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• The Serpent's Kiss | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £15.58   |  Saving you £-11.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Serpent's Kiss will probably be well received by fans of Peter Greenaway's arch and ornate films (The Draughtsman's Contract, Drowning By Numbers for example). In this movie, a young Dutch landscape artist named Chrome (Ewan MacGregor) is hired by homely but rich landowner Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) to turn his overgrown estate into a masterpiece of topiary and hedge-mazes. But unbeknown to Smithers, Chrome is fulfilling the will of Smithers' ardent enemy (Richard E Grant), who hopes to bankrupt the wealthy man and seduce his beautiful wife (Greta Scacchi). When Chrome falls under the spell of Smithers' enigmatic daughter, all plans go awry. The strong cast wallows entertainingly in this mix of jealousy, decadence, intriguing visuals, Machiavellian schemes, and heaving bosoms, with Grant performing with his usual lurid gusto. The sumptuous Restoration-era costumes enhance this meditation on art versus nature. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Handel: Alcina | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (66.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Produced with the cast of a year-2000 Stuttgart stage version, this performance of Handel's 1735 opera Alcina has been specially shot for home viewing without the audience present (though applause is heard during the closing credits). Director Janos Darvas enhances the usual low theatre illumination with stronger television-friendly lighting to provide more detail, and he also takes his cameras much closer to the artists than live performance permits, offering film-style close-ups that greatly enhance the drama. With just eight performers and an essentially static set--though some intriguing interesting things are done with a large "mirror"--this intimate approach proves an enormous advantage. Handel's complex tale of intense romantic entanglement on the island of the enchantress Alcina focuses as much on high-voltage acting as powerful music-making. The 20th-century costumes are initially disconcerting, but soon become part of a psychologically intense world where time seems out of joint and charged with otherwise-unimaginable emotional possibilities. As Alcina, Catherine Naglestad gives an extraordinary performance, both strikingly passionate and deeply sensual, her revealing costuming being just the most obvious sign of a production intent on the erotic. Though Naglestad dominates, each performer offers memorable characterisation and fine singing. On the DVD: Alcina comes to disc with an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 picture that is clear and detailed, while the PCM stereo audio is natural and is recorded with good presence. Other than various optional subtitles, including English, extras are entirely absent. Within the booklet is a brief biography of Handel, background notes on Alcina and a synopsis, but nothing on the artists or performance. --Gary S Dalkin

• Independence Day | UMD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Slaughtered | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (35.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Slaughtered is a gory 'slasher' movie set during one terrifying night at a remote pub in the Australian outback. When a new worker joins the group of bar staff the sexual tension starts to rise and so too does the body count as something horrifying is lurking beneath them in the cellar. The gruesome reality becomes clear as one-by-one the bar staff all meet a grisly demise leaving bar girl Jamie alone in a desperate struggle for survival.

• Hellraiser | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a place between pleasure and pain there is sensual experience beyond limits. And in a world between paradise andpurgatory there is a horror that feeds the souls of evil. When Frank Cotton solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites a world where the cruel sadists thrive on pain. Restored to life by the blood of his brother Larry Frank rises to feed on the life force of others. When Larry's wife agrees to provide the sacrifices he needs the chills are just beginning...

• Happily Ever After - Collection 4 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £12.44   |  Saving you £-10.45 (-525.10%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Three animated adventures featuring the classic tales: Pinocchio The Twelve Dancing Princesses The Golden Goose

• Dangerous Affairs | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This tense drama tells the story of one man's relationship with his family his fiancee and his best friend...

• Suddenly | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £11.27   |  Saving you £1.72 (15.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nothing ever happens in Suddenly. It's a just small town with small concerns. That is until the President decides to show up... In this intelligent 1954 film noir thriller Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying lead performance as psychotic undercover assassin John Baron. Alleged to have been viewed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 only days prior to the shooting of President Kennedy Suddenly was subsequently withdrawn from circulation by United Artists at Sinatra's personal request.

• Tea With Mussolini | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this gently comic coming of age story, set in Florence over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, the illegitimate son of an Italian merchant is raised by a group of prim English ladies whose passion for Italian culture have made them permanent residents. With the rise of Mussolini and the outbreak of war, the ladies are interned as prisoners, and the boy risks his life to help them. It's a lushly photographed ensemble piece that instills in the viewer Zeffirelli's contagious passion for Italian art and affection for these brave ladies.

• Wilder | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pam Grier stars as Della Wilder a sexy sharp-tongued single mum and maverick cop who considers it a job perk to torment all women-abusing men who have the misfortune of crossing her path. She and partner Harlan Lee (Romano Orzari) are assigned a case that at first glance seems clear-cut: the murder of a woman who had destroyed the career of her gynaecologist and lover Dr. Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer). The murder of Doctor Charney's ex-wife leads detective Wilder to uncover a series

• Daddy Day Care / The Nutty Professor / Liar Liar | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Daddy Day Care (Dir. Steve Carr 2003): In the hilarious comedy 'Daddy Day Care' two fathers (Murphy Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon the two dads open their own day care facility Daddy Day Care and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As Daddy Day Care starts to catch on it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) who has driven all previous competitors out of business... The Nutty Professor (Dir. Tom Shadyac 1996): Eddie Murphy stars as Dr Sherman Klump a kind calorically challenged genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum Sherman becomes Buddy Love a fast-talking pumped-up plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late or will Buddy have the last laugh? Liar Liar (Dir. Tom Shadyac 1997): In this uproarious hit from the director and producers of the Nutty Professor comic genius Jim Carrey stars as a fast talking attorney and habitual liar who forced by his son's birthday wish must tell the truth for the next 24 hours. Co-starring Jennifer Tilly Swoosie Kurtz and Amanda Donohoe Siskel & Egbert give Liar Liar Two thumbs up!

