Drama

• The Descendants / Sideways Double Pack | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £4.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (173.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The DescendantsOnly Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways) would think to cast the famously handsome George Clooney as a dishevelled dad in his outstanding adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings's tragicomic novel. Clooney dials down the glamour to play Matt King, a Hawaii real-estate attorney with a propensity for unflattering shirts and ill-fitting trousers. When Matt's wife, Elizabeth, ends up in a coma after a water-skiing accident, Matt must learn to balance the parenting of his resentful daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), with the sale of a pristine plot of Kauai land that stands to make the King cousins, including scruffy Hugh (Beau Bridges), a fortune. As Elizabeth's condition worsens, Matt contacts friends and relatives, like her fiercely protective father (Robert Forster), so that they'll have the chance to say goodbye. In the process, he finds out she was having an affair with realtor Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard, effectively cast against type), so he and the girls, including Alex's hilariously mellow friend, Sid (Nick Krause), go on an island-hopping trip, ostensibly to add Brian to the mix, but Matt really wants to find out what his wife saw in the guy. His journey from naiveté to knowledge brings out Clooney's soulful side, creating a believably flawed, deeply sympathetic figure. If Payne leans too heavily on the slack-key soundtrack, his love for his characters, including Judy Greer as Matt's female counterpart, results in his most emotionally satisfying movie to date. --Kathleen C. Fennessy SidewaysWith Sideways, Paul Giamatti (American Splendor, Storytelling) has become an unlikely but engaging romantic lead. Struggling novelist and wine connoisseur Miles (Giamatti) takes his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church, Wings) on a wine-tasting tour of California vineyards for a kind of extended bachelor party. Almost immediately, Jack's insatiable need to sow some wild oats before his marriage leads them in into double-dates with a rambunctious wine pourer (Sandra Oh, Under the Tuscan Sun) and a recently divorced waitress (Virginia Madsen, The Hot Spot)--and Miles discovers a little hope that he hasn't let himself feel in a long time. Sideways is a modest but finely tuned film; with gentle compassion, it explores the failures, struggles, and lowered expectations of mid-life. Giamatti makes regret and self-loathing sympathetic, almost sweet. From the director of Election and About Schmidt. --Bret Fetzer

• Manifesto | DVD | (19/03/2018) from £3.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto (2016) pays homage to the moving tradition and literary beauty of artistic manifestos, ultimately questioning the role of the artist in society today. Manifesto draws on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Suprematists, Situationists, Dogma 95 and other artist groups, and the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers. Passing the ideas of Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Sturtevant, Sol LeWitt, Jim Jarmusch, and other creators through his lens, Rosefeldt has edited and reassembled thirteen collages of artists' manifestos. Performing these ˜new manifestos' as a contemporary call to action, while inhabiting thirteen different personas among them a school teacher, a puppeteer, a newsreader, a factory worker and a homeless man Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett imbues new dramatic life into both famous and lesser-known words in unexpected contexts. Rosefeldt's film reveals the performative component and the political significance of these declarations. Often written in youthful rage, they not only express the wish to change the world through art but also reflect the voice of a generation. Exploring the powerful urgency of these historical statements, which were composed with passion and conviction by artists many years ago, Manifesto questions whether the words and sentiments have withstood the passage of time. Can they be applied universally? And how have the dynamics between politics, art and life shifted?

• The Serpent's Egg | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abel Rosenberg (Carradine) is a circus acrobat out of work and living in a defeated Germany after the First World War. He takes a job at the Veregus Clinic and there he finds the truth behind the work of the Professor Veregus (Bennett) work that led to his own brother committing suicide...

• Capote / In Cold Blood (Box Set) | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £17.21   |  Saving you £7.78 (45.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Capote (Dir. Bennett Miller ): In November 1959 the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. With his childhood friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) writer of the soon-to-be published To Kill a Mockingbird Capote sets out to investigate winning over the locals despite his flamboyant appearance and style. When he forms a bond with the killers and their execution date nears the writing of In Cold Blood a book that will change the course of American Literature takes a drastic toll on Capote changing him in ways he never imagined. In Cold Blood (Dir. Richard Brooks 1967): Richard Brooks' stylish and powerful 1967 drama adapted from Truman Capote's novel about a shocking real-life murder case. This daring cinematic portrait employs flashbacks to fully examine what drives an individual to commit thoughtless and brutal crimes while using a highly innovative jazz score by Quincy Jones to capture the moody atmosphere. A prosperous and respected Kansas farmer his wife and his two teenage children are wantonly and brutally slaughtered. The murderers are two mindless ex-convict drifters. Neither man is sane enough to regret their crime. The story penetrates the inner workings of the criminals' minds as it follows their purposeless meandering through Mexico and the United States in evasion of the law...

• Rush | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What happens when two cops stop loving their job...and start living it? 'Rush' is an emotionally riveting powerful and unsparing film (scripted by novelist Pete Dexter) exposing the plight of two narcotics officers who cross the line and become enmeshed in the dangerous but intoxicating underbelly of the drug world. Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh give rich full-blooded performances as undercover officers Jim Raynor and Kristen Cates partners who become lovers and add

• A Family At War | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  "Family Guy" revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures.

