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• Sugar Hill | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sugar Hill, a once prosperous part of Harlem, is now a jungle of poverty, drugs and chaos, at the top of which stands Roemello Skuggs (Wesley Snipes). Wielding his dominance like a shield, he protects his father and brother, Raynathan (Michael Wright).It is only when he meets the beautiful Melissa (Theresa Randle), an ambitious, struggling actress, that he decides to move on, to escape Sugar Hill with his family intact. Pursued by rival gangs and the Mafia, the struggle Roemello faces - the need for love, thr power of family - threatens to destroy him and yet may be his last brilliant hope.

• Juan of the Dead | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (78.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Following in the witty and gory footsteps of Shaun of the Dead, comes Cuba's first full-length horror film, Juan Of The Dead!Juan Of The Dead tells the blood-drenched tale of a slacker who decides to save Cuba from an invasion of cannibalistic zombies. As the zombies turn Havana into a gory circus of flying limbs and severed heads, the nightly news anchors continue to calmly assert the government line, that the attacks are not the work of the undead but dissidents in the pay of the United States.Scattered with allusions to traumatic moments in Cuba's recent history, this is a zombie film with real satirical bite.

• You Only Live Once 75the Anniversary | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £11.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (39.16%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Joan and Eddie are in love but he is a career criminal. She uses her influence to get him out of prison and after their marriage he vows to go straight. However, things don't go according to plan and they both go off the rails...

• Highway To Heaven - Season One | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £30.53   |  Saving you £9.46 (30.99%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Jonathan Smith isn't your average helpful handyman. He's an angel with a mission from God, or 'The Boss' as he likes to say. Accompanied by ex-cop Mark Gordon, whose troubled life Jonathan once helped turn around, he travels the country, guiding the lost and suffering back towards the Highway To Heaven.Starring Michael Landon and Victor French, all 24 uplifting episodes from the debut season of this family favourite are now available on DVD in the UK for the very first time.

• Fly Into Danger | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  At Chilford Green Aerodrome, a small, privately owned airfield in the heart of England, the transportation of cargo takes place daily. But this is no ordinary cargo - as 18-year-old Chris Lomax is to discover. A keen motor mechanic whose enthusiasm for aircraft has prompted him to get a job at Chilford, Chris's self-reliance and questioning mind are soon causing consternation for his employers; as he gets alarmingly close to the true nature of the airfield's operations, it becomes clear that Chris - and his young colleague, Sarah - could be in serious danger. Fly Into Danger was a seven-part action series aimed at a younger audience; however, its spectacular and rapidly paced airborne sequences and a subject matter as relevant today as when it first aired in 1972 ensure that Fly Into Danger will appeal to viewers of all ages. Written by Roy Russell (The Saint, The Queen Street Gang) and boasts a strong cast. Originally made in colour, only two episodes still exist in this format, the remaining five coming from black and white telerecordings.

• W.E. | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £9.79   |  Saving you £13.20 (134.83%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Madonna directs this rich, elegantly structured story of two women, decades apart, confronting the consequences of desire.

• Bomber Boys - Ewan McGregor - As Seen on BBC1 | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £3.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (275.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ewan McGregor and his brother Colin explore the heroism and extraordinary collective spirit of Bomber Command through to the pilots who risked their lives in the dangerous aerial sorties of World War II.

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £4.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet the kid who made 'wimpy' cool, in a family comedy based on the best-selling illustrated novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, the first in a series that has thus far sold 24 million copies.

