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• Masti | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's been half a decade since the daddy of bawdy bedroom humour David Dhawan delivered a good coarse consignment of fun yet cock-n-bull cinema. And in that vein (and I repeat strictly in that vein) Kumar - the artiste formerly known as `Indy Irani' (Beta Dil) - with Masti fills a space and succeeds in an enthralling mindless armchair frolic. This out-n-out sex farce vaguely borrowed from Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (but closer to Ravi Malhotra's Khel Khel Mein and E Niwas's Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega) concerns three married-for-money delinquents (Oberoi Shivdasani Deshmukh) who venture out to hook up with 'chicks' outside their respective hen-pecked holes. The obvious results are comedies of error. And the most unfortunate of the escapades is how unbeknownst to them they land up with the dead body of their common 'lust-interest' (Lara Dutta) to get trailed by a tough cop (Ajay Devgan - oh what a pointless role). Some sumptuous gay gags which have become conspicuous in Bollywood of late. Presumably to elicit that senseless smile is the purpose of this picture. Leave your gray cells at home keep your cellphone for song breaks and step cautiously into this often no-holds-barred Carry On series styled sex comedy strictly for adults. You'd go home with a grin.

• Meyerbeer: L'Africaine | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Enormously popular and influential in its time, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine has become a rarity--the conventions of grand opera which it embodies so thoroughly are only familiar as adapted by Verdi and Wagner, so this work usefully reminds us of how radical they were. Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe give us a five-act plot full of confrontations and threats of death, a shipwreck and the suicide of the Indian heroine Selika and her rejected suitor by inhaling the poisonous aromas of a deadly tree. The expedition of Vasco Da Gama round the Cape of Good Hope and up to the spice ports of India becomes less a story about the crusade for profit and more a matter of messy triangular love affairs. Heavy fathers, Brahmin priests and Grand Inquisitors are handled with much facility and no intensity. What L'Africaine really amounts to is a singers' display piece, and the two principals here--Shirley Verrett as Selika and Placido Domingo as Vasco--are entirely up to its demands. Domingo reminds us that Vasco's Act 4 aria "Oh Paradis" was for decades a standard tenor showstopper. The other principals, Ruth Ann Svenson and Justino Diaz, are entirely admirable and Marco Arena and the San Francisco Opera give the work as a whole both the grandeur it certainly possesses and rather more subtlety than one might have expected. On the DVD: The DVD, presented in 4:3 ratio, and in PCM stereo, has no features apart from instructions and subtitles in French, German, English and Spanish. This failure to provide extras, or even an especially informative leaflet, becomes especially regrettable with a work whose conventions are now far out of the operatic mainstream. --Roz Kaveney

• A Killing Strain | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A man-made virus turns infected humans into raging monsters. As it rapidly spreads a group of uninfected survivors must make life-or-death decisions before the U.S. military firebombs the area.

• Mystery Date | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tom McHugh took one look at her and he was deeply in love. Everyone took one look at him and he was in deep trouble. Sweet natured Tom (Hawke) is obsessed with his beautiful neighbour Geena (Polo) but he's too shy to ask her out. Fortunately Tom's older brother is there to set it up and lend a hand - as well as cash his car his credit card and his suit! But before they've even ordered appetizers a case of mistaken identity turns Tom's dream date with Geena into a total nightmare. Soon a wicked crime lord a wacked out delivery man and a pair of crooked cops are after Tom determined to kill much more than the evening's romantic mood!

• Mansion Of The Doomed | DVD | (14/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An eccentric world-renowned eye surgeon Dr. Chaney has been experimenting with the possibility of transplanting eyes from one human to another. His work is now an obsession: he blames himself for the car accident that left his daughter blind and in a series of gruesome operations attempts to restore her sight. One night his daughter's fianc'' Dan visits and with the help of his assistant they drag him into unconsciousness remove both his eyes and transplant them to his daughter. Her sight is restored but only for a short time. Chaney will not give up and a series of futile operations on more unsuspecting people adds more demented blind prisoners in the dungeon below the mansion...

• This Filthy Earth | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £9.15   |  Saving you £10.84 (118.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based upon the novel by ''‰mile Zola This Filthy Earth tells the tragic story of two sisters whose lives are disrupted by two men. Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with superstition events unfurl which threaten their sibling bond.

• I, Robot / Minority Report / Independence Day | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I Robot: What will you do with yours? In the year 2035 technology and robots are a trusted part of everyday life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead and a skeptical detective (Smith) believes that it may have been perpetrated by a robot. However his investigation uncovers a larger threat to humanity! Minority Report: The science-fiction thriller 'Minority Report' directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise is based on a short story by

• Off Beat | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The story of a wacky librarian who impersonates a New York city policeman during a dance contest. When he unexpectedly wins the competition the fast paced comedy begins.

• Supreme Sanction | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A journalist holds potentially threatening information and the government will not rest until he is dead. The government's trained assassin is undecided which side to choose...

