New Releases

• Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.69   |  Saving you £-2.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This DVD is in fact the break a leg version which sees Joyce DiDonato perform her role in a wheelchair - a story which has occupied international headlines last year - and definitely a DVD which will stand out. The DVD includes bonus features like an interview with Joyce on her stage accident and subsequent wheelchair performances. Captured at London's Royal Opera House with an unbeatable cast in a sparkling colourful production this Barbiere offers a unique dramatic twist: Joyce DiDonato who had broken her leg on the first night of the run insisted on performing. As she said : Being trapped in the wheelchair was a quite literal way of demonstrating Rosina's huge desire to break free.

• Universal Soldier Regeneration | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (81.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1992 two of the world's most popular action superstars were brought together to create one of the most unforgettable martial arts/action/sci-fi cult classics of its time. The film was Universal Soldier the stars were Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD Legionnaire Bloodsport Kickboxer) and Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV The Punisher Direct Contact). In 2010 director John Hyams (NYPD Blue One Dog Day The Smashing Machine) has brought these legends of action cinema together again for the ultimate future killing machine showdown Universal Soldier: Regeneration. The world is in danger and the government is being threatened. Crazed terrorists are on the loose and will stop at nothing to cause death and destruction. Using stolen technology they have created their own version of the Universal Soldier: a lethal robot warrior whose only programme is to kill and kill again. The government's only hope is to regenerate Luc Deveraux a decommissioned Unisol and expert assassin. His mission: to infiltrate a highly armed fortress slaughter the enemy and save the world from nuclear disaster. But somebody - or something - is waiting for him something intent on crushing the future into oblivion. Let the combat commence.

• Feast 3 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £10.82   |  Saving you £8.16 (104.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Following the monster onslaughts of Feast 1 and 2 the survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet Shot Bus Gus who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Segal and learn that the beasts originate from a place called The Hive. Armed with this knowledge they decide to fight back and destroy them once and for all!

• Ready When You Are, Mr McGill! | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ready When You Are Mr. McGill

• Laxdale Hall / The Glen is Ours | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laxdale Hall a rarely seen British comedy receiving its first release to home entertainment is a 1952 film directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire Kathleen Ryan Raymond Huntley Prunella Scales Fulton Mackay Roddy McMillan Jameson Clark and Jean Colin with Rikki Fulton as a poacher in his first film role. The few residents of Laxdale who own cars are refusing to pay their road fund licence because of the poor state of the only road which links them to the rest of Scotland. A parliamentary delegation including Samuel Pettigrew M.P. (Raymond Huntley) and Andrew Flett (Fulton Mackay) is dispatched to the Scottish Highlands to quell the rebellion! Along the way they encounter resistance from school teacher Morag McLeod (Prunella Scales in her first film) and her roguish dad Roderick McLeod (Jameson Clark). With a brief appearance by Rikki Fulton in his film debut as a salmon poacher there's plenty of action and laughter. Filmed amongst the beautiful scenery of Applecross Laxdale Hall is not to be missed. Also features The Glen Is Ours (1946) a timeless parable of politicians at odds with the will of their electorate. Recently de-mobbed Hector Andrews takes to the hustings to stop Cadisburn Glen being sold and converted from a beauty spot into an amusement park. With Ealing stalwarts Edie Martin and Anthony Baird and Sheila Latimer recently seen in BBC Scotland's Still Game.

• Hard Revenge Milly Vol.1 And 2 - Bloody Battle | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £13.17   |  Saving you £2.82 (21.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a near-future post-apocalyptic Japan Tokyo has become a wind swept desert. Butchered and left for dead after witnessing the brutal murder of her husband and child Milly (Miki Mizuno) awakes in a deserted hospital with a now partly mechanised body. Let the bloody vengeance spree begin! Boasting incredible over-the-top special makeup effects by the Japanese king of gore Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police The Machine Girl) and superbly choreographed sword and fist fight sequences the Hard Revenge Milly movies are a definite must-see experience for extreme splatter fans everywhere.

