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• 44 Inch Chest | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £3.59   |  Saving you £14.40 (401.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  "44 Inch Chest", a powerful and explosive drama of retribution, is the feature film debut of renowned photographer and commercials director Malcolm Venville.

• Mugabe And The White African | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £14.88   |  Saving you £0.11 (0.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A blistering documentary featuring one farmer's struggle against President Robert Mugabe and his controversial land seizures.

• 4Bia | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £3.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (72.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  4BIA is a horror anthology in four parts. The first segment Happiness is the story of a lonely girl who is corresponding with a stranger through text messages but soon discovers they have a darkly sinister side. The second Tit For Tat is a tale of black magic and a school kid's vengeance for his bullying. The third In The Middle follows a group of friends on a camping trip but after a kayaking accident they face campside horrors. The final one Last Fright is a psychological thriller about a stewardess flying all alone in a cabin with a dead body.

• The Upper Hand - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Upper Hand: The Complete Second Series (2 Discs)

• It's Complicated | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £6.59   |  Saving you £18.40 (279.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Writer/director Nancy Meyers ("What Women Want", "Something's Gotta Give", "The Holiday") directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in "It's Complicated", a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between.

• Mutants | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (48.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mutants

• Paul Blart - Mall Cop | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £6.86   |  Saving you £11.13 (162.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Attention, shoppers: Former King of Queens star Kevin James makes the successful leap to big screen leading man with this Die Hard meets Home Alone slapstick comedy produced by Adam Sandler. In his most empathetic role since his endearing scene-stealing turn in Hitch, James (who also co-wrote the script) stars as biggest loser Paul Blart, a 10-year veteran of the West Orange, New Jersey shopping mall, where he gets no respect from taunting kids who pelt him with ball pit orbs, or a senior who brazenly violates Bart's strictly enforced speed limit in his motorized wheelchair. The film is slow to get rolling as it lays on the pathos as thick as the peanut butter the lonely, overweight and socially awkward Blart spreads on his pies ("Food fills the cracks in he heart", he tells his mother). But then, a band of cycling, skateboarding thieves presumably recruited from the X games take over the mall on so-called Black Friday, the busiest holiday season shopping day. Blart is "untrained, unarmed, and presents a huge target", but, like a plus-size John McClane on a Segway, he is the wild card determined to stop them and rescue his unrequited crush (Jayma Mays) who has been taken hostage. James carries the film on his massive shoulders (the supporting cast is strictly discount outlet, with comedian Adam Ferrara as a sympathetic cop and Bobby Cannavale from Will & Grace and Third Watch as a bullying SWAT team leader the most familiar faces). He proves himself to be an impressively agile physical comedian and he's game for every body slam, pratfall and tumble. Rated PG for mild violence, a few profanities, and a couple of gross-out gags, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is less crude than previous Sandler productions, more The Benchwarmers than Deuce Bigalow. --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.com

• MacGyver - Series 7 - Complete | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Braver Than Most - Smarter Than The Rest When all else fails... call in MacGyver to save the day. Richard Dean Anderson stars as TV's most uniquely likeable hero. He can improvise his way out of any trap and outthink any enemy.

• Harry And His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £6.16   |  Saving you £1.83 (29.71%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Based on the best selling books. Harry And His Bucket Full Of Dinosaurs takes us into the imagination of five-year-old Harry and his adventures with his Dinosaur friends. Episodes Comprise: Dino Snap Join The Parade Cool Shadow Home! I Want To Make A Movie Silly Pencil Now You See Me... There's Got To Be Something

• Where The Wild Things Are | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £6.92   |  Saving you £16.07 (232.23%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.

