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• Berg: Wozzeck | DVD | (15/11/2001) from £34.31   |  Saving you £-9.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The bleakness of Berg's operatic masterpiece Wozzeck is relatively easy to bring off: the plot, after all, tells of a man who is bullied, cuckolded and mocked by the society around him. What are harder to realise are the gallows humour and pitch-black comedy--and it's those qualities, along with the brilliant acting and edge-of-seat orchestral playing, that make this 1987 Vienna Staatsoper staging a stunning televisual operatic production. Everything works: the simple yet evocative sets translate effortlessly to the small screen, the pacing of the 15 short scenes is worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster and the singing is beautifully focussed. Baritone Franz Grundheber is vocally and dramatically outstanding as Wozzeck, cringing and shuffling around the stage in a bewildered hang-dog manner and yet never losing sight of the character's humanity. Hildegard Behrens (Marie) has rarely sounded better, and switches between Straussian lushness and spiky sluttishness with ease. The direction is also full of wonderful touches, such as Wozzeck squeezing the Captain's nose while he's shaving him (and making his voice sound like a kazoo), and the musicians of the on-stage band being fully integrated into the tavern scene. Ironic, emotionally rich, musically faultless--this one's got it all. On the DVD: the production works beautifully on DVD, and bar one or two moments in the second tavern scene (Act 3, Scene 3) the voices rarely move out of microphone range. There are subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish and four trailers for other Arthaus DVD operas, but no other special features. --Warwick Thomson

• The Last Time I Saw Paris | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £6.49   |  Saving you £-4.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story this romantic epic stars Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson as two strangers who meet fall in love and marry in post-war Paris. Taylor represents the Ellswirth family: eccentric and free spending but seemingly always on the brink of bankruptcy. When she is unable to change her ways when married life becomes more difficult...

• The Longest Yard | UMD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Over The Hill Gang | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Four old retired Texas Rangers help clean up the small town of Boulder which is run by the crooked Mayor Nard Lundy and his stooges... Amos Polk the drunken judge along with the trigger-happy Sheriff Clyde Barnes and his corrupt deputies. The foursome realise their days of daring-dos are long gone and that they're too old to be drawing guns anymore so with hilarious results they outsmart the villains by using just their combined wits. A great movie that's fun for all the family.

• The Devil Came From Akasava | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A new mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen secret agents are despatched to get it back!

• The Incredible Hulk | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £6.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (92.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr McGee don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...... 1: A Solitary Place In a bid to avoid triggering the Hulk David seeks isolation in the wilderness of Baja Mexico. However his hideaway is found by a woman on the run who pleads with David for his help. 2: Like a Brother David takes a job in a car wash where he has to overcome racial prejudice and protect his fellow workers from the influence of a local drug dealer. 3: Haunted David is hired by Renee Stevens to help her move back into her childhood home where she lived before her twin sister drowned. Once in the house they are haunted by a chilling series of events from Renee's tragic past.

• Legends Of Country Blues Guitar - Vol. 1 | DVD | (12/12/2012) from £19.65   |  Saving you £5.34 (27.18%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Western | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Outlaw (Dir. Howard Hughes 1943): Jane Russell plays a busty siren who steals the heart of Billy the Kid in this Howard Hughes/Howard Hawks-directed story which centres on the rivalrous tentative friendships between Billy Doc Holiday and Pat Garrett. Vengeance Valley (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1941): An unusually adult Western for its time Vengeance Valley (1951) gave Burt Lancaster his first Western role. His athletic prowess made him perfect for the genre and he'd

• Midnight Son | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £9.26   |  Saving you £3.73 (40.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the director of The Blair Witch Project, Midnight Son is the story of Jacob (Zak Kilberg, Zombie Strippers!, Lincoln Heights), a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary (Maya Parish, How I Met Your Mother), a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob's actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders. Directed by Scott Leberecht, a well-known name on the festival circuit, Midnight Son is a twisting, terrifying tale of vampirism and humanity and how the two conditions can intertwine. Special Features: Trailer Audio Commentary with Cast and Crew Deleted Scenes Cast and Crew Interviews

• 21 Hours At Munich | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the true story of terrorism striking at the 1972 Olympics in Germany this film does not spare viewers the violence and intensity of the real event. A Munich police chief learns that during the games a group of Palestinian extremists have kidnapped members of the Israeli team. With the help of a brave policewoman the cops negotiate with the terrorists in an attempt to buy time until the authorities can devise a rescue plan. As time ticks away the skirmishes escalate into gu

• Lexx - The Complete Season 3 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It's been 4 000 since the crew of living spaceship the Lexx fled the destruction of a universe. Now undead asassin Kai cluster-lizard sex bomb Xev anti-hero Stanley Tweedle and robot head 790 are involved in a war - and their involvement has far reaching consequences. This complete four disc box set containd all 13 episodes of the strangest and most imaginative Sci-Fi show ever. A must have for ANY fan! Episode titles: Fire And Water May Gametown Boomtown Gondola K-Town Tunnels The Key Garden Battle Girltown The Beach Heaven And Hell.

