Drama

• The Great Gatsby (1974) | Blu Ray | (29/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps no movie could capture F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby in its entirety, but this adaptation, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, is certainly a handsome try, putting costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he lost. And Sam Waterston is perfect as the narrator, Nick, who brings the dream girl Daisy Buchanan back to Gatsby. The problem seems to be that director Jack Clayton fell in love with the flapper dresses and the party scenes and the jazz age tunes, ending up with a Classics Illustrated version of a great book rather than a fresh, organic take on the text. While Redford grows more quietly intriguing in the film, Mia Farrow's pallid performance as Daisy leaves you wondering why Gatsby, or anyone else, should care so much about his grand passion. The effective supporting cast includes Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband, and Scott Wilson and Karen Black as the low-rent couple whose destinies cross the sun-drenched protagonists. (That's future star Patsy Kensit as Daisy's little daughter.) The film won two Oscars--not surprisingly, for costumes and musical score. --Robert Horton

• Nomads | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jean Claude Pommier (Pierce Brosnan) is an anthropologist who has spent years travelling the globe, studying the phenomenon of Nomads, mythical supernatural creatures. Pommier then gets murdered after believing that he has discovered their existence in Los Angeles. Before he dies, he reveals his secret to a young doctor (Lesley-Anne Down). Following his death, the doctor has visions of how Pommier followed a street gang as they conducted random acts of violence, only to discover that they were in reality Eskimo spirits that walk the Earth in human form…

• Home And Away - The Romances | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hosted by Beau Brady the Home and Away: The Romances DVD relives the show's most memorable romances featuring footage from classic and current episodes spanning the last eighteen years of the show. See love blossom in the Summer Bay and experience the first meetings good and bad dates first kisses and see which couples live happily ever after. Take a sneak peek at some unforgettable moments and see who pops the question to their beloved!

• The Front (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What if there were a list? A list that said: Our finest actors weren't allowed to act. Our best writers aren't allowed to write. Our funniest comedians aren't allowed to make us laugh. What would it be like if there were such a list? It would be like America in 1953. Special Features 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman and actress Andrea Marcovicci Behind The Front (2004, 6 mins): an interview with the acclaimed director of photography Michael Chapman Isolated score: experience Dave Grusin's original soundtrack music Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• London's Burning - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £19.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete second series of ITV's London's Burning which followed the lives and tribulations of Blackwall Fire Station's Blue Watch. Viewers loved the quirky but human characters that put their lives on the line with every episode and this set features some of the most fondly remembered including female fire-fighter Josie Ingham 'Bayleaf' 'Sicknote' and 'Charisma'. This set features all eight episodes of the second series originally transmitted in 1989.

• Lilith (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final film by the great, yet underrated Robert Rossen (All the King's Men; The Hustler) is a compelling tale of love, madness, and forbidden desire. Warren Beatty (Mickey One; The Fortune) stars as a young war veteran who takes a job as on orderly in a local asylum and falls under the spell of beautiful schizophrenic, Lilith (Jean Seberg A Bout de souffle; Bonjour Tristesse). Boasting a superb supporting cast that includes Peter Fonda, Jessica Walter, Gene Hackman and Kim Hunter, Rossen's delicate and powerful film is one of the most under-appreciated American films of the 1960s. Extras: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The Guardian Interview with Warren Beatty (1990): archival audio recording of the celebrated actor in conversation with Christopher Cook at London's National Film Theatre The Suffering Screen (2019): a visual essay by journalist and author Amy Simmons which explores cinema's enduring fascination with female madness The Many Faces of Jean Seberg (2019): critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson explores the career of the famed actor Theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by lecturer and broadcaster Richard Combs, an overview of contemporary critical responses, archival articles, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray All extras subject to change Format Blu-ray

• Great Gatsby - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby the dashing enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and spoilt Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) in an era in which recklessness with money liquor women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness...

• The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The issues broached in the first series have striking, often prescient contemporary relevance. We see the President having to be talked down from a "disproportionate response" when terrorists shoot down a plane carrying his personal doctor, or acting as broker in a dangerous stand-off between India and Pakistan. Gun control laws, gays in the military, Fundamentalist pressure groups are all addressed--the latter in a most satisfying manner ("Get your fat asses out of the White House!")--while the episode "Take This Sabbath Day" is a superb dramatic meditation on Capital punishment. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. This is wonderful and addictive viewing.--David Stubbs

• Jack The Giant Slayer | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £3.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend... and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

• Mr Jones | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Richard Gere is pretty convincing as a severe manic-depressive whose episodes of euphoria sometimes find him dancing on a two-by-four far above the street or climbing onstage during a symphony performance to "conduct" the orchestra. When the pendulum swings the other way, he is practically catatonic. As a character study, this film by Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) has its truly compelling moments, but Mr. Jones isn't just a character study. Inexplicably, the film ushers in a preposterous romance between this poor fellow and his psychiatrist (Lena Olin). Delroy Lindo has a nice part as a sympathetic construction worker who tries to help Gere's character. --Tom Keogh

• Edward II | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe Edward II continues to bestow honours on Gaveston a commoner. Queen Isabella upset and mortified conspires to overthrow the King. Murder and civil war ensue...

