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• Yatterman (DVD) | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £4.42   |  Saving you £11.57 (261.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a brand new plot and re-imaged characters, this live action debut of Yatterman will re-define the robot action adventure genre. Gan, the only son of a toy shop owner, and his girlfriend Ai are just normal teens who like to tinker away with robotic inventions - that is, when they're not out keeping the world safe from evil! Together with their giant robot dog Yatterwoof, and their small incompetent robot Toybotty, Gan & Ai transform into crime-fighting duo Yatterman to fight for world peace. Waging battle against perennial nemesis, the Doronbo gang. Formed by sexy villainess Doronjo and her lackeys Boyacky, and Tonzra, the Doronbo trio will stop at nothing to recover the powerful wish-granting Skull Stone, but they'll have to get past Yatterman first!

• Four | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The plan: Kidnap your wife's lover. Take him to a remote warehouse. Hurt him a little. Scare him a lot. Keep your hands clean - hire a detective for the dirty work. Simple? There's no such thing as simple.

• Cheap Flights | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £17.14   |  Saving you £-5.15 (-43.00%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Tracklist:1. Act 1: Companies Using Nifty Taxation Systems2. One True Religion3. Dogging4. Mother Dear Mother5. One Night Stand6. Bestseller 20127. Bulgarian Song Cycle Part 18. Mr & Mrs & Me9. The Orang-Utan Song10. Cheap Flights11. Down With The Kids12. Act 2: Bored13. Yes, But is it Art?14. Little Chef15. Bulgarian Song Cycle Part 216. Tesco Saves17. Let's Go to A Hotel18. Lieder19. This Table20. Stick Your Head Between Your Legs21. FAQs22. Michael O'Leary

• Ben and Holly's Little K. Vol. 4 - The Elf Games | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £12.90   |  Saving you £-2.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Holly, a young Fairy Princess, is still learning how to fly and her magic doesn't always go quite according to plan. Her best friend, Ben the Elf, doesn't have wings and he doesn't do magic. But elves are very good at making things - especially toys. They live in the Little Kingdom - a tiny land where flowers and grass rise above the tallest towers. Episodes:1) The Elf Games2) Cows3) The Toy Robot4) The Dinner Party5) Big Bad Barry6) King Thistle's Birthday7) The Wand Factory8) Daisy & Poppy's Hamster9) The Elf Rocket10) Picnic On The Moon

• In the Name of the King 2 | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables) stars as Granger, a lethal ex-forces soldier transported back in time to fulfil an ancient prophecy in this action-packed sequel to In the Name of the King: a Dungeon Siege Tale.Summoned to defeat the threatening forces of darkness, Granger finds himself catapulted back to a mystical age where dragons scorch the skies and the only way to fight is in brutal hand-to-hand combat. As he fights his way to the truth, Granger learns that one wrong move could cost him not only his life, but the very future of his world.

• Massenet: Cendrillon | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £16.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (6.51%)   |  RRP £17.99

  With Joyce DiDonato as Cinderella capturing all hearts – not just Prince Charming’s – Massenet’s enchanting, sophisticated retelling of the classic fairytale makes its debut at Covent Garden in a charming and witty production by Laurent Pelly. The Cinderella story seen through the eyes of the belle poque, Massenet’s Cendrillon was first performed at the Opra-Comique in Paris in 1899 and its gorgeous score embraces pathos, pastiche, broad humour, subtle eroticism and sheer magic.

• The Bridge | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The body of a woman is found in the middle of the resund Bridge. Half of it belongs to a Swedish politician, the other half to a Danish prostitute.Trapped in the middle of the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark, a bi-national investigatory team is put together to solve the crime. Laid-back Danish family man, Martin, and Swedish single woman, Saga, have to work together to stop the horrific staged murders before the terrorist wins over public opinion with his anti-corruption agenda.

• Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland - 2012 Repackage | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £5.79   |  Saving you £5.46 (120.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. A tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo is in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his courage and heads off on an action-packed rescue mission that plunges him into Grouchland.

• A Beautiful Mind | Blu Ray | (28/05/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Beautiful Mind manages to twist enough pathos out of John Nash's incredible life story to redeem an at-times goofy portrayal of schizophrenia. Russell Crowe tackles the role with characteristic fervor, playing the Nobel prize-winning mathematician from his days at Princeton, where he developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his meteoric rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions. Of course, it is the delusions that fascinate director Ron Howard and, predictably, go astray. Nash's other world, populated as it is by a maniacal Department of Defense agent (Ed Harris), an imagined college roommate who seems straight out of Dead Poets Society, and an orphaned girl, is so fluid and scriptlike as to make the viewer wonder if schizophrenia is really as slick as depicted. Crowe's physical intensity drags us along as he works admirably to carry the film on his considerable shoulders. No doubt the story of Nash's amazing will to recover his life without the aid of medication is a worthy one, his eventual triumph heartening. Unfortunately, Howard's flashy style is unable to convey much of it. --Fionn Meade

