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• Alien Vs Hunter | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £4.82   |  Saving you £15.17 (314.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A galactic hunter chases the most dangerous alien creature in the universe to planet Earth. DeDee Pfeiffer and Willaim Katt star in this Sci-Fi Thriller about a group of humans caught in the crossfire in the battle between a galactic hunter and his Alien prey

• Kiss - Symphony | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Kiss bassist/chief provocateur/world-class swagmeister Gene Simmons once infamously claimed that his cartoon shock-rockers were more influential than Dylan, though the driving sentiment behind Kiss Symphony, a chronicle of the band's liaison with the Melbourne Symphony, seems to paraphrase "Love Minus Zero": "There's no success like excess / and excess is the best success of all" The history of the fusion of rock bands and orchestras is a long and notoriously spotted one, though matters of decorum have seldom concerned--or deterred--Kiss. Disc One of this two-DVD set outlines the genesis of the project, with an earnest and typically irony-free Simmons meeting with perpetually bemused conductor David Campbell to discuss mutual musical quandaries, such as synchronising explosions and whether the orchestra can get their Kiss make-up on with due haste. Rehearsal and preparation footage display an unusually affable orchestra and band, a mood that carries over into its pyrotechnic-punctuated greatest-hits set with the band (Paul Thayer ably filling the platforms of the departed Ace Frehley). It all works surprisingly well, if at some pitched, Vegas-showroom-in-hell level of bombast. It's a technically impressive show and package, if one that feels distinctly padded as a double-disc (the performance of the "Symphony"'s Act III is repeated on both discs). Less is more? Not here. --Jerry McCulley

• The Wedding Present - An Evening With The Wedding Present | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £9.25   |  Saving you £-0.26 (-2.90%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The highly regarded Wedding Present recorded live in November 2005 at Shepherds Bush Empire and featuring seven of their 21 hit singles.

• Nicholas Gift | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £4.25   |  Saving you £0.74 (17.41%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Viva Nicholas! Viva Nicholas! shouts Reg Green at the dedication of a school named after his slain son. And that sums up how all of Italy feels about 7-year-old Nicholas Green and American tourist and accidental victim of a bandit's bullet. In this highly publicized 1994 crime would-be robbers who fired the fateful shots were not even after the Greens but were trying to intercept a jewelry shipment. Still the bizarre story of mistaken identity is little more than a footnote to the powerful true story of two parents' generosity and willingness to forgive - all while dealing with their boy's grim prognosis. Under the worst circumstances Reg and Maggie Green make the most courageous decision possible: They will donate Nicholas' organs a practice almost unheard of in Italy at that time. Since then organ donation in Italy has increased 118 percent giving more than 3 000 people a second chance at life. It is call The Nicholas Effect.

• Death Note - Volume 1 (Episodes 1-8) | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £6.58   |  Saving you £13.41 (203.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Death Note is a Japanese manga series which centres around Light Yagami a student who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook which kills anyone whose name is written in it.

• Omd - Live Architecture and Morality | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-6.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklist: 1. Architecture & Morality 2. Sealand 3. The New Stone Age 4. Georgia 5. She's Leaving 6. Souvenir 7. Joan Of Arc 8. Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans) 9. The Beginning And The End 10. Messages 11. Tesla Girls 12. Forever (Live And Die) 13. If You Leave 14. Pandora's Box 15. Talking Loud & Clear 16. So In Love 17. Locomotion 18. Sailing On The Seven Seas 19. Enola Gay 20. Walking On The Milky Way 21. Electricity 22. Romance Of The Telescope

• Louis Armstrong - Live in Australia 1964 "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £5.47   |  Saving you £13.78 (327.32%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Louis Armstrong Live In Concert Australia 1964

• Jayne Parker - Artists Vol.4 | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £2.97   |  Saving you £18.28 (1,069.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jayne Parker (b. 1957) studied at Mansfield College of Art Canterbury College of Art and the Slade. She was a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths' college from 1984 until 1998 and has taught at the Slade School of Fine Art since 1989. Her work has been shown widely at art venues on television and in film festivals internationally. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she was a sculpture student at canterbury College of Art (1977-80). Objects performance and gesture were combined by the camera to explore space duration and the physical body. Soon the films became independent works. Free Show (1979) is a film in three acts in which domestic events have overtones of threat as well as the circus (cutting liver ironing a fly plucking eyebrows). RX Recipe (1980) a lage eel in a bath is stuffed with vegetables and bandaged by a woman who then similarly binds her won leg to whispered instructions on the soundtrack. Cat (1980) was the first of a series of roughcast but sharply drawn animations featuring a woman a cat and a fish.

