Drama

• Dante's Cove | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The sexy young residents of Dante's Cove a peaceful beachside town are plunged into a world of intrigue secrets and shifting romantic ties when their town's sinister supernatural past comes alive.

• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £24.82   |  Saving you £-4.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit transfers wonderfully to the screen in this BBC adaptation (with a screenplay by Winterson). Jess is the adopted daughter of evangelical Christians living in the northwest of England in the 1960s. Her mother wants Jess to be a missionary, but when she falls in love with Melanie, Jess begins to realise that there is more to life than church. When Jess' mother begins to suspect the girls of "unnatural passions" she tries to destroy their relationship with the help of Pastor Finch (Kenneth Cranham) and his congregation. But their efforts--including a terrifying attempt at exorcism--only push Jess further away. Jess eventually understands that the only way to survive is to escape, and she sets her sights on a place at Oxford. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is both a broad comedy and a moving coming-of-age story. Charlotte Coleman is perfect as the teenage Jess, attempting to reconcile her religious devotion and her adolescent passion, but the film belongs to Geraldine McEwan as Jess' mother. McEwan obviously relishes Winterson's script, and she creates a character both monstrous, ridiculous and surprisingly sympathetic. It's a difficult role to carry off, but McEwan succeeds. Her performance is the high-point of this award-winning, provocative film. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com

• Impromptu | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There are Victorian country-house shenanigans aplenty in Impromptu: novelist George Sand (Judy Davis, affected but pretty charming) has eyes for Franz Liszt's young protégé Chopin (Hugh Grant, solid as always, but burdened by a silly Polish accent and a script that never lets him stretch out), but various lovers, jealous rivals, and Chopin's own overdeveloped sense of propriety conspire to confound her. Impromptu is witty but overlong--probably 20 minutes of hijinks and repartee, not to mention several completely gratuitous and redundant characters, could have been sliced from the film. Davis plays Sand as an impetuous, overgrown tomboy, outraging her genteel hosts by wearing pants, chomping cigars, and falling off horses; her coterie of artist-friends assure us, in a series of naked plot devices, that she nonetheless has a heart of gold. It's all good silly fun, and about as feminist as your average Def Leppard video--the other two developed female characters are ugly stereotypes: a featherbrained, feckless social climber (Emma Thompson, who once again proves she's up for anything) and a spiteful, back-stabbing shrew (the ever-capable Bernadette Peters). Director James Lapine clearly belongs to the Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman school of historical accuracy, so don't expect to learn anything about the period or the artists themselves. --Miles Bethany

• Empire Of The Sun - Special Edition | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £7.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (55.90%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg's least successful efforts, this very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall of China. What if you once had everything and lost it all in an afternoon? What if you were only 12 years old at the time? Bale's transformation, from pampered British ruling-class child to an imprisoned, desperate, nearly feral boy, is nothing short of stunning. Also stunning are exceptional sets, cinematography and music (the last courtesy of John Williams) that enhance author J.G. Ballard's and screenwriter Tom Stoppard's depiction of another, less familiar casualty of war. In a time when competitors were releasing "comedic", derivative coming-of-age films, Empire of the Sun stands out as an epic in the classic David Lean sense--despite confusion or perceived competition with the equally excellent The Last Emperor (also released in 1987, and also a coming-of-age in a similar setting). It is also a remarkable testament to, yes, the human spirit. And despite its disappointing box-office returns, Empire of the Sun helped to further establish Spielberg as more than a commercial director and set the standard, tone and look for future efforts Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. --N.F. Mendoza

• Law And Order - Series 4 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Powerful timely and gripping Law & Order has become one of television's most celebrated and widely acclaimed American crime series of all time. Get ready for another thrilling season of ripped-from-the-headlines cases as all 22 episodes of the gripping fourth season come to DVD for the first time ever. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sweeps 2. Volunteers 3. Discord 4. Profile 5. Black Tie 6. Pride and Joy 7. Apocrypha 8. American Dream 9. Born Bad 10. The Pursuit of Happiness

• The Four Minute Mile | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In 1954 four athletes across three continents were trying to run a mile under the milestone 4 minute mark - a feat then thought impossible. With two supremely gifted athletes emerging as front runners: England's Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy a race into the history books was on...Based on Roger Bannister's sporting achievement this film is a story of dedication perseverance and glory.

