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• Asterix At The Olympic Games | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £6.48   |  Saving you £10.77 (206.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While out hunting, Asterix and his friend Obelix run across a sports champion of one of the local Roman garrisons named Gluteus Maximus, who is to participate in the Olympic Games.

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

  The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few if any works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer as though guided in a trance through a realm akin to a wakingdream a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural. Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living of ghostly lore and demonology which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling and upsetting mystery. At its core: troubled Gisle chaste daughter and sexual incarnation portrayed by the great cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl and inspiration for Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate - in the face of dear dying Sybille in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men in the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation - eye-to-eye then with Death the supreme vampire. Deemed by Alfred Hitchcock 'the only film worth watching... twice' Vampyr's influence has become by now incalculable. Long out of circulation in an acceptable transfer The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dreyer's truly terrifying film in its film restored form for the first time in the UK on DVD.

• Orin Spirits Of The Past - The Movie | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £4.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (72.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The rebirth of the future from the ashes of the past... It has been 300 years since mankind's interference with the environment left Earth in ruins. Now the remnants of humanity are divided as never before. The crumbling remains of vast cities stand in tenuous coexistence with the encroaching forest and humans live on both sides of this brewing conflict. Young Agito the son of an aging hero inadvertently sets in motion a series of catastrophic events when he wanders into a forbidden zone of the forest. He stumbles across a cryogenic stasis tube containing Toola a girl who has a vital mission entrusted to her from the past... It is an unsteady peace in an unnatural time. Only by searching their souls and examining the past will Agito and Toola understand the origin of all things and unite mankind with the forest.

• Supernatural: Complete Season 3 | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £23.39   |  Saving you £7.60 (32.49%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Twenty-two years ago Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. As a result their father John raised the brothers to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it. Sam however wanted nothing to do with this violent and dangerous life and he left it behind until the day Dean appeared on his doorstep with troubling news. Their father had gone missing on a ""hunting trip."" Sam and Dean have spent the last year cruising the highways of the United States in their 1967 Chevy Impala searching for their lost father and encountering creatures that most people believe exist only in folklore superstition and nightmares. Along the way they have battled the various supernatural threats--and each other as well for their sibling rivalries and conflicts were never far from the surface. Finally they found their father just as he was closing in on the Demon who claimed their mother.

• Glass Dolls | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The mists that wreathe the eerie city of Venice become the hunting ground for a faceless child killer that seemingly cannot be stopped in the taut and brilliant thriller Who Saw Her Die? directed by Aldo Lado (Night Train Murders). When Franco (in a career-best performance by George Lazenby) loses his daughter to this shadowy elusive murderer he sets off on an unnerving journey of retribution that will bring him to the very edge of his sanity and quite possibly his life too. Rigid with tense atmospheric style this film bears an uncanny resemblance in mood to the classic Dont Look Now but was actually made a year before. Boasting starkly evocative cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo (Il Postino) and a score by Ennio Morricone Who Say Her Die haunts the mind long after viewing it.

• Idle Hands | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £15.80   |  Saving you £4.19 (26.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Despite all the pot-smoking in Idle Hands, the message here seems to be that too many bong hits will take you on a one-way trip to the devil's playground. That's what happens to Anton (Devon Sawa), a wasted teen who's so perpetually zonked on weed that he doesn't notice his parents have been slaughtered by an evil force that then possesses Anton's right hand, taking on a wildly homicidal life of its own after Anton chops it off with a butcher knife. The first victims are Anton's pals Mick (teen-movie stalwart Seth Green), who gets a beer bottle embedded in his skull, and Pnub (Elden Henson), whose head is lopped off by a rotary saw blade, and later reattached with a barbecue fork and duct tape. (Did we mention that Mick and Pnub turn into undead jokesters? It's that kind of movie.) This unoriginal idea is little more than an excuse for gross-out effects and easy one-liners, and then Vivica A. Fox appears as the demon-buster who knows how to kill the hand once and for all. It's fun to a point, and certain to be a popular Halloween hit with its intended teenage audience, but you can't help wishing this movie had tried harder to be something more than a collection of crude and gory gags. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Foo Fighters - Live At Wembley Stadium | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £6.72   |  Saving you £7.27 (108.18%)   |  RRP £13.99

