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• Homeland - Season 1-2 | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £5.62   |  Saving you £44.37 (789.50%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Season 1From Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon executive producers of 24 comes Homeland. Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) a CIA Agent battling her own demons becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the rescue of Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) a US soldier who had been missing and presumed dead for eight years was a set-up and may be connected to an al-Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. Already on thin ice with the CIA and now assigned to a desk job after an incident in Iraq Carrie is forced to break protocol in order to prove her theory that Brody was turned during his many years in captivity and is now working for al-Qaeda. Season 2In the wake of Israeli air strikes against Iran the Middle East threatens to erupt in fresh violence. A woman swims through the chaos towards the American embassy trying to make contact. The abused wife of a Hezbollah commander she carries information about an attack--retaliation against Israel's ally the United States. But this would-be informant insists she will only speak to her one-time CIA handler: Carrie Mathison.

• Big School | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hilarious new comedy from David Walliams about a dysfunctional staff room unrequited love and chess club! Deputy Head of Science Mr Church (David Walliams) has been at Greybridge School for 15 years. Disillusioned with teaching he is about to resign after a particularly dramatic experiment with liquid nitrogen and 1000 ping pong balls is met with apathy by his pupils. However the arrival of the new French teacher changes everything! Taking up her post following the tragic death of her predecessor Miss Postern (Catherine Tate) is determined to make a difference in the classroom with new teaching methods - anyone for Vocab Tennis? PE teacher and would-be lothario Mr Gunn (Philip Glenister) is also interested in the new French teacher and is determined to plough Miss Postern - probably on Friday night when his mum is at seniors' Zumba.

• Vertigo | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dreamlike and nightmarishly surreal, Vertigo is Hitchcock's most personal film because it confronts many of the convoluted psychological issues that haunted and fascinated the director. The psychological complexity and the stark truthfulness of their rampant emotions keeps these strangely obsessive characters alive on screen, and Hitchcock understood better than most their barely repressed sexual compulsions, their fascination with death and their almost overwhelming desire for transcendent love. James Stewart finds profound and disturbing new depths in his psyche as Scotty, the tortured acrophobic detective on the trail of a suicidal woman apparently possessed by the ghost of someone long dead. Kim Novak is the classical Hitchcockian blonde whose icy exterior conceals a churning, volcanic emotional core. The agonised romance of Bernard Herrmann's score accompanies the two actors as a third and vitally important character, moving the film along to its culmination in an ecstasy of Wagnerian tragedy. Of course Hitch lavished especial care on every aspect of the production, from designer Edith Head's costumes (he, like Scotty, was most insistent on the grey dress), to the specific colour scheme of each location, to the famous reverse zoom "Vertigo" effect (much imitated, never bettered). The result is Hitch's greatest work and an undisputed landmark of cinema history. On the DVD: This disc presents the superb restored print of this film in a wonderful widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic transfer, with remastered Dolby digital soundtrack. There's a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the painstaking two-year restoration process, plus an informative commentary from the restorers Robert Harris and James Katz, who are joined by original producer Herbert Coleman. There are also text features on the production, cast and crew, plus a trailer for the theatrical release of the restoration. This is an undeniably essential requirement for every DVD collection. --Mark Walker

• Sleepwalker (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When wealthy couple Richard and Angela visit Marion and Alex in their decaying family home their differing social and moral attitudes create uneasy tensions. An inharmonious evening of drunkenness and sexual rivalry soon turns bloody as the guests fall victim to an unhinged attacker. Featuring a rare performance from Bill Douglas (Bill Douglas Trilogy Comrades) and starring British screen greats Joanna David and Heather Page (both of whom would go on to work with Douglas in Comrades) Sleepwalker is an outrageous and incendiary mix of biting satire and bloody horror that is at once reminiscent of otherwise unlikely bedfellows Lindsay Anderson and Dario Argento. The stellar cast also includes Nikolas Grace and features cameos by Fulton MacKay Michael Medwin (O Lucky Man) and Raymond Huntely. Remastered from the only surviving print this long-unseen mid-length film is presented here for the first time on any home video format along with two shorts by its director Saxon Logan and the rare 1971 mid-length fantasy The Insomniac directed by Rodney Giesler. Special Features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition The Insomniac (Rodney Giesler 1971 45 mins): a man experiences a night-time world that is part foreboding nightmare part sexual fantasy Stepping Out (Saxon Logan 1977 10 mins): a couple’s untraditional early morning ritual is observed in a short drama which originally supported Polanski’s The Tenant in UK cinemas Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the ‘Ways’ of a Bourgeois Writer (Saxon Logan 1979 15 mins): Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (playing by Joanna David and Heather Page) Extensive booklet with essays and complete credits