• Robin Hood - Beyond Sherwood Forest | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  12 Century England: It is a deadly time of dark tyranny black magic and the outlaw archer known as Robin Hood (Robin Dunne of Sanctuary). But when the Sheriff of Nottingham (Julian Sands of 24 and Warlock) unleashes a winged monster upon the town and woods to massacre Robin's men and capture Maid Marian (Erica Durance of Smallville) hearts run cold with fear and streets red with blood. Before he can rob from the rich or give to the poor can The Prince Of Thieves survive the demonic onslaught of a winged beast from another world? Katharine Isabelle (Gingersnaps) co-stars in this chilling new take on the infamous hero from director Peter DeLuise filled with valour vengeance and nightmare creatures that take you behind the legend and Beyond Sherwood Forest.

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £10.00   |  Saving you £39.99 (399.90%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Sci-fi's hottest TV series returns as Battlestar Galactica Season 2 blasts onto Blu-Ray in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. As the epic second season begins the fight to save humanity rages on - even as the civil war looms within the fleet between the followers of President Roslin and Commander Adama. Relive all the intensity and excitement aboard the Galactica with a supernova of explosive bonus features including deleted scenes and commentaries. It's a heart-pounding adventure you can't afford to miss!

• Bootcamp | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £6.06   |  Saving you £6.93 (114.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of troubled teens including Sophie Bauer (Mila Kunis) are abducted and brought to Camp Serenity which they think is a rehab program on Fiji. The young men and women soon find themselves at the mercy of the camp's deranged administrators who subject them to solitary confinement and psychological torture of every kind. As Sophie and her boyfriend struggle to escape she fights for her sanity 'and her life' in this white-knuckle thriller that proves paradise can be deadly. Based on actual events.

• Dear John - Series 1 | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The entire first series of the classic BBC comedy Dear John where upon finding his wife has left him for his best friend John joins the 1-2-1 Club a local encounter group for the divorced and separated. Here he meets the feisty Kate the bland bespectacled Ralph the exuberant Kirk St. Moritz resplendent in white suit and medallion and of course club founder Louise who asks everyone with relish Were there any sexual problems?

• The History Of Football | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The entire history of the world’s favourite game? It’s an extraordinary challenge that could go have gone horribly wrong, but The History of Football is a class act. It boasts top-drawer production values, including narration by Terence Stamp, access to everybody who has really mattered in the game, ever, plus shed-loads of famous, rare, and never-seen-before footage, with each volume offering a blend of narrative, action and illuminating interviews. This is a polished product: part-celebration, part-commemoration, but always with a sharp investigative sense, digging around the misty-eyed, good ol’ days tradition, to explore in the company of those interviewed the reality behind some of football’s myths and legends. The breadth of enquiry is naturally impressive, as is the narrative structure, but it’s the deft handling of the sub-plots that really sets this apart, including: analysis of the dominant club sides such as Liverpool, Real Madrid and Milan (Volume 2); the evolution of Brazil (Volume 3); the superstar casualties, like Maradona and Garrincha (Volume 5); football as an agent of social control in Victorian England (Volume 1); the revolution in French football that created the 1998 World Champions (Volume 4); and the failure, so far, of Africa to fulfil Pele’s famous World Cup prediction (Chapter 6). There’s so little material here that isn’t memorable that it’s difficult to pick highlights, but action aside (and it’s hard to think of an historically important game that isn’t featured), an emotional Maradona exposing the "conspiracy" that fixed the 1990 World Cup final (Volume 2) is an unforgettable slice of football culture. On The DVD: The History of Football on disc comes complete with a heaving platter of extras (between 33 and 54 minutes’ worth per volume) including, across the set, every single goal from every World Cup Final game; extended interviews with the likes of Pele, Maradona, Zidane and Bobby Charlton; loads of "first-ever-recorded-on-film" material including the 1907 England-Scotland game; text-only biographies of the major interviewees; extended tournament highlights of past European Championships, African Nations Cups, World Club Championships, Asian Cups, and of course, World Cup Finals. The picture itself is presented in 16:9 anamorphic aspect ratio, there’s a well-executed menu system, plus an "easter egg" of additional hidden material in every volume.--Alex Hankin.

• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors the Cylons have to improvise. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan tells the story of two powerful Cylon leaders working separately and their determination to finish the task.

• Toy Story/Toy Story 2 | Blu Ray | (10/05/2010) from £53.98   |  Saving you £-25.99 (-92.90%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Toy Story There is greatness in a film that can be discussed, dissected, and talked about late into the night. Then there is genius that is right in front of our faces--you smile at the spell it puts you into and are refreshed, and not a word needs to be spoken. This kind of entertainment is what they used to call "movie magic" and there is loads of it in this irresistible computer animation feature. Just a picture of these bright toys on the cover of Toy Story looks intriguing as it reawakens the kid in us. Filmmaker John Lasseter's shorts illustrate not only a technical brilliance but also a great sense of humour--one in which the pun is always intended. Lasseter thinks of himself as a storyteller first and an animator second, much like another film innovator, Walt Disney. Lasseter's story is universal and magical: what do toys do when they're not played with? Cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Andy's favourite bedroom toy, tries to calm the other toys (some original, some classic) during a wrenching time of year--the birthday party, when newer toys may replace them. Sure enough, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) is the new toy that takes over the throne. Buzz has a crucial flaw, though--he believes he's the real Buzz Lightyear, not a toy. Bright and cheerful, Toy Story is much more than a 90-minute commercial for the inevitable bonanza of Woody and Buzz toys. Lasseter further scores with perfect voice casting, including Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head and Wallace Shawn as a meek dinosaur. The director-animator won a special Oscar "For the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film". In other words, this movie is great. --Doug Thomas Toy Story 2 John Lasseter and his gang of high-tech creators at Pixar create another entertainment for the ages. Like the handful of other great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was so wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting becomes the focus here, as we find out Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved toy to Andy but also a rare doll from a popular 60s children's show. When a greedy collector takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) launches a rescue mission with Andy's other toys. To say more would be a crime because this is one of the most creative and smile-inducing films since, well, Toy Story. Although the toys look the same as in the 1994 feature, Pixar shows how much technology has advanced: the human characters look more human, backgrounds are superior, and two action sequences that book-end the film are dazzling. And it's a hoot for kids and adults. The film is packed with spoofs, easily accessible in-jokes and inspired voice casting (with newcomer Joan Cusack especially a delight as Cowgirl Jessie). But as the Pixar canon of films illustrates, the filmmakers are storytellers first. Woody's heart-tugging predicament can easily be translated into the eternal debate of living a good life versus living for forever. Toy Story 2 was deservedly a huge box-office success. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• The Agatha Christie Hour - The Mystery Of The Blue Jar / The Red Signal | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £5.42   |  Saving you £2.57 (47.42%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Episodes Comprise: The Mystery of the Blue Jar: Playing golf early one morning Jack Harrington hears a cry Murder! Help! from a nearby cottage. He runs up to find a beautiful French girl Felise placidly weeding the garden oblivious to any disturbance. When the Jack hears the same cries for many days he begins to think he might be mad. But are more sinister forces at work? The Red Signal: Dermot West is invited to dinner at the home of Jack and Claire Trent. The first is his best friend the second the woman he loves. During the evening the conversation turns to the supernatural; Dermot admits he frequently gets what he calls 'the red signal' to warn him of impending danger. He neglects to mention that he is getting the signal strongly that night!

• The Essential Eric Rohmer Collection | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £79.90   |  Saving you £-49.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This 4-disc set spans the breadth of Rohmer's remarkable filmmaking career which remained fresh vital and inventive until the very end. All the films included display Rohmer's trademark intelligence and wit and maintain a remarkably consistent quality from his debut feature The Sign of Leo (one of the first films of the French New Wave) to romantic comedy Rendez-vous in Paris espionage thriller Triple Agent and his final extraordinary film The Romance of Astrea and Celadon. Films Comprise: The Roman of Astrea & Celadon Triple Agent The Sign of Leo Rendez-vous in Paris

• The Storm | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Storm