• Ecstacy | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-3.03 (-16.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ecstasy is a contemporary and relevant film about how drugs transcend all borders of society and affect every facet of our lives. But when it leaves it takes away your soul. A new party drug arrives on the rave scene in a college town and is consumed openly by young people. It's irresistible - making you feel invincible beautiful intelligent and loved. This haunting psychological thriller centers around a mother's struggle to save her daughters from going down the same dark path she once took a handsome jock's (Charlie Bewley from Twilight: New Moon) misplaced faith in God stemming from the temptations that surrounds him and three college girls' horrific experience with their drug-induced guilt fears and demons.

• Call Me Claus | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Call Me Claus is a hysterically delightful and touching story starring Whoopi Goldberg and featuring Nigel Hawthorne as Santa Claus himself. Lucy Cullins (Goldberg) is a cranky volatile producer at a home shopping network in charge of hiring the station's on-air Santa Claus. Nigel Hawthorne is the ""real"" Santa Claus who finding himself at the end of his 200-year contract must convince Lucy that she is the perfect candidate to fill his shoes.

• King's Game | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £28.53   |  Saving you £-10.54 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An ambitious journalist gets caught up in political intrigue in this Swedish drama.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 Part 2 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £5.34   |  Saving you £34.65 (648.88%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The second half of CSI's first year takes Grissom and his untiring team down some darker paths than before. Nick finally gives in to his urges and sleeps with the hooker who has a crush on him in "Boom"--with predictably disastrous consequences. Sarah is badly affected by the rape and attempted murder of an unknown woman in "Too Tough to Die"; and even Grissom is shaken when dealing with the sudden death of an infant in "Gentle, Gentle". The final episode of the year, "Strip Strangler", is a real shocker, as the team track a brutal serial killer. Elsewhere, the morbid business of investigating corpses and crime scenes is enlivened with flashes of welcome humour: when a horse is found dead with packets of uncut diamonds concealed in its uterus, Grissom deadpans "This horse is a mule". Throughout, the show remains focused on its scientific remit, only revealing enough of the characters' private lives to provide added piquancy to each investigation: Sarah's complete lack of a life outside her work; Warrick's old gambling habit; Catherine's attachment to her daughter and troubles with ex-husband Eddie; Nick's over-eagerness to please. Grissom, meanwhile, like the Dalai Lama, is the model of inscrutable wisdom. The show itself, like a millennial antidote to a decade of X-Files, is relentlessly empirical: everything that initially seems mysterious--from spontaneous human combustion to an apparent case of vampirism--is always explicable and explained by the team's scientific dedication. On the DVD: CSI, Series 1 Part 2 contains 11 episodes on three discs. Extra features consist of a brief promo featurette, production notes and a series of on-set interviews with the cast. Oddly for such a cutting-edge show, picture is old-fashioned 4:3 with basic Dolby stereo sound. --Mark Walker

• Brideshead Revisited | Blu Ray | (09/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of the most important novels of the 20th Century is brought back to life in this lush period drama.

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 2 | DVD | (27/12/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £20.01 (401.81%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This double DVD contains all six episodes of the second series of Rumpole Of The Bailey that starred Leo McKern as the eccentric Old Bailey defence lawyer. Rumpole is set a wide range of challenges including in the first case 'Rumpole and the Man of God' defending a vicar who is in court on a shoplifting charge. Rumpole is also called in to defend a man who claims that his arrest was a case of mistaken identity as well as a known fascist who is facing a charge under the Race Relations Act and a naive young teacher accused of seducing one of his students. It's not an easy life for the lawyer as all the time Rumpole is also trying to stay on top of the day to day shenanigans at chambers whilst constantly endeavouring to pacify wife she who must be obeyed.

