DVDs received April 2014 : Part 2

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2004) The Bristol Old Vic production ; directed by Rachel Kavanaugh. This production was first performed on 14 May 2004 at Bristol Old Vic. Recorded on 9 & 10 June 2004. Starring Paul Reynolds (Fag/David), Chris Blanchi (Coachman/servant), Carli Norris (Lucy), Anna Madeley (Lydia Languish), Elizabeth Dermot-Walsh (Julia Melville), Selina Cadell (Mrs Malaprop), David Burke (Sir Anthony Absolute), Adam Rayner (Captain Jack Absolute), Martin Hutson (Faulkland), Dylan Charles (Bob Acres), James Hayes (Sir Lucius O'Trigger).

Sweeney Todd (2007) Dir: Tim Burton ; starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ed Sanders, Anthony Head, Peter Bowles.

That Sinking Feeling (1979) Dir: Bill Forsyth ; starringRobert Buchanan, Eddie Burt, Tom Mannion, Alex McKenzie, Richard Demarco, Gordon Sinclair, Drew Burns.

Thor (2011) Dir: Kenneth Branagh ; starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Kat Dennings, Clark Gregg, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Jaimie Alexander, Tadanobu Asano, Joshua Dallas, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins.

Thor : The Dark World (2013) Dir: Alan Taylor ; starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo.

DVDs received April 2014 : Part 1

Game of Thrones : Season Two and Season Three (2013 & 2014) Created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss ; starring Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Aiden Gillan, Charles Dance.

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Dir: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise ; featuring Demi Moore, Jason Alexander, Tom Hulce, Kevin Kline.

Disney's Jungle Book (1967) Dir: Wolfgang Reitherman ; featuring Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Louis Prima, J. Pat O'Malley.

Le Joli Mai (1963) Dir: Chris Marker and Pierre L'Homme ; 'Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's Le Joli Mai (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962 ; the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.'

Level Five (1996) Dir: Chris Marker ; starring  Catherine Belkodja, Nagisa Oshima, Kenji Tokitsu, Ju'nishi Ushiyama, Kinjo Shigeaki.

The Missing Picture (2013) Dir: Rithy Panh ; 'Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language film, Rithy Panh's latest adapts his memoir The Elimination, which tells of his childhood when he and his family were expelled from Phnom Penh and deported to camps in the country by the Khmer Rouge who took over Cambodia in 1975. Millions died from starvation, over-work or pure brutality. Rithy Panh was the only member of his family to survive. With a brilliant visual coup, Panh recreates and re-imagines life under the Khmer Rouge using tiny, hand-painted figurines. This allows him to visualize, in a profoundly affecting way, these otherwise unfathomable traumas.'