Drama

• Life Itself (DVD) | DVD | (29/04/2019) from £7.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes in Life Itself. Director and writer Dan Fogelman (This Is Us, Crazy, Stupid, Love) examines the perils and rewards of everyday life in a multigenerational saga featuring an international ensemble including Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Laia Costa, Alex Monner and Mandy Patinkin. Set in New York City and Carmona, Spain, Life Itself celebrates the human condition and all of its complications with humour, poignancy and love. Bonus Feature: Interview with Dan Fogelman and Olivia Cooke

• The Girl With All The Gifts | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future, plagued by zombies, embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.

• I Dreamed Of Africa | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the memoirs of party-girl-turned-conservationist Kuki Gallman, I Dreamed of Africa never comes close to living up to its title; the mood is more prosaic travelogue than oneiric wonderment. After a car accident warns Kuki of her mortality, she resolves to grow up, a process that mysteriously involves marrying a man she barely knows and moving with him and her young son to the wilds of South Africa. There she learns new beau Paolo is less reliable than she thought, but also that the sun-baked plains and roaming beasts of Africa speak to her in a way the nightlife of Italy did not. (We learn of her blossoming humanity because she introduces herself to the servants; a probing study of interpersonal relationships this isn't.) Kim Basinger obviously feels connected to the role--she can stride across a room with a majestic self-righteousness that the film should have drawn upon more--but she's defeated by a script composed of repetitive vignettes that have no cumulative effect and a director (Hugh Hudson) who keeps the film's emotional impact curiously flat and diffuse except for the crass, manipulative moments every 20 minutes or so. Sure the photography's lovely, but really, how hard is it to get a nice shot of flamingoes at dawn? --Bruce Reid, Amazon.com

• Miss Leslie's Dolls | Blu Ray | (03/09/2018) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rare specimen from the more deranged end of the Grindhouse spectrum, Miss Leslie's Dolls is a memorably demented tale of possession and transvestitism from director Joseph G. Prieto (who, under the name Joseph P. Mawra, directed the outrageous 1965 lesbian sexploitation documentary Chained Girls). Believed lost for decades, it has been remastered from original film elements especially for this release. Stranded in the backwoods during a thunderstorm, a beautiful teacher and her three promiscuous students take refuge at a lonely house owned by the middle-aged Miss Leslie. Miss Leslie, however, is less a mild-mannered spinster and more an axe-wielding, homicidal cross-dresser intent on transferring his spirit into the nubile body of any girl foolish enough to come visiting...

• Elysium | Blu Ray | (08/02/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who liv on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live n an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) will stop at nothing to preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium but that doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in by any means they can. Max (Matt Demon) agrees to take on a life threatening mission, one that could bring equality to these polarised worlds. Special Features Blu-ray Collaboration: Crafting the Performances in Elysium Engineering Utopia: Creating a Society in the Sky Extended Scene Visions of 2154 An Interactive Exploration of the Art & Design of Elysium In Support of Story: The Visual Effects of Elysium The Technology of 2154 The Journey to Elysium: Envisioning Elysium Capturing Elysium Enhancing Elysium 4K ULTRA HD Exoskeletons, Explosions, and the Action Choreography of Elysium The Hero, the Psychopath, and the Characters of Elysium The Art of the Elysium Miniatures Bugatti 2154 Theatrical Trailers

• Love & Friendship | Blu Ray | (31/01/2022) from £9.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An adaptation of Jane Austen's first novella ˜Lady Susan', Love & Friendship follows the beautiful Lady Susan as she attempts to find a husband for herself and her long-suffering daughter Frederica.

• Raffles - The Complete Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £9.83   |  Saving you £20.16 (205.09%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Raffles Complete Series (4 Discs)

• Robin of Sherwood - The Complete Series (Reconfiguration) | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Robin of Sherwood: The Complete Series (8 Discs)

• James Bond - Daniel Craig 4-Pack | Blu Ray | (22/02/2016) from £7.88   |  Saving you £17.11 (217.13%)   |  RRP £24.99

  CASINO ROYALE Audio Commentary the Crew Deleted Scenes Becoming Bond Featurette Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes including The Road to Casino Royale and More Ian Fleming's Incredible Creation and Ian Fleming: Secret Road to Paradise Featurettes Chris Cornell Music Video Death In Venice Sequence QUANTUM OF SOLACE Another Way To Die Music Video Bond On Location Feature Crew Files 5 Featurettes: Start of Shooting, On Location, Olga Kurylenko and the Boat Chase, Director Marc Forster, The Music. SKYFALL 13 shooting Bond Featurettes including; Opening Sequence, Q, DB5, Women, Villains, M, Locations and Music Skyfall Premiere Featurette Commentary by Director Sam Mendes Commentary by Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and Production Designer Dennis Gassner SPECTRE SPECTRE: Bond's Biggest Opening Sequence Video Blog: Director - Sam Mendes Video Blog: Supercars Video Blog: Introducing Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci Video Blog: Action Video Blog: Music Video Blog: Guinness World Record Stills Gallery

• Ek Ruka Hua Faisla | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

• Suzhou River | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mardar is a small-time crook who delivers packages without asking questions. Until he is asked to deliver a MeiMei, the daughter of a shady smuggler. Looking exactly like his long-lost love, Moudan, who threw herself into the Suzhou River, Mardar becomes convinced she is his dead lover. Set within the murky wastelands of Shanghai, Ye Lou's award-winning re-tooling of Hitchcock's Vertigo is a visual treat that features the kinetic style of Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express. A unique take on the neo-noir genre, Suzhou River is newly restored in 4K and made available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

