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• Jack The Giant Slayer | Blu Ray | (22/07/2013) from £8.92   |  Saving you £16.07 (180.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost forcing the young man Jack (Nicholas Hoult) into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom its people and the love of a brave princess he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend... and gets the chance to become a legend himself. Special Features: Become a Giant Slayer: Know Your Enemy Suiting Up Attack Tactics The Magic of a Beanstalk How to Zip Giants' Kitchen Saving the Princess Defending Your Kingdom Deleted Scene Gag Reel

• BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the most artistically significant and controversial motion pictures ever made D. W. Griffith's silent epic The Birth of a Nation was a massive commercial success at the time of its release owing to its dynamic storytelling and its breakthrough developments in cinema language that have become common traits of practically every film that has since followed. However the picture's legacy is one that continues to elicit outrage over its vulgar depictions of African-Americans and its deceptive historiography of the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Birth of a Nation begins depicting the amiable relationship between two families Northern and Southern and the way in which the impending Civil War intensifies the conflict of their worldviews. Following the end of the war and the assassination of President Lincoln a lawless chaos courses throughout the Reconstruction South and the Ku Klux Klan is formed to take on a rising black militia and impose a vengeful vigilante justice across their land and birthright. It's a film that's deeply divisive even to the senses of a single viewer: images of painterly beauty in composition and tonal quality often exhibit a contemptuous inflammatory coarseness with regard to subject matter; just as frequently long tracts evince an innocent terrifically lyrical grandeur. Griffith would attempt to make amends for the moral schism of this schizophrenic epic in his next film Intolerance but The Birth of a Nation cannot - and should not - remain unseen or undiscussed: it is a great and terrible masterpiece. The Masters of Cinema Series releases Griffith's three-hour epic including a series of the director's Civil War shorts for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK.

• The Apartment | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £9.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (35.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Romance at its most anti-romantic--that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavoury world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humoured Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words--"Shut up and deal"--are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). --Robert Abele

• North and South | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Margaret Hale 19 has her life turned upside down when her father the pastor leaves the Church of England and settles with his wife and daughter in the Black Country. A textile-producing region it is engaged in cotton-manufacturing and is smack in the middle of the industrial revolution where masters and workers clash in the first organized strikes. Margaret finds the bustling smoky town of Milton harsh and strange and she is upset by the poverty all around and by her meetings with a Mr Thornton (Patrick Stewart). From the outset Margaret and Thornton are at odds with each other: she sees him as coarse and unfeeling; he sees her as haughty. But he is attracted to her beauty and self-assurance and she begins to admire how he has lifted himself out of poverty. This classic four part BBC series is based on the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell and stars Patrick Stewart and Rosalie Shanks. Special Features: Patrick Stewart Filmography Picture Gallery Subtitles

• The Car | Blu Ray | (15/07/2013) from £9.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (113.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made when Jaws was still the most successful film of all time The Car has almost exactly the same premise but replaces the ocean with the Utah desert and the shark with a Lincoln Continental Mark III of possibly supernatural origin. When two teenage cyclists and a hitch-hiking musician are killed in apparently deliberate hit-and-runs the police department of Santa Ynez investigates whereupon the seemingly driverless vehicle turns on its hapless officers as well. And when the car strikes rather too close to the home of Captain Wade Parent (James Brolin) he vows to stop at nothing to defeat it. Director Elliot Silverstein (Cat Ballou A Man Called Horse) keeps everything as slick and streamlined as the car itself turning the desert landscape into a powerfully mythic backdrop for a potent clash between the forces of good and those of inexplicable but clearly implacable evil. Special Features: High Definition presentation (1080p) on Blu-ray for the first time in the world! Original uncompressed Stereo PCM audio Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with director Elliot Silverstein moderated by Calum Waddell Making a Mechanical Monster: Special Effects Artist William Alridge Remembers The Car Hitchhike the Hell: Actor John Rubinstein recalls becoming a victim of The Car Introduction and trailer commentary by director and The Car fan John Landis Original Trailer Easter Egg Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Joe Wilson Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Cullen Gallagher as well as a brand new interview with co-writer Michael Butler conducted by Calum Waddell illustrated with original archive stills and artwork

• One Direction: Going Our Way | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £5.03   |  Saving you £0.96 (19.09%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The follow up story to One Direction All For One. Find out even more about your favourite boy band One Direction! The film will take you on a journey from their first single 'What Makes You Beautiful' to honing their skills to become the first UK group ever to achieve a U.S. No. 1 debut album. One Direction: Going Our Way traces the story from small town life to fateful X Factor auditions to stratospheric pop sensation! Find out all of the gossip from music insiders journalists and interview footage and celebrity fans. From 'Up All Night' to 'Take Me Home' this documentary will show you how One Direction have become a pop phenomenon and taken the world (and many hearts) by storm!

