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• Tales From The Darkside: The Complete Collection | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Tales From The Darkside - the spine-tingling anthology series that terrified audiences in the 1980s - comes to DVD in one complete set for the very first time in the UK. Dark disturbing and steeped in mystery the series features stories by the world's most prolific horror writers including Stephen King George A. Romero Harlan Ellison and Clive Barker and appearances by some of Hollywood's biggest stars all of whom will make your blood run cold. Special Features: Audio commentary by Executive Producer George A. Romero (Trick or Treat) On air with George Romero' Featurette Bonus episodes from the production company that brought you Tales From The Darkside: 'Akhbar's Daughter' and 'Attic Suite' Episodes Comprise: Season 1 Trick or Treat The New Man I'll Give You a Million Pain Killer The Odds Mookie and Pookie Slippage Inside The Closet The Word Processor of the Gods A Case of the Stubborns Djinn No Chaser All a Clone by the Telephone In the Cards Anniversary Dinner Snip Snip Answer Me The Tear Collector Madness Room If The Shoes Fit... Levitation It All Comes Out In the Wash Bigalow's Last Smoke Grandma's Last Wish The False Prophet Season 2 The Impressionist Lifebomb Ring Around the Redhead Parlour Floor Front Halloween Candy The Satanic Piano The Devil's Advocate Distant Signals The Trouble with Mary Jane Ursa Minor Effect and Cause Monsters In My Room Comet Watch Dream Girl A New Lease on Life Printer's Devil The Shrine The Old Soft Shoe The Last Car A Choice of Dreams Strange Love The Unhappy Medium Fear of Floating The Casavin Curse Season 3 The Circus I Can't Help Saying Goodbye The Bitterest Pill Florence Bravo The Geezenstacks Black Widows Heretic A Serpent's Tooth Baker's Dozen Deliver us from Goodness Seasons of Belief Miss May Dusa The Milkman Cometh My Ghostwriter - The Vampire My Own Place Red Leader Everybody Needs A Little Love Auld Acquaintances The Social Climber The Swap Let the Games Begin The Enormous Radio Season 4 Beetles Mary Mary The Spirit Photographer The Moth No Strings The Grave Robber The Yattering and Jack Seymourlama Sorry Right Number Payment Overdue Love Hungry The Deal The Apprentice The Cutty Black Sow Do Not Open This Box Family Reunion Going Native Hush Barter Basher Malone

• Tales From the Darkside Season 4 | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Each episode tells a dark tale that ventured into horror, fantasy, sci-fi and black comedy, and ended with an unexpected twist! Final Season includes episodes by classic horror writers Stephen King, Lois McMaster Jujold, Robert Bloch and Malcolm McDowell. Actors include Deborah Harry (of Blondie), Divine (Hairspray), Bradley Whitefield (West Wing), Polly Draper (Thirty Something), Allen Garfield (Chicago Hope). Directors include Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs), Allen Coulter (The Sopranos, Sex and the City) and Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead). Special Features: Two Lost Episodes: Akhbar's Daughter and Attic Suite

• Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £2.96   |  Saving you £23.29 (1,370.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1642) marks one of the very foundations of opera. Revolving around real historical characters, the Roman emperor Nero, his love for Poppea, the betrayal of the empress Octavia, and death of the philosopher Seneca, Monteverdi pits human love, ambition and intrigue against the fates. The set, a symbolic part-globe, and the costumes drawn from various ages suggest--very much in the way of the surreal film of Shakespeare's Titus (1999)--that the concerns of ancient Rome are timeless. With the emphasis on the text (the music alone does not hold the attention for 150 minutes) conductor Jacobs depends upon an excellent cast to bring the production alive. Patricia Schumann dominates the stage, her Poppea is warm, sensual and likeable, without being entirely trustworthy, an effective counterpart to Richard Croft's Nero. Darla Brooks brings just the right degree of vivacious gullibility to Drusilla, while Curtis Ryam offers eccentric comedy as Arnalta. As Ottone Jeffrey Gall is a man acutely tormented by love. Recorded at the 1993 Schwetzinger Festspiele, there is no sign of an audience, the many close-ups suggesting this performance was specially given for video. On the DVD: There are subtitle options for English, French and German, but no special features. The booklet is well documented but does not contain the libretto. The sound is good PCM stereo while the 4:3 image (not 16:9 as stated on the packaging) is better than video but otherwise unremarkable. --Gary S. Dalkin