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• Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Edition | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Queen's Coronation: Behind Closed DoorsThe Coronation in 1953 appeared to be a glittering triumph for the House of Windsor. But behind the scenes there was a story of rivalry at the highest level. In this High Society special we'll discover that Prince Philip was at odds with the Queen Mother and the royal establishment over his desire to modernise the monarchy and that the old Queen was uncomfortable with her daughter's sudden rise to power. Elizabeth was caught between her husband and the traditionalists in the royal household who lived in an archaic unchanging world. This documentary with dramatised excerpts and interviews with leading historians examines how Elizabeth eventually agreed to televise the full coronation ceremony inside Westminster Abbey against the initial advice of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Cabinet. A decision hotly contested by her advisors it marked a dramatic change in how the monarchy communicated to the public. Unwittingly innocently the Queen had given a huge helping hand to the medium that would do so much to undermine her family in later years. The Changing Face of the QueenHer face has been on the UK's stamps and money for nearly 60 years and over 20 million people worldwide tune in to her Christmas Day speech every year. Having lived through and indeed been at the heart of some of the most dramatic events of the 20th and 21st century: The Second World War the end of the British Empire the death of Princess Diana Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most iconic women in the world. This film tells the story of an international icon. The Royal Wedding In ColourThis amazing film of the Royal Wedding was shot by the late Jack Cardiff a pioneer cameraman working with the then new Technicolor process in the 1940s. It contains never-before-seen footage in full colour of the processions at Westminster Abbey and afterwards at Buckingham Palace of the wedding of HRH Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in the autumn of 1947. This film has not been digitally enhanced the footage and soundtrack are as on the original and it provides a wonderful reminder of the times and people involved in this momentous event.

• Chromeskull 2 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ChromeSkull 2 is the sequel to the 2009 horror hit Laid To Rest. Tommy (Dekker), who's struggling with vivid memories of his encounter with the masked killer, has been abducted by Preston, who harbors a mysterious connection to ChromeSkull . Meanwhile, the technologically savvy slasher, who videotapes his victims as he's killing them, has set his sights on Jess (Michaels). After the young girl disappears, Detective King (Yeoman) races against time to find her and Tommy before it's too late and try to put an end to ChromeSkull's blood-soaked legacy.

• Apartment 1303 | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £16.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (22.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While celebrating with her friends in her new apartment on the thirteenth floor, a young girl unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, decides to investigate her mysterious death. She finds that there have been many suicides of young women living in Apartment 1303...

• Beverly Hills Cop II | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The heat's back on! And Eddie Murphy is cool as ever in this sizzling smash-hit sequel to Beverly Hills Cop. Axel Foley (Murphy) is back - back where he doesn't belong! He's going deep deep deep undercover into the chic wilds of Southern California unleashing his arsenal of blazing gunfire and rapid-fire gags against a gang of international munitions smugglers. Back too are Judge Reinhold and John Ashton as Murphy's crime-busting sidekicks. And Top Gun's director Tony Scott keeps the pace fast furious and funny.

• Verdi: La Forza Del Destino | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £13.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (114.37%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This two-disc Special Edition presents the restored, extended English-language version of Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, now clocking in at almost three hours (actually 171 minutes on this Region 2 DVD as a result of the faster frames-per-second ratio of the PAL format). It includes some 14 minutes of previously cut scenes, with both Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach returning to the editing suite in 2003 to add their voices to scenes that had never before been dubbed into English (Wallach's voice is noticeably that of a much older man in these additional sequences). The extra material contains nothing of vital importance, but it's good to have the movie returned to pretty much the way Leone originally wanted it. The anamorphic widescreen picture is now also accompanied by a handsome Dolby 5.1 soundtrack, making this the most complete and satisfactory version so far released. Film historian Richard Schickel provides an authoritative and engaging commentary on Disc 1. On the second disc there are featurettes on Leone's West (20 mins), The Leone Style (24 mins), Reconstructing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (11 mins) and a documentary about the historical background of the Sibley campaign, The Man Who Lost the Civil War (15 mins). In addition, there's a two-part appreciation of composer Ennio Morricone, Il Maestro, by film-music expert John Burlinghame. Tuco's extended torture scene can be found here, along with a reconstruction of the fragmentary "Socorro Sequence". In short, exemplary bonus features that will satisfy every Leone aficionado. --Mark Walker

• Rigoletto: Metropolitan Opera (Mariotti) | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The sought-after lyric tenor Piotr Beczala, is the womanizing Duke in this new production of Verdi's Rigoletto from the Metropolitan Opera. Zeljko Lu�i� sings the title role and Diana Damrau sings Rigoletto's daughter Gilda. This DVD and Blu-ray release appears in the Verdi year 2013, as music lovers around the world celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Italy's beloved composer. Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi's towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960 - an i...

