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• Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Cirque du Soleil first ventured beyond Canada's borders, its powerful, singularly ambitious "reinvention of the circus" seemed quixotic. Inspired by European precedents, this was a big top downsized to a more intimate, single ring, as the French-Canadian troupe jettisoned animals, banished the usual fright-wigged clowns in favour of funny folks versed in (gulp) pantomime, and focused on acrobats, contortionists and illusionists. Conventional wisdom would have held that such esoterica was doomed, but anyone lucky enough to catch that initial Cirque production (or, for that matter, any of its subsequent offerings) knows just how wrong conventional wisdom can be.Cirque's creative brain trust, including "guide" Guy Laliberte and director Franco Dragone, have crafted each production as an extended performance piece framed by recurrent characters, unified production design and underlying themes. Already mesmerising visual tableaux and astonishing illusions are given an added poignancy (and, occasionally, true gravity) by the productions' underlying comments about society, conformity, beauty and emotion; even without such conscious motifs, however, Cirque's sheer artistry is never less than riveting.Quidam revolves around an Everychild, living with self-absorbed (and deliberately archetypal) parents, who is whisked away to a vividly surreal world where Cirque's remarkable acrobats and artists take literal flight. Their tools are often prosaic--oversized flying rings, an open steel wheel large enough for a single inhabitant, skateboards, ropes--yet the resulting images are stunning. Injecting further drama and atmosphere is the score (here by musical director Benoit Jutras), which is as far removed from traditional circus music as Cirque's "acts" are from Barnum & Bailey. Performed with synthesisers, electric guitar, solo reed instruments, percussion and voice (often singing in a kind of Esperanto that's tantalising yet foreign), Cirque's music can be dismissed as New Age only until heard in its intended context. Quidam can't quite achieve the sheer, enveloping wonder that its theatrical source does, but for fans of Cirque du Soleil's unique performance art, this latest presentation sustains the troupe's magic. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• The Wizard Of Gore | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Is It Magic? Or Wholesale Slaughter? Montag the Magnificent (Ray Sager) The Wizard of Gore is a seedy small time magician with a shocking stage act. Hypnotizing pretty young women from the audience to be his obedient volunteers Montag then proceeds to mutilate them in a series of Grand Guignol illusions. A woman is cut in half with a chainsaw another is drilled through the stomach with a giant punch press a metal spike is driven through one gal's head and two ladies are forced to swallow swords. Trouble is after the show the illusions become all too horribly real. Intrigued by Montag's act but unaware of his true powers television talk show hostess Sherry Carson (Judy Cler) invites Montag on her show. Montag promptly hypnotizes the viewing audience and leads Sherry toward a fiery new illusion... Blood guts and offbeat surrealism in another crackpot classick from The Wizard of Gore himself director Herschell Gordon Lewis.

• The Journey Of August King | DVD | (20/07/2004) from £8.18   |  Saving you £6.81 (83.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This passionate uplifting celebration of the human spirit received outstanding acclaim from critics coast-to-coast! Jason Patric (SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL SLEEPERS) is August King a young man whose life is changed forever when he risks everything to help a beautiful woman (Thandie Newton -- THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II) on a courageous -- and very dangerous -- search for a new life. Desperate yet determined the two set out on a harrowing journey toward freedom ..

• Terms Of Endearment | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nominated for 11 Oscars and winner of 5 Terms Of Endearment dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable insightful story of two captivating people mother and daughter unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbour a boozy womanizing former astronaut. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes from their evolving 30-year rela

• War Wolves | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jack Ford leads a special forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf. Little does Jack know that three of the female soldiers in his unit have also been infected and have already transformed into she-wolves. The she-wolves forces of evil and Ford's special ops forces of good are pitted against each other in the race to save mankind from turning into wolves.

• Rudy - The Rudolph Giuliani Story | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With an outstanding performance by James Woods, Rudy: The Rudolph Giuliani Story is a warts-and-all portrait of New York City's lame-duck mayor, who rose from political disfavour to unexpected heights of heroism and leadership in the wake of September 11, 2001. Originally broadcast on the USA Network and based on Wayne Barrett's muckraking biography, it's a condensed, Cliff's Notes rendition of Giuliani's political career, with each commercial break serving as a chapter stop, beginning on the eve of 9/11 and alternating past and present highlights from Giuliani's rise to power. The film offers an unflinching portrait of a devoted public servant who's as fallible as he is competent: his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) understandably suffers while extramarital affairs and political fearlessness are all seen as by-products of Giuliani's compulsion to improve the city he loves. As Robert Dornhelm's clunky direction combines actual news footage with exacting recreations of 9/11 and its aftermath, Woods' charismatic performance wisely avoids mimicry to show us a flawed but noble man who, in the final analysis, deserves our conditional respect. --Jeff Shannon

• Trapped Ashes | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

• The One And Only, Genuine, Original, Family Band | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Was

• Taggart - Bad Blood | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In the aftermath of a frenzied stabbing of a Kurdish minicab driver DCI Burke finds himself working alongside DS Hannah Fairchild an officer on a fast track scheme who is an expert in race-hate crimes and is ambitious to boot. DS Reid DI Ross and DC Fraser take to her at once. However Burke and Fairchild quickly rub each other up the wrong way. Meanwhile Ross is warned that war is imminent and Burke has to stop it before he can solve the crime otherwise Glasgow will be littered with bodies.

• Conspiracy Of Love | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £5.96   |  Saving you £1.02 (34.34%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young girl and her grandfather are torn apart by her parents divorce. She finally makes a stand for herself which lays the groundwork for mending the fractured ties.

