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• Death In Brunswick | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A man in his thirties who believes that his luck has finally changed when he gets a job as a chef in a sleazy cockroach infested rock 'n' roll club stumbles into trouble when he falls in love with the 19 year old who is betrothed to the clubs owner.

• Butterflies - Series 2 - The Complete Series | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This classic poignant BBC comedy starring Wendy Craig as the bored suburban housewife Ria looking for more from life. Ria is seemingly happy with two teenage sons but after 19 years of marriage she feels that everyone is taking her for granted and that life is passing her by.

• Gluck - Orphee Et Eurydice (Gardiner) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £7.32   |  Saving you £2.93 (48.35%)   |  RRP £8.99

  When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck''s Alceste and Orph''e et Eurydice. Both operas were sung in their French versions and were mounted and designed by Robert Wilson and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. This was the first time Wilson and Gardiner had collaborated and their individual credentials combined to produce an exceptional result. American polymath Wilson was responsible for some of the most ambitious avant-garde performance projects of the 1970s and 80s.Since the mid-1980s he has increasingly brought his prodigious creativity to works fiom the standard dramatic and operatic repertoire transforming them into his own unmistakably minimalist yet grandiose visions. His styled classical interpretations of Alceste and Orph''e bear his trademarks of an uncluttered stage and the arresting use of colour and light. They are not so much timeless as in Robert Wilson''s words ''full of time''. With their minutely rehearsed gestures at once formal and poetic the singers have the grace and elegance of Balanchine or Martha Graham dancers. A key figure in the revival of Early Music John Eliot Gardiner has long been a champion of Gluck''s French operas and is a great Gluck conductor. He received enormous critical acclaim for his musical direction of both Orph''e and Alceste at the Chatelet as did his orchestras and chorus. He sought to rid the operas of any vestiges of remoteness or venerable respectability and to release the huge emotional charge that lies behind the beauty of Gluck''s classical sobriety. The stories are after all he says not only poignant and deeply moving they have an immediate and contemporary relevance: they portray two married couples striving to protect their union and their love plumbing the very depths of their emotional strength and summoning the courage to make huge personal sacrifices. ''If presented in a way that''s immediate and with tremendous intensity and truth of expression then all the dross and superficiality of the stage action falls away and you''re left with what''s actually a very visceral connection between two living people.'' Television''s top opera director Brian Large worked closely with Robert Wilson and John Eliot Gardiner to ensure that the translation of live performance to the small screen is of the highest artistic and techcal standard. John Eliot Gardiner chose to use Berlioz''s 1859 revision of Orphee which adapted the tenor role of Gluck''s 1774 score for the contralto voice of Pauline Viardot adjusting the register for a mezzo-soprano. Underlining his preference for this version he performed the opera with the nineteenth-century period instruments of his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. His regular chorus the Monteverdi Choir excelled vocally and dramatically in its elegant contribution to the drama. The Greek legend of Orpheus has captured the imaginations of many creative artists over the centuries. In this recording Magdalena Kozena brings to the role expressiveness exceptional virtuosity and a rare emotion. Madeline Bender as Eurydice is possessed of a touching grace and beauty while Patricia Petibon is deliciously mischievous as Amour. All three of these young singers are among the cream of a new generation of operatic talent.

• Every Day's A holiday | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of high-spirited youngsters find friendship love and music together in this Pop musical. Gerry (John Leyton) is a bartender who fantasizes about being a famous pop star. Christina (Grazina Frame) is an upper-class bird who sneaks off to be a waitress but her Aunt (Hazel Hughes) would rather she keep up her operatic lessons with the great Bastinado (Ron Moody). Susan and Jennifer (The Baker Twins) are boy-crazy twins who work in the nursery and Timothy Gilpin (Mike Sarne) is the arrogant nightclub singer.... British Invasion pop stars Freddie and the Dreamers appear as five musical madcap chefs while Liverpool beat group The Mojos supply some hard teenage blues .... Offers a rare chance to watch some nearly forgotten British Invasion groups.

• Hitch Hike To Hell | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up the police finally begin to investigate.

