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• Whickers World - Volume 3 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £16.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (100.07%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker's quiet brand of incisive, insightful television journalism has enthralled audiences for the past six decades. This third volume presents a diverse and memorable selection of films made between 1968 and 1980, ranging in topic from the cryonics industry to the Gay Lib movement in America, the modern-day Maharajahs of Rajasthan to the Carib tribe of Dominica. The Road...

• The Man Who Finally Died | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  British cinema icon Stanley Baker, cult favourite actor Peter Cushing and controversial actor/director Mai Zetterling feature among an impressive line-up for this British espionage thriller set in post-War Europe. The Man Who Finally Died is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. In London, jazz musician Joe Newman receives a startling telephone call: the caller is his German father, believed to have been killed in action twenty years ago! At the same time, a ...

• Iria: Collection | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (35.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After a routine rescue mission ends in tragedy young bounty hunter Iria returns to her home world with a deadly secret: the Zeiram a seemingly indestructible alien life form is on the loose and headed for the unsuspecting planet. This knowledge makes Iria the target of assassins from the Tedan Tippedai Corporation who wishes to harness the destructive power of the Zeiram as a bio-weapon. Intent on exposing the Corporation's sinister plot and avenging the death of her brother and mentor Gren - who was slaughtered before her eyes at the hands of the Zeiram - Iria and her ragtag crew must hunt down the alien juggernaut and uncover the truth.

• Mad Dogs - Series 3 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £9.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (101.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Be careful what you wish for... Mad Dogs III picks up where series II ends with the boys desperate attempts to escape the island resulting in them being even further away from home and safety than they were before. Worse, they seem to have infiltrated a drug cartel and are now under the watchful eye of shady government ops. It seems the only possible chance for salvation is a witness protection programme, a new identity and the promise that the friends sever ties with each other. But how long is it before one of them buckles making contact and the past starts catching up with them; all over again? The boys might be out of the Beleriac light, but they're heading straight into the heart of darkness... Will the Mad Dogs ever get home?

• X-Men 1-3 | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Prepare to join the fight for mutant rights with the X-Men Trilogy on DVD! Experience the first three adventures of the saga X-Men X-Men 2 and X-Men The Last Stand in which Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is drawn into a conflict between Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) who have opposing views on humanity and mutants. When the war for the future of mankind comes to a head are you ready to choose a side? This legendary collection kick-started an entire genre and features an all-star cast including Halle Berry Anna Paquin Famke Janssen and many more. Includes all new artwork and a host of bonus features for you to enjoy.

• The Best Of Men | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Comic Con IV: A Fan's Hope | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (25.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A costume designer, a guy who is planning to propose his girlfriend, two comic book artists and the owner of a comic book store. Everyone has different goals and dreams but they all share the same passion: comics. Comic-con Episode IV: a Fan's Hope follows them during the 2010 edition of Comic-Con in San Diego, an annual pop culture comic event attended by over 140.000 people. The documentary also feature interviews with Hollywood figures who share their experiences as comic fan. Directed by the Academy nominated documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) and presented by Joss Whedon and Stan Lee (Spiderman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the documentary explore the phenomenon of Comic and capture the spirit and energy that Comic-Con has infused into legions of fans.

• Stainless Steel and the Star Spies | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In 1981, the legendary Euston Films produced this quirky, one-off sci-fi kids' comedy, both paying homage to and gently parodying the genius of Gerry Anderson. Featuring a blend of live-action and puppetry, Stainless Steel and the Star Spies is written by celebrated cartoonist Gray Jolliffe, produced by Verity Lambert, and stars comedy greats Anna Karen and Deryck Guyler. The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft - sending the Kleptonite Ball, their precious cargo and the key to Universal Conquest, hurtling to a planet inhabited by primitive life forms: Earth. Having materialised in a bar, the Ball variously functions as a Christmas tree decoration, a bathroom ornament, and a fortune-teller's prop. The Metaliens must retrieve the Kleptonite Ball if their mission is ever to succeed. And that's when their problems really begin...

