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• The Rainbow | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £7.14   |  Saving you £8.85 (123.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Defying the moral constraints of Victorian England and her parents a young woman engages in unbridled promiscuity with two partners before setting out to capture the full sensuality of life itself. Based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence.

• Doctor Who: Tom Baker Complete Season Three (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (04/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Rainbow | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A respectable and picturesque realisation of DH Lawrence's novel, 1989's The Rainbow is director Ken Russell's prequel to his 1969 version of Women in Love. By Russell's standards, this is a remarkably restrained treatment of Lawrence's novel, set in the Midlands in the 19th century: with its lush, rural setting and quaint bucolic soundtrack there are moments when you might imagine you're watching The Railway Children--until the sex scenes kick in, that is. Her soul infused with infinite longing by the sight of a rainbow as a child, Ursula Brangwen grows up restless at the prescribed roles set out for women in Victorian England, which are stoically endured by her mother (Glenda Jackson, who played Ursula's sister Gudrun in Women in Love). She idealises her swimming instructor--the older, more experienced Winifred (Amanda Donohoe) with whom she enjoys a passionate, borderline lesbian relationship. She becomes a schoolteacher against her parents' wishes, and takes up with Paul McGann, who is somewhat tepid as a Boer War officer. Ultimately, however, she finds all of these limitations too constraining and finally strikes out on her own in search of true spiritual and sexual freedom. On the DVD: This is a full-screen version of the film, ratio 4:3. The sound quality is fine as is the colour and sharpness, though like the film itself, not quite as ravishing as you might hope. Special features consist of a routine trailer ("She played by her passion, not by their rules") and disappointingly perfunctory "filmographies" of the director and cast: merely lists of their previous movies. --David Stubbs

• Doctor Who : Hand Of Fear | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When the TARDIS lands in on Earth in a quarry the Doctor and Sarah are caught in a mining explosion. She is found clutching what appears to be a fossilised hand buried in 150 million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

• Dragonworld - The Legend Continues | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young boy trained in the ways of magic is the one true friend of Yowler the last dragon on Earth. When the Dark Knight plans to use Yowler's blood to begin a new age of darkness he must defeat the Knight before the reign of terror unfolds.