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• Best Of Deadliest Catch Series 7 | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £8.48   |  Saving you £21.51 (71.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In the far northern reaches of the planet a rare breed of extreme fishermen hunt the Bering Sea. Adventure is their call, crab is their prey, and a one hundred million dollar plunder is their reward. Skippers and their crews endure boat-killing storms and bodycrushing working conditions - risking it all in the search for crab. In the end, they will all come to the realisation that the most violent storms come from within. This season, two new skippers, Elliott Neese and Scott Campbell, join...

• Mahler: Symphony 2 | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £19.91   |  Saving you £11.34 (60.80%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ARTH 108081; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Orchestrale

• The Philadelphia Experiment: Invisibility, Time Travel And... | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A U.S. Navy Ship vanishes during a secret World War II Experiment gone awry. When it re-appears, observers are horrified to see crew members embedded in the deck and steel of the ship. During a sea trial, the ship vanishes and travels through time setting off a number of events that continue today. It's not Science Fiction, its Science Fact! Bill Knell presents a fascinating and unique documentary. You'll meet Al Bielek, Preston Nichols and Duncan Cameron. They are all survivors of U.S. Government Experiments involving invisibility, time travel, mind control, psychic warfare and remote viewing. You will hear about these amazing projects firsthand. You'll experience dramatic recreations and learn about related incidents. It began as a World War II Navy Experiment to demagnetize military vessels making them invisible to radar. It ended with the USS Eldridge completely disappearing, travelling 40 years into the future. You'll hear firsthand from the Survivors of the original experiment and about more recent projects based on the same technology. Visit the infamous Montauk Military Base at the heart of these operations and learn how the technology allows ships, planes and people to travel through time. Al Bielek, Duncan Cameron and Preston Nichols are three men with intimate knowledge of the strange and incredible events that took place and may very well be still taking place now. Learn how technology they helped develop and test is being used to change the future. The military can send ships, planes and people through hyperspace and make them completely invisible. The 911 Attack was predicted by those involved in these black operations because they knew then years before the event. Prepare for an unprecedented Journey into the Strange and Unknown.

• Secret Plot to Kill Hitler | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £6.34   |  Saving you £8.65 (136.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is a fascinating war story that is seldom told: the plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Many high ranking officers in the German Army were appalled by the abhorrent crimes committed against civilians and enemy troops which they believed to be morally wrong. Casualties among the German forces were enormous and many officers believed this was due to Adolf Hitler's insistence on pursuing disastrous offensive strategies. A growing number of army officers decided that the only way to save Germany was to eliminate Adolf Hitler and his supporters and stage a coup. They then hoped to negotiate a ceasefire with the Allies. The July Plot led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg was the closest anyone came to assassinating Adolf Hitler and overthrowing the Nazi government and Discovery Channel's Virtual History team has attempted to recreate the incredible tale in this groundbreaking documentary. With the use of state of the art Computer Generated Imagery The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler is able to recreate and bring to life the extraordinary events that took place on July 20 1944 and afford the veiwer a rare insight into this infamous plot that has previously been unavailable.

• Scarface | Blu Ray | (25/06/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Next Of Kin | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (20.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Catatonically unhappy with his family life a young man named Peter Foster undergoes video therapy with his parents. One day while studying tapes at the hospital he sees the tapes of an Armenian family who feel guilty about surrendering their own son while still an infant to a foster home. Peter decides to present himself to this family as their lost son to finally act out a role different from the one assigned to him in his own life.

• True Horror: Werewolves | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £11.30   |  Saving you £1.69 (13.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anthony Head, international actor and star of Buffy The Vampire Slayer sets out to find out the truth behind the werewolf myth. Are they real or just the stuff of myth, folklore and Hollywood movies? Most of us are familiar with the idea of a werewolf: someone who can change into a wolf-like creature with an appetite for blood, but how did these tales come about and how have they become accepted as fact?Anthony Head travels around Europe, first to Greece where he delves into a 2,000-year-old account of werewolves and human sacrifice, and then to France where he uncovers the medieval tale of the most devastating attack by a werewolf – the Beast of Gvaudan – who tore off the head of his victims. But not all tales come from the past and a modern tale of one of these terrifying beasts is revealed to Anthony Head. He meets with werewolf experts and discusses the possibility of whether werewolves are a form of delusion and a product of a disturbed mind, a person with a genetic problem or shape-shifting monsters.

• Master Series | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-3.64 (-16.60%)   |  RRP £21.99

  In an intimate master-class setting, Antonio Sanchez displays his extraordinary musical skills in the context of challenging songs and incredible solo segments. Performing both on his smaller traditional jazz set, and the larger kit that he uses with the Pat Metheny Group, he presents musical concepts, exercises, and suggestions for developing musicianship that apply to serious drum students of all levels. Playing selections from the Pat Metheny Group, along with compositions by Chick Core.

• Slade - Alive | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-2.08 (-34.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of the 1972 release, that became the first live album to enter the UK charts at number one. Featuring live performances of Hear Me Calling, Look Wot You Dun, Darling Be Home Soon, Coz I Love You, and Get Down, plus interviews and much rare archive footage.

• Die Hard 4.0 | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £19.49   |  Saving you £-4.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Live Free or Die Hard is the ultimate summer action ride. In a season overflowing with CGI Fantasy, live Free or Die Hard gets real - with real action, real humor and a relatively everyman hero: John McClane. On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle - but he never figured on an old-school 'analog' fly in the 'digital' ointment. Bruce...

