Drama

• Rocky: The Knockout Collection | Blu Ray | (27/02/2023) from £50.34   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rocky: A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.Rocky II: Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.Rocky III: Rocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion.Rocky IV: Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.Special FeaturesThe Making of Rocky vs. Drago FeaturetteRocky: Audio Commentary with Avildsen, Winkler & Chartoff, Talia Shire and Burt Young, Audio Commentary by Sylvester Stallone, Audio Commentary by Lou Duva and boxing commentator Bert SugarRocky IV: Director's Cut Feature, Rocky vs. Drago Trailer

• Billy Elliot | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The winner of the audience award at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival.

• Magnolia - Single Disc Set (1999) | DVD | (02/01/2000) from £16.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize a man about to die: both men are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad.

• The Tree Of Wooden Clogs | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A three-hour peasant epic in which nothing very much happens might sound like the ultimate turn-off; but The Tree of Wooden Clogs ("L'Albero degli Zoccoli") is made with so much love and dedication that it rarely flags. Set in the Lombardy countryside in the closing years of the 19th century, the film traces the interconnected lives of four peasant families all living in the same large farmhouse. The most dramatic event, which gives the movie its title, is when a father chops down a tree so that his son can have clogs in which to walk to school, which leads to quiet tragedy in the final reel. The film's director Ermanno Olmi--himself of North Italian peasant stock--based his subject on incidents from his own childhood and tales told him by his grandfather. His cast were non-professionals, real peasants chosen from villages of the Bergamo region, whom he encouraged to improvise their own dialogue. All the shooting was done on location with a 16 mm camera, using natural lighting and direct sound--a revolutionary approach in Italy at the time, when almost all films were studio-bound and heavily dubbed. The results carry a rare conviction, the unselfconsciously simple speech and muted earth-tones of the visuals make the film feel more like documentary than fiction. The hardships of peasant life are never softened, though now and then Olmi's affection for his characters verges on sentimentality. And the unquestioning, submissive Catholicism of director and characters alike tends to cloy. But the sense of dignity and harmony, and the film's unhurried pace, always in step with the seasons, create a moving celebration of a vanished way of life. The Tree of Wooden Clogs took the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. On the DVD: The Tree of Wooden Clogs doesn't exactly come packed with extras: cast and technical credits, a stills gallery, and a brief two-minute introduction by Olmi, where he explains why he preferred to record in mono, which still sounds fine on the disc. The images have lost nothing of their muted subtlety, and the transfer is in the full 1.33:1 ratio of the original. --Philip Kemp

• One Day | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £7.40   |  Saving you £7.59 (102.57%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Adapted from the internationally praised and bestselling novel, One Day charts an extraordinary relationship. After one day together in 1988, Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime.

• In Her Shoes | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £3.74   |  Saving you £16.25 (434.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette headline this romcom based on Jennifer Weiner's chick lit novel.

• Brighton Rock | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £5.10   |  Saving you £14.89 (291.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from Graham Greene's iconic 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organised crime.

• Roots : The Original Series - 30th Anniversary 4-Disc Box Set | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £13.85   |  Saving you £17.14 (123.75%)   |  RRP £30.99

  1750: The Gambia West Africa. A new Mandinka warrior is born to Binta and Omoro called Kunta Kinte. His father turns the young baby's face to the heavens and whispers ""Behold - the only thing greater than yourself"". So begins the most critically and popularly acclaimed television drama of our time telling the struggle against the suffering slavery and discrimination endured by generations of black people as seen through the eyes of Kunta Kinte and his descendants...

• 21 | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £4.64   |  Saving you £15.35 (330.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "21" is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds in the country - and how they took Vegas for millions.

• The Vow | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £4.88   |  Saving you £18.11 (371.11%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, The Vow is based on the true story of a newlywed couple recovering from an accident that puts the wife in a coma.

• Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll | Blu Ray | (09/05/2018) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" is the 2009 film of the Ian Dury story starring Andy Serkis in the role of the punk legend.

