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• Stuart A Life Backwards | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £6.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (142.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The award-winning drama Stuart A Life Backwards details the friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator (Alexander) and a chaotic homeless man (Stuart) whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.As Alexander learns more about Stuart's complicated life and traumatic childhood he asks if he can write his story and Stuart advises him to write the story backwards so that it's ""more exciting - like a Tom Clancy murder-mystery"". As their remarkable alliance develops Stuart gradually recounts his life story in reverse his resilient personality and dry sense of humour giving the story an almost tragi-comic edge.

• Ironside Series 1 | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £40.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (24.98%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Ironside revolved around former Chief of Detectives Robert T Ironside who after twenty-five years on the squad was forced him to retire after a sniper's bullet paralyzed him from the waist down and confined him to a wheelchair. Appointed as a 'special department consultant' and provided with office and living space at the Police headquarters Ironside uses his brains initiative and experience to assist the Police in breaking cases.

• The Producers | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £8.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (50.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Low rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and his high-strung accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) discover that with the help of a few gullible investors they can make more money on a flop than on a hit! Armed with the worst show ever written (Springtime For Hitler) and an equally bizarre cast this double dealing duo is banking on disaster. But when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a smash hit they find themselves in the middle of a Broadway blitzkrieg! Winner of an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay Mel Brooks recently adapted his classic film as a Broadway musical and scooped a record-breaking 12 Tony awards.

• The David Lynch Collection | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set Comprises: Inland EmpireDavid Lynch's first film since the award-winning Mulholland Drive (and his first shot completely on digital) is a complex Hollywood mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality and features an astonishing performance by Laura Dern. Dern plays Nikki Grace an actress preparing for her biggest role yet a Hollywood movie from an acclaimed director (played by Jeremy Irons) opposite an amorous leading man (Justin Theroux). But when she finds herself falling for her co-star she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed polish production that was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. Mulholland DriveBeautiful bizarre and strangely addictive Mulholland Drive begins as a botched hit results in the meeting of bruised brunette amnesiac Rita (Laura Harring) and blonde would-be Hollywood actress Betty (Naomi Watts - King Kong 21 Grams). Taking the viewer on a memorable neo-noir trip through Hollywood's dark underbelly Lynch dispenses with a conventional narrative in favour of an hallucinogenic assault on the senses that will stay with you long after the credits roll. Elephant ManDavid Lynch creator of Twin Peaks and acclaimed director of 'Eraserhead' 'Blue Velvet' and 'Wild At Heart' directs this bizarre but true story of courage and human dignity. John Hurt gives the performance of a lifetime as John Merrick the worst ""freak"" known to Victorian medical science a man whose body is hideously distorted into a grotesque parody of an elephant. Rescued from a travelling freak show by Sir Frederick Treves Merrick gradually reveals himself to be a strangely sweet and gentle man remarkably unembittered by the degradation and torment he suffered at the circus. Beautifully shot by Freddie Francis and with an excellent supporting cast including Sir John Gielgud Anne Bancroft and Dame Wendy Hiller 'The Elephant Man' is a compelling moving and enchanting story. The film was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor. Short Films of David Lynch This is a collection of David's early student and commissioned work this includes: 1. Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times) 2. The Alphabet 3. The Grandmother 4. The Amputee 5. The Cowboy and the Frenchman 6. Premonitions Following an Evil Deed 7. External links

• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  With elements of horror fairy-tale folklore surrealism and Freudian symbolism Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a surreal tale in which love fear sex and religion merge into one fantastic world in the mind of an adolescent girl.

• Doctor Who: The War Machines | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) can actually think for itself and is shortly to be linked up to other major computers around the world - a project overseen by civil servant Sir Charles Summer. It transpires however that WOTAN considers that humans are inferior to machines and should therefore be ruled by them. Exerting a hypnotic influence it arranges the construction of War Machines - heavily-armed self-contained mobile computers - with which to take over the world.

• The Lion In Winter | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £13.87   |  Saving you £-0.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Behind the great stone walls of an English castle the world's most powerful empire is in crisis. Three sons struggle to win their father's favor - as well as his crown. King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and his queen Eleanor (Hepburn) engage in a battle of royal wits that pits elder son Richard (Anthony Hopkins) against his brothers while the cunning King Philip of France (Timothy Dalton) takes advantage of the internal fracturing in his bid to destroy their kingdom.