• Rise of the Continents | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £9.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (110.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Far more than circuses featuring impressive acrobatics, Cirque du Soleil's live and filmed shows are powerful presentations that seamlessly combine daring acrobatic feats, intense artistry, and simple, yet emotionally rich stories. Worlds Away is a stunning compilation of acts from seven Las Vegas shows: O, Kà, Mystère, Criss Angel Believe, Zumanity, Viva Elvis, and The Beatles Love. The disparate acts are woven together by a poignantly romantic story of a young woman who falls into an ethereal world searching for a man she's only glimpsed, but is destined to love. The film showcases everything from synchronised water ballet to martial arts-inspired combat, aerial silk acrobatics, contortionism, and the frightening Wheel of Death. Each impeccably choreographed presentation is absolutely breathtaking in its beauty and its seeming defiance of the laws of the human body's capabilities. Viewers will leave the film feeling awed, uplifted, and completely inspired. --Tami Horiuchi

• Luke's Kingdom - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Starring Oliver Tobias, James Condon, Helen Morse and Elizabeth Crosby, and produced by Tony Essex (Follyfoot), Luke's Kingdom is an epic adventure series set in Australia during the early nineteenth century. Filmed entirely on location, it is a tale of pioneering and achievement against bitter odds, in which a family struggles to carve out an existence in a land more dangerous and more brutal than the West at its wildest. Amongst its directors are fan-favourite Peter Hammond (The Avengers) and the award-winning Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock).

• Parks & Recreation Season Three UK RELEASE | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £27.00 (337.92%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Dedicated government employee Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live) and her fellow colleagues return for big laughs from the small town of Pawnee, Indiana, in the hilarious third season of Parks and Recreation. Their funny antics continue as they ramp up for their most important project yet: The Harvest Festival. As Leslie Knope plans, prepares and publicises, her co-workers take on other challenges such as a crippling flu, the statewide softball tournament and the sad demise of a l...

• Archer - Season 3 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An animated comedy following a spy agency, known as the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), and the lives of its highly trained employees. Their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions and undercover surveillance prove just to be opportunities for the ISIS staff to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for their own personal gain. The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the highly-skilled but vain spy Sterling Archer; Aisha Tyler as the Agent Provocateur Lana Kane; Jessica Walter as Archer's domineering mother and CEO of ISIS Malory Archer; Chris Parnell as the easily intimidated comptroller of ISIS Cyril Figgis; and Judy Greer as Malory's gossipy secretary Cheryl. Series 3 opens with Archer in hiding since the murder of his fiance, he is tracked down by the handsome Rip Riley who has to brave the elements and all kinds of crises to get Archer back to ISIS.

• Spy - Series 1-2 | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tim Elliott (Darren Boyd) is a single father trying to win back the respect and affections of his precocious nine year old son Marcus. In the hope of proving that he is not a complete loser Tim quits his dead-end job only to find his life changes forever when he is accidentally recruited as a trainee spy for MI5. Tim struggles as he attempts to run his parallel family and professional lives without his secret being discovered. Supervising Tim at work is his irrepressible MI5 boss known only as 'The Examiner' (Robert Lindsay) and there's fellow agent and love interest Caitlin. Adding to the chaos of Tim's life are his acidic ex-wife Judith her enthusiastic new boyfriend Philip and his anti-social friend Chris. Special Features: Series 1 Cast and crew interviews Series 2 Behind the scenes

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

  Set in the mid-1970s and reflecting the complexities of that turbulent decade, Bill Brand stars Jack Shepherd (Wycliffe) as a newly elected left-of-centre Labour MP who struggles to reconcile socialist principles with the realpolitik of Westminster. This groundbreaking and unashamedly intelligent drama series is penned by Oscar-nominated dramatist Trevor Griffiths (Fatherland, Reds), and earned a BAFTA nomination for Jack Shepherd. A by-election in the solidly working-class constituency of Leighley sees Bill Brand, a former lecturer, elected to Parliament by a slim majority. Driven by a determination to improve the lives of his textile-worker constituents, he finds his ideas of representation are provocatively different from those of the whips; and in a world of oblique negotiations and hidden bargains - the uncomfortable realities of a minority government - Brand's fundamental belief in the Party is assailed by doubts, while his troubled personal life further endangers his tenuous political career.

• Boule And Bill | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £11.01   |  Saving you £7.97 (99.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bill is an abandoned young cocker spaniel all alone and waiting for a loving new owner to adopt him. Luckily a little boy named Boule appears one day with hair as red as Bill's fur! It's love at first sight and the beginning of a great friendship for Boule and Bill. However Boule's parents aren't quite as thrilled...which is where the trouble begins!

• 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...

• Falling Skies - Season 2 | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £18.01 (150.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion the few remaining survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival for these citizen soldiers against the occupying alien force whose nature and purpose remains a mystery. The mystery deepens for the remaining survivors of the massive alien invasion as Falling Skies returns for its second season with mysterious new creatures. Three months have passed since former college professor father of three and unlikely leader of the civilian resistance group Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) went willingly with the aliens on one of their ships to free his son and learn their plans. Nobody has seen or heard anything from him during this time and his absence has taken its toll on his sons. Ben and his older brother Hal have stepped up as fighters but quickly clash as they both seek to secure their roles as leaders in their father's absence. Many lives have been lost since Tom left but the survivors of the 2nd Mass still struggle on with courage and resilience. In the first season our heroes coped with the trauma of losing their world; this season they take action and fight back!

