"Actor: Dimitri"

• Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £20.02   |  Saving you £6.23 (33.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This Glyndebourne production of Pique Dame ("The Queen of Spades") received rave reviews when it appeared in 1992 due to its claustrophobic intensity and powerful acting, and these qualities help it to transfer to DVD with great success. Graham Vick's direction ensures that the story is told clearly and simply but includes a wealth of telling details: the pastoral scene from Act 2, for example, uses the boys from the opening chorus as comical sheep and the effect is enchanting. But there are much darker undertones too: Richard Hudson's slanting, angular designs produce a disorientating atmosphere which mirrors Herman's increasing mental deterioration with uncanny precision. There is a brilliant stroke of visual assonance when the Countess returns to haunt Herman and all the furniture from her death scene appears on the roof. The singing is generally good, though Yuri Marusin's voice may not be to everyone's taste; sometimes he sounds like he's shouting, and his frequent lack of vibrato produces a piercing, uncomfortable effect. Nancy Gustafson is a fine Lisa, however, and Dimitri Kharitonov (Yeletsky) is heartbreaking in the famous "Ya vas lyublyu" ("I love you") aria. For overall better singing but a more plodding production, try the 1992 Kirov recording, but for spine-tingling drama this is the one to go for. On the DVD: Pique Dame on disc has subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish. The camerawork captures the odd angularity of the designs and gives an excellent account of a fast-paced, powerful production.--Warwick Thomson

• Kill Me Again | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Dahl, the director behind Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, is the director and co-writer of Kill Me Again, and it shows. Dahl's love of modern noir, ruthless women, Western landscapes, and double-crosses shines through. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer plays Fay, a spitfire who has somehow gotten herself mixed up with a psychotic thug (Michael Madsen, of course) named Vince. Fay runs off with a whole lot of Vince's stolen money and hires loser private eye Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer) to help her fake her own death. To say any more would spoil a terrific, intricate plot that keeps heating up as interested parties close in on Jack, Fay, and the money. The then-married Kilmer and Whalley-Kilmer clearly have a great time playing off each other, and Madsen adds another brilliantly played lunatic to his oeuvre. Enjoy it, and don't trust anybody. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

• Why Sailors Leave Home | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Made in 1930 this musical Middle Eastern adventure was the second comedy film starring former Great War entertainer Leslie Fuller – the 'rubber-faced comedian' who was at the height of his popularity in Britain during the 1930s. Featuring Fuller in the much-loved role of dim-witted Cockney Bill and co-written by his erstwhile concert-party cohort Syd Courteney the film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. When their ship arrives in an Arabian port the sailors are given shore leave – among them Bill Biggles who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him Bill is welcomed at the palace and the polygamous ruler who has abducted a damsel decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically – until the wives decide to go on strike! Special Features: Image gallery

• Macbeth | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-6.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Andrea Gruber Roberto Aronica and Lado Ataneli star in Verdi's early operatic masterpiece Macbeth - filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in High-definition. EMI Classics continues its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of Verdi's richly haunting opera Macbeth as part of this season's 'Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series'. For the first time in 20-years the Metropolitan Opera presents the first of Verdi's three operas based on Shakespeare in a stylistically eclectic grimly effective and at times intriguingly playful production (New York Times) by English director Adrian Noble making his Met debut. At the time of composition Macbeth was unique. Not only was it considered both musically and dramatically bold but it was the first opera that can truly be described as Shakespearean. It was the first that altered operatic conventions to serve the play rather than converting the play into traditional operatic formulas. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today James Levine conducts Verdi's haunting score with tension and a type of brutality that this chilling work commands.

• Yoga Divine | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This DVD is designed to work from beginner to advanced with modifications for the beginner.

• Sinbad and the Minotaur | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Manu Bennett (Spartacus: Blood and Sand The Condemned) stars as the legendary adventurer Sinbad in this bold re-imagining of Greek and Arabic folklore. Searching for an ancient lost treasure and pursued by the evil sorcerer Al-Jibar Sinbad and his crew follow the trail to an underground labyrinth on a remote island. There they discover that not only is it booby-trapped but the island is under a curse which awakens the fearsome and monstrous Minotaur. Under attack from all sides Sinbad and his men must do battle with the beast to escape from the island with their lives.

• Malefique | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £15.97   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cramped terror and blood-soaked suspense awaits four life prisoners finding a diary of black magic spells offering freedom. For uttering the breakout incantation confines them to an even more hellish limbo where their vanity is further tested by an evil presence granting each a solitary wish...

• Rosewater | Blu Ray | (07/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Jon Stewart directs this biographical drama adapted from the memoirs of Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. The film tells the story behind Bahari (Gael García Bernal)'s imprisonment by the Iranian government after an appearance on the US late-night talk show 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'. Believing that his interview was evidence that he was communicating with an American spy, the Iranians detain the young journalist while he is reporting on violence against protesters in his home country. What follows is 118 days of imprisonment and brutal interrogation at the hands of his captors...

• The Underbelly Files | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Sopranos is fiction. Underbelly is not. TELL THEM LUCIFER WAS HERE For two young police officers, a night in the back roads of Moorabbin, Victoria, was just a routine surveillance operation, but Rod Miller and Gary Silk had no inkling it was to be the last night of their lives, coldly shot by two men on a getaway from robbing a local diner. Detective Inspector Paul Sheridan and a crew of investigators determined to find the killers, but the men Sheridan was convinced lay behind the crime proved to be ruthless opponents. INFILTRATION Colin McLaren was a Victorian detective with an appetite for the most difficult cases. So, when the chance came to go undercover with the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia, McLaren grabbed it with both hands and gave it his all. It was the most dangerous 18 months of his life, but also the most thrilling time he ever knew, and resulted in 11 of the country s most villainous Mafiosi being sent to prison. THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY David McMillan was born in to a wealthy background, but he chose a life of crime and by his early 20s had made the Interpol Top 10 Most Wanted list. His partner in crime was also the love of his life, Clelia Vigano. Together they were an unstoppable force until she lost her life in a prison fire. McMillan blamed himself, and the guilt spurred him on to even greater risks. His journey ended in Thailand's notorious Klong Prem Central Prison the ˜Bangkok Hilton' facing a firing squad or did it?

• Dimitri Sgouros - The Classical Collection | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pianist Dimitri Sgouros recorded live at the Radio France et Montpellier Classique Music Festival. On the playlist are Schuman's 'Fantaisie en ut Majeur Opus 17' and Liszt's 'Senate en si Mineur'. CD includes: Debussy's 'Clair De Lune' Dvorak's 'Largo' Mozart's 'Piano Concerto No 23 In A Major' Gershwin's 'An American In Paris'.

• Beyto | DVD | (10/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A