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• Speed 2 - Cruise Control | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hold on to your life-jacket as the rip-roaring sequel to 'Speed' hits the high seas! Sandra Bullock reprises her star-making role as Annie Porter, a young woman expecting to enjoy a Caribbean vacation with her boyfriend (Jason Patric) on board the world's most luxurious cruise liner. But their trip to paradise turns deadly when a lunatic computer genius (Willem Dafoe) takes over the boat and sets it on a course for destruction. An explosive voyage helmed by daredevil director Jan De ...

• Flip & Play: The Land Before Time 2: The Great Valley Adventure / The Land Before Time 5: The Mysterious Island | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Land Before Time 2 The Great Valley AdventureThe Land Before Time: The Mysterious Island (Flip and Play)

• Queen - One Vision | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is the uncensored independent guide to the music of Queen. This documentary traces the Queen story from the London college scene through to the triumphant Hammersmith Odeon shows and on to fame and stardom as the worldwide stadium rock phenomenon that we know today. The film features candid archive interviews with original members Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon which are contrasted with the views of a host of music journalists and industry commentators to produc...

• The Newton Boys | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in the 1920s, the Newton brothers work hard in the fields for little reward, so when one of the brothers suggests a change, they all agree to become bank robbers.

• Inception | Blu Ray | (07/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.77

  Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception.

• Hello Kitty And Friends: The Magic Apple And Three Other Stories | DVD | (28/05/2013) from £7.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hello Kitty: The Magic Apple Hello Kitty loves the story Snow White and daydreaming. One day she becomes confused and many strange things happen. Hello Kitty: Cinderella Hello Kitty plays Cinderella, who is always persecuted by her stepmother and elder sisters. She gets a chance to go to a royal ball and dances with the prince. But because she must leave at midnight, will the prince be able to find her again? Kerokerokeroppi : The Adventures Of Gulliver Kerokerokeroppi stars in this stor...

• Face/Off | Blu Ray | (07/05/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-12.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.77

  At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barrelled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man, while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set-piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clichés to a conflict of near-mythic levels. --Sean Axmaker

• Heat | Blu Ray | (07/05/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in Heat, an intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of The Godfather, Part II, but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together, and although their only scene together is brief, it's the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino, playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop and criminal lead similar lives. Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; and Kilmer's wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career. These are men obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's necessary to bring the other down. Mann's brilliant screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with absorbing insight, and the tension mounts with some of the most riveting action sequences ever filmed--most notably a daylight siege that turns downtown Los Angeles into a virtual war zone of automatic gunfire. At nearly three hours, Heat qualifies as a kind of intimate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently waiting for more action, but it's all part of Mann's compelling strategy. Heat is a true rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of intense excitement and dramatic depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a prime showcase for their finely matched talents. --Jeff Shannon

• Lapland Odyssey | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the frozen landscape of northern Finland, this raucous road trip begins when slacker Janne is sent out into the night by his beautiful and frustrated girlfriend Inari to purchase a cable box for their home. But the quest is not as simple as it sounds. Janne, accompanied by his two hapless and troublemaking friends, is propelled along a bizarre journey filled with such obstacles as naked, gun-toting Russians, some very hostile reindeer, a Jacuzzi of bikini-clad beauties, barroom brawls, Inari's creepy ex-boyfriend, and much more. Meanwhile, the police are in pursuit of the three friends at every turn. Unfolding at a breakneck pace, this winningly wacky comedy is an award-winning film festival favourite that was the biggest hit of the year in its home country (beating out the Harry Potter movies!).

• Kiss Of The Dragon | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Martial arts genius Jet Li explodes onto the screen with an intensity not seen since Bruce Lee. 'Kiss of the Dragon' is not merely a thriller but a shocker' (San Francisco Chronicle). China's top secret agent visits Paris on a pleasure trip only to encounter government espionage at the highest level...

• Hitler: A Chronicle | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A portrait of evil. These three remarkable programmes produced by Russian Television reveal three of the most fascinating stories from Nazi Germany and the man who ruled it: Adolf Hitler. Episodes Comprise: Failed Experiment: Hitler's Live BroadcastsFor the Third Reich the newly invented television had every potential to be a powerful propaganda tool but it also had unexpected consequences. During World War II Germany gave birth to entertainment television which did not align with the plans of Nazi leaders. Uncover hidden records of the secret meetings directives and correspondences that attempted to control the burgeoning industry. Plot to Kill HitlerTheory of probability supposes that if you toss a coin 100 times chances for heads and tails are equal. However none of about 50 attempts on Adolf Hitler's life were successful. The attempts began as early as 1922. Long before he took power assassins fired on his car and planted a bomb where he was to make a speech. This programme delves into the archives to reveal the truth behind the many failed attempts to kill Hitler and examines how one of the world's deadliest men survived until he took his own life in 1945. Loving Hitler: The Fatal Flight of HessThe history of World War II is rife with unsolved mysteries. One of them was Rudolf Hess's flight to England in May of 1941. As a close associate of Hitler there are no explanations for why Hess flew to the enemy nation. An even greater secret surrounds Hess's death which for years was considered a suicide. Modern-day experts now offer shocking revelations and a radically different version of his sudden death.

