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• Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 5 | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £24.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For two months every year, truckers on the world's most dangerous tundra make history by hauling vital equipment to remote outposts hundreds of miles north of civilisation - over roads briefly built by frozen bodies of water. Join them on their journey...

• David Bowie -Bowie In Berlin | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  • This film uncovers the full story of this remarkable period of Bowies life and the records that were created in its midst, as it explores hisfascination with the city he now called home and unearths the sources of his inspiration• Featuring exclusive and archive interviews, rare footage, performance film and a range of other features, this program sheds new light onthe most creative and influential period of David Bowies career

• Ipswich Past | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Relive the town's past as it comes to life, including 1930s street scenes, Ransomes, the airport and docks, Ipswich Town FC and an interview with the cartoonist Giles

• Facejacker - Series 2 | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  BAFTA and Comedy Award winner Kayvan Novak (Fonejacker, Four Lions, Sirens) is set to return with a second series of Facejacker.Disguised with the aid of prosthetics, Novak will return to showcase his amazing array of characters and voices, ably demonstrating his sublime comic improvisational skills. His popular arsenal of comic creations include the charismatic and multi-divorced car salesman, Terry Tibbs, scamster Augustus Kwembe, the super irritating complainer, Dufrais and charlatan art critic Brian Badonde, along with several new characters. All are thrust into real-life situations where they can baffle and confuse members of the public. As well as travelling the length and breadth of Britain, the production team will spend several weeks filming in the US, bringing some of Novak's best known characters to an unsuspecting American public.

• Norwich in the Fifties | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Take a nostalgic look around Norfolk's principal city in the 1950s, including a car journey through the city streets and the Canaries in the FA Cup semi-finals!

• Southend Past: The Town Our Parents Knew | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £16.21   |  Saving you £-3.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A look back at the heyday of the seaside resort, and the changes brought by the 20th Century

• Fonejacker - Series 1&2 / Facejacker - Series 1&2 | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Titles Comprise:Fonejacker: The Fonejacker is a man on a mission - he's addicted to making prank calls and no phone is safe. Facejacker: From the creators of the BAFTA award winning Fonejacker comes a brand new show; Facejacker.Kayvan Novak once again wreaks havoc with the general public, but this time he gets up close and personal.Disguised with the aid of prosthetics, Kayvan plays a dazzling multitude of fictional characters, some familiar and some brand new, including: the charismatic and many times divorced car salesman, Terry Tibbs; scamster Augustus Kwmbe, whose hypnotherapy service is really a front for stealing bank account details; and infuriating complaint monger, Dufrais. New faces include charlatan art critic Brian Badonde and Dr Ali, former plastic surgeon to the late Saddam Hussein. All are thrust into real-life situations where Kayvan's targets have no idea what's coming their way.

• Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things + Dead of Night | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)A troupe of method actors and their despotic director head out to Cocount Grove, Florida where, as a prank, they exhume a corpse called Orville and are subsequently horrified when his similarly deceased friends emerge from their graves to play some deadly games of their own.Filmed as America experienced its post-60s comedown, director Bob Clark's first horror feature began a truly terrifying trilogy that continued with the powerful anti-Vietnam war statement Dead Of Night and climaxed with the classic seasonal (and subsequently re-made) scarefest Black Christmas. This weird and unique horror debut - so lysergic in places you can almost smell the Florida grass - is a long way from Clark's later Murder by Decree, which pitted Sherlock Holmes against Jack The Ripper in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London.Featuring a cast assembled from various friends, including future Cat People re-make writer Alan Ormsby (who with co-cast member Jeff Gillen went on to direct Deranged, another masterpiece) as well as Jane Daly (one of American TV's most recognisable faces), Clark created one of US independent horror cinema's offbeat classics. Like Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Axe, Devil Times Five and Death Bed, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things shows what can be done with inspiration, determination and a limited budget. An unsettling, minimalist electronic score from Carl Zittrer and some of the most outrageous zombies you'll ever see also await within this cult horror classic. And remember, just because somebody'scalled Orville, it doesn't mean that they're your very best friend!Dead Of Night (1972)Soldier Andy Brooks has been declared dead by his commanding officer in Vietnam but this doesn't him returning home to his parents Charles and Christine as a lifeless supernatural entity bent on revenge against the society that sent him to his grave.Made a full three years before 'the boys came marching home' from one of America's least successful foreign sorties, Dead of Night - also known as Deathdream - is a dark-hued contemporary horror tale comparable to The Crazies, Targets or Ladybug Ladybug. Its symbolic portrayal of suburban terror is shot through with an uncomfortable dose of social realism as a once tight-knit, loving family is quite literally torn apart. A terrific cast sees future soap star Richard Backus making his big-screen debut (in a role originally intended for Christopher Walken) as the ghoulish Andy plus Larry Cohen regular John Marley (It Lives Again, The Godfather, Blade) and the compelling Lynn Carlin (Superstition, Terror on the 40th Floor, Taking Off) both excellent as Andy's parents. There are also strong performances from Anya Ormsby and Jane Daly who also featured in Bob Clark's earlier Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. An atmospheric, disquieting and ultimately moving zombie chiller (loosely based on W.W. Jacobs' classic fable The Monkey's Paw), this Canadian-US-British co-production is also a powerful anti-Vietnam war statement made before these became a staple of 70's American cinema. As relevant today as it was in the mid-70s, it proves that old adage: Be careful what you wish for - it might come true...