• Populaire | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £8.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (111.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Determined to make something of herself Rose travels to Normandy to try out for a job as a secretary for Louis Echard a confirmed bachelor and one-time unsuccessful sportsman. Lacking the necessary style and grace to perform the role Rose's interview is a disaster but at the last minute she reveals a special gift - she is a speed demon on the typewriter. Seeing an opportunity to re-live his glory days as a competitor Louis employs Rose and begins an intensive training regime to get her ready to compete in the country's cut-throat typing contests. With eye-popping visuals and dazzling costumes Populaire is a chic and sumptuous romance sparkling with vintage Hollywood charm.

• New Scotland Yard - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This highly regarded crime series stars John Woodvine as Detective Chief Superintendent Kingdom of the Central Office of the CID, and John Carlisle as his colleague DI Ward. An intelligent, authentic portrayal of the complexities of police work in the increasingly violent London of the 1970s, New Scotland Yard benefited from the involvement of ex-Chief Superintendent Frank Williams, former head of the Yard's Murder Squad, who acted as series adviser. This third series sees the workaholic King...

• Homeland - Season 1-2 | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £4.56   |  Saving you £56.69 (1,717.88%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Season 1From Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon executive producers of 24 comes Homeland. Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) a CIA Agent battling her own demons becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the rescue of Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) a US soldier who had been missing and presumed dead for eight years was a set-up and may be connected to an al-Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. Already on thin ice with the CIA and now assigned to a desk job after an incident in Iraq Carrie is forced to break protocol in order to prove her theory that Brody was turned during his many years in captivity and is now working for al-Qaeda. Season 2In the wake of Israeli air strikes against Iran the Middle East threatens to erupt in fresh violence. A woman swims through the chaos towards the American embassy trying to make contact. The abused wife of a Hezbollah commander she carries information about an attack--retaliation against Israel's ally the United States. But this would-be informant insists she will only speak to her one-time CIA handler: Carrie Mathison.

• No One Lives | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ry�hei Kitamura, director of The Midnight Meat Train, delivers this twisting tale of terror concerning a missing heiress, a gang of vicious bandits, and a vacationing couple who aren't what they seem. In the wake of a bloodbath that left 14 students dead, wealthy heiress Emma (Adelaide Clemens) has vanished without a trace. A few months later, a young couple (Luke Evans and Laura Ramsey) cross paths with the ruthless Hoag (Lee Tergesen) and his band of thieves, who run them off of the ...

• Hard Rush | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £6.14   |  Saving you £8.85 (59.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the frenetic underbelly of LA, a DEA agent closes in on an international cocaine smuggling operation run by a criminal mastermind. When the agents love interest goes undercover with the drug dealers and finds herself deeper then she can handle - the case becomes personal and finds himself combating ruthless killers and dirty cops in an all-out action filled finale to bring the criminals to justice.

• Dead Man Down | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £14.05   |  Saving you £3.94 (28.04%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Victor (Colin Farrell), a rising gangland player, has infiltrated the crime empire run by ruthless kingpin Alphonse (Terrence Howard) with the single purpose of making him pay for destroying his once happy life.

• From Up On Poppy Hill | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the legendary and highly celebrated Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away Ponyo Arrietty) comes From Up on Poppy Hill the uniquely inspired and highly anticipated coming-of-age story from Goro Miyazaki and Hayao Miyazaki. Set in Yokohama in 1963 this lovingly hand-drawn film centres on Umi (voiced by Sarah Bolger) and Shun (voiced by Anton Yelchin) and the budding romance that develops as they join forces to save their high school's ramshackle clubhouse from demolition.

