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• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £22.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (11.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The famous performance of Verdi's romantic tragedy captures one of the most sensational debuts in operatic history. Singing Violetta for the first time was the young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu whose remarkable interpretation reached the front pages of the world's press and led the BBC immediately to film the production. Equally notable was the masterly conducting of Sir Georg Solti and director Richard Eyre's stylish staging. This DVD and highlights CD present the definitive record of a momentous occasion.

• Ronnie Barker Comedy Classics - Futtocks End/A Home of Your Own | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ronnie Barker is synonymous with classic comedy. This comedy classics box set features 2 brilliant titles: Futtocks End: A weekend gathering at the country home of the eccentric General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) produces a series of saucy mishaps between staff and guests. Comedic chaos ensues between the assembled group of motley characters. A Home of Your Own: Ronnie Barker stars in a noisy but wordless comedy of errors about British builders. Barker's put-upon cement mixer Peter Butterworth's short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins' hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.

• Latin Thugs - Wild And Chronic | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story retells the fascinating story of the start of one of the largest and most influential bands in rock and the drug induced breakdown of their original song writer and lead man. Roger Waters Dave Gilmour Nick Mason and Rick Wright retell how Syd's slip from reality haunted the band for many years and this is clearly demonstrated in the tracks 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here'. There are also insights from former girlfriends landlords flatmates producers managers friends and famous fans. Also featuring rare early footage of the band performing including a live show at the UFO Club and an appearance with former landlord Mick Leonard on Tomorrow's World.

• Silver Screams Cinema (Box Set) (Phantom Speaks / Vampire's Ghost / Return of the Ape Man / Valley of the Zombies / She Devil / Unknown Terror) Imprint Collection Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (23/07/2021) from £70.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Clint Eastwood: Out Of The Shadows | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  'Unforgiven' co-star Morgan Freeman narrates a richly entertaining insider's look at Eastwood's personal life and public career. Loaded with rare archival material star commentaries and memorable film clips ""it's a keeper"" (Ed Bark The Dallas Morning News).

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Last Vampyre | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Last Vampyre is an overblown two-hour adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", and was perhaps the most ill-advised of Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series. Entirely contrary to the tone and spirit of Doyle's tale--which finds Holmes victoriously pitting his well-grounded deductive powers against irrational fears of a rise in blood sucking--The Last Vampyre is something of an embarrassment to the largely wonderful legacy of Granada's earlier efforts. (For the record, most of the creative executives who, along with star Jeremy Brett, had made the beloved series what it was in the 1980s were replaced by 1992, the year of this film.) In this version, Holmes does battle with a Dracula-like fellow who may or may not be the real McCoy. There is a great deal of padding to fill out the story to feature length, and it is mostly silly. So, you ask, is there anything to recommend this? Well, there is the ailing Brett's ever-fascinating performance, which deviates from Doyle's vision of the detective hero toward something darker and more personal. Edward Hardwicke does his usual warm and capable work as Dr Watson. --Tom Keogh

• Under The Piano | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Normal | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A poignant and funny portrait of a marriage that undergoes a wrenching examination... After 25 years of a loving marriage in a small midwestern town husband Roy announces to his wife Irma that he is a woman trapped in a man's body and wants to have a sex change operation.

• Leonard Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £23.05   |  Saving you £-3.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This new film of Leonard Bernstein's music-theatre piece Trouble in Tahiti, produced by BBC Wales and Opus Arte and directed by Tom Cairns, makes a strong case for a neglected work. Bernstein wrote his satire on American materialism in 1952, drawing on elements of opera, revue and musical comedy to tell a story of a marriage that's turned sour amid the trappings of suburban prosperity. The brevity of the piece, which flashes by in 39 minutes, perhaps accounts for its rare appearances, making this version specially welcome. Tom Cairns directs with style and panache, moving the camera effortlessly to and fro between the seven scenes. Amir Hosseinpour's choreography recalls with affection the heyday of the MGM musical then at its zenith. The film opens with a Greek-style chorus singing in scat jazz fashion to a montage of 1950s imagery: flickering television adverts, manicured lawns and white picket fences. Characters within the narrative appear in flash-back in home video footage. This is all highly diverting and possibly a ruse to mask some dramatic weakness in the story written by Bernstein himself. The wife never offers an explanation for her visit to the cinema to see Trouble in Tahiti instead of attending her son's school play, nor do we see the boy again after witnessing his parents having a tiff. The two principals, Karl Daymond as Sam and Stephanie Novacek as Dinah, are well cast and sing in a natural and pleasing manner with clear diction. The scat vocal trio is well matched and the City of London Sinfonia under Paul Daniel catch the spirit of the jazz inflected score as if it were second nature. On the DVD: Trouble in Tahiti is shot in wide-screen, appropriate for the era that gave us CinemaScope. There are subtitles in German, Spanish and French. A full translation in English is printed in the booklet. The extras include an introduction that partly overlaps with "A Very Testing Piece", in which Paul Daniel touches on the parallel with Bernstein's own unhappy childhood. Humphrey Burton in "Not Particularly Romantic" elaborates on this theme and goes on to offer a further fascinating commentary on Bernstein, whom he knew well. --Adrian Edwards

• Pranks | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Night Train Murders | Blu Ray | (10/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Children Of The Corn 4 - The Gathering | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The horror returns when the children of a small midwestern town are haunted by an unspeakable evil that lurks somewhere out behind the corn fields. A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children before a sinister stranger can claim their souls for his own! It's a pulse-pounding race against time and terror that will leave even the most die-hard suspense fans on the edge of their seats!