• Stargate SG-1: Season 6 (Vol. 30) | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £6.57   |  Saving you £13.42 (204.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disclosure: General Hammond and the Pentagon are forced to reveal the existence of the Stargate to other world governments. Playing off fears that the U.S. military has too much control Senator Kinsey suggests that General Hammond be relieved of his command and that the civilian-run NID oversee the Stargate program. Forsaken: Exploring an off-world planet SG-1 discovers a crashed ship and three human survivors who claim to be under constant attack by hostile aliens. While Carter helps repair the ship's computer she learns that the survivors are hiding a secret and things may not be all they seem. The Changeling: Teal'c mysteriously begins to lose his grip on reality and is haunted by visions of an alternate existence where he is a normal human being. As his paranoia deepens Teal'c must rely on the help and comfort of his old friend Daniel Jackson to determine where his dreams end... and his reality begins. Memento: SG-1 accompanies the X-303 on its maiden voyage into deep space. When the ship suddenly drops out of hyperspace SG-1 is stranded with no means of getting back to Earth. Their only option lies in exploring a nearby planet where a Stargate is thought to be located. But O'Neill must first convince its inhabitants that they come in peace - a debate that could mean the end of SG-1.

• Who Do You Think You Are? Best Of The Comics | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (12.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Who Do You Think You Are? follows the journeys of six popular comic personalities as they explore their family trees uncover their family history and discover fascinating and poignant facts about their ancestors that have been until now lost in time.;Alexander Armstrong finds relationships with science and royalty dating back to Charles I and beyond David Baddiel unpacks the secrets that lie in his grandparents’ suitcases on a journey through Kaliningrad and Warsaw John Bishop uncovers entertaining roots that take him into the world of Minstrels Alan Carr kicks off with stories of the soccer field before tracking down a missing soldier Stephen Fry explores his Slovakian roots discovering a sugar beet connection that helped save his mother’s parents from the Nazis and Vic Reeves lifts a curtain which hides the secret life of his elusive grandfather revealing another family and a new relative.

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Series 3 - Vol. 3.2 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Avenging betrayal and murder fighting for good in a world steeped in evil. Award-winning llustrator of Spiderman Todd McFarlane brings a life's work to the screen in this dark stylish and brutal animated incarnation of his Spawn anti-hero. Double-crossed and murdered Al Simmon's is sent to the fires of Hell. He makes an ill-fated deal with the Devil to return to see his wife again. Disfigured and trapped in the body of a hell-spawn caught between life and death he roams New York looking for trouble. The cloak and chains of Spawn explode from the comic-book page onto the screen in a deadly tornado of untapped unwrapped merciless power! Episode titles: Hunter's Moon Chasing The Serpent Prophecy.

• Silent Classics | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This 5 Disc Box set features 5 Classic horror films of the silent era. Der Golem (Dir. Paul Wegener 1920) Directed produced and starring Paul Wegener The Golem is a masterpiece of early cinema. The story centres on a Jewish community threatened with removal from the city under proclamation from the Emperor which the head Rabbi Rabbi Loew predicted in the stars. Constructing a clay man to stop this oppression and calling upon ancient powers in a magical amul

• The New Statesman - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The New Statesman is a multi-award winning masterpiece of political satire. Rik Mayall stars as the ruthless Alan B'Stard the egocentric MP who will stop at nothing to further his political career. Episodes comprise: Labour Of Love / The Party's Over / Let Them Sniff Cake / Keeping Mum / Natural Selection / Profit Of Boom

• Alienator | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a space station prison on the edge of the universe the iron-willed commander (Jan Michael Vincent) prepares to execute galactic arch-villain Kol (Ross Hagen). The commander has craved justice ever since Kol slaughtered thousands on Alpha 7. The same day the station is visited by Lund (Robert Clark) a delegate general from the non-violent star systems. Lund is appalled that capital punishment still exists. He protests when the commander instructs his executioner Tara (PJ Soles) t

• Roberto Devereux - Donizetti | DVD | (27/07/2001) from £25.65   |  Saving you £-0.66 (-2.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the summer of 1974 The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association began videotaping a number of live operatic and concert performances at the Filene Center in Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna Virginia for telecast in an innovative new series entitled 'In Performance at Wolf Trap'. The series met with overwhelming success and set the stage for the many live performance telecasts which have since followed.In 1975 'In Performance at Wold Trap' presented Beverly Sills in perhaps her most acclaimed portrayal that of Queen Elizabeth I in the Donizetti rarity Roberto Devereux. When Miss Sills first sang the role at the New York City Opera in 1970 Winthrop Sargeant wrote in the New Yorker She was Elizabeth from the extreme pallor of her makeup to the royal sweep of her train. It was a characterisation that I shall never forget. The combination of skills she brought to her role made this a historic moment. Daniel Webster wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer Miss Sills sang the towering role with such authority and portrayed Queen Elizabeth with such fervour that the opera unstaged (in New York) for more than 125 years now is one of the theatrical events of the year.

• Adventures Of Robin Hood - The - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £26.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring all 26 episodes from the fourth series of The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Episodes comprise: 1. Sybella 2. The Flying Sorcerer 3. The Lady-Killer 4. A Touch Of Fever 5. The Devil You Don't Know 6. The Loaf 7. Six Strings To His Bow 8. Tuck's Love Day 9. A Bushel Of Apples 10. The Truce 11. The Debt 12. The Oath 13. The Charm Pedlar 14. Goodbye Little John 15. The Reluctant Rebel 16. The Bagpiper 17. The Parting Guest 18. Hostage For A Hangman 19. Hue And Cry 20. The C

• Fame Academy - Live | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  All 12 Fame Academy students are featured in this live Wembley concert filmed in front of 10 000 screaming fans!

• Galileo | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film is about Galileo the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations for modern science. He made one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter he also supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun and suffered persecution at the hands of the Inquisition...