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• Shalako | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A group of ultra-civilised European aristocrats on a hunting tour of New Mexico have to face a violent conflict with the real West...

• Solas | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lauded in its native Spain on its release, Benito Zambrano's Solas is a touching portrayal of loneliness and redemption. At its centre is the strained relationship between Maria and her mother Rosa, brought together by Maria's estranged father's illness. Rosa (brilliantly played by Maria Galiana) not only discovers a world very different from her village existence but also finds her daughter's life in disarray--racked with frustration, bitterness and fuelled by alcohol. As the film develops, the two find their relationship not only beginning to grow but also influenced by the arrival of their elderly neighbour, played by Carlos Álvarez Novoa. All three find a new purpose to their lives and, while students of feminism may find Maria's path a little debatable, Ana Fernádez brings the audience on her journey in heart touching fashion. The darkness of tone throughout only makes the subsequent brightness all the more blinding and the result is without doubt a deeply moving piece of cinema. --Phil Udell

• Dollar For The Dead | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Cowboy (Emilio Estevez) a lone gunslinger of grey-eyed coldness and very few words rides into town trailing a single wooden coffin behind him. Hotly pursued by The Regulators a band of self appointed lawmen whom are hell bent on revenge and led by the imposing figure of Reager (Howie Long). This mysterious figure is a man with no name and a man with no home whose only role in life appears to be to utilise his incredible gunslinging skills to defend those who are unable to do so against the oppressive bandits and ruthless cowboys in this lawless society. It is on one such occasion when he rescues a crippled civil war veteran he is entrusted with the secret of untold treasures and now has not only Reager and his vengeance riddled posse to deal with but also another band of ruthless outlaws who have made the search for the gold their life's work. It's incredibly stylised action all the way as this cold blooded killer must utilise all of his skills in a battle against overwhelming odds as the mystery behind the single wooden coffin slowly unfolds.

• Neruda | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £6.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chile, 1948: Senator Pablo Neruda, diplomat and future Nobel Prize-winning poet, accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached. Pursued by the police, Neruda and his artist wife are forced into hiding and an intimate game of cat and mouse begins. In Europe, the legend of the poet hounded by the policeman grows and artists led by Picasso call for his freedom. Neruda, meanwhile, inspired by his transformative new life as a fugitive, writes his epic collection of poems, Canto General, capturing the turmoil of a Latin America in crisis. Paying homage to a mercurial creator who is impossible to pin down in conventional biography, this playful, inventive feature by Oscar-nominated Pablo Larrain is the story of the escape, the investigation and the literary legend of a man once hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century . Starring Luis Gnecco and Gael Garcia Bernal, the film plays out like a road movie, inviting us to soar alongside Neruda in his poetry, his memory, and his deeply held sometimes paradoxical political ideals.

• The Adventures Of Pluto Nash | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (154.83%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Adventures of Pluto Nash was shelved for nearly two years, and when it was finally released, hardly anyone noticed. In the interim, Eddie Murphy made the marginally better Showtime and started fishing for a career revival that wasn't a sequel to his previous hits. In the satirical, lunar-colony hash of Pluto Nash, Murphy's a variant of Casablanca's Rick Blaine in the year 2087, happily running the moon's hottest nightclub, refusing a buyout offer from a greedy gambler, and suffering the consequences with his sidekick robot (Randy Quaid in yet another thankless role) and newest employee (Rosario Dawson, before doing similar time in Men in Black II). A visual hybrid of Total Recall and A.I., this nearly laughless comedy would be a total write-off if it weren't for Murphy's stalwart attempt to jump-start the flagging humour. He's got the chops of a superstar, but only when his collaborators are on the same page. --Jeff Shannon

• The 355 UHD BR: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (08/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Prime Suspect 3 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Transferred from Southampton Row to the Soho Vice Squad D.C.I. Tennison's first priority in the new job is 'Operation Contract' - a large-scale clean-up of prostitutes in the area. However the charred body of 17 year old rent boy Colin Jenkins is discovered in the burnt-out flat of transexual cabaret artiste Vera (Peter Capaldi) and once again Tennison finds herself embroiled in the politics of the latest homicide case as she tackles homophobia and perceptions of gender and sex both within and outside the police force.

• Into the West | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She's called 'Tir na nOg' because she came from a land under the sea. A magical white horse. Why she came was a mystery to all except Ossie and Tito two small boys who living day to day in a soulless slum with their dejected father Papa Reilly knew Tir na nOg had come for a special reason. When the horse is taken by the police and sold to a cruel farmer Hartnet the boys decide to steal Tir na nOg and escape to the west. But Ossie and Tito hadn't bargained for an agitated police force and a menacing posse of Hartnet's men. Only Papa Reilly can save his sons from ill fortune... but then maybe that was Tir na nOg's intention all along.

• Secuestro Express | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £8.07   |  Saving you £9.92 (55.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This thriller follows a young couple's nightmare as they careen through the underbelly of Caracas in the hands of three kidnappers.