• My Girl / My Girl 2 | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Doubling My Girl with its sequel makes sense since they tell a two-part tale. In the first film, 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss (astounding newcomer Anna Chlumsky) lives with her widowed father, a distracted tuba-playing mortician (Dan Aykroyd). Rather understandably Vada is confused and disturbed about the nature of death. In her narration to camera we learn what it feels like to be a girl growing up in Pennsylvania in the early 1970s, as her father become involved with make-up artist Jamie Lee Curtis. Macaulay Culkin (in a performance reminding us that once there was a good child actor behind the name) is the best friend who assists her rite of passage. Jumping forwards two years into the sequel, My Girl 2, Culkin is replaced by Austin O'Brien. Now 13 and with a baby on the way in the Aykroyd /Jamie Lee Curtis home, Vada's growing-up continues further afield. She investigates the life of her mother in an attempt to understand her own. Los Angeles becomes the backdrop as she deals with the inevitable problems of puberty. Ultimately this is the story of a teenager's grounding in the ways of the world told simply and with charm. On the DVD: My Girl/My Girl 2 on disc sadly has no extras beyond a trailer for each film. It's also a shame the 1.85:1 transfer remains grainy for both. At least the three-channel surround picks out the period songs nicely. --Paul Tonks

• Humanity And Paper Balloons | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Widely regarded as Yamanaka's greatest achievement Humanity and Paper Balloons [Ninjo kami fusen] was tragically his last film and only one of three that survive today. In a short six year 22 film career Yamanaka quickly earned a reputation for exceptionally fluid editing and a beautiful visual form likened to the paintings of Japanese masters. The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century in a poor district of Tokyo where impoverished samurai live from hand to

• Monteverdi - Vespro Dell Beatra Vergine | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Monteverdi's 'Vespers Of The Blessed Virgin' performed by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists. Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

• Speed / Die Hard / Independence Day / Transporter / Behind Enemy Lines | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Speed Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will explode! Die Hard New York cop John McClane facing Christmas alone flies to Los Angeles to see his estranged wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) and their kids in an attempt to patch things up. He arrives at his wife's high tech office building in the middle of their Christmas party just as it is gatecrashed by the ruthless master criminal Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and a dozen fellow activists intent on relieving the Nakatomi Corporation of six hundred million dollars in negotiable bonds... Independence Day One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind. The Transporter Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean hiring himself out as a mercenary transporter who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW Martin finds his latest assignment could well be his last after his package is revealed to be a beautiful woman (Shu Qi) at the centre of a human trafficking ring... Behind Enemy Lines On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels...

• Voices In Time | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £7.00   |  Saving you £17.99 (257.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Originally produced and broadcast on Canadian television this collection of 26 mini biographies features some of the most compelling characters of the 20th century. From dictators to statesmen Presidents to Prime Ministers Voices In Time represents history brought to life. Speeches Comprise: Disc 1: 1. David Lloyd George 2. Emily Pankhurst 3. Franklin D Roosevelt 4. Ho Chi Mingh Disc 2: 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Jawaharlal Nehru 3. John F Kennedy 4. Margaret Thatcher Disc 3: 1. Richard Nixon 2. Nelson Mandela 3. Ronald Reagan 4. Winston Churchill Disc 4: 1. Eleanor Roosevelt 2. Fidel Castro 3. Gloria Steinem 4. Harry S Truman Disc 5: 1. Lech Walesa 2. Jimmy Carter 3. Ayatollah Khomeini 4. Albert Einstein 5. Woodrow Wilson Disc 6: 1. Theodore Roosevelt 2. Robert Kennedy 3. Mikhail Gorbachev 4. Malcolm X 5. Mahatma Gandhi

• Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (Nebolsin) | DVD | (22/07/2004) from £20.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (8.70%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (Nebolsin)

• The Sorrow and the Pity | Blu Ray | (09/05/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• China White Serpentine | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £3.79   |  Saving you £7.46 (294.86%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The needle invades your vain. The seductress invades your heart. What waits in the shadows will invade your sanity. Dave a struggling writer is trying to unravel the mystery behind the death of his younger brother Trent. The door is opened for Dave when Trent's spirit appears and hands him a ghostly DVD. The video causes Dave to violently hallucinate which shows him that both Trent and his girlfriend Beth were seduced by Tracey - a malevolent drug-dealer with supernatur

• Deadlocked | DVD | (17/11/2000) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young man is arrested for the rape and murder of a woman in a deserted building. All evidence against him seems undisputable but his father is not convinced and in his rage he takes the jury hostage.

• Psycho Cop | DVD | (13/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Six college students spend a weekend at a country resort completely unaware that they are being stalked by a devil worship cult.

• Axe | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Little Lisa Took an Axe and Gave Her Houseguests 40 Whacks... After terrorizing a convenience store salesgirl with tomatoes three lowlifes on a crime spree hide out at an isolated farmhouse occupied only by teenage Lisa and her pathetically paralyzed grandpa. Bad move guys for while Lisa looks innocent enough she's actually a ticking-time-bomb-of-psychotic-aggression who spends her days killing chickens feeding raw eggs to her granddad staring blankly into space and hallucinating blood on a mirror. So when the three numbskulls add Lisa to their list of people to abuse she promptly puts an end to their antisocial activities with the help of her two best friends a straight-edge razor and her handy Axe.