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• Sunshine | DVD | (10/04/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This sprawling family saga follows a Hungarian-Jewish family across three generations, and stars Ralph Fiennes as the father, the son, and the grandson in three distinctly different roles. As a Europudding vehicle for Fiennes and a top-drawer cast (including Jennifer Ehle, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Unger, Miriam Margolyes and William Hurt), Sunshine delivers on all fronts: there's glossy melodrama, high-moral seriousness as history wears the family down like the wind, and leitmotifs--the family elixir called "Sunshine" that founds their fortune, semi-incestuous adulterous liaisons, photographs and faces--that thread the epic three-hour narrative together. Fiennes begins as a stiff Budapest lawyer-cum-officer and judge during the First World War, torn when anti-Semitism raises its head. His son is a champion fencer who denounces the family faith to attain advancement but ends up in the Nazi-run labour camps all the same. The last in the line, a policeman this time, must navigate the Stalinist forces of repression and endures through the 1956 uprising to take back the family name and faith. And yet as a film by director István Szabó (Colonel Redl, Mephisto), it's a bit of a soggy disappointment lacking the bile and spit and visual inventiveness that makes the best of his other works so outstanding. Perhaps the fact that Szabó is directing an all-English speaking cast is the problem, leaving the film feeling strangely old-fashioned and paradoxically lacking a sense of place (despite much of it being filmed in Hungary itself). Although there are some charged emotional beats throughout, pretty costumes, and lots of entertainingly tasteful bonking sequences, the fencing sequences in particular become tooth-pullingly tedious and the whole thing seems to drag, especially as it takes itself so seriously. --Leslie Felperin

• Flight To Hell | DVD | (23/07/2003) from £10.96   |  Saving you £-7.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Don screams out as a horrific monster is about to eat him alive! But then he wakes up. It's only a dream! That day he boards his private plane a flying casino that caters to the needs of fantastically rich clients who want to play for high stakes at high altitudes. But then the plane is engulfed in a strange thick fog that seeps into the cabin. The evil mist transforms the passengers and crew one by one into monstrous half human half insect creatures with a ravenous appetite for human flesh. Don realises that it is his nightmare come true - it is his Flight to Hell!

• Atlanta Murders | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (38.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Atlanta Murders focuses on one reporters relentless investigation of the mysterious death of a well respected doctor. Certain that race plays a role this cop turned reporter uncovers medical evidence of a horrible connection between the doctor and murders of 29 young black men. When a possible witness turns up dead he begins to realise that the murders may not be about black but blue. He calls some old friends for back-up and battle ready they confront the dark genius behind t