• Doogie Howser - The Complete Collection | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Neil Patrick Harris stars in the classic coming of age series that launched his career and made him a household name. Working as a fully licensed doctor is tough for Douglas 'Doogie' Howser. He graduated from Princeton and finished medical school by the time he was 14 and he's now trying to cope with the demands of his high pressure job whilst struggling with life as a normal teenager. With best friend Vinnie by his side to help him along the way what could possibly go wrong? The seamless blend of comedy and drama is brilliantly acted by the talented cast which includes Max Casella James Sikking Belinda Montgomery and Lawrence Pressman and was created by Steven Bochco (LA Law) and David. E. Kelley (Ally McBeal). Episodes Comprise: Season 1 Pilot The Ice Queen Cometh A Stitch Called Wanda Frisky Business The Short Goodbye Simply Irresistible Vinnie Video Vici Blood and Remembrance She Ain't Heavy She's My Cousin My Old Man and the Sea Tonight's The Night Every Dog Has His Doogie Doogie the Red-Nosed Reindeer Greed Is Good Attack of the Green-Eyed Monster It Ain't Over Till Mrs Howser Sings Tough Guys Don't Teach I Never Sold Shower Heads for My Father Doogie's Awesome Excellent Adventure Use a Slurpy Go To Jail Whose Mid-Life Crisis Is It Anyway? Vinnie's Blind Date And The Winner Is... Breaking Up Is Hard To Doogie The Grass Ain't Always Greener Frankly My Dear I Don't Give a Grand Season 2 Doogenstein Guess who's coming to Doogie's Ask Dr. Doogie C'est La Vinnie Car Wars Doogie Sings The Blues Academia Nuts Revenge of the Teenage Dead Nautilus for Naught Don't Let the Turkeys Get You Down Oh Very Young TV Or Not TV A Woman Too Far Presumed Guilty To Live and Die In Brentwood Air Doogie A Life in Progress My Two Dads Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition Fatal Distraction The Doctor the Wife Her Son and the Job Planet of the Dateless Doogie's Wager A Kiss Ain't Just A Kiss Dances With Wanda Season 3 The Summer Of '91 Doogie Has Left The Building (Part 1) Doogie Has Left The Building (Part 2) It's A Damn Shaman The Cheese Stands Alone Lonesome Doog When Doogie Comes Marching Home Doogstruck Room And Broad Doogiesomething Truth And Consequences It's A Wonderful Laugh Dangerous Reunions Mummy Dearest Double Doogie With Cheese The Show Mustn't Go On If This Is Adulthood I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia What You See Ain't Necessarily What You Get My Father My Self Educating Janine Sons Of The Desert That's What Friends Are For Thanks For The Memories Club Medicine Season 4 There's A Riot Going On Look Ma No Pants Doogie Got A Gun Doogie Doesn't Live Here Anymore The Patient In Spite Of Himself To Err Is Human To Give Up Isn't A Bad Idea Doogie Can You Hear Me? Nothing Compares 2 U Do The Right Thing... If You Can Figure Out What It Is The Big Sleep... Not! Will The Real Dr. Howser Please Stand Up The Mother Of All Fishing Trips Roommate With A View Spell It 'M-A-N' It's A Tough Job... But Why Does My Father Have To Do It? The Adventures Of Sherlock Howser Love Means Constantly Having To Say You're Sorry You've Come A Long Way Babysitter Love Makes The World Go 'Round' Or Is It Money? Dorky Housecall M.D. Eleven Angry People... And Vinnie What Makes Doogie Run

• Howzat! Kerry Packer's War | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two-part drama following Australian media executive Kerry Packer (Lachy Hulme) as he sets up World Series Cricket. After a dispute with the Australian Cricket Board regarding TV rights, Packer secretly recruits a number of high profile players to participate in a break away competition to be shown on his television network. His fight against the establishment will forever change the nature of the sport.

• Emil and the Detectives | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This classic 1931 German adaptation of Eric Kastner's much-loved children's book was by Kastner himself and written by the legendary Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard The Apartment) and an uncredited Emeric Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death Red Shoes). When young Emil is sent to Berlin by his mother the money he is carrying to give to his grandmother is stolen by a man on a train. Once in Berlin Emil follows the thief and enlists the help of a gang of youngsters called 'the detectives' to help get his grandmother's money back. Thrilling entertainment for children and adults alike Emil and the Detectives was one of the first German sound films ever produced and offers a fascinating glimpse of Berlin before Nazism and the Second World War. This enduring story has been remade a number of times including a 1964 Walt Disney version. This DVD includes the rare 1935 British adaptation set on the streets of London as an exclusive special feature. Special Features: Premiere release of this enduring children's classic Includes the complete 1935 British adaptation of Emil and the Detectives as a bonus feature Fully-illustrated booklet with film notes and credits

• 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 ...