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• Classic Horror - Vol. 2 | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Includes: 1. Carnival Of Souls 2. The Ape Man 3. Mesa Of Lost Women 4. Creature From The Haunted Sea 5. The Devil Bat 6. Vampire Bat 7. Dementia 13 8. Shock 9. Black Dragon For more information on individual films please refer to the individual products.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 3 - Part 2 | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Xena driven to vengeance by Ares nearly kills her friend Gabrielle but is taken to the mystical land Illusia where they are reunited. Gabrielle however is still tormented by her rift with Xena and tries to erase her memory at the Temple of Mnemosyne. After a tortuous ordeal she comes to realise that in order for good memories to exist there must also be bad memories. Enlightened by this they travel on together recovering the North Star jewel stolen from Aphrodite along the way only to discover Hope Gabrielle''s daughter in the process of being re-born into the world with the sacrifice of Gabrielle's friend Seraphin. Xena and Gabrielle realise they must stop this but are battling against their old foes Ares and Callisto again... Features the episodes: The Bitter Suite One Against an Army Forgiven King Con When in Rome Forget Me Not Fins Femmes and Gems Tsunami Vanishing Act and Sacrifice Parts One and Two.

• Ivan The Terrible - Prokofiev And Grigorovich | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded at the end of 2003 this production features in the title role of the amazing star of the Paris Ballet Nicolas Le Riche one of the foremost dancers of today. Famous all over the world of his elegant strength the beauty of his expression and the musicality of his movements he has created leading roles for choreographers such as Rudolf Nureyev Mats Ek and John Neumeier. As the Czar Ivan he dances opposite Elonora Abbagnato his fellow dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet whose highly refined dancing in the role of his wife Anastasia gives rise to great hopes for her future.

• The Best Of Most Haunted Live! - Vol. 4 | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (-25.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Join investigative presenter Yvette Fielding spiritual medium Derek Acorah parapsychologist Jason Karl and the rest of the Most Haunted crew as they travel the length and breadth of Great Britain in their unique search into the paranormal. Experience the tears laughter and intense fear of the Most Haunted team as they stay overnight at renowned haunted locations. By setting experiments and using the most up-to-date equipment Most Haunted captures some of the best paranormal footage ever seen. Join the team for a fourth installment of Most Haunted Live

• The Merchant Of Four Seasons | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Famed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder typically portrays aspects of the human struggle using an unwavering style that is often difficult to watch but provides a refreshingly raw and honest narrative perspective. Merchant Of Four Seasons is an engaging close-up portrait of a downtrodden fruit seller named Hans. Full of hope after serving with the Foreign Legion Hans becomes a police officer--only to be fired for an indiscretion with a prostitute humiliating himself and his family. Hungry for a piece of the economic boom of the 1950s Hans begins selling produce from a cart much to the dismay of his class-conscious family. Saddled with a shrewish wife Hans derives most of his pleasure from drink and flirting with a former girlfriend whom he truly loves. However when he hires a former Foreign Legion friend to help with his business things suddenly take an unfortunate turn making Hans obsolete in the process. The Merchant Of Four Seasons was a turning point in Fassbinder's career marking his entry into the international arena and the subsequent scrutiny of his notorious private life

• Parade | DVD | (08/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

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• The Chronicles Of Riddick | UMD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Night of The Living Dead | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-3.74 (-125.10%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A spill of radiation causes the recently deceased to rise from the grave and feast on the flesh of the living in this chilling classic. Now the dead and the living must fight against each other in a struggle for survival.

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• The Sword In The Stone/Robin Hood (Disney) | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A young scullery boy named Wart is taught amazing lessons by the wizard Merlin who turns him into a fish a bird and a squirrel so that he might understand the mysteries of life. Such lessons help the boy succeed where for centuries thousands of might men had failed. Whoever removes the wondrous golden sword embedded in a large stone will be crowned Arthur King of England! Brilliantly executed and peopled with unforgettable characters The Sword in the Stone is the best of both worlds: a legend and a Disney Classic!

• Gobshite | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Spoils Of War | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £10.12   |  Saving you £2.86 (40.11%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the true story of 'Operation Bernhard' the secret Nazi plan to destabilise the British economy by flooding Britain with forged sterling notes. 'Spoils of War' is the compelling and dramatic story of Five Allied soldiers who plan to infiltrate and capture the forged millions for their own personal gain.

