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• Delibes: Coppelia -- Royal Ballet | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Coppélia is Delibes fairy-tale ballet of 1870, here presented in a production based on the Royal Ballet's 1954 version with designs by Osbert Lancaster and choreography by the company's founder Ninette de Valois. In a small European town Dr Coppélius (Luke Heydon) makes life-sized mechanical dolls. The whimsical tale unfolds as Swanilda (Leanne Benjamin) suspects that her fiancée Franz (Carlos Acosta) is falling in love with the enigmatic Coppélia (Leana Palmer). Everything is suitably magical, from the beautiful sets and costumes to the gorgeously melodic score. There is a sense of romantic playfulness throughout, and of course almost two hours of wonderful dancing, making this a treat to place beside Swan Lake and Giselle. Given live on 19 February 2000, this was the first live full-length ballet from Royal Opera House to be broadcast since 1968.On the DVD: Fortunately the DVD proves an object lesson in how to present ballet on the digital format. There is an introduction by Deborah Dull, principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet, a short but interesting profile of designer Osbert Lancaster, and a nine-minute film "Covent Garden Tales--The Ballet Moves" which gives a look behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet's new home. For a live production, the 16:9 anamorphically enhanced widescreen picture is simply superb, with excellent Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. With even the special features delivered with 16:9 anamorphic enhancement this is a high-quality production in every respect. Encoded for regions two and four. --Gary S Dalkin

• Suzanne | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £4.91   |  Saving you £-0.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young actress becomes totally obsessed with the part she is playing and before long art and reality start to blur. Based on a song by Leonard Cohen (which is used in the film).

• Deck Dogz | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (81.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Three young urban skaters with ambitions to make it to the World Championships hear that World Champion skater Tony Hawk is scouting for new talent in Sydney. With no idea of how they are going to get there they decide to set off on the adventure of a lifetime...

• Bloodsport / Enter The Dragon | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. Bloodsport is a guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon) and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright

• Bezet/Halevy - Noe (Jourdan, Courtis, Schmidt) | DVD | (19/08/2010) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-18.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Trance | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• The World Of Philip Pullman | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A documentary profiling the author of 'His Dark Materials' Philip Pullman. Philip Pullman is a serious contender for the claim to be the most important young persons novelist living today. He was gifted the extremely prestigious Greatest Briton in the Arts award. His Dark Materials trilogy has sold over 8 million copies internationally and the trilogy itself is the subject of a New Line Cinema release as a successor to The Lord of the Rings with Nicole Kidman starring in a lead role.

• The Stranger | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Orson Welles stars and directs in this classic 1946 movie. Welles portrays Charles Rankin a respected academic at a Connecticut college. He seems to have the perfect American life - A beautiful new wife (Loretta Young) and a charming home in a small town that holds him in high esteem. Enter Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) a detective who is on the hunt for Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. The appearance of Mr. Wilson threatens to reveal that beneath Charles Rankin's idyllic veneer is a very disturbing secret.

• Boat That Rocked, the | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.00

  Richard Curtis (Love Actually) delves into the world of 60's pirate radio in this coming-of-age comedy. Amidst a cast of crazies played by the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy disillusioned teen Carl is about to experience the rebellious spirit of rock 'n' roll Radio Rock-style! On air. Off shore. Out of control. Recently expelled from school Carl (Tom Sturridge) is sent by his mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy Underworld). However Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea populated by an eclectic crew of rock 'n' roll DJs. They are led by The Count (Oscar Award-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote) - big brash American god of the airwaves and totally in love with the music. He's faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost Hot Fuzz) - ironic intelligent and cruelly funny; Simon (Chris O'Dowd TV's The IT Crowd) - super-nice and searching for true love; Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) - enigmatic handsome and man of few words; Wee Small Hours Bob - the late night DJ whose hobbies are folk music and drugs; Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke) - possessor of the smallest intelligence known to mankind; On-The-Hour John (Will Adamsdale) - the newsreader; and Angus 'The Nut' Nutsford (Rhys Darby of TV's The Flight Of The Conchords) - possibly the most annoying man in Britain. Life on the North Sea is eventful. Simon finds the woman of his dreams and is married on the boat... only to be left by his bride the next day. Gavin (Rhys Ifans Notting Hill) returns from his drug tour of America to his rightful position as the greatest DJ in Britain clashing with The Count. Meanwhile Carl discovers the opposite sex and who his real father is whilst government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh Wallander) is out for the blood of these rebellious lawbreakers. What results is a literal storm on the high seas. With Radio Rock in peril it's devoted fans rally together and stage an epic Dunkirk-style hundred boat rescue to save their DJ heroes. Some things may come to an end but rock 'n' roll never dies.