• Scooby Doo and Friends | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £7.97   |  Saving you £3.01 (60.44%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Heavenly Pursuits | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sometimes all you need is a wing and a prayer. Vic Mathews (Tom Conti) loves two things in life, teaching the remedial class at Glasgow’s Blessed Edith Semple School and beautiful colleague Ruth Chancellor (Helen Mirren). When the school authorities decide to pursue full canonization of their namesake, little miracles begin to occur and Vic has to reassess his beliefs. Reunited in The Tempest, Conti and Mirren, first created an electrical storm in Scottish writer/director Charles Gormley’s charming and quirky comic drama. Featuring an exclusive score by Scottish composer BA Robertson and containing Ewen Bremner’s first screen appearance as little Stevie Deans, Heavenly Pursuits is a wee revelation. Extras include: Image Gallery

• Sea Viper | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (434.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In September 1944, as the crew of the USS Sea Viper are sent on a mission to recover a downed pilot and two POWs, they uncover an enemy plot to build WWIIs most deadly weapon.

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The final series of Thames highly popular sitcom ...And Mother Makes Three saw widow Sally Harrison (Wendy Craig, Butterflies) and widower David Redway finally getting spliced after a protracted on-off romance. This sequel series hilariously charts Sally's ongoing tribulations, with the scatterbrained mum and her rambunctious teenaged sons Simon and Peter now sharing a home with antiquarian bookseller David and his daughter Jane. Co-starring Richard Coleman, Robin Davies (Catweazle) and future Oscar-winning producer David Parfitt (Shakespeare in Love), and featuring a number of episodes written by BAFTA winner Wendy Craig, ...And Mother Makes Five is produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones.

• Wacky Races: Dastardly and Friends | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Farewell to the King | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With echoes of his script for Apocalypse Now, director John Milius takes a similar journey to the 'heart of darkness' with the epic Farewell to the King.Renegade American soldier Learoyd escapes the Second World War by venturing deep into the jungle of Borneo where he is found staggering and half-deranged by a local tribe who adopt the stranger and make him king. British commandos discover Learoyd and try to enlist his help to fight the Japanese. He is reluctant at first but when his own people are attacked he agrees and vows to wreak revenge.

• Queen Elizabeth II DIAMOND JUBILEE COLLECTION TRIPLE PACK | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Collection of three documentaries that focus on the British monarchy.The Changing Face of the Queen examines the way the image and outlook of the Queen has altered over her 60 years as monarch.Royally Astounding: 30 Defining Days of the Monarchy examines 30 key days from the Queen's long reign.Extreme Royal Collections takes a look at some of the most fanatical collectors of royal memorabilia in the world.

• Thomas & Friends - Rescue on the Rails | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £5.44   |  Saving you £7.55 (138.79%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ready to Rescue! The Sodor Search and Rescue Team is racing to the rescue - Bertie's stuck on Shake Shake Bridge, Gordon's derailed, and Thomas' firebox is on fire! In these exciting episodes, your favourite engines brave the rails to rescue their friends. Discover that being heroic is more than having speed and strength; it's about teamwork and a big heart - which puts every Really Useful Engine on the right track.

• Free Runner | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ryan (Sean Faris - Never Back Down) is a freerunner who will do whatever it takes to break free from vicious mobster Reese (Tamer Hassan - The Business), who controls a band of street racers. They run for the rush and for the money, but now they're running for their lives in the ultimate death race. With exploding collars locked around their necks, they have just one hour to make it across town. Who lives and who dies depends on Mr. Frank (Danny Dyer - Dead Man Running) and his shadowy betting organization. With the odds stacked against him Ryan must battle for his freedom without losing his head in the process...

• Bone Detectives | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Scan the globe in search of ancient mysteries. Follow Scotty Moore, an adventurous archaeologist, as he journeys to the farthest reaches of the Earth on a quest driven by the belief that the secrets of the past have yet to be revealed. Carefully preserved mummies and entombed skeletons are a link to ancient civilisations. Each episode presents a mystery to unravel, a life to understand, a world to explore and a death to reveal. But these long-hidden remains do not yield their secrets easily. Ancient tombs are protected by lush vegetation, inhospitable terrain, ever-changing weather, dangerous wildlife and man-made obstacles. The pursuit of mummies, and answers to the mysteries they raise, will take our adventurer to some of the most spectacular and remote places on the planet.

• Penelope Pitstop and Friends | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £11.15   |  Saving you £-3.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Collection of episodes from the 'Wacky Races' spin-off series, 'The Perils of Penelope Pitstop', featuring the pink-clad female driver created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The episodes are: 'Jungle Jeopardy', 'The Terrible Trolley Trap', 'The Boardwalk Booby Trap', 'Wild West Peril', 'Carnival Calamity' and 'The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot'.

• Life | Blu Ray | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy play it surprisingly straight in this film by director Ted Demme. Though there are laughs to be had, this is a story about perseverance in the face of a life of disappointment (yet the film was sold as a prison comedy). But Stir Crazy this isn't. Rather, Lawrence and Murphy play a couple of New Yorkers making a moonshine run from New York to Mississippi during the Prohibition who find themselves framed for murder and sentenced for life to a prison chain gang. As they age, the two become close friends, although the strait-laced Lawrence always resents the freewheeling Murphy for getting him into the situation in the first place. Ultimately, these two men learn to find meaning where they can, taking value from friendship and their limited ability to affect the lives of others. At times preachy, it ends on an upbeat note; the film's biggest laughs are reserved for the final section, in which Lawrence and Murphy don age makeup and play octogenarians. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com