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• Weill: Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | DVD | (30/01/2001) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kurt Weill's complex score reigns supreme in Peter Zadek's 1998 Salzburg Festival staging of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, the collaboration with Brecht which became a target for Nazi insurrection on its 1930 premiere. The city itself is suggested by the attitudes and personalities of the singers rather than by Richard Peduzzi's Spartan sets. It's bleak stuff in many ways, not least in its vision of the human state: squaring up to corruption is a lonely and fatal business. But thanks to Weill's musical eclecticism, which ranges from barbershop to lieder, there are moments of intense beauty, not least in the duets between lumberjack Jimmy Mahoney and prostitute Jenny. There are, too, flashes which anticipate Weill's American future on Broadway. The lilting "Alabama Song", that gift to every would-be cabaret artist in search of a Lotte Lenya moment, works wonderfully as an ensemble piece. Despite occasional inaudibility, the singing is often breathtaking. Gwyneth Jones is a majestic Begbick, Catherine Maltifano's voluptuous and earthy Jenny also has a rarely seen sweetness and Jerry Hadley's Jimmy Mahoney is ultimately almost unbearably moving. Food for thought, indeed. On the DVD: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is presented in 16:9 picture format, but would have benefited from the scale of a widescreen treatment. It can be difficult to keep track of everything that's going on. The cavernous stage is probably responsible for the acoustics which sometimes allow the orchestra to overwhelm the singing, otherwise well served by the PCM stereo sound. There are no DVD extras but the excellent booklet and production notes are welcome.--Piers Ford

• Child's Play | Blu Ray | (15/04/2022) from £16.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Child's Play (1988) will be joining Umbrella's Beyond Genres collection as volume #17. This release comes in O-ring packaging, includes special features and artwork.Tom Holland (Fright Night) turns up the thrills and chills, introducing one of the most original and terrifying horror creations in history the pint-sized killer doll CHUCKY! After 6 year-old Andy Barclay's (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that his birthday present, an innocent Good Guy Doll named Chucky, committed the fateful act.Infused with the demonic soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), Chucky establishes himself as a master manipulator, with the ability to get away with more than just murder. An ensuing rampage of gruesome murders leads detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) back to the same suspicious toy, uncovering a legacy of horror and highlighting Chucky's grand plan to transfer his evil spirit into a living, breathing human being young Andy!An ingenious blend of supernatural horror, voodoo and good old-fashioned slasher film, CHILD'S PLAY throws down a killer gauntlet and delivers with a bloody vengeance.Audio Commentary with director Tom Holland; moderated by Nathaniel ThompsonBehind-the-Scenes Special Effects Footage (over an hour of original footage)Vintage featuretteTV spotAudio commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chucky designer Kevin YagherAudio commentary with producer David Kirchner and screenwriter Don ManciniScene specific Chucky commentaries: Chucky's Thoughts The Advantages of Being Chucky Chucky on Filmmaking Up Close and Personal with ChuckyEvil Comes in Small Packages The Birth of Chucky Creating the Horror UnleashedChucky: Building a NightmareA Monster ConventionIntroducing Chucky: The Making of Child's PlayTheatrical Trailer

• Perth | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £5.71   |  Saving you £9.28 (162.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Harry Lee a part-time security guard and taxi driver has dreams of retiring to a quieter life in Australia a long-cherished escape from the relentless pace of Singapore life When a friend offers him an opportunity to make more money driving up-market call girls to their clients he accepts. However he starts taking an obsessive interest in the welfare of an abused Vietnamese prostitute. It awakens painful memories from his past and leads to desire for personal redemption as an avenging angel.

• Mask Of Zorro | UMD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• The Catherine Tate Show - Series 1 | UMD | (12/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Nightmare Before Christmas | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Nightmare Before Christmas | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Hunting Humans | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When serial killers wager war don't let them catch you in their sights.... Who lives and who dies when the hunter becomes the hunted? Meet Aric Blue. He's young. He's handsome. He's successful. He's also a serial killer.... He picks his victims at random taking advantage of the daily patterns to stalk and kill them. He thinks he is the ultimate serial killer. But when he finds his next victim already dead a note on the body reading; 'I've got your pattern' he realizes he

• The Mask Of Zorro --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  With The slash of a steel blade and the mark of a 'Z' he defends the weak and exploits and avenges the wrongs committed against them... It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro. He transforms troubled bandit Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) into his successor in order to stop the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) who robbed him of his freedom his w

• Garbo Talks | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anne Bancroft stars in this Sidney Lumet drama about a son who will go to great lengths to fulfil his dying mother's last wish. When Estelle (Bancroft) receives the news that she has an inoperable brain tumour, she decides that she is not going to waste another day and sets about ticking things off her to-do list. Estelle's son Gilbert (Ron Silver), a rather unambitious accountant, is something of a disappointment to his mother, but when he learns she is dying he does everything in his power to fulfil her last wish to meet her life-long idol Greta Garbo.

