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• Verdi: Falstaff -- Royal Opera House | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £30.24   |  Saving you £-5.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This Graham Vicks production of Falstaff opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, but was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes, especially Falstaff's unusually hideous get-ups, go several steps beyond the Breughelian effect Vicks intended. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is reflected in unobtrusive blocking that keeps the vocal lines clear and separate, especially in the final fugue. Bryn Terfel's Falstaff is a memorable creation, self-mocking and self-aggrandising at the same time--so much so, in fact, that he almost does not need the vast prosthetic body he has to wear for the part. Desiree Rancatore is an admirably sweet-toned Nanetta; Bernadette Manca di Nissa an appropriately sardonic Mistress Quickly; Roberto Frontali as Ford, in his Act 2 scena, perfectly distils and parodies every jealousy aria ever written, including Verdi's own. Haitink's conducting is exemplary in the lyrical passages, and gets almost everything out of the fast and furious comic sections. --Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: The disc comes with act introductions by James Naughtie, interviews with Haitink, Terfel and Graham Vicks and a documentary about the reaction of the stage-hands to the new building. It has scene selection and subtitles in English. --Roz Kaveney

• The Little Mermaid - Trilogy (Disney) | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Little Mermaid: All the music fun and excitement under the sea resurface in this magical special edition of Disney's 28th animated masterpiece. Awash with breathtaking animation unforgettably colourful characters and two Academy Awards for score and song Under The Sea The Little Mermaid is one of Disney's most cherished films. Ariel the fun-loving and mischievous mermaid is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea she swims to the surface and in a raging storm rescues the prince of her dreams. Determined to be human she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch Ursula and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend the adorable and chatty Flounder and her reluctant chaperone Sebastian the hilarious reggae-singing Caribbean crab at her side Ariel must win the prince's love and save her father's kingdom -- all in a heart-pounding race against time! The Little Mermaid 2 - Return To The Sea: After rejoicing over the birth of their daughter Melody Ariel and Eric must face a new threat from Ursula's revengeful sister Morgana - a threat that forces them to hide Melody's true mermaid heritage. Melody a young princess curious about her roots ultimately ventures into the sea against her parents' wishes. There she meets new friends and in her dreams to be a mermaid becomes a pawn in Morgana's plot to gain control of the Seven Seas. Ariel must reunite with her childhood friends Sebastian Flounder and Scuttle to rescue her daughter and restore harmony to the family. The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Beginning: Imagine a time long before Ariel met Prince Eric and walked on land a time when music was banned from the underwater kingdom of Atlantica. Torn between family duty and her love of music Ariel must make the most difficult choice of her life. With the help of her friends Sebastian and Flounder and her six amusing sisters will the young mermaid be able to restore music friendship and love to the kingdom?

• Jackanory - Peter Pan | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The classic J.M. Barrie tale as told by Jan Francis.

• U.S. Seals | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When death stalks the high seas...There's only one combat force for the job... Modern-day pirates have taken to the seas crippling the world shipping trade and making the ocean a very dangerous place to be. The U.S. president has no choice but to call on the immediate intervention of the world's most lethal daring combat force: the Navy SEALs. From an oil rig in the icy North Atlantic to the luxurious playground of the French Riviera the SEALs engage the pirates at every turn leading to the fiery climax at the pirate's base in remote Kazahkstan. What stars as an important mission for the SEALs becomes a personal grudge match and finally a life-and-death struggle for control of the seas. In the tradition of Under Siege and Delta Force U.S. Seals is searing white-hot high-caliber action you'll watch again and again.

• Borderline | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Charles Bronson stars as a US Border Guard who is trying to protect the country from the millions of illegal Mexicans immigrants who attempt to cross the border annually. He becomes involved in a murder hunt when his partner and a poor youth are murdered.

• Turandot - Puccini | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £18.84   |  Saving you £-3.85 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the Imperial Palace of Peking the Emperor announces that any prince seeking to marry his daughter Turandot must first answer three riddles. Prince Calaf falls immediately in love with Turandot and successfully answers all three. However before the Prince marries Turandot he asks her a riddle of his own.

