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• Partition | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (62.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An epic love story caught in the 1949 events that divided India and Pakistan. Partition is an epic love story of two people caught in the events that divided India and Pakistan in 1949. Starring Jimi Mistry and Neve Campbell Partition is a moving account of a personal romance against the dawn of a new world. Determined to leave the ravages of war behind Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl traumatized by the events that separated her from her family. Slowly resisting all the taboos Gian finds himself falling in love with the vulnerable Naseem even though they are separated by their opposing faiths.

• Gluck - Orphee Et Eurydice (Gardiner) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £4.66   |  Saving you £5.59 (164.41%)   |  RRP £8.99

  When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck''s Alceste and Orph''e et Eurydice. Both operas were sung in their French versions and were mounted and designed by Robert Wilson and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. This was the first time Wilson and Gardiner had collaborated and their individual credentials combined to produce an exceptional result. American polymath Wilson was responsible for some of the most ambitious avant-garde performance projects of the 1970s and 80s.Since the mid-1980s he has increasingly brought his prodigious creativity to works fiom the standard dramatic and operatic repertoire transforming them into his own unmistakably minimalist yet grandiose visions. His styled classical interpretations of Alceste and Orph''e bear his trademarks of an uncluttered stage and the arresting use of colour and light. They are not so much timeless as in Robert Wilson''s words ''full of time''. With their minutely rehearsed gestures at once formal and poetic the singers have the grace and elegance of Balanchine or Martha Graham dancers. A key figure in the revival of Early Music John Eliot Gardiner has long been a champion of Gluck''s French operas and is a great Gluck conductor. He received enormous critical acclaim for his musical direction of both Orph''e and Alceste at the Chatelet as did his orchestras and chorus. He sought to rid the operas of any vestiges of remoteness or venerable respectability and to release the huge emotional charge that lies behind the beauty of Gluck''s classical sobriety. The stories are after all he says not only poignant and deeply moving they have an immediate and contemporary relevance: they portray two married couples striving to protect their union and their love plumbing the very depths of their emotional strength and summoning the courage to make huge personal sacrifices. ''If presented in a way that''s immediate and with tremendous intensity and truth of expression then all the dross and superficiality of the stage action falls away and you''re left with what''s actually a very visceral connection between two living people.'' Television''s top opera director Brian Large worked closely with Robert Wilson and John Eliot Gardiner to ensure that the translation of live performance to the small screen is of the highest artistic and techcal standard. John Eliot Gardiner chose to use Berlioz''s 1859 revision of Orphee which adapted the tenor role of Gluck''s 1774 score for the contralto voice of Pauline Viardot adjusting the register for a mezzo-soprano. Underlining his preference for this version he performed the opera with the nineteenth-century period instruments of his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. His regular chorus the Monteverdi Choir excelled vocally and dramatically in its elegant contribution to the drama. The Greek legend of Orpheus has captured the imaginations of many creative artists over the centuries. In this recording Magdalena Kozena brings to the role expressiveness exceptional virtuosity and a rare emotion. Madeline Bender as Eurydice is possessed of a touching grace and beauty while Patricia Petibon is deliciously mischievous as Amour. All three of these young singers are among the cream of a new generation of operatic talent.

• Kaiser Chiefs - Live at Elland Road | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £3.43   |  Saving you £7.82 (360.37%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Kaiser Chiefs: Live From Elland Road

• The Police - Certifiable | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Featuring the band''s entire concert at the famous Riverplate Stadium in Buenos Aires Argentina The Police: Certifiable includes the bands classics Message in a Bottle Walking on the Moon and Every Breath You Take. The concert video is produced and directed by Ann Kim and Jim Gable (Rolling Stones Sting Keith Urban Chris Botti) and are all presented in Dolby 5.1 surround sound. The Police Tour began in May last year visited five continents and played to nearly 3.7 million people over fourteen months. DVD Tracklisting: 1. Message In A Bottle 2. Synchronicity II 3. Walking On 4. The Moon 5. Voices Inside My Head / When The World Is Running Down 6. Don't Stand So Close To Me 7. Driven To Tears 8. Hole In My Life 9. Truth Hits Everybody 10. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 11. Wrapped Around Your Finger 12. De Do Do Do De Da Da Da 13. Invisible Sun 14. Walking in Your Footsteps 15. Can't Stand Losing You/Regatta De Blanc 16. Roxanne 17. King Of Pain 18. So Lonely 19. Every Breath You Take 20. Next To You The Double CD contains the concert in live audio and the second DVD contains a host of bonus material.

