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• Puccini: Turandot -- San Francisco | DVD | (18/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Not only is Puccini's final opera Turandot among the composer's most popular works, but following The Three Tenors and a certain football contest, it has in "Nessun dorma!" what is almost certainly the best-loved aria in all opera. Written 20 years after Madame Butterfly (1904), Puccini's version of an 800-year-old fairy-tale is set in a legendary Peking and scored on a grand scale, incorporating not only Chinese musical techniques but a vast range of oriental percussion. Puccini draws heavily on the chorus, and as ever makes intense demands on his heroine, to which Eva Marton rises powerfully, very well complemented by the tenor Michael Sylvester as Calaf. However, what makes this 1994 San Francisco Opera version so enchanting as a visual experience is the realisation by David Hockney, who not only designed the sets and costumes but also directed the production. His vision is highly stylised, richly imagined, atmospheric and very beautiful, and it is a testament to how well this version is directed that much of the original magic is communicated through the confines of a TV screen. --Gary S. DalkinOn the DVD: Other than a well-appointed booklet, and the option to watch with or without subtitles, there are no special features. The 4:3 picture is a major improvement on video, though no doubt due to the original source materials, not as detailed as the best DVDs. The sound is powerful PCM stereo, with a slight tendency to become strident at especially dramatic moments. The layer change is particularly badly done, interrupting the choir in full flow, rather than being placed between tracks.

• The Complete Coen Collection: 1984 - 2004 | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Modern-day auteurs of the cinematic world the Coen Brothers have built a reputation as one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmakers of the late 20th century. Combining thoughtful eccentricity wry humour arch irony and often brutal violence the films of the Coen brothers have become synonymous with a style of filmmaking that pays tribute to classic American movie genres -- especially film noir -- while sustaining a firmly post-modern feel. For the first time ever all eleven of the Coen Brothers titles available in one box set which cover the first 20 years of their output Blood Simple (1984): A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But when blood is involved nothing is simple. Raising Arizona (1987): When a childless couple of ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another familys quintuplets their lives get more complicated than they anticipated. Miller's Crossing (1990): Tom Reagan an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. Barton Fink (1991): In 1941 New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle Barton develops severe writers block. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994): A nave business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. Fargo (1996): Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson. The Big Lebowski (1998): 'Dude' Lebowski mistaken for millionaire Lebowski seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to get help O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000): Set in 1930s Deep South three stumblebum convicts escape to go on a quest for treasure and meet various characters while learning where their real fortune lies. The Man Who Wasn't There: (2001) A laconic chain-smoking barber blackmails his wifes boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning but his plan goes terribly wrong. Intolerable Cruelty: (2003) A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverley Hill lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce. The Ladykillers: (2004) An eccentric if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord: a sharp old woman.

• Caged Fear | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £8.71   |  Saving you £-3.72 (-74.50%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A woman whose sister has been murdered shoots the mobster responsible. Later behind bars she becomes the subject of a mob contract. Hell hath no fury in the prison thriller.

• Soccer AM - The Hat Trick | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Featuring Soccer AM volumes 1 to 3.

• Toy Story of Terror | Blu Ray | (19/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Weekend in Vegas | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-7.97 (-159.70%)   |  RRP £4.99

  An indecent proposal too tempting to resist. A young married couple Jed and Sally are struggling to survive. They head to Las Vegas hoping their luck would change. They win more money than they dared dream of but Jed returns to the casino alone to gamble - and loses their win. He is propositioned by the club owner; a night of sex in return for money....

• Gridlock'd | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £17.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Snow Queen's Revenge | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! A festive tale inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy story. The adventure continues in the South Pole where the Snow Queen and her Trolls have taken up residence for the summer. The Snow Queen holds Ellie responsible for ruining her plans to freeze the world and sets out to seek revenge. She kidnaps Dimly the flying reindeer and once again Ellie and Peeps must come to the rescue...

• Love Me Till Monday | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £2.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (542.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Love Me Till Monday follows the story of an English girl trying to find love between the office and her home life. The film looks at how a generation of twenty-something's go in search of love. They don't 'date' or 'grab a coffee' or walk romantically along the Seine in perfectly cut trench coats. They don't hold tight to a handsome man on the back of a Vespa. They dance ironically in circles drink far too much and snog a friend. They eat cheesy chips or cold quiche at 3am. It is a film that lies somewhere between Downton and TOWIE between The City and the countryside between ASBO and PhD. Love Me Till Monday is a story about a 25-year-old middle-middle-class English girl and everything she wants and deserves. A film for the funny ugly and slightly magical English.

• Five Corners | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £9.94   |  Saving you £1.04 (14.96%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A young psychotic man returns to his neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks the young lady he previously tried to rape and the young man who protected her with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

• Rings on Their Fingers - Series Two | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following hot on the heels of the hilarious first series, where the hurdle between living together and marriage had to be overcome, the second series of Rings on their Fingers finds Sandy and Oliver facing the kinds of problems that many a married couple must face – but dealing with those problems in the way only Sandy and Oliver can, usually veering dangerously close to disaster. Rings on their Fingers, The Complete Series Two finds Sandy and Oliver for better or worse, in sickness and in health, building a life together – when they’re not accidentally knocking it down.

