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• The Desert Rats | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £6.28   |  Saving you £6.71 (106.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Richard Burton stars in this exciting film about the courageous men who held off notorious German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941 and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk which is manned only by a small Australian battalion whom Captain MacRoberts (Burton) must whip into shape - fast! James Mason co-stars in a stunning portrayal as Rommel in this stirring action-packed story of the World War

• Olivia Newton-John - Live At The Sydney Opera House | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD contains the full concert interspersed with behind-the-scenes footage from the historical event. Tracklisting: 1. I Honestly Love You Intro 2. Have You Never Been Mellow 3. Magic 4. Xanadu 5. Stronger Than Before 6. If Not For You 7. Let Me Be There 8. Please Mr. Please 9. Jolene 10. If You Love Me 11. Physical 12. Don't Stop Believin' 13. Dancin' 'Round and 'Round 14. Suddenly 15. Not Gonna Give In To It 16. Cry Me A River 17. The Rumour 18. Heart Attack 19. Make A Move On Me 20. Twist Of Fate 21. Tenterfield Saddler 22. Can I Trust Your Arms 23. The Promise (The Dolphin Song) 24. You're The One That I Want 25. Hopelessly Devoted To You 26. Summer Nights 27. You're The One That I Want Outro Vamp 28. I Honestly Love You 29. Serenity 30. I Honestly Love You Outro 31. 18 Track Medley

• Solo - a Star Wars Story | DVD | (26/09/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Pacific Northwest Ballet | DVD | (26/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This performance of George Balanchine's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream was filmed live at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, in February 1999 and won the award for "Best Television Realisation of a Stage Production" at IMZ Dance Screen. The music is from Mendelssohn's youthful overture plus later theatre music, and five other pieces by the composer all selected by the great Russian choreographer Balanchine in 1962. In a fine ensemble cast, Paul Gibson as Oberon and Patricia Barker as Titania are suitably aloof, at least until the latter dances with the ass Bottom (Timothy Lynch) in a highlight of touching comedy. After all the quarrelsome entanglements of the first act, the finale ensures celebration and richly deserved happy endings all round. The simple sets have a picturesque charm, the costumes a fairytale glamour and the large cast, including many children, dance with flair and enthusiasm; this is clearly one production where everyone was having a fine time. In fact it is rather more enjoyable than Hollywood's A Midsummer Night's Dream of the same year. Ballet aficionados may also want to explore the BBC's wonderful Coppélia (2000). On the DVD: There are no special features on the disc, but the 12-page booklet is entirely in English and is well presented, offering track and cast lists, a synopsis and notes on Balanchine, Mendelssohn and the creative talents and directors of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. The sound is atmospheric--Dolby Digital 5.0--and the anamorphically enhanced 16:9 image is good, though slightly soft, and does occasionally reveal some compression artefacting. In defiance of regional encoding regulations, not only is this DVD region free, but includes the normal PAL UK television system programme material on one side and on the reverse includes the same content in NTSC format, suitable for American playback. Anyone curious to see if one format is better will find that the UK PAL transfer contains just a little more picture detail. --Gary S Dalkin

• Pitch Black/Dark Fury/the Chronicles of Riddick | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Pitch Black Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts. A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory. What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon Dark Fury Taking a page from The Animatrix, Dark Fury is part of a new trend of bridging theatrical sequels. As an official product of a franchise, the 35-minute anime benefits from having the original actors voice the characters, including Vin Diesel as Riddick. This story opens with the new action hero and the two other survivors of Pitch Black already caught by a giant spaceship filled with dread. The sinewy leader has a unique--and creepy--jail for master villains and she has her sights set on Riddick. The film--indeed the series--is indebted to animator Peter Chung, who brings his techno style from his Aeon Flux series. His smooth animation for Riddick doesn't reinvent the character as much as give him a new, appealing fluidity. As anime goes, there's nothing really new here--plenty of action, cool killers, and dramatic spurts of blood--but it's a building block for how this genre might enliven movie series and sequels in the future. --Doug Thomas The Chronicles of Riddick Bigger isn't always better, but for anyone who enjoyed Pitch Black, a nominal sequel like The Chronicles of Riddick should prove adequately entertaining. Writer-director David Twohy returns with expansive sets, detailed costumes, an army of CGI effects artists, and the star he helped launch--Vin Diesel--bearing his franchise burden quite nicely as he reprises his title role. The Furian renegade Riddick has another bounty on his head, but when he escapes from his mercenary captors, he's plunged into an epic-scale war waged by the Necromongers. A fascist master race led by Lord Marshal (Colm Feore), they're determined to conquer all enemies in their quest for the Underverse, the appeal of which is largely unexplained (since Twohy is presumably reserving details for subsequent "chronicles"). With tissue-thin plotting, scant character development, and skimpy roles that waste the talents of Thandie Newton (as a Necromonger conspirator) and Judi Dench (as a wispy "Elemental" priestess), Twohy's back in the B-movie territory he started in (with The Arrival), brought to vivid life on a vast digital landscape with the conceptual allure of a lavish graphic novel. But does Riddick have leadership skills on his resumé? To get an answer to that question, sci-fi fans will welcome another sequel. --Jeff Shannon

