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

  Red Letters has all the makings of a classic Hitchcock thriller: a hapless hero who thinks he's smarter than he is, an unpredictable femme fatale, snaky plot twists, and an all-around excellent cast. Professor Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote) wrote a sizzling erotic novel called Red Letters 20 years ago--but since then his wife has died from a protracted illness and he's been fired from a job because of an affair with a student. So he's grateful to be given a second chance at a small California college where he lectures on Hawthorne--only all his students are more interested in Burke's own writing than Hawthorne's. Burke starts receiving letters for the former resident of his apartment that are from a woman in prison named Lydia (Nastassja Kinski) with a 30-year sentence for murder. Burke writes back and their correspondence takes a turn for the intimate when she asks him to visit her. Burke isn't sure what he's getting into, and his life is further complicated when the daughter of the college Dean (Fairuza Balk) starts making advances. Suddenly Lydia has escaped, his best friend (Jeremy Piven) is arrested for hacking into the prison computer system, and the Dean suspects Burke of trifling with his daughter. The movie loses focus at the very end, but until then it's a smart, well-written, subtle, and unpredictable film that actually gives its characters some depth and grit. Even the more implausible moments are fun and engaging, making this well worth checking out. --Bret Fetzer

• Evilution | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.

• European Concert 1993 | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For their third annual May 1 European Concert commemorating the date that the orchestra was founded, the Berlin Philharmonic chose to perform in the Royal Albert Hall in London under Bernard Haitink. Haitink was then the music director at Covent Garden, and he brings an operatic intensity to their first item, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture. He characterises it brilliantly, with stirring religious solemnity for Friar Lawrence's music and fiery explosions in the fight sequence. Frank Peter Zimmerman then gives a forthright, heavily late-romantic reading of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 which might not be to everyone's taste, but which seems somehow appropriate in the Victorian splendour of the hall. The Rite of Spring allows the orchestra to show off its star woodwind players, who cope with the score's taxing wind writing with polished brilliance. The opening sounds fantastic, and Haitink tailors the tempo to the boomy acoustic so that not a detail is lost. It's a performance literally dripping with energy: you can see the sweat pouring off the players as they dig into the piece's meatier moments. Overall, this is an excellent concert from an orchestra on top form. On the DVD: European Concert, 1993 includes a 28-minute documentary in German about the Albert Hall, and the Berlin Philharmonic's visits to the UK. There's fascinating substantial footage of Furtwängler conducting the orchestra in London, and a long interview with Haitink in which he discusses his relationship with the BP. There are subtitles in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.--Warwick Thomson

• Highlander - The Animated Series - The Sound Of Madness / The Suspended Village | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes are: 'The Sound Of Madness' and 'The Suspended Village'.

• 13th Child | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The haunted pine forests of New Jersey is a wilderness area larger than the Grand Canyon. This wilderness abounds in dense forest and is the perfect refuge for a legendary creature which has been feared by the locals since the eighteenth century. Locals tell stories of a native Indian shaman who mastered the forbidden black art of 'shape shifting' a phenomenon recently verified by modern anthropologists. Legend has it that the Indian shaman transformed his thirteenth child into a creature half man and half beast in order to ward off the British army during the American Revolution. Enter a world where suspense and mystery collide generating a chilling climax of terror.

• Don Giovanni - Mozart | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Don Giovanni - Opera in two acts. A production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Recorded in July 2002.

• Legends Of British Comedy - Pete And Dud | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £12.90   |  Saving you £-0.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Featuring extensive extracts from the finest comedy moments of the late great and sadly missed comedy duo of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore including hilarious highlights from Not OnlyBut Also. Essential viewing for any comedy fan this film explores the complicated dynamic that grew into one of the best loved on-screen pairings in the history of humour. In addition to rare archive interviews with both men and archive footage from throughout their joint career we get the benefit of the insights of a leading team of comedians and critics including Alexei Sayle Tom Binns Ian Stone and Neil Innes.

• The Santa Clause | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tim Allen makes an impressive screen debut in Disney's well-written holiday film, The Santa Clause. Divorced toy company executive Scott Calvin is pleased to have his son Charlie for Christmas, though the boy himself isn't happy about it. But when Santa Claus accidentally topples off the roof of the house and falls with a thud in the snow, Scott finds himself taking the merry old elf's place and earning new respect in his son's eyes. When the night ends, the reindeer take them to the North Pole, and Scott discovers that by donning the fabled red suit, he's inadvertently agreed to become the next Santa Claus. The next morning he wakes up in his own bed and thinks it's all a dream--but Charlie remembers it with crystal clarity. Scott now has to deal with his suspicious ex-wife (Wendy Crewson) and her psychiatrist boyfriend (Judge Reinhold), who both think he's playing tricks with Charlie's mind, and also with his own out-of-control body, which is putting on weight and growing a prodigious beard. The Santa Clause probably won't supplant It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street as anyone's favourite Christmas film, but it's an enjoyable, straightforward family film, anchored by the affable charisma of Allen. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Dress to Kill | DVD | (30/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Dress To Kill

