"Actor: Gabriel"

• Arachnicide | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £6.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A scientific experiment goes drastically wrong. The gamma radiation being used is not contained & creates a new breed of spider. This spider breeds and creates an army of monster spiders. Scientists and the military drastically search for something to stop the infestation before New York is completely over run!

• Offenbach: La Belle Helene -- Paris/Minkowski | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £11.02   |  Saving you £15.23 (156.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jacques Offenbach's 19th century parody of life under the yoke of Napoleon III, La Belle Hélène, has always seemed as tongue-in-cheek as the material could go. This new staging from the Théâtre Musical de Paris' 2000 season proves you can always go further. As if the social comment and knowing musical allusions (eg: Wagner's Tannhäuser) weren't enough, now via director Lauren Pelly's imagination Helen (Dame Felicity Lott) becomes a modern sexually frustrated woman dreaming the entire scenario. In her dream she is singled out as the most beautiful woman on Earth (prompting vain delusions to rival Snow White's wicked stepmother) as reward for Pâris (Yann Beuron) choosing Venus as most beautiful Goddess off Earth. Act 1 takes place in the bedroom and bed of Helen and ineffectual husband/king Ménélas (Michel Sénéchal). Here the fusion of costumes worn by High Priest Calchas (François Le Roux) seems incongruous until the archaeological dig setting of Act 2 turns everything into a dream. From then on, the analogy of bed as throne, the sheep costumes and male and female swimsuit parade followed by synchronised stage "swimming" of Act 3 all take on greater significance. Les Musicians du Louvre give a tremendous performance under Marc Minkowski's baton (which you often see popping into frame), particularly in the centrepiece duet between Lott and Beuron for their "Dream of Love". Contemporary makeovers of opera often lose sight of the original's intentions, but this update certainly preserves the spirit of Offenbach's vision. On the DVD: A choice of Stereo, Dolby 5.1 or DTS is a testament to the careful staging of this production, as is the video's multi-camera edit. In fact, the 25-minute behind-the-scenes documentary reveals the DVD was conceived as part of the staging. Four interviews make this a most welcome supplement, with Dame Lott having the most to say. --Paul Tonks

• House of Wax / Ghost Ship | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  House Of Wax (2005): What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House Of Wax an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly Paige and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confronta

• Vanity Fair / Sense And Sensibility / Shakespeare In Love | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vanity Fair (Dir. Mira Nair 2004): Based on William Thackeray's 1828 novel Vanity Fair introduces Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women. She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and aims to find a rich husband. True to the novel's tone everyone in Vanity Fair is deliciously devious throughout. Sense & Sensibility (Dir. Ang Lee 1995): Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters; pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionate wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father Henry Dashwood dies by law his estate must pass to the eldest son from his first marriage. Suddenly homeless and impoverished his current wife and daughters find themselves living in a simple country cottage. The two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne becomes swept up in a passionate love affair with the dashing Willoughby (Greg Wise) while Elinor struggles to keep a tight rein on the family purse strings and to keep her feelings for Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) whom she left behind hidden from her family. Despite their different personalities they both experience great sorrow in their affairs but they learn to mix sense with sensibility in a society that is obsessed with both financial and social status. Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden 1998): Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards - including Best Picture - this witty sexy smash features Oscar-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award winners Judi Dench Geoffrey Rush and Ben Affleck! When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! A truly can't-miss motion picture event with outstanding critical acclaim to match its impressive collection of major awards - everyone will love this funny behind-the-scenes look at the writing of the greatest love story ever told!

• The Michael Haneke Trilogy | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This three disc box set presents three early masterpieces 'The Seventh Continent' 'Benny's Video' and '71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance'. Provocative daring and visionary Michael Haneke has established himself as one of the world's most distinctive and intelligent contemporary filmmakers. The Seventh Continent: Based on a true story Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing portrait of familial disintegration which he describes as a depiction of his native Austria's 'progressive emotional glaciation'. Set over a three year period it documents how the mundane day to day routines of a middle class family alienate them from the world and each other until suddenly and shockingly their lives self-destruct. Addressing themes that would inform much of his later work - the breakdown of society violence and the media - 'The Seventh Continent' is both intelligent and masterfully composed. Benny's Video: Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Haneke's disturbing film portrays the alienation of a young boy whose experience of the world is refracted through the lens of his video camera and his television screen. Arno Frisch later to play one of the psychopathic young men in Funny Games plays the 14 year-old Benny who brings a girl home to his parents' empty apartment where he commits a shocking act of casual violence. As with his later Funny Games Haneke poses provocative and challenging questions about voyeurism and depictions of violence. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance: Haneke's articulate critique of the isolating effects of western society the media and television in particular is composed of an intricate series of unrelated scenes culminating in an apparently motiveless act of violence. Perfectly paced and executed Haneke's skilful weaving of these tableaux into a coherent and compelling whole is mesmerising and strangely beautiful.