• Leverage - Complete Season 3 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The expert con artists of the hit crime drama Leverage are back for an all-new season of complex heists and high-stakes action. With the team’s leader Nate Ford (Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton) now behind bars and his nemesis working for Interpol, a beautiful but mysterious stranger steps in to call the shots for TV's hottest gang of master thieves. These tech-savvy grafters are highly skilled and ready to settle scores with the criminal underworld. It's time to take things to the next level. Special Features: Audio Commentary with Writer and Director

• The Sitter | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £15.12   |  Saving you £9.87 (65.28%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Sitter may be the last movie featuring the "heavy" version of Jonah Hill. With the many pounds he's since lost, many movie-industry minds are wondering if the Jonah Hill-ness of his screen persona, flaunted so prodigiously in the likes of Knocked Up, Get Him to the Greek, and Superbad, has disappeared from the scales too. But until Jonah 2.0 gets his chance, The Sitter couldn't capture his trash-talking, man-child, king-of-comeback essence more boldly, more lovingly, or with such blatant vulgarity. Hill plays Noah, a jobless twentysomething layabout still living with his divorced mum along with the delusion that he has a hot girlfriend (she only keeps him around for oral talents that are unrelated to speech). As a favour that might help Mum with her own sad love life, he agrees to a one-night babysitting stand for the neighbours and their three wildly dissimilar but equally messed-up children. The night progresses through slapstick, farce, adventure, romance, danger, pathos, and eventual catharsis for everyone. (Unfortunately there's a touch of maudlin, sentimental corn in the mix too.) The children are as important to the escapades as Noah and are the primary source of his stupid/smooth shtick that mixes clever put-downs, terrified jabbering, and hilariously relentless patter of urban slang vernacular. Noah's spoiled charges are two boys--an anxiety-wracked 13-year-old and a 10-year-old Nicaraguan adoptee with severe anger and pyromania issues--and a precocious 8-year-old-girl who's heavily into make-up, hip-hop, and a score of other age-inappropriate behaviours. As the four of them hurtle deeper into the night, the situations become more antically treacherous with drug dealers, gangster thugs, police officers, and upper-crust snobs as part of the mix, along with their knives, cocaine, diamonds, alcohol, and guns. Director David Gordon Green, whose unusual career has gone from art house (George Washington, All the Real Girls) to raunchy bromance (Pineapple Express, Your Highness), supplants formal technique with the off-kilter and oft-unseemly style of Jonah Hill vs. the world. Green sometimes evokes the flow of surreality that Martin Scorsese took to unnatural ends in After Hours, only with more dirty bits and a lot more full-on crude laughs. Nearly everyone in the large supporting cast makes an excellent foil for the star's constant streetwise riffing, especially Sam Rockwell, who digs in to his role as a psychotic but emotionally conflicted drug dealer always on the lookout for new best friends. But it is Jonah Hill who sits firmly, even heavily in the driver's seat. It's a great place to flash his better-honed actorly chops along with his beloved version 1.0 comedic gift. --Ted Fry

• Bugs Bunny and Friends (DVD + Digital Copy) | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £6.40   |  Saving you £1.59 (24.84%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Cool, collected, carrot-chomping Bugs Bunny outsmarts all adversaries. He's inordinately brainy and zany, an Academy Award winner for Knighty Knight Bugs and known the world over for his signature line What's Up, Doc?.

• The Warrior | Blu Ray | (28/05/2012) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A warrior (Irfran Khan) attempts to renounce his violent past and find a new life of peace in the mountains of Northern India but does not account for the wrath of the local warlord...

• Grateful Dead -Dawn Of The Dead The Grateful Dead & The Rise Of The San Francisco Underground | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £6.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (-8.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the mid-1960s a new twist on contemporary rock music emerged out of San Francisco. Known as 'psychedelia', it was pioneered by a close-knit community of local bands who merged traditional American forms such as folk, country, blues and rock & roll with new sounds often developed under the influence of psychedelic drugs. Bound up with the social and cultural changes for which San Francisco was also the focal point, it was a combination that made for a radical re-imaging of youth culture. This film traces the movements, events and sounds of those heady days, and traces the story of the definitive band of the psychedelic age, The Grateful Dead. Giving time too for the involvement of Frisco's other lead players such as Big Brother & The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, The Charlatans and Quicksilver Messenger Service, the program explores what it was that, for a while, turned San Francisco into a 1960s Shangri-La. Featuring brand new interviews with Grateful Dread manager Rock Scully; the Dead's experimental professor, Tom 'T.C.' Constanten; Big Brother's Peter Albin; Mike Willlhelm from The Charlatans; publicist and official Dead biographer, Dennis McNally; Counter-Culture and Dead author and journalist (and host of 'The Grateful Dead Hour'), David Gans; Merry Prankster and best friend of the late Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, plus comment, criticism and review from Rolling Stone's Anthony De Curtis, Village Voice's Robert Christgau and Mojo's Ritchie Unterberger. Also including the rarest archive in existence, live and studio footage of Grateful Dead and the other Frisco bands, vintage interviews, location shoots, news reports plus the music that soundtracked the entire movement, which all together make for the most detailed overview yet of the social upheaval on America's West Coast which ultimately changed the world forever.