• The Last Samurai | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On the pretence of a business trip Japanese multi-millionaire Yasujiro Endo journeys to the African nation of Imtazi. In reality Endo is on a personal mission - a quest to find the truth about a Samurai ancestor who disappeared in Africa two centuries ago and perhaps the true spirit of the Samurai he feels lies deep within himself. Endo's search takes him on Safari deep into the wilds of Africa led by the mercenary Johhny Congo and his girlfriend Caro. As the journey continues so it

• Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London 2009) | Blu Ray | (29/03/2010) from £20.35   |  Saving you £4.64 (18.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Alien Autopsy | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Are we alone?Did a flying saucer really crash in Roswell New Mexico in 1947?Was there an autopsy?Has the American government lied to us for nearly 50 years? As part of a comprehensive and objective investigation Alien Autopsy: Fact Or Fiction delves into the famous purported 1947 crash of a UFO in Roswell New Mexico and the alleged government cover-up. Hosted by Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Alien Autopsy: Fact Or Fiction

• Curse Of The Forty Niner | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.29   |  Saving you £4.70 (42.80%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Six friends unwittingly stir up a ghostly spirit... Legend has it that Jeremiah Stone was the meanest man who ever lived. Seeking the lost gold of the fabled Forty-Niner Nick Claire Tori Roxanne Axl and Hayden succeed only in resurrecting the Evil spirit of Jeremiah Stone. Now the Legendary ghost has become virtually unstoppable flesh and bloodkilling machine. The Forty-Niner is after them! One by one they are stalked and killed until Old Nellie a reclusive mountain woman tells them how to destroy the deadly creature...

• Cider With Rosie | DVD | (03/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on a memoir of English writer Laurie Lee and featuring narration by Lee himself, this made-for-television adaptation begins in wartime 1918 with Lee's family moving to the Gloucestershire countryside. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) shines as the matriarch of this large blended family, a compassionate and distracted woman who pines for the brood's missing father. The movie takes Lee from a young boy sleeping in his mother's bed through his girl-obsessed adolescence, fondly dealing with an assortment of relatives, schoolmates and villagers along the way. Lee doesn't actually have cider with girlfriend Rosie until a few minutes before the 82-minute movie ends, but in the meantime Charles Beeson, directing from an adaptation by John Mortimer, has offered up a gentle homage to long-passed era. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

• Romeo And Juliette - Berlioz | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (-21.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the Kulturzentrum Gasteig MunichHector Berlioz - Romeo Et Juliette - Symphonie Dramatique op.17

• Kingdom Of Heaven | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• KOMMISSAR MAIGRET-VOL.5 - MOVI | DVD | (22/07/2016) from £5.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marty Starr (Mayall) founder and head of Purple Starr Records and the man responsible for transforming the timid but talented Mavis Davis (Horrocks) into successful singing superstar Marla Dorland. But times have changed and Marla's stardom is beginning to fade. To make matters worse Marty is behind on alimony payments to his ex-wife his house has been repossessed his prized Jaguar car has been blown up and his life is being threatened by Mob boss Rathbone (Aiello) whose talentless son Marty is being forced to promote. Listening to an old Elvis record Marty stumbles across a macabre idea as he recalls some of the countless former pop stars whose untimely deaths resulted in posthumous success. Believing that Marla's passing could make her a legend thereby reviving her career and his fortunes Marty begins plotting her tragic demise...

• Silent Madness | DVD | (26/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Howard Johns is accidentally released from Cresthaven mental hospital he returns to Barrington College the scene 20 years before of the brutal and vicious murders of a number of young and beautiful girls. Dr Joan Gilmore a psychiatrist follows him terrified that the horrific crimes of 20 years before will be re-enacted. Sucked into a vortex of horror Joan fights for her sanity and her life.

• Holiday Heart | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Holiday is a choirmaster by day and a female impersonator by night but this creatively talented man is extremely lonely with a broken heart. He becomes frinds with a bright young girl and her drug-addicted mother. Helping them off the streets into an empty flat across from his. He forms an attatchment with them but their worlds are torn apart when the mother hooks up with a dangerous drug-dealing boyfriend. This leads Holiday to confront his own prejudices in order to save the two people he loves the most.