• The Guilt Trip | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride.

• Hot Fuzz | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £9.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (101.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When top London cop PC Nicholas Angel (Nick Pegg) is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford he struggles with his seemingly crime-free world… and oafish partner Danny (Nick Frost). The second instalment in Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy is re-released with UltraViolet (TM) allowing you to download or stream Hot Fuzz to your computer tablet or smartphone to store it in the cloud and watch it anytime anywhere. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Outtakes 4 Audio Commentaries Trailers

• Exhibition: Manet: Portraying Life | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Manet's portraits are rarely afforded such close attention as they are given in this exquisitely crafted and insightful DVD presented by art expert Tim Marlow. Manet's portraiture comprised about half his work giving life on canvas to family friends and the literary political and artistic figures of the day. The Region 0 DVD includes a detailed excellently constructed biography of Manet and a delightful picture of 19th century Parisian society. Art experts and enthusiasts provide their analysis and the viewer is allowed a rare look behind-the-scenes at the preparation and curating of a major Manet exhibition. Bonus extras include deleted scenes and interviews with special guests and the director.

• Maniac | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Elijah Wood stars in this remake of director William Lustig's 1980 horror classic of the same name. To say that Frank (Wood) is a troubled young man would be an understatement - as the ever-growing number of young women he has murdered since the death of his mother (America Olivo), with whom he enjoyed an unhealthily close relationship, demonstrates only too well. Frank runs a mannequin store and likes to apply the scalps of his victims to the models in his spare time. However, when beautiful...

• Apocalypse Z | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £6.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (50.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Luca Boni and Marco Ristori direct this zombie horror flick. When a bacteriological weapon the US government have been developing in secret accidentally causes a zombie outbreak in a small town in Eastern Europe, the US President (Uwe Boll) approves a plan to cover up the incident. A team of mercenaries are duly hired to smuggle an atomic bomb into the city's nuclear power plant so that the eradication of the infected area will seem like a tragic accident. However, with hordes of the undead b...

• Stoker (Blu-ray + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Stoker is a masterful psychodrama that teems with unsettling vibrations that hark directly back to Alfred Hitchcock, but also to the wave of contemporary cinema that has been surging in South Korea for the past decade. It is the first American feature by the auteur Park Chan-wook, whose widely seen trilogy of "revenge" films, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance, paved the way for the meticulous craftsmanship of Stoker. The inspiration for Wentworth Miller's haunting script was Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, though Stoker makes for an altogether creepier tale of a mysterious uncle, his melancholy niece, and the deadly interplay of family secrets slowly revealed. Park's delicate weaving of style transforms the material into a narrative symphony, with thematic elements conveyed in the smallest details of composition, art direction, and graceful cinematography. Mia Wasikowska is India Stoker, the teenage niece who just lost her father to a violent auto accident. It's a complete surprise to India and her mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) when his handsome younger brother Charlie (Matthew Goode) shows up at the brooding family mansion (itself a character that is integral to the story). Charlie's enigmatic smirk signals both calm and danger, and his presence is a catalyst that ratchets up the emotional turmoil India and Evelyn are already experiencing. India senses the danger even as she is drawn to Charlie, and her mother's repressed sexuality turns into a bonfire under his mysterious charm. He tempts and teases them both in an expertly choreographed dance of menace that fuels the rage building in India and puts further pressure on her mother's cataclysmic despair. Charlie's psychopathic presence infests the brooding, yet deceptively airy surroundings of the Stoker estate with a sense of peril that is just out of reach. Several key scenes unfold at the family dinner table, where poison lurks in Freudian undercurrents and maybe in the food and wine, too. The most mesmerising sequence captures a visit from the sheriff, who's investigating the murder of one of India's schoolmates. The crime is just one of many acts of deadly violence that erupt with jarring force in the past, present, and future of Stoker's disturbing timeline. As the sheriff talks to India and Charlie, the camera swirls around to the rhythm of the scene, separating, uniting, then retreating from them in a virtuosic room-to-room sweep. The extended take says much more about the interplay of India and Charlie's dread connection than the oblique dialogue. It's also a breathtaking illustration of Park's obsessive attention to shot design. But Stoker is much more than an exercise in style; it is also an unnerving and understated thriller that gives big rewards for all that attention to detail. To say that there are plot twists is an understatement for a movie whose elegant creativity is the biggest twist of all. --Ted Fry

