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• Citizen Kane | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful a film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle storyline inventive cinemato

• Puccini: Turandot -- San Francisco | DVD | (18/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Not only is Puccini's final opera Turandot among the composer's most popular works, but following The Three Tenors and a certain football contest, it has in "Nessun dorma!" what is almost certainly the best-loved aria in all opera. Written 20 years after Madame Butterfly (1904), Puccini's version of an 800-year-old fairy-tale is set in a legendary Peking and scored on a grand scale, incorporating not only Chinese musical techniques but a vast range of oriental percussion. Puccini draws heavily on the chorus, and as ever makes intense demands on his heroine, to which Eva Marton rises powerfully, very well complemented by the tenor Michael Sylvester as Calaf. However, what makes this 1994 San Francisco Opera version so enchanting as a visual experience is the realisation by David Hockney, who not only designed the sets and costumes but also directed the production. His vision is highly stylised, richly imagined, atmospheric and very beautiful, and it is a testament to how well this version is directed that much of the original magic is communicated through the confines of a TV screen. --Gary S. DalkinOn the DVD: Other than a well-appointed booklet, and the option to watch with or without subtitles, there are no special features. The 4:3 picture is a major improvement on video, though no doubt due to the original source materials, not as detailed as the best DVDs. The sound is powerful PCM stereo, with a slight tendency to become strident at especially dramatic moments. The layer change is particularly badly done, interrupting the choir in full flow, rather than being placed between tracks.

• Third Rock From The Sun - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The multi-award winning comedy series stars John Lithgow as the High Commander of an investigative team of aliens sent to Earth on a mission to learn everything about humans and their so-called advanced civilisation.

• Leo | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £7.82   |  Saving you £5.43 (82.77%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Two parallel stories about a widowed mother and an ex-convict interweave in this literary drama.

• Forever Mine | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Paul Schrader's Forever Mine tells a not-very-compelling, still-less-credible story of love, betrayal and retribution. A cabana boy (Joseph Fiennes) at a Florida beach resort falls hard for a gorgeous guest (Gretchen Mol) neglected by her wheeler-dealer husband (Ray Liotta). After a steamy nude scene and a sweet, barefoot date, Fiennes follows her home to New York and declares undying love. Mol--a good Catholic girl who reads Madame Bovary--confesses the affair to Liotta. Being shadier than she realises, he arranges to have nasty things befall his rival. Cut to 14 years later (though in fact the movie has been shuffling time periods since the beginning) Fiennes, long presumed dead, resurfaces to lend his talents (he's become a master criminal) to the now thoroughly corrupt Liotta and sees what his beloved is up to. Fiennes has a new name and a scar on one side of his face, so neither recognises him. You don't have a problem with that, do you? Non-recognition is always a tricky proposition in movies, but Forever Mine's problems don't end there. Fiennes, sans Shakespeare in Love beard and Bardlike charisma, doesn't begin to suggest a guy who'd inspire obsession. His costar's attempt at creating a soul sister to Emma Bovary is as under-acted as it is underwritten, and Liotta's husband is just a lout, despite a desperate stab at giving him a virtually literary sensitivity regarding his romantic one-upping. If you want a spellbinding Schrader movie about outré passion and literary mystery, look up The Comfort of Strangers instead. --Richard T Jameson

• Firepower | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two tough cops go undercover to locate and return a precious vaccine but are sequestered to a gladiatorial hand to hand combat tournament...

• Doomwatch | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Sin City 2 Steelbook | Blu Ray | (15/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Valachi Papers | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The film the Mafia did not want you to see. Sentenced to 15 years in prison former mob ""button man"" Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura) has put a $100 000 contract out on his life. From thievery and extortion to vengeance and murder Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee on organized crime. Based on Peter Maa's best-sell

• Route 9 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a couple of small town cops stumble upon a pile of cash after a criminal's drug deal goes bad they decide to keep the money. However is there honour amongst even these usually law abiding thieves?

