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• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. | Blu Ray | (28/10/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the legendary epics of the silent cinema - and the first part of a trilogy that Fritz Lang developed up to the very end of his career - Dr. Mabuse der Spieler. [Dr. Mabuse the Gambler.] is a masterpiece of conspiracy that even as it precedes the mind-blowing Spione from the close of Lang's silent cycle constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia. Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays Dr. Mabuse the criminal mastermind whose nefarious machinations provide the cover for - or describe the result of - the economic upheaval and social bacchanalia at the heart of Weimar-era Berlin. Initiated with the arch-villain's diabolical manipulation of the stock-market and passing through a series of dramatic events based around hypnotism charlatanism hallucinations Chinese incantations cold-blooded murder opiate narcosis and cocaine anxiety Lang's film maintains an unrelenting power all the way to the final act... which culminates in the terrifying question: WHERE IS MABUSE?! A bridge between Feuillade's somnambulistic serial-films and modern media-narratives of elusive robber-barons Lang's two-part classic set the template for the director's greatest works: social commentary as superpsychology poised at the brink of combustion. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Lang's early masterpiece in its fully-restored version on Blu-ray in 1080p for the first time ever. Special Features: New officially licensed transfer from restored HD materials New and improved optional English subtitles with original intertitles Exclusive feature-length audio commentary by film-scholar and Lang expert David Kalat Three video pieces: an interview with the composer of the restoration score a discussion of Norbert Jacques creator of Dr. Mabuse and an examination of the film’s motifs in the context of German silent cinema 32-Page Booklet featuring vintage reprints of writing by Lang

• The Wicker Man - 40th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £11.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four decades after its release in cinemas in 1973 the unique British cult classic The Wicker Man still holds an enduring fascination for audiences all over the world. In this 40th anniversary double play edition the film is presented as The Final Cut a version which has never before been restored and never before been seen in UK cinemas. Approved by director Robin Hardy The Final Cut is the finest and most complete version of The Wicker Man. Featuring brand new extras this 40th anniversary edition is every Wicker Man fan’s perfect ending to a much mythicised search for the most complete version of the film. Having left no stone unturned in the search for the original film materials the ghosts have now been laid to rest as we can finally and happily confirm that this is The Final Cut. Special Features: Disc 1: The Final Cut Interview with Robin Hardy The Music of The Wicker Man Worshipping The Wicker Man - Famous Fans The Restoration of The Wicker Man Disc 2: UK Theatrical Cut The Director's Cut (with Audio Commentary) Making of Audio Commentary (Short Film) Disc 3: Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man Documentary Written by Mark Kermode EX-S: The Wicker Man Disc 4: Trailer

• Devotional | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £16.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Final Programme | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jon Finch heads an impressive cast as the flamboyant anti-hero of this dystopian, darkly humorous sci-fi thriller from cult director Robert Fuest - best-known for the stylishly cult Dr Phibes horror films starring Vincent Price. Based on Michael Moorcock's acclaimed 1968 novel, The Final Programme is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. In a far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay. But a group of sc...

• World War Z (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/10/2013) from £10.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (172.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Few monsters lend themselves better to allegory than the zombie. In the years since George Romero first set the shambling mold with Night of the Living Dead, filmmakers have been using the undead as handy substitutes for concepts as varied as mall-walking consumers, punk rockers, soccer hooligans, and every political movement imaginable. (All this, plus brain chomping.) World War Z, the mega-scale adaptation of Max Brooks's richly detailed faux-historical novel, presents a zombie apocalypse on a ginormous level never seen before on film. Somehow, however, the sheer size of the scenario, coupled with a distinct lack of visceral explicitness, ends up blunting much of the metaphoric impact. While the globe-hopping action certainly doesn't want for spectacle, viewers may find themselves wishing there was something more to, you know, chew on. Director Marc Forster and his team of screenwriters (including J. Michael Straczynski and Lost's Damon Lindelof) have kept the basic gist of the source material, in which an unexplained outbreak results in a rapidly growing army of the undead. Unlike the novel's sprawling collection of unrelated narrators, however, the film streamlines the plot, following a retired United Nations investigator (Brad Pitt) who must leave his family behind in order to seek out the origins of the outbreak. While the introduction of a central character does help connect some of Brooks's cooler ideas, it also has the curious effect of narrowing the global scale of the crisis. By the time of the third act, in which Pitt finds himself under siege in a confined space, the once epic scope has decelerated into something virtually indistinguishable from any other zombie movie. Even if it's not a genre changer, though, World War Z still has plenty to distinguish itself, including a number of well-orchestrated set pieces--this is a movie that will never be shown on airplanes--and the performances, with Pitt's gradually eroding calm strengthened by a crew of supporting actors (including Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, and a fantastically loony David Morse) who manage to make a large impression in limited time. Most importantly, it's got those tremendous early scenes of zombie apocalypse, which display a level of frenetic chaos that's somehow both over-the-top and eerily plausible. When the fleet-footed ghouls start dogpiling en masse, even the most level-headed viewer may find themselves checking the locks and heading for the basement. --Andrew Wright