• Wagner: Siegfried -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £19.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (14.59%)   |  RRP £21.99

  James Levine makes Siegfried, sometimes the problem child among the four operas of Wagner's Ring cycle, attractive and interesting. He is aware of the darker side of some of the comic scenes--the seemingly benevolent dwarf Mime carries the weight of Wagner's many prejudices--but manages to keep them uneasy rather than positively sinister thanks to the finally judged performance of Heinz Zednik. Siegfried Jerusalem is admirable as Siegfried, full of boyish enthusiasm during the reforging of the sword, and of authority in his confrontations with the dragon and with Wotan. (The dragon itself is, as so often, an unfortunate compromise between realism and stylisation.) James Morris is extraordinary in Wotan's scenes here, his combination of injured pride and relieved joy when Siegfried demonstrates, by shattering his spear, that Wotan has entirely lost control of events is exemplary. This is an opera whose many and various scenes are all preludes to its emotional core: the love duet which comes when Siegfried awakens Brunnhilde. Jerusalem and Hildegard Behrens convey both the innocence and the ardor of this duet; while Levine gets extraordinary playing from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra throughout, but especially here, where a chamber-like delicacy applies to much of the music. On the DVD Siegfried on this disc is a recording of the 1990 Metropolitan Opera production and comes with both menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese as well as a picture gallery. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, and the visual ratio is standard TV 4:3. Better is the choice of sound formats--PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital and DTS digital--which provide a spacious acoustic that gives proper weight to the climaxes, and an appropriate delicacy to Wagner's subtler passages. --Roz Kaveney

• Faithless | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £5.19   |  Saving you £14.80 (74.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Reputedly based on an incident in the life of its screenwriter, Ingmar Bergman, Faithless is a powerful film that investigates the consequences of adultery, betrayal and grief and the long-term implications for everyone involved. Directed by Bergman's former muse and actress-turned-director, Liv Ullman, the story begins when an old man who lives by the sea, just like Bergman himself, ransacks his memories for material for his writing. He conjures up the beautiful Marianne (Lena Endre) who recounts a major turning point in her life: her affair with her husband's best friend. Her story is captured both in flashback and through Marianne's dialogue, as the camera lingers on her expressive face and his rapt, silent countenance. Not surprisingly the story is an intense and convoluted one and what ensues is a tale of guilt, pain and enduring damage as "simple things become complicated". The remote shore-side confessional location adds to the mystery: just what is their relationship? Is Marianne a figment of his imagination? As the film progresses, the truth begins to dawn. Lena Endre gives a vividly emotional performance, particularly during the poignant scenes concerning her beautiful but increasingly withdrawn daughter (luminescently acted by Michelle Gylemo). Without seeming to judge her, Endre brilliantly portrays a woman who knows that what she is doing is wrong, but does it all the same. The rawness of the erupting emotions is reinforced by an almost total lack of background music and the film becomes ever more involving to watch, even if the key characters seem to have brought about their misfortune themselves. If there is a weakness here it is that the performances of the men are somewhat overshadowed. Lover David, enigmatically portrayed by Krister Henrekssen, looks older than his allocated years and his motivations are unclear; Thomas Hanzon, playing Markus the charismatic husband, seems too restrained in his role and the viewer longs for him to do something wrong to justify his wife's affair. When he eventually does, the ramifications are enormous. Faithless is riveting and very much in keeping with the Bergman oeuvre, here expressed through the sensitive, restrained direction of Liv Ullman. --Christina McLoughlin

• Under Milk Wood | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Eurovision Song Contest - Istanbul 2004 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD covers footage from the two days of the Eurovision Song Contest. Featuring the qualifying round and the final plus an interview with the winning entry - the Ukraine!

• Most Haunted - The Best Of Most Haunted Live Vol. 1 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.64   |  Saving you £11.35 (131.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A double DVD with more than 5 hours of spine-tingling footage from the four top-rating 'Most Haunted' live events!

• Verdi - La Traviata (Netrebko, Villazon) | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Here is the opera event of 2005 the Salzburg Festival's La traviata Rolando Villazon and Thomas Hampson in a dramatic staging by Willy Decker - the thrilling production that prompted riotous ovations not seen since Karajan's heyday.

• Imagining Argentina | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £11.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A theatre director must rely on his imagination when his wife becomes one of the 'disappeared' during the political upheavals of 1970s Argentina.

• Bear Club | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Parenthood is about to get a little hairier! Pedro (Jos Luis Garca-Prez) is an attractive and homosexual dentist who lives a sexually active lifestyle. He offers to take care of his 9 year-old nephew Bernardo (David Castillo) for two weeks while the child's mother Pedro's older sister Violeta (Elvira Lindo) goes off to India with her latest ""hippie"" boyfriend. Pedro modifies his sexual behavior but quickly finds out that Bernardo is extremely comfortable and mature in

• Around The World With Willy Fog - Vol. 2 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the reform club to travel around the world in eighty days he cannot have forseen what lies in front for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members who bet against Fog - to stop Fog from winning his bet by all possible means. The other is Inspector Dix of The Yard who mistakenly wants to arrest Fog for a recent bank robbery. Fog's chosen route takes him to Paris Brindisi Suez and Bombay. Whilst crossing India he saves the beautiful Indian princess Romy from certain death - and acquires an extra travelling companion. His eventful journey continues via Calcutta Hong Kong Yokohama San Francisco and New York. Not only does Fog have to deal with Transfer's deliberate sabotage he also has to survive storms accidents and even unfriendly Red Indians...

• The Ultimate Predator Collection - Predator 1 and 2 | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In the original Predator, Rambo meets Alien in a terrific science fiction thriller directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of US Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a load of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realise that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The sequel, Predator 2, suffers from the lack of both original star Schwarzenegger and director McTiernan. Danny Glover does serviceable work as the hard-bitten city cop tracking the near-invisible Predator, who this time has chosen to do a bit of hunting on the streets of LA instead of the jungle. Look out for an Alien skull in the creature's trophy room --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• A Bullet For The General | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (50.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Klaus Kinski and Lou Castel star in this searing Spaghetti western. A gang of mexican rebels attempts to rob a munitions train in the hope that they can sell the cargo to General Elias a revolutionary determined to bring down the Mexican government. One of the passengers Bill Tate agrees to help the bandits. However his true goal is to kill the General...!