• Da | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Da in 'Da' is the recently deceased foster father of 40 year old Irish playwright Charlie who now lives in New York and has returned to Ireland for his father's funeral. Da in typical Irish style can't bear to miss his own funeral! As Charlie sorts through the old man's papers burning most of them who strolls in but Da himself. Shocked Charlie reminds him that he is dead and tells him to 'get out of my head'... Most of the action takes place in Charlie's mind and memory moving from present reality to the past and back again as the two struggle to understand each other. In the process other significant and colourful characters of Charlie's early life are resurrected including his mother the family dog and his tyrannical employer. His reverie is interrupted by Mr. Drumm who was entrusted with Da's will which much to Charlie's dismay bequeaths everything to him including all of the money Charlie ever sent his Da. Charlie learns that he cannot exorcise the past. Like all mankind he is part of a human chain and to reject his father even in memory is to deny himself... Based on the highly acclaimed Broadway play and written by Hugh Leonard Da features Barnard Hughes recreating his Tony award winning performance for the screen Martin Sheen as Charlie and William Hickey as Drumm.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 4 Boxset 1 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Where is Gabrielle - is she alive or dead? Xena tracks her down to the land of the Amazons trapped along with Amazon spirits. Xena fights Alti to see her best friend one more time but is it really her? Eventually reunited they travel on but things don''t go smoothly for the adventurous duo as Xena is sent to Shark Island Prison for past crimes and even Argo switches sides and becomes a Warlord's horse! Xena breaks free to continue her fight against injustice never easy as the evil Horde returns with a vengeance! Features the episodes: Adventures In The Sin Trade: Part I Adventures In The Sin Trade: Part II A Family Affair In Sickness And In Hell A Good Day A Tale Of Two Muses Locked Up And Tied Down Crusader Past Imperfect Key To The Kingdom and Daughter Of Pomira.

• Bearskin | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Johnny Fortune is no good to anyone not mean but just no good. To escape Casino bosses who want him for stealing money he flees to England. He gets a job dressed as a bear for Punch & Judy shows which is an effective disguise. But when the Casino thugs track him down it's up to his two resourceful bosses to help him.

• Anarchism in America | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £10.65   |  Saving you £4.35 (29.00%)   |  RRP £15.00

  Two fascinating documentaries on one disc. Each tackles the politics and history of American anarchism in a unique engaging and often hilarious manner.For the first Anarchism in America filmmakers Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher took a rambling cross-country trip. Their mission was to search out evidence of anarchist activity in communities from rural Atkins Bay Maine to cosmopolitan San Francisco. A strange cast of characters emerged. Starting with the premise that Americans embody anarchist principles of freedom and independence the filmmakers were not disappointed. Along with archival footage of luminaries like Emma Goldman they introduce us to Mildred Loomis 80-years-old and still advocating back to the land individualism: beat poet Kenneth Rexroth: science fiction author Ursula Le Guin: long-distance trucker Li'l John: punk rockers the Dead Kennedys: and among many others AK Press author Murray Bookehin.The second film The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists traces the history of a Yiddish anarchist newspaper - publishing it's final issue after 87 years. Narrated by anarchist historian Paul Avrich the story is mostly told by the newspaper's now elderly but decidedly unbowed staff. It's the story of one of the largest radical movements among Jewish immigrant workers in the 19th and 20th centuries the conditions that led them to band together their fight to build trade unions their huge differences with the Communists their attitudes towards violence Yiddish culture and their loyalty to one another.Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher since studying with Martin Scorsese in 1969 have been making Emmy and Guggenheim award-winning non-fiction films that explore American social history.

• Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) -- La Scala | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Like all successfully filmed operas, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1974 film of his 1972 La Scala production of The Barber of Seville weaves its magic on multiple levels: naturalistic lighting and camera-work which break through the invisible barrier of the proscenium arch and take the viewer to the heart of the action; wonderful casting and magnificent singing; opera singers who can act to the camera (Teresa Berganza, in particular, is luminous); and conducting which simply revels in the richness of a much-loved score (Claudio Abbado wrings every ounce of levity and brilliance from the music). Rossini's 1816 work, based on Beaumarchais' Figaro characters and an earlier libretto by Paisiello, is one of the great joys of comic opera, crammed with familiar arias and duets, all of which drive the galloping pace of the book without ever interrupting the plot. Its ingredients of romance, disguise and intrigue merge in Rossini's extraordinarily vibrant and increasingly explosive score. At the heart of the tale is the love triangle of Count Almaviva (a lusty Luigi Alva), the wilful Rosina (Teresa Berganza at the peak of her mezzo-soprano powers) and her guardian with an ulterior motive Bartolo (Enzo Dara, constantly foiled). Thanks to the machinations of Figaro (Hermann Prey, making the most of his trademark theme "Largo al factotum") they are put through a series of hoops in which love conquers all and no real harm is ever done. On the DVD: If this Barber has dated at all it's largely thanks to Abbado's pudding-basin haircut and the film's inevitable 1970's quality. It is presented in standard 4:3 format with a PCM Stereo soundtrack, producing a merely average video-standard viewing experience. Apart from a good choice of subtitles there are no extras. A history of the production would have been useful. But these shortcomings, and the occasionally dull sound quality, are soon forgotten in the heat of the action.--Piers Ford

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 2 (Box Set 1) | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess now boasts a huge cult following. Xena is a charismatic and highly-skilled warrior from ancient times. This DVD box set includes the first half of the second season of this action-packed series.

• The Bourne Identity Identity (Special Edition) / The Bourne Supremacy | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy in one boxed set edition.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  More adventures with the warrior princess Xena who fights for the rights of the innocent.