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• Pergolesi-Stabat Mater | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £3.01   |  Saving you £5.24 (299.43%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Giovanni Battista Pergolesi wrote his masterpiece STABAT MATER very late in his career. And although Pergolesi died of consumption only a year later the piece has survived for several centuries. This performance of the piece features Angharad Gruffyld Jones and their incredible voices.

• Minder - Series 3 - Part 2 Of 4 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Looking For Micky When ""Mad Micky"" goes on the run Terry has to look after him and Arthur sees his chance of a scoop. Dream House When a super-star is away in Vegas Terry has to mind his empty house. Can Arthur break into showbusiness? Guest Stars: Wanda Ventham & Richard Griffiths. Another Bride Another Groom The last thing Arthur wants to do on his niece's wedding day is to shift a load of porno magazines. Guest Stars: Warren Clarke.

• 5 DVD Movies Action Pack 2 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who Dares Wins: A new candidate is needed to infiltrate the 'The People's Lobby' - a radical band of terrorists following the assassination of a British undercover agent. Captain Peter Skellen is welcomed into the group by its fanatical leader Frankie Leith and he gets closer to uncovering her plan to attack a major political target. When the terrorists storm the American Embassy in London it is down to Skellen to save the lives of the high-ranking hostages. Skeleton Coast: Col. Smith's son a CIA agent is captured by some bad guys involved in an African civil war. Smith puts together a group of military pros to save him. Return From The River Kwai: Return from the River Kwai is one of the last untold true stories of World War II in the Far East a story of soldiers who learnt about courage and used their courage for survival. The story begins at the end of the war when a group of starving British and Australian POW's have all but given up hope of escaping from the dreaded railway line that had already cost so many lives. As the wheels of war grind to a halt the Japanese decide to send their more able-bodied POW's over to Japan in a final attempt for victory. Crammed into cattle trucks they begin their journey through the Thai jungle destined to be imprisoned in the hull of a transport ship sailing through submarine infested waters. Amongst rebel raids and allied air attacks there seems a glimmer of hope of escaping... The Klansman: When a black man is arrested for the rape of a white woman a showdown between the law and the Klan is inevitable. Massacre In Rome: In the last days of the Nazi Occupation a group of partisans plan an attack on a German 'police' column.

• Prime Suspect 3 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £6.46   |  Saving you £6.52 (187.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Chief Inspector Jane Tennison investigates the discovery of a male prostitute's charred body in the burnt-out flat of a trans-sexual...

• My Favourite Broadway - Love Songs | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tracklisting: 'Overture' 'Love Is Sweeping The Country/'Til There Was You/ Lover/ So In Love' - Adam Pascal Brent Spiner Rebecca Luker Peter Gallagher and Marin Mazzie 'Music Is Better Than Words' 'Lullaby Of Broadway' - Tom Wopat and dancers 'Sue Me' - Nathan Lane and Doo Wop Trio 'He Touched Me' - Heather Headley 'La Donna E Mobile/ Let The Good Times Roll/ Standing On The Corner' - Three Mo' Tenors 'Gigi' - Ron Raines 'No Longer Shy' 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' - Jeffrey Denman a

• Spare Parts | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £7.06 (35.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Krsko a small industrial town near the southern Slovenian border with Croatia. The only Slovenian nuclear power plant is based at the outskirts of the city. Ludvik a former national speedway champion and widower transports illegal immigrants every night from Croatia to the Italian border. His boss employs the young and inexperienced Rudi to serve as his assistant. On the first drive Ludvik challenges Rudi a few times; a beautiful Macedonian girl is only one of their victims. Rud

• 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

• Adventures Of The Lost World | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Travelling through the uncharted Amazon Jungle professor Edward Challenger and his companions must defend themselves against incredible dangers. Trapped between the present and the past their attackers are from an age unknown and long forgotten: ape man immense crocodiles and flesh devouring dinosaurs.

• Love For Lydia - Episodes 1 To 5 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first five episodes of the lavish ITV costume drama series set in the late 1920s as Lydia Aspen a provincial heiress who develops from an awkward teenager into a wild flapper toys with the affections of the men around her...

• Return To The Lost World | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Lost World is in danger of extinction. Through bribes and brute force a greedy industrialist in search of oil is raping the land and slaughtering its wondrous dinosaurs. The Lost World natives urgently summon their friends and the old explorers reconvene in an effort to save the land they had once promised to protect. Upon their return the rescuers discover that man's greed has brought in this enchanted land to the brink of apocalyptic destruction. Bountiful trees are levelled the land is ravaged and the natives are being enslaved. The relentless hammering of oil drills has thrown this fragile ecosystem out of balance and a dormant volcano awakens in anger. The group must outwit man and nature in a desperate attempt to save themselves the land and the vulnerable inhabitants of The Lost World.

• Brotherhood Of Murder | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on a true story, Brotherhood of Murder is the sorry tale of Tony Martinez, an army dropout who becomes convinced that the downturn his life has taken is attributable to the fact that America's ethnic minorities are getting a better deal than he is. There's a ghastly inevitability to what follows as he joins a group of white supremacists who are funding a survivalist community largely through criminal activities. Eventually it's more than even he can bear, so he betrays the group to the FBI. Along the way, there are a few extraordinary scenes, such as when the group cleans out the cash register of a porno video store, leaving the proprietor unharmed but demanding that he remove from his shelves any material depicting interracial sex. This low-key but compelling production gives an insight into how such a strange and very ugly culture can arise out of ignorance and blunted perception. The disc also includes a trailer and a Synergy showcase. --Roger Thomas

• Deathstone | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a mystical Chinese tomb is excavated a series of murders follow; all the victims coming from the same powerful family. When an American Marine is accused of the murders two buddies come to his rescue to fight the supernatural and free their friend.

• Wim Wenders - Story Of His Early Years | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drawing parallels between his early films and his personal biography this documentary traces Wim Wenders' own history focussing on the director's life prior to his leaving Germany for the USA after his international breakthrough with The American Friend (1976/77). In intimate conversations Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Germany. The film follows him on a journey into the past that takes him to Paris where he lived as a young painter and made his decision to become a filmmaker. He recounts his experiences successes and failures as a film student on the way to becoming a director. He also conveys the attitudes and the euphoric mood among the first intake of students at Munich's newly founded film school. Apart from Wenders himself some of his most important fellow-travellers also have their say including Peter Handke Robby M''ller R''diger Vogler Bruno Ganz and Lisa Kreuzer. As they remember they discuss some of the fundamental recurring themes of Wenders' films such as the search for identity friendship and communication.

• Prisoner Of Rio | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £12.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (30.79%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In 1963 a group of determined criminals carried out the most daring and lucrative crime of the century...The Great Train Robbery. All of the gang were caught tried and sentenced but one gang member served only two years of a thirty year term before escaping from Wandsworth Prison. Overnight Ronnie Biggs (Freeman) became the world's most wanted man. With every police force in the world hunting for him Biggs changed his identity and his face; somehow managing to keep one step ahead

• 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!

• Gossec/Gretry - La Petite Musique De Marie-Antoinette (Waas) | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-8.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

• Skinned Deep | Blu Ray | (20/07/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Minder - Series 9 - Parts 1 To 4 (Box Set) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The ninth series of the classic TV series which features Arthur Daley, a small-time conman, who employs a minder to protect him from other crooks.

• The Royle Family - Series 1 | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Verdi: Otello -- Berlin Opera/von Karajan | DVD | (12/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete opera 'Otello' by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed by the German Opera Choir and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The cast includes: Jon Vickers Mirella Freni and Peter Glossop. Conducted and directed by Herbert Von Karajan.