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• Fiend Without A Face | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £28.97   |  Saving you £-18.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Few 1950s creature features deliver in the way Fiend Without a Face does. The first hour is all build-up as tension grows between an Air Force research base and a small Canadian town (this is one of those British B films that pretends to be set overseas) as a series of mystery deaths are blamed by the superstitious on weird military experiments. It's not a spoiler to give away the big revelation, since every item of publicity material, including the DVD cover, blows the surprise: the initially invisible culprits turn out to be a killer swarm of disembodied brains with eyes on stalks and inchworm-like spinal cord tails. These creatures have a nasty habit of latching onto victims and sucking out their grey matter. The finale is a siege of a house by the fiends, which swarm en masse making unsettling brain-sucking sounds, and are bloodily done away with by the heroes. Using excellent stop-motion animation, this climax goes beyond silliness and manages to be genuinely nightmarish. The orgy of splattering brains stands proud among the cinema's first attempts at genuine horror-comic glee, setting a precedent for everything from The Evil Dead to Peter Jackson's Braindead. Marshall Thompson is a bland, stolid uniformed hero and most of the rest of the cast struggle with "anadian" accents, but Kynaston Reeves is fun as the decrepit lone researcher whose fault it all is. On the DVD: Fiend Without a Face on disc comes with a montage of scenes from other films in this batch of releases (The Day of the Triffids, The Stars Look Down) that plays automatically when the disc is inserted, but otherwise not even a trailer, much less the commentary track and other material found on the pricey but luxurious US Region 1 Criterion release. The print has nice contrasts but is pretty grainy. --Kim Newman

• The Trip To Bountiful | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £32.42   |  Saving you £-30.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Set in Houston Texas during the 1940's Carrie Watts lives with her hen-pecked son and his controlling wife. Entering the last years of her life she wishes that she could revisit the town of Bountiful the place where she grew up as a child. However her son and his wife are very reluctant to let her go for her health and financial reasons. Carrie decides that an escape attempt is due... Catching a bus to Bountiful she meets and strikes up a conversation with a young woman (Rebecca De Mornay) to whom she recounts the story of her life...

• Yours, Mine And Ours | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £11.30   |  Saving you £1.69 (13.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger family film than this chaotic comedy starring Lucille Ball and Academy Award-winner Henry Fonda as the parents of eighteen (Yes eighteen!) children. Based on a true story and co-starring Van Johnson and Tom Bosley Yours Mine And Ours keeps the laughs coming thick and fast! This population explosion occurs when widowed Navy nurse Helen North (Ball) meets handsome Naval officer and widower Frank Beardsley (Fonda). They have much in commo

• Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 1 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the start of Series Two of the Boston law firm drama, nothing much had changed at Richard Fish's rather kooky establishment. Ally (Calista Flockhart) was still a skinny, whimsical woman-child looking for Mr Right. Billy (Gil Bellows) was still married to Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith), John Cage (Peter McNicol) was still too eccentric to be considered for romantic involvement, Elaine (Jane Krakowski) was still a nosey meddler and Fish (Greg Germann) himself was still looking for ways to make money. Lots of it. Greed prompts him to hire new litigator Nelle (Portia DiRossi), a tall, blonde power-dresser who leaves the other women bristling in her wake. But their antipathy towards their new colleague is nothing compared to the forces of hatred spiky Ling (Lucy Liu) inspires. Before long John (The Biscuit) and Nelle are embarking on a tempestuous romance, Ally is stealing Elaine's new boyfriend before going out with one of Georgia's exes and Billy begins to show the signs of instability which lead to him to bleach his hair blonde in the following season. Ally's outspoken flatmate Renee (Lisa Nicole Carson) got a welcome increase in her time on screen in this second season. Despite the sheer number of episodes David E Kelley and his team turn around each year, this second series consistently provided entertaining viewing to the last, despite--or perhaps because of--some of the characters being so unlikable. The inter-office banter reached new heights of inventive bitchiness, the comic CGI illustrations of Ally's imagination still felt reasonably fresh and the court cases managed to combine oddity with emotional involvement. All in all this group of dysfunctional and rather incestuous workaholics proved curiously engaging yet again. --Emma Perry

• Ally McBeal - Season 3 Part 1 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In David E Kelley's Boston law drama, Ally McBeal, his lawyers' private and work lives are always inextricably linked. Nobody does anything in the "Cage and Fish" firm without their colleagues knowing about it, including going to the toilet. Kelley is as willing as always to embrace implausible coincidence in his storylines for the pay-off of maintaining the high pace and dramatic neatness. Our anti-heroine Ally McBeal starts her third season with a wet, wordless fling in a car wash with Jason Gedrick, and it's no surprise that Ally ends up facing Gedrick at the altar when a client asks her to be bridesmaid. With the entire firm invited along as guests, can she keep quiet about the groom? Well, you know Ally--she may not have any lasting success in the romance department but it's a subject she feels very strongly about. The third season sees fewer CGI expressions of Ally's thoughts and imagination, but the drama is just as colourful. Billy's increasing concerns over the balance of male and female power manifests itself in his newly dyed blond hair and his hiring of six PVC-clad women to follow him around boosting his testosterone. Other highlights include Ally exploring her lesbian side with Ling, Elaine posing as John's "fluffer" to banish his sexual insecurities and an explosive Thanksgiving party at Ally's. There are plotlines within Series 3 which stretch plausibility, such as finding out that Ally's dad is the man Georgia's been snogging to forget her husband's metamorphosis into a blonde-haired, sexist egomaniac. Ally McBeal does have the tendency to descend into sickening sentimental tosh, like all the "child inside" nonsense in Episode 11, but that aside, it continues to provide escapist entertainment of the first order. --Emma Perry

