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• Mad Detective | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Detective Bun was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief's farewell party. Branded as 'mad' and discharged from the force he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May ever since. Strangely Bun has the ability to 'see' a person's inner personality their subconscious desires emotions and mental state. When a missing police gun is linked to several heists and murders hotshot inspector Ho calls on the valuable skills of his former mentor Bun to help unlock the killer's identity. Bun's unorthodox methods point to a fellow detective and take a schizophrenic turn for the worse... Nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice and winner of multiple awards worldwide including Best Screenplay at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards 2008 Mad Detective is a fast-paced and furious yet also complex and disturbingly funny masterpiece.

• Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  By the mid-'70s even Dylan's most ardent supporters began taking his artistic decline for granted. Albums like New Morning and Planet Waves were fine works but lacked the visionary spark of his seminal '60s recordings. At 34 he was already being written off as a has-been. That presumption is what made Blood On The Tracks such a glorious sucker-punch of a record. One of Dylan's most mournful efforts this album which easily ranks among his best is full of stori

• The Happening | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £8.81   |  Saving you £14.18 (61.70%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A couple (Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) go on the run from a mysterious environmental phenomenon that threatens their way of life.

• Third Rock From The Sun - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The multi-award winning comedy series stars John Lithgow as the High Commander of an investigative team of aliens sent to Earth on a mission to learn everything about humans and their so-called advanced civilisation.

• Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-33.30%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Pee-wee's Playhouse is a children's television program which aired on the CBS network in the US between 1986 and 1991 starring Paul Reubens as the child-like character Pee-wee Herman. The show combined live action video effects animation puppetry and vintage cartoons and featured Pee-wee living in a wild and wacky house known as the Playhouse full of talking chairs animals robots and other puppet and human characters. During the time Pee-wee's Playhouse aired it garnered 22 Emmy Awards. While enjoying continuous popularity with the show Reubens teamed with young director Tim Burton to make the comedy film Pee-wee's Big Adventure which became one of the surprise hits of the 1980s. Join the Playhouse gang for one of the wackiest Christmas specials ever with laughs for the whole family and all the imagination and charm of Pee-wee's celebrated TV series! In this unique 3-times Emmy Award-nominated Christmas special Pee-wee gets into the sprit of the season with lots of singing dancing and other holiday fun with his Playhouse pals and a galaxy of celebrity guests as you have never seen them before! Tracklist: 1. Christmas in the Playhouse 2. All I Want for Christmas 3. Connect the Dots with Magic 4. Grace Jones - The Little Drummer Boy 5. Frankie Avalon - Christmas Cards 6. Cher Gets the Secret World 7. King of Cartoons 8. It's Snowing ! 9. Winter Wonderland 10. Little Richard on Ice 11. K.D. lang - Jingle Bell Rock 12. Penny's Christmas Cartoon 13. The 12 Days of Christmas 14. Feliz Navidad 15. Happy Hanukkah 16. The True Meaning of Christmas 17. A Visit from Santa

• War made Easy | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  War Made Easy exposes a 50 year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the US into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn the film exhumes remarkable archive footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. War Made East gives special attention to the parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq. Guided by media critic Norman Solomon''s meticulous research and tough-minded analysis the film presents disturbing examples of propaganda and media complicity from the present alongside rare footage of political leaders and leading journalists from the past including Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Defence Secretary Robert McNamara dissident Senator Wayne Morse and news correspondents Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer.

• Boudicca - Warrior Queen | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Boudicca: Warrior Queen examines the history and the myth of this queen of an obscure Celtic tribe who levied the greatest force ever put together in Britain - a force that dwarfed anything the British were to muster at one time and in one place until the grim trench warfare of World War I. How was this possible and what forces were at work assisting her? These are just two of the questions investigated as we put together a picture of the times in which this woman flogged by the Romans and with her daughters raped issued one of the greatest challenges the Empire ever faced.

• Bob Marley - Legend | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Since its 1984 release Legend has become the biggest selling reggae album of all time. The first rate critics include former head of Island Records and the man who created the Legend compilation; Dave Robinson and world famous music writer Lloyd Bradley. Vintage Marley footage including one of his last performances with the Wailers in 1981 completes truly the final analysis you will ever need of the album that cemented the status of a Legend.

• Sweet Liberty | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's Alan Alda vs. Hollywood in the writer-director-star's hilarious madcap comedy about the bawdy barbaric and beautifully crazed world of moviemaking. College professor Michael Burgess' life and town are turned upside down when a film company arrives to make a movie out of his best selling book on the American Revolution. To the earnest heartfelt Professor's horror leading man Michael Caine is a philandering adventurer the movie's director wants to turn his historic story into a youth-oriented lusty romp and female star Michelle Pfeiffer is so obsessed by Burgess' heroine that he begins to inexplicably fall in love with the zany actress. Spilling over with charm wry observation and riotous comedy the divine and delightful Sweet Liberty co-stars Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins and the legendary silent film goddess Lillian Gish.