• Les Egouts Du Paradis | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Albert Spaggiari (Francis Huster) a legendary bank robber assembles a team of assorted experts all with great gangster names such as 68 Mike La Baraka The Egyptian. Together they plan to tunnel up through the sewers and break into the vault of the bank in Nice. Will it work? Will they crack? Will Albert and Charlotte (Lila Kedrova) resolve their differences or will the police catch them all? Director Jose Giovanni himself an ex-convict and a successful crime writer steps u

• Lockdown | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Avery had it all: his beautiful girlfriend Krista a young son and a full scholarship ahead of him. But in the blink of an eye it was all taken away. What started as a night out with his buddies ended with the shooting of a cop and Avery behind bars. He's innocent but that doesn't matter in a place that has its own set of rules. As Krista works to prove his innocence Avery struggles to survive the day-to-day hardships of prison life.

• UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine (2 Discs)

• Cool World | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-34.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jack Deebs is a cartoonist who is due to be released from jail. His comic book ""Cool World"" describes a zany world populated by ""doodles"" (cartoon characters) and ""noids"" (humanoids). What Jack didn't realize is that Cool World really does exist and a ""doodle"" scientist has just perfected a machine which links Cool World with our World. Intrigued at seeing his creation come to life Jack is nonetheless wary as he knows that not everything in Cool World is exactly friendly...

• Black Hawk Down | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Peter Gabriel So Classic Albums | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £20.75   |  Saving you £-3.76 (-22.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The latest addition to the acclaimed & award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the making of Peter Gabriel's 1986 album So. It was Gabriel's fifth solo album and the first one to have a title (the others all having just been called Peter Gabriel). The album spawned a number of hit singles on both sides of the Atlantic including Sledgehammer, Big Time, Don't Give Up (a duet with Kate Bush) and In Your Eyes which drove So to multi-platinum sales, the No.1 spot in the UK and No.2 in the US. So was very much an album of the MTV generation and the distinctive videos for tracks like Sledgehammer, Red Rain, Big Time and Don't Give Up were key factors in the album's success. The programme features contributions from many of those involved in the making of the album and the videos including Peter Gabriel himself, co-producer Daniel Lanois, engineer Kevin Killen and musicians Jerry Marotta, Laurie Anderson, Tony Levin and Manu Katch amongst many.

• The New Adventures Of Pinocchio | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The New Adventures of Pinocchio is the charming sequel to the 1996 live-action movie. With a largely brand-new cast, the most important returning actor is Martin Landau as Geppetto. His role is pared down, however, by a neat twist in the tale. Udo Kier is the other returning actor, this time in the new bad guy/girl role of Madame Flambeau, whose carnival sets itself up in Pinocchio's town and offers everyone a miracle elixir to change their lives. Pinocchio (now played as a real boy by Gabriel Thomson) hopes the elixir will make his papa feel better from a nasty cold, but it turns out Flambeau tricked him with puppet-making juice. So now it's Geppetto who's the wooden star of the show! Lots of surprises keep the story happily moving along, with secret identities waiting to spring from the likes of Warwick Davis as the ringleader Dwarf. The Jim Henson Studio puppets are first class as always, with some flawless computer graphics coming to the rescue every so often. There's a beautiful backdrop of Luxembourg countryside too for this pantomime where everyone looks as if they had great fun putting it together. --Paul Tonks

• Karen Dunbar - The Best Of The Karen Dunbar Show - Series 1 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  You'll be dizzy with the amount of characters jammed into this nugget of hilarious comedy. The multi-talented Karen Dubar introduces such fine specimens as Miss Lacey the Victorian lady seeing the century out with a bang the Cliche Police the mothers who love their criminal offspring Caroline the unluckiest blind-dater of all and the high heels in-hand shoeless Josie.But don't misread the signals - this is not just comedy. No no this is educational. With golden moments and erudite insights courtesy of Proving Proverbs Interpretations of Dreams and blink and you'll miss it How Professionals Make Love. Learn while you laugh.It's a real comedy treat. So don't be a 'cough' a***hole and get yourself a copy. The content of this box is clearly NOT a dummy!

