature. Lorin Maazel conducts Ravel's sophisticated and witty score with its translucent vocal lines with the affection for which he has long been renowned. In marked contrast to that production, Peter and the Wolf is set against a plain backdrop with one prop, a slice of carved tree trunk centre stage. Anthony Dowell narrates and also dances the role of the Grandfather with aplomb. In each instance a musical instrument represents a character. The choreographer Matthew Hart marshals his small group of dancers, duck, cat, bird and wolf, with imagination and dexterity. David Johnson as Peter (represented by the full orchestra) gives a splendid performance, boyish and graceful, making a further excellent advertisement for schoolboys considering dancing as a career in the wake of Billy Elliot. A stylish presented and well contrasted double bill. --Adrian Edwards

• Posse From Hell | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £17.91   |  Saving you £-4.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Four gunmen ride into a Western town called Paradise; ten minutes later four townsfolk are dead and the sheriff lies dying in the street. When the gang kidnap Helen (Zohra Lampert) and ride out of town Captain Jeremiah Brown (Robert Keith) a veteran from the Civil War offers to lead a posse and hunt the outlaws down. But the arrival of gunslinger Banner Cole (Audie Murphy) changes the situation as the dying sheriff asks Banner to become his deputy and lead the posse. As the reality of hunting down a gang of ruthless killers dawns on the chasing posse their numbers begin to dwindle leaving Banner and New York city banker Seymour Kern (John Saxon) to bring the outlaws to justice and rescue Helen.

• Jack Frost II | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sequel to the horror 'Jack Frost'. The evil snowman is resurrected but now he's resistant to fire bullets and even chemical anti-freeze! With revenge on his mind Jack sets out on a chilling killing spree that threatens to ice everyone around him...

• Daddy Day Camp/Daddy Day Care | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Daddy Day Care (Dir. Steve Carr) (2003): In this hilarious comedy two fathers (Eddie Murphy Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon the two dads open their own day care facility Daddy Day Care and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As Daddy Day Care starts to catch on it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) who has driven all previous competitors out of business... Daddy Day Camp (Dir. Fred Savage) (2007): This hilarious sequel finds dads Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson in another kid harried adventure as they take over running a summer day camp. Armed with no knowledge of the great outdoors a dilapidated facility and a motley group of campers it doesn't take long before things get out of control.

• Invoked | DVD | (17/08/2015) from £3.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (293.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of young people went on a abandoned hostel in Sligo, Ireland. After they play a really creepy game, all of them disappear.

• Beyblade - Vol. 1 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Beyblade is an animé tie-in to the high-tech spinning top toys. It has some of the standard faults of the cheaper Japanese animations--such as static backgrounds and overly perky facial design--but it makes inventive use of the idea that the competitions of the Beybladers are the outward manifestation of more occult conflicts in another realm. Young Tyson is a keen and inventive Beyblader--in the first episode, he works out a way of quadrupling the speed and force of his top--but it helps that his Beyblade is inhabited by the spirit of an ancestral dragon. Thus equipped, he moves through one round after another of an international competition, sometimes in alliance with the haughty Kai and his gang and sometimes opposing them, and always helped by Kenny and Dizzi, the spirit beast that inhabits Kenny's laptop. How much of this you want to watch will ultimately depend on how many duels between spinning tops you are going to be interested in, but the byplay between physical and spirit realms, and the conflict of characters is moderately interesting as well. On the DVD: Beyblade, Volume 1 comes with stereo sound and a visual aspect ratio of 4:3. The special features are limited to promotional material for the Beyblade tops, including quizzes and guides to customising. --Roz Kaveney

• The Nutty Professor | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £6.25   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got hold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy. --Jim Emerson

• Shrek The Third : 2-Disc Edition (Shrek 3) | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Fiona's dad dies Shrek is supposed to take the crown however Shrek doesn't want the responsibility. So Shrek Fiona Donkey and Puss look for a new King. And so far King Arthur is the best they have.

• Shrek 2 | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  They're back for more!Princess Fiona's parents invite their daughter and her new husband Shrek to her homeland of Far Far Away in order to celebrate their marriage. However, there's more than meets the eye in this fairytale kingdom and Shrek & Fiona are about to stumble into some rather awkward social situations!Featuring an all-star cast providing the voices and a whole host of classic new characters in the enchanting Shrek story, this is one animated film for all the family that you'll want to watch again and again!

• What Richard Did | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £6.50   |  Saving you £13.49 (207.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What Richard Did follows Richard Karlsen, golden-boy athlete and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, through the summer between the end of school and the beginning of university. Richard's world is bright and everything seems possible, until one summer night when love, pride and jealousy cause Richard to commit an act that will destroy it all and shatter the lives of those closest to him... Featuring extraordinary performances from its mainly young cast, What Richard Did is a quietly devastating study of a boy confronting the gap between who he thought he was and who he proves to be.