• Spitting Image - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £12.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (19.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A milestone in television comedy Spitting Image lifted satire to a new level for over a decade through the 1980's and 90's. No target was safe from the series' gunsights: politicians of all persuasions Ronald Reagan the Pope and even the Royal Family could find themselves up for a ribbing on any given programme. Exceptionally topical the series was worked around that current weeks news stories to retain its biting edge and many famous impressionists honed their craft portraying the voices behind the wickedly accurate rubber puppets: Chris Barrie Rory Bremner Phil Cornwell Steve Coogan John Culshaw Harry Enfield and Kate Robbins (among many others).

• Mad Detective | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Detective Bun (Lau Ching Wan) was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief's farewell party. Branded as 'mad' and discharged from the force he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May (Kelly Lin) ever since. Strangely Bun has the ability to 'see' a person's inner personality their subconscious desires emotions and mental state. When a missing police gun is linked to several heists and murders hotshot Inspector Ho (Andy On) calls on the valuable skills of his former mentor Bun to help unlock the killer's identity. However Bun's unorthodox methods point to a fellow detective and take a schizophrenic turn for the worse... Nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice and winner of multiple awards worldwide including Best Screenplay at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards 2008 Mad Detective is fast-paced and furious yet also complex and disturbingly funny film.

• Mission: Impossible 2 | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.

• Blue Streak | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Master jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence Life Bad Boys) has a big problem. A million problem. Recently released from prison for the botched heist of a huge diamond he's anxious to retrieve the hot rock which he hid at a construction site two years earlier. Unfortunately his hiding place is now at the center of a recently completed high-security police precinct. Posing as a detective and partnered with straight-laced rookie Carlson (Luke Wilson Home Fries Bottle Rocket) Miles utilizes his criminal expertise and inadvertently rises up the ranks winning the respect of his fellow boys in blue.

• Mission: Impossible | Blu Ray | (03/11/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (19.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Expect the Impossible This DePalma film is a big-screen remake of a prior American television show modernized and updated with all of the eye-popping special effects that a Hollywood mega-budget can buy. The show's Jim Phelps is the leader of the 'Impossible Missions Force.' In this 'episode ' Ethan Hunt is the point man for an IMF mission to catch a spy in the act of stealing information about the 'covers' of many other covert operatives. In the tradition of the TV show the viewer is led down many plot twists turns and reversals while the IMF members employ the latest in technology disguises and spy gadgetry to accomplish their mission.

• Brotherhood of Blood | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own.

• The Golden Age of Caribbean Pirates | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-1.57 (-12.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Highlights many legends in piracy including the character which have been recorded as being the inspiration for Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. Enhanced with 3D animations history is presented in all its bloody glory far removed from the bucaneering days of Errol Flynn's Captain Blood.

• Billy the Kid | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £12.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (30.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  I'm not black I'm not white not foreign... just different in the mind - different brains that's all... Jennifer Venditti's debut film is a provocative coming-of-age story an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. Following Billy as he bicycles through the quiet streets of small town Maine we watch him traverse grappling with isolation and first-time young love. By turns exhilarating and disturbing we see the world from the intimate view of an expressive and seemingly fearless leader.

• Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Broadcast Archives | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Creedence Clearwater Revival: The Broadcast Archives is a collection of live performances from the American roots rock band that had a string of hits in the 60's and 70's. Creedence Clearwater Revival were a band that during their peak could supply a seemingly endless supply of timeless three-minute rock classics showcasing the powerful vocals of John Fogerty. This performance from their first European tour at the Royal Albert Hall demonstrates why they were regarded as Americas greatest rock band of the sixties and includes many of their best known hits. These rare performances will delight long-term fans collectors and a new music generation discovering Creedence Clearwater Revival for the first time. Featured Tracks Include: Tombstone Shadow Travelin' Band Green River The Midnight Special Bad Moon Rising Proud Mary and Keep On Chooglin'.

• Bruce Weber Boxset | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Four of Bruce Weber's finest films Let's Get Lost Chop Suey A Letter To True and Broken Noses (available only as part of this release) are brought together in one highly collectable box set that also features a vast amount of extras including a number of Weber's short films behind the scenes footage and exclusive photography.

• Third Rock From The Sun - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The multi-award winning comedy series stars John Lithgow as the High Commander of an investigative team of aliens sent to Earth on a mission to learn everything about humans and their so-called advanced civilisation.