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• Kampfstern Galactica - Die komplette Serie (+DVD) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2014) from £43.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Bostonians | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vanessa Redgrave (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Christopher Reeve are the stars of THE BOSTONIANS Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed 1984 screen adaptation of the Henry James classic which charts the struggle between two charismatic forces - feminist and a chauvinist - to gain control over the destiny of a spirited young woman.The story takes place in Boston in the aftermath of the American Civil War - a time of political and social turmoil. Verena Tarrant (Madeleine Potter Slaves Of New York) a gifted young orator has attracted the attention of Olive Chancellor (Redgrave) who wished to nurture Verena as an inspirational force for the Woman's Movement But ranged against her is Basil Ransom (Reeve) a handsome male chauvinist who wants Verena as his wife. Against a backdrop of luminous New England landscapes battle is joined and for Olive the struggle will prove an odyssey that forces her to acknowledge her true nature.

• Basket Case | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £18.16   |  Saving you £-2.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The tenant in room 7 is very small very twisted and very mad. Siamese twins separated at an early age avenge their separation by killing the doctors responsible. One brother appears normal the other is very small very twisted very mad and he lives in a basket...until night comes!

• Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) -- Ludwigsburg/Gonnenwein | DVD | (20/04/2001) from £16.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (47.09%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In Die Zauberflöte, Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder brought off an extraordinary feat, uniting two seemingly unrelated theatrical genres--pantomime and straight play. The first is represented by the comic antics of the birdcatcher, Papageno, the second in a series of rituals through which a Prince and his lady pass in search of true love. This production from the Ludwigsburger Festspiele in 1992 in a minimalist staging by Axel Manthey with sets and costumes by him and Alexander Lintl, offers a clearly delineated path through a sophisticated and worldly plot that can be bewildering on first acquaintance. Claps of thunder herald evil in the presence of the Queen of the Night and Monostatos, while a white dove introduces Papageno and a larger one carries the three boys who lead the couple on their journey of enlightenment. Their departure in silhouette makes a touching finale to Act One. But no opera production in recent years seems to eschew some whim or trendy idea of the producer: here we have Sarastro's priests with shaved heads, the three boys dressed for a school sports day and a Papageno kitted out in knickerbockers who one fears might break into "I love to go a-wandering a knapsack on my back". Much more stylish are the Three Ladies, emissaries of the Queen of the Night, shapely figures in their striking royal blue and red dresses. The musical direction is in the safe hands of Wolfgang Gonnenwein who favours the occasional swift tempo as in the "March" to Act Two. The cast includes one exceptional singer, the soprano Ulrike Sonntag as Pamina, happily partnered by Deon Van Der Walt as Tamino. Thomas Mohr is the characterful Papageno and Andrea Frei as the Queen of the Night makes good the coloratura runs of her fiendishly difficult arias, though sounds less secure in her slow music. As Sarastro, Cornelius Hauptmann makes up for some wooden acting with his sonorous bass. One takes away from watching this production a renewed admiration for Mozart and his librettist for an opera that, in its mixture of spoken dialogue and musical numbers, anticipates by 150 years the musical shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein. --Adrian Edwards

• The Shaggy D.A. | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tim Allen transforms from family dad to family dog and back again in this fresh update of the Disney comedy classic The Shaggy Dog. It all begins when workaholic D.A. Dave Douglas (Allen) takes on a case involving an animal laboratory - one that will take him away yet again from his wife (Davis) and kids who already yearn for his all too distracted attention. But when Dave is accidentally infected with a top secret genetic-mutation serum everything he thought he knew about being himself and his family changes. Yet with his newly perked up ears and his front row seat on the household carpet Dave is able to gain a whole new perspective into his family's secrets and dreams. Now he wants nothing more than to stop fetching and return to fathering - only first he'll have to stop the evil forces behind the serum...in an adventure that will bring the whole family together.