• The Sixth Sense | UMD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• The Marriage of Figaro | Blu Ray | (20/06/2011) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Survivor, the | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'The Survivor'' is a terrifying and mysterious tale that has echoes of the classic films 'The Sixth Sense'' and 'Unbreakable''. Moments after take off a passenger Jetliner plummets to the ground killing all on board except its pilot 'Keller'' (Robert Powell). After the investigation declares that no one should have survived the crash Keller finds himself tortured with guilt and sets upon a journey of discovery to find out who was responsible and how he managed to survive. The Survivor is directed by actor/director David Hemmings (Blow Up Harlequin) and is based on the best selling book by horror writing legend James Herbert.

• Bela Bartok - After the Storm | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A detailed and often revealing portrait of the last five years of the composer's life - The Times. The composer's friends and colleagues including Sir Georg Solti and Yehudi Menuhin join his sons Peter and Bela Jr. to tell the story of Bartok's years of exile in America. After his journey to New York in 1940 from war-torn Europe he found himself lost in an unfamiliar culture. He was to spend the rest of his life there fighting sickness poverty and failure. Nevertheless consoled by the cycles of nature his last five years produced some of his greatest and most moving music.

• Scream Bloody Murder | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Planning on a summer filled with fun and romance at the remote Placid Pines Camp, nothing can prepare a group of young students for the terror-filled encounters ahead of them.
  Following in the camp tradition the first night is spent playing a spooky game called 'Bloody Murder'. Thrills by the camp fire soon turn into students worst nightmare as they begin to disappear one by one.
  The students fight for their lives and attempt to solve the mystery before falling prey to an evil killer.

• Surrender Dorothy | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £12.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Problem: Trevor 26 a loner obsessed with women but so afraid of them he can barely speak if they're about. He needs a partner a lover someone to trust him someone to obey him... Lahn 22 smack addict and slacker. He loves women but not as much as heroin. He stole his dealer's stash needs a place to hide someone to conceal and protect him... The Solution: Trevor can hide Lahn lie for him protect him and provide for him...but only if Lahn becomes Dorothy Trevor's i

• Memories Of Scotland | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The memories of Scotland DVD includes the Music of Scotland 14 songs performed by Scotland's premier baritone Peter Morrison. It also includes a grand tour of Scotland from the Borders to the Highlands and historical tours of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 4 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series was the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras.Volume 4 cherry-picks four of the show's more diverse episodes. In "Mr Dingle the Strong" (episode 55) alien visitors experiment on a hapless human, but instead of sinister X Files horror, Serling plays it for laughs. Despite the sparkling presence of Burgess Meredith (the closest the series came to a regular star), this one-joke plot demonstrates why the Zone only rarely ventured into comedy. "Two" (episode 66) pits a characteristically taciturn Charles Bronson against an even more stoical Elizabeth Montgomery, two soldiers from opposing sides who must rediscover themselves as the last man and woman and play Adam and Eve in a post-holocaust world. "A Passage for Trumpet" (episode 32) casts Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) as a downtrodden trumpeter who, in a jazz rewrite of It's a Wonderful Life, learns to value life. Nice. Finally, "The Four of Us are Dying" (episode 13) employs four different actors to play the same character, a "cheap little con-man" whose ability to change his features at will doesn't prevent his deserved comeuppance (more jazz here, this time in a wonderfully jagged underscore from Jerry Goldsmith).On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• Mozart - Idomeneo - Britten | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD is part of the Britten-Pears DVD Collection. This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears one of the greatest English tenors and Britten's long-term partner and artistic inspiration. None of these films have been available before on any home video format. This colour film recording of Mozart's Idomeneo dates from a period when Mozart's first mature masterpiece was barely known. This may indeed be the first-ever film of the opera. Conducted by Benjamin Britten using his own performing edition the opera is sung in English with Peter Pears singing Idomeneo - the only film recording with Peter Pears in the title role. The cast also includes renowned British soprano Heather Harper and a young Robert Tear. Each act begins with a spoken introduction from John Warrack revered music historian and academic.

• Father Brown | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Detective story featuring Father Brown a Roman Catholic priest who must recover paintings stolen by a master thief.

• Hell Night | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Linda Blair plays virginal heroine Marti Gaines who together with fellow teens Seth Jeff and Denise takes up a challenge made by party animal Peter Bennett to spend a night at Garth Manor as part of a fraternity-sorority pledge. Garth has a notorious history: twelve years ago the owner massacred his wife and kids and then hanged himself in the house. To liven things up a bit a pack of drunken frat-boys descends on Garth Manor to scare Marti and her pals out of their wits. But something even more horrible has beaten them to it and begins to pick off the pledgers one-by-one through methods ranging from impalement to decapitation. As Garth Manor gives out its darkest secret will anyone come out alive?