Drama

• Devil's Rock | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A blood-soaked vision of hell on earth The Devil's Rock is already being hailed as a modern horror masterpiece. On the eve of the D Day landings allied commandos set out to raid enemy positions in the English Channel. Approaching a German bunker during a night-time raid they hear mysterious noises and are compelled to investigate. Inside they find dismembered corpses strewn across the floors and occult symbols covering every surface. Only two beings remain alive - a Gestapo officer tasked with raising the forces of hell to fight for the Nazi cause and his demon slave hungry for human flesh.

• Sandra Bullock Box Set | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £25.17   |  Saving you £4.82 (19.15%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: The Blind Side: Teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is surviving on his own virtually homeless when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock). Learning that the young man is one of her daughter's classmates Leigh Anne insists that Michael-wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter-come out of the cold. Without a moment's hesitation she invites him to stay at the Tuohy home for the night. What starts out as a gesture of kindness turns into something more as Michael becomes part of the Tuohy family despite the differences in their backgrounds. Living in his new environment the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. And as the family helps Michael fulfill his potential both on and off the football field Michael's presence in the Tuohys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Two Weeks Notice: Attorney Lucy Kelson wants to save the world. Instead she's choosing ties and interviewing prospective girlfriends for her handsome and hapless billionaire boss George Wade. Is this why she got a Harvard Law degree? Lucy's fed up so she submits her notice. But Wade - with an assist from Cupid - has other plans. Miss Congeniality: Sandra Bullock stars as a bumbling female FBI agent assigned to go undercover as a participant in the Miss United States beauty pageant when it is discovered that one of the contestants is being targeted for murder. Benjamin Bratt leads the undercover team while also playing the reluctant love interest. Candice Bergen and William Shatner manage the pageant and hire Michael Caine to turn Bullock from rough and tumble agent to stunning beauty queen. The physical transformation is impressive although the klutzy personality remains. Everything seems to be fine once the killer is suddenly caught but Bullock suspects there is more to this story and the truth eventually unfolds with an unexpected twist. The Lakehouse: How do you hold on to someone you've never met? An independent-minded doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves). When they discover that they're actually living two years apart they must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (25/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel set in the 19th century of Bathsheba Everdene and the three very different men who come to love her...

• Farewell My Lovely | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £26.89   |  Saving you £-19.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Of all the Philip Marlowes, Robert Mitchum's in Farewell, My Lovely resonates most deeply. That's because this is Marlowe past his prime, and Mitchum imbues Raymond Chandler's legendary private detective with a sense of maturity as well as a melancholy spirit. And yet there is plenty of Mitchum's renowned self-deprecating humour and charismatic charm to remind us of his own iconic presence. As in the previous 1944 film version, Murder, My Sweet, Marlowe searches all over L.A. for the elusive girlfriend of ex-con Moose Malloy, a loveable giant who might as well be King Kong. In typical Chandler fashion, the weary Marlowe uncovers a hotbed of lust, corruption and betrayal. Like Malloy, he's disillusioned by it all, despite his tough exterior, and possesses a tinge of sentimentality for the good old days. About the only current dream he can hold onto is Joe DiMaggio and his fabulous hitting streak. Made in 1975, a year after Chinatown (shot by the same cinematographer, John Alonzo), Farewell, My Lovely is more straightforward and nostalgic, but still possesses a requisite hard-boiled edge, and the best kind of angst the 1970s had to offer. (By the way, you will notice Sylvester Stallone in a rather violent cameo, a year before his Rocky breakthrough.) --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

• Bleak House | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £50.18   |  Saving you £-10.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This BBC production of a Dickens' 1852 classic brings to life a host of famous characters. It is at the Court of Chancery London where the Jarndyce versus Jarndyce case has dragged on for many years. As new evidence is brought out in court a long line of innocent victims are ground down by this suit.

• Hidden Fortress | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of rival clans hidden gold and a princess in distress The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa's first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope and he exploited this to the full in the film's rich variety of landscape locations including the slopes of Mount Fuji. The Hidden Fortress became Kurosawa's biggest box-office hit to date and won several awards including the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin Film Fest

• The Edge Of The World | Blu Ray | (23/08/2010) from £9.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (153.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shot over four arduous months in the wild windswept Shetland Islands Michael Powell's first independent production establishes the daring techniques and experimentation that would later become familiar hallmarks of his career. The Edge of the World tells the moving story of a remote island and its inhabitants whose traditions and way of life are threatened by a rapidly industrialising world. This brand new digital restoration has been created from the original 35mm negative and personally supervised by Powell's widow Thelma Schoonmaker - Martin Scorcese's long -time editor.

• Supremacy | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Just hours after release from a 14-yr prison bid, Aryan brotherhood member, Tully panics and kills a sheriff's deputy during a routine traffic stop. He and his accomplice storm the first farmhouse they reach and take the only black family in the neighborhood hostage. The family patriarch, Mr. Walker who is an ex-con himself, vows to resolve the stand-off by himself. After a series of thwarted rescue/escape attempts, the two ex-cons begin their test of wills.

• Daddy's Little Girls | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £12.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A mechanic (Idris Elba: Thor The Wire) enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney (Gabrielle Union: Bad Boys II) while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boy friend. Along the way the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. This is a simple touching story of two people trying to overcome their different backgrounds to find love a down-on-his-luck man struggling to protect his children from abuse and neglect and a community looking to purge itself from the criminals terrorising their neighbourhood.

• Midsomer Murders - Four Funerals and a Wedding | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  At the Skimmington Fayre openly misogynistic Reverend Anthony Gant is shot dead not long after his cousin Mildred Danvers has passed away in the night. Barnaby is not convinced that Mildred died from natural causes. With the long standing battle of the sexes coming to a head at the Skimmington Fayre it is impossible to fathom who has not got a motive for murder. It takes a photograph and a cognitive leap for Barnaby to solve this mystery.

• Black Venus | Blu Ray | (21/05/2018) from £10.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Between Couscous, winner of three César Awards, and the Cannes triumph of Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche made Black Venus, a stark portrait of the life of Saartjie Baartman, also known as the ˜Hottentot Venus'. Baartman was taken from South African home as a 21-year-old and shipped to Georgian London, where she would be caged and exhibited as a freak show. Presented semi-nude, her physique especially her large buttocks was the source of much curiosity. But as her ˜fame' spread, so too did her exploitation Centred on a remarkable performance by Cuban actor Yahima Torres as Baartman, Black Venus provides a bleak but barbed exploration of sex, science, race, colonialism and social attitudes. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Optional 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks Optional English subtitles Brand-new appreciation of Black Venus and the cinema of Abdellatif Kechiche by critic Neil Young Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring and original newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Will Higbee, author of Post-Beur Cinema: North African Émigré and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France Since 2000

• The Count Of Monte Cristo - The Complete Series | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Count Of Monte-Cristo: The Complete Series (5 Discs)

• Running Free | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £10.22   |  Saving you £12.76 (176.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in northern Africa at the beginning of World War I, Running Free is an unusual movie narrated by a horse, voiced by Lukas Haas (Witness). While the gambit works for the most part, let's face it, some sentences ("I had to find my place in the world") just sound silly coming from equine lips. Lucky, as he is called, is born on an African-bound ship but is separated from his mother when the horses swim for shore and the new colt simply can't keep up. While mum and the rest of the gang are sent to work in the mines, Lucky is discovered by a young orphan who works as a stable hand. The mother-son pair are briefly reunited, but the stable's stallion, Caesar, fatally injures her. The high-born Caesar also prevents his own foal, Beauty, from seeing Lucky and eventually forces the colt out on his own. The dour indignities heaped upon this horse, including a heart-wrenching parting with the boy, last for about an hour of this 78-minute film before events begin to shift and Lucky is able to live up to his name. Although the film is rated suitable for all viewers, horse death, graphic fighting and cruelty toward the boy might be overwhelming to young or sensitive children. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

• Quai Des Brumes (DVD) (Digitally Restored) | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £10.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (46.03%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, the inimitable team of director Marcel Carne and writer Jacques Prevert deliver a quintessential example of poetic realism, one of the classics of the golden age of French cinema.Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, when acts of both revenge and kindness turn him into front-page news.Also starring the blue-eyed phenomenon Michele Morgan in her first major role, and the menacing Michel Simon, Port Of Shadows (Le Quai des brumes) starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies.

• Undisputed | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £6.47   |  Saving you £8.52 (131.68%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In Undisputed, Rocky gets a prison-block makeover and the generic combination packs a vicious one-two punch. Owing much to the macho, gut-busting B-movies of Hollywood's golden age, this no-nonsense drama gets right down to business, beginning when heavyweight champ "Iceman" Chambers (Ving Rhames) enters Sweetwater prison on a rape charge. The prison has a boxing programme, and convicted killer Monroe Hutchen (Wesley Snipes) is the 10-year undefeated champion. A challenge bout is coordinated by an aging mobster prisoner (Peter Falk) and the head guard (Michael Rooker), and Undisputed pummels its way to its brutal and unpredictable conclusion. Colourful characters abound (foul-mouthed Falk is the hilarious standout), and seasoned director Walter Hill (coscripting with his Alien partner David Giler) brings them together with invigorating focus. There's not an ounce of fat on this tough-minded movie, and even its inevitable outcome seems freshly unexpected. Obviously inspired by Mike Tyson's ill-fated escapades, Undisputed turns fact into potent cell-block fiction. --Jeff Shannon

• Stonewall | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £7.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (92.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stonewall is a drama about a fictional young man caught up during the 1969 Stonewall riots. Danny Winters is kicked out of his parents home and flees to New York, where he befriends Ray and a group of street kids. As Danny and his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, we see a rage begin to build. This emotion runs through the entire community of young gays, lesbians, drag queens and trans people who populate the Stonewall Inn and erupts in a storm of anger. With the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born.

• My Name Is Joe | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'My Name Is Joe' is a slice of life so raw that you can see the blood dripping off it and as in real life it mixes humour passion tragedy and violence in equal measure. Joe is a recovering alcoholic and has done a few things in his past which he'd rather forget. Like most people he knows he's out of work but he keeps sane by coaching the self-styled worst football team in Glasgow. When one of Joe's players Liam gets involved with some local gangsters a chain of events is set in motion which not only threatens the lives of those concerned but also comes between Joe's budding love affair with social worker Sarah.

• Mysterious Skin | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Off-beat indie drama. Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet) went missing for five hours when he was eight-years-old an event that he remains convinced was the result of alien abduction. In the same small Kansas town teenage hustler Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a confused outsider with a promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue) and who was abused as a child by his Little League coach (Bill Sage). Locked into their own obsessions both young men pursue a self-destructive path that will lead them towards each other and will result in each of them trying to exorcise the demons of their past. Also starring Michelle Trachtenberg.

• Walker | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £5.89   |  Saving you £4.10 (69.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

• The Firm | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £22.85   |  Saving you £-6.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bex a seemingly respectable estate agent is also a football hooligan and general of a notorious gang of thugs. Determined to lead a national ""firm"" into Europe Bex brings together rival gangs. But in taking on Yeti he gets more than he bargained for.