"Actor: Mathis"

• Dolly Parton - Blue Valley Songbird | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a totally unexpected piece of casting, Blue Valley Songbird stars Dolly Parton as a country singer/songwriter with big hair, large breasts and lots of lippy. The comparison ends there, though, because here she plays Leana Taylor, a talented performer hampered by her provincial background (and unpleasant manager/boyfriend) who realises she must escape her small-town roots in order to achieve her true potential. This isn't the most taxing of narratives, but it's the music that counts here. This movie is of the "musical drama" genre--take a star musical performer, give them the lead role in a movie, then furnish them with every excuse to perform therein so long as it can be done as a realistic element within the overall story--and as such it's highly agreeable. Parton not only has buckets of musical talent but also has plausible acting skills, even if the viewer is bound to think that these are mainly to do with being Dolly Parton. In any event, the songs are excellent, so this is well worth watching even if you find yourself fast-forwarding until you see someone picking a guitar up.--Roger Thomas

• Johnny Mathis - Live In Chicago | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £6.03   |  Saving you £-0.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Live at Indiana's Holiday Star Theatre in the early `80's he celebrated 25 years in the top flight aided by conductor James Ganduglia's 30-piece orchestra and a special appearance by Deniece Williams for the classic #1 duet ""Too Much Too Little Too Late"". Also aired on this special evening: ""Chances Are"" West Side Story's ""Maria"" ""Begin The Beguine"" ""The Last Time I Felt Like This"" and a formidable version of Gloria Gaynor's ""I Will Survive"". Truly unforgettable.

• Super Mario Bros | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This ain't no game. It's a live-action thrill ride! Buckle up and hang on tight-the discovery of a parallel universe launches you into the adventure of a lifetime! Mario and Luigi two wacky plumbers undertake a daring quest to save a princess in ""Dinohattan""-a hidden world where the inhabitants evolved from dinosaurs! Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) face deadly challenges from a diabolical lizard king (Dennis Hopper-Hoosiers) and must battle giant reptilian goombas outwit misfit thugs and undermine a sinister scheme to take over the world! Blast off for non-stop excitement with Super Mario Bros. the live-action thrill ride that dazzled moviegoers everywhere!

• Little Drummer Boy - An Essay On Gustav Mahler By And With Leonard Bernstein | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. The essay recorded in Israel Vienna and later in London is punctuated by biographical interludes and illustrated by musical examples drawn from the cycle of Mahler's works recorded by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein talks plays and conducts various orchestras (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker) and soloists (Janet Baker Christa Ludwig Edith Mathis Lucia Popp Walton Groenroos) in performances spanning 17 years. Leonard Bernstein also examines the roots of Gustav Mahler's inspiration. This DVD features music from the nine symphonies The Song of the Earth and the Wunderhorn Cycle.

• Lasko - Death Train | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While onboard a train making a pilgrimmage to Lourdes a former soldier and the other passengers are taken hostage by a gang of criminals after the theft of a highly contagious virus. The only person that can save the pilgrims is the former soldier Lasko who has vowed to never fight again after a traumatic experience in Kosovo and becoming a monk.

• The Creation | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £6.61   |  Saving you £13.38 (202.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung ("The Creation") recounts Genesis via Milton's Paradise Lost, translated into German and reworked into the finished libretto by the Baron van Swieten. It is an intensely felt masterpiece, Haydn later saying, "I was never so pious as during the time when I was working on The Creation: I fell to my knees daily and asked God to give me the strength for a favourable completion of the work." The music alternates thrilling choral writing with moving solo parts, and bass Rene Pape and soprano Edith Mathis are especially fine. This DVD release presents a 1992 performance originally shot for video in an unnamed but beautiful and ornate Baroque location. The notes record that at the public premiere in Vienna in 1799, a small book containing van Swisten's libretto was given to each member of the audience "So that ever'body unnerstands what the music wanted t'say." It is ironic that this release contains neither the libretto nor subtitles. This is a musical drama, and the text is vitally important for more than superficial appreciation, such that those unfamiliar with the work may find greater reward in John Eliot Gardiner's 1997 CD version. On the DVD: The disc contains a clean, sharp 4:3 ratio transfer from the original video programme with minimal evidence of grain. The sound is stereo PCM and generally good, though in some of the more full-blooded passages the recording of the choir is a little constricted and even harsh. There are no extra features of any kind, though being Region 0 the disc will play in any DVD machine. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Fern Gully - The Last Rainforest | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £7.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (6.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Come join in a spectacular rainforest adventure - where the radar-impaired Batty and his magical friends Crysta Pips and the Beetle Boys try to save their special world from mankind's carelessness and the evil Hexxus.

