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• Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story -- The Making of the Recording | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed in 1984 for the BBC, the feature-length documentary Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story follows the composer through one week as he records the first-ever complete album of his musical theatre masterpiece. (The previous Broadway cast and original soundtrack albums had both been cut down to single LP length.) Virtually the entire documentary takes place in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra, session singers and headliners Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita) and Kurt Ollmann (Riff). The 89-minute programme alternates rehearsal footage with complete final takes of the main numbers--including "Tonight", "America", and "Maria"--with a limited amount of comment from the principal players. Te Kanawa explains how much the music means to her, Troyanos notes how she grew-up in the very streets depicted on stage and Carreras provides a rare moment of tension when a session ends unsatisfactorily. Bernstein himself is by turns commanding, charming, enthusiastic or weary. For anyone wanting an extensive insight into what happens as a major album is recorded this is fascinating, though others who just want to enjoy the wonderful music will be better served by the resultant two-CD set. On the DVD: Though filmed for British television, Deutsche Grammophon have chosen to release a single region-free (Region 0) DVD for the entire world. Unfortunately this means the disc is in NTSC format rather than PAL, and requires an NTSC-compatible television for playback. It also means that while the sound has been effectively remastered for PCM stereo the picture shows all the signs of a bad NTSC copy--weak, washed-out colours and poor definition with a serious lack of detail. Most videos are far better. The DVD has subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Chinese. There are no extras, though the booklet adapts an interesting article by producer Humphrey Burton which originally appeared in Gramophone magazine in 1985.--Gary S Dalkin

• Big Cook Little Cook: Christmas Puddings | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Big Cook and Little Cook whip up a selection of christmas treats for children! As ever there'll be the usual mix of cooking singing dancing and fun!

• An Idiot Abroad Box Set - Series 1 and 2 | Blu Ray | (21/11/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (250.25%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Join everyone's favourite reluctant traveller, Karl Pilkington as he is sent around the globe by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.... Twice.First off Karl is sent to the far reaches of our planet to witness the awe-inspiring 7 wonders of the world. Will he find them awe-inspiring or just awful.In series 2 Karl is dispatched to explore the best things you can possibly do before you die.Features every episode from both series of this smash hit show.

• Robots/ Ice Age/ Garfield The Movie | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £10.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Robots (Dir. Chris Wedge 2005): Rodney Copperbottom voiced by Ewan McGregor is a small town robot who has a gift for inventing things and a hope of moving beyond his quaint surroundings. He works side by side in a restaurant with his dad who is a dishwasher - literally a dishwasher. You open his chest and load in the dishes. Rodney has dreams of something greater. Armed with his unique talent for inventing Rodney embarks on a journey to Robot City to meet his idol the majestic inventor Bigweld voiced by Mel Brooks. An iconic figure in all of Robot City Bigweld has spent a lifetime creating things to make the lives of robots better. Once in Robot City Rodney finds that things are not quite as he expected and his quest may be a lot harder than he imagined. As he tries to navigate his way around this new city Rodney befriends the Rusties a ragtag group of street-smart bots who know the ropes. One of the Rusties Fender (voiced by Robin Williams) immediately becomes Rodney's best friend and even lets his spunky kid sister Piper Pinwheeler (voiced by Amanda Bynes) tag along. They take him in and for now at least Rodney has a home in Robot City. Rodney also meets Cappy (voiced by Halle Berry) an executive at Bigweld Industries who takes an instant liking to Rodney and sees a lot of herself in him. Along their adventures Rodney and his new friends encounter unsavory characters who try to derail Rodney's plans to find Bigweld and save Robot City. The result is a timeless comedic tale that pushes the boundaries of animation while introducing characters rich with humor and soul and a heart-warming story proves that a robot can shine no matter what he is made of. In addition to Ewan McGregor Robin Williams Halle Berry Mel Brooks and Amanda Bynes 'Robots' boasts the following ensemble cast: Drew Carey Jim Broadbent Paul Giamatti Jay Leno Dianne Wiest Stanley Tucci Jamie Kennedy and many others. Ice Age (Dir. Carlos Saldanha 2002): A star-studded cast provides the voices for the prehistoric creatures in this computer-animated feature set 20 000 years ago as the Ice Age approaches. Seemingly anti-social Manny a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) acts as if he just wants to be left alone. When he meets Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) a sloth the two become unlikely traveling companions. The plot thickens when the duo finds a human infant and decides to try to return the child to its herd. Manny slowly but surely reveals his heart of gold while Sid continues to provide comic relief. Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) a saber-tooth tiger with ulterior motives soon joins them in their search for the humans. Ultimately this group of misfits becomes its own herd learning about friendship and loyalty as they brave snow ice freezing temperatures predators hail and even boiling lava pits. All the while a saber-tooth squirrel Scrat provides comic relief as he valiantly struggles with an acorn. A well-written humorous script and endearing characters mesh well with the state-of-the-art technology and effects. Other stars lending their voices to the feature include Goran Visnjic Jack Black and Jane Krakowski.

