Drama

• When A Man Loves A Woman | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £7.97   |  Saving you £8.28 (123.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When a Man Loves a Woman is a dumb title (not another classic pop song, please) for a very smart movie. A kind of gender-switch take on The Lost Weekend, it's about a woman (Meg Ryan) whose alcoholism almost destroys her family. That may sound like just another TV movie, but When a Man Loves a Woman is so authentic in detail and emotion, that everything about it seems fresh, urgent, and engrossing. That's because the film is grounded in the actual experience of co-writer Al Franken (assisted by Rain Man scripter Ronald Bass). Franken is best known for his affiliation with Saturday Night Live and Politically Incorrect, and as the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, and Other Observations. You may recall that Franken is the creator of Stuart Smalley, 12-step programmer extraordinaire. Well, if you want to know how Stuart was born, you can start here. This is no comedy, however. In fact, one of the most painful realisations comes when attractive, "good-time girl" Alice Green (Ryan) and her husband (Andy Garcia) begin to realise how much of a role alcohol played in their marriage and in bringing them together in the first place. The issues and experiences confronted in this movie go far beyond the stuff you see on daytime TV. --Jim Emerson

• Big Breadwinner Hog - The Complete Series/Spindoe - The Complete Series | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £26.92   |  Saving you £3.07 (11.40%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Big Breadwinner Hog: The rise of a vicious young thief Hog to the top of the London criminal fraternity Spindoe: A brash cockney gangster is shipped off to prison picking up on his criminal activities when he go out.

• Birth | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £7.14   |  Saving you £12.85 (179.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nicole Kidman plays a woman who becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

• Chicago Med: Season Seven | DVD | (14/11/2022) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 22 Episodes. Chicago's courageous medical heroes continue to confront the city's most challenging medical cases in Season Seven of the emotionallycharged drama series from Emmy®-winning executive producer Dick Wolf.This season, Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) finds his career at risk after his cover-up of a serious ethics violation; Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt) continues to provide outstanding psychiatric insight; Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) deals with the fiscal scrutiny that comes with being the head of the city's largest hospital; Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) looks to recover after being shot by a former patient; Dr. Dean Archer (Steven Weber) steps up as interim chief of the ER; Charge nurse Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett) juggles work and family issues; Surgeon Dr. Crockett Marcel (Dominic Rains) earns newfound respect from his peers; and new additions Dr. Stevie Hammer (Kristen Hager) and Dr. Dylan Scott (Guy Lockard) join the team.

• Jane Austen Collection - Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Emma | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £9.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (110.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A collection of three ITV adaptations of novels by Jane Austen comprising of Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey and Emma.

• Crowhurst | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In October 1968, Donald Crowhurst, a 35-year-old engineer and father of four, embarked on one of the last great adventures of the 20th Century. He was one of nine men who set out from the English coast that autumn as part of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, chasing to be either the fi rst or the fastest man to circumnavigate the globe single-handed and non-stop. But for Donald the dream turned into a nightmare. Tragic, heartbreaking and enthralling, CROWHURST is a stunning biopic portrayal of a brave man who was too proud to fail and too much alone to live.

• Mrs Miniver | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.62   |  Saving you £7.37 (111.33%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A wartime drama which depicts the lives of ordinary English housewives. Based on a book by Jan Struther.

• Nowhere Special | DVD | (04/10/2021) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bad Girls - Series 7 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Bad Girls are back for more drama from HMP Larkhall where the staff are just as guilty as the prisoners! Includes all 12 episodes plus the bonus Christmas Special.

• One Tree Hill - Series 4 | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £6.92   |  Saving you £43.07 (622.40%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Dreams schemes graduation - the completion of Senior Year! Goodbye Tree Hill High. Graduation nears. And with its approach comes the realization that for students and parents alike life is changing forever. There are new loves to nurture old score still to settle. The longtime triangle of Lucas Peyton and Brooke finally comes down to two. The memory of Keith - or is it his spirit? - inspires Lucas and Nathan and haunts Dan. Two expectant mothers are about to raise Tree Hill's population stats. Lucas begins to wonder what really happened the terrifying day Keith died. And the Ravens - led by Coach Whitey Durham - have one last chance for hoops glory and the state championship. Live for now. Make way for what's to come. Hello future...

