"Actor: Paris"

• The Tribe - Season 4 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  All 52 episodes from the fantastic fourth series of The Tribe!

• Redneck | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £15.75   |  Saving you £-10.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Three men commit robbery during which the jeweller is killed in Italy. Making their getaway they head towards the French border to they think safety in the mountains. En route crashing one car they steal another only to find the son of a diplomat in the back. With twists and turns the carabinieri are hard on their heels....

• Another Life | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Another Life' is a version of the true-life scandalous tale of Percy Thompson's 1922 murder by Freddy Bywaters lover of Percy's wife Edith. To follow-up the clever disturbing 'Intimate Relations' writer-director Philip Goodhew once again taps into a true-crime story. The story begins in 1913 with the lively Edith (Little) and her family celebrating Christmas. Despite her driving ambition Edith has agreed to marry her quite dull and nerdy boyfriend Percy (Moran) and at first

• The Rainbow | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A respectable and picturesque realisation of DH Lawrence's novel, 1989's The Rainbow is director Ken Russell's prequel to his 1969 version of Women in Love. By Russell's standards, this is a remarkably restrained treatment of Lawrence's novel, set in the Midlands in the 19th century: with its lush, rural setting and quaint bucolic soundtrack there are moments when you might imagine you're watching The Railway Children--until the sex scenes kick in, that is. Her soul infused with infinite longing by the sight of a rainbow as a child, Ursula Brangwen grows up restless at the prescribed roles set out for women in Victorian England, which are stoically endured by her mother (Glenda Jackson, who played Ursula's sister Gudrun in Women in Love). She idealises her swimming instructor--the older, more experienced Winifred (Amanda Donohoe) with whom she enjoys a passionate, borderline lesbian relationship. She becomes a schoolteacher against her parents' wishes, and takes up with Paul McGann, who is somewhat tepid as a Boer War officer. Ultimately, however, she finds all of these limitations too constraining and finally strikes out on her own in search of true spiritual and sexual freedom. On the DVD: This is a full-screen version of the film, ratio 4:3. The sound quality is fine as is the colour and sharpness, though like the film itself, not quite as ravishing as you might hope. Special features consist of a routine trailer ("She played by her passion, not by their rules") and disappointingly perfunctory "filmographies" of the director and cast: merely lists of their previous movies. --David Stubbs

• Picasso And Dance - Paris Opera Ballet | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £14.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (26.25%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Between 1917 and 1962 Picasso was involved in creating the designs for nine ballets. Le Train Bleu dates from 1924 and Le Tricorne from 1919. These two historic ballets created originally by Sergei Diaghilev have been revived by the Paris Opera Ballet.

• House of Wax / Ghost Ship | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  House Of Wax (2005): What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House Of Wax an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly Paige and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confronta

• D-Day, The Sixth Of June/Young Lions double pack | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £16.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A World War II double-bill comes to DVD with the pairing of The Young Lions (1958) and D-Day the Sixth of June (1956). Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions is one of the most thoughtful films about the War. Based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, it tells parallel stories of two American soldiers (Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin) and one German officer (Marlon Brando), whose war experiences we follow until they intersect outside a concentration camp. Martin plays what he calls "a likable coward", Clift is intense as a Jewish GI, and Brando experiments with the limits of his part as a Nazi re-evaluating his beliefs. Legend has it that Clift accused Brando of bleeding-heart excessiveness. Interestingly, the two Method actors share no scenes together. --Tom Keogh D-Day the Sixth of June is a misleading title for a very tame wartime romance with barely 10 minutes of combat in the last reel. What we mostly get is a year's worth of flashbacks depicting the reluctant, London-based affair of a married US staff officer (Robert Taylor) and a British Red Cross worker (Dana Wynter) whose commando suitor (Richard Todd) is fighting in Africa. To be sure, the emotional desperation and embattled decency of good people in time of war is as worthy of film treatment as any military campaign, and the script works pre-invasion Anglo-American tensions into the story. But the CinemaScope production is utterly formulaic, with leaden direction by Henry Koster. Wynter's porcelain beauty apparently didn't permit changes of expression, and Taylor looks about 15 years past his prime. --Richard T Jameson

• Far Out Man | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  No brain no pain. A 60's leftover creates his own world called 'Hippyland'. His life gets turned upside down when he accidentally enters the real world.

• Strike Of The Panther | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £14.94   |  Saving you £-8.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jason Blade is back to sweep the bad guys out of town once again...

• Les Troyens - Hector Berlioz | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £8.28   |  Saving you £22.97 (327.21%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The gates of Troy are open again after a ten-year siege. The Greek troops appear to have departed the battlefield - their fleet of ships having disappeared over the horizon. Rejoicing at such an unexpected victory the Trojen citizens pour out of their city to take a look at what the Greeks appear to have left behind: a giant wooden horse which they take to be an offering to pallas Athene. The only one among them not to be lulled into the general festive spirit is Cassandra who has seen Hector's ghost wandering the city ramparts with a look of foreboding about him - she senses impending disaster. Nobody pays any heed to her warnings however least of all her suitor Coroebus who tries in vain to soothe her with a tender serenade. In the presence of King Priam and Hecuba his queen the Trojens thank the gods for their safe release. But a shadow is cast over the festivities with the appearance of Hector's widow Andromache and their son Astyanax her silent mourning a memorial to those sacrificed in the long years of fighting.