• Mandragora | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 16-year-old boy with an angelic face and a freshly stolen jacket arrives at the main train station in Prague. He's immediately spotted by a man named Honza who asks him if he wants to earn some quick cash. The boy is too nave to realise that he's being set up as a prostitute. Honza drugs him and delivers him to his first trick. The boy wakes in the room of a homosexual client who has just had sex with him. Shaken he takes his payment from the man and returns to the train station

• Great Caruso, The | Blu Ray | (09/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tales Of The Unexpected - Vol. 4 | DVD | (31/01/2006) from £7.50   |  Saving you £12.49 (166.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Unforgiven | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unforgiven is a modern classic that summarizes everything I feel about the Western director/star Clint Eastwood told the Los Angeles Times. This American Film Institute Top-100 American Movies selection rode off with four 1993 Academy Awards including Best Picture Director Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) and Editing (Joel Cox). Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty. Richard Harris is an ill-fated killer-for-hire. And Hackman is a lawman of sly charm...and chilling brutality. Unforgiven is a Western for the ages (Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times).

• The Best Of British B Movies - The Corsair Collection: Volume 2 | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Meet Mr Malcolm (1954)Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles (Richard Knowles) finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie (Sarah Lawson) asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home - and when his body is found the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim? Directed by Daniel Birt (The Interrupted Journey She Shall Have Murder) at Viking Studios and featuring a delightful guest appearance by renowned stage and radio comedy star Claude Dampier Meet Mr. Malcolm is a gripping Agatha Christie-style country house whodunnit with a fiendish twist! I'm A Stranger (1952)George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) arrives in London from India to claim a sizeable inheritance only to discover his grandfather's will is missing. A film star (Greta Gynt) a window cleaner (James Hayter) and a police inspector (Hector Ross) help him defeat the disinherited branch of the family and find the will but is George all he seems...

• The In-Laws | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In preparation for his daughter's wedding dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo the groom's father. Vince a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America!

• The Thing / Vampires / Village Of The Damned | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Thing (1982): Horror-meister John Carpenter teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. In the winter of 1982 a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100 000 years. Soon unfrozen the shape-shifting alien wreaks havoc creates terror and becomes one of them... John Carpenter's Vampires (1998): In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village Of The Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines vampires. Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires warns Jack Crow (James Woods) the leader of Team Crow a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. When master Vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) decimates Jack's entire team Crow and the sole team survivor Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) set out in pursuit. Breaking all the rules Crow and Montoya take one of Valek's victims hostage. The beautiful prostitute (Sheryl Lee) is their sole psychic link to Valek and through her senses they will track down the leader of the undead. As Valek nears the climax of his 600 year search for the Berziers cross Jack and the new Team Crow do everything humanly possible to prevent him from possessing the only thing that can grant him and all vampires the omnipotent power to walk in the daylight... Village Of The Damned (1995): From the master of suspense John Carpenter comes a chilling new version of the sci-fi classic. Something is terribly wrong in the tiny village of Midwich. After an unseen force invades a quiet coastal town 10 women mysteriously find themselves pregnant. Local physician Dr. Alan Chaffee (Reeve) and government scientist Dr. Susan Verner (Alley) join forces when the women simultaneously give birth...and the reign of terror begins. In what the New York Times calls one scarifying trip the people of Midwich must try to find a way to stop the children in the Village Of The Damned.

• The Final Days | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-31.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  How could a U.S. President recognised as one of the most accomplished international statesmen in world history allow the presidency to be bought to it's knees by such a seemingly insignificant incident. In 1974 President Richard Nixon pressured by public scrutiny ordered a federal investigation of the Watergate scandal. The ordeal blew open a covert operation and cover-up which eventually led to charges bought against members of the Nixon administration for obstructing justice including allegations against the President.This compelling drama traces the activities of Nixon's final days in the office as he and his aids try desperately to repair the damages and clear up all allegations charged. But due to congress' successful investigation which directly implicated Nixon in the cover-up the feat of impeachment forces him to resign. On the night before his resignation the fallen president asks a stunned Henry Kissinger his secretary of state to kneel down beside him and pray. Struggling with mental anguish and helplessness he knew there was no chance to escape his ultimate fate.