• Zeta One | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A swinging secret agent (Robin Hawdon) regales his pretty young secretary (Danish pin-up Yutte Stensgaard) with tales of far-out adventures in this super psychedelic spaced-out sex comedy! A race of all-girl aliens begin kidnapping beautiful English popsies and taking them back to their home planet. However the evil Major Bourdon (James Robertson Justice Doctor in the House) is determined to foil the plans of these topless inter-galactic Amazonians. Based on a short-lived 1960s' magazine this camp über-kitsch obscurity co-stars the delectable Valerie Leon (The Spy Who Loved Me) and 'Carry On' legend Charles Hawtrey in a role he probably chose to forget!

• The Mermaids | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two incredibly fresh vibrant and multi award-winning films from acclaimed filmmaker Petra Clever The Mermaids is lesbian filmmaking at its finest. The title film follows the adorably dorky Nikki through every good lesbian girl's essential rite of passage - all-female contact sports. Oh and that inevitable crush on the beautiful coach. Lady Pochior on the other hand is an undeniably sexy trip following the life of Yv - bike courier by day city 'spray painter' by night - as she attracts the gaze of two stunning female suitors.

• Hitchcock Vol. 2 | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Volume 2 of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films including The Birds Vertigo Frenzy Topaz Marnie Torn Curtain and Family Plot. Vertigo (1958)A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the activities of an old friend's wife whilst becoming dangerously obsessed with her. Special Features: Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators Hitchcock / Truffaut Interview Excerpts Foreign Censorship Ending The Vertigo Archives Feature Commentary with Associate Producer Herbert Coleman Restoration Team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz and Other Vertigo Participants Feature Commentary with Director William Friedkin 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era Theatrical Trailer Restoration Theatrical Trailer The Birds (1963)A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a Northern California town that takes a bizarre turn when birds of all kinds begin to attack people in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. Special Features: Deleted Scene Original Ending The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie - New! (Blu-ray Exclusive) All About The Birds Storyboards Tippi Hedren's Screen Test Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts The Birds Is Coming (Universal International Newsreel) Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel) Production Photographs 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics 100 Years of Universal: The Lot Theatrical Trailer Marnie (1964)Mark marries Marnie although she is a thief and possesses serious psychological problems. Mark tries to help her confront and resolve the issues. Special Features: The Trouble with Marnie The Marnie Archives Theatrical Trailer Torn Curtain (1966)An American scientist defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin and has to figure out a plan to escape back West. Special Features: Torn Curtain Rising Scenes Scored by Bernard Herrmann Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Topaz (1969)A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in Cold War politics first uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then back to France to break up a Russian spy ring. Special Features: Alternate Endings Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Historian and Critic Leonard Maltin Storyboards: The Mendozas Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Frenzy (1972)A serial killer is murdering women in London with a necktie the police have a suspect but he isn't the correct man... Special Features: The Story of Frenzy Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Family Plot (1976) Plotting Family Plot Storyboards: The Chase Scene Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Family Plot (1976)Suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while following a missing heir in California.

• Stoker | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.99

  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

• Rope | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Stewart stars with Farley Granger and John Dall in a highly-charged thriller inspired by the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder case. Granger and Dall give riveting performances as two friends who strangle a classmate for intellectual thrills then proceed to throw a party for the victim's family and friends - with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table. As the killers turn the conversation to committing the 'perfect murder' their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious. Before the night is over the professor will discover how brutally his students have turned his academic theories into chilling reality in Hitchcock's spellbinding excursion into the macabre. Special Features: Rope Unleashed Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer

• Stories We Tell | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this inspired genre-twisting new film writer/director Sarah Polley delves into the murky waters of family histories. As each interviewee relates their story varying levels of reliability are exposed and the truth is shown as being dependant on how it is told.

• Kirstie Allsopp: Kirsties Handmade Britain The Complete Series One (4DVD CHOCBOX) | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £12.44   |  Saving you £2.55 (17.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this Channel 4 series Queen of the Handmade Kirstie Allsopp turns her love of crafts into a sport, travelling across the country entering the toughest craft competitions at Britain's brilliant country shows. From hand sewing to paper crafts, flower arranging to baking, Kirstie struggles with the pressures of competition rules and tests her mettle in the cutthroat world of competitive amateur and professional crafters. She's got a lot to learn if she wants to stand a chance of making thing...

• No One Lives | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.

• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £4.45   |  Saving you £20.54 (461.57%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The 3D-CGI feature Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 3D is an adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope.