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• Wagner: Siegfried -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £19.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (14.59%)   |  RRP £21.99

  James Levine makes Siegfried, sometimes the problem child among the four operas of Wagner's Ring cycle, attractive and interesting. He is aware of the darker side of some of the comic scenes--the seemingly benevolent dwarf Mime carries the weight of Wagner's many prejudices--but manages to keep them uneasy rather than positively sinister thanks to the finally judged performance of Heinz Zednik. Siegfried Jerusalem is admirable as Siegfried, full of boyish enthusiasm during the reforging of the sword, and of authority in his confrontations with the dragon and with Wotan. (The dragon itself is, as so often, an unfortunate compromise between realism and stylisation.) James Morris is extraordinary in Wotan's scenes here, his combination of injured pride and relieved joy when Siegfried demonstrates, by shattering his spear, that Wotan has entirely lost control of events is exemplary. This is an opera whose many and various scenes are all preludes to its emotional core: the love duet which comes when Siegfried awakens Brunnhilde. Jerusalem and Hildegard Behrens convey both the innocence and the ardor of this duet; while Levine gets extraordinary playing from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra throughout, but especially here, where a chamber-like delicacy applies to much of the music. On the DVD Siegfried on this disc is a recording of the 1990 Metropolitan Opera production and comes with both menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese as well as a picture gallery. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, and the visual ratio is standard TV 4:3. Better is the choice of sound formats--PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital and DTS digital--which provide a spacious acoustic that gives proper weight to the climaxes, and an appropriate delicacy to Wagner's subtler passages. --Roz Kaveney

• My New Gun | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The life of a young suburban housewife is transformed through a series of mishaps when her husband gives her a gun...

• James Martin's Brittany | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Renowned TV chef James Martin is our guide for a trip to Brittany an area he first visited as a student to explore the delights of its regional recipes and produce the historic towns and villages and the magnificent scenery. He is joined by various culinary guests on the journey including The Hairy Bikers (Dave Myers and Simon King) Martin Blunos Lawrence Keogh and local boy Daniel Galmiche. Each episode combines mouthwatering recipes prepared at that day''s campsite or by the beach with visits to places of interest including stunning markets for seafood and fresh Breton produce a winery and a brewery a goat''s cheese factory a local bakery a strawberry farm and beautiful coastal oyster beds.

• Spider-Man 3 | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Spider-Man returns to battle a host of new baddies in the third adventure based on the popular comic book hero.

• Cabin Fever / Cabin Fever 2 | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Cabin Fever: As a last hurrah after college friends Jeff Karen Paul Mercy and Bert embark on a vacation deep into the mountains. With the top down and the music up they drive to a remote cabin to enjoy their last days of decadence before entering the working world. Then somebody gets sick. Karen's skin starts to bubble and burn as something grows inside her tunneling beneath her flesh. As they debate about how to save her they look at one another and realize that any one of them could also have it. What began as a struggle against the disease soon turns into a battle against friends as the fear of contagion drives them to turn on each other... Cabin Fever 2: Following on from the first film Cabin Fever 2 sees a high school prom face a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.

• Spartacus | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £8.51   |  Saving you £4.48 (52.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once a slave. Forever a legend. Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life labouring in the harsh deserts of Egypt Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of Ethopian warrior Draba Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens the very foundations of the republic of Rome...

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.0 | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £12.00   |  Saving you £27.99 (233.25%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Last season Starbuck returned. As did the President's Cancer. Baltar was freed but not forgiven. Four Cylons were revealed. One remains unknown. Relive the events in all 10 episodes of Season Four of Battlestar Galactica with this 3 disc Blu-Ray box set in 5.1 Surround Sound. It includes the feature length Razor deleted scenes and a sneak peek into the Final Season. Watch as humanity's last survivors struggle to be free as the end of the race to find earth is drawing ever closer. Destiny is not what it seems.

• Top Buzzer - The Complete First Series | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by Johnny Vaughan the raw stylised and streetwise story-telling provides a perfect format to explore the high times and comedowns of a group of young urbanites.... The world's first ever 'dope' opera!

• Mr Murder | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £9.45   |  Saving you £-7.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Marty is an up-and-coming mystery writer who writes bizarre and gruesome tales of murder. During a top-secret military experiment his genes are mixed up with those of a brilliant college athlete. As a result an identical clone is produced with a nasty combiantion of a clever but violent mind and nimble athleticism.

• Regeneration | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gillies MacKinnon's highly praised adaptation of Pat Barker's novel is a moving and powerful study of war and its devastating effects. Set in a military hospital during World War I the film tells of a real life encounter between army psychologist Dr William Rivers and the poet Siegfried Sassoon who has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war. It also concerns young poet Wilfred Owen who whith support from Sassoon begins to write his great war poems. Rivers whose duty it is to return shell-shocked officers to the trenches is tormented by the morality of what is being done in the name of medicine especially the treatment of working-class officer Billy Prior who has been struck dumb by the carnage he has witnessed.

