"Director: Mike"

• Angel | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £4.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (215.58%)   |  RRP £14.99

  John Hannah (The Mummy, Sliding Doors, The Wee Man) stars in Angel, a gripping thriller that tells the disturbing story of a woman suffering from split personality disorder, and one man's pursuit to put an end to her murderous rampage. Angel was horribly abused by her grandmother as a little girl and institutionalised after killing her. Though sentenced for the rest of her life to an insane asylum, Angel was released due to inside governmental pressure while being pronounced dead in order to avoid public outcry. Now, Angel's on the loose again, and a government agent is ordered to kill her in order to cover up the blunder But soon they realise that Hell hath no fury Like a scorned Angel.

• Year Of The Dog | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £9.44   |  Saving you £6.55 (69.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A single dog-loving woman faces a period of transition when her beloved beagle kicks the bucket in this dark comedy.

• Best Laid Plans | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At first, Best Laid Plans comes off like yet another all-flash-no-substance crime thriller but it's one of those rare films that end better than they start. Nick (Alessandro Nivola from Face/Off), broke and desperate to get out of his suffocating small town, agrees to take part in a drug heist. When his partners get caught, he has less than a week to come up with $15,000 or suffer the consequences. When his college buddy Brice (Josh Brolin--Flirting with Disaster) comes back to town, Nick and his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) hatch a plan to blackmail Brice out of a rare collectable. Of course, things go wrong--which is where things get entertaining. The plot could use a few more twists to really crackle but the surprises it does have work and the ending is both clever and affecting. Along the way, the best scene features a drug dealer who quotes economic theory from the bible of capitalism, The Wealth of Nations. In the past few years, Reese Witherspoon has turned in superb performances in such varied movies as Freeway, Pleasantville and especially Election; Best Laid Plans doesn't make much use of her talent but she's always watchable. --Bret Fetzer

• Closer/Scenes Of A Sexual Nature/Cruel Intentions | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £6.24   |  Saving you £8.75 (140.22%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Scenes Of A Sexual Nature: Seven couples. Seven Stories. One Common Ground... Sex and love. Some seek it some need it some spurn it and some pay for it but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath London the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick and it seems that what makes us tick is complex dark and ludicrously funny. Cruel Intentions: Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are two gorgeous filthy rich manipulative step-sibblings from Manhattan's upper east side. Bored of the girls he has so easily seduced in the past Sebastian has set his sights on the ultimate challenge - the beautiful virginal headmasters' daughter Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). Kathryn sees the perfect opportunity for a wager. If Sebastian fails to lure Annette into his bed he will have to surrender his priceless vintage Jaguar; if he succeeds he will win the most tempting prize of all - Kathryn. Sparks fly in this wickedly sexy tale of seduction as Kathryn and Sebastian play a dangerous game of sex and betrayal... Closer: If you believe in love at first sight you'll never stop looking... Writer Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own scathing stageplay in which a chance meeting between Englishman Dan (Jude Law) and American visitor Alice blossoms into a troubled relationship bringing together and then affecting a second couple involving Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts). Sex and love are explored capturing all the vulnerability and brutality of people falling in and out of love...

• Career Girls | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £9.41   |  Saving you £3.57 (55.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This simple comedy by British filmmaker Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) concerns the reunion of two women friends from university days who try hard, although awkwardly, to rediscover their early closeness. They succeed beautifully and experience a series of chance encounters with old friends and lovers whom they once knew together. Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the Waves) and Lynda Steadman are outstanding, playing their characters via flashback in their grungy, early 20s as well as their more polished, contemporary selves at age 30. Following the complex ambitions of Secrets and Lies, Career Girls almost looks like a holiday for Leigh, but it is no less the rich product of his now-famous process of symbiotic rehearsal and writing. The film is also graced by some of the most delicate passages of remembered love between two people seen in a long time. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• All Or Nothing | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A 2002 Mike Leigh drama, All or Nothing is at times almost unbearably bleak and poignant, yet funny, truthful and richly rewarding. The film's revolves around Timothy Spall's mini-cab driver, his family and the various characters and acquaintances on the South-east London estate where he lives. It's perhaps even better than Secrets and Lies, in which Spall also starred, which was marred a little by some of the tearful excesses of Brenda Blethyn's bravura performance. It's evidence that Leigh has matured and improved with age, rather than mellowed and softened. He's developed into a highly distinctive but rounded and humane filmmaker. Spall's cabbie is too gentle and thoughtful to be described as a slob, but his lack of even the most basic ambition and stoic non-resistance to life has created an unspoken rift between him and wife Penny (Lesley Manville). Working on a supermarket checkout, she must cook dinner and fend off insults from her fat, frustrated, obnoxious 18-year-old son Rory. She receives only passive sympathy from her older daughter Rachel. Only when Rory is taken ill is Phil snapped out of his torpor as the family pull together. A host of minor characters also feature; fatuous cabbie Ron (Paul Jesson) his alcoholic wife and sluttish daughter, as well as the wonderfully good-humoured and resilient Maureen, Penny's best friend, concerned at her daughter's relationship with a violent boyfriend. Once accused of caricaturing his "lower class" characters, here Leigh (with the collaborative assistance of his actors) exhibits them in all their authentic complexity, neither idealising nor sentimentalising them. On the DVD: All or Nothing's extras include the original trailer, as well as interviews with several members of the cast. Timothy Spall is interesting on the unnerving process of collaboration favoured by Leigh, whereby characters are "built from zero" by the actors. The smart and rather posh Lesley Manville strikes quite a contrast in real life with her mousey, put-upon character. There's also a meticulous and absorbing commentary from Mike Leigh, who talks about filming in Greenwich and how he has moved away from some of the more dogmatic ideas about filmmaking of his earlier, avant-garde days. --David Stubbs