• Memories of Cambridgeshire and the Fens Part 2 | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £17.06   |  Saving you £-4.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  See how people lived and worked, including: Ely and the life of Fenland marshmen, Cambridge University and street scenes in the 1950s, the air force in Peterborough, Pye and the arrival of Anglia TV and the Cambridge to Mildenhall railway

• The Sitter | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £3.45   |  Saving you £16.54 (479.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Sitter may be the last movie featuring the "heavy" version of Jonah Hill. With the many pounds he's since lost, many movie-industry minds are wondering if the Jonah Hill-ness of his screen persona, flaunted so prodigiously in the likes of Knocked Up, Get Him to the Greek, and Superbad, has disappeared from the scales too. But until Jonah 2.0 gets his chance, The Sitter couldn't capture his trash-talking, man-child, king-of-comeback essence more boldly, more lovingly, or with such blatant vulgarity. Hill plays Noah, a jobless twentysomething layabout still living with his divorced mum along with the delusion that he has a hot girlfriend (she only keeps him around for oral talents that are unrelated to speech). As a favour that might help Mum with her own sad love life, he agrees to a one-night babysitting stand for the neighbours and their three wildly dissimilar but equally messed-up children. The night progresses through slapstick, farce, adventure, romance, danger, pathos, and eventual catharsis for everyone. (Unfortunately there's a touch of maudlin, sentimental corn in the mix too.) The children are as important to the escapades as Noah and are the primary source of his stupid/smooth shtick that mixes clever put-downs, terrified jabbering, and hilariously relentless patter of urban slang vernacular. Noah's spoiled charges are two boys--an anxiety-wracked 13-year-old and a 10-year-old Nicaraguan adoptee with severe anger and pyromania issues--and a precocious 8-year-old-girl who's heavily into make-up, hip-hop, and a score of other age-inappropriate behaviours. As the four of them hurtle deeper into the night, the situations become more antically treacherous with drug dealers, gangster thugs, police officers, and upper-crust snobs as part of the mix, along with their knives, cocaine, diamonds, alcohol, and guns. Director David Gordon Green, whose unusual career has gone from art house (George Washington, All the Real Girls) to raunchy bromance (Pineapple Express, Your Highness), supplants formal technique with the off-kilter and oft-unseemly style of Jonah Hill vs. the world. Green sometimes evokes the flow of surreality that Martin Scorsese took to unnatural ends in After Hours, only with more dirty bits and a lot more full-on crude laughs. Nearly everyone in the large supporting cast makes an excellent foil for the star's constant streetwise riffing, especially Sam Rockwell, who digs in to his role as a psychotic but emotionally conflicted drug dealer always on the lookout for new best friends. But it is Jonah Hill who sits firmly, even heavily in the driver's seat. It's a great place to flash his better-honed actorly chops along with his beloved version 1.0 comedic gift. --Ted Fry

• Memories of Cambridgeshire and the Fens Part 1 | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cambridgeshire and the Fens as it used to be from 1912 to the eve of the Second World War, including: street scenes in Wisbech, rowing & river-skating in Cambridge, the annual Sawston pea-picking tradition, Papworth Hospital in the 1930s, Chivers jam factory at Histon and floods at Littleport in 1937

• Kate & Leopold | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Carried through time to modern-day Manhattan, 18th century English aristocrat and inventor Leopold (Hugh Jackman) falls for independent and career-minded Kate (Meg Ryan). Initially skeptical of his royal charm, she soon discovers that the Duke's power over her own heart is almost as strong as his influence over time itself...

• The Darkest Hour (DVD + Digital Copy) | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four young people find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

• Cuckoo Patrol | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The late Freddie Garrity (of Freddie and the Dreamers) stars in this 1967 Eternal films comedy. Directed by Duncan Woodwho produced Hancocks Half Hour, Steptoe and Son and Oh Brother amongst many others.A good British cast, Kenneth Connor, Victor Maddern, John Le Mesurier and Arthur Mullard tell the story of a troopof scout misfits, The Cuckoo Troop, led by Garrity on their way to scout camp and all the scrapes they stumble into!Picture and sound of excellent quality following extensive restoration work by Renown.