• Hammond and May - 1 and 2 Box Set | Blu Ray | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This Box Set contains the 2010 special 'Apocalypse' and the brand new 2011 special.

• Murder In Greenwich | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mark Fuhrman (Christopher Meloni) became obsessed with the unsolved murder of a young girl in Greenwich Connecticut. The case originally front-page news across the country when Kennedy nephews Tommy and Michael Skakel became prime suspects had been all but forgotten. But with the determination of a pitbull and the assistance of Detective Steve Carrol (Robert Forster) Mark Fuhrman helped bring a murderer to justice and lift the veil of secrecy that kept this brutal crime a mystery

• Pretty Persuasion | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £6.92   |  Saving you £12.06 (306.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Revenge knows no mercy. Seeing the world as an orchestra Kimberly manipulates those around her like the master conductor she believes herself to be. Convincing her two best friends to join her in a devastating campaign of character assassination against their befuddled teacher Mr Anderson Kimberly entangles the entire Bevery Hills community in her carefully woven web of seduction and deceit.

• Arthur's Quest | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  To safeguard his liege from the clutches of evil sorceress Morgana Merlin transports the young King Arthur into modern day America...

• The Fifth Element (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In the year 2257 a planet-sized vessel of supreme evil is hurtling towards the earth with relentless speed threatening to exterminate every living organism in its path. It has been left to the ex-marine and unlikely taxi-driving hero Korben Dallas (Willis) to reunite the four stones that represent the elements - Earth Air Water and Fire with the mysterious Fifth Element to unleash the only power that will save the Earth. Joined on his mission by the intriguing Leeloo (Jovovich) and Priest Vito Cornelius (Holm) Dallas must retrieve the elements from the beautiful Diva aboard the luxury cruise ship the Fhlotsin Paradise.

• Paul Blart - Mall Cop / You Don't Mess With The Zohan / I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £4.05   |  Saving you £15.94 (79.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Mild-mannered Paul Blart (Kevin James The King of Queens) has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache personal transporter and gung-ho attitude only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained unarmed and a super-size target Blart has to become a real cop to save the day. You Don't Mess With The Zohan: Director Dennis Dugan and screenwriters Adam Sandler Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) present You Don't Mess With The Zohan - a hilarious comedy about a Mossad Agent (Sandler) who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream... To become a hairstylist in New York! I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry: Adam Sandler and Kevin James star as Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine; two firefighters who are the pride of their fire station: two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire and Larry calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. But when an overzealous spot-checking bureaucrat becomes suspicious the new couple's arrangement becomes a citywide issue and goes from confidential to front-page news. Forced to improvise as love-struck newlyweds Chuck and Larry must now fumble through a hilarious charade of domestic bliss under one roof. After surviving their mandatory honeymoon and dodging the threat of exposure the well-intentioned con men discover that sticking together in your time of need is what truly makes a family.

• Birdy | DVD | (17/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on William Wharton's transcendent novel of the same name, this film is about many things: friendship, war, and, of course, birds. The framing device is an effort by a horribly scarred combat soldier (Nicolas Cage) to break through to his best friend, Birdy (Matthew Modine), hospitalised after seemingly being driven mad by fighting in the Vietnam War. Cage then flashes back to their boyhood, where Birdy, a canary aficionado, was considered the school weirdo but managed to be a solid companion none the less. Directed by Alan Parker, it works best as a coming-of-age story, but misses the bizarre psychological transferences of the book, in which Birdy imagines himself within the world of canaries he creates in his bedroom at his parents' house. Modine is fine as an out-of-it misfit enraptured by his own little universe. --Marshall Fine

• North By Northwest Steelbook | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dazzling Restoration from Original VistaVision Elements! Cary Grant is the screen's supreme man-on-the-run in his fourth and final teaming with Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock. He plays a Manhattan adman plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted, framed for murder, chased, and in a signature set-piece, crop-dusted. He also hangs for dear life from the facial features of Mount Rushmore's Presidents. Savour one of Hollywood's most enjoyable thrillers ever in this State-of-the-Art Restoration: its Renewed Picture Vitality will leave you just as breathless as the chase itself. Special Features: Commentary by Ernest Lehman Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2003 TCM Documentary) The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest North by Northwest: One for the Ages Stills Gallery (44 cnt.) TV Spot A Guided Tour with Alfred Hitchcock Theatrical Trailer

• The Commissioner | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £2.27 (61.02%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A member of the British government is sent to Brussels to become British Commissioner to the European Community where he uncovers political and industrial corruption...

• Shadow Run | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Caine is a London gangster who backed up by an upper-class bad guy (Fox) plans to do a job on an armoured transport van filled with paper for the Royal Mint. This is the paper used to make twenty and fifty pound notes so a load of such paper would be worth as much as 110 million on the black market. The only problem is getting to the van...