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Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into! Enter Laurel and Hardy's unique world of emblematic bowler hats and highly visual slapstick with this special compilation box-set of the very best Laurel and Hardy feature-length films.

With Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy, the misadventures of the most recognizable comedy double act, whose charm and on screen chemistry set a new standard, are perfectly captured here in high definition for the first time. Includes 'Block-Heads', 'Our Relations', 'Pardon Us', 'Sons of the Desert', and 'Way Out West'.

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From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan comes a thriller about a tight-knit family who are taken hostage by four armed strangers while vacationing at a remote cabin.

The visitors, led by Dave Bautista, demand that the young girl and her parents make an unthinkable choice: to save their family or save humanity.

In season four of 'The Handmaid's Tale', June (Elisabeth Moss) strikes back against Gilead as a fierce rebel leader, but the risks she takes bring dangerous new challenges. Her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her and destroy her most cherished relationships.

Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) dazzles with both ferocious wordplay and brilliant swordplay, but is convinced that his appearance makes him unworthy of the love of his devoted friend, Roxanne (Haley Bennett), who has fallen in love at first sight with Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).

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From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece 'The Witch', comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890's.

As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored.

In Winch We Serve tells the story of the Royal Navy Destroyer HMS Torrin and those that serve in her. In the Battle of Crete she is dive-bombed and goes down fighting, The survivors tell their own stories, at war and on the home front, as they wait for rescue from their lifeboat.

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London, 1953. Mr. Williams, played by Bill Nighy, is a veteran civil servant, a cog in the city's stifling bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild following WWII. After a shattering health diagnosis, it dawns on him he has not been living his life to the full.

Amidst the fog of his paperwork, and his loneliness at home, he yearns to find fulfilment before it's too late. He is encouraged in his search by two younger colleagues - the vibrant Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood) and idealistic new recruit Peter (Alex Sharp) - and a hedonistic stranger, Sutherland (Tom Burke), encountered during a desperate trip to the seaside.

The courageous story of the Battle of the Atlantic: a story of an ocean, a ship and a handful of men. The brave crew are the heroes. The heroine is the ship. The only villain is the sea that man, and war, have made even more brutal...

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Julia (Maika Monroe) joins her husband when he relocates to his family's native Romania for a new job. Having recently abandoned her acting career, she finds herself frequently alone and unoccupied.

One night, peoplewatching from her picture window, she spots a vague figure in an adjacent building, who seems to be looking back at her. Soon after, while alone at a local movie theatre, Julia's sense of being watched intensifies, and she becomes certain she's being followed - could it be the same unknown neighbour? Meanwhile, a serial killer known as The Spider stalks the city.

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Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind in flesh-devouring zombies despite being scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears.

As they join forces with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.

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Set in the picture-postcard small town environs of Lumberton, Kyle MacLachlan plays the clean cut Jeffrey Beaumont, who, whilst returning from a visit to his hospitalised father, makes the shocking discovery of a severed human ear.

After reporting his discovery to a local police detective, Jeffrey decides to pursue his own line of enquiry, aided by the detective's daughter, Sandy (Laura Dern). This sets Jeffrey on a voyage of discovery that takes him to the very heart of Lumberton's seedy and sinister underworld where he encounters a collection of misfits whose various chronic compulsions to engulf him in their twisted and nightmarish world.

From director and writer Sam Mendes (1917 and Skyfall), and set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, 'Empire of Light' is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times.

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Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe. Reinhard Heydrich (Jason Clarke), aided by his wife Lina (Rosamund Pike), has risen to the top of the Nazi Party as head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the "Final Solution".

His brutal and oppressive rule of occupied Czechoslovakia leads to Hitler dubbing him "The Man with the Iron Heart". However, a small group of Czechoslovak Resistance fighters led by Jan Kubis (Jack O'Connell) and Jozef Gabcik (Jack Reynor) seek to stop the unstoppable and plan to assassinate Heydrich, making him the highest-ranking Nazi officer ever to be killed World War II. Based on Laurent Binet's bestselling book 'HHhH', 'The Man with the Iron Heart' its all-star cast tell the incredible story of how the brave men and women the Resistance sacrificed everything in name of freedom.

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Based on the hit show, the story centres around Matilda (Alisha Weir), an extraordinary girl with a sharp mind and vivid imagination who takes a stand against her terrible parents and villainous head teacher! At Crunchem Hall school, Matilda meets the inspirational teacher, Miss Honey (Lashana

Lynch), but also goes up against her fearsome headmistress Miss Trunchbull (Emma Thompson). Filled with an overwhelming sense of justice, courageous Matilda fights for what's right and teaches Trunchbull a valuable lesson!

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Beauty. Brains. Charm. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) has them all. In fact, she's got everything going for her except the right haircut, the right clothes, and most importantly, the right job.

Ambushed one too many times in her struggle to get out of the Wall Street secretarial pool and onto the management ladder, Tess decides to take matters into her own hands. When her classy, seductive and treacherous boss (Sigourney Weaver) breaks a leg skiing, Tess steps, literally, into her boss's shoes - as well as her apartment, her corner office and her $6,000 dresses. Suitably disguised, Tess forms an alliance with a very capable-and very attractive-Wall Street investment banker (Harrison Ford). Together, they create a deal that could catapult Tess into the big time-or finish her off for good.