• Abba - The Movie | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £6.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (115.68%)   |  RRP £14.99

  ABBAmania: that was the name given to the hysterical worship of four Swedes that enthralled Australia during an intense period in the mid-1970s. This phenomenon reached its high-point as ABBA conducted an enormously successful tour Down Under in March 1977. The feverish madness of the tour was captured on film in director Lasse Hallstrom's ABBA - The Movie which remains as one of precious few opportunities to experience ABBA live onstage. In the film we follow radio disc jockey Ashley Wallace as he tries to hunt down the group for an exclusive in-depth interview. Will he make it or not? Experience the excitement of ABBA's music and the mania that surrounded them in this very first DVD release of ABBA - The Movie!

• Jump | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £7.45   |  Saving you £-1.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Photographer Philippe Halsman became one of the most sought-after celebrity portrait artists of his generation creating memorable images of famous personalities often jumping in midair for LIFE magazine. Before coming to the U.S. however Halsman suffered a terrible fate. Set in 1928 Austria Jump brings us the true story of the first trial of a Jew by the Nazi government. Philippe Halsman and his bullying father Morduch share a troubled relationship which turns increasingly sour as the two embark upon a hiking tour in Austria. When Morduch is found murdered Philippe is charged and convicted of the crime. Is the assumption of guilt based on strong evidence or on the Halsman family's Jewish faith?

• Boogie Babies - Move Your Feet to the Beat | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £4.50   |  Saving you £3.49 (77.56%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Shoe Hoe Down 2. Going To The Park 3. Penguin Bop 4. Double Decker 5. Building 6. Tick Tock Clock 7. Carousel 8. Do The Duck 9. Chuffa Chuffa Chawoowoo

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Cinderella story from the mean streets of Kingston, Jamaica, the alternately comic and gritty Dancehall Queen is an intriguingly dark crowd pleaser. Marcia (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter. Complicating things is Priest (Paul Campbell), a murderous hood who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems--Larry, Priest, and a lack of money---Marcia arrives at an inspired solution: develop an alter ego, a dancing celebrity called the Mystery Lady who can compete in a cash-prize contest and pit both of the men against one another. Which is exactly what she does, and it's great fun watching Marcia instigate her complicated plan with a little help from sympathetic friends. Colorful, rowdy, funny, and dangerous, Dancehall Queen is a clever and ceaselessy energetic movie steeped in Kingston street life and the desire to keep body and soul together at home. Reid is a delight as the everyday figure who transforms into an icon in the evenings, and the dance scenes are amazingly bawdy. --Tom Keogh

• Masters of Cinema - Judex/Nuits Rouges | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £39.79   |  Saving you £-14.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Judex (1963): The magical rarely seen Judex directed by the great Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face) was largely unappreciated at the time of its release in 1963. This lyrical and dreamlike picture a putative remake of Louis Feuillade's own 1916 Judex is as evocative of the silent master's own works as it is the later films of Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali. A French reviewer wrote in 1963: The whole of Judex reminds us that film is a privileged medium for the expression of poetic magic. Starring the magician Channing Pollock the divine Edith Scob and the mesmerising Francine Berg'' Judex concerns a wicked banker his helpless daughter and a mysterious avenger. It plays like a fairy tale one in which Franju creates a dazzling clash between good and evil eschewing interest in the psychological aspects of his characters for unexplained twists and turns in the action. The beautifully controlled imagery superbly rendered by Marcel Fradetal's black-against-white photography animates a natural world and the spirits of animals all at war with a host of diabolical forces. Franju's Judex and Nuits Rouges both paid overt homage to the surreal silent serial-works of Feuillade. Scripted in collaboration with Feuillade's grandson Jacques Champreux these films evince the same poetic magic that made the art of that earlier master a cause c''l''bre not only for the Surrealist movement but also for the world renowned Cin''math''que Fran''aise. It was the Cin''math''que (co-founded by the legendary Henri Langlois with Franju) that helped resurrect the reputation of Feuillade decades after he'd slipped out of the public consciousness. Nuits Rouges (1973): Nuits Rouges [Red Nights] released in the UK as Shadowman was the second Franju Champreux meditation upon the films of Feuillade. It aggressively escalates a pulp atmosphere steeped in shocking turns of events to an even more vertiginous level. Here the object of pursuit is the fabled treasure of the mythical order of the Knights Templar which the filmmakers use as the jump-off point for staging a series of fantastic set-pieces. As the Fant''mas-esque arch-criminal (known only as The Man Without a Face played by Jacques Champreux himself) violently pursues the treasure the action intensifies amongst a cadre of post '68 bohemians the Paris police bureau and a cult of cowled conspirators. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Georges Franju's two most mindbending films on DVD in the UK for the first time.