• Puccini: Tosca- In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Die Hard Quadrilogy | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-13.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Die HardHigh above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building taken hostages and declared war. One man has managed to escape. An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone tired... and the only chance anyone has got.New York detective John McClane played by Bruce Willis (The Sixth Sense 12 Monkeys) is on his way to LA to see his wife and children. His plans must quickly change however when a terrorist cell led by Hans Gruber (played with excellent villainy by Allan Rickman) seizes the high-rise McClane's wife works in leaving him no choice but to go in and try to save the day in this the original prototypical modern action thriller. Die Hard 2On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport and now holds thousands of holiday travellers' hostage. The terrorists a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler) have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency except one: John McClane an off-duty seized by a feeling of deadly deja vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz) the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead desperately low on fuel. It's all-out war a heart-stopping jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts! Die Hard with a VengeanceThe third instalment of the hugely successful Die Hard series reteams Bruce Willis and Director John Mctiernan (Die Hard Last Action Hero) in a new action/adventure extravaganza of special effects unexpected comedy and non-stop thrills. This time New York cop John McClane (Willis) is a personal target of the mysterious Simon (Jeremy Irons) a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner (Samuel L. Jackson). McClane moves wildly from one end of New York City to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychotic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day. Die Hard 4.0Bruce Willis is back as John McClane a New York cop ready to deliver old school justice to a new breed of cyber terrorists. When a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend; it's up to McClane to save the day once again.

• Shiki Complete Series 1 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Their survival means your death! As citizens of a secluded village die off in alarming numbers the head doctor tries desperately to save them - but his efforts are in vain. Panic and disillusionment run rampant as loved ones' corpses rise from the grave with an insatiable thirst for human blood. Haunting and hallucinogenic Shiki stares into the hearts of both the hunter and the hunted - and blurs the line between man and monster.

• Deranged | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £5.24   |  Saving you £1.01 (25.38%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Four young, attractive girls go to rural Spain on a bachelorette party weekend in a remote country house seeking sun, sex and sangria. But the real party begins when the owner of the house (Craig Fairbrass - Rise of the Foot soldier, St Georges' Day) is brutally murdered and one by one, the beautiful guests find themselves in mortal danger. The race is on to uncover the killer's identity before he strikes again.

• For Ellen | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £11.35   |  Saving you £4.64 (40.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Aspiring rock star Joby Taylor (Paul Dano; Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood) finally agrees to sign divorce papers with his estranged wife but discovers he is about to forfeit all custody of his six-year-old daugher Ellen. Even though he has never been in his daughter's life, Joby suddenly realises he's not ready to give up his right to fatherhood and aided by his good natured lawyer (Jon Heder; Napoleon Dynamite) sets across a wintry U.S landscape to try and see her before it is too late.

• Beverly Hills Cop III | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) journeys back to Beverly Hills for a real roller coaster thrill ride at the Wonderworld amusement park! Joined by old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Serge (Bronson Pinchot) Axel becomes the hottest new attraction as he chases down the bad guys on the rides through the shows and in the underground maze beneath the park. Beverly Hills Cop III is a wild funny action comedy that will have you hooked for the whole ride!

• Martha Marcy May Marlene | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Martha Marcy May Marlene creates a sense of uneasy suspense within seconds of coming on screen: a young woman, who will be known by all the title names at various times in the movie, is escaping from a rural commune of some sort. And not just a commune, but by the looks of it, a cult--an impression that will grow as Martha flashes back to her experiences once she reaches the safety of her sister's antiseptic country place. It is part of director Sean Durkin's design that we experience the film as Martha's point of view, which means there may be some question about whether she's an emotionally unstable person to begin with or simply in a legitimate terror about the traumatising events that have unfolded for her in recent months. Although the film has one storytelling contrivance (Martha withholds her experiences from her sister, when a little exposition would help matters tremendously), in general Durkin keeps a lid on this simmering situation, and he's got a good compositional eye that only occasionally tips over into preciousness. Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy play Martha's complacent but concerned sister and brother-in-law, and John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) is a spellbinder as the commune leader, a manipulator of subtle skill. (With some stories like this, you have a hard time believing cult followers could fall for these creepy charismatics; in this one, Hawkes demonstrates how such things might happen.) The movie's most unexpected and alluring touch is the performance by Elizabeth Olsen, as Martha; this younger sister of the child-star Olsen twins brings a zonked-out centre of gravity to the part. She's got just a bit of blankness, too, which enhances the movie's well-wrought guessing game. --Robert Horton