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader/ Fantastic Mr. Fox Double Pack | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderThe third film based on C.S. Lewis's fantasy books, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader opens three years after the Pevensie children return from battling to restore peace to Narnia in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) are still staying with Eustace (Will Poulter), while Peter and Susan have gotten older and moved on to school and America, respectively. Still as surly and unbelieving as ever, Eustace continues to mock his cousins for their Narnian fantasies. But when water begins spilling into their room from a painting hanging on the wall, all three young people are swept onto the decks of the sailing ship known as the Dawn Treader, which is afloat in the waters of Narnia. This time, there are no wars to be fought in Narnia. But it soon becomes evident that the trio is destined to help King Caspian (Ben Barnes) solve the mystery of the disappearance of the seven lords of Telmar, and prevent the ongoing sacrifices of large groups of Narnian people to the evil green mist. So begins a quest through uncharted waters that will require each of the children to resist temptations like beauty and power, and to conquer the darkness within themselves in order to defeat the threat to Narnia's people. The battle promises to yield unexpected heroes, and through their journey, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and even King Caspian and Reepicheep (voiced by Simon Pegg) each grow and mature. Eventually, Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson) will ask each adventurer to make an important choice that will forever influence his or her future. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader features plenty of high adventure, sword-fighting action, and personal peril, and while it fails to fully capitalise on the characters' motivations or to earn viewers' full emotional investment, it is still a solid addition to the Narnia film series. (Ages 7 and older) --Tami Horiuchi Fantastic Mr. FoxThe visually ravishing animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox follows a fox, voiced by George Clooney and dressed in a natty brown corduroy suit, as he cheerfully and recklessly takes his thieving ways a little too far and brings down the wrath of some sour-faced poultry farmers on his family and friends. Based on a book by children's author Roald Dahl (who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach), the movie is the work of Wes Anderson (writer-director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums), who expanded and elaborated on the original story; the combination is inspired. Anderson's sensibility--his fondness for meticulous compositions, coordinated colours, and narrative filigree--can sometimes seem finicky and stiff in live-action movies, but it's exquisitely suited to the painstaking art of stop-motion animation. Every corner of the screen crackles with visual invention and whimsical humour. The top-notch vocal cast (which also features Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Owen Wilson, and others) create vivid personalities that perfectly mesh with the movie's lush colours and luscious textures. Fantastic Mr. Fox is an off-beat gem, a giddy mix of adult emotional issues, wild animal behaviour, and childlike delight.--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Conviction/ Never Let Me Go Double Pack | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £7.27   |  Saving you £5.72 (78.68%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ConvictionHilary Swank gives another tremendous performance--steely, determined, vulnerable--in the courtroom/family drama Conviction. The film is based on a real case, of Betty Anne Waters (Swank), who as a last resort puts herself through law school to take on the case of her brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell, also outstanding). Kenny is convicted of murder, despite a weak prosecution case, but Betty Anne can't get any lawyer to explore a retrial or appeal. Director Tony Goldwyn (Dexter, Damages) keeps the action moving along crisply and believably, even during the almost interminable stretches of Kenny's imprisonment. The terrific script by Pamela Gray (Music of the Heart) weaves in occasional shadows of doubt about whether Kenny is actually innocent, so that a story that could be formulaic is anything but. The viewer isn't sure most of the way through Conviction if Kenny is guilty or not--but is completely swept up in Swank's incredible performance depicting Betty Anne's own conviction--that "you do anything for your family. Period." As she did in Boys Don't Cry, Swank puts her own gritty spin on a real-life character, whom she inhabits like a second skin. Her Betty Anne is a blue-collar pit bull, and her sheer determination is itself a force of nature. The supporting cast of Conviction also shines, including Minnie Driver as Betty Anne's law school pal, and an especially effective Juliette Lewis playing Kenny's broken-down ex-girlfriend, who's buried some secrets of her own. Also a standout is Melissa Leo as the policewoman whose initial arrest of Kenny might have been loaded with her own agenda. The chemistry, especially between Rockwell, a man very nearly defeated after years behind bars, and Swank, is palpable and will capture the viewer in intense dramatic territory that won't be soon forgotten. --A.T. Hurley Never Let Me GoIn adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's celebrated novel, director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) and screenwriter Alex Garland (Sunshine) transform dystopian fiction into period drama by presenting an alternate past in which people routinely live beyond 100--at a cost to those who make it possible. In the 1970s, Kathy (Isobel Meikle-Small) and Ruth (Ella Purnell) attend Hailsham, a British boarding school where Miss Emily (Charlotte Rampling) holds sway--and no one ever mentions their parents. When new teacher Miss Lucy (Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky) arrives, she reaches out to the awkward Tommy (Charlie Rowe), with whom Kathy becomes close--until jealous Ruth steals him away. Then Lucy reveals what will happen when they leave. By the 1980s, Kathy (a poignant Carey Mulligan), Ruth (Keira Knightley), and Tommy (Andrew Garfield) live in the country until they're ready to fulfill their purpose. With Ruth and Tommy an item, Kathy becomes a carer, a sort of social worker. Over the years, the three go their separate ways until the 1990s, by which point their time will run out unless they can arrange for a deferral. Throughout, Romanek never presents alternate points of view; the audience experiences this brave new world only through the eyes of its sheltered protagonists. If the story raises issues that recall Orwell, the unhurried pace echoes The Remains of the Day, Merchant Ivory's Ishiguro adaptation. Similarly, Never Let Me Go is a work of great skill and compassion, but make no mistake: it's also very, very depressing. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• The Courier | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £3.75   |  Saving you £11.00 (552.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A million bucks to deliver a briefcase... The catch? Delivering it to a killer (Mickey Rourke - The Expendables, The Wrestler ) as elusive as a nightmare and so feared that the entire Underworld trembles at the mention of his name.

