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• Buffy Season 8 Motion Comic (Issue: 1-19) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Proving once and for all that you can’t keep a good Slayer down, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight Motion Comic picks up where the smash hit TV show left off! Based on the Dark Horse comic book series, these eye-popping motion comic adventures breathe new life into the Buffyverse for long-time fans and new “watchers” alike. The Hellmouth may have been destroyed, but the world still needs saving and Buffy Summers is back at her butt-kicking, demon-slaying best to do the job. She’s relocated her base of operations to a castle in Scotland to lead the Scooby Gang, including hundreds of newly activated Slayers scattered around the world to battle the supernatural forces of evil. But in the wake of Sunnydale’s destruction, the U.S. government thinks Buffy and her legions of followers have grown too powerful and are now terrorist threats. Meanwhile, a seemingly unstoppable group of Japanese vampires hatch a nefarious plot, while the biggest, baddest Big Bad of them all, Twilight, is on a mission to destroy every Slayer on Earth! Special Features: Buffy Season 8 Motion Comic Test Pilot The Buffy Trivia Experience Featurette “Under Buffy's Spell” Season 8 Comic Book Covers Gallery Create Your Own Buffy Comic

• The Descent | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £6.69   |  Saving you £12.29 (332.16%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A caving trip goes badly wrong for six girlfriends as they discover they're not alone in the dark.

• Jim Henson Collection: The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Storyteller | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £49.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen. Recalling the worlds of JRR. Tolkien, Henson tells the story of a race of grotesque birdlike lizards called the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. A prophecy tells of a Gelfling (a small elfin being) who will topple their empire, so in their reign of terror they have exterminated the race, or so they think. The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and restore the balance of the universe. Henson and codirector Frank Oz have pushed puppetry into a new direction: traditional puppets, marionettes, giant bodysuits, and mechanical constructions are mixed seamlessly in a fantasy world of towering castles, simple huts, dank caves, a giant clockwork observatory, and a magnificent landscape that seem to have leaped off the pages of a storybook. Muppet fans will recognise many of the voice actors--a few characters sound awfully close to familiar comic creations--but otherwise The Dark Crystal is a completely alien world made familiar by a mythic quest that resonates through stories over the ages. --Sean Axmaker

• Island | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Colin Morgan (BBC’s Merlin); Natalie Press (My Summer of Love, 5 Women) and Academy Award nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) in a psychological drama based on an acclaimed novel about a young woman abandoned at birth who is determined to track down her birth mother..and kill her.

• Bone Alone | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £6.19   |  Saving you £-1.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When they left him home alone he had to save Christmas! When a family leaves for Grandma's house at Christmas time they're forced to leave Bone their badly-behaved dog behind. While they're away robbers move through the neighbourhood stealing Christmas presents from the empty houses. Now Bone with the help of a few friends must use every trick he knows to stop the burglars!

• The Descent 2 Disc Special Edition | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £5.85   |  Saving you £14.14 (241.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A caving trip goes badly wrong for six girlfriends as they discover they're not alone in the dark.

• Strauss: Arabella | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Like most of his later operas, Richard Strauss' Arabella ends with a meltingly lovely duet. But then criticising Strauss for composing melodically enduring operas is as pointless as lambasting Vermeer for painting only exquisite interior scenes. Those who say Strauss never improved on Rosenkavalier may be right but when such beguiling sounds kept coming from his music for the next 30 years of his life, there shouldn't be any quibbles. Arabella is, in a nutshell, the story of a woman who cannot make up her mind about a suitor. Taped at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1994 under the baton of conductor Christian Thielemann, this production features Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role; her acting is mediocre but vocally she never forces anything and at least sounds like the perfect Arabella. Wolfgang Brendel does well with Mandryka, who finally ends up with Arabella and Marie McLaughlin makes a sympathetic younger sister to the heroine as Zdenka. Otto Schenk's production is sturdily conservative, the video transfer is acceptable if unspectacular and the sound mix is CD-quality. --Kevin Filipski, Amazon.com

• The Descent (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A caving trip goes badly wrong for six girlfriends as they discover they're not alone in the dark.

• The Descent | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £36.60   |  Saving you £-11.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99