• Leaving Las Vegas | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £13.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (23.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1995, this wrenchingly sad but extraordinarily moving drama provides an authentic, superbly acted portrait of two people whose lives intersect just as they've reached their lowest depths of despair. Ben (Nicolas Cage, in an Oscar-winning performance) is a former movie executive who's lost his wife and family in a sea of alcoholic self-destruction. He's come to Las Vegas literally to drink himself to death, and that's when he meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a prostitute who falls in love with him--and he with her--despite their mutual dead-end existence. They accept each other as they are, with no attempts by one to change the other, and this unconditional love turns Leaving Las Vegas into a sombre yet quietly beautiful love story. Earning Oscar nominations for Best Director (Mike Figgis), Best Adapted Screenplay (Figgis, from John O'Brien's novel) and Best Actress (Shue), the film may strike some as relentlessly bleak and glacially paced, but attentive viewers will readily discover the richness of these tragic characters and the exceptional performances that bring them to life. (In a sad echo of his own fiction, novelist John O'Brien committed suicide while this film was in production.) --Jeff Shannon

• Charlie St. Cloud | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on an acclaimed novel Charlie St. Cloud is a romantic drama starring Zac Efron as a young man who survives an accident that lets him see the world in a unique way. In this emotionally charged story he begins a romantic journey in which he embraces the dark realities of the past while discovering the transformative power of love. Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud (Efron) has the adoration of mother Claire (Oscar winner Kim Basinger) and little brother Sam (newcomer Charlie Tahan) as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After his high-school classmate Tess (Amanda Crew) returns home unexpectedly Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. And as he finds the courage to let go of the past for good Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.

• WAKE IN FRIGHT (Masters of Cinema) (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (31/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Have a drink mate? Have a fight mate? Have a taste of dust and sweat mate? There's nothing else out here. Balanced on a knife-edge between social realism and existential horror this disturbing subversive portrayal of Australia's cultural underbelly failed to find a wide audience on its original release but has since become established as a seminal cornerstone of the Australian cinema. A middle-class schoolteacher stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in the Yabba may take him on a path darker than ever expected. One of the many triumphs in director Ted Kotcheff's career Wake in Fright effortlessly sustains the quality of a sun-baked nightmare with a relentless forward drive and outstanding performances by Donald Pleasance Gary Bond Sylvia Kay and Chips Rafferty in his final role. A brutal gripping dissection of the limits of masculinity and amorality to stand alongside Straw Dogs A Clockwork Orange and Deliverance it remains a stunning entry in the envelope-pushing cinema of the early 1970s. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this film in a new Dual Format edition for its UK home viewing premiere. Special Features: New high-definition 1080p presentation of the film from the 2009 restoration Audio commentary with director Ted Kotcheff and Editor Anthony Buckley A selection of video pieces including new interviews and rare behind-the-scenes footage Original US Outback TV spot Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired A booklet featuring writing on the film its restoration rare imagery and more!

• Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Dial M for Murder / North By Northwest / Strangers on a Train | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £13.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Titles Comprise: North by Northwest Dial M for Murder Strangers on a Train

• Gladiator II 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £33.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Twenty years after the death of gladiator Maximus, his son Lucius is captured in Carthage when it falls to the Romans. Trained as a gladiator and brought back to fight in the Colosseum as an anonymous barbarian, Lucius quickly gains notoriety and becomes the center of a power struggle for the very fate of Rome.

• The Odessa File | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Originally released in 1974, The Odessa File is set in Hamburg a decade earlier. Its starting-point is the Nazi support network Odessa, and its involvement with Egyptian plans to destroy Israel. Peter Miller is a freelance journalist whose interest appears initially to be a professional one, before a personal dimension finally becomes apparent in his confrontation with SS Captain Roschmann. Kenneth Ross adapts a well-honed screenplay from Frederick Forsyth's bestseller, and director Ronald Neame captures a typically Cold War sense of individuals and organisations playing out a scenario of political right and wrong. John Voight, long before he became a cameo star, makes a sympathetic lead, able to judge between the moral and material aspects of his profession. Mary Tamm is photogenic, if uninvolving, as his girlfriend, while Maximillian Schell is a convincing Nazi stereotype. Andrew Lloyd-Weber contributes a serviceable score, centred on the catchy "Christmas Dream" sung by Perry Como. Not a classic suspense thriller, but an enjoyable and thoughtful one. On the DVD: the letterbox widescreen format preserves the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of the cinema release with decent if not exceptional clarity, with optional 16:9 TV enhancement. There are French, German, Italian and Spanish overdubs, and subtitles in 21 languages. Detailed filmographies for Neame, Voight and Schell are included and the theatrical trailer is to the point in a way they so rarely are these days. --Richard Whitehouse

• Intimate Strangers | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  She confused him for a therapist and told him her deepest secrets. Now two people who never should have met are discovering there's nothing more seductive than the truth. When a French woman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist they soon form an unusual relationship... Nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.

• Private Practice - Season 2 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £3.49   |  Saving you £21.76 (975.78%)   |  RRP £23.99

  From the creators of Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice the complete second season is the medical drama that intertwines the lives of doctors in love, relationships and friendships.

• Dirty Sexy Money - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Get down and dirty with the deliciously scandalous fi nal season of Dirty Sexy Money. TV's most manipulative family takes drama to new heights in a year filled with deception suspense and even murder. Money has met its match in the Darlings - they use it and abuse it. But will the family's stash of cash be enough to bail them out of a whole new world of trouble? And will the lure of riches and power pull Nick toward the dark side of the Darling Empire? Featuring Donald Sutherland Peter Krause and Lucy Liu Dirty Sexy Money showcases one of television's finest casts. Experience the citing culmination of the series complete with exclusive bonus features. It's addictive television at its best.