• The Last Hunter | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Last Hunter is the ultimate exploitation war movie containing some of the most horrific action scenes ever filmed. Army Captain Henry Morris (David Warbeck) is sent on a covert mission to destroy a Viet Cong radio station. He must venture through the deadly jungles to accomplish his goal. Accompanying him are a small commando detachment and a war journalist (Tisa 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' Farrow). Together they head through the jungle killing and killing. They encounter decompos

• Half Of A Yellow Sun | Blu Ray | (04/08/2014) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover the 'revolutionary professor' Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (John Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests and surprises herself when she falls in love with Richard (Joseph Mawle) an English writer. Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements and a betrayal between the sisters the events of their life loom larger than politics. However they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire country and the world. Based on the award-winning best seller by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun is the feature film debut from London based Nigerian playwright novelist and screenwriter Biyi Bandele. Starring Oscar-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave) BAFTA-winner Thandie Newton (Crash) BAFTA-nominee Joseph Mawle (Birdsong) Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) and John Boyega (Attack the Block) Half of a Yellow Sun is an epic love-story weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war produced by Andrea Calderwood of Slate Films (The Last King of Scotland).

• In My Country | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A South African Story of Truth Love and Reconcilliation. In 1996 the South African Government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses of human rights under apartheid. These hearings would serve as a forum for those accused of murder and torture to be confronted by their victims and by admitting their guilt be granted amnesty under Ubuntu the native custom of forgiveness. Covering the sessions are Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 1 - Part 2 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £13.24   |  Saving you £6.75 (50.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Empire Day on the Slag Heap. With the strike at an end the miners are back however an accident leaves Bill with a broken back. Jessie receives a marriage proposal whilst Jack receives some surprising news. Episodes titles: Empire Day On The Slagheap A First Time For Everything Paddy Boyle's Discharge and Angel On Horseback.

• Saturday Night Fever / Grease - Karaoke | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Includes the tracks: 1. Grease 2. Summer Nights 3. Hopelessly Devoted To You 4. You're The One That I Want 5. Beauty School Drop Out 6. Stayin' Alive 7. How Deep Is Your Love 8. More Than A Woman 9. Jive Talkin' 10. Boogie Shoes

• Long John Silver | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £17.75   |  Saving you £-12.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The notorious Long John Silver returns to Treasure island to sate his irrepressible desire for gold.

• Laurence Olivier - Hamlet / Henry V | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In 'Hamlet' we find Olivier acting and directing Shakespeare's immortal story of murder intrigue madness and despair. 'Henry V' is one of Shakespeare's most compelling histories complete with the great Battle Of Agincourt and directed by Olivier in lush technicolour became the most expensive film made by a British studio...

• Xanadu | Blu Ray | (08/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Bee Gees - One Night Only | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, One Night Only trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's Saturday Night Fever, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early 1970s. One Night Only thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late 1960s hits ("Massachusetts", "To Love Somebody", "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the 1970s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'", "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The Fever hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality". --Sam Sutherland

• The Pursuit Of Happyness/Big Daddy/About A Boy | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £5.17   |  Saving you £19.82 (383.37%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Pursuit Of Happyness (Dir. Gabriele Muccino) (2006): Chris Gardner is a bright and talented but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. When Gardner lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm he and his son endure many hardships including living in shelters in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them. Big Daddy (Dir. Frank Coraci ; Peter Segal ; Dennis Dugan) (1991): Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed...and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny! About A Boy (Dir. Chris Weitz ; Paul Weitz) (2002): Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship...

• Oliver Twist | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon

• Deepak Chopra - The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £5.65   |  Saving you £12.34 (218.41%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the phenomenal best-selling book by famed author Deepak Chopra and featuring all-new music from Olivia Newton-John The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success.

• Flirting | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Here's to risks ... In a wonderful tale of misfit adolescents who find their independence through a forbidden interracial relationship Noah Taylorstars as Danny a gangly stutterer with a wry wit few friends and a big crush on Thandiwe (Thandie Newton) a Ugandan student whose father is in some political danger back home. Danny goes to a boys academy and Thandiwe boards at a girls school nearby. The two meet secretly and deepen their doomed affair exploring adulthood for the first time on their own terms....

• Olivia Newton-John - Video Gold 1 And 2 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time the complete collection of Olivia Newton-John videos Video Gold volumes 1 and 2. Track Listing Disc 1: 1.Deeper Than The Night 2.A Little More Love - Version 1 3.Totally Hot 4.Landslide 5.Magic 6.Physical 7.Carried Away 8.A Little More Love - Version 2 9.Recovery 10.The Promise (The Dolphin Song) 11.Love Make Me Strong 12.Stranger's Touch 13.Make A Move On Me 14.Falling 15.Silvery Rain 16.Hopelessly Devoted To You 17.Let Me Be There - Live 18.Please Mr. Please - Live 19.If You Love Me (Let Me Know) Track Listing Disc 2: 1.Twist Of Fate 2.Take A Chance 3.Livin' In Desperate Times 4.Shaking You 5.Heart Attack 6.Tied Up 7.Soul Kiss 8.Culture Shock 9.Emotional Tangle 10.Toughen Up 11.The Right Moment 12.The Rumour 13.Can't We Talk It Over In Bed 14.Reach Out For Me 15.I Need Love 16.I Honestly Love You 17.Sam - Live 18.Suddenly - Live 19.You're The One That I Want - Live 20.Xanadu - Live

• It Was An Accident | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (165.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nicky’s a young man who plans to go straight when he returns home to his old stomping ground, but old friends and new enemies make that hard to achieve.