• Joy Division | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £9.74   |  Saving you £10.25 (105.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On June 4 1976, four young men from a post-industrial Manchester, went to see a Sex Pistols show. Inspired by the gig, they formed what was to become one of the world's most influential bands, Joy Division.

• Heroes Season 2 | Blu Ray | (25/08/2008) from £14.99   |  Saving you £35.00 (233.49%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Heroes is back with Season 2! The second season begins four months after the events of Kirby Plaza. Peter Petrelli Matt Parkman Nathan Petrelli and Sylar have all survived the events of the season one finale and are trying to return to ordinary lives despite their extraordinary abilities with the exception of Sylar who is on a quest to regain the use of his abilities. The main plot arc of Generations deals with the Company and its research on the Shanti virus. This research is explored through the Company's founders whose identities are revealed as well as through the effects of various strains of the virus on The Haitian Niki Sanders Sylar and others. An amnesiac Peter Petrelli observes the potential devastation of the virus in a future New York City. The heroes ultimately come together in an attempt to stop the release of a deadly strain of the virus and avert a global pandemic.

• The Army Game - Complete Series | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £44.78   |  Saving you £-4.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Army Game was a sitcom giant of its time and one of ITV's most popular shows. Created by Sid Colin it pre-dated the more famous Dad's Army by a number of years. A group of men serving out time as conscripts in the army are determined to dodge duty and derive maximum fun out of a situation they'd rather not be in. Because WWII was only 12 years passed and national service was very much a reality many viewers found they could identify with the characters and the situation they found themselves in.

• Maximum Risk | Blu Ray | (25/08/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Action mega star Jean-Claude Van Damme is back with a vengeance in Maximum Risk - an exhilarating thrill-packed adventure also starring Natasha Henstridge. Alain Moreau's (Van Damme) investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the south of France to the mean streets of New York City... and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy. There's only one problem: all traces of his brother's life are rapidly disappearing and the one person who knew him best may not be telling all she knows.

• La Belle Et La Bete | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cocteau's surrealist vision of the classic fairytale moving from the sparse settings of Belle's village home to the enchanted castle of the Beast.

• Michael Jackson - History Vols. 1 And 2 | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-5.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  This limited edition deluxe Box Set - released for the first time in the UK to celebrate Michael Jackson's 50 anniversary on August 29 2008 - presents a compilation of his greatest short films spanning the decades of his career as the undisputed King of Pop. Along with being one of the most successful pop stars of all time Jackson also helped to revolutionise the music video art form hiring Hollywood filmmakers such as John Landis to direct what are essentially short narrative films. Disc 1 contains Bad and The Way You Make Me Feel in their original versions - over 12 min long each - which are exclusively available on this DVD. Black and White is also presented in its original non-censored version. In addition to short films Disc 2 features two unforgettable live performances notably that of Billie Jean at Motown's 25 anniversary celebrations where Michael premiered his world-famous trademark moonwalk. Available for a limited time only this Box Set is presented in a deluxe slipcase with matt varnish and is a must have for every Michael Jackson fan ! Tracklist: 1. Brace Yourself 2. Billie Jean 3. The Way You Make Me Feel 4. Black or White 5. Rock with You 6. Bad 7. Thriller 8. Beat It 9. Remember the Time 10. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough 11. Heal the World 12. Teaser 13. Billie Jean - Live at Motown 25 Anniversary Celebration 14. Beat It 15. Liberian Girl 16. Smooth Criminal 17. Performance at 1995 MTV Music Video Awards 18. Thriller 19. Scream (featuring Janet Jackson) 20. Childhood 21. You Are Not Alone 22. Earth Song 23. They Don't Care About Us 24. Stranger in Moscow 25. Blood on the Dance Floor 26. Brace Yourself

• The Last Mistress | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Secrets rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £13.47   |  Saving you £-0.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel set in the 19th century of Bathsheba Everdene and the three very different men who come to love her...