• Love Live Long | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) was invited to film the Gumball Rally, the famous high speed race in Istanbul, he decided instead to craft a raw and intimate film that exposes the effects of an unexpected sexual encounter and the high stakes of the race on two strangers. For seven days Figgis shot in his signature run-and-gun style - the result is a courageous new work that blurs fact and fiction and probes the unsettling consequences of infidelity, loneliness and life in the fast lane.

• Hammond Meets Moss - The Collector's Edition | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £3.74   |  Saving you £13.51 (544.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Motor-racing legend Sir Stirling Moss and Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond come together for the very first time on camera to talk about their careers and their shared life-altering experience. The programme contains incredibly rare footage of Stirling's racing as well as rare Top Gear footage featuring Richard's crash with Richard talking about it for the first time since it happened. In an engaging intimate and often uplifting conversation these two men much loved by the world's petrol-heads swap stories and exchange experiences as we are entertained by some fantastic banter punctuated by some extraordinary footage.

• Bad Girls - Series 6 | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Hard-hitting original and controversial 'Bad Girls' depicts the trials and triumphs of prison inmates and officers in a notorious women's prison. It's a tense and sexually charged atmosphere and it's a hidden world where anything can happen. With such a heady mix of characters will Di Barker (Tracey Wilkinson) be able to keep her grip on the wing and will this be at the expense of some happiness in her personal life? Struggling heroin addict Colin Hedges (Tristan Sturrock) finds

• Harry Potter Wizard's Collection Box Set (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £349.99   |  Saving you £-90.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £259.99

  Contains 31 discs, inclusive of all content ever previously released, in addition to over 5 hours of never before seen special features, in a limited and numbered edition. Films Included in Collection - All on Blu-ray, DVD, 3D Blu-Ray (where applicable) and UltraViolet Digital Copy Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stone - Theatrical Version and Extended Cut Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Theatrical Version and Extended Cut Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - 2D and 3D Versions Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - 2D and 3D Versions 37 Hours of Special Features 5 Hours of All New Special Features Includes multiple specially-produced, collectable memorabilia items, including concept art, a map of Hogwarts and much more!

• Absentia | DVD | (07/06/2014) from £12.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (32.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the most frightening horror films of recent years Absentia is the critically-acclaimed multi-award winning breakthrough film from director of Oculus. Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years and with the support of her sister Callie she finally declares him legally dead 'in absentia'. As Tricia tries to move on with her life she becomes haunted by terrifying visions. Callie meanwhile is drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house with links to other unexplained disappearances. Does the key to Daniel's fate lie in the cold darkness of the tunnel and could the horrific truth be something far worse than death? Special Features: Audio Commentary: Director/ Producer Mike Flanagan and Producers Morgan Peter Brown Joe Wicker and Justin Gordon Director Mike Flanagan and Cast Members Katie Parker Courtney Bell Dave Levine and Doug Jones 'Absentia: A retrospective' documentary Camera test teaser Deleted Scenes

• Charlie Wilson's War | Blu Ray | (21/03/2011) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Charlie Wilson's War features Tom Hanks Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman in an adaption of George Crile's extraordinary novel. Charlie Wilson's Waris the true story of how a playboy congressman a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.