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £13.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (43.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney

• Unternehmen Feuergürtel (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) | Blu Ray | (13/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Liquid Dreams | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Set in the future world of Neurovoid where no-one is safe and there is no escape. Eve Black a stranger is shocked to discover her sister's body in her apartment. Despite all the hallmarks of a drug overdose she senses that something far more sinister has happened.

• Sun Ra - Space Is The Place | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This film is a must-have for fans of Sun Ra and cult film lovers. Sci-Fi blaxploitation cosmic free-jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra returns to Earth (Oakland circa 1972) in his yellow music-powered spaceship to battle for the future of the black race and offer an 'alter-destiny' to those who will join him... Intentionally created as an homage to the low budget sci-fi films of the 50's the special effects outrageous plotline and apocalyptic message harmonize with the improvised score and the climactic live performance by one of the most innovative prolific and profound groups in Jazz history... Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Solar Arkestra!

• Oliver Stone Collection | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Director Oliver Stone is celebrated in this four-film, six-disc box set collection that includes two-disc "director's cut" versions JFK and Any Given Sunday respectively, plus Heaven and Earth and the documentary Oliver Stone's America. JFK is that rarest of things, a modern Hollywood drama which credits the audience with intelligence. Epic in length--this 198-minute director's cut runs 17 minutes longer than the cinema version--Oliver Stone's film has the archetypal story, visual scale and substance to match; not just a gripping real-life conspiracy thriller, but a fable for the fall of the American dream. Stone's DVD commentary is thoughtful, eloquent and considered. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack and the anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture are both first-class. The second disc contains 53 minutes of deleted and extended versions of scenes, all of which are available with or without commentary by Stone, a 10-minute video interview with the real "X", and a half-hour examination of documents only declassified in the wake of the film's release. Any Given Sunday is a massive 150-minute American football drama which, for all its ferocity and cynicism, is as soft-centred and clichéd as any Rocky-style underdogs-make-good crowd-pleaser. This is the director's cut with Stone's commentary ranging far and wide: he is far more interesting and thought-provoking to listen to than his film is to watch. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack are both flawless. The loaded second DVD includes Jamie Foxx's audition video, a routine 27-minute making-of documentary, music videos, outtakes set to music, and 33 minutes of deleted/alternative scenes with optional commentary from Stone. DVD-ROM and other features complete an exceptional package. Heaven and Earth follows Platoon (1986) and Born of the Fourth of July (1989) to conclude Stone's Vietnam War trilogy. Where Stone won Best Director Oscars for both previous films, Heaven and Earth proved a box-office disaster and went unrecognised by the Academy. It's hard not to think that racism underlay the commercial failure, for where the hit movies addressed the sufferings of white American soldiers played by Hollywood stars, Heaven and Earth focused on the fundamental victims, adapting the true story of a young Vietnamese woman, Le Ly, who goes from village girl to freedom fighter to wife of a US marine struggling to adjust to life in America to reconciliation in Vietnam. Superbly made, with a stunning performance by Hiep Thi Le as Le Ly, and powerful support from Tommy Lee Jones, this is intelligent, harrowing filmmaking which attempts to understand and bridge the divide between nations traumatised by war. Unfortunately heavily cut to bring it down to a multiplex-friendly running time, the often brilliant 135 minutes on show suggest a longer modern classic ended-up on the cutting room floor. The DVD features an incisive commentary by Stone, who alone of major Hollywood directors fought in Vietnam. Confirming that Heaven and Earth was heavily cut is the inclusion of 48 minutes of deleted/extended scenes, including a vastly extended 22-minute opening, Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture are excellent. Oliver Stone's America is a 53-minute interview in which Stone talks candidly about his films, concentrating on the trio included in the Oliver Stone Collection, firing off considered opinions at a rapid rate. Also included is Stone's student film, Last Year in VietNam, clearly influenced by the French New Wave in general and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) in particular. --Gary S Dalkin

• Steve Pyke's Moonbug: Apollo Astronauts and Their Journeys in Space and to the Moon | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bitten by the 'Moonbug', photographer Steve Pyke sets out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time. Moonbug explores the experiences of the science-fiction dream come true with the astronauts who made the bold step. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these pioneers in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories. Pyke shares intimate moments with his subjects and their frank accounts of the risk-taking, monumental journey. Moonbug is as much an exploration of memory and perception and the documentation of time as it is space. The engaging, articulate astronauts offer philosophical insights into the motivations behind their participation and the bigger picture: how we understand and perceive the universe, where we fit in among these 'signposts of history' and the vulnerability of our lonely planet. With rare archive footage and an original score by Matt Johnson and The Moon bug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Houston International Film Festival. 'It is a rare and wonderful experience to visit with the men who went to the moon. Steve Pyke has done it and thanks to Nichola Bruce's compelling film Moonbug everyone else can come along.' -Andrew Chaikin, author of 'A Man on the Moon'

• Fun With Dick And Jane | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star in this remake of the 1977 comedy.

• Rain | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Treasure Island | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Orson Welles stars as Long John Silver in this extensively remastered 1972 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of pirates and buried treasure! Join Jim Hawkins and his shipmates for an adventure of a lifetime in a swashbuckling spectacular that’s fun for all the family!