• Invitation Only | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £8.45   |  Saving you £10.53 (192.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A party to remember for the rest of their of lives... Ordinary young men and women often dream of the unreachable life of the world's idle rich. Wade Richard Hitomi Holly and Lin certainly do. They have all received an invitation to an exclusive party held by a group of rich & famous people obviously addressed to them by mistake. But all the same they attend. It is the best party ever a wishing game takes place where their deepest desires materialize. But when they find Richard's body brutally killed the wishing game turns into a killing game in which they are the tortured victims and a rich audience the sadistic spectators. To escape from the party and survive is now their only dream.

• WWE - TLC - Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2009 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An innovative and dangerous event premieres in the WWE when the Superstars of Raw SmackDown and ECW present WWE TLC: Tables Ladders and Chairs. Featuring some of the most devastating weapons in sports entertainment four unique matches highlight the hazardous evening. For the Unified Tag Team Championship Chris Jericho and Big Show defend the titles against DX members Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a frenzied Tables Ladders and Chairs match. In a Chairs match Batista looks to win the Heavyweight Championship against the deadly Undertaker. Sheamus attempts to put John Cena through a table to win the WWE title. Also Shelton Benjamin takes on Captain Charisma Christian in a wild ladder match.

• Number 10 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £9.41   |  Saving you £10.58 (52.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A revealing insight into some of the more personal incidents in the lives of past British Prime Ministers and their relationships with one of the most famous houses in the world Number 10 Downing Street. The series features William Pitt the Younger Herbert Asquith William Gladstone David Lloyd George the Duke of Wellington Benjamin Disraeli and James Ramsey MacDonald. The strong cast includes Jeremy Brett Dennis Quilley John Stride and Ian Richardson.

• The Raggedy Rawney | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man now very emotionally distraught dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer or 'rawney'. In time however he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls which only leads to problems within the gypsy band especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.

• Ghost Hunt - Series1 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £28.33   |  Saving you £11.66 (41.16%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Do You Believe In Ghosts? The appeal of the unknown is undeniable and seventeen year old Mai Taniyama is hooked. This fact coupled with her burgeoning psychic powers leads Mai to join the ranks of the Shibuya Psychic Research team. Led by enigmatic Kazuya Naru Shibuya she works alongside a spirit medium and a shrine maiden an exorcist and a monk to uncover the darkest mysteries of the unseen. Using state-of-the-art technology and their respective spiritual gifts evil is confronted and vanquished time and again.

• The Yes Men Fix the World | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £8.97   |  Saving you £9.01 (150.67%)   |  RRP £14.99

  "The Yes Men Fix The World" is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.

• Big Bad Mama | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Directed by Steve Carver (Bulletproof; Lone Wolf McQuade; An Eye For An Eye) Big Bad Mama stars Angie Dickinson as Wilma a gangster's moll who takes control of her boyfriend's bootlegging business following his death and becomes involved in a rollercoaster crime spree. Assisting her are two ne'er-do-wells in the form of bank robber Fred Diller (Tom Skerritt) and conman William J. Baxter (William Shatner) as well as her uncontrollable but comely daughters Billy Jean (Susan Sennett) and Polly (Robbie Lee).

• Le Professionnel | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £11.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (28.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a French spy given the assignment of killing an African dictator and when he arrives in Africa to do so he is captured and put in prison. The political winds had changed - the dictator is now an ally - and the best way to handle the agent is to keep him in jail. Naturally at odds now with his former bosses and with an ax to grind for his own incarceration the agent escapes after two years in prison and heads back to Paris where he announces that he is going to finish his assassination job during the coming diplomatic visit of the African leader. Once aware of his intent the French government sets up one trap after another but to no avail - the agent remains free and there is no doubt that he has the full capacity to do exactly what he says.