• Brad Stine: God's Comic | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £8.96   |  Saving you £3.79 (52.64%)   |  RRP £10.99

  New Yorker magazine dubbed Brad Stine, God's Comic, a moniker that has stuck and finally prophetically, bought forth this sermon from Brad. Delivered the only way he knows how! Here is bible teaching laced with stand-up to serve as a relief for all those who are tired of their pastors Sunday morning attemps to pepper dry dogma with life infusing humour. Enjoy these fundamental theological truths served-up with hilarious observational comedy. As always, Brad's humour is both creative and famil...

• Family Guy: Season 7 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £22.00 (367.28%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Well, it had to happen. After years of diabolical plotting, Stewie delivers on his most prized threat and kills Lois. Or does he? But wait, there are even more plot twists in the 12 outrageously funny episodes, including the show's 100th episode!

• John Wilson's Fishing World - North America | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Wolf River 100 miles east of the Yukon's capital of Whitehorse is one of the best rivers in the world to fish for grayling. The river is only accessible by float plane and visitors stay in rustic lakeside lodges. John catches several specimens approaching 3lbs. Wildlife includes bald eagle bears moose and wood bison. Fishing pro John Wilson is taking a float plane to the Wolf River one of the world's best spots for grayling. It's a masterclass.

• Smashing Pumpkins -Night Prayers | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £10.41   |  Saving you £1.58 (13.20%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Smashing Pumpkins - Night Prayers

• Incredible Hulk | Blu Ray | (25/06/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.68 (-119.30%)   |  RRP £12.30

  A more accessible and less heavy-handed movie than Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is a purely popcorn love affair with Marvel's raging, green superhero, as well as the old television series starring Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the beast within him. Edward Norton takes up where Eric Bana left off in Lee's version, playing Bruce (that's the character's original name) Banner, a haunted scientist always on the move. Trying to eliminate the effects of a military experiment that turns him into the Hulk whenever his emotions get the better of him, Banner is hiding out in Brazil at the film's beginning. Working in a bottling plant and communicating via email with an unidentified professor who thinks he can help, Banner goes postal when General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and a small army turn up to grab him. Intent on developing whatever causes Banner's metamorphoses into a weapon, Ross brings along a quietly deranged soldier named Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), who wants Ross to turn him into a supersoldier who can take on the Hulk. The adventure spreads to the U.S., where Banner hooks up with his old lover (and Ross' daughter), Betty (Liv Tyler), and where the Hulk takes on several armed assaults, including one in a pretty unusual location: a college campus. The film's action is impressive, though the computer-generated creature is disappointingly cartoonish, and a second monster turning up late in the movie looks even cheesier. Norton is largely wasted in the film--he's essentially a bridge between sequences where he disappears and the Hulk rampages around. As good an actor as he is, Norton doesn't have the charisma here to carry those scenes in which one waits impatiently for the real show to begin. --Tom Keogh

• Beyond The Barbed Wire: An Artist's View of the Holocaust | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-1.98 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beyond The Barbed Wire: An Artist's View of the Holocaust is the story of Ben Altman and the miracle of life. As a child, Ben wanted to become a painter but his life circumstances did not allow that freedom, instead he learned the practical skills of a tailor. During WWII, Ben's first wife and son were captured and taken to Auschwitz. After spending the night together on the streets of a ghetto in Poland, they were separated when Ben left them in the early morning to find work. He never saw.

• Verdi: Un Ballo In Maschera | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £12.39   |  Saving you £17.60 (142.05%)   |  RRP £29.99

  CMJ 724304; CMAJOR ENTERTAINMENT; Classica Lirica

• Chronicles of Riddick | Blu Ray | (25/06/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  Bigger isn't always better, but for anyone who enjoyed Pitch Black, a nominal sequel like The Chronicles of Riddick should prove adequately entertaining. Writer-director David Twohy returns with expansive sets, detailed costumes, an army of CGI effects artists, and the star he helped launch--Vin Diesel--bearing his franchise burden quite nicely as he reprises his title role. The Furian renegade Riddick has another bounty on his head, but when he escapes from his mercenary captors, he's plunged into an epic-scale war waged by the Necromongers. A fascist master race led by Lord Marshal (Colm Feore), they're determined to conquer all enemies in their quest for the Underverse, the appeal of which is largely unexplained (since Twohy is presumably reserving details for subsequent "chronicles"). With tissue-thin plotting, scant character development, and skimpy roles that waste the talents of Thandie Newton (as a Necromonger conspirator) and Judi Dench (as a wispy "Elemental" priestess), Twohy's back in the B-movie territory he started in (with The Arrival), brought to vivid life on a vast digital landscape with the conceptual allure of a lavish graphic novel. But does Riddick have leadership skills on his resumé? To get an answer to that question, sci-fi fans will welcome another sequel. --Jeff Shannon

• Van Helsing | Blu Ray | (25/06/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-14.21 (-111.30%)   |  RRP £12.77

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. A sequel is virtually guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon

• MODERN CONFLICTS - VIETNAM: Patrol Boat Rescue | DVD | (01/06/2013) from £13.35   |  Saving you £1.64 (12.28%)   |  RRP £14.99

  PBR stands for Patrol Boat Rescue, the small fiberglass Navy vessels that cruised into the dark shallow rivers of Vietnam. In the summer of 1969, Army Intelligence reported an influx of Viet Cong near the North Saigon River. this area was known as a crossing point into Cambodia where the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army would stock up on ammo and supplies. On the night of August 2, the Navy PBRs and an Army Recon Team were ordered to stop them. This programme details how 30 courageous men on 6 boats put themselves in harm’s way. Sailor David Larsen almost single-handedly battles 50 Viet Cong, saving many American lives, while taking out the enemy. 45 minutes of war result in a hard-fought victory for the US. This is an incredible story of strategy, planning and stealth. These were the integral attributes to this previously untold story about sacrifice, courage and duty in Vietnam as 30 men on 6 boats did all they could to battle the Viet Cong.