• Rugby League & Super League - Official Greatest Collectors Box Set | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £22.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (9.85%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Super League - The Greatest Games: Sit back and enjoy 10 of Super League's greatest ever games, featuring the dramatic comebacks, intense rivalries and epic encounters that have defined Rugby League's summer era.Featuring Wigan, Leeds, Saints, Bradford, and Warrington, Hull FC, Castleford, Wakefield and that historic evening in the French capital on Super League's opening night when Paris St Germain defeated Sheffield Eagles in front of 18,000 spectators.Pride of the Lions - 100 Years of British Rugby League: 'Pride of the Lions' features 100 years of golden memories and the pick of the action from when Britain ruled the roost as the most feared team on the planet. In addition to rarely seen footage of historic early triumphs, there's extended highlights from Britain's very first World Cup victory in 1954, the infamous Battle of Brisbane, the incredible Ashes success in 1970, Mike Gregory's sensational try at Sydney and more recently, the titanic clashes at home and abroad against the Aussies and the Kiwis.Rugby League's Greatest Ever Tries: This is what the greatest game is all about: skill, power, speed, courage, drama, passion. It's the definitive collection for any rugby league fan - 250 of the most sensational tries ever scored. From Boston to Offiah, Hanley to Schofield, Lydon to Long and Murphy to McGuire, rugby league has always been blessed with great names scoring breathtaking tries.These truly magical moments from the last 50 years include Challenge Cup classics, international gems, last gasp winners and the very best from the sixties right the way through to Super League.

• Drop Dead Gorgeous | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In a small Minnesota town some parents - and girls - will stop at nothing to win the annual beauty pageant. And with a film crew covering this year's events the stakes have never been higher. Amber (Kirsten Dunst) is the homely daughter of beer-swilling white trash Annette (Ellen Barkin). Becky (Denise Richards) is the spoiled daughter of Gladys (Kirstie Alley) a wealthy socialite. Both want to win and as their rivalry grows so the bodies of their opponents begin to pile up with murderous regularity.

• Shrek 2 3D (Blu-ray 3D + Blu ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  They're back for more!Princess Fiona's parents invite their daughter and her new husband Shrek to her homeland of Far Far Away in order to celebrate their marriage. However, there's more than meets the eye in this fairytale kingdom and Shrek & Fiona are about to stumble into some rather awkward social situations!Featuring an all-star cast providing the voices and a whole host of classic new characters in the enchanting Shrek story, this is one animated film for all the family that you'll want to watch again and again!

• Man About The House | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is the film based on the 1970s TV sitcom Man About the House, made during the same period with the same cast. At the time, the whole idea of a single man and two single women sharing a flat, however (more-or-less) platonically, seemed terribly naughty. The scriptwriters wickedly stirred things up even further by making Richard O'Sullivan's character a randy-but-gentlemanly heterosexual, despite being a catering student--after all, in the 70s everyone just knew that all chefs were roaring poofs. The trio's sex-starved landlady (Yootha Joyce) and her rodent-like, impotent husband (Brian Murphy) were later to get their own series, George and Mildred. The plot is a perfunctory affair, as property developers attempt and fail to demolish the street in which the protagonists live. That said, the script (cowritten by John Mortimer) isn't really narrative-driven anyway, it's purely an excuse for the characters to interact with the will-they-won't-they-ooh-they-are-a-bit relationship between Robin and Chrissie (Paula Wilcox) and practically invites the viewer to cheer them on. While the transition to the big screen caused the idea to lose much of its energy, as a dollop of comedy nostalgia Man About the House is still great fun. And if you don't laugh at the jokes, just check out the clothes, cars, hairstyles and makeup, not to mention all that cigarette smoking! --Roger Thomas

• Into The West - Where Myth And Magic Walk The Earth | DVD | (17/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Crone Wood | DVD | (08/02/2021) from £13.04   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Madman | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE. Gather around the campfire, and hearthe tale of Madman Marz an ill-tempered farmer who, one dark night, chopped up his wife and two children into pieces. When the locals learned of his heinous crimes, they exacted revenge sinking an axe into his head and hanging him from a nearby tree. But the next day, Marz s body was gone... Thus the camp counsellor finishes his tale, closing with the warning never to say Marz s name above a whisper, lest the hideously-deformed farmer comes looking for them. Naturally, the first thing that one of the young campers does is calls out Marz s name precipitating a terrifying night of murder, mayhem and sexy Jacuzzi vignettes! Inspired by the same Cropsey urban legend which informed 1981 s The Burning and starring Dawn of the Dead s Gaylen Ross (appearing under the pseudonym Alexis Dubin ), Madman stands as one of the finest offerings from the golden age of hack n slash.

• The Prophecy 2 | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (55.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An Evil Force Has Declared War.. Big-screen favorite Christopher Walken returns in a riveting performance as the menacing angel Gabriel! When the powers of good and evil again descend to Earth in a battle over mankind the only hope for survival is the unborn child of an innocent woman (Jennifer Beals). With the help of a mysterious stranger she races to protect her child and save all humanity; unless Gabriel catches her first! With edge-of-your-seat thrills and suspense this is

• Little Black Book | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £4.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (312.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Infuriated by her tight-lipped boyfriend, Brittany Murphy's TV producer delves into his palm pilot to find all about his ex-girlfriends - and finds more than she bargained for.

• Road To Paloma | Blu Ray | (06/04/2015) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ROAD TO PALOMA stars Jason Momoa (Conan the Barbarian, Game of Thrones) as Wolf who is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands after his mother is brutally murdered.