Drama

• Seabiscuit | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £8.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (118.06%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A half-blind ex-prizefighter and millionaire team up to take an undersized horse called Seabiscuit to the big time in this movie based on a true story.

• Lawn Dogs | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £7.29   |  Saving you £5.70 (78.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  No review of Lawn Dogs can adequately describe this extraordinary movie, nor can the title or any simple synopsis. In fact, there's no way of knowing what Lawn Dogs is really about until the very end when the last 90-minutes takes on a whole new significance. The basic story follows the formation and fruition of a simple friendship. Devon (astounding newcomer Mischa Barton) is a 10-year-old girl born to glamour magazine identikit parents who live in the plush US suburban Camelot Gardens Estate. Trent (Sam Rockwell) is a 20-something lawnmower man whom everyone considers trash and who lives in a forest trailer. As secret friends they fill the holes in one another's lives. She has no other friends because she thinks "other kids smell like TV". It's all perfectly sweet and innocent. But naturally there's no way the uptight neighbourhood would perceive it that way. A creeping sense of doom begins to overtake events; but it is where this seemingly obvious tale twists at the end that makes the community's darker quirks a revelation. On the DVD: Lawn Dogs on disc comes in a 16:9 transfer that retains the superb cinematography of endlessly stretching flat horizons. The three-channel sound is equally of benefit to a subtle bluesy score. Regrettably the only extra is a trailer. As a winner at numerous International Film Festivals, this picture really deserved something more. --Paul Tonks

• Glengarry Glen Ross | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris and Alan Arkin play four real estate salesmen who are forced into a selling competition by their head office. First prize is a Cadillac, second a set of steak knives and third and fourth prizes are the sack. This adaptation of David Mamet's hit play is packed with star turns from some of Hollywood's most respected character actors.

• Spotlight | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £5.01   |  Saving you £14.98 (299.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Led by Walter Robby Robinson the team of investigative journalists at The Boston Globe known as ˜Spotlight' pride themselves on their relentless dedication to exposing the truth of society's ills and bringing the guilty to account. Under the direction of new editor Marty Baron the team begin to uncover a scandal revolving around allegations of child abuse within the Catholic Church and the wilful ignorance of those in power who have done nothing to stop it. Facing political opposition and resistance from the far-reaching influences of the Church, the reporters put together an explosive exposé revealing that the truth is much darker than they could have ever imagined.

• Chocolat | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A young single mother (Juliette Binoche), with her 6-year-old daughter in tow, moves to a small French village and opens an unusual chocolate shop.

• Close My Eyes | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stephen Poliakoff's film about a brother and sister raised separately who finally meet again. She is married to a man of ostentatious wealth; whilst her brother has a job monitoring developments in London's Docklands. In the overheated moneyed climate of the financially-centred late 1980s the two begin a forbidden incestuous affair.

• Amadeus | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) were ideally matched in this Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between two composers in the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph II--official royal composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), and the younger but superior prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). The conceit is absolutely delicious: Salieri secretly loathes Mozart's crude and bratty personality but is astounded by the beauty of his music. That's the heart of Salieri's torment--although he's in a unique position to recognise and cultivate both Mozart's talent and career, he's also consumed with envy and insecurity in the face of such genius. That such magnificent music should come from such a vulgar little creature strikes Salieri as one of God's cruellest jokes, and it drives him insane. Amadeus creates peculiar and delightful contrasts between the impeccably re-created details of its lavish period setting and the jarring (but humorously refreshing and unstuffy) modern tone of its dialogue and performances--all of which serve to remind us that these were people before they became enshrined in historical and artistic legend. Jeffrey Jones, best-known as Ferris Bueller's principal, is particularly wonderful as the bumbling emperor (with the voice of a modern mid-level businessman). The film's eight Oscars include statuettes for Best Director Forman, Best Actor Abraham (Hulce was also nominated), Best Screenplay and Best Picture. --Jim Emerson Note: this region two DVD is a "flipper" with a break between sides A and B.

• Cranford Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (108.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cranford: Box Set

• Kneecap - Irish Edition | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £14.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue. INCLUDES:- Interview with Kneecap and director Rich Peppiatt- Claymation Promo- Claymation Cinema Intro- Trailers Read our interview with the director (click) > here

• Paul, Apostle of Christ | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £8.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paul (Faulkner), who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ's most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke(Caviezel), his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Paul is under the watchful eye of Mauritius (Martinez), the prisons prefect, who seeks to understand how this broken old man can pose such a threat. But before Paul's death sentence can be enacted, Luke resolves to write another book, one that details the beginnings of The Way and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. Their faith challenged an empire. But their words changed the world.