• Layer Cake - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Just as he's about to get out of the game entirely, a drug dealer gets drawn back in to the doublecrossing world of the London mafia in this refreshing British thriller.

• Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto In D Major / Serenade For Strings In C Major | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-29.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This volume of the NAXOS MUSICAL JOURNEY returns to Russia and the music and world of Tchaikovsky. Violin Concerto Op. 35 and Serenade for Strings evoke memories of Tchaikovsky's homeland. From the Venice-like waterways of St. Petersburg to the famed Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater; from the remote splendor of the Yelagin Palace to sacred churches. Float along the River Neva for a stunning view of St. Peterburg's wondrous beauty; experience the intimacy of Tchaikovsky's own country home p

• Killing Of America | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Killing Of America is a hard hitting shock-u-mentary about the rise of violence in the home of the brave. From the assassinations of J.F.K. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy to the violent protests against the Vietnam war. From the ritual murders of Charles Manson's family to the rise of serial killers like Ted Bundy Son of Sam and John Wayne Gacy. From random sniper attacks on innocent civilians to the mass suicide of the cult of Jim Jones The Killing Of America shows the

• Star Blazers - The Quest For Iscandar - Part 1 | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's 2199 and radiation from constant Gamilon bombing threatens to destroy life on Earth. Space Cruiser Argo races against time to find the planet Iscander and bring back Cosmo-DNA which can reverse the contamination. The Argo engages in spectacular battles with an enemy fleet commanded by Desslok of Gamilon. On board officers Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture wage their own private war. Chief Mechanic Sandor is revealed to be a Cyborg and Captain Avatar weakened by radiation poisoning is kept alive by Dr. Sane the ship's doctor. A quirky robot called IQ-9 takes over when the human crew need help. All this while Queen Starsha waits on Iscandar with a man from Earth the Star Blazers have given up for dead.... Please note: this is a NTSC disc.

• Two Men Went To War | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This comedy drama is the story of two Army dentists Sergeant Peter King (Kenneth Cranham) and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill) who, in 1942 stole a bag of hand grenades, two revolvers and a set of the best dental equipment that money could buy and went off to invade occupied France on their own - without permission!
  Two Men Went To War tells their outrageously irresponsible, yet eccentrically heroic story for the first time. With an all star cast in a sumptuous, funny and moving drama...

• Of Unknown Origin | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A low-rent horror flick from the early 1980s, Of Unknown Origin completely misses the mark in the scare stakes and instead comes across like a grisly, live-action version of Tom and Jerry. Our inept hero is the ambitious, house-proud executive Bart Hughes (Peter Weller), who is left alone by his wife and son to complete a business proposal only to discover that he is sharing his apartment with a mischievous giant rat. Unable to trap or poison his foe, Hughes quickly descends into nightmare-haunted madness and thus the stage is set for a suspenseless battle of wits that is less cat-and-mouse and more idiot-versus-rat. Finding an angry rodent swimming in your toilet might be a pretty unpleasant prospect, but cinematically speaking it's far from terrifying. Created using jerky point-of-view shots and creature effects that range from incongruous real-life footage to button-eyed glove puppets, the rat is an unthreatening villain, despite Weller's best efforts to react in abject horror when he finds the corners of his mail nibbled or his dry groceries spoiled. There are some unsuccessful attempts to make Hughes' plight more immediate to the audience by references to real-life rat problems--he visits a library to research his enemy and finds some disturbing photographs of rat-attack victims and subsequently ruins a dinner party with a genuinely unsettling rant about infestation and plagues--but it's difficult to feel sorry for him when he can't even muster the tenacity to track down a professional exterminator. By the time Weller gets caught in one of his own traps, you will probably be rooting for the rat anyway, and might take some pleasure from a ridiculous denouement in which, dressed in full battle-gear, he completely destroys his beloved apartment by clumsily chasing the elusive vermin with a nail-studded baseball bat. Gore Verbinski's genuinely hilarious Mousehunt did it with a lot more charm. On the DVD: Of Unknown Origin comes to DVD with a basic selection of extras. An entertaining commentary from Peter Weller and the likeable George P Cosmatos III does the film a lot of favours, even if their efforts to talk up its importance as an allegory for man's struggle against nature using comparisons with The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, Alien and Jaws fail to convince. Added to this is the theatrical trailer ("If it doesn't scare you to death, it WILL find another way!"), a choice of languages and scene selection. --Paul Philpott