• It Happened To Jane | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, and Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs (hiding behind a skullcap and a huge cigar), the "meanest man in America." Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-suitor Lemmon, gains national headlines. This is a curious movie: crucial scenes seem to have been left unwritten, while sequences involving Cub Scouts and an oddly impassioned Town Hall Meeting go on endlessly. Director Richard Quine was making some fun movies around this time (Bell, Book, and Candle), but the fizz is only intermittent here, mostly provided by Lemmon's jack-in-the-box youthfulness. Doris sings a couple of tunes and brings her downhome tomboy routine to New York City, where the movie employs some of the quaint TV personalities of the day. --Robert Horton

• Secret People | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn stars in her first significant role as an ingénue whose sister becomes ensnared in a web of intrigue and political assassination in this classic Ealing drama from Oscar-nominated director Thorold Dickinson. Co-starring noted European actors Valentina Cortese giving a sensitive, critically-acclaimed performance and Serge Reggiani, Secret People is presented here as a High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Relocated due to increasing danger in their southern European homeland, sisters Maria and Nora settle in London with Maria leaving Louis, the young man she loves, to carry on the fight. In a chance meeting several years later Louis plays on Maria's love for him to involve her in a plot to bomb the man responsible for her father's death a plot that doesn't go to plan. Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Sarah's Key | Blu Ray | (28/11/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (14.95%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Captivating and emotionally powerful, SARAH'S KEY tells the remarkable story of one woman's journey into the past to unveil the truth behind her family's secret. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's best-selling novel.

• Forrest Gump (4K UHD) | 4K UHD | (11/06/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES... YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET. Experience FORREST GUMP in stunning high definition, accompanied by over two hours of dynamic bonus features. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. Alongside his mamma (Sally Field), his best friend Bubba (Mykelti Williamson), and his favourite girl Jenny (Robin Wright), Forrest has a ringside seat for the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Winner of six Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks), FORREST GUMP remains one of the great movie triumphs of all time. Special Features: Commentary with Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Rick Carter Commentary with Wendy Finerman Musical Signposts to History Introduction (by Ben Fong-Torres) And much much more!

• A Time To Love And A Time To Die | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel 'A Time to Love and a Time to Die' Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is set in the devastating ruin of burnt-out Germany during the final days of World War Two. Amid this tumult and desolation is Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) who having been sent home on leave from the Russian front finds his town destroyed by Allied bombing. Frantically searching for his parents Ernst encounters his childhood friend Elizabeth Kruse (Lilo Pulver) the daughter of a doctor who has been removed to a concentration camp. In spite of the horror of their surroundings and their close proximity to death Ernst and Elizabeth find hope in their love for one another. Together they try to wrest sanity from a world shattered by fear and hatred. Featuring a cameo appearance by the novel's author Sirk's penultimate film brought him to the attention of critics and theorists worldwide. A Time to Love and a Time to Die stars the American film and TV heart throb businessman and diplomat John Gavin (Pyscho Spartacus Imitation of Life) Keenan Wynn (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Once Upon a Time in the West) Lilo Pulver & Jock Mahoney.

• Everybody's Fine | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £16.08   |  Saving you £-4.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  "Everybody's Fine," follows a widower (De Niro) who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children only to discover that their lives are far from picture perfect.

• Arthur's Whisky Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (13/05/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A coming-of-age story with a twist. A charming, feel-good comedy about living in the moment. The film follows Joan who, after her husband dies, is shocked to discover he had invented an elixir that makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three women paint the town red but soon discover that they are no longer equipped to be young in the modern world.

• Selena | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £13.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The story of life of Mexican 'Tejano' style singer Selena Quintanilla and the progress of her career resulting in her tragic death at the early age of just 23.

• Secret People | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £13.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (21.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A dark and suspenseful drama set in 1930s London. Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European minister. Seven years later during a weekend trip to Paris Maria unexpectedly meets Louis her former lover who is now plotting the assassination of the same minister. Maria and Nora become involved in the plan which goes tragically wrong when the bomb they plant kills an innocent bystander. Facing the consequences of her actions and harboring dark secrets Maria escapes and assumes a new identity but later discovers that her sister is involved with Louis in a dangerous plot and decides to boldly act in order to save her...

• Concussion | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This modern-day twist on BELLE DE JOUR is a sexy, provocative story about a woman who turns her fantasy life into reality - and then faces the consequences.

• The Easter Egg Adventure | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The idyllic Egg Town is the location for this Easter Egg Adventure which sees the beautiful location under threat from some dastardly thieves. Making off with the collection of Easter Egg's the town has managed to collate it's up to some brave residents to retrieve them from the evil doers. A wonderfully touching children's tale Easter Egg Adventure is a heartwarming seasonal story.

• Higher Learning | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £16.79   |  Saving you £-3.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director John Singleton's Higher Learning follows three very different freshman students in their first term of university who find themselves having to reassess their lives and confront such thought-provoking issues as prejudice racism and sexism... Former high school track star Malik Williams finds that instead of cruising through his first year of an athletic scholarship he's actually going to have to run faster and harder in order to make the grade. Naive Kirstin Conne is il

• Stage Beauty | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £7.15   |  Saving you £10.84 (151.61%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Billy Cudrup and Claire Danes step into period costume for a drama about the arrival of women on the English stage from acclaimed director Richard Eyre.

• There's Always Tomorrow | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Between his twin masterpieces All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind Douglas Sirk created this razor-sharp study of male crisis both a glittering testament to love's labours lost and his most unforgiving vision of suburban conformity. Disregarded and neglected by his family executive toy manufacturer Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray) is unexpectedly reunited with his former co-worker Norma Miller (Barbara Stanwyck). As the old friends catch up on lost time his children's suspicions and hostility to the new relationship threaten to push their father away permanently and throw into disarray the lives of all concerned. With crystalline noir-tinged cinematography from Russell Metty (Touch of Evil) and heartbreaking performances by Stanwyck and MacMurray reunited 12 years after Double Indemnity in their final on-screen pairing There's Always Tomorrow finds one of Hollywood's greatest dramatists at his finest.