• Moloko - 11,000 Clicks | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £14.57   |  Saving you £-4.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Ghost In The Shell - Individual 11 | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £7.97   |  Saving you £12.02 (60.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The year is 2030 and an influx of refuges have effortlessly transformed themselves into a terrorist organization known as the Individual Eleven. With a sadistic intent of mass destruction will they triumph in victory or discover the gloomy pitfalls of defeat? Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 2nd GIG: Individual Eleven tells the story of the entire second season of Stand Alone Complex as a 2-hour film.

• Stiffelio | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £20.53   |  Saving you £-4.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Once regarded as Verdi's lost opera because of early censorship and controversy, Stiffelio has now established its rightful place in Verdi's canon. In this 1993 recording from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Jose Carreras, as the Protestant minister whose faith is shattered when he discovers his wife's adulterous liaison with a family friend, leads a fine cast that includes Catherine Malfitano, Gregory Yurisich, Gwynne Howell and Robin Leggate under the baton of Edward Downes.

• Paranoid Park | Blu Ray | (28/04/2008) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a security guard is killed outside Portland's notorious skate park, the titular "Paranoid Park", it's clear that 16 year old skateboarder Alex knows more than he's letting on.

• Donizetti - Roberto Devereux (Rota) | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £21.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (17.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of Donizetti's most emotionally raw operas, Roberto Devereux ossia II conte di Essex was also the third to be loosely based on episodes in the life of Queen Elizabeth 1.

• Family Ties - Series 1 | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £37.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Family Ties was a hugely successful American family sitcom which ran from 1982 to 1989. The series starred Michael J. Fox Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Grossas. Loving parents Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney) raise their children with open hearts and open minds. Growing up in the 1960s Mum and Dad share a liberal point of view and guide their family with the ideals and convictions of flower power! Their offspring however have different ideas. Eldest son Alex P. Keaton (Micheal J. Fox) is an over-achieving hard-core Republican and clashes with his parents at every turn. Mallory (Justine Bateman) is a fashion-loving boy crazy teen struggling through high school while little sister Jennifer (Tina Yothers) is the precocious tomboy who always speaks her mind. Together they share the moments that make them laugh make them cry... and make them family. Contains all 22 Episodes from Season 1!

• The Land Of Promise | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £27.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (25.19%)   |  RRP £34.99

  40 films over 4 DVDs. Extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Yet they are also striking in their different approach to the form. Using poetry dramatic reconstruction modernist techniques and explicit propaganda the film-makers found fresh new ways to get their message across.

• Extraordinary Rendition | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later he is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered world he no longer recognises.

• The Little Unicorn | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When orphan Polly discovers her horse may die giving birth she wishes with all her heart for help from the King of the Horses the Unicorn. As the mare dies she thinks her wish has gone unanswered until she sees the foal . . . a baby unicorn which totters its way into Polly's heart. When a sneaky photo of the unicorn appears in a newspaper 'The Great Allonso' (George Hamilton) decides that the unicorn can restore his failing magic abilities and unscrupulous ringmaster Tiny (Jo Penny) prepares to steal the foal to exploit in his run down circus.

• Queen Elizabeth - The Queen Mother | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £4.81   |  Saving you £8.18 (170.06%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Born on August 4th, 1900, one of 9 children to the fourteenth Earl of Strathmore, the extraordinary life of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, known around the world as 'The Queen Mother', spanned the 20th Century. When she died in 2002 she was 102 years of age. The Queen Mother's devotion to her duty and her unfailing grace has carved her a special niche in hearts the world over and 'A Woman of Grace' is a biographical celebration of her long and distinguished life

• Jade Warrior | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thousands of years ago in ancient China a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance in a far away place and a far away time in the cold north in modern Finland. Jade Warrior is set in ancient China early iron age and present day Finland.

• Mala Noche | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £11.66   |  Saving you £8.33 (71.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gus Van Sant's previously unavailable and now fully restored first feature film Mala Noche marks an auspicious debut feature from the director of Elephant and Paranoid Park. Walt (Tim Streeter) is working in a liqueur store when he encounters two handsome Mexicans Johnny and Pepper. Immediately Walt develops an obsession with Johnny who is an illegal immigrant with little knowledge of English. The desire may be one-sided but it soon becomes a friendship of mutual needs and desires.