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One man and his computer take on a ruthless multi-national conspiracy in the classic TV techno-thriller.

Henry Jay is a man without any noticeable flair - a stamp collector who expects to spend his working life in the Department of Commercial Development, earning occasional promotions and regularly catching the 6:15pm from Waterloo to his nice semi in the suburbs. But in compiling a long and boring report on "Computer Fraud in the Age of Electronic Accounting", Henry begins to uncover a vast and corrupt network of businessmen and politicians. There are, as Henry soon discovers, many reasons to ignore the matter - a rising body count, a link to British intelligence and a threat on his own life. But armed with just a computer and a civil servant's tenacity, Henry picks up the trail and pits himself against a nebulous, cold-blooded enemy.

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Maxwell Smart is Back.......and Loving It!. And so is Agent 99, The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get Smart gang. Here is the legendary, spy-spoof series inspired by the comic genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, Now it's easier than ever to out-smart the world's least secret...

secret agent, in this cunningly funny 5-DVDs collection, featuring all 30 episodes of Get Smart's hit first season, including the hilarious pilot ''Mr. Big'',and the award-winning classic double episode, "Ship of Spies." So if the object of your mission is timeless family comedy...grab your shoe phone and get ready...for Get Smart!

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Bruce Willis stars as veteran Detective James Knight. As the city prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound Knight's partner (Lochlyn Munro) in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A.

for New York, where the detective's dark past collides with his present case and threatens to tear his world apart...unless redemption can claim Knight first.

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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.

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Few things in life can be relied upon, butthe drama, humour and wildly disparate personalities of Doc Martin and Portwenn are always guaranteed to bring joy to viewers everywhere.

As we join the Doctor in this eighth series, we find his relationship with his wife Louisa back on a more even keel, although juggling their jobs with baby care is proving more challenging daily. Meanwhile Bert and Al Large face challenges of their own, with brewing whisky and running a B&B not quite turning out as they had hoped; MrsTishell suffers a terrible and unexpected setback in her life; and Penhale, already facing romantic challenges, faces a mini crime spree and decides to host a Police Open Day. Newcomers to the village include a new curate as well as Morwenna's parents, Jack and Tara who worked as missionaries in Kenya; and the village sees the return of Beth, the American tourist and veterinarian Angela Sim. And swimming through the maelstrom of it all is Doctor Ellingham, suffering humanity's foibles with little tolerance and suffering literally with a newly adopted dog, against his better judgment, underfoot.

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

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The epic and dramatic tale of power, politics and passion.

Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian empress Catherine the Great (Helen Mirren) develops an extraordinary and fiery relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day Russia.

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Long before the 'gross-out' comedies 'Something About Mary", "Dumb And Dumber", "American Pie", etc Bruce Beresford's film of Barry Humphries and Nicholas Garland's Private Eye comic strip The Adventures Of Barry Mckenzie (the world's first gross-out comedy) shocked it's financier's the Australia

Government with it's portrayal of Australian's as drinking, shagging, vomiting, urinating vulgarians. The British press were equally horrified with the English portrayed as upper class perverts, poofters, lezza's swindlers and idiots. Barry McKenzie a loud-mouthed sex crazed innocent travels to London to get a cultural education. His Aunt Edna Everidge accompanies him to keep out of harms way. Barry's adventures take him from the Australian colony of Earl's Court to Rickmansworth and the strange perversions of England's upper classes, along the hippie trail meeting the thieves of the British music industry before landing him back in London this time among the sexual deviants of Notting Hill.

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"The Great" returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite).

Catherine (Elle Fanning) finally takes the Russian throne for her own - but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia.

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During a manned mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead and left behind by his crew.

But Watney is still alive, and he must now find a way to contact Earth - and survive on a barren planet with meagre supplies - in the hope that an international team of scientists can devise a near-impossible rescue plan to bring him home!

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A new Lantern will rise! Meet Earth's latest Green Lantern (voice of Aldis Hodge) in this thrilling new DC Universe Movie. When a Power Ring (voice of Sunil Malhotra) is bestowed upon former Marine John Stewart (also voice of Aldis Hodge), it leads him on a life-changing mission.

With Justice League member Green Arrow (voice of Jimmi Simpson) and Thanagarian Hawkgirl (voice of Jamie Gray Hyder) by his side, Stewart is thrown into a complicated galactic war with shocking origins and catastrophic consequences. It's a trial by fire for the inexperienced Lantern as he battles deadly enemies like Sinestro (voice of Rick D. Wasserman) - but a much darker secret will be the true test of this Green Lantern's strength!

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Two worlds collide as the epic saga that began with 'Jurassic Park' comes full circle in 'Jurassic World Dominion'. Four years after Isla Nublar's destruction, dinosaurs roam the Earth again.

Facing the cataclysmic consequences of a planet once again dominated by prehistoric predators, two generations of Jurassic heroes unite as doctors Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and Alan Grant (Sam Neill) return to join Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) for an incredible adventure that will determine the destiny of humans and dinosaurs once and for all.

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"The Great" is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning).

From creator and Academy Award Nominated writer Tony McNamara, comes a fictionalised, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl who honours an arranged marriage to the mercurial Russian Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). Instead of love and sunshine, she finds a dangerous, depraved and backward world. Catherine becomes driven to change Russia and fulfill her destiny as the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia's history. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court on her side.

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Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems.

First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

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'World famous in Poland', actor Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks) is on stage in Hamlet....while backstage his wife is getting to grips with more than Shakespeare, courtesy of a dashing young aviator.

But theatrical joys are short-lived, when Bronski and his band of bold thespians find themselves enlisted in a plot to outwit the nasty Nazis who are currently starting their European tour with an impromptu invasion of Poland!