• Capote/In Cold Blood | Blu Ray | (08/02/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (2.92%)   |  RRP £24.99

  CapoteBolstered by an Oscar-caliber performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role, Capote ranked highly among the best films of 2005. Written by actor/screenwriter Dan Futterman and based on selected chapters from the biography by Gerald Clarke, this mercilessly perceptive drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the course of writing In Cold Blood, the "nonfiction novel" that was immediately acclaimed as a literary milestone. After learning of brutal killings in rural Holcomb, Kansas, in November 1959, Capote gained the confidence of captured killers Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) in an effort to tell their story, but he ultimately sacrificed his soul in the process of writing his greatest book. Hoffman transcends mere mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett Miller's intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote's literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, Capote's friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as Capote's quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote reveals the many faces of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were fitted with a hangman's noose. --Jeff ShannonIn Cold BloodTruman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks (Deadline USA, The Blackboard Jungle). Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks's blunt, clearheaded, and nonsensational approach to the story. (The term "semidocumentary" has been applied to Brooks's style on this film, and it's an entirely fair description.) The experience of watching In Cold Blood is naturally unsettling, but the director--as with Capote--leaves final judgments about justice to the beholder. --Tom Keogh

• Ghost Rig 2: The Legend Of The Sea Ghost | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Converted from a disused oil rig in the north Pacific the sea ghost is a remote top secret Government research station. When a distress signal is received from an unidentified oil tanker off the Alaskan coast the research station team feel compelled to investigate and offer help to its crew. What they find however is a deserted ghost ship submerged in dark icy waters....

• Man Is A Woman | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simon is a gay man living in Paris whose homophobic uncle offers him 10 million francs to get married produce children and thus continue the family name. Tempted by the cash and encouraged by his unscrupulous mother Simon reluctantly accepts the offer and begins to woo Rosalie a fervently devout Yiddish soprano who is saving herself for the right man. Man Is A Woman is a well-paced film with a fast witty script that turns a cheeky premise into a very entertaining film.

• Chic! | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £14.69   |  Saving you £5.30 (36.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ruthless director Hélène Birk reigns over the prestigious haute couture fashion house led by the world-renowned designer Alicia Ricosi. Following her recent breakup, creative block gets the better of Alicia. However, the timing could not be worse, with the deadline of her next collection around the corner; Hélène must find a fast solution in order to help Alicia regain her creative mojo!

• French Cuisine | DVD | (05/09/2016) from £14.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Francois and Charlotte's marriage faces a crisis when their priorities differ. Francois focuses on their hotel-restaurant's success, while Charlotte dreams of having her first child. Alex, Charlotte's former husband, suddenly turns up when everybody thought him dead. Legally speaking, Alex is still married to Charlotte, and the owner of the restaurant. A tough competition begins between the two men, who have absolutely nothing in common

• Wagner - Die Fliegender Hollander | DVD | (01/04/2011) from £21.38   |  Saving you £3.61 (16.88%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fliegende Hollander (Der) /Olandese Volante

• Being John Malkovich | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Chicago (Steelbook Edition) | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (-50.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines nightclub sensation Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta Jones) and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago there's only room for one legend!

• 40 Year Old Virgin | HD DVD | (11/02/2008) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Better late than never... Some may say 40 year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has it all: a great job working at an electronics store; an awesome collection of superhero figures and comic books; friendly elderly neighbours who he watches TV with; and a few cool friends. However there's just one small problem... he's still a virgin! Once his co-workers find out about his secret they start a mission to get Andy laid ASAP! But nothing seems to work... until Andy meets 40 year-old mother of three Trish - a woman who doesn't want sex in her relationships!

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 4 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Seed of Destruction: Whilst exploring a bizarre asteroid Koenig is detained and replaced by a double. The fake Koenig returns to Moonbase with a crystal which is discovered will draw all the energy from Moonbase in order to revitalise its home the steroid where the real Koenig is still a prisoner. The Beta Cloud: After a cloud of space dust causes a mystery illness on Alpha an Eagle crew is sent to track the storm cloud. They return with a terrifying space creature which they discovered is their agent and wants the Moonbase life support system. Tony and Maya must fight to defeat the space creature. A Matter of Balance: When Koenig and Shermeen decide to explore an apparently lifeless planet Shermeen wanders into a temple and comes under the spell of a Vindrus. She wants to help Vindrus' doomed race but soon learns that for each Vindrus saved one Alphan will be doomed and that she is the first in line. Space Warp: Two crises strike the Alphans simultaneously. Koenig and Tony who are checking out a derelict spaceship in when Eagle One encounter a space warp and end up five light years away while Maya is stricken down by a fever and changes into a range of creatures. Before long she changes into a space animal and escapes to the moon surface. Koenig and Tony began to find a way back through.