• Iron Man 2 | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £2.97   |  Saving you £2.89 (97.31%)   |  RRP £5.86

  Robert Downey Jr. returns as billionaire Tony Stark in this thrilling sequel to the worldwide blockbuster. Now that his Super Hero secret has been revealed Tony's life is more intense than ever. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology whether for power or profit... but for Ivan Vanko (Whiplash) it's revenge! Tony must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet but not without a few new allies of his own. Co-starring Mickey Rourke Gwyneth Paltrow Don Cheadle and Scarlett Johansson Iron Man 2 is Even better than the first It's a complete blast! Special Features: Commentary by Director Jon Favreau

• Dallas - Season 1-2 | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £34.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (14.58%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Power wealth sex glorious extravagance. One place has them all - Dallas. This 5-disc set includes all 29 of the hugely entertaining show's First- and Second-Season Episodes including a cast reunion special. Patrick Duffy Victoria Principal and more play Texas sons and daughters whose lives revolve around oil family and power. And Larry Hagman portrayspetroleum magnate J.R. Ewing whose pursuit of in no particular order money and clout knows no limits.

• Saving Hope: Season 1 | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  When charismatic Chief of Surgery Charlie Harris of Toronto's Hope-Zion Hospital ends up in a coma he leaves the hospital in chaos – and his fiancée and fellow surgeon Alex Reid in a state of shock. Along with newly-arrived star surgeon Joel Goran Alex and her fellow doctors press on to save Charlie's life and those of their other patients as they deal with the complicated and courageous decisions that are made in their daily struggle to keep hope alive.

• New Tricks: Complete BBC Series 10 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  New Tricks returns for its tenth series and it’s all change at UCOS. The Met’s finest retired cops go further than ever before to ensure there is no such thing as a case too cold! The team travel to Gibraltar for a two-part story that takes them back to the Falkland’s Conflict of the eighties. Brian Lane’s past catches up with him and Sandra Pullman considers her next move after running the team for ten years. As well as starring Amanda Redman and Alun Armstrong series ten sees Nicholas Lyndhurst join the team as Dan Griffin to work alongside Dennis Waterman and Denis Lawson. Tamzin Outhwaite joins as DCI Sasha Miller – only the second boss the team has ever known. Will things run smoothly with a new hand on the helm or will the boys ensure that things get done their way? The Unsolved Crime and Open Case squad is as busy as ever with its remit to re-investigate crimes that were never conclusively closed – and to put them to rest. The team may have changed but some things never do – a real hunger for the job and for justice as well as a lack of respect for authority. Solving cases has never been such fun.

• Parks And Recreation: Seasons 1-3 | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £25.89   |  Saving you £34.10 (131.71%)   |  RRP £59.99

  From the people who brought you the US version of The Office comes Parks and Recreation,the hit BBC FOUR comedy series. Emmy Award nominated comedy superstar Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live, Baby Mama) stars as Leslie Knope, Pawnee, Indiana s most enthusiastic public servant, whose dreams are way bigger than her political talents. She ambitiously tries to solve all of her town's problems turning a neighbourhood hole in the ground into a new public park, hosting a local telethon, ridding the golf course of possums and getting unhealthy energy bars out of park vending machines. By her side - but not necessarily doing anything - are her friends and colleagues:lady-killer Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari);disinterested intern April(Aubrey Plaza);best gal pal Ann (Rashida Jones);shoe-shine extraordinaire Andy (Chris Pratt); charismatic city-planner Mark Brendanawicz(Paul Schneider);and their anti-government boss Ron Swanson(Nick Offerman) and joined by guest stars Rob Lowe (The West Wing),Will Arnett (Saturday Night Live,30 Rock)and Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live). Created by Primetime Emmy® Award winners Greg Daniels(The Office, King of the Hill, The Simpsons)and Michael Schur(The Office, Saturday Night Live), and featuring a stellar ensemble cast, Parks and Recreation is a genuinely funny comedy (Daniel Carlson, Hollywood Reporter ) about bureaucracy, hope and America at the dawn of the Obama age. Enjoy all 46 epiosdes from Seasons 1-3 of this hilarious series, packed with bonus features including: .Episode Commentaries.Deleted Scenes.Extended Cut Episodes.Promos Blooper Reel.Gag Reel,and much, much more.