• Russell Brand Collection - Russell Brand - Live/Russell Brand - Doing Life - Live/Russell Brand - Ponderland | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £4.96   |  Saving you £35.03 (706.25%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Russell Brand Collection (3 Discs)

• Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions | Blu Ray | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Mission Impossible (Dir. Brian De Palma 1996): Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit. Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers...and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. Mission Impossible 2 (Dir. John Woo 2000): Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in this thrilling sequel and leads his team in a attempt to re-capture and destroy the deadly German-manufactured Chimera virus before it falls into the wrong hands. Mission Impossible 3 (Dir. J.J. Abrams 2006): Tom Cruise blasts back into action as IMF agent Ethan Hunt who with a little help from old friend Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) must take on a deadly new adversary in the shape of Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman)... This third instalment is written and directed by J.J. Abrams personally selected by Tom Cruise following his work on creating series such as Alias and Lost!

• Silver Surfer - Complete Season (Marvel Originals Series - 90s) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This DVD set features all 13 episodes of the animated television series The Silver Surfer. Based on the comics written by Stan Lee The Silver Surfer follows the trials and tribulations of Norrin Radd. When the planet Zenn-La is threatened by the cosmic giant Galactus a being that must drain whole planets of their lifeforce for sustenance Norrin Radd must act. He makes a bargain to be the scout for the being to search for uninhabited planets in return for for Zenn-La's survival. Galactus agrees to this and changes the man into the powerful Silver Surfer but he also submerges his humanity to remove his qualms about selecting populated planets for consumption. That suppression is only broken by an attack by the insane space villain Thanos. With the knowledge of Galactus' treachery Norrin moves to stop Galactus from destroying Earth. In retaliation Galactus whisks Zenn-La to an unknown location and now the former Herald must search for his lost home. However there are few clues and while he still has all his might of the Power Cosmic there are many races who want their revenge for the destruction he brought to their homes as the servant of Galactus.

• Fingers On Buzzers - Second Edition | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fingers On Buzzers 2

• L'Argent | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Adapted from ''‰mile Zola's novel of the same name Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent [Money] is an opulent classic of late-silent era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange it reveals a world of intrigue greed decadence and ultimately corruption and scandal when business dealings and amorous deceit combine. Business tycoons Saccard and Gunderman lock horns when the former attempts to raise capital for his faltering bank. To inflate the price of his stock Saccard concocts a duplicitous publicity stunt involving the unwitting aviator Hamelin and a flight across the Atlantic to drill for oil much to the dismay of his wife Line. While Hamelin is away the lascivious Saccard attempts to seduce Line whose own temptation by the allure of money puts herself and her husband in danger - pawns in a high-stakes chess game played out by unscrupulous speculators. With an all-star cast (Brigitte Helm and Alfred Abel fresh from Fritz Lang's Metropolis alongside Pierre Alcover Yvette Guilbert and luminary of the French avantgarde Antonin Artaud) and a mammoth budget L'Argent is comparable in period and scale with other celebrated epics of the silent era such as Abel Gance's Napol''on. With its use of portable cameras that literally descend into the Bourse and revolve around its lavish contours L'Argent represents a type of cinematic Impressionism distinctive to the silent art - a poetry that would change forever with the coming of sound.

• The X Files: I Want To Believe (1 Disc Edition with Exclusive Free X Files Poster) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a satisfying if unspectacular installment in the X-Files series, taking place an unspecified time after the show's nine-year television run. Former agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now a doctor, while Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is being hunted by his former agency and living in seclusion. He and Scully are summoned back by a case involving a missing agent and a former priest (Billy Connolly) who claims to be able to see clues to the agent's whereabouts psychically, though his initial search turns up only a severed limb. Don't expect the usual cast of characters; the FBI has completely turned over (except for the George W. Bush portrait), and the only reason Scully and Mulder are back is because agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) remembers his success on similar cases involving the inexplicable. Don't expect the same rogues' gallery either; unlike the previous X-Files feature film, which was inextricably linked to the series' convoluted mythology arc (and served as a bridge between the fifth and sixth seasons), I Want to Believe is a stand-alone piece that makes use of the series' roots in horror/sci-fi and moody Vancouver, B.C., locales. Also unlike the previous film, which was almost self-consciously shot for the big screen, this film is on a smaller scale, like a double-length episode of the series. But it's still a good reminder of the creepy vibe that hooked fans for years. And the relationship between Mulder and Scully? It seems to have resumed pretty much where it left off, at least when you take into account the long period of separation. But stick around for the end-credit sequence to take in all the possibilities for the future. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Most Haunted Live Vol.1 | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Most Haunted Live: Vol 1

• England's Summer Of Cricket 2008 | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Englands Summer of Cricket 2008