• Gladiator | Blu Ray | (07/05/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marveling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general Maximus, Crowe firmly cements his star status both in terms of screen presence and acting chops, carrying the film on his decidedly non-computer-generated shoulders as he goes from brave general to wounded fugitive to stoic slave to gladiator hero. Gladiator's plot is a whirlwind of faux-Shakespearean machinations of death, betrayal, power plays, and secret identities (with lots of faux-Shakespearean dialogue ladled on to keep the proceedings appropriately "classical"), but it's all briskly shot, edited, and paced with a contemporary sensibility. Even the action scenes, somewhat muted but graphic in terms of implied violence and liberal bloodletting, are shot with a veracity that brings to mind--believe it or not--Saving Private Ryan, even if everyone is wearing a toga. As Crowe's nemesis, the evil emperor Commodus, Joaquin Phoenix chews scenery with authority, whether he's damning Maximus's popularity with the Roman mobs or lusting after his sister Lucilla (beautiful but distant Connie Nielsen); Oliver Reed, in his last role, hits the perfect notes of camp and gravitas as the slave owner who rescues Maximus from death and turns him into a coliseum star. Director Scott's visual flair is abundantly in evidence, with breathtaking shots and beautiful (albeit digital) landscapes, but it's Crowe's star power that will keep you in thrall--he's a true gladiator, worthy of his legendary status. Hail the conquering hero! --Mark Englehart

• Pink Floyd - The Wall | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  More than 25 years on from the unforgettable double album release of The Wall, and spectacular live show, relive the genius of Pink Floyd and the ground breaking undertaking that made this one of the most successful modern music albums. Featuring performances of Another Brick In The Wall Part 2, Comfortably Numb and One Of My Turns.

• Kalifornia | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Excitement, adventure... and unimagineable terror await on the road to Kalifornia. Brad Pitt is outstanding (Rolling Stone) and Juliette Lewis is utterly, heartbreakingly convincing (Boxoffice) in this chilling psychological thriller co-starring David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes. When urban intellectuals Brian (Duchovny) and Carrie (Forbes) set out on a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers, they share a ride with a couple they barely know - Early Grayce (Pitt) and his girlfriend Adele (Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westward, the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect, Early's violent nature abruptly emerges, and the terrified Brian and Carrie realize that they don't need to go very far to learn about ruthless killers... because they're already face-to-face with one! Special Features: Trailer Featurette

• Namu, The Killer Whale | DVD | (06/05/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When his partner is killed by whale-fearing fisherman, Namu the killer whale goes into a period of mourning. He finds a friend in marine biologist Hank Donner (Robert Lansing), who realises that despite Namu's vicious reputation he is a gentle, sensitive creature. But with the local fisherman still bent on tracking Namu down and killing him, Donner must work with local widow Kate Rand (Lee Meriwether) and her young daughter to keep the whale's presence a secret.

• Krautrock Legends Vol. 2 - Live At Rockpalast 1976 & 2004 | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £19.88   |  Saving you £-1.89 (-10.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  6 albums and 8 years after being founded, the German Krautrock legend Guru Guru was the first German band to be invited to play at Rockpalast. Guru have always been considered the perfect hippie band and they made every festival from Burg Herzberg to Finkenbach their playground. So this DVD also serves as a document of Germany's music history and in keeping with the ban's motto 'always having fun with green grass' this Rockpalast DVD breaks the norm and is presented in a blaze of colours. G...

• Angelina Jolie: Bad Girl Gone Good | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £16.67   |  Saving you £-3.68 (-28.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this exclusive docu-drama we examine the trials and triumphs of Angelina Jolie - uncovering a Bad Girl Gone Good. Angelina Jolie was born to be a star. Her mother would take her to the movies regularly, which inspired her to become an actress. In 1982 at the age of 7, she landed her first role in Lookin' To Get Out. Since then she has starred in critically acclaimed films such as Gia, Girl Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Wanted. Collectively her films have grossed over $1.5 billion, placing her among the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. However her success came with its fair share of sex, drugs, and scandals. Ultimately she's evolved into an honorary humanitarian and philanthropist.

• Great Western Railway: Western Steam Revival | DVD | (06/05/2013) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (15.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

• She Said No | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sucker Punch | Blu Ray | (07/05/2013) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-12.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.77

  Sucker Punch has Moulin Rouge's freewheeling disrespect for genre, cramming dragons, zombie steampunk World War I German soldiers, robotic samurai, military helicopters, and gun-toting, scantily clad superbabes into a series of hyperviolent fantasies that spring from the undulations of a schizoid madhouse inmate. Sucker Punch also has The Matrix's disdain for the laws of physics, as svelte young women in tight clothes leap, spin, twirl, kick, and crash in slow-motion spectacles that only vaguely resemble how bodies actually move in space. On top of that, Sucker Punch has a video game's disinterest in characters, narrative, sensible dialogue, or sense of any kind, really--anything that might get in the way of the next spasm of bullets and sword slashes. A troubled girl nicknamed Baby Doll (the preposterously glossy Emily Browning, whose china-doll looks previously appeared in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events), traumatized by her impending lobotomy, reimagines her asylum as a hybrid cabaret/brothel. She and her just as whimsically monikered fellow inmates (played by Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jamie Chung) use their feminine wiles and some kick-ass gyrations to escape… but things go very, very wrong. The relentless eye-candy comes from director Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300), whose interest in decorative grime and glistening skin seems to short-circuit everything else. But there's no denying that eye-candy does abound. Also featuring Scott Glenn in the Yoda-esque role of "Wise Man." --Bret Fetzer