• American Horror Story - Season 1-2 | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £43.00 (615.16%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A frightening seasonal anthology series brought to you by Ryan Murphy the creator of Nip-Tuck. Each season of American Horror Story is conceived as a self-contained miniseries following a disparate set of characters settings and time periods in a twisted and uniquely terrifying journey through the core horror genre. Season 1American Horror Story Murder House revolves around the Harmons psychiatrist Ben (Dylan McDermott) his wife Vivien (Connie Britton) and their teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben has an affair. The Harmons move into a restored mansion and soon encounter the home's former residents the Langdons: Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange) and her two children Tate (Evan Peters) and Addie (Jamie Brewer) and the disfigured Larry Harvey (Denis O'Hare). Ben and Vivien try to rekindle their relationship as Violet suffering from depression finds comfort with Tate. The Langdons and Larry frequently influence the Harmons' lives as the family soon discovers that the home is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants. Season 2In the second instalment of the award winning psychosexual horror series Set in 1964 American Horror Story - Asylum sees the return of many season 1 cast members and takes viewers into a Church-run haven for the criminally insane ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) a nun with a troubled past. This grisly tale begins in present day when Leo and Teresa the unsuspecting newlyweds choose to spend their honeymoon within the safe haven of a now abandoned asylum. Or is it...once inside the pair are thrust into a gruesome fight for their lives as the story flashes back to 1964. Originally a tuberculosis ward Briarcliff Manor western Massachusetts was brought by the Catholic Church and transformed into a chilling insane asylum. Monsignor Timothy O’Hara (Joseph Fiennes) and the formidable Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) are in charge with the help of Sister Eunice (Lily Rabe). Inside this locked down facility danger lurks around every corner. From Nazis and serial killers to mutants no one is safe inside these walls.

• The Bling Ring | Blu Ray | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In the fame-obsessed world of Los Angeles, a group of teenagers take us on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree. Based on true events, the group tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes.

• Young Montalbano | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Inspector Montalbano is back - as you've never seen him before. These are the tales of the young Inspector Montalbano with all the integrity but less of the experience of his older possibly wiser self. Exhausted by the never-ending hillsides of his rural Sicilian beat the Deputy Inspector - in the midst of investigating a murder - finds himself promoted to Inspector and dispatched to his childhood home of Vigata. There he will be called upon to take control of the local police station and gradually build his team with both Fazio Senior and Fazio Junior Domenico 'Mimi' Augello and the young and exceedingly eager Officer Catarella. Along the way he'll discover the simple dining pleasures of Calogero's and the unexpected passions that will guide him into the waiting - always waiting - arms of Livia. Drawing on the bestselling novels and short stories of acclaimed Italian author Andrea Camilleri in a Sicilian world of loan sharks mafia families drug-dealing perilous love affairs and murder Michele Riondini is Young Montalbano. Episodes Comprise: The First Case (La Prima Indagine) New Year's Day (Capodanno) Back to Basics (Ritorno Alle Origini) Mortally Wounded (Ferito a Morte) The Third Secret (Il Terzo Segreto) Seven Mondays (Sette Lunedi) Special Features: Andrea Camilleri Biography Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Spiders | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The City is crawling! In New York City's subway tunnel a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered. Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the entire city.

• A Christmas Carol | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Night We Got the Bird | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A host of British comedy luminaries - including veteran farceur Sir Brian Rix and, in his last film role, actor and stand-up comedian Ronald Shiner - star in this good-natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton-based petty crooks dogged by disaster at every turn. The Night We Got the Bird is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. It's a set-up of craft and graft. 'Chippendale Charl...

• New York, New York | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £39.29   |  Saving you £-26.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar-Winning director Martin Scorsese teams with Academy Award Winners Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro in this musical masterpiece celebrating the glorious days of the big band era in the Big Apple! Jimmy is a joint-jumpin' saxophonist on his way to stardom. Francine is a wannabe starlet who dreams of singing in the spotlight. When they meet sparks fly - and when he plays and she sings they set New York on fire! It's the beginning of a stormy relationship as the two struggle to balance their passions for music and each other under the pressures of big-time show biz. 2006 The Departed Liza Minnelli: Actress Cabaret (1972). Robert De Niro: Actor Raging Bull (1980); Supporting Actor The Godfather Part II (1974).

• Modern Family - Season 4 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £3.78   |  Saving you £25.47 (1,010.71%)   |  RRP £27.99

  All 22 episodes from the fourth season of 2012 Emmy Award winning American mockumentary-style sitcom, following three branches of a sprawling, cheerfully dysfunctional, multi-cultural family in Los Angeles. Patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) has recently remarried, bringing hot, young, Colombian-born wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara) and her teenage son, Manny (Rico Rodriguez), into the fold. His daughter, Claire (Julie Bowen), and her husband, Phil (Ty Burrell), have three kids, while his son, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and his gay partner, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), and a Vietnamese baby, Lilly. In season 4, we pick up right where we left off, with Gloria's announcement to the audience that the is pregnant. As you can imagine, this causes big reactions to the news throughout the family, and so the hilarious comedy we have come to love ensues.

• Whitechapel - Series 4 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) DS Miles (Phil Davis) and unpaid historical advisor Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton) have yet to make a conviction in Whitechapel 'the birthplace of the serial killer'. This season sees the pressure become greater - and this time highly personal. The team are confronted by dark twisted gothic murders that reach right into their fears and superstitions... someone is killing suspected witches; flayed bodies suggest the murderer is more interested in the victims' skin than in their death; and the sewers of Whitechapel threaten with an additional layer of horror. In Whitechapel history isn't dead it's deadly...

• 25 Live | Blu Ray | (21/10/2013) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-3.24 (-19.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

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