• Peter Gabriel - Still Growing Up - Live And Unwrapped | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £22.25   |  Saving you £-2.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disc 1: 1.Passion: The Feeling Begins 2.Red Rain 3.Secret World 4.White Ashes 5.Games Without Frontiers 6.Burn You Up 7.The Tower That Ate People 8.San Jacinto 9.Digging In The Dirt 10.Solsbury Hill 11.Sledgehammer 12.Come Talk To Me 13.Biko 14.In Your Eyes Disc 2: -Still Growing Up Unwrapped' documentary film (83 mins). Peter's daughter Anna Gabriel takes over the director's chair with the collaboration of Hamish Hamilton to create a film which explores the world

• Behind Enemy Lines/Behind Enemy Lines 2 | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £8.47   |  Saving you £11.52 (136.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Behind Enemy Lines (Dir. John Moore 2001): 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. Meanwhile on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea Burnett's commanding officer Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) attempts to negotiate his soldier's return amidst tense political and military maneuvers. Soon Burnett discovers exactly why he's being hunted making his situation and Reigert's actions even more perilous... Behind Enemy Lines 2 (Dir. James Dodson 2006): The fate of the world hangs in the balance in this explosive action thriller. Brace yourself for nonstop action and chilling suspense because there's no turning back in this pulse-pounding sequel that takes you Behind Enemy Lines for another adrenaline-fueled adventure! When a team of U.S. Navy SEALs is assigned to destroy a North Korean missile site and avert a possible nuclear strike failure is not an option. But the mission is abruptly aborted stranding four soldiers in enemy territory. Now in order to survive they must defeat the rebel forces that threaten their lives their allies and the entire free world.

• Story Of O | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Box Set complete with DVD and Novel STORY OF 'O' is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who is taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation and abuse. Finally, Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of 'O' to his stepbrother Sir Stephen. In the film which produced in 1975, Just Jaeckin the director explores the cruel world in which 'O' finds herself. A world of sado-masochism and kinky and bizarre sexual practices. The film was refused certification when it was originally submitted, has now been passed uncut by the BBFC.Also Available as a DVD only version.

• Archangel | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Maverick academic and Soviet historian Fluke Kelso is expecting to leave Russia for good. That is until a surprise visit from Papu Rapava a former NKVD officer reveals some information that could lead him to uncover one of Russia's most closely guarded and unimaginable national secrets. Starring Daniel Craig (Layer Cake Road To Perdition Enduring Love) in the lead role of Fluke Kelso this is a BBC adaptation of the best selling novel by Robert Harris

• Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (L'Amour des Trois Oranges) | DVD | (12/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The production of this DVD - which involved top-ranking artists to direct perform and provide the musical accompaniment - was recorded in 1989 at the Opera National de Lyon. The outstanding quality of the production is evidenced not least by the recording made as part of the series of live performances and rated by Gramophone magazine as record of the year in 1990. Directed by Louis Erlo (assisted by Alain Maratrat and with set design by Jacques Rapp and costumes by Ferdinando Bruni) the wit and speed of the opera come across strongly in the transfer of the medium of DVD (video direction by Jean-Francois Jung). Kent Nagano directs the performance led by Gabriel Bacquier (the King of Clubs) Jean-Luc Viala (the Prince) Georges Gautier (Truffaldino) Catherine Dubosc (Ninetta) and a host of other outstanding artists.

• Verdi - Falstaff (Solti, Wiener Po) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Verdi - Falstaff (Solti Wiener PO)

• The Decline Of The American Empire | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You've never seen a sex comedy quite like The Decline of the American Empire. That's because there's no sex in this comedy--just a lot of entertaining talk about it (and a few discreet flashbacks). The speakers are eight Montreal academics. For most of the film, the men--Rémy (Rémy Girard), Claude (Yves Jacques), Pierre (Pierre Curzi), and Alain (Daniel Brière)--fix dinner while talking about sex. The women--Dominique (Dominique Michel), Louise (Dorothée Berryman), Diane (Louise Portal), and Danielle (Geneviève Rioux)--work out while talking about sex. That evening, they all gather for dinner... and talk about sex. The Decline of the American Empire made the reputation of writer-director Denys Arcand, but his greatest success would arrive 17 years later with The Barbarian Invasions. In that 2003 Oscar-winner, Arcand revisits the lovably loquacious characters from the first film, all of whom are older, wiser--and just as obsessed with sex. --Kathleen C. Fennessy