• Folks! | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jon Aldrich an all around nice guy inadvertently becomes the target of an FBI sting. But compared to everything else in his life that doesn't seem so bad.

• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | DVD | (20/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Last Minute | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Billy Byrne (Max Beesley) wants to be famous. He thinks he'll get eveything he wants when he's famous. He has a talent for selling himself for making people think he should be famous and he gets an agent who promises him the world. And then it all goes wrong. The world is indifferent to his talent. Billy's world is shattered and and he descends into a hostile 21st century version of a Victorian underworld squirming with all manner of thieves beggars and low lifes rejected by society...

• Lured | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A serial killer in London lures young women into his clutches by posting ads in the personal columns of newspapers. After each murder he informs the police by means of a cryptic poem earning himself the tag the 'Poet Killer'. But when the poet killer murders a dancer her best friend decides to assist the police by answering one of his ads...

• Cimarron Strip - The Search | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When killer Dickie Vardeman is arrested for murder Marshal Crown suspects that there will be a rescue attempt made by the outlaw's family. In order to foil the Vardeman's scheme Crown decides to send the killer by train to a neighbouring town for trial. However while executing his plan the Marshal kills one of the Vardeman brothers and is himself shot wounded and left for dead. With the Marshal missing it's up to the good folk of Cimarron to band together and save him but when Clo Vardeman the boy's father offers a reward on Crown's head will he come back dead or alive?

• Jungle Book | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Mowgli (Sabu), having been lost in the jungle as a child, is raised by wolves. Although Mowgli has no trouble conversing with his animal neighbours, his instinct drives him to seek out his human roots and so he returns to the native village from whence he came. With the help of his jungle companions, Mowgli rescues his adoptive family - his natural mother, Messua (Rosemary DeCamp) and the rest of the humans - from the greedy machinations of villains Buldeo (Jospeh Calleia), The Barber (John Qualen) and The Pundit (Frank Puglia). This version is considered by most film historians to be the most faithful and definitive interpretation of this classic story from Rudyard Kipling.

• The Social Climber | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on Adele Lang's novel 'Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber'. Social satire based on the best seller by Adele Lang humorously chronicles the life of Katya Livingston a self-centered obnoxious and conceited 28 year old ad sales exec who won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder. When tax inspectors question her claims Katya is forced to keep a financial diary and finds time to add details about her friends enemies and lovers all from her unique point of view.

• Heart | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Eddie Brennan once a boxer with a killer right is now a has-been who loads trucks for a living. A worn out boxer who dreams of making a comeback seems the perfect candidate for a rigged fight against an up and coming young fighter...

• Dead Z | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £6.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sergio Myers directs this horror starring Patrick Kilpatrick, Joanne Tombo and Lucia Brizzi. When Joanne (Tombo) travels to her hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, to make a documentary for her fashion blog, she comes across a group of old acquaintances who suggest that she films an eccentric man they call The Colonel (Kilpatrick). The Colonel, however, doesn't see these people as new friends; he sees a group of test subjects. As The Colonel reveals his plan to infect the crowd with a deadly virus, Joanne's documentary quickly turns into a zombie apocalypse. There's only one man who can save them: the Zombinator (Joseph Aviel).

• Torso | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £27.49   |  Saving you £-25.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The stunningly beautiful Evelyn Dick (KATHLEEN ROBERTSON I Am Sam) is arrested for murder after the grisly discovery of the torso of her missing husband. Known as 'The Black Widow' Evelyn believed her husband's murder was her ticket to the good life after admitting to numerous affairs with hundreds of wealthy and powerful men.She was certainly no innocent but did that make her guilty of murder?This is one of the most notorious and shocking murder cases on file. Starring VICTOR GARBER (Titanic) Academy Award winner BRENDA FRICKER (The War Bride) and CALLUM KEITH RENNIE (Memento) Torso is a story as bizarre tangled and tragic as they come.