• Ally McBeal - Complete DVD Collection | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £74.99

  Every episode from all 5 seasons of Ally McBeal in one must-have collector's box set! Meet Ally McBeal she over-analyses her relationships (and sometimes lack of) to the point of becoming emotionally neurotic. Sounds annoying? It can be. Sounds so-American? It can be. Sounds addictive? It will be... They are young successful lawyers some of them could even be called beautiful a lot of them could be called eccentric and they all work and play together. From the first season we are introduced to the Unisex (the bathroom they all share). Ally is living with Renee still trying to deal with Billy's marriage to someone who is not her and is forced to come to terms with working with his new wife Georgia. Richard and Whipper are still together Elaine establishes herself as the resident know-it-all tart and John Cage is well warming up to being John Cage.... It is from this season we all have to hold to our hearts as the first time we were introduced to Ally McBeal the quirky original and (yet again) brilliance of a David E. Kelly creation!

• Goblin | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.60 (317.99%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1831, on the eve of Halloween a fierce Goblin rises from a bloody human sacrifice. Present day, Goblin is back to terrorize the Perkins family the night of Halloween.

• Leprechaun 2 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! This time... luck has nothing to do with it! The evil little Irishman returns to wreak bloody havoc in his never-ending quest for female companionship in this 'Leprechaun'. Ancient lore gives him claim over any woman who sneezes three times and the current object of his affections is the descendant of a former rival.

• Ally McBeal - Season 3 Part 2 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Be prepared for a very emotional ride as Ally McBeal returns with the conclusion of Season 3. Blending humour and poignant drama Season 3 Part 2 bids a tearful goodbye to Ally’s first love Billy. The episodes commence with Ally’s brazen spirit going to dangerous lengths to capture a man… by purposely crashing her car into his. It would’ve worked if the gorgeous guy in question hadn’t laughed like the sound of “a cow giving birth” (In Search of Pygmies). The team’s frolics continue as Ally wins a contest to become one of Tina Turner’s backing singers for a night (Oddball Parade) has cyber-sex with a minor (Do You Wanna Dance?) and goes kicking and screaming into her thirties with collagen lip implants (Turning Thirty)! Amidst all this grab the tissues as Ally and the crew try to come to terms with the unexpected loss of Billy and new characters and old prove no one can be taken at face value. Season 3 Part 2 brings together all the elements that Ally McBeal is famous for: fun love lust and thoughtful moments that will certainly touch the heartstrings and leave you singing for more. Features the episodes 'In Search Of Pygmies' 'Pursuit Of Loneliness' 'The Oddball Parade' 'Prime Suspect' 'Boy Next Door' 'I Will Survive' 'Turning Thirty' 'Do You Wanna Dance' 'Hope And Glory' and 'Ally McBeal - The Musical Almost'.

• Tchaikovsky - the Nutcracker (Colomer, Orchestre Colonne) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £11.54   |  Saving you £-3.55 (-44.40%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Christmas Night. A little boy sits alone by a small feeble Christmas tree from the branches of which sadly hang garlands salvaged from Christmases past. His mother is dead. Suddenly in a dream or by magic she is there next to him and places a small gift at the foot of the tree. The enchanted night begins: the gift grows bigger and becomes a miraculous icon fiends flood in the mother appears alive followed by two Angels of Light created by Marius-Mephisto. The whole room is dancing and the child begins to laugh. Is it a dream? Reality is that which we feel to be real. Reality is the moment here and now. Freed from his fear the boy watches the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker directed by Marius his master and danced by the Prince and Princess. ''I remember! Christmas.. .. Marseille the tree the Nativity scene the presents the thirteen desserts -among them my favourite -the NUTS! Above all I loved cracking nuts. My father had shown me that the insides were like a little human brain. I remember.. . My mother. I was seven years old. One evening she said to me 'your mother is going on a long journey. Promise me you will be good. I remember. Christmas.'' '' So wrote Maurice B''jart in his programme notes for his version of the well-loved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker (Casse-Noisette). B''jart''s magical staging transforms the piece into an enchanting and enchanted autobiography and a loving homage to the choreographer''s mother and to his creative hero Marius Petipa. The first part of the performance is punctuated by B''jart on a huge video screen telling something of his childhood. Summing up his approach to creating this ballet B''jart remarked ''You live a life and you dream a life. When you come to write your own life you tell a lie to build the truth.'' Using Tchaikovsky's score in its entirety augmented with popular waltz and accordion music performed on-stage by the legendary Yvette Homer B''jart takes the original St Petersburg story as a springboard from which to evoke the memories emotions and feelings of his own life''s journey: from a Marseille childhood dominated by the memory of his mother to the passionate commitment to dance inspired by the father of classical ballet Petipa. The stage is flooded with allusions to B''jart''s actual and imaginary history: characters both real and symbolic forests scouting bull-fighting bicycles old songs and much more create a universe of feeling reaching its apotheosis in a faithful recreation of the original Pas de Deux -a true declaration of love. The only character in his Nutcracker that relates to the original is Mephisto who replaces Drosselmeyer as the facilitator of fantastical dreams and happenings. Goethe''s Faust fascinated B''jart when he was still very young and the choreographer''s Mephisto is at the same time his creative hero Marius Petipa. Marius-Mephisto opens up a world to the boy Bim (B''jart) in which his dream life and his desire to dance are intertwined. Three performances of B''jart''s Nutcracker were recorded live fiom the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris for the purposes of this television presentation. The showman of modem dance Maurice B''jart''s work has been provocative influential and popular in equal measure. His choreography has always been physically thrilling setting up an immediate emotional combustion between audience and performer and he attracted huge new audiences for dance with the Ballet of the Twentieth Century productions he mounted in sports stadia public squares and circus tents. Since founding the B''jart Ballet Lausanne in 1987 he has been working on a more intimate scale but his style has remained just as electric vivid and direct in its appeal as ever.