• Blow Out | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of Brian De Palma’s most acclaimed films, this brilliant fusion of the obsessive sleuthing of Blow-up and The Conversation with themes drawn from real-life political scandals (the JFK assassination, Chappaquiddick, Watergate) starts with sound technician Jack Terry (John Travolta) accidentally recording what might be explosive evidence of a deadly conspiracy. Brilliantly shot by the then recent Oscar-winner Vilmos Zsigmond, this terrifically stylish thriller co-stars Nancy Allen as the eyewitness who becomes the unwitting target of John Lithgow’s serial killer as he ruthlessly attempts to bury all the evidence. It’s also a film about the filmmaking process: Terry is originally hired to work on the low-budget slasher film Coed Frenzy, and later turns his technical skills to much more serious use as he tries to reconstruct a political assassination on film in a way that will stand up in court. Special Features: Limited Edition SteelBook New, restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Brian De Palma Original Dolby 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Black and White in Colour: An Interview with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on Blow Out Return to Philadelphia: An interview with Producer George Litto A gallery of on-set photos by photographer Louis Goldman Original Theatrical Trailer Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Atkinson, a conversation between Quentin Tarantino and De Palma, and more to be confirmed!

• Little Princess: I Want To Be A Bridesmaid | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £14.66   |  Saving you £-8.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Join Little Princess and her friends for more adventures at the royal castle. With six favourite Little Princess episodes to keep your little ones happy! Little Princess is always learning and has lots of find out in these fun-packed episodes. Whether it's match-making for Maid in I Want to Be a Bridesmaid or making amends in I Want Your Tiara Little Princess has Scruff Puss and King and Queen to help her make the right choices eventually! Featuring the voice talents of Jane Horrocks and Julian Clary Little Princess invites all little ones and those who look after them to laugh and learn!

• American Dad!: Volume 2 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £20.23   |  Saving you £7.76 (38.36%)   |  RRP £27.99

  American Dad returns for another season of animated hilarity! American Dad! (from Family Guy creator, Seth MacFarlane) is the animated story of Stan Smith, who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity. Stan will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm - as evidenced by the terror-alert color code on his fridge, and his frequent knee-jerk reaction of shooting holes in the toaster whenever the toast pops up. In addition to St...

• Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £7.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Strike Up the Band (ouverture) - Rhapsody in Blue - Promenade - Catfish Row / Orion Weiss, piano - John Fullam, clarinette - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - JoAnn Falletta, direction

• Live At Wolf Trap | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £20.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  descrizioneregistrazione del concerto tenutosi nel wolf trap national park in virginia nel luglio del 2004. tracklist: rockin' down the highway; jesus is just alright; dangerous; another park, another sunday; people gotta love again; spirit; steamer lane (instrumental); south city midnight lady; snake man; nobody; five corners; rainy day crossroad blues; clear as the driven snow; neal's fandango; takin' it to the streets; don't start me talking; take me in your arms; little bitty pretty one; black water; long train runnin'; ore; china grove; without you; listen to the music.

• Guns N Roses -Live In Paradise City | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-4.19 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Guns N' Roses, one of America's premier hard rock bands were formed in Hollywood in 1985. They have six studio albums, three Ep's, and one live album under their belt to date. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist IzzyStradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. Axl Rose is the only current original member of Guns N' Roses. The band's 1987 debut album "Appetite for Destruction" has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide and reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and is also the highest selling debut album of all time in the US. After over a decade of work and many lineup changes, the band released their album, Chinese Democracy, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum in Canada. On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, Guns N' Roses was announced as nominee for 2012 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is well overdue, and more than deserved! Though the line up has transformed over the years, the success of the Chinese Democracy album attests to the power of the newest line up. This live recording in Rio de Janeiro during their latest 2011 tour is proof of the band's continued commitment to rock n roll Guns 'N' Roses at the festival Rock in Rio, which was held on September 27, 2011. Tracklist: 01 - Chinese Democracy 02 - Welcome To The Jungle 03 - It's So Easy 04 - Mr. Brownstone 05 - Sorry 06 - Live and Let Die 07 - Rocket Queen 08 - This I Love 09 - Instrumental Jam 10 - Sweet Child O' Mine 11 - Estranged 12 - Better 13 - Street Of Dreams 14 - You Could Be Mine 15 - November Rain 16 - Instrumental Jam 17 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door 18 - Nightrain BONUS 19 - Patience 20 - Paradise City