• Bach - Mass in B Minor (Nelson) | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £13.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (5.10%)   |  RRP £13.99

  On 29th & 30th March 2006 John Nelson gave live performances of Bach's Mass in B Minor with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris in the prestigious venue cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. This concert is the first of a trilogy; John Nelson's plan being to continue the 'Bach in Notre Dame' theme next year with Saint John's Passion and the year after Saint Matthew's Passion all three performances being captured on film in the cathedral. The audiovisual recording of the event is an integral part to John Nelson's project with the awe-inspiring backdrop of Notre Dame really bringing Bach's music to life. In addition to Nelson and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris this DVD brings together the Matrise de Notre-Dame conducted by Nicola Corti as well as renowned soloists Joyce DiDonato and Paul Agnew (both well known to Virgin Classics) German soprano Ruth Ziesak Canadian counter-tenor Daniel Taylor and German baritone Dietrich Henschel.

• Paquita - Deldevez And Minkus | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of the Edouard Marie Ernest Delvedez and Ludwig Minkus ballet with the original choreography recreated by Pierre Lacotte.

• Nine Lives | DVD | (01/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  What if your friends became senseless killers? What would you do? How far would you go to protect yourself? To save your own life could you kill a friend? Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton stars in this British-made slasher! Nine friends retreat to an old Scottish mansion for a weekend of partying without knowing the violent history of the ancient edifice. After finding a book documenting the home's history they find that the former owner a Scottish patriot had his eyes gouge

• Bottoms Up | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Hoping to score enough money to save his old man's steakhouse hotshot bartender Owen (Jason Mewes) flees the Midwest to follow his Hollywood dreams. With the help of flamboyant Uncle Earl (David Keith) Owen crashes the celebrity scene full of wild parties and hip nightclubs. But when he hooks up with pampered starlet Lisa (Paris Hilton) whose hunky heartthrob boyfriend Peyton has his own secret to hide Owen unexpectedly falls head over heels. Featuring hilarious cameos and a sideways look at how 'young' Hollywood really is Bottoms Up is a sexy and scandalous socialite comedy that will drive you wild!

• House Of Wax | Blu Ray | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Car troubles and a spooky waxworks museum spell trouble for a gang of US teens in this horror re-make.

• Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake | DVD | (02/01/2007) from £20.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (22.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Agnes Letestu, a feminine and warm Odette, Jose Martinez, a convincing, pale vulnerable Prince Siegfried, and Karl Paguette, doubling as a dutiful Wolfgang and an equally devious Rothbart, are the stars of this deeply passionate, 'dream' version of Swan Lake, Rudolf Nureyev's interpretation of Tchaikovsky's lyrical ballet, far from being a cliched stereotype of this celebrated masterpiece, is an expose of astonishingly powerful and recognisable human emotions. Under the inspired and clear-cut musical direction of Vello Pahn, this production of one of the jewels of the Paris Opera Ballet's repertoire brilliantly displays the meticulous precision, technical prowess and pure, unmanbnered style of the company's unrivalled female corps de ballet, eliciting an ethereal, intense beauty, captured for DVD in High Definition video and superb surround sound.

• Day Of The Panther | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Martial arts expert Jason Blade (Stazak) sets to get the gangland boss and his right-hand man responsible for the death of his partner.

• Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quichotte | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (150.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Don Quichotte, composed by Ludwig Minkus for the Bolshoi in 1869, was relatively unknown in the West until Nureyev's new choreography--which naturally gave him centre stage as Basile--was introduced at the Vienna State Opera in 1966. A later production in 1981 forms the basis for this 2002 success by the Paris Opera. Don Quichotte is in some ways a misnomer for the ballet. Rather than being the dominant character, here the beloved hero of Cervantes' original novel and tilter at windmills is a catalyst for the troublesome events which beset the love story of Basile and Kitri. The dream in which the knight encounters the queen of the dryads becomes a glittering fault in the narrative. But there is no doubting the fluid delights of the pas de deux between Basile (Manual Legris) and Kitri (the enchanting Aurélie Dupont), always literally several steps ahead of their would-be romance spoilers, which rather overshadow the pathos of Jean-Marie Didière's Quichotte. Nureyev's triumph, though, remains the teeming ensemble dances that reaffirm the close marriage between Minkus's score and the unfolding drama, here immeasurably enhanced by Alexandre Beliaev's Goya-esque designs. Ermanno Florio's musical direction keeps the pace light and busy. On the DVD: Don Quichotte is presented in 16:9 video aspect ratio with a choice of stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS (by far the best) soundtracks: the quality is all you'd expect of a standard modern television broadcast, although the subtleties of the theatrical lighting don't always shine through. Extras are limited to previews of other TDK releases. --Piers Ford

• The Dick Van Dyke Show - 4 Classic Episodes - Never Name A Duck / Bank Book 6565696 / Hustling The Hustler | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Carl Reiner's The Dick Van Dyke Show occupies a permanent spot in the pantheon of American sitcom's for good reason. In addition to its smart writing and strong supporting cast the series broke new ground by delving into the career of family patriarch Rob Petrie (Van Dyke) whose job as a writer for a television variety hour gave the show a self-referential quality lacking in sitcom's of the time. This DVD features 4 classic episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show: Never Name A Duck Ban

• La Sylphide | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £22.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (9.17%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The original choreography by Philippe Taglioni had changed ballet forever. It introduced constitutional features of Romantic Ballet as we know it. These include dance en pointe and the tutu which most certainly owe their omnipresence in ballet to the success of the 1832 staging of La Sylphide in Paris. Everything about the event combined to transform the ballet into a magical spectacle: the libretto inspired by romantic literature the bucolic exoticism of the village wedding festivities the dramatic realism of the Sylvan forest the eerie halo of the gas lights the aerial flights of the dancers the long diaphanous tulle costumes and the ballerina's variations en pointes. Through this work ballet master Philippe Taglioni managed to achieve a magical fusion between mime and artistic dance in a light and flowing style that gave birth to the first white act in the history of ballet.