Drama

• Castaway | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio Commentary by Film Historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson Audio Commentary by Film Journalist David Flint SDH Subtitles Trailer Stills Gallery ¢ Presented in a double-walled slipcase featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore

• Defiance | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on an extraordinary true story, "Defiance" is the epic tale of family, honour, vengeance and salvation in World War II.

• Pride and Prejudice | Blu Ray | (17/05/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen star in this adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.

• Angels In America | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Tony Kushner's prize-winning play Angels in America became the defining US theatrical event of the 1990s, an astonishing mix of philosophy, politics, and vibrant gay soap opera that summed up the Reagan era for an entire generation of theatre-goers. Post-9/11 would seem to be too late for a film version--philosophy and politics don't always age well--but this 2003 HBO adaptation, ably directed by Mike Nichols, provides a time capsule of the '80s and reveals the deep emotional subcurrents that will give the play lasting power. The story centers around Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) and Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), a gay couple that falls apart when Prior grows ill as a result of AIDS. But cancer is not the only thing invading Prior's life: He begins to have religious visions of an angel (Emma Thompson) announcing that he is a prophet. Louis, who doesn't cope well with disease and suggestions of mortality, leaves and starts a relationship with Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson), a closeted Mormon who works for Roy Cohn (Al Pacino)--the real-life right-wing lawyer, notorious for his ruthless behind-the-scenes machinations. Add in Joe's depressed and hallucinating wife Harper (Mary Louise Parker), his determined but open-minded mother Hannah (Meryl Streep), a fierce drag queen/nurse named Belize (Jeffrey Wright, reprising his celebrated performance from the Broadway production), and you've still only begun to discover the wealth of characters and storylines in Kushner's ambitious work. The powerhouse cast (also featuring James Cromwell, Michael Gambon, and Simon Callow) is uniformly superb. The script has its weaknesses--some of the fantastic elements, including Prior's journey to Heaven towards the end, fall flat--but even what doesn't work is bristling with ideas and a ferocious desire to capture human existence in this time and place. --Bret Fetzer

• Borgen Series 1 (Repack) | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £6.25   |  Saving you £33.74 (539.84%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A new dramatic series from the creators of The Killing. As seen on the BBC.Borgen is the latest drama sensation from the producers of the acclaimed series The Killing. Following the intricate and complicated lives of politicians, media spinners and the reporters who feed off their triumphs and failures, Borgen uncovers a world of political and personal intrigue.The setting is Borgen, the nickname for Denmark's Parliamentary building, otherwise known as The Castle. After scoring her party a landslide victory through her idealism and work ethic, the smart and sexy populist Birgitte Nyborg now faces the biggest dilemma of her life. The question is: Will she succumb to pressure of compromise on her ideals and face consequences both on and off the political stage?

• Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies - Season One | DVD | (06/11/2023) from £19.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES is the high-spirited musical series that traces the origins of the classic hit movie. Four outcast high school girls - a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy and a fashion maven - join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock'n'roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.

• Black And Blue (2019) | DVD | (02/03/2020) from £4.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Academy Award® nominee Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realising that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.

• Boy A | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (101.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adapted from the multi award winning novel by Jonathan Trigell Boy A is a powerful coming-of-age drama that raises difficult questions about the morals of our times. Boy A is a fictional drama centred around a young man called Jack (Andrew Garfield). When he was young Jack was invloved in the murder of a child and as such has spent most of his youth in juvenile prisons. Released from prison into an unrecognizable adult world Jack is given a new name new job new home; a new life. But anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to contend with not being able to tell the people he gets to know and love of his true past and the monstrous secret he must keep hidden.

• Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, DOROTHY ARZNER (Dance, Girl, Dance), the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wita mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era. A Star Is Born's FREDRIC MARCH (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and SYLVIA SIDNEY (Sabotage) turn in extraordinary performances as the urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eyeleading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early feminist commentary on modern marriage. Special Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Dorothy Arzner: Longing for Women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler New video essay by film historian Cari Beauchamp English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film scholar Judith Mayne

• Bell Book And Candle | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (80.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During a charity soccer match between top professional side Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans the Trojan's new star player collapses. When he dies Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed...