• Attraction | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Matthew is a radio 'agony uncle' unable to heed his own advice after breaking up with girlfriend Liz he won't leave her alone. A terrified Liz turns to Matthew's best friend and a dark tale of obsession and desire is unleashed. A riveting thriller that twists and turns.

• Broken Arrow | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches.

• American Psycho - Special Edition (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) (+ 2 DVDs) (+ CD) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2021) from £40.16   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Punisher | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Johnny Mathis - Home For Christmas | DVD | (04/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  All time greatest christmas songs by Johnny Mathis. Tracklist: 1. I'll be home for Christmas 2. Every Christmas Eve / Giving (Santa's Theme) 3. O Holy night 4. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 5. Toyland 6. The Christmas song 7. Caroling caroling / Happy holiday 8. What child is this 9. Winter wonderland 10. Silent night 11. When a child is born 12. White Christmas

• Resident Evil / The Punisher / Hellboy | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £11.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (68.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Resident Evil - Apocalypse (Dir. Alexander Witt 2004): The sequel to the 0 million hit Resident Evil: Apocalypse is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the first film ended. The zombies are back and so is Alice (Jovovich). Since being captured by the notorious Umbrella Corporation she has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation and has become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. Now she has teamed with other survivors of Earth ready to destroy any zombie in their path. After escaping from the Racoon City Medical Facility Alice searches for answers to the T-Virus and how to contain it. On the other side of town a woman named Jill Valentine plots her own escape while battling the undead and Matt Adison now transformed into a monster called The Nemesis who is bent on destroying all who live. Punisher (Dir. Jonathan Hensleigh 2004): Marvel Comics presents a second big-screen version of The Punisher with this action-packed adaptation from screenwriter-turned-director Jonathan Hensleigh. Frank Castle (Tom Jane) is a retired F.B.I. agent spurred into action after the merciless slaying of his wife father and son. Adopting the superhero guise of The Punisher Castle aims to wreak vengeance for his dead family by tracking down the culprits responsible for their demise. All clues point to Howard Saint (John Travolta) a ruthless businessman and nightclub owner whose son was mistakenly killed by Castle in a botched undercover operation back in his F.B.I. days. Unique amongst Marvel superheroes The Punisher possesses no special powers just remarkable strength parried with a blind determination to avenge his family. As he hunts down Saint Castle surrounds himself with three fellow societal outcasts to get the job done namely Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) Bumpo (John Pinette) and Dave (Ben Foster). Hellboy (Dir. Guillermo del Toro 2004): In the final days of World War II the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where an occult ceremony is taking place but not before a demon Hellboy has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood under the supervision of his adopted 'father' Trevor Bruttenholm serving the cause of good rather than evil. When the powerful and evil Nazi figure who unleashed Hellboy suddenly reappears in modern times he discovers that Hellboy is now working as a paranormal investigator at a secret U.S. government agency dedicated to protecting humanity from the forces of darkness. Now Hellboy must fight to solve the riddle of his own existence and prevent the destruction of mankind... Dark Horse Comics' popular cult superhero Hellboy makes the leap from the comic book pages to the big screen with Ron Perlman the only actor considered charismatic enough to convey the blood-red demon anti-hero cutting a cigar-chomping dash in the title role as Hellboy assisted by prosthetics from 6-time Oscar winning makeup artist Rick Baker.