• Howards' Way - Series 5 | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The story of high-life and intrigue amongst Britain's wealthy sailing set continues to ride the waves in the boatyards boardrooms and bedrooms. Laura Wilde's arrival in Tarrant heralds a stormy ride for the business empires of Leisure Cruise Frere Holdings and Relton Marine. The glamorous schemer wastes no time in making alliances and helping herself to a share of the action. As Laura joins forces with Ken Masters at Leisure Cruise clouds hang over the other businesses: the on-going fraud investigation threatens to either put Charles and Gerald behind bars or set off a trail of revenge; Avril's tenure at Relton Marine comes under threat as Charles seeks to engineer a vote of no-confidence - while secret deals in Malta and in the courtroom are shaping all their fortunes. Elsewhere emotions are running high as Abby's claims on William aren't helped by her ever closer ties with Leo; Jack struggles with feelings of guilt as he embarks on a relationship with his old flame Vanessa and Jan finds more than just a business partner in the enigmatic James...

• Stephen K Amos: The Feel Good Factor | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• The Mummy | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Deep in the Egyptian desert, a band of explorers searching for long-lost treasure have accidentally unearthed and resurrected the Mummyan ancient 3,000-year-old legacy of terror! Adventurer Rick O' Connell (Brendan Fraser) pairs up with librarian Evelyn (Academy Award® winner* Rachel Weisz) and a motley archeological crew to conquer the curse of the living deadthe vengeful reincarnation of the Egyptian priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Combining the thrills of a rousing adventure with the suspense of the legendary 1932 horror classic, The Mummy is a true nonstop action epic, filled with dazzling visual effects, top-notch talent and superb storytelling. Bonus Features Feature Commentaries Deleted Scenes Building a Better Mummy Visual And Special Effects Formation Unraveling The Legacy Of The Mummy, and More!

• Maggie And The Ferocious Beast - Three Little Ghosts | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £6.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (23.11%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It's a dark and spooky night and the Beast has dressed up as a ghost to scare his friends. What he doesn't know is that Hamilton and Maggie are dressed up as ghosts too. And when they meet up with a fourth ghost (their friend Nedley) they all get a good scare!

• Ice Age/Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £9.88   |  Saving you £25.11 (254.15%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Ice Age (Dirs.Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha 2002): A star-studded cast provides the voices for the prehistoric creatures in this computer-animated feature set 20 000 years ago as the Ice Age approaches. Seemingly anti-social Manny a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) acts as if he just wants to be left alone. When he meets Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) a sloth the two become unlikely traveling companions. The plot thickens when the duo finds a human infant and decides to try to return the child to its herd. Manny slowly but surely reveals his heart of gold while Sid continues to provide comic relief. Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) a saber-tooth tiger with ulterior motives soon joins them in their search for the humans. Ultimately this group of misfits becomes its own herd learning about friendship and loyalty as they brave snow ice freezing temperatures predators hail and even boiling lava pits. All the while a saber-tooth squirrel Scrat provides comic relief as he valiantly struggles with an acorn. A well-written humorous script and endearing characters mesh well with the state-of-the-art technology and effects. Other stars lending their voices to the feature include Goran Visnjic Jack Black and Jane Krakowski. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Dir. Carlos Saldanha 2006: Manny the woolly mammoth Sid the sloth Diego the saber-toothed tiger and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat: those sub-zero heroes are back! Manny may be ready to start a family but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; in fact Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is until he miraculously finds Ellie (voiced by Queen Latifah) the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problem: they can't stand each other. Oh and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum brothers Crash and Eddie (voiced by Seann William Scott and Josh Peck) a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky loud-mouthed troublemakers. Manny Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: a huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes along with Ellie Crash and Eddie form the most unlikely family as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing increasingly dangerous landscape...

• Casual Sex? (Retro VHS Packaging) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2021) from £13.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Credo | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £11.88   |  Saving you £-5.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Following a wild party five friends are evicted from their student digs and are forced to seek refuge in an abandoned hall of residence in central London. They soon sense they're not alone and recall the story of a ritual group suicide that occurred in that same building a few years before. When they conduct a sance to uncover the reason behind the suicides the answer comes not from the ghosts of dead students but from the terrifying entity that drove them to their deaths. And now it knows they're here it's not going to let them leave.