• Grave of the Vampire (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a dark deserted graveyard populated almost exclusively by rotting corpses lies a 400 year old creature more undead than alive. It's been some time since he last fed and now he's hungry again... but this time he wants something more than blood! Disturbed by an amorous couple he ventures from the grave to bequeath his horrific legacy; killing the boyfriend and planting the seed for his son and heir - a half-breed doomed to live in purgatory. Years later understanding his true nature the half-human vampire seeks to wreak his vengeance against his blood-sucking father culminating in a bloodthirsty and apocalyptic confrontation that goes straight for the jugular!

• Revenge Of The Zombies / Voodoo Woman | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Revenge of the Zombies: Down in the bayou scientist John Carradine is creating a zombie army for the Nazis. His wife played by Veda Ann Borg has also been made into a zombie and when her relatives arrive to investigate her mysterious death they begin to unearth the evil doings of the mad Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann. Can they stop him before his army is unleashed on the world? Voodoo Woman: Tom Conway plays the mad scientist determined to create the perfect human being. Using

• The Perfect Getaway | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ex-convict Colt Erickson's new life as a helicopter pilot is shatteredwhen he is hijacked by his boyhood friend Randy and girlfriendAlex. With a gun to his head gas running low and the FBI on his tail Colt stages a daring helicopter crash. Whilst Randy and Alex plan to retrieve a fortune hidden in the desert Colt must destroy his captors' plan and somehow prove his innocence. 'The Perfect Getaway' is a breathtaking spectacular account of one of the most daring true life prison escapes in history.

• The Simpsons - Season 13 - Complete (Moulded Head Packaging) | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Treehouse of Horror XII 2. The Parent Rap 3. Homer the Moe 4. A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love 5. The Blunder Years 6. She of Little Faith 7. Brawl in the Family 8. Sweets and Sour Marge 9. Jaws Wired Shut 10. Half-Decent Proposal 11. The Bart Wants What It Wants 12. The Lastest Gun in the West 13. The Old Man and the Key 14. Tales from the Public Domain 15. Blame It on Lisa 16. Weekend at Burnsie's 17. Gump Roast 18. I Am Furious Yellow 19. The Sweetest Apu 20. Little Girl in the Big Ten 21. The Frying Game 22. Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge

• Les Contes D'Hoffmann | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Hoffmann a poet and composer is in love with the prima donna Stella. As the opera begins she is appearing in her most famous role: Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Hoffmann's Muse declares that she will win back the artist and protect him from any further amorous obsessions. In order to do so she will assume the identity of Hoffmann's friend Nicklausse.Councillor Lindorf also desires the diva Stella and he bribes her servant Andres into giving him a letter addressed to Hoffmann which contains the key to her dressing room. As the curtain falls on Act I of Don Giovanni Luther and his waiters hurriedly prepare for the arrival of Hoffmann and his friends.Hoffmann is in an agitated state of mind but is soon persuaded to sing the ballad of Kleinzack. While doing so he is distracted and recalls his first love. His friends bring him back to reality and he finishes the song. Suddenly Hoffmann sees Lindorf and a heated argument develops between them. Hoffmann reveals that Lindorf has always brought him bad luck. When three of the poet's friends boast about their mistresses Hoffmann declares that Stella embodies three types of woman: the young girl the artist and the courtesan. Hoffman asks his friends if they would like to hear about three of his past loves. Despite Luther's warning that the curtain is about to rise on Act II of Don Giovanni the crowd fill their glasses and prepare to listen to Hoffmann's tales.

• The Simpsons - Season 12 (Ltd Edition 'Comic Book Guy' head) | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £62.08   |  Saving you £-22.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Treehouse Of Horror XI 2. A Tale Of Two Springfields 3. Insane Clown Poppy 4. Lisa The Tree Hugger 5. Homer Vs. Dignity 6. The Computer Wore Menace Shoes 7. The Great Money Caper 8. Skinner's Sense Of Snow 9. HOMR 10. Pokey Mom 11. Worst Episode Ever 12. Tennis The Menace 13. Day Of The Jackanapes 14. New Kids On The Blecch 15. Hungry Hungry Homer 16. Bye Bye Nerdie 17. Simpson Safari 18. Trilogy Of Error 19. I'm Going To Praiseland 20. Children Of A Lesser Clod 21. Simpson Tall Tales

• Nursie | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A local doctor is kept captive by a sadistic nurse and her brother...

• Bad Boys | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Slick to a fault, this glossy action flick takes place in sunny Florida, where Martin Lawrence and Will Smith play two cops--one married with kids, the other a swinging bachelor. The two are forced to trade places to foil criminal mastermind Fouchet (Tchéky Karyo) who has stolen $100 million worth of heroin from a police lockup. Violent, illogical and filled with wall-to-wall profanity, Bad Boys was the last film produced by the hit-making team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer before Simpson's untimely death and marked the directorial debut of Michael Bay who followed up with The Rock. Bad Boys will be of interest to action buffs and fans of Téa Leoni, who makes one of her early screen appearances in the central supporting role. --Jeff Shannon

• Reign Over Me | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £4.28   |  Saving you £5.71 (133.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adam Sandler takes on a rare straight role which him trying to cope as a man who lost his family in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.