• Identicals | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Simon Pummell directs this sci-fi thriller set in a future where the powerful Brand New-U organisation finds better lives for clients by inserting them into the lives of other people. When Nadia (Nora-Jane Noone) is abducted by Brand New-U her boyfriend Slater (Lachlan Nieboer) is forced to go to extreme lengths to try and track her down. By infiltrating the company's network of better-life donors, Slater is forced to move through a series of parallel existences during his search. With his quest becoming more dangerous the deeper he gets, Slater becomes increasingly desperate in his attempts to recover all he has lost.

• Thunder Mountain / Wild Horse Mesa | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £4.72   |  Saving you £1.27 (26.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 'Thunder Mountain' a western based on the Zane Grey novel 'To The Last Man' Marvin Hayden finds himself right in the middle of two feuding families. In 'Wild Horse Mesa' a cowboy called Dave along with his best friend Chito set out to find the person responsible for murdering his boss.

• Exodus (DVD) | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £12.76   |  Saving you £0.23 (1.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  12 astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony on a newly discovered planet. They awake from their frozen 15 year sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and that they're trapped in their cryo-tubes. To make matters worse an alien beast breaks in and begins devouring them one by one.

• Darwin The Voyage That Shook The World | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  In 1831 a young scientist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle on an epic five-year voyage of discovery that would shake the world. In this documentary the HMS Beagle once again sets sail as it retraces Charles Darwin's voyage in lavish detail examining his findings and remarkable conclusions-and their implications. Filmed in South America the United Kingdom North America Australia and Europe Darwin: The Voyage That Shook The World features dramatic period recreations and stunning nature cinematography.

• Teletubbies - Teletubbies And The Snow / Happy Christmas From The Teletubbies | DVD | (30/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Teletubbies and the SnowOne day, sparkly clouds appear over Tellytubby land. Soon, everything is covered in fluffy, white snow--including the Tubbies' favourite things--their ball, bag, hat and scooter. The chubby foursome are at first afraid, but soon get stuck into some serious snow games, including rolling snowballs, sliding down hillsides, making footprints and making a snow Tellytubby--even their goggle-eyed vacuum-cleaner, Noo-noo, gets covered from brush to wheels in it. Teletubbies and the Snow will particularly delight pre-schoolers just getting their first taste of a real winter, but children who have never seen snow will love the four short films of real-life children singing winter songs and celebrating the year-end, as well as the antics of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa and Po, giggly Sun Baby and a cast of hundreds of fluffy bunnies hopping around. --Alison JardineHappy Christmas From The TeletubbiesWhat better time than Christmas could there be for these four likeable, er, things? After all, like the children they really are, the Teletubbies find the whole procedure to be an endless source of wonderful surprises and exciting things to do. They get presents, of course, found with the tree which, in Teletubby Land, just mysteriously appears--exactly as it does to real children, of course (unless they're unfortunate enough to be awake when an effing-and-blinding adult is attempting to manoeuvre it into place). There's also some jolly footage of real children, including a suitably happy bunch choosing and decorating a real tree, and of course it's these sections of "outside broadcasting" which balance the caperings of the four plush poppets so well. Despite the festive theme, this needn't be a Christmas-only video; the whole world is wondrous for the Teletubbies' pre-school audience, so the occasion is perfectly presented as a part of that, no more and no less. --Roger Thomas

• Denver The Last Dinosaur - Vol. 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Denver The Last Dinosaur has been in suspended animation for 65 million years but now he is everyone's newest friend. Filled with magic warmth and friendship Denver always finds himself in the middle of unexpected adventures. A big hit on British TV in the late 80s this volume features four more action packed adventures featuring the lovable dinosaur.

• Society | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This gripping story revolves around young Bill Whitney a teenager for whom fear plays a large part in family life. He senses something terrible is about to happen....that his parents' strange relationships hide something monstrous and evil. What is the incredible conspiracy that lurks beneath the smooth surface of his parents' rich and privileged Society?...

• Emmett's Mark | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (40.32%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When brilliant detective Emmett Young starts developing killer headaches he puts it down to stress but a trip to the doctor's reveals another cause. Emmett has a fatal disease. He hires a hitman to kill him only to find out the hospital has made a mistake. Now he has to find his own unknown assassin and solve the biggest murder mystery of his career...his own!!!

• Cast Offs | DVD | (14/12/2009) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (52.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two (fictional) producers dream up the idea of placing six disabled people on a deserted island in a misguided hunger for good telly ratings. The series as such takes the form of a faux documentary; six hours six characters - each episode will focus on one. As the Cast Offs struggle to overcome the challenges presented by living on the island so we learn who they are through 'flashbacks' to the year leading up to the marooning during which time in the fictional reality presented by the series the six Cast Offs were followed by documentary crews. The stories will always be darkly comic poignant and sometimes surreal but also give us opportunity to address some of the many misconceptions about disabled people.