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• Thirteen Ghosts | Blu Ray | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This remake of the classic horror film follows a family that inherit a spectacular house, only to find themselves trapped within it, pursued by powerful and vengeful entities.

• J. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (20/02/2004) from £24.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Johann Strauss II's wonderfully convoluted and ingenious Viennese farce Die Fledermaus is a masterpiece of operetta. The tale spins waltz-like around the philandering Von Eisenstein (Thomas Allen), his wife Rosalinde (Pamela Armstrong), who is tempted by singing teacher Alfred (Par Lindskog), and Adele (Lyubov Petrova), Rosalinde's maid. Following Shakespeare's romantic comedy template there is much mistaken identity, confusion of purpose and cross-dressing, with the events unfolding around an increasingly drunken masked ball and the morning after in the local jail. The champagne-fuelled entertainment carries various satiric undertones, but this adaptation by director Stephen Lawless and Daniel Dooner emphasises colour, wit and flamboyance, always ensuring the jokes work well for a modern audience. The production requires acting as strong as the excellent singing, and Thomas Allen delivers a subtly layered interpretation of Eisenstein, while Pamela Armstrong's Rosalinde offers a winning study in smouldering sensuality, well contrasted with Lyubov Petrova's more directly sexual Adele. The revolving set mirrors the swirling Strauss dances and the elegant design is a perfect match for the boldly extrovert costumes. If this Glyndebourne 2003 production doesn't match Dame Joan Sutherland's retirement performance at the Royal Opera House in 1977 for historic value, it is easily as much fun and the production values are second to none. On the DVD: Die Fledermaus is presented on a two-disc edition with Acts 1 and 2 on the first disc and Act 3 and 37 minutes of extras on the second DVD. The 16:9 anamorphically enhanced image is as strong and detailed as BBC live digital video recording can be and the sound is offered in excellent stereo, as well as superb 5.1 DTS, which places the listener in the acoustic equivalent of the best seat in the house. The extras begin with 20 minutes of short but worthwhile interviews with Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Hakan Hagegard, conductor Vladimir Jurowski and director Stephen Lawless. There is a five-minute feature on the history of the waltz and a four-minute humorous interlude in which Udo Samel explores the pleasures of champagne in his character as the gaoler Frosch. More substantial if less entertaining is Return of the Architect (8 min), a look at the design and construction of the modern Glyndebourne opera house. The set is completed with routine photo and costume galleries and a nicely produced booklet illustrated with good quality colour photographs. Optional subtitles are available in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. --Gary S Dalkin

• Cirque Du Soleil - Nouvelle Experience, Saltimbanco, Reinvente, Magie Continue | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £33.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Four thrilling Cirque Du Soleil DVDs in one spectacular box set. Titles include: 'Nouvelle Experience' 'Saltimbanco' 'Reinvente' 'Magie Continue'.

• ANONYMA-EINE FRAU IN BERL - MO | DVD | (23/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rayearth - Vols. 1-3 (Animated) (Dubbed) | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Powerful magical forces are allowing the Castle Of Cephiro to merge with the real world. The Magic Knights must protect the Earth at all costs and take on the might of a spirit beast in the final battle for survival...

• Maneater | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A former FBI profiler now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter begins to profile a series of unexplained murders seemingly derived from a Native American legend.

• MGM: When the Lion Roars | DVD | (29/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Old Gringo | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An American spinster (Fonda) travels to Mexico to teach the children of a wealthy landowner and to find a new life for herself. What she finds is a general in Pancho Villa's army who is the bastard son of the landowner and a journalist out for adventure...

• The Christmas Devil | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £9.77   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Adelphi Collection: You Lucky People | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £5.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (142.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tribulations of inept reservists who find a fortnight's training an unwelcome interruption.

• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (12/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In this Zurich Opera House staging of Mozart’s darkly comic cautionary fable Don Giovanni the lighting and stage design keep the characters shaded in half-shadow: even Zerlina’s wedding feels like a subdued affair here, and the Don’s banqueting room is a suitably gloomy venue for the Stone Guest’s climactic visit for a spot of dinner and damnation. Both this staging and video director Brian Large’s filming play no tricks with the audience’s expectations, opting for a largely traditional presentation of this tragedy of swaggering bravado, cuckolded lovers and revenge from beyond the grave. Nikolaus Harnoncourt brings all the sensitivity of his historically informed approach to the orchestra pit. Heading a very strong cast are Rodney Gilfry, defiantly strong-voiced but also haughtily handsome as the seducing Don, and Cecilia Bartoli, a mercurial presence as Donna Elvira. Their scenes together crackle and fizz, even when Bartoli’s extremely ripe vibrato contrasts a little uncomfortably with Harnoncourt’s authenticity. Liliana Nikiteanu makes for a pretty, naïve Zerlina, convincingly torn between her Masetto (Oliver Widmer) and the animalistic attraction of the Don. Laszlo Polgar’s Leporello is wheedling and base, but still the inheritor of his master’s charisma; Isabel Rey and Roberto Sacca are solid as the colourless moralists Anna and Ottavio; while Matti Salminen’s powerful Commendatore isn’t expected to do anything more than stand still and declaim. Overall this is an excellent musical performance, unexceptionally staged. On the DVD: Don Giovanni on disc has a good 24-minute "Behind the Scenes" feature, including interviews with Cecilia Bartoli, Harnoncourt, Gilfry and Isabel Rey. There’s also a trailer for other ArtHaus releases. The 16:9 picture sometimes struggles to bring definition to the dimly lit sets; sound though is crisp and clean PCM stereo or Dolby 5.1. There are subtitles in five languages. --Mark Walker