• Glory | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The negroes fought gallantly and were headed by as brave a Colonel as ever lived", was one Confederate soldier's eyewitness verdict on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers immediately after 247 of their 600-man regiment had fallen in bloody swathes beneath the withering fire from Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina in 1863. Glory is their story: the mustering of the first black regiment in the US Army, their battles with the Southerners as well as with the Northern military authorities, and their own moment of glory when they paid a terrible price for the opportunity to demonstrate to the world their courage. In telling this little-known story, director Ed Zwick single-handedly changed perceptions of the American Civil War: when a Grand Review of the Armies was held in Washington at the end of the war, none of the almost 180,000 coloured troops who fought for the Union were present; when that parade was restaged in 1990 a year after the movie was released, the 54th Massachusetts re-enactors were at the front of the procession. Zwick's stirring, factually accurate account is greatly enhanced by obsessive period detail and frighteningly realistic battle reconstructions (which were not to be surpassed in scale until 1993's Gettysburg). But Zwick also illuminates individual characters in the regiment with great sensitivity. As crucial as the military set-pieces are the scenes of the men together: talking in the tent or baring their souls in song. Denzel Washington, as the embittered ex-slave, gives a performance of real depth; he richly deserved his Oscar win for the heartbreaking flogging scene alone. Morgan Freeman brings great gravitas to his paternalistic role, and Matthew Broderick's idealistic Colonel Shaw is the centre around which the story revolves. With a clutch of remarkable lead performances, a sensitive and touching script, one of James Horner's finest musical scores, and a director with both the vision and heart to pull it off it's easy to agree with the backcover blurb: "Glory is one of the greatest war movies ever made". Without even a hint of hyperbole, it undoubtedly is. On the DVD: This is a superb looking (anamorphic) and sounding (Dolby 5.1) print, and the disc has some excellent additional features. Ed Zwick's commentary is insightful and extremely detailed: here's a director who obviously cares deeply about this movie. Of the three featurettes, one is a short-ish promo piece but the other two are genuinely impressive: there's a 20-minute "Making of" feature with major contributions from Zwick, Freeman and Broderick, and best of all a 45-minute "The True Story Continues" feature narrated by Freeman which tells the complete story of the 54th Massachusetts from beginning to end using footage from the movie as well as archive material and film of battle re-enactments. Also included are two deleted scenes, although a third scene which was shot for the movie but not used (the Frederick Douglass' speech) crops up in the "True Story" piece. James Horner's emotive score gets an isolated track all to itself and there are also some filmographies and trailers. All in all, this is a superb DVD. --Mark Walker

• Romauld Et Juliette | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman who always seems to be in the right place at the right time.

• Notorious Bettie Page | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £7.18   |  Saving you £12.81 (178.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of Bettie Page, one of the first sex icons in America and the target of a Senate investigation.

• Valentino | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £11.10   |  Saving you £-5.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Premier ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev makes his acting debut in this lavish story of the life of the famous silent screen actor Rudolph Valentino who caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets upon his death. Controversial director Ken Russell lavishly recreates the glitzy and decadent atmosphere of the roaring 20's and the presence of Nureyev as Valentino imbues the film with passion rarely found in Hollywood.

• Babette's Feast | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Released in 1987, Babette's Feast is a film which depicts so little, yet says so much. Set in a rural Danish community, it centres around the twin sisters of the village pastor and the French women who serves them after fleeing the 1871 revolution. On winning the lottery she plans a feast to mark the centenary of the sisters' father, bringing a dimension of fine living into the lives of the God-fearing Lutherans and healing festering personal animosities in the process. Director Gabriel Axel captures the rugged timelessness of the Jutland landscape, and draws inspired performances from Stéphane Audran as Babette, and Bodil Keyer and Birgitte Federspiel as the sisters Filippa and Martine. Per Norgard's sparse but affecting score captures the mood of the film perfectly. Altogether it's a heart-warming and affecting experience. On the DVD: Babette's Feast on disc reproduces the vivid colour photography well in widescreen. There’s dubbing and subtitles in English, French and Italian. Both the trailers for the English- and Danish-speaking markets are included, the latter an effective summary of the film.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Twilight Saga: The Complete Collection | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £39.45   |  Saving you £-22.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.00

  The Twilight Saga: The Complete Collection follows the epic story of Bella (Kristin Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner). Experience the passion, romance, and breath-taking action that have made The Twilight Saga a global phenomenon. Twilight: The classic story of star-crossed lovers. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) meets the mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) - a boy with a dark secret: he's a vampire. The Twilight Saga: New Moon:...

• Notes On A Scandal | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £6.96   |  Saving you £16.02 (403.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An illicit affair with one of her students has unforeseen consequences for a teacher in this story of loneliness, loyalty, envy and love.

• Primal Fear | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Clever twists and a bona fide surprise ending make Primal Fear an above-average courtroom thriller. Tapping into the post-O J scrutiny of the American legal system in the case of a hotshot Chicago defence attorney (Richard Gere) whose latest client is an altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering a Catholic archbishop. The film uses its own manipulation to tell a story about manipulation and when we finally discover who's been pulling the strings, the payoff is both convincing and pertinent to the ongoing debate over what constitutes truth in the American system of justice. Making an impressive screen debut that has since led to a stellar career, Norton gives a performance that rides on a razor's edge of schizophrenic pathology--his role is an actor's showcase and without crossing over the line of credibility, Norton milks it for all it's worth. Gere is equally effective in a role that capitalises on his shifty screen persona and Laura Linney and Frances McDormand give memorable performances in their intelligently written supporting roles. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Marvin's Room | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Leonardo DiCaprio gives an electrifying performance as the criminally rebellious son in this funny and stirring tale of one family's humor and heartache. Seventeen years ago fiercely independent Lee ((Meryl Streep) left home...and left behind her kindhearted sister Bessie (Diane Keaton) to care for their father Marvin (Hume Cronyn). But now Lee is returning with her teenage son (Leonard DiCaprio) for a homecoming that's sure to turn the entire household upside down! Also starring Robert DeNiro this entertaining motion picture proves that people you know the least may be the ones you need the most!