• WWE - Royal Rumble 2012 | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Triple Threat Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship Daniel Bryan vs. Mark Henry vs. Big Show 8-Diva Tag Team Match Kelly Kelly, Eve, Alica Fox, & Tamina vs. Beth Phoenix, Natalya, Brie & Nikki Bella John Cena vs. Kane Brodus Clay vs. Drew McIntyre WWE Championship Match CM Punk vs. Dolph Ziggler With Special Guest Referee John Laurinaitis 30-Man Royal Rumble Match Special Features: Home Video Exclusive Josh Mathews interviews Daniel Bryan Royal Rumble 29th January, 2012 Home Video Exclusive Josh Mathews interviews the Royal Rumble Winner Royal Rumble 29th January, 2012 Blu-ray Exclusive Content: Monday Night RAW 23rd January, 2012 CM Punk & John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger The Hi-Light Reel with Chris Jericho Falls Count Anywhere Match Zack Ryder vs. Kane CM Punk vs. John Laurinaitis SmackDown 27th January, 2012 Big Show apologies to AJ and the WWE Universe Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett Brodus Clay vs. Alex Riley Big Show vs. Mark Henry

• Le Nozze Di Figaro | DVD | (23/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1973.

• The Early Bird | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £16.24   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker

• Incredible Kung Fu Mission | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mix an inpregnable fortress prison a garrison of highly trained soldiers a legendary martial arts master and a rag tag group of merceneries add one bad ass warlord and you've got the recipe for mayhem Hong Kong style. John Liu a kung fu master is hired to rescue a revolutionary agent from the fortress of an evil warlord. To help him are five mercenaries trained in the deadly art of kung fu fighting. Disguised as a travelling acrobatic troupe they set out on their rescue missi

• American Dreamz | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £2.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (83.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hugh Grant stars in this satire of American identity, in which the President becomes a guest judge on the reality TV show.

• Rossini: Semiramide | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Bel canto can be translated as "pretty singing", and that definition seems tailor-made for this production, which offers grace, charm, and a fine-tuned sense of style in abundance to compensate for its limited psychological and emotional impact. The four principal singers are all specialists in the bel canto style and this opera has played a key role in building their substantial reputations. For its sweeping musical imagination and technical wizardry, Rossini's epic about royal assassination and misdirected lust in the ancient Babylonian Empire deserves a place in any inclusive opera collection, and we are not likely to have a better video recording of Semiramide in the foreseeable future. June Anderson has an attractive appearance and sounds exactly right in the music's florid melodic lines. But she is not dramatically compelling as the wicked queen who had her husband killed and fell in love with a man who turned out to be her long-lost son, Arsace. Marilyn Horne rose to the highest levels of international fame in the role of that conflicted son, and her presence alone would be enough to give this video classic status. Her voice was a bit past its prime when this performance was recorded in 1991, but still there is no other voice quite like it, no other voice so suited to Rossini's heroic mezzo roles. Samuel Ramey is a close bass counterpart to Anderson: great tone, agile florid singing, and a rather wooden but visually appealing stage presence. Sanford Olsen has a small role and sings it near perfectly. James Conlon gets excellent musical results; John Copley's staging is massive and static. --Joe McLellan, Amazon.com

• The Incredible Hulk 1996 Complete Season 1 | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion a victim of gamma radiation gone wild Doctor Robert Bruce Banner now finds himself transformed in times of stress into one thousand pounds of unfettered fury - the most powerful creature ever to walk the earth. Desperate to rid himself of the beast raging inside Bruce Banner becomes a hapless fugitive in the 1990s animated series of The Incredible Hulk Season 1. This double DVD includes all 13 bittersweet episodes and voice-over by Lou Ferrigno the renowned Hulk actor from Marvel's live-action 1970s TV series. With the relentless General Ross in hot pursuit Bruce Banner's experimental escapades lead to some heroic help from Iron Man the Fantastic Four Thor and She-Hulk. Meanwhile the Hulk faces explosive encounters with the Leader Doctor Doom and the Abomination. Episodes Comprise: Return of the Beast Part 1 Return of the Beast Part 2 Raw Power Helping Hand Iron Fist Innocent Blood Man to Man Beast to Beast Doomed Fantastic Fortitude Mortal Bounds And the Wind Cries... Wendigo Darkness and Light Part 1 Darkness and Light Part 2 Darkness and Light Part 3

• The Nutty Professor | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £6.25   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got hold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy. --Jim Emerson

• Bridge Of Dragons | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Cross it at your peril. The warrior is the perfect soldier. Adopted by Warlord Ruechang he is a trained killer. What he must become is the perfect warrior. As a soldier he is taught only to obey. But his loyalties are swayed when he meets a young princess fated to marry Ruechang and rule over the oppressed people. When she flees the marriage Ruechang sends the warrior in pursuit. Now the perfect killing machine must find the humanity within that will guide him towards rebellion and justice. His quest for honor will make him a true warrior. But before he takes that path he must first defeat the forces of the man who saved his life and finally face Ruechang in an explosive bloody fight to the finish.

