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Presented by genre master Quentin Tarantino and written and directed by Eli Roth, "Hostel" is a dark, bloody exploration of torture and evil. The film centres on two young Americans backpacking through Europe who find themselves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business.

Graphic and deeply disturbing, 'Hostel' is one of the most brutal films ever made!

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Based on as Asian proverb that life can be broken down into four key emotions-happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love - The Air I Breathe follows the lives of 5 key characters: a bored banker, a ruthless crime boss, his henchman and a beautiful star, whose lives entangle when a doctor, fighting to

save the woman he loves, sets into motion the ultimate collision of fates.

Wallace and Gromit are back with 10 new Cracking Contraptions! Episodes Comprise: - The Soccamatic - The Tellyscope - The Auto Chef - The Snoozatron - The Turbo Diner - The Bully Proof Vest - The 525 CrackerVac - The Christmas Cardomatic - The Snowmanotron - Shopper 13

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Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, makes the journey into filmmaking as writer and director of this mind-bending fantasy, also starring Christian Slater. Pushing the boundaries between fiction and fantasy, "Slipstream" is the implosion of a man’s mind.

Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins)is an actor and screenwriter with a habit of getting lost in his own head. While working on a murder-mystery screenplay, Felix’s characters start appearing in his life: and his life starts slipping into his characters. Unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is thrown into a vortex where his dreams, time, and reality collide. As Felix enters an increasingly whirling slipstream, he soon discovers that life is random and fortune is sightless. Also starring Christian Slater and John Torturro.

In this fun-packed two-team game, players travel around an animated Virtual Game Board, propelled by the Spin-a-tron: a Wallace-built contraption that takes the place of traditional dice.

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It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society.

Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes devious Otto von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) and Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates) convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess (Britt Ekland). However, the hoax is discovered, and Flashman flees the continent, experiencing one calamity after another as well as some of history's most significant events in this hilarious romp that might just make you laugh instead of marvel at the next comic book 'hero' you encounter!

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This is the complete collection of all four cracking half-hour specials featuring Aardman's oscar-winning duo - charming and eccentric inventor Wallace and his faithful, four-legged friend Gromit!

A Grand Day Out (1989)
Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) likes a nice bit of cheese

with his crackers, so when this eccentric inventor finds his fridge empty and the local corner shop shut for the Bank Holiday, he is forced to look further a field for his Cheddar. The two modelling clay heroes blast off in their home-made rocket on the ultimate day trip - Wallace and Gromit (voice of Peter Hawkins) are off to the moon!
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
This time the modelling clay stars are plunged into a hilarious tale of skullduggery involving an extraordinary pair of automated trousers and a villainous penguin. Posing as an innocent lodger, the fiendish fish-eater sets about recruiting mild mannered Wallace as an unwitting accomplice to his dastardly plot - a diamond heist with a technically advanced, trouser-inspired difference. It is left to Gromit to turn detective and save the day as malice and mayhem culminate in a breathless train-top chase - around the sitting room!
A Close Shave (1995)
Trade is booming for Wallace and Gromit's Wash'n'Go window cleaning service and love is in the air as Wallace falls for the owner of the local wool shop, the lovely Wendolene. But Wallace has a new incentive - a Knit-O-Matic machine - and adventure looms. Sheep are being rustled, wool is in short supply and Wendolene's malevolent pooch is on the prowl... featuring Shaun the Sheep!
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery - Top Bun - and business is booming, not least because a deadly Cereal Killer has murdered all the other bakers in town. Can Gromit save his master from becoming the next baker to be butchered?

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After a child is accidentally killed in a gang shooting, a group of women led by Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) organise a protest against the ongoing violence in Chicago's Southside: They will withhold sex from their men until they agree to lay down their arms.

Lysistrata's lover, rapper/gang leader Demetrius (Nick Cannon), retaliates by intensifying his feud with rival gang lord Cyclops (Wesley Snipes). Lysistrata's movement challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world, and raises tensions in the already violent neighbourhood.

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Lieutenant Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is determined to bring down mob boss Mr Brown (Richard Conte), even if it means jeopardising his own career, but the feeling is mutual and the unscrupulous gangster is more than willing to operate outside the law to get his man.

The confrontation escalates, leading to some wince-inducing set-pieces involving such handy props as a radio and a hearing aid.

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1979. The frozen wastes of the Arctic. A 'small clerical error' finds private Rudy Spruance posted to an army hospital that doesn't 'officially' exist. In charge is the crazed colonel Woolwrap (Jeremy Northam), aided by his beautiful sergeant and secret lover (Natascha McElhone).

Rudy soon realises that he is the only sane man on the base. After various failed escape attempts he falls for the colonel's girlfriend and stumbles upon one of the US Military's best kept secrets ... A secret the Pentagon is determined will never be told. But Rudy has other ideas.

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This Sci-Fi / horror classic features legendary cult figure Lon Chaney Jr. as the criminal brought back to life after being sent to the gas chamber for a number of murders. He is quickly back to his old ways, seeking revenge against those men responsible for sentencing him to death.

Robert Shayne plays the scientist hoping to make a breakthrough with his experiments.

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Former elite agent Kitty Galore plans to unleash a diabolical device designed to not only bring her canine enemies to heel but also to take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post.

Cats and dogs must now join forces for the first time ever to prevent a global cat-astrophe.

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Determined to prove that he's a true artist, has-been movie superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) risks everything to finance a Broadway show.

Now, as he grapples with inner and outer critics, a deranged alter ego, his estranged daughter (Emma Stone) and a temperamental stage star (Edward Norton), Thomson aims to soar above mediocrity.

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In one of the year's best-reviewed films, pampered pet mouse Roddy St. James thinks he's got it made ... until he's literally flushed away to a bustling underground world of ninja frogs, hench-rats and singing slugs.

This outrageously inventive comedy-adventure is a flood of fun for both kids and grown-ups.

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Ellen Barkin, who plays the trailer-trash, beer-swilling mother of Amber (Kirsten Dunst), and the homicidally ambitious mother (Kirstie Alley) of spoilt rich bitch Becky (Denise Richards) will stop at nothing to ensure their daughters win the Mount Rose teen beauty pageant.

Underneath the fresh-faced all-American faade of Mount Rose's contest to find the best, brightest and most beautiful, lie two roads to greatness: high hopes and homicide. In this game there can only be one survivor and it's all out war.