• Mean Guns | Blu Ray | (10/08/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  100 Assassins. 1 000 Weapons. 10 000 000 Dollars. Only One Can Survive. Vincent Moon (Ice-T) represents a crime syndicate that just built a maximum security prison which is scheduled to open the next day. Rather than killing them individually the crime syndicate brings together 100 people who have in some way wronged the syndicate provides them with weapons and gives them a choice: fight or die. The assassins are given six hours to eliminate the competition and told that the last three will walk away with 10 million dollars. Christopher Lambert plays Lou a highly skilled killer attempting to eliminate all the others and make off with a prize. Various agreements and alliances are made as the killers battle for survival and the money.

• The Mummy | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Boris Karloff's legendary performance has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. As the mummy Im-Ho-Tep he is accidentally revived after 3 700 years by a team of British archaeologists. It is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest embalmed alive for trying to revive the vestal virgin whom he loved after she had been sacrificed. Alive again he sets out to find his lost love.

• Billy Budd | DVD | (01/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Benjamin Britten's opera 'Billy Budd' in two acts tells of the sadism and injustice abroad a British man-of-war.

• Chino | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £17.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They Took His Land...His Horses...His Woman...But...They Couldn't Take Chino! Set in 1880 in New Mexico. Chino an American of Indian/Mexican descent breaks horses on his smallholding. When a youth turns up one night seeking work he takes him in teaching the ropes. When Chino falls in love with the sister of Maral his wealthy Mexican rancher neighbour Maral will stop at nothing to ensure the two don't marry.

• Groove | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £11.19   |  Saving you £8.80 (78.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Parties are not always as fun as they look like they should be. Case in point: Groove. The distinction lies in the realm between watching people have fun and actually having fun. Set in San Francisco over the course of one night, this is the story of a rave, plain and simple. Preparation includes inhabiting an empty warehouse, finding the power supply and sending out coded invitations. The film kicks in as the party does, when people start arriving and the DJs start spinning. There's a nice moment early on when a cop shows up asking for the owner of the building, who is then taken on a tour of "a new Internet start-up". It becomes even funnier when the cop turns out to be smarter and more compassionate than anyone would expect. Writer-director Greg Harrison cleverly focuses the story on David, a novice who's never been to a rave before, which breaks the story out of what could have been the suffocating, insular world of rave culture. Unknowingly dosed by someone, David is adopted by Layla, an attractive but lonely East Coaster who has begun to regret her party lifestyle. Other characters include a guy who's just proposed to his girlfriend, a college teaching assistant selling his own manufactured drugs, a DJ who gets to meet his idol and a gay couple having trouble finding the party. If the characters turn out to be just character types, that's OK because the film itself floats by on its own high-octane enthusiasm. Groove is light and frothy entertainment with a beat you can dance to. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• The Story of Film: An Odyssey | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (-37.70%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This exhilarating documentary sees critically acclaimed director, film critic and curator Mark Cousins embark on an epic journey, in which he chronicles the birth and evolution of the great and popular art form- cinema.

• The Fairy Queen - Purcell | DVD | (25/05/2001) from £20.88   |  Saving you £7.10 (39.69%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Pountney and Quinny Sacks' production of Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen caused something of a sensation when it hit the ENO stage in 1995. It has the feel of a decadent 17th-century masque re-invented with late-20th-century energy: half the principals and chorus are in cross-dressing costumes, female characters are played by men (leading to some rather wonderful polymorphous perversity), and everything has an air of mad, hallucinogenic hipness about it. While Robert Israel's wild sets don't appear to their full advantage on the small screen, Dunya Ramicova's costumes look fantastic (the details are simply stunning). The very fine singing is recorded with excellent clarity: while this is obviously a live performance, there are remarkably few moments that go out of microphone range, and the balance with the orchestra is handled very sensitively. The ENO band, under the baton of Nicholas Kok, respond to Purcell's wiry lines and spiky harmonies with glee, and sound like they're having a ball, as do the singers. In particular Jonathan Best as The Drunken Poet is hilarious, and it is a wonderful testament to his acting skills that he is as funny close-up as he was from the auditorium stalls.--Warwick Thompson

• Night At The Museum / Night At The Museum 2 - Escape From The Smithsonian | Blu Ray | (09/11/2009) from £11.69   |  Saving you £23.30 (66.60%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprise: Ben Stiller leads an all-star cast including Robin Williams and Dick Van Dyke in this hilarious comedy hit. When good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley (Stiller) is hired as night watchman at the Museum of Natural History he soon discovers that an ancient curse brings all the exhibits to life after the sun sets. Suddenly Larry finds himself face-to-face with a frisky T. Rex skeleton tiny armies of Romans and cowboys and a mischievous monkey who taunts him to the breaking point. But with the help of President Teddy Roosevelt (Williams) Larry may just figure out a way to control the chaos and become a hero in his son's eyes. Boasting jaw-dropping special effects and laugh-out-loud moments Night At The Museum is your ticket to non-stop fun! Night At The Museum 2: Escape From The Smithsmonian: Ben Stiller is back as Larry the security guard who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night In The Museum 2: Escape From The Smithsonian!

• The Octagon | DVD | (08/05/2005) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Scott James (Chuck Norris) enlists an old friend (Lee Van Cleef) to avenge the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a deadly band of ninja assassins. He discovers the Octagon a sinister training centre for terrorism funded by international extremists who are covertly sending out ninja killers to cause worldwide mayhem. For Scott James there is no choice: he must face the truth of his childhood nightmares and face the Octagon and its killing machine.

• Offenbach: La Belle Helene -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £34.31   |  Saving you £-9.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélene, which pokes fun at the Parisian upper class of a century and a half ago through tales of ancient Greece, requires a leap of imagination on behalf of today's audience that this production only partly succeeds in reconciling. On musical grounds we're on sure footing. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Zurich Opera House with his customary flair for precise and taut rhythms and an appreciation of the composer's wit and the good tunes that are a-plenty. His multi-national cast headed by Vesselina Kasarova as Helen of Troy and Deon van der Walt as her lover Paris are excellent and among the smaller parts there's a lively and stylish performance from Liliana Nichiteanus as Oreste. The video direction by Hartmut Schroder and the superb sound obtained from the relatively intimate Zurich Opera House, a delightful setting for this operetta, are further assets. The production alas is unenlightening and perpetrates an over-the-top style that seems to be synonymous with Offenbach. The backdrop, a pink concave awning is hideous. The costumes by designer Jean-Charles de Castelibajac are silly: Paris is dressed in lederhosen and looks a twerp, Calchac, the high priest wears a Ku Klux Klan hat and Helen at one point looks as though she'll take to absailing. Kasarova suggests the lure of Helen in her voice but a beauty she's not. So it's left to Harnoncourt who joins the company at the curtain call with a twinkle in his eye and a nifty side step and his superb orchestra to remind us what might have been. --Adrian Edwards

• Castle In The Sky | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An airship glides over a sea of clouds in the silvery light of a full moon. Muska a government secret agent is escorting a girl Sheeta to the Tedis Fortress. Suddenly the ship is attacked by sky pirates who like the government seek the secret of a magic levitation stone which Sheeta wears around her neck.The stone is the key that will unlock the hidden city of Laputa a floating island in the sky created by a mysterious race of people who long ago disappeared from the planet. A young boy Pazu befriends Sheeta helps her escape from her pursuers and joins her in the search to solve the mystery of the floating castle.As Sheeta and Pazu journey to Laputa they set in motion a chain of events that cannot be reversed. What they find in this strange and mysterious place is a treasure more valuable than the power to rule the world.

• Mafia Docks | DVD | (27/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the large industrial part of an Italian city - sailors women black market traffickers sleazy nightclubs and dingy narrow alleys make up a world of danger where a young American girl vanishes without a trace while an Italian man tries to track her down. On the way he encounters the strangest of characters: a beautiful and ambitious prostitute a girl ravaged by drugs and the ferocious Joe Narescu who is battling against a rival gang so that he can gain control of the port. Thro

• Van Cliburn - Van Cliburn In Moscow Vol.1 | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £19.92   |  Saving you £2.06 (12.17%)   |  RRP £18.99

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• WWF - Vengeance 2001 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-62.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

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