• Last Stop 174 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £13.24   |  Saving you £6.75 (50.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The tragic events that informed Jose Padilha's 2003 documentary BUS 174 serve as the inspiration for this docudrama detailing the events that unfolded when on the morning of June 12 2000 the passengers on a bus traveling through the wealthy Rio de Janeiro district of Jardim Bot''nico were taken hostage by a disturbed young man who had been abandoned by society. Marisa (Cris Vianna) is a drug addict whose baby Alessandro was taken from her by drug dealers after she failed to pay a lingering debt. Later after becoming sober Marisa becomes obsessed with finding her son and begins searching the local juvenile detention homes. Meanwhile on the outskirts of Rio a young boy named Sandro wanders into his mother's shop to find her lifeless body riddled with knife wounds. Wistfully recalling his mother's promises to take him to Copacabana the grieving boy runs away ultimately falling in with a group of street kids and becoming addicted to drugs. Later Sandro somehow manages to survive the notorious Candelaria massacre only to be locked away in a juvenile detention centre. It's there that Sandro meets Alessandro. When Marisa arrives at the centre in search of her son she mistakes Sandro for Alessandro and tenderly takes the troubled boy under her wing. But Sandro's scars run deeper than Marisa could ever imagine so deep that he believes his only hope for survival is taking a busload of hostages.

• John Shuttleworth -Southern Softies | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £12.55   |  Saving you £4.44 (35.38%)   |  RRP £16.99

  John Shuttle worth is the character created by musician Graham Fellows who has also on occasion been known as Jilted John best remembered for his massive hit in the seventies Jilted John. John Shuttleworth is a completely different kettle of fish. A fifty something unemployed man living in Sheffield who is fond of DIY and writing songs on his Yamaha keyboard which are inspired by his life. John has also made a film entitled It's Nice Up North which received excellent critical reviews. Southern Softies is the hilarious sequel to It's Nice Up North and follows John's half-hearted quest to see if it's soft down South. The DVD includes unseen deleted scenes and extras including the beloved Savoury promo as seen on Youtube. As with other releases from John Shuttleworth Southern Softies will appeal to the large and dediucated fan base built up by John Shuttleowrth over the last ten years.

• River Cottage - Pig In A Day | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This unique DVD made by Hugh and the River Cottage team offers not merely a thorough grounding in the delights of small scale pig-keeping but also a complete guide to butchering and processing a pig from nose to tail. It includes full instructions for making your own hams bacon and sausages and much more besides. And Hugh believes ..you don't have to be a pig-keeper to enjoy this package - just a pig enthusiast. Anyone who likes pigs and pork and wants to find out how and why the best pork comes from the happiest pigs will get a great deal out of it. Enjoy the brilliant feature episode The Joy of Pigs from the top rated Channel 4 series Tales from River Cottage. Then tuck into over 100 minutes of completely original River Cottage porky delights and feast on the finest pork recipes from Gill Katie and the rest of the team. Here at River Cottage HQ we are passionate about Pigs. They are the most charming of all our domesticated livestock arguably the most delicious and certainly the most versatile.

• The Bridge | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £8.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (89.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Bridge

• The Red Nights Of The Gestapo | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  May 10th 1941 Rudolph Hess secretary of the Nazi party and Hitler's chosen successor the number two in command of the third Reich flies to England to negotiate a peace treaty. Hess and all those close to him are considered traitors. The German SS blackmail Hess's right hand man Colonel Werner von Uhland (Ezio Miani). They want him to help them infiltrate and exterminate the secret organization known as the German intelligence. Colonel Werner von Uhland via each of the men's weakness manages to get all the members of the German intelligence together for one last meeting. At 3:30 A.M. on June 22nd 1941 in the wake of the Schloss Grunewald massacre Hitler would launch an attack on Russia...

• The Merry Gentleman | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £7.86   |  Saving you £7.13 (90.71%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A truly original Christmas story, The Merry Gentleman is a heady mix of suspense, gentle romance and quiet humour - a riveting, uniquely entertaining tale of forgiveness and redemption that blends a hopeful spirit with a surprisingly dark heart.