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• The Jerk/The Jerk Too | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Jerk: That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the ""opti-grab"" handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today. The Jerk Too: This TV movie sequel stars Mark Blankfield as Navin Johnson the eponymous 'hero'.

• Verdi - Falstaff / Graham Vick, Bernard Haitink, Royal Opera House | DVD | (10/10/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Graham Vicks production of Falstaff opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes, especially Falstaff's unusually hideous get-ups, go several steps beyond the Breughelian effect Vicks intended. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is reflected in unobtrusive blocking that keeps the vocal lines clear and separate, especially in the final fugue. Bryn Terfel's Falstaff is a memorable creation, self-mocking and self-aggrandising at the same time--so much so, in fact, that he almost does not need the vast prosthetic body he has to wear for the part. Desiree Rancatore is an admirably sweet-toned Nanetta; Bernadette Manca di Nissa an appropriately sardonic Mistress Quickly; Roberto Frontali as Ford, in his Act 2 scena, perfectly distils and parodies every jealousy aria ever written, including Verdi's own. Haitink's conducting is exemplary in the lyrical passages, gets almost everything out of the fast and furious comic sections. --Roz Kaveney On the DVD: The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is powerful and filled with detail, capturing the excitement of the performance and the atmosphere of the Royal Opera House superbly. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77:1 widesceen image is very clear, and while given the source inevitably not up to the highest feature film standards, is among the best live classical titles yet released on DVD. The bold colours are particularly well realised, though the red lighting of the Garter Inn scenes causes the image to falter a little. There are optional subtitles in English, French and German. These are presented directly over the picture and would be easier to read had they been a little larger, or outlined in some way. The special features consist of a brief synopsis by James Naughtie, taken directly from the original television broadcast, a minute-long "comment" by conductor Bernard Haitink and short but interesting interviews with Bryn Terfel and director Graham Vick. Finally there is a nine-minute episode from the series of short BBC films, Covent Garden Tales on the 1999 modernisation of the Royal Opera House. --Gary S Dalkin

• Attila Marcel | DVD | (16/03/2015) from £7.15   |  Saving you £3.84 (34.90%)   |  RRP £10.99

  French comedy drama written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. Guillaume Gouix stars as Paul, a 30-something musician who lives in Paris with his two aristocratic aunts, Annie and Anna (Bernadette Lafont and Hélène Vincent). Although grateful that they have provided for him since he was two-years-old, Paul now wants to live his own life and tries to break free from his daily routine. His outlook begins to change when he meets his mysterious neighbour Madame Proust (Anne Le Ny), who tells him that she has a recipe for herbal tea that, when consumed with music, can reveal supressed memories. Will bringing back memories that Paul has long forgotten help him move on with his life or will it just make his present existence more unbearable? The cast also includes Fanny Touron and Kea Kaing.

• Stephen Sondheim - Sunday In The Park With George | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics bring to life the world famous painting by George Seurat 'A Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of Grande Jette' to brilliant life. While the painting depicts people gathered on an island in the Seine the musical goes beyond simply describing their lives. This Production stars Broadway legends Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters.

• Skylab | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1979. 10-year-old Albertine and all her relatives have gathered in the family house in Brittany for their grandmother’s birthday. All believe the Skylab a piece of a NASA rocket will fall on their heads that summer. This reunion turns out to be a crazy weekend of revelations that none of them expected... Starring Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) Eric Elmosnino (Gainsbourg) and Julie Delpy (Before Midnight 2 Days in Paris) SKYLAB is a wonderfully quirky off-beat coming-of-age tale.

• No Way Home | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £5.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (3.45%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Released from prison after six long years Joey Larabito does not seem the type of guy to have committed a murder. Childlike his every action speaks of innocence and kindness even among the cruel realities and grime of New York. Returning to his childhood home with a mere forty dollars in his pocket Joey hopes to stay with his brother Tommy and his wife Lorraine until he can get back on his feet. Lorraine is reluctant afraid a hardened criminal is in their midst. As the weeks go by she slowly awakens to his kind hard-working nature but realises that all is not what it seems. Joey and Tommy are headed for a collision. As the ties of childhood unravel in a tale of devotion and betrayal one brother fights for the truth the other for his life.

• Anastasia - Princess Edition | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The lost Russian Princess Anastasia and her incredible quest to find her true identity. When the shadow of revolution falls across Russia Anastasia the royal family's youngest daughter barely escapes with her life. Years later joined by a band of heroic companions Anastasia must battle the evil Rasputin his sidekick Bartok the bat and a host of ghostly minions in a headlong race to reach Paris reclaim her rightful destiny.... and solve the greatest mystery of the 20th century! Includes the feature length sequel Bartok The Magnificent!

• Lourdes | Blu Ray | (12/07/2010) from £13.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (48.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lourdes follows Christine who has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains.

• Let's Be Evil | DVD | (30/01/2017) from £4.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Step into a virtual reality nightmare... Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny takes a job supervising children at a learning centre for gifted students. But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual game. This future shock brain-bender, starring Kara Tointon (TV s Mr Selfridge, Last Passenger), Isabelle Allen (Les Miserables) and Elliot James Langridge (Northern Soul, TV s Hollyoaks) , is a creepy kids thriller for our tech-addicted culture.

• Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The present recording was made at a performance in Busseto Verdi's birthplace in the Emilia Romagna region. There in 2001 a whole series of events marked the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. This Falstaff performance along with Aida staged by Franco Zeffirelli constituted the high point of the impressive anniversary celebrations. The small 328-seat Teatro Verdi built in Verdi's lifetime provided the ensemble of La Scala Milan under its principal conductor Riccardo Muti with a particularly captivating backdrop and the mainly young singers including 31-year-old shooting star Ambrogio Maestri in the title role exciting young tenor Juan Diego Florez as Fenton and internationally acclaimed Barbara Frittoli as Alice - gave superb performances.

• A Beautiful Girl Like Me | Blu Ray | (15/09/2014) from £10.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (90.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.

• Steve Martin Collection - The Jerk/The Lonely Guy/Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Jerk (Dir. Carl Reiner 1979): That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the ""opti-grab"" handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today. The Lonely Guy (Dir. Arthur Hiller 1984): The one and only Steve Martin stars along with Charles Grodin and Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in this funny and poignant romance inspired by Bruce Jay Friedman's tongue-in-cheek survival manual. The Lonely Guy follows the progress of Larry (Steve Martin) and his buddy Warren (Charles Grodin) as they attempt to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple. They're losers until one day Larry writes a book that turns loneliness into the ultimate love potion and life is never the same! Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Dir. Carl Reiner 1982): As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton and others Reardon gets his man. An exciting action-fun packed film the way 40's films used to be!

• Anastasia / Fern Gully - The Last Rainforest | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Anastasia The lost Russian Princess Anastasia and her incredible quest to find her true identity. When the shadow of revolution falls across Russia Anastasia the royal family's youngest daughter barely escapes with her life. Years later joined by a band of heroic companions Anastasia must battle the evil Rasputin his sidekick Bartok the bat and a host of ghostly minions in a headlong race to reach Paris reclaim her rightful destiny and solve the greatest mystery of the 20th century! Fern Gully - The Last Rainforest An animated musical fantasy that takes a journey deep into the Australian rainforest where humans exist only in fairy tales...

• Annie / Matilda / Fly Away Home | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes Annie Matilda and Fly Away Home. Annie: The irresistable orphan of comic-strip and box office fame comes to life in this acclaimed musical production. In her search for her true parents Annie has many adventures and encounters a number of colourful characters. Matilda: The hilarious story of Matilda based on the book by Roald Dahl. Once upon a time there lived a quite extraordinary little girl named Matilda but unfortunately her parents were so obsessed with their own lives they never noticed Matilda. They send her to Crunchem Hall a horrible boarding school run by a bossy headmistress Miss Trunchbull. There Matilda discovers remarkable skills which allow her to turn the tables on the wicked grown-ups in her world. Fly Away Home: Young Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after a nine-year separation. One day Amy discovers a nest of orphaned goose eggs and decides to take them home and nurture them until they hatch. When the newly hatched goslings adopt her as their Mother Goose Amy and her father become airborne adventurers battling against bad weather and a host of other pitfalls in their efforts to teach the geese to fly...

• Bernadette Peters - In Concert | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Live from London's Royal Festival Hall Bernadette Peters combines raw talent with alluring sophistication as she sings a selection of Broadway standards including “Broadway Baby” “Time Heals Everything” and “Some People”. She also performs songs from her illustrious stage and recording career including the Grammy-nominated “I'll Be Your Baby Tonight” and “Sondheim Etc: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall”. This b

• Annie / Oliver | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Annie: A plucky red-haired girl dreams of a life away outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire ""Daddy"" Warbucks and the pair share spectacular times in 1930's New York City. But Miss Hannigan and her zany villainous colleagues are determined to spoil the fun for America's favourite orphan... Oliver!: Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes th

• A Beautiful Girl Like Me | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £9.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (40.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.

• Les Petites Vacances | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £8.07   |  Saving you £6.92 (46.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Danielle (Bernadette Lafont) a grandmother in her sixties is planning to take her two grandchildren to their father's house for the Easter vacation. Since retiring as a schoolteacher Danielle has regularly taken on this responsibility after her daughter's divorce. This time however the children's father is not there to welcome them giving Danielle the opportunity to spend a bit more time with her grandchildren and to take them out for the day. Jumping at every opportunity presented to them Danielle soon transforms this day-outing into an impromptu holiday. Only what starts out as a fun adventure gradually turns into an inexorable deconstructing experience and it soon becomes impossible for Danielle to contemplate taking the kids back...

• The Lonely Guy / Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / The Jerk | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Lonely Guy (Dir. Arthur Hiller 1984): The one and only Steve Martin stars along with Charles Grodin and Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in this funny and poignant romance inspired by Bruce Jay Friedman's tongue-in-cheek survival manual. The Lonely Guy follows the progress of Larry (Steve Martin) and his buddy Warren (Charles Grodin) as they attempt to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple. They're losers until one day Larry writes a book that turns loneliness into the ultimate love potion and life is never the same! Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Dir. Carl Reiner 1982): As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton and others Reardon gets his man. An exciting action-fun packed film the way 40's films used to be! The Jerk (Dir. Carl Reiner 1979): That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the opti-grab handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today.

• Annie / Pollyanna / Return To Oz | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Annie (Dir. Rob Marshall 1999): As seen on The Wonderful World of Disney this new production of the classic musical features an all-star cast belting out the beloved songs. Original Broadway Annie Andrea McArdle makes and appearance too! Fun for the whole family. Pollyanna (Dir. David Swift 1960): The heartwarming story of a young girl who brings goodwill and happiness to the residents of a New England town. Hayley Mills won an honorary Academy Award for her performance. Return To Oz (Dir. Walter Murch 1985): In 1899 Dorothy Gale returns to the land of Oz only to find the enchanting Emerald City in ruins and all her old friends have been captured by the Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi...