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• Callan - The Colour Years | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £27.52   |  Saving you £52.47 (190.66%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Callan: The Colour Years (7 Discs)

• Nowhere Boy | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £4.97   |  Saving you £13.02 (261.97%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The highly anticipated feature debut from artist Sam Taylor-Wood, "Nowhere Boy" is a sensitive and sprightly look at the formative years of one of Britain's cultural icons.

• Where The Wild Things Are | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £4.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (226.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.

• Doctor Zhivago | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £8.75   |  Saving you £9.24 (105.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  David Lean's wintry adaptation of Boris Pasternak's melodramatic Russian Revolution romance, Doctor Zhivago, is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking, but one that risks leaving the viewer cold. Though none of the film was shot in the then USSR, Lean's assured technique nevertheless illuminates the breathtaking backgrounds magnificently: from the snowy wastes of the Urals to the strife-torn streets of Moscow, Lean stages a series of wonderful set-pieces showing war, revolution and its terrible aftermath. The problem lies in the foreground. Omar Sharif's entirely passive Zhivago is, we are told, a romantic poet of great sensitivity who internalises all his emotions and expresses them in verse. The trouble is the audience never gets to see a line of his poems, not even the centrally important "Lara" cycle. Thus Zhivago at the end of the picture is as much an emotional blank to us as he was at the beginning. His affair with the idealised beauty that is Julie Christie's Lara is also taken for granted by the filmmakers rather than set up in any convincing way, their mutual attraction remaining a mystery that creates a vacuum at the core of the picture. Given that none of the central characters with the exception of Rod Steiger's fire-breathing lecher Komarovsky ever give way to strong emotions, the romantic heart of the film remains oddly frigid. Matters are not helped by composer Maurice Jarre's incessant "Lara's Theme", which many will find teeth-grindingly irritating. Still, any David Lean epic, even a flawed one, is always going to be a first-class cinematic experience, and Zhivago is assuredly that. On the DVD: A stunning anamorphic widescreen print is the ideal way to appreciate David Lean's craftsmanship and this movie's glorious, wintry cinematography. Maurice Jarre's "Lara's Theme" and the rest of his patchwork score can be heard in a music-only track, while Omar Sharif is joined by Lean's widow Sandra and Rod Steiger for an intermittent commentary. The second bonus disc contains a good hour-long making-of documentary plus 10 shorter contemporary documentaries giving various insights into the location shooting and the cast and crew. But it's the sheer beauty of the picture that will astonish and make this disc forever treasurable. --Mark Walker

• Dire Straits: Alchemy Live | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £14.87   |  Saving you £5.12 (34.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  registrato il 23 luglio 1983 all'hammersmith odeon di londra alchemy live fu pubblicato il 12 marzo 1984, nel periodo di massimo splendore creativo della band (debutt al #3 della chart inglese e rimase per 7 mesi nella top40) una leggendaria registrazione dal vivo con i loro pi grandi successi senza overdub n reincisioni da studio: questa l'anima dei dire straits.

• An Audience with Ken Dodd | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £5.44   |  Saving you £7.55 (138.79%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An Audience With Ken Dodd

• Joanna Lumley's Nile | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Joanna Lumley's Nile

• The Great Dictator | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania and a Jewish Barber. The Barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country. The film ends with a message of hope for the world.

• Ouran High School Host Club - Coplete Series | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £12.46 (71.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Ouran High School. An institution of extravagance and prestige where learning is secondary to luxury. Bookish Haruhi can't afford to slack being on a scholarship and out of place among the moneyed. No matter The Host Club is now open! A group of handsome boys dedicated to selling their charms to their bored female classmates Haruhi is suddenly in debt to the club after breaking an expensive vase in their lair. The only way to pay for the damage? Haruhi will work as a Host! The only problem? Haruhi is a she! Between the wildly inflated ego of the expert escorts and the potential calamities of constant cross dressing Haruhi's freshman year looks like it will be one to remember!

• Nowhere Boy | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The highly anticipated feature debut from artist Sam Taylor-Wood, "Nowhere Boy" is a sensitive and sprightly look at the formative years of one of Britain's cultural icons.

• Departures | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £14.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A delightful and sensitive journey into the heartland of Japan and an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's cultural heritage Departures tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Matoki) a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved who now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer ' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of 'Nokanshi ' acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder joy and meaning of life and living.

• taking chances world tour: the concert | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A businessman rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns.

• Midsomer Murders - Troy's Casebook | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £49.99   |  Saving you £4.50 (9.00%)   |  RRP £54.49

  A 19 disc set celebrating all of DS Troy's cases featuring all 29 films starring Daniel Casey. Episodes featured: The Killings at Badger's Drift Written in Blood Death in Disguise Death of a Hollow Man Faithful Unto Death Strangler's Wood Blood Will Out Death's Shadow Beyond the Grave Dead Man's Eleven Blue Herrings Judgement Day Death of a Stranger Garden of Death Destroying Angel The Electric Vendetta Who Killed Cock Robin? Dark Autumn Tainted Fruit Ring Out Your Dead Murder on St. Malley's Day Market for Murder A Worm in the Bud A Talent for Life Death and Dreams Painted in Blood A Tale of Two Hamlets Birds of Prey and The Green Man.

• Blind Dating | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £5.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (173.04%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Determined to help Danny (Chris Pine) have his first sexual experience, his brother Larry sets up a series of hysterically disastrous blind dates with shallow girls that can't seem to get past his sight impairment.

• Dire Straits: Alchemy Live | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bygone Pictures-Stoke on Trent | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (-24.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Let Bygone Pictures take you on a nostalgic journey into Stoke-on-Trent's magnificent past. You will encounter marvellous street scenes as well as local events of the 20th Century from Coronation celebrations and sporting confrontations to terrible accidents and World Wars. All of these time locked photographs have been brought back to life using the latest digital technology. Anybody who knows this famous town either as a home or as a favourite place to visit will find this film both amazing and educational.

• Horrible Histories - Series 1 | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  All 13 episodes of the CBBC series! History with the nasty bits left in! Based on the bestselling series of books for kids (and for adults but they just won't admit it) Horrible Histories is an anarchic surprising and unconventional take on history's most gruesome and funny moments. Foul facts rotten rulers beastly battles and evil inventions feature in horribly hilarious sketches songs cartoons and quizzes - all linked by the show's host a talking rat! From Woeful World Wars Measly Middle Ages and Savage Stone Age to Cut-throat Celts Groovy Greeks Rotten Romans Vicious Vikings and Awful Egyptians history has never been so horrible!

• The Agatha Christie Hour Collection | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £13.81 (85.35%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Some were romances some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented. Episodes Comprise: The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife: When Mrs Packington whose husband is paying more attention to his young secretary answers an ad in the papers reading ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE she soon finds herself being dazzled and swept off her feet by the handsome Claude Luttrell. In A Glass Darkly: Matthew Armitage is startled by a vision in his mirror: he sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision Sylvia and notes her fiance's scarred neck. Mathew tells Sylvia of his premonition and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it? The Case of the Discontented Soldier: The recently retired Major Wilbraham is bored and unhappy so he answers Parker Pyne's newspaper ad. Before long the Major finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg from two burly attackers; with Freda in tow he embarks on a daring adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa! Another charming love story of an autumn romance. Magnolia Blossom: Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover - and business associate of her husband - Vincent Easton when she learns her husband Richard is facing financial ruin. Old loyalties resurface and she returns home to see if she can fix the situation. The Mystery of the Blue Jar: Playing golf early one morning Jack Harrington hears a cry Murder! Help! from a nearby cottage. He runs up to find a beautiful French girl Felise placidly weeding the garden oblivious to any disturbance. When the Jack hears the same cries for many days he begins to think he might be mad. But are more sinister forces at work? The Red Signal: Dermot West is invited to dinner at the home of Jack and Claire Trent. The first is his best friend the second the woman he loves. During the evening the conversation turns to the supernatural; Dermot admits he frequently gets what he calls 'the red signal' to warn him of impending danger. He neglects to mention that he is getting the signal strongly that night! Jane in Search of a Job: Jane Cleveland lands a sought-after job as double for the Grand Duchess of Ostrova during the latter's state visit to England. An attempt is feared on the Duchess' life and when Jane is framed for a theft events become ever more complicated. Can she clear her name and who is trying to kill the Duchess? The Manhood of Edward Robinson: Prim and proper yet a romantic dreamer Edward Robinson leads a rather dull life with his domineering girlfriend and uninspiring job. His quiet dull life ends when he wins some money in a newspaper contest and he embarks on an adventure that even he never dreamed of. The Girl in The Train: George Rowland a bored playboy disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle is on the train to London. When a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment frantically begging to be hidden his life changes dramatically. The Fourth Man: A canon a lawyer and a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment who apparently pays no attention to his companions' animated conversation.

• It's Complicated | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £3.80   |  Saving you £16.19 (426.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Writer/director Nancy Meyers ("What Women Want", "Something's Gotta Give", "The Holiday") directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in "It's Complicated", a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between.