• Gilberto Gil - Acustico | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £23.76   |  Saving you £-8.77 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded live in January 1994. Tracklist includes: 'A Novidade' 'Tenho Sede' 'Drao' 'Sampa' 'A Linha E O Linho' 'Aquele Abraco' 'Realce' 'A Paz' and 'Palco'.

• Kill Kill Faster Faster | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £4.03   |  Saving you £5.96 (59.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• No Regret | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in Seoul's sleezy rent-boy scene No Regret is a startling erotic thriller exploring the complexities and pressures of gay life in South Korea's burgeoning queer community. Orphan Sumin is doing all he can to make ends meet. When he is abruptly fired his job at the local factory he faces no other option but to accept work in the city's leading up market male brothel X-Large. The line between sex and love however blurs when Jaemin a man whose fate seems irrevocably tied to his appears in his life once again but this time as a high-rolling client...

• TROPICALIA | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £8.67   |  Saving you £9.32 (107.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

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• The Mumbo Jumbo | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Pythonesque fasion Tom runs into good fortune when a magic amulet takes him on a distant journey where he becomes the hero in a fantasy world.

• Chasing Sleep | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ed (Jeff Daniels – Dumb and Dumber) lies awake in bed at 3:15AM. His wife has not come home. With no clues to where she may have gone, Ed gradually descends into madness and is unable to sleep. Life inside his house becomes claustrophobic and surreal, pushing him to confront his darkest secrets.

• Gilberto Gil - Kaya N'Gan Daya | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £23.76   |  Saving you £-8.77 (-58.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gilberto Gil is one of Brazil's legendary singers and songwriters of all time. This past year Gilberto Gil set out with a project that gave him the opportunity to deliver a tribute album to one of his greatest idols Bob Marley entitled: ""Kaya N'Gan Daya."" Now Gilberto Gil is proud to present the release of ""Kaya N'Gan Daya"" on DVD. This production includes all-time favorites such as ""Buffalo Soldier "" ""One Drop"" and ""Rebel Music"" among others. ""Kaya N'Gan Daya"" was filmed at Direct

• Decadent Evil Dead 2 | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £0.80 (16.70%)   |  RRP £4.79

  After surviving their encounter with the Queen vampire Morella in Decadent Evil sweet vampire Sugar (Jill Michelle) and her human boyfriend Dex (Daniel Lennox) travel with Marvin the homunculous to Little Rock Arkansas. Their plan: to revive Marvin's dead son the famous vampire hunter Ivan Burroughs (Ricardo Gil) with the life - giving blood of the King Vampire. On a quest to locate the King Vampire Sugar and Dex are drawn into a coven of the wicked creatures that are using a local strip club as cover. When Sugar is kidnapped for sacrifice to the King Vampire Dex manages to revive Ivan as one of the living dead to assist in the rescue efforts. In the middle of the night the two sneak into the King Vampire's hiding place a vast junkyard save Sugar from the clutches of the monstrous creature and destroy his blood-sucking minions!

• Gil Evans - Live In Paris 1987 | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most significant arrangers in Jazz history Gil Evans' three album-length collaborations with Miles Davis (Miles Ahead Porgy And Bess and Sketches Of Spain) are all considered classics. This DVD is presents his 1987 performance at the Theatre De La Ville Paris. Tracklist: 1. London (Intro) 2. Stone Free 3. Bird And Bud 4. Up From The Skies 5. Orange Was The Colour Of Her Dress 6. Golden Hair 7. London

• European Concert 2002 - Berliner Philharmoniker - Claddio Abbado | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £23.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (-19.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A concert performance by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Palermo in 2002. Works include: Brahams Violin Concerto and Dvorak Symphony No. 9. Conducted by Claudio Abbado.