• Magic Mike XXL | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.89   |  Saving you £16.10 (413.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Picking up the story three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life, the film finds the Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blowout performance in Myrtle Beach.

• Hudson & Rex: Season 1-5 | DVD | (13/11/2023) from £99.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every episode from the first five seasons of the Canadian crime drama which follows Detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon) and his trusted German Shepherd, Rex, as they tackle crime in the town of St. Johns. Season 1 episodes are: 'The Hunt', 'Fearless Freaks', 'Haunted By the Past', 'School Daze', 'The Pet Sitter', 'Murder, She Thought', 'Trial and Error', 'Fast Eddie's', 'The Mourning Show', 'Art of Darkness', 'Bad Water Rising', 'A Cult Education' and 'The Rex Files'. Season 2 episodes are: 'A Man of Consequence', 'Over Ice', 'Blind Justice', 'Strangers in the Night', 'Dead Man Walking', 'Under the Influencer', 'The Woods Have Eyes', 'Game of Bones', 'Bullet in the Water', 'The French Connection', 'Rex Machina', 'Rex and the City', 'In Pod We Trust', 'Tunnel Vision', 'Finger Foodie', 'Flare of the Dog', 'The Graveyard Shift', 'Old Dog, New Tricks' and 'In a Family Way'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Origin Story', 'Manhunt', 'Into the Wild', 'Under Pressure', 'Prescription - Rex!', 'Endless Summer', 'All in the Litter', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Grave Matters', 'Fanning the Flames', 'Blood On the Tracks', 'Top Dog', 'Mansion On a Hill', 'The Secret Life of Levi', 'Seeing Is Deceiving' and 'The Art of the Steal'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Sid and Nancy', 'Oops I Bit It Again', 'Rex Marks the Spot', 'Leader of the Pack', 'Rex to Riches', 'Dead Man's Bridge', 'A Stab in the Dark Web', 'Sudden Death', 'Impawster Syndrome', 'Blood & Diamonds', 'Capital Punishment', 'No Man Is an Island', 'Roses of Signal Hill', 'Roll the Bones', 'Nightmare On Water St.' and 'Dog Days Are Over'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Lost in the Barrens', 'Punch Drunk Glove', 'Run, Donovan, Run', 'Hand of Cod', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Den of Snakes', 'The Date Escape', 'Bury the Lead', 'Rexpert Witness', 'One Wild Night', 'Working for the Weekend', 'Lost Lives Club', 'The Miranda Act', 'Rexit, Stage Left', 'Northern Rexposure', 'Due North', 'Lost and Found', 'Jail Break', 'The Cook, the Chief, the Cop and His Lover' and 'One for the Road'.

• The English | Blu Ray | (19/12/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Follows a woman as she seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

• Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time film director Mike Nichols' searing film of Edward Albee's groundbreaking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award'' (and New York Film Critics National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar'' winner Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying into their destructive path. The movie won a total of five Academy Awards'' and remains after 40 years a taboo-toppling landmark.

• Atlantic Crossing | DVD | (20/02/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Almost Famous | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £7.55   |  Saving you £-1.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the writer/director of Jerry Maguire Cameron Crowe brings us Almost Famous nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of Best Original Screenplay. Set in 1973 it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming-of-age of 15-year-old music fanatic William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to land an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview the up-and-coming band Stillwater fronted by lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and with

• Emma | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £6.49   |  Saving you £-1.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.32

  Emma

• World on Fire: Series 2 | DVD | (28/08/2023) from £12.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All six episodes from the second series of the British drama set during WWII which centres on the lives of people from different backgrounds as they attempt to cope with the horrifying and turbulent events of the war. In this series, Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) and Kasia (Zofia Wichlacz) have escaped Poland but Harry soon returns to war, this time in northern Africa. There he reunites with Stan (Blake Harrison) and meets Rajib Pal (Ahad Raza Mir), who leads a sapper unit in the British Indian Army. While dealing with the devastation and danger of war, Rajib must also contend with the fact that he and his men are not treated the same as the white men who are fighting.

• Flood | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a raging storm coincides with high tide it threatens the very heart of London and the millions who live there.

• Happy-Go-Lucky | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The uplifting story of Poppy, a boho Camden-nite, who must come to terms with a whole new way of thinking after her beloved bicycle is stolen.