• Meantime | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime, made in 1983, was only Mike Leigh's second film to reach the big screen, though by now he was far from a novice director. Yet 10 years after his first movie, Bleak Moments (1971), he couldn't get funding for a single cinematic feature and was obliged to make films for television. Meantime, first shown on Channel 4, was given a limited theatrical release, heralding his eventual return to the cinema. The title is a double-edged pun. It suggests the waiting-around no-time-in-particular that the characters inhabit, but it's also Leigh's barbed comment on the mean-spirited politics of the Thatcher era, when millions of people were tossed on the scrapheap of unemployment. Leigh has sometimes been accused of caricaturing and being condescending to his characters, but Meantime is notable for wry compassion in its portrayal of a bunch of no-hopers stuck in their East End limbo. Not a lot happens. Mark (Phil Daniels) and his retarded brother Colin (Tim Roth) hang about the streets and pubs, banter with their skinhead mate Coxy (Gary Oldman), half-heartedly chat up local girls, bicker with their parents. Their aunt Barbara--who bettered herself and moved to the relative poshness of Chigwell--offers Colin a job helping her decorate, but he backs out of it. Nobody's going anywhere much. But the view's not totally forlorn. Leigh leaves us with a brief, unexpected moment of warmth and solidarity between the two brothers. On the DVD: It's paltry stuff. A so-called "trailer" proves to be a plug for other DVD releases in the same series. Otherwise it's just a scene menu, and English subtitles for the hard of hearing. The early 80s TV-quality images are badly shown up by the DVD's visual acuity. --Philip Kemp

• Uncle David | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (240.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  David Hoyle co-directs his feature debut and stars in the title role in this unsettling tale of an uncle and his nephew (pornstar Ashley Ryder). Combines a heightened sense of English normality with the logic of madness.This low budget, black comedy is David Hoyle's feature debut and he is joined by pornstar Ashley Ryder as his nephew. Both actors are improvising their lines which gives the whole work an edginess, heightened by the atmosphere of an out-of-season caravan-park on the Isle of Sheppey. The banalities of conversation between uncle and nephew are thrown into the realms of the utterly unconventional when we realise that not only are they involved in a sexual relationship but there is a sinister reason for their holiday. We are drawn into a world of disturbing madness, whose cracked logic is delivered with an unnerving avuncular charm.

• The Man In The Iron Mask | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-7.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of fraternal squabbling makes a more than satisfactory transition to celluloid with this 1976 made-for-television swashbuckler. Viewers familiar with the more recent Leonardo DiCaprio version may be stymied at first by the non-MTV pace and the rather unhip presence of Richard Chamberlain in the lead role(s). This well-lensed action film overcomes a somewhat poky first half to emerge as a terrific adventure, complete with plenty of derring-do, some sharply pointed dialogue, and a wonderful performance by the incomparably malevolent Patrick McGoohan. Rousing fun for burgeoning rapscallions of all ages. Director Mike Newell would later find success in a different genre with Four Weddings and a Funeral. Ian Holm, Louis Jordan, and Ralph Richardson round out the embarrassingly rich supporting cast. --Andrew Wright

• Ice Age 4 - Continental Drift | Blu Ray | (04/03/2013) from £9.68   |  Saving you £16.57 (196.79%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of filmdom's most beloved trios - Ice Age's Manny, Diego, and Sid - embark upon their greatest adventure after cataclysm sets an entire continent adrift.

• Sky High | Blu Ray | (02/04/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £15.91 (196.91%)   |  RRP £23.99

  The son of two legendary superheroes must try and find his own powers in this comedy.

• Fortress | Blu Ray | (23/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.Ordered into a suicide mission, their only chance for survival is to band together as brothers in battle. With unparalleled aerial action, Fortress pays homage to the sacrifices of an entire generation during the most important war in history.

• The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Join an exciting new chapter in the action-packed adventures of the legendary warrior The Scorpion King! When the king of Norvania is assassinated the evil heir to the throne frames Mathayus and sends an entire kingdom of soldiers after him. Mathayus' (Victor Webster) only allies are a mysterious woman and her unconventional father whose primitive science may hold the key to disrupting the evil ruler's quest for an ancient and unstoppable mystical power. Featuring Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk) and an all-star cast of fighters including Roy Big Country Nelson (Winner of The Ultimate Fighter) Royce Gracie (UFC Hall of Fame) and Don Wilson (11-time World Kickboxing Champion). Also starring Ellen Holman (Spartacus TV series) Rutger Hauer (Batman Begins) Barry Bostwick (Cougar Town TV series) and Michael Biehn (The Terminator).

• The Brittas Empire - Complete - Series 1 To 7 | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £62.89   |  Saving you £-12.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Gordon Brittas (Chris Barrie) is the manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. Although he means well and wants to be a good manager he has a talent for bringing about total disaster. While Brittas is busy dreaming up new ways to make the lives of his staff more difficult his assistant Laura (Julia St John) does her best to keep the Leisure Centre operational. Meanwhile Helen Brittas (Pippa Haywood) tries (unsuccessfully) to retain her sanity as she struggles to cope with her hu