• Prom Night 4 - Deliver Us From Evil | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A maniacal killer stalks two young couples on the night of their prom in this fourth installment of the hit Prom Night series. After 33 years in captivity a possessed man who is 'evil beyond imagination' escapes and makes his way to a monastery he knows from his youth. But it is now a summer home where four teens are celebrating prom night in their own special way. The kids intended to make this an evening to remember... their uninvited guest turns it into a night of un

• Hadleigh - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Gerald Harper stars as stylish young landowner James Hadleigh. A unique character - full of charm and dynamic energy and possessed of a sharp intelligence - he has inherited amongst other things the proprietorship of the Westdale Gazette. He is in fact a man of total privilege. Tempted by a powerful press magnate into a deal he would be silly to refuse Hadleigh is torn between the promise of eventual control over a press empire and his deep love of his native Yorkshire. Episodes Comprise: Invasion Exposure Ring of Fire Bow to the Lady A Quiet Place in the Country A Letter to David Nicola Penn Open Verdict The Diplomat Absolutely Feudal The Sealed Offer Breakdown Whose Life is it?

• Layer Cake | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• The Most Fertile Man In Ireland | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Whilst the rest of the male population of Belfast are firing nothing but blanks Eamonn is blessed with 'tadpoles on speed that could impregnate a stone'. Realising that there is cash to be made out of his fellow man's infertility this 24 year old virgin transforms himself overnight into Belfast's very own one man sperm bank. Business is booming until Eamonn is sucked into the 'troubles' and finds his crown jewels dangling in the fires of political distrust and religious intolerance!

• Gerry Anderson - the Monochrome Years | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Gerry Anderson is a British producer who was to British TV in the 60's what Walt Disney was to U.S. TV in the 50's - THE purveyor of children's television. As the children of the 60's grew up so did Gerry's programming with more adult puppet shows and live-action dramas to appeal to his maturing audience. The list of shows which Anderson has produced is quite staggering encompassing something that will resonate with almost everyone. His credits range from Thunderbirds to Space 1999; Captain Scarlet to Stingray; Joe 90 and the Terrahawks. Gerry Anderson is truly a bastion of children's television and his works are celebrated here on this monolith of a box set. Includes: 1. Torchy The Battery Boy (Series 1) 2. Four Feather Falls 3. Supercar 4. Fireball XL5

• Prozzie | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Through the keyhole begins a game that results in the violent death of a prostitute watched helplessly by her daughter. The story continues when the daughter now a prostitute herself suffers psycological ailments that make her seek revenge on those she makes contact with by repeating the events that she witnessed the night her mother was killed. This disturbing 1981 drama comes from German-born director Ulli Lommel and is also known under the titles Olivia Faces of Fear A Taste of Sin.

• Hellfire | DVD | (27/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the darkest reaches of outer space a battle begins to possess the most desired substance known to man 'The Hellfire'. On Earth vigilante groups destroy it at will. Panic spreads as the awesome destructive power of hellfire spreads across the land. Hellfire ignites human flesh and disintegrates the body chemicals in the wrong hands the results will be catastrophic! .... and it's in the wrong hands....

• Bloodfist | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £6.40   |  Saving you £-3.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Don Wilson is quite frankly a one man army! -American Karate Magazine To avenge the brutal murder of his brother Jake Ray (Don The Dragon Wilson) journeys to the Philippines where his search for the truth finds him battling both in and out of the ring. But the weapons are always the same: bare fists bare feet. And the rules never change: the last man standing wins. Also featuring karate legend & Tae Bo founder Billy Blanks along with a host of martial arts champions.