• The Clifton House Mystery - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Clifton House Mystery: The Complete Series

• Interiors | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £12.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (25.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Although indisputably a film by Woody Allen, Interiors is about as far from "a Woody Allen film" as you can get--and maybe more people could have seen what a fine film it is if they hadn't been expecting what Allen himself called "one of his earlier, funnier movies." An entirely serious, rather too self-consciously Bergmanesque drama about a divorcing elderly couple and their grown daughters, it is slow, meditative and constructed with a brilliant, artistic eye. There is no music--a simple effect that Allen uses with extraordinary power. In fact, half the film is filled with silent faces staring out of windows, yet the mood is so engaging, hypnotic even, that you never feel the director is poking you in the ribs and saying, "sombre atmosphere". Diane Keaton, released for once from the ditzy stereotype, shines as the "successful" daughter. Some of the dialogue is stilted and it's hard to tell whether this is a deliberate effect or simply the way repressed upscale New Yorkers talk after too many years having their self-absorption sharpened on the therapist's couch. Fanatical, almost childish self-regard is the chief subject of Allen's comedy--it's remarkable that in this film he was able to remove the comedy but leave room for us to pity and care about these rather irritating people. --Richard Farr

• Memoria | DVD | (25/07/2022) from £13.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the extraordinary mind of Palme d'Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, ˜Memoria' stars Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton as Jessica Holland, who, after hearing a loud ˜bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. She experiences auditory hallucinations and tries to find the sources of the sounds causing her insomnia. Soon, she begins to confront the unsettling sights and sounds that call her identity into question. Winner of the Jury Prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, Memoria offers a unique meditative exploration of memory and the human condition. Product Features Q&A with Simon Field - Tilda Swinton talks with Simon Field at the ICA as they discuss Memoria, from the film's inception, how she became involved, filming in Colombia, and how audiences have received the film worldwide (duration 30m). Photo gallery - A special selection of stills going behind the scenes of Memoria Memoria UK Theatrical trailer

• Short Term 12 | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £6.39   |  Saving you £10.86 (211.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson) a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers Short Term 12 is written and directed by Destin Cretton. Passionate and tough Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker Mason (John Gallagher Jr). But Grace's own difficult past and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself throw her into unforeseen confusion made all the sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility: a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection. While the subject matter is complex and often dark Short Term 12 finds truth and humour in unexpected places.

• Jeune & Jolie (Young and Beautiful) | DVD | (24/03/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written and Directed by Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool In The House) Jeune and Jolie (or Young and Beautiful) is a unique look at adolescent development into maturity. Whilst on holiday with her family seventeen year old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) experiences her first sexual relationship with an attractive young man named Felix (Lucas Prisor). A few days later and for no apparent reason Isabelle casts him aside and cuts off all contact with him behaving as if their encounter never happened. When she returns home to Paris Isabelle begins a dangerous new career; she sets up a profile on an escort website and lies about her age in order to make appointments with older wealthy clients in chic expensive hotel rooms. On the one hand she is a cool professional catering to the sexual whims of the various men she encounters; on the other she is maintaining the illusion of being a regular school student for her parents and friends. Her double life spirals out of control however when the unthinkable happens with one of her regular clients and she is forced to deal with the consequences of what she has been doing.

• Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £20.89   |  Saving you £-4.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A made-for-TV adaptation of Andy McNab's best-selling Bravo Two Zero--his account of a covert SAS mission in the Gulf War gone wrong. Sean Bean plays McNab, part of an eight-man team dropped behind enemy lines to sever communications lines. Things inevitably go wrong, however, and the team are captured and tortured, before making a variety of daring and amazing escapes. The story on which this film is based is certainly stirring, but it suffers from being generically at odds with the production values of a TV adaptation. The acting is wooden and the budget cannot provide the pyrotechnics or thrilling action sequences which action or war junkies may demand. At some points there are even unsuccessful attempts to blend parts of the staged drama with real documentary news footage. One might argue that the presentation of the SAS team as everyday, emotionally stunted lads, and their mission as gritty, downbeat and devoid of glamour is perhaps quite true to real-life events. It is also a huge novelty to see cinematic acknowledgement of British forces' participation in any conflict occurring in the last century. On the other hand, Bravo Two Zero undoubtedly appears quite dour when placed alongside a more flashy, Hollywood offering such as Three Kings. Nevertheless, SAS aficionados and fans of the novel will enjoy it immensely, if only to look at the way in which McNab's account presents Chris Ryan--author of a drastically different film and novel version of this incident, The One That Got Away--as a posturing, image-conscious coward. The video also includes an exclusive 22-minute interview with the author, Andy McNab. --Paul Philpott

• Witchhammer | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to give it to the midwife Groerová to heal her ailing cow. The young priest declares her a witch and convinces the Sumperk countess De Galle to summon the inquisitor Boblig from Edelstadt. This failed student of law sees the offer as a great opportunity. He uses torture and threats to force the women from the to testify to their meetings with the devil and learn by heart the lies he has made up for the inquisition tribunal. Boblig accuses the wealthy burghers of witchcraft as well, and so wants to seize their possessions.

• First Love | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this reworking of Cinderella orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school....

• Ben Hur | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Having swept the board at the Academy awards Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history winning eleven oscars in 1959 including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive $15 million budget this 1950s epic movie has always represented a cinematographic feat that has rarely been bettered.