• Menotti - Help Help The Globolinks | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £11.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (110.18%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Globolinks - An opera for children and all those still young at heart!This historical studio production (1969) was filmed after the world premiere from The Hamburg State Opera in 1968.

• Johnny Mathis In Concert | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Johnny Mathis live at Indiana's Holiday Star Theatre in the Early 1980's... Tracklisting: 1. Misty 2. Begin The Beguine 3. West Side Story Medley 1 4. Tonight 5. I Have A Love 6. Somewhere 7. And Her Mother Came Too 8. Orange Coloured Sky 9. Chances Are 10. Wonderful Wonderful 11. I Believe In Love 12. Duets Medely 13. The Last Time I Felt Like This 14. Friends In Love 15. Too Much Too Little Too Late 16. Acustic Guitar Medely 17. Too Young 18. The Twelfth Of Never 19. I Will Survive

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Features eight movies. In 'Texan' a retired pilot grows suspicious of his wife's actions when he discovers that she is meeting with another man and withdrawing money from the bank... Also features: 'The Investigator' 'Teach 109' 'Another Round' 'Hogg's Heaven' 'Museum Of Love' 'Once In A Blue Moon' and 'Hearts Of Stone'.

• The Challenge | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Challenge

• Mozart: Requiem In D Minor KV 626 | DVD | (03/09/2005) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart's last work The Requiem Mass in D Minor K626 receives a strong performance from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chorus under Mozart specialist Colin Davis in a classic recording made in 1984.Popular legend has it that the Requiem was commissioned by a mysterious stranger fuelling Mozart's obsession that the piece was his own Mass. However the probable truth is much less dark that one Count Walsegg who had a well-known penchant for commissioning works which he then attempted to pass of as his own commissioned it upon the death of his wife. Mozart died is 1791 before completing the piece. It was later completed by one of his students Franz Sussmayer at the request of Mozart's wife Constanze.

• The Music Of Chance | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nashe is an ex-fireman travelling across America burning up what's left of his inheritance and his memories of the past when he picks up a bloody and battered man by the side of the road. Both begin a series of card games where the stakes spiral out of control leading to unforseen bizarre circumstances. A card game that could literally change their lives forever.

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Investigator - Starring Vincent D'Onofrio (thumbsucker) and Anne Heche (Birth). An insurance investigator encounter's a mysterious woman. Was it fate or mere circumstance? Suspense.Teach 109 - Starring Jason Patric (Narc) Elizabeth Perkins (Cats and Dogs) and James Earl Jones (Summer's End). Based on an idea by Isaac Asimov. A young medical intern must perform a risky operation on a robot. Science Fiction.Another Round - Starring Alison Elliot (Birth) and Brett Cullen (National Security). A young waitress learns she will have to spend Valentine's Day alone while her boyfriend plays cards with his friends. Romantic Comedy.Hogg's Heaven - Starring Keith Gordon (Delivering Milo) and Shirley Knight (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya-Sisterhood). A man decides to give his parents a second chance. Dramatic Comedy.Texan - Starring Dana Delany (Final Jeopardy) and directed by Treat Williams (Hollywood Endings). A retired fighter pilot suspects his beautiful young wife of adultery and other wrongdoings. Suspense.Museum Of Love - Starring Samantha Mathis (The Punisher) and directed by Christian Slater (Windtalkers). A young man deserted by his girlfriend turns himself and his home into a museum - a painful remembrance of lost love. Drama.Once In A Blue Moon - Starring Fisher Stevens (Undisputed) Jeff Silverman (Holy Smoke) and Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy). Surrealist twist of fate in someone's life when a pregnant fallen angel must be confronted. Drama.Hearts Of Stone - Starring Glen Plummer (The Day After Tomorrow). Two rival Los Angeles gangs decide to settle their differences with a one-on-one game of Russian roulette. Action.