• Earthquake | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

• Hell | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £6.74   |  Saving you £13.25 (196.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three sisters, estranged after a shared childhood trauma, are gradually reunited by a young stranger with a surprising revelation.

• The Lost Prince | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £7.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (116.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A marvellous reinvention of the costume epic, The Lost Prince is Stephen Poliakoff's absorbing study of the turbulent years leading up to and during the First World War, seen through the percipient eyes of a scarcely remembered royal child. Extensively researched, impeccably cast, beautifully filmed, written and directed by Poliakoff himself with masterly economy and restraint, this is a timely reminder that original, intelligent drama can work as prime time entertainment while appealing on multiple levels; and there isn't an escaped soap star in sight. Johnnie, the prince kept hidden away by his parents Queen Mary and George V for fear that his epileptic fits and idiosyncratic ways might draw unwelcome attention, is not presented as a tragic figure. His view of the great events which shatter his family and change the world forever is direct and uncluttered. Poliakoff celebrates his apartness--and that of all children who are different--as a force for good, without judging the standards, protocols and contemporary medical theories which kept him on the periphery of society. The series makes the most of its well-chosen locations, and from Johnnie's garden at Sandringham to the assassination of the Russian imperial family, it maintains a hypnotic and elegiac quality The acting is first-rate, too. Gina McKee is profoundly moving as Johnnie's devoted nurse Lalla; and Miranda Richardson's Mary is an extraordinary performance, the controlled façade of single-minded focus occasionally fracturing to reveal a flash of humanity. This production is exquisite in every respect. On the DVD: The Lost Prince is presented in its original transmission format of 16:9. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, enhanced by Adrian Johnston's haunting score is crystal clear. Extras include Poliakoff's revealing commentary, with occasional input from Johnston and designer John-Paul Kelly, and a couple of documentary fragments which show the production in progress and place it in context with the rest of Poliakoff's work. --Piers Ford

• O Brother Where Art Thou? | Blu Ray | (12/08/2013) from £9.38   |  Saving you £5.61 (59.81%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plotline of Homer's Odyssey for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, their comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing for hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) to light out after some buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic blind man on a railroad truck, a burly one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who's sold his soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-depressive bank robber, and--well, you get the idea. Into this, their most relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue and a whole stash of gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges' classic 1941 comedy Sullivan's Travels) is furthermore graced with glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American 30s folk-styles: blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz and more. And just to prove that the brothers haven't lost their knack for bad-taste humour, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like something between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical. --Philip KempOn the DVD: This two-disc set duplicates the original single-disc release of the film which included a handful of cast and crew interviews, and adds an additional disc with more interviews, two brief behind-the-scenes featurettes about the production design and the post-production digital colouring of the film, a couple of storyboard-to-scene comparisons and a music video of "Man of Constant Sorrow". There's also a 16-minute documentary to promote the companion Down from the Mountain concert. Frankly there's not a lot here to justify spreading it across two discs: a more pleasing not to say generous offering would have been to cram all these extras onto Disc 1 and give us Down from the Mountain as the second disc. --Mark Walker

• Villain | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £9.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (30.55%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murderous sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has been a little too loose-lipped afraid that his gossiping may turn into a grand operatic performance for the coppers. Vic who enjoys playing at rough trade with his sidekick Wolfe plans a payroll robbery and directs the blackmail

• Almost Famous | DVD | (10/04/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (420.84%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Inspired by director Cameron Crowe's own experiences and set in the 1970s, the film follows a fifteen year old wannabe journalist who gets the opportunity to interview and go on the road with a hard living rock band.

• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | DVD | (19/09/2016) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-0.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.85

  A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• The Piano | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £6.20   |  Saving you £9.79 (157.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jane Campion's The Piano struck a deep chord (if you'll excuse the expression) with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerised by the film's rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano to a remote spot on the coast of New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a farmer (Sam Neill). She gives piano lessons to a gruff neighbor (Harvey Keitel) who has Maori tattoos on his face, and, well, things develop from there. The picture takes on a powerful dream logic that simply defies synopsis. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and original achievement from Campion, a unique stylist. The Piano won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscars for Hunt, Paquin and Campion's screenplay. --Jim Emerson

• Where's My Roy Cohn? | DVD | (17/12/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rory's Way | DVD | (30/09/2019) from £6.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A