• Fear and Desire (1953) | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Independently financed with contributions from Stanley Kubrick's family and friends in an era when an independent cinema was still far from the norm, Fear and Desire first saw release in 1953 at the Guild Theater in New York, thanks to the enterprising distributor Joseph Burstyn. Now, with this new restoration carried out in 2012 by The Library of Congress, a film that for decades has remained nearly impossible to see will at last appear in a proper release in the United Kingdom. Kubrick's debut feature tells the story of a war waged (in the present? in the future?) between two forces. In the midst of the conflict, a plane carrying four soldiers crashes behind enemy lines. From here out, it is kill or be killed: a female hostage is taken on account of being a potential informer; an enemy general and his aide are discovered during a scouting mission... What lies in store for this ragtag group of killers, between their perilous landing in the forest, and the final raft-float downstream... all this constitutes the tale of Kubrick's precocious entry into feature filmmaking. Bringing into focus for the first time the same thematic concerns that would obsess the director in such masterworks as Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket, Fear and Desire marks the outset of the dazzling career and near-complete artistic freedom which to this day remains unparalleled in the annals of Hollywood history. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire in its gorgeous new restoration on both Blu-ray and DVD. Special Features: New HD Restoration of the Film by The Library of Congress, Presented in 1080p on the Blu-Ray Optional English SDH Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Stanley Kubrick's Early Short Film, The Seafarers in a New HD Restoration New and Exclusive Video Discussion of the Film by Critic and Stanley Kubrick Author Bill Krohn Substantial Booklet Containing Writing on the Film, Vintage Excerpts and Rare Archival Imagery

• Young Riders Season 1 | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Saddle up for fun and adventure with The Young Riders! Set in the early days of the Pony Express the series tells the fictionalized story of a group of young riders for the express in Sweetwater Kansas who just happen to include a couple of dudes who would one day go down in real-life history as two of the west's most notorious names: ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody (Stephen Baldwin) and ""Wild Bill"" Hickock (Josh Brolin). In charge of the bunch is ex-Texas ranger and all-around eccentric teaspoon hunter (Anthony Zerbe). See how they all put the wild in the wild wild west in this complete first season of The Young Riders.

• The Girl In The Spider's Web | 4K UHD | (25/03/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new Dragon Tattoo story comes to the screen starring Claire Foy ( The Crown ) as Lisbeth Salander, the fierce, outcast vigilante defender from the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson, in The Girl in the Spider's Web.  A first-time adaptation of the recent global bestseller, the film is directed by Fede Alvarez, the director of 2016's breakout thriller Don't Breathe; the screenplay adaptation is by Jay Basu & Fede Alvarez and Steven Knight.

• Out of the Dark | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £8.03   |  Saving you £4.96 (61.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.   

• Ballykissangel Series 1-3 Box Set | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Young priest Father Peter Clifford (Stephen Tompkinson) arrives in the small Irish town of Ballykissangel. Captivated by local beauty Assumpta (Dervla Kirwan) he is unpopular form the outset and has to work hard to win over the eccentric inhabitants... Series 1: 1. Trying To Connect You 2. The Things We Do For Love 3. Live In My Heart And Pay No Rent 4. Fallen Angel 5. The Power And The Gory 6. Missing You Already Series 2: 1. For One Night Only 2. River Dance 3. In the Can 4. The Facts of Life 5. Someone to Watch over Me 6. Only Skin Deep 7. Money Money Money 8. Chinese Whispers Series 3: 1. When A Child Is Born 2. Changing Time 3. Stardust In Your Eyes 4. The Fortune In Men's Eyes 5. I Know When I'm Not Wanted 6. Personal Call 7. Lost Sheep 8. The Waiting Game 9. Pack Up Your Troubles 10. The Reckoning 11. Amongst Friends

• Best Laid Plans | DVD | (10/12/2013) from £3.16   |  Saving you £8.09 (425.79%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this unforgivingly hard-hitting thriller, Danny (Stephen Graham) and his friend Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), are faced with a terrible ultimatum. To pay off Danny’s mounting debts to crime boss Curtis (David O’Hara), Joseph must battle his way through a number of unliscensed cage fights. As the fights get tougher so their friendship will be tested to the very limit…

• Until Death | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £4.40   |  Saving you £11.59 (263.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They put him in a coma now he's going to put them out of their misery. Anthony Stowe (Van Damme) is a narcotics lieutenant - he's addicted to heroin has a bad attitude and everyone hates him including his soon-to-be-ex wife. His ex-partner Gabriel Callaghan (Stephen Rea) is working to become the new leader of the gangsters in local organized crime. Callaghan sends his men after Anthony they shoot him in the head and he falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the idea of finishing off his former partner and becoming a better person and better husband.

• 3 Film Horror Collection | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £6.78   |  Saving you £9.47 (171.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Evidence A team of detectives attempt to piece together what happened at the scene of a brutal massacre using a number of recording devices found at the crime scene. The footage reveals a group of bus passengers who were violently murdered one by one. Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero A bachelor party cruise ship unexpectedly runs ashore on a medical research island and a deadly virus is unleashed. When the group of friends start to show symptoms of a vicious flesh eating disease the countdown is on to find a way to survive before the deadly outbreak consumes them all. As the chaos escalates a mysterious and surprisingly unaffected stranger claims to hold the key to their escape. Will the terrified group survive or will this chance encounter lead them to their ultimate demise A Voodoo Possession Machete star Danny Trejo plays a man in search of his brother in a Haitian asylum possessed by Voodoo.

• Jackals | DVD | (25/06/2018) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.