• Hot Tub Time Machine | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £4.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.

• Dune | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £14.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (24.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Travel to a time and place beyond your imagination with this definitive edition of David Lynch's epic sci-fi adventure Dune.Kyle Maclachlan heads an all-star cast (Sean Young, Patrick Stewart, Francesca Annis, Max Von Sydow, Sting) as Paul Atreides, an intergalactic warrior who leads his people into battle against the dreaded Harkonnens for control of the desert planet Arrakis, and it's most valuable asset: the spice Melange.

• UFC: The Ultimate Fighter - Series 14 - Team Bisping vs Team Miller | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The biggest and best reality series in mixed martial arts history is back for its 14th season. For the first time ever, The Ultimate Fighter will determine the best rising stars in the bantamweight and featherweight divisions.Leading these hopefuls in a quest for a UFC contract is the UK's own Michael The Count Bisping, who is a former TUF winner. Plus his heated rival, Jason Mayhem Miller. This action-packed DVD set also contains behind-the-scenes footage and the complete live finale event from Las Vegas.

• Whodunnit - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee is your host in this highly popular, light-hearted panel game where viewers are invited to play detective - pitting their wits against a panel of celebrities to solve a fictitious murder mystery.The show's brilliantly original formula, devised by comedians Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd, presented short dramas laden with clues and red herrings to be pieced together by the celebrity panellists, who would then question the characters involved and finally point the finger at the most likely suspect.Lively repartee is the order of the day, and joining Pertwee and his regular panellists Patrick Mower and Anouska Hempel in this third series is a veritable who's who of 1970s television: Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Magnus Pyke, Jackie Collins, Wendy Craig, Liver Birds Polly James and Nerys Hughes, Derek Nimmo and Bond girl Julie Ege are among the guests trying to track down whodunnit. Also included is A Piece of Cake, a special Christmas mystery from 1974.

• Payback Season | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £3.68   |  Saving you £15.57 (643.39%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hotshot footballer Jerome seems to have it all - a luxury flat, a flashy sports car, any girl he wants, and a booming career - a vast contrast to the council estate life he left behind.

• Blackthorn | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  It's been said that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in a standoff with the Bolivian military in 1908. In Blackthorn, Cassidy (Sam Shepard) survived and is quietly living out his years under the name James Blackthorn in a secluded Bolivian village. Tired of his long exile from the US and hooing to see his family again before he dies, Cassidy sets out on the long journey home. However, when an unexpected encounter with an ambitious young criminals derails his plans, he is thrust into one last adventure, the likes of which he hasnt experience since he glory days with the Sundance Kid. Also stars Nickolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) and Oscar nominee Stephen Rea

• Black Swan/ The Fountain Double Pack | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £5.01   |  Saving you £7.98 (159.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Black SwanFeverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton The FountainScience fiction and romance collide in The Fountain, the ambitious third feature from director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream), who laboured for four years to complete this epic-sized love story that stretches across centuries and galaxies. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play lovers in each of the film's three settings--16th century Europe and America (Jackman is a Spanish explorer searching for Incan magic), the present day (Jackman is a doctor attempting to cure his dying wife), and the 26th century (Jackman is a space traveller seeking a gateway to the afterlife)-–who struggle mightily to stay united, only to lose each other time and again. Aronofsky may not have chosen the easiest presentation for audiences to absorb his theories on the lasting qualities of life and the transformative powers of death-–the final sequence, in particular, with a bald Jackman floating through space in a bubble, harks back uncomfortably to "head movies" of the late '60s-–but his leads have considerable chemistry (and look terrific to boot), which goes a long way towards securing viewers' hopes for a happy ending. Critical reception for The Fountain has been nothing short of bloodthirsty, with Cannes audiences booing, but there are elements to enjoy here, even if the premise throws one for a loop. Ellen Burstyn (who earned an Oscar nomination for Requiem for a Dream) delivers a typically solid performance as Jackman's boss in the present day sequence, and special effects (most done without the benefit of CGI) are also impressive given the film's low budget (spurred by a mid-production shutdown after original stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett ankled the picture). And science-fiction fans whose tastes run towards the metaphysical (Asimov, Le Guin) will appreciate the attempt to present the genre in a serious light. -- Paul Gaita

• Predators | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.

• Sorry! Series 7 | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £15.13   |  Saving you £2.12 (15.28%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Series 7 is the last of Sorry, Ronny Barker's most memorable role outside of the Two Ronnies and a part written especially for him. We again Join living at home, 40 something, Timothy Lumsden in his quest to find a girlfriend whilst having his every step watched over by his Tyrannical mother.