Drama

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• Cunning Little Vixen | DVD | (14/09/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.39

  Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen is a real charmer of an opera, a tale that shows the natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith

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• 11 Days 11 Nights - Part 7 - The House Of Pleasure | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution 2 | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A serial killer is on the loose mutilating and sexually assaulting his victims with an arrow-headed weapon before murdering them. The investigations headed by Detective Superintendent Walker (David Hayman) eventually lead the police to Damon Morton (Iain Glen) and certain evidence including one survivor's description of her assailant makes them convinced they have got their man. But what appears to be a cut-and-dry case is thrown into confusion when three of Morton's employees each confess to committing the attacks... Drawing TV audiences of up to 11 million viewers 'Trial And Retribution' is a gritty urban drama that deals with graphic topics from abduction to serial murders and internal police corruption to psychological illness. Breaking new ground in terms of content and style each episode traces the entire trajectory of a serious crime from the act being committed to a detailed investigation and arrest before arriving at the law courts for a dramatic finale.

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  Only a Few Survive! Stu (Luke Perry) Tommy (Dan Cortese) and Gus decide to celebrate their new business venture with an exotic vacation to Bermuda. It's the perfect getaway until Stu begins to obsess about the Queen of Scots a ship lost 50 years ago to the Bermuda Triangle. Determined that the lost ship is out there filled with the former occupants' riches Stu charters a boat with a desperate captain and his beautiful first mate Charlie (Olivia d'Abo). When their boat hits a dense fog they beome lost and panicked until they see something slowly creep through the curtain of fog it's the Queen of Scots. After boarding the ship they discover that something happened to the passengers something horrible and it's starting to happen to them. Now they're trapped in a ghost ship in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle and there's no way out!

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