• Bilitis | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £9.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (40.32%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The story takes place in England around the beginning of the 20th Century. Sensually exploring a young schoolgirl's awakening to love during her summer vacation. The young girl, Bilitis, is shocked when she witnesses her friend Melissa and her husband making love. Melissa encourages Bilitis to discover the aspect of love by seeing a young photographer, Lucas. He tries to make love to Bilitis, and she rebuffs him and runs to Melissa, who in comforting Bilitis finds herself responding to her kisses. But she tells Bilitis there must be nothing more between them. Bilitis discovers Melissa's husband is with another woman, so she decides to find another man for Melissa. Doing so Bilitis is realising she is not yet ready herself for adulthood.The English photographer David Hamilton has achieved unusual visual beauty in making his first motion picture enhanced by the music of Francis Lai.

• Turn It Up | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £5.78   |  Saving you £14.21 (245.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Respect Is Something You Earn. Turn It Up is an explosive contemporary drama about a gifted musician's struggle to rise above the crime-plagued urban streets and realize his dream. Diamond (""Pras"" of the Fugees and Mystery Men) is unwittingly drawn into the world of drug-running by his childhood friend Gage (rapper Ja Rule Backstage). The sudden death of Diamond's mother and the untimely pregnancy of his girlfriend force Diamond to make hard choices about his life and the people

• R.E.M. - Parallel | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Parallel is a compilation of video clips plus excerpts from a series of short films as well as material from the U.S. TV show Saturday Night Live. Includes the hits: 'Drive' 'Man On The Moon' 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' 'Everybody Hurts' 'Nightswimming' 'Find the River' 'What's The Frequency Kenneth?' 'Bang And Blame' 'Star 69' 'Strange Currencies' and 'Crush With Eyeliner'.

• The Bad Pack | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Each of this 'Bad Pack' are hand-picked bringing their own special skills and expertise to the table. Sims is a tough world class race car driver hired to drive munitions. Kurt is an out-of-work former East German spy of extraordinary physical strength. Remi a gorgeous assassin with a personal score to settle carries a large chip on her beautiful shoulder. Callin is a seventh degree black belt. Britt is a brilliant rookie FBI agent who has yet to face a fight and Hoffman was just sprung from the mental institution that he frequents and is crazy enough to do anything! The cynical seven are re-united once again for the most dangerous mission in their mercenary careers and for the 'Bad Pack' they can only have one motto: only the baddest will survive!

• 83 Hours 'Til Dawn | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A psychopath kidnaps a teenage girl and buries her alive in a capsule that will become her tomb in 83 hours unless her father pays a huge ransom. Based on a true story.

• Two Evil Eyes | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stephen King's Children Of The Corn | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £11.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (25.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Traveling through Nebraska Burt (Peter Horton) and Vicky (Linda Hamilton) stop in a small town to report the death of a child on the highway. There they discover something strange about the community: all the grownups are gone and the children seem to belong to a strange cult. What's worse it's a cult that sacrifices adults to the dreadful 'he who walks behind the rows'... Based on a Stephen King short story.

• Into The West - Where Myth And Magic Walk The Earth | DVD | (17/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Stephen King Collection | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  His body held the secret of time. Now time...is running out! Reigning horror master Stephen King (Misery Pet Sematary The Shining) creates a chilling vision of scientific progress run amok in this electrifying original techno-thriller! Starring Keith Szarabajka (Missing The Equalizer) and Frances Sternagen (Misery Doc Hollywood) Golden Years features make-up and special effects supervised by legendary effects master Dick Smith (The Exorcist Amadeus) and a plot that builds to an astonishing ending! When aging janitor Harlan Williams is accidentally exposed to exotic chemicals in a lab explosion he undergoes an extraordinary change. It's a process the government will do anything to learn more about - no matter who has to die in the process. Soon Harlan his wife Gina and the lab's beautiful security chief are on a cross-country race to evade a murderously effective federal agent. But even as he stays one step ahead of his ruthless pursuers Harlan continues his transformation into something the world of science has never seen... or imagined!