• Beautiful Stranger | Blu Ray | (06/05/2019) from £8.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers makes her British film debut in this rarely-seen crime drama from the early 1950s. Directed by David Miller - then riding high with his American noir classic Sudden Fear! - and co-starring Herbert Lom and a young Stanley Baker, Beautiful Stranger is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Johnny Victor, a gorgeous ex-actress, lives in luxury on the French Riviera courtesy of Louis Galt - a wealthy businessman with global interests. But Louis' fortune is built on crime and his possessive mania brings about a train of violence from which death is the only certain outcome... Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Hideous Kinky | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hideous Kinky journeys back to the early 1970s to Marrakesh, that hippy mecca for everyone from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Gillies MacKinnon, the director of this movie. Here you'll find one nice but confused middle-class young woman escaping the daily grind of a drab London with her two young daughters in tow. Whereas Esther Freud's book was told from the younger girl's perspective, the film-script places Julia centre-stage as she searches for what she describes wistfully as "the annihilation of the ego". Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to her role and looking fetching swathed in diaphanous layers. As her two daughters, Bella Riza (Bea, the wide-eyed younger one) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy, the sensible one) are brilliant discoveries--unselfconscious, charmingly quirky and enjoying a camaraderie that belies their difference in characters. Completing the family unit is Julia's lover, the endearingly unreliable Bilal (a fiery performance from Saïd Taghmaoui). When the money runs out, their adventures begin and the resilience and practicality of the girls is contrasted throughout with the dreaminess of their mother, her sense of duty vying with her quest for self-discovery. Visually, it's a veritable feast as we're pitched from the colour and cacophony of the market-place to the dusty harshness of the mountains. And that elusive title--which is never explained in the film--is in fact a phrase coined by the girls as a term of approbation.--Harriet Smith

• Noble | DVD | (15/02/2016) from £7.66   |  Saving you £8.33 (108.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vietnam. 1989. Fourteen years after the end of the war. When Irish-woman Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) she leaves behind an extraordinary life story. But the best is yet to come. Christina lands in a country that she wouldn t be able to show you on a map . With a few dollars, a dream and her own hard-won abilities, she is about to change everything, for hundreds of thousands of people. Shifting between past and present, the film concentrates on Christina s strength of character, as she uses music and humour to pursue a seemingly impossible dream, always following her motto that a little insane goes a long way.

• Hung Season 1 (HBO) | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £9.80   |  Saving you £30.19 (308.06%)   |  RRP £39.99

  At first glance Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) seems like an ordinary divorced dad who's trying to make ends meet. But Ray's got one extraordinary God-given gift - call it his winning tool - that sets him apart from other underpaid high-school teachers. With a little help from an unlikely business ally named Tanya (Jane Adams) Ray is about to hatch an inspired plan to ride his winning tool all the way to a more productive debt-free life.

• Regarding Henry | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ruthless lawyer Henry Turner is left an amnesiac after being shot when caught up in a store robbery. Trying to rebuild his life Henry must learn to walk again tie his shoelaces and become a better husband...

• Entourage - Season 1-8 Complete | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £14.96   |  Saving you £85.03 (568.38%)   |  RRP £99.99

  His Fame Is Their Fortune.Your best friend's star is rising in Hollywood, and there's only one thing to do: join his entourage. Meet Eric, Turtle and Johnny Drama: three guys from Queens dedicated to helping their film-star buddy Vincent Chase navigate the absurdities of modern-day Hollywood - where sex, parties and super-agents rule the town.

• Hamlet | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Hamlet' is part of a unique collection of some of the finest dramatic masterpieces in the English language. Originally broadcast on BBC Television and highly acclaimed worldwide.

• Forget Me Not | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Forget Me Not is a moving modern day love story set against a stunning London backdrop. Taking place over the course of one night and the following day the story centres on Will Fletcher a passionate musician and Eve Fisher a beautiful free-spirited woman who works in the local bar. Whilst struggling to cope with a tragic secret Will saves Eve from a drunken customer at closing time and their paths become inextricably linked. Intrigued by one another they journey through London not knowing what the night holds or what the day may bring. As dawn turns to light on the London Eye and the two draw ever closer can Will reveal the truth to Eve?