• Heaven Can Wait | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The whimsical comedy-romance Heaven Can Wait is a delightful example of the small sub-genre of afterlife comedies. The film, which teams then lovers Warren Beatty and Julie Christie for a third time following McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) and Shampoo (1975), is not a remake of the 1943 supernatural film of the same name, but of the Robert Montgomery classic Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941). Here Beatty is American football player Joe Pendleton, who accidentally dies, decades too early, and is incarnated in a new body which, until recently, was occupied by a ruthless multi-millionaire. James Mason is superb as a most authoritative angel (Mr Jordan), heading a fine cast including Charles Grodin, Buck Henry and Jack Warden. In a sub-plot paralleling The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and revisited in You've Got Mail (1998), Julie Christie plays an English woman outraged that one of the former millionaire's companies is destroying her village, while simultaneously falling in love with the man now occupying the hated millionaire's mortal coil. Much comic and romantic misunderstanding follows, as well as some appealing slapstick, courtesy of Dyan Cannon. Aided by a lovely musical score by Dave Grusin, this is a beautifully played and thoroughly charming bittersweet fantasy about the transcendent power of love. It is a joy for romantics everywhere. On the DVD: Heaven Can Wait comes to DVD in a good 1.77:1 ratio transfer which exhibits just a little grain in some darker scenes. The print shows some very minor, occasional damage, but nothing to complain about in a film of this vintage. The sound is the original mono mix, which is perfectly serviceable. The only extra is the theatrical trailer. --Gary S Dalkin

• Flawless | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this drama about a hardened cop who suffers a heart attack and undertakes singing lessons from his transvestite neighbour to aid his recovery.

• Nightwatching | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From visionary writer/director Peter Greenaway, comes a thrilling period drama, told with irony and wit, exploring the romantic and professional life of Rembrandt, the greatest artist of his generation.

• Murder Rooms – The Patient's Eyes -  The Mysteries of the real Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (24/05/2021) from £8.06   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• God's Pocket | DVD | (12/01/2015) from £2.89   |  Saving you £12.10 (418.68%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mickey (Philip Seymour-Hoffman) makes ends-meet by partaking in petty crime and gambling with his friend Arthur (John Turturro) and then spending most of it in the local flea-pit bar before stumbling home to his long-suffering wife Jeanie (Christina Hendricks). When his mentally unstable step-son Leon is killed by a co-worker on a construction site – a crime that is quickly covered up and explained away as an ‘accident’ nobody in the depressed blue collar neighbourhood of God’s Pocket is particularly sorry except of course his own mother. Mickey tries to bury the bad news along with the body but when Jeanie demands the truth Mickey finds himself stuck in a struggle between a body he can’t bury a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay .

• McCallum - Complete Series One & Two | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ...Most doctors heal bodies. They cure the sick. By the time they reach McCallum it's too late... Too late perhaps for a cure. Too late for an early diagnosis to save the life of the poor wretch on the cold steel slab. But not too late to solve the puzzle to right a wrong... to make a bit of difference in this bad hard world. Titles Include: Key To My Heart: Forensic pathologist Dr Iain McCallum examines the body of a Vietnamese banker that has washed ashore. Later he has a sexual encounter with a female police officer. When she is found murdered McCallum performs her autopsy and begins investigating her death. His involvement with the police investigation becomes problematic when he becomes the prime suspect. Sacrifice: When the body of a well-known baker and supposed loving family man turns up at the bottom of a flight of stairs inside his shop it looks like an accident. McCallum carries out a post mortem and discovers that the family has lied about the circumstances leading to the man's death. Touch: McCallum carries out a post mortem on a young Brazilian prostitute found dead with signs of having been scalded. McCallum finds that she died from a 'superbug' bacterial infection and that she had previously suffered from two drug-induced heart attacks. Dead But Still Breathing: A killer with a grudge against McCallum attempts to exact revenge with a combination of poison and threatening telephone calls. City Of The Dead: McCallum's absence from a crime scene results in Maloney working an extra shift even though it means she will have gone without sleep for more than 48 hours. When she attempts to drive to the crime scene Maloney strikes an elderly man with her car. Believing herself guilty of death by dangerous driving Maloney does not try to defend herself against the charge. McCallum however works feverishly to find evidence indicating Maloney was not responsible for the man's death. Harvest: A mutilated body is found in a sewer and then more turn up all with graze marks and organs missing. McCallum is soon convinced that a serial killer is at work. Dead Men's Fingers: Clare Gilmour has moved on from her stint in pathology and into hospital work. However when Clare dies suddenly it is revealed that she is pregnant McCallum finds himself under suspicion when Clare names him as the father of the child in her diary. Running On Empty: Two bodies are sent to pathology. Although both victims suffered from anorexia nothing more suspicious is found. McCallum though looks more closely after they are broken into and vital samples are stolen. Beyond Good & Evil: Dr. Gallagher goes on the hunt for the necrophilia-like murderers of two women who have kidnapped his girlfriend. Will he get to her in time or will she become their latest victim?

• Human Stain | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How far would you go to escape the past? Coleman Silk (Hopkins) is a respectable college professor whose life is thrown into turmoil when his affair with a janitor (Kidman) is discovered...

• One From the Heart: Reprise | DVD | (04/03/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Crazy Heart | Blu Ray | (14/06/2010) from £7.97   |  Saving you £17.02 (68.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. In London cinemas from 19 February, nationwide from 5 March.