• Hot Pursuit | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Cusack stars as Danny an all round nice guy who plans to spend some quality time in the Caribbean with his girlfriend Lori (Wendy Gazelle). But although they've been planning their trip for months it only takes a few minutes for it all to go wrong! To start Danny misses his plane. Then for all his attempts to catch up with Lori he finds himself in ever more bizarre situations. From jailbreaks and jungles to hurricanes and hijacking his only companion is roguish old sea dog Captain MacLaren (Robert Loggia). She promised him ten days together in paradise. He never dreamed how far he'd have to go!

• Earth vs The Spider | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £9.21   |  Saving you £10.78 (117.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Earth vs. The Spider can't really make up its mind whether it's an homage to the B-movie horror genre (the title, but nothing else, has been lifted from the 1958 drive-in "classic"), a too-ironic-for-its-own-good spoof, or an uncomplicated but genuine monster flick. It passes as any of the above, so take your pick. The plot is hardly demanding: nerd's pal is murdered, nerd vows revenge, nerd injects himself with bug juice which turns him into a spider-like monstrosity, offs some bad guys then gets shot dead. Despite its lack of content, the movie's merciful brevity (one hour 26 minutes, roughly what all movies used to be) means that the pace is fast and that there's no room for padding (or real sub-plots, for that matter). The special effects are good and used surprisingly sparingly, which is a nice touch, and the brief coda is sarcastically witty. There's also what seems at first to be a nod in the direction of Toho's multi-monster epics, but those two giant furry caterpillars are in fact Theresa Russell's eyebrows. On the DVD: Earth vs. The Spider on disc is presented in 1.77:1 ratio. Extras include filmographies and a very brief "making of". The preliminary sketches of the creature in the photo gallery are well worth seeing. --Roger Thomas

• Tommy | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Your senses will never be the same! This classic rock opera is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including many stars of the rock music industry. Told through the remarkable music of The Who this is the story of Tommy who when just a boy of six witnessed the murder of his father by his mother (Ann-Margaret) and her lover (Oliver Reed). They command him ""You didn't hear it you didn't see it and you won't say anything to anyone.."" As a result the traumatised boy retreats into the shadows of his mind and becomes deaf dumb and blind. Growing into manhood Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is subjected to several bizarre cure attempts by the Acid Queen (Tina Turner) the preacher (Eric Clapton) and the Specialist (Jack Nicholson). In spite of his handicap Tommy defeats the Pinball Wizard (Elton John) and becomes the champ attaining a devoted following. When he is finally cured he is hailed by his fans as a ""Messiah"".

• Valentine's Day | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £4.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Tony Denisio a member of the Massimo crime family has agreed to turn state's evidence but has refused official police protection. Luckless Detective Jack Valentine (Mario van Peebles) has been assigned to protect him and no sooner arrives at his assignment only to see the crime boss blown away in a vicious and merciless mob hit. The only witness to the bloody slaying being Deniso's stunning girlfriend Alma who despite the trauma remains cool calm and emotionless. Stricken by her beauty Valentine allows his lust for this mysterious woman to cloud his professional judgement and soon finds he cannot trust anyone in this cat and mouse thriller which twists and turns in one direction then another and he is plunged into a world where black and white disappear and no one is who they claim to be...

• A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £9.19   |  Saving you £15.80 (171.93%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Following years of growing apart Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrive at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve his attempts to redirect it to Harold’s house ends with the “high grade” contents – and Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree – going up in smoke. With his in-laws out of the house for the day Harold decides to cover his tracks rather than come clean. Reluctantly embarking on another ill-advised journey with Kumar through New York City their search for the perfect replacement tree takes them through party heaven – and almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.

• The Pajama Game | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A truly joyous tale starring Doris Day as the union leader in a clothing factory. From the novel 'Seven And A Half Cents' by Richard Bissell and adapted into a successful musical which the french director Jean Luc Goddard called the first left wing operetta!