  165 000 tickets sold more than four hours of music and one encore with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin later Foo Fighters have now immortalized for posterity their biggest ever headline stand: Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium an 18-song DVD documenting their two sold out Wembley Stadium shows will be released August 25. The Wembley concerts which took place Friday and Saturday June 6 and 7 of this year sold out within 24 hours making them the biggest headline performances of the band's illustrious career--as well as the biggest rock shows staged at the new Wembley to date. Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium is a career-spanning live opus drawing on all six of Foo Fighters' studio albums featuring classics Times Like These Everlong Monkey Wrench All My Life and Learn To Fly as well as new live staples including Long Road To Ruin. Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium also includes night two's historic encore for which Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin joined Grohl and Hawkins for renditions of Rock and Roll (with Hawkins on vocals and Grohl on drums) and Ramble On (with Grohl on vocals and Hawkins on drums). Like the Wembley weekend Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium concludes with a triumphant and highly emotional Best Of You with a closing chorus of 85 000 fans leaving Grohl visibly moved. Tracklist: 1. The Pretender 2. Times Like These 3. No Way Back 4. Cheer Up Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) 5. Learn To Fly 6. Long Road To Ruin 7. Breakout 8. Stacked Actors 9. Skin And Bones 10. Marigold 11. My Hero 12. Cold Day In The Sun 13. Everlong 14. Monkey Wrench 15. All My Life 16. Rock And Roll 17. Ramble On 18. Best Of You

• Terror's Advocate | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £8.07   |  Saving you £11.92 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dictators. Terrorists. War criminals. Jacques Verges is the man who has defended them all. Acclaimed filmmaker Barbet Schroeder takes us down history's darkest paths in his engrossing attempt to illuminate the mystery behind this enigmatic and controversial lawyer. At the height of his career Verges disappeared without trace for 8 years. Following his return to the public eye he resumes his profession with a vengeance acting as legal representative to some of the century's most notorious figures including Carlos The Jackal Slobodan Milosevic and Nazi lieutenant Klaus Barble.

• Nim's Island | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anything can happen on "Nim's Island", a place where everything runs wild, especially imagination.

• Apocalypse Now | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic tale of the Viet Nam war, re-released with almost an hour of additional footage. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is given the task of sailing upriver to find and execute renegade military officer Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Br

• Zombie Flesheaters 2 | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• The Cosby Show - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.00   |  Saving you £22.99 (82.10%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Join in with the trials and tribulations of the Huxtable family in Season 2 of the long running popular comedy series The Cosby Show!

• Them | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (3.45%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A French couple's tranquil existence is shattered by disturbing phone calls and whispering voices.

• Half Past Dead | Blu Ray | (25/08/2008) from £7.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (166.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man infiltrates a hi-tech prison to find out where a death-row inmate hid his $200 million stash of gold. It's up to an undercover FBI agent to stop him before it's too late.

• Awake | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The story focuses on a man who suffers "anaesthetic awareness" and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His young wife must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them.

• Hank Williams | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (3.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Singer Sneezy Waters portrays country singer Hank Williams in this film of an imaginary concert he never managed to give on the last night of his life.

• When Saturday Comes | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (62.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In an emotive performance Sheffield born Sean Bean stars as Jimmy Muir captain of the local football team within a gritty working class Sheffield community who sees life as a game both on and off the pitch. Though encouraged by his spirited girlfriend Annie (Emily Lloyd) it is not until he is spotted by local talent scout Ken Jackson (Pete Postlethwaite) that Jimmy starts to believe his dream to make it into professional football could be realised. When offered the chance to prove himself at trials for Sheffield United Jimmy struggles to handle the pressure as problems start to stack up. Getting the red card from both Annie and United for scoring off the pitch and not on it Jimmy has some important decisions to make. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father hard-drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits... has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?

• An Audience With Joan Rivers | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £10.77   |  Saving you £2.22 (20.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Outrageous shocking controversial and undoubtedly funny the acid queen of stand-up Joan Rivers hosts An Audience with. The Daytime Emmy Award winner has her celebrity audience crying with laughter from start to finish as well as causing a number of jaws to hit the ground with her countless daring and racy comments. Rivers'' ability to make people laugh in-spite of themselves (including herself) is clearly on display and is what makes her a much acclaimed loved and celebrated stand up comedian.

• Wizard of Gore | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £9.68   |  Saving you £3.31 (34.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist the gruesome illusions of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders?

• House of Spirits | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bille August's adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-selling novel stars Meryl Streep as the supernaturally gifted Clara and Jeremy Irons as her controlling husband Esteban. The House Of The Spirits is a haunting tale of romance and passion which spans three generations of the Trueba family. It's a timeless classic which deals with secrets seduction revenge and forgiveness and most importantly the power of love to overcome anything.