• Comedy Collection - (Blades of Glory, Zoolander, Team America, Wayne's World) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £8.73   |  Saving you £11.26 (56.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blades Of Glory (2007): When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now three-and-a-half years on they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences they can skate together - in pairs' figure skating.... Zoolander (2001): Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic he's so hot right now Hansel (Owen Wilson) scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu (Will Ferrell) seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda (Christine Taylor) can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere! Ben Stiller's Zoolander is an endearingly broad silly off-the-wall comedy to be enjoyed by beautiful people everywhere. Strike a pose! Team America (2004): An elite U.S. counter-terrorism squad loses a member while decimating half of Paris in the reckless pursuit of Middle Eastern maniacs; a Broadway actor with a traumatic childhood secret is naturally hired to replace him. Oh and they're all marionettes. South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with co-writer Pam Brady) came up with this shameless satire of pea-brained Hollywood action flicks and even smaller-minded global politics so don't expect subtlety or even a hint of good taste. Team America is soon on the trail of North Korea's evil Kim Jong Il who treats us to a tender song about his loneliness before ensnaring Alec Baldwin and the rest of the oblivious Film Actors Guild (F.A.G. for short) in a plot to blow up every major city on the planet. Just as the mindless squad cheerfully demolishes everything in sight so do director Parker and company. Throwing punches Left Right and in-between the movie's politics leave no turn un-stoned; there's even time to bludgeon the musical Rent. It's offensive irresponsible comic anarchy seemingly made by sniggering little boys. Painfully funny sniggering little boys... Wayne's World (1992): Wayne and Garth the horny heavy metal-loving teenage heroes of the popular Saturday Night Live skit hit the big screen. They're still doing their cable-access show out of the Wayne's basement in Aurora Illinois; only now a sleazy TV executive named Benjamin Oliver wants a piece of the action. As the babe 'n' band obsessed adolescents negotiate the shark-infested waters of network television Wayne finds 'amore' in the form of a heavy metal femme fatale with a penchant for skin-tight costumes. But can Wayne keep his new lady love out of Oliver's unsavory clutches?

• Tottenham Hotspur Four Ever Collection League Cup Finals (Spurs) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Box set including all 4 league Cup wins for Tottenham hotspur. A must buy for any Spurs fan. Since the conception of the League Cup back in 1961, Tottenham Hotspur have become one of the most successful teams in it's history winning an incredible 4 trophies and reaching the final in a further 2.Relive all 4 of their League Cup triumphs in this Special Edition Box Set.

• Gough's Gaffes - a Darren Gough Cricket Special | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The funniest moments from the nation's number one summer sport are bought together by its number one star. From calamitous cock-ups to moments of breathtaking brilliance all seen through the eyes of the ultimate entertainer himself. With 'Goughy' in charge you're guaranteed to be laughing from start to finish. This unmissable collection covers the best and worst batting bowling running and fielding all presented by Darren who reveals his own personal views and provides his own unique commentary. Along with the funniest and most outrageous gaffes and mistakes also discover Goughy's Greatest where Darren nominates the best bowler batsman fielder that he faced. This must-have DVD for cricket and sports fans also includes an exclusive 20-minute interview with the fast bowler and housewives favourite detailing his illustrative career. Prepare to be captivated as Darren remembers highlights of his Test career including ripping through the Australian batting in his first Ashes Test and a hat-trick of wickets again against Australia in Sydney in 1999.

• Thomas Classic Collection 1 | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Thomas Classic Collection: Series 1-7 Boxset (7 Disc)

• Free Zone | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £8.75   |  Saving you £6.24 (71.31%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Natalie Portman (Closer V For Vendetta) stars as Rebecca an American living in Jerusalem who moments after breaking off her engagement jumps into a cab driven by Hanna a strong-willed charismatic Israeli woman. Hanna is on her way to Jordan to an ungoverned economic free zone of shady business transactions bordered by Syria Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Looking for a quick escape Rebecca convinces Hanna to take he along and the two set off to see the American a mysterious businessman that owes Hanna's husband money. But when Hanna and Rebecca reach his office they are confronted by Leila a Palestinian who tells Hanna that the American and the money are missing. Determined not to leave the Free Zone without her husband's debt paid Hanna forces Leila to join her - with Rebecca tagging along - and the three women begin their search. Soon the relationship between them turns into an emotional solidarity that will affect each of their lives forever.

• Beyonce - B'Day Anthology Video Album | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the most recognizable characters in modern-day R&B Beyonc'' first rose to fame as the siren-voiced centerpiece of Destiny's Child before embarking on a multi-platinum solo career in 2001. Booming record sales Grammy awards movie roles and a romance with rapper/CEO Jay-Z combined to heighten her profile in the 2000s making the singer a virtual mainstay in the entertainment world. Tracklisting: 1. Beautiful Liar (featuring Shakira) 2. Irreplaceable 3. Kitty Kat 4. Green Light 5. Upgrade U (featuring Jay-Z) 6. Flaws and All 7. Get me Bodied (featuring Kelly Rowland) 8. Freakum Dress 9. Suga Mama 10. D''j'' vu (featuring Jay-Z) 11. Ring the Alarm 12. Listen

• Tchaikovsky Gala (Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty/The Nutcracker) Roberto Bolle / La Scala | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £17.11   |  Saving you £5.88 (34.37%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Fantastic Four - Complete Season Two (Marvel Originals Series - 90s) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring all 13 episodes of season 2 of the classic animated television series Fantastic Four!