• The Numbers Station | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent (John Cusack 2012) is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine (Malin Akerman Watchmen) a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA 'Numbers Station' where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death struggle against an unknown enemy. With the station compromised and innocent lives at stake they must stop the deadly plot before it's too late.

• Cloud Babies - Wide Awake Sun | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £2.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (258.07%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cloudbabies is an animated pre-school series about four enchanting, childlike characters, Baba Pink, Baba Blue, Baba Yellow and Baba Green whose job is to look after the sky and their Sky Friends, Sun, Moon, Rainbow, Fuffa Cloud and Little Star.

• Pardon My Genie - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £7.88   |  Saving you £12.11 (153.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Aimed at a young audience but hugely popular with children and adults alike, Pardon My Genie was devised and written by future Roberts Robots and Rentaghost creator Bob Block. When a young shop assistant called Hal Adden casually tries to polish an old watering can - well, you can guess what happens! But the genie who appears turns out to be as rusty as the can he lives in; he's four thousand years old, and his magic doesn't always work as well as it should... Ellis Jones plays Hal, with Roy Barraclough (Sez Les) starring as his long-suffering boss, hardware shop owner Mr Cobbledick, and Arthur White as the Genie. This second series of the memorably funny comedy, first screened in 197.

• Bulman - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  George Kitchener Bulman, TV's scruffiest, quirkiest cop, has retired from police work. But old habits die hard, and the plan to spend his days mending clocks in his South London antiques-cum-junk shop went out of the window when he found himself partnering with Lucy McGinty, a university drop-out with a passion for criminology, in a private detective agency. The classics-quoting detective is now back on the street, tackling murder plots, terrorism and international espionage, and even dodging the attentions of a contract killer. But the old skills which turned Bulman into a cult figure in Granada's classic police series Strangers are ever present - along with the tatty string gloves and plastic carrier-bag "briefcase" - and this time around, old "GBH" is free of the police code... Don Henderson stars opposite BAFTA nominee Siobhan Redmond in this second series, scripted by Strangers stalwart Murray Smith and featuring appearances by Iain Cuthbertson, Robert Hardy, Ingrid Pitt, Thorley Walters, Jack Shepherd and Graham Crowden.

• City/Secret Beneath the Sea - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A highly popular sequel to ABC's smash-hit Pathfinders trilogy, the two Beneath The Sea series once again stars Gerald Flood - this time as intrepid reporter Mark Bannerman.

• Machinegunner | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Leonard Rossiter stars as Cyril Dugdale, a Bristol-based 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt collector) and amateur detective who fi nds himself enmeshed in a dangerous web of corruption in this dark yet humorous HTV thriller. Lured by the promise of easy money, Dugdale takes compromising photographs of Jack Bone, a property dealer involved in an adulterous affair, for the mysterious Felicity Mae Ingram; Felicity's attractiveness also has more than a little to do with Dugdale's eager co-operation, but he has little understanding of what he is stepping into. When Bone's hired thugs are dispatched to retrieve the negatives, and then Bone himself is found dead in woodland, Dugdale realises he been drawn into a conspiracy involving a widespread extortion racket. Leonard Rossiter's sublime talent for portraying seedy, unscrupulous but comically engaging characters is used to marvellous effect in a production that also stars Nina Baden-Semper (Love Thy Neighbour), multi-award-winning writer and actor Colin Welland, Kate O'Mara (Dynasty), and Timothy Preece (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin). Originally screened in 1976, Machinegunner was written by Dave Martin (Doctor Who) and BAFTA winner Bob Baker, and directed by Patrick Dromgoole (Robin of Sherwood).