Drama

• Ted 2 | Blu Ray | (26/10/2020) from £11.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The world's most foulmouthed teddy bear is back and better than ever in Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's Ted 2! Ted (voiced by MacFarlane) and John (Mark Wahlberg, The Other Guys) must go to court when Ted is declared by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to not be a person, thereby annulling his marriage to sexy Tami-Lynn and keeping them from adopting a child. The thunder buddies for life hire a lawyer (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia!) and fight to legalise Ted in this raunchy comedy that is without a doubt the funniest movie of the year! (Mark S. Allen, Mark@theMovies, CBS/CW-TV) Bonus Features A Giant Opening Dance Number, Feature Commentary with Producer/Director/Co-Writer Seth MacFarlane Executive Producers/Co-Writer Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild and star Jessica Barth Deleted Scenes Gag Reel Creating Comic-Con Thunder Buddies 4 Lyfe Cameo Buddies Roadtripping

• C.S.I. - Crime Scene Investigation - Vegas - Season 9 - Complete | Blu Ray | (01/03/2010) from £4.95   |  Saving you £50.30 (1,363.14%)   |  RRP £53.99

  Television's number-one drama continues to deliver as LVPD's brilliant forensics team encounters their greatest challenges yet in the stunning ninth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Watch and learn as the team wrestles with death destiny and inner demons. This must-own collection includes the historic departure of Gil Grissom (William Petersen) and the much-anticipated arrival of Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne).

• Summer Catch | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Summer Catch combines sports movie with teen romance across class boundaries and sticks in some less than effective bawdy comedy to make up the weight. Playing in a local summer baseball league is the last chance at a professional sports career Ryan (Freddie Prinz Jr) has after he gave up an earlier chance in order to attend his mother's funeral. The threats to his success include the rivalry of other young players, the temptation to just have fun offered by teammate Brubaker (Matthew Lillard) and his growing feelings for Tenley (Jessica Biel). Ryan also has his own demon--an obsession with failure. Occasional outcroppings of psychobabble and melodrama stop this ever finding a satisfactory tone of its own--the scenes on the baseball diamond are often the most interesting. The scenes of sexual comedy largely waste such interesting young actors as Marc Blucas, Christian Kane and Brittany Murphy, all of whom do what they can with unprepossessing material. This is a film for Freddie Prinz Jr fans more than anyone else. On the DVD: Summer Catch on DVD offers a collection of deleted scenes that indicate just how much more uncertain the film's tone was before editing; the commentary by actors Prinz and Biel and director Mike Tollin shows that they at least all had a fairly good time making it. The visual aspect ratio is widescreen anamorphic 1.85:1 and the DVD has Dolby 5:1 digital sound. --Roz Kaveney

• The Weight Of Water | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A century old double murder haunts Jean a photographer who travels to the scene of the crime to investigate. The sole survivor of the slaughter was a woman whose unhappy marriage mirrors Jean's. Past and present collide when a cataclysmic storm burgeons into jealousy and suddenly it becomes clear to Jean who the real killer is...

• For Richer For Poorer | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brad (Tim Allen) and Caroline Sexton (Kirstie Alley) were incredibly rich and incredibly miserable. Until something unbelievable happened... their accountant robbed them dry. Now they're on the run from the IRS and hiding out in the one place no one will ever look for them... Amish country. While their lawyer sorts things out in New York they've got to do their best to blend in and are failing miserably! Hard work may prove to be more difficult than hard time as the Sextons are learning how to milk cows plow fields and fall in love all over again.

• Life Above All | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-8.29 (-51.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Twelve year-old Chanda's childhood life is about to change.Unpleasant rumours begin to spread in the township that her family is cursed and that mother Lillian is to blame. Despite the best efforts of neighbour Mrs. Tafa and the more dubious intentions of an untrustworthy clinician and a local witchdoctor, Lillian becomes increasingly unwell and eventually heads off into the countryside. Along with the help of best friend Esther, a defiant and headstrong Chanda takes matters into her own hands, setting off to find Lillian and put right the wrongs set by her superstitious community.From award winning South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz (Mapantsula, Paris, je taime), Life, Above All captures the enduring strength of loyalty and a courage powered by the heart, and has been heralded as a life-affirming entry into the New South African cinema canon.Based on the international best-selling novel 'Chanda's Secrets' by Allan Stratton.

• Shed Your Tears and Walk Away | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (81.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Real-life drama about why in a beautiful and quirky rural town film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.

• She, A Chinese | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young woman escapes her life in a provincial Chinese village and heads to London to marry an older man only to find her entrapment begins anew.

• The Gigolos | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £12.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (32.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A highly original and understated comedy set in London's male escort scene. The smooth and charming Sacha is a favourite among the wealthy but lonely over-50s (his 'regulars' played by Susannah York Anna Massey Si''n Phillips and Angela Pleasence).When an injury puts Sacha out of action his younger live-in valet and manager Trevorstands in with consequences that shake up their closeand dependent partnership.

• Breaking Glass | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An old, old story as told circa 1980, Breaking Glass, written and directed by Brian Gibson, follows the path of Stardust not to mention A Star is Born and most other films about showbusiness, by following the rise of a talented young hopeful who learns that success comes with strings. Kate Crowley (Hazel O'Connor) begins as a bleached New Wave ranter, fly-posting on the tube and yelling songs about dehumanisation over fascist chants in rowdy pubs, but ends up a stoned glam zombie dressed as a robot, packaging her anger for the benefit of corporate music biz baddies and retreating to a sanatorium. The plot may be familiar, but the film still works, thanks to persuasive central performances from O'Connor, who wrote her own songs and shows real acting muscle that sadly didn't lead to anything like a film career, and Phil Daniels as her hustling manager/boyfriend/conscience. The fine supporting cast includes Jon Finch and Jonathan Pryce as a Bond villain-style record producer and a deaf junkie sax player, with glimpses of later perennials such as Jim Broadbent and Richard Griffiths. Made and set at the start of the 1980s, it catches its times exactly: a "Rock Against 1984" outdoor gig that turns into a riot, a routine police harrassment of a band rehearsal, a power cut that transforms a concert into a before-its-time "unplugged" session. Credits trivia: the executive producer was Dodi al Fayed. On the DVD: A nice letterboxed transfer looks a bit soft and grainy--but that's the way it's supposed to be. The only extras are cribbed-from-the-IMDB filmographies, a trailer with a wonderfully unconvincing narration and an image gallery (posters, ads and stills). --Kim Newman

• The Tree of Life/ The Thin Red Line Double Pack | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £3.79   |  Saving you £9.20 (242.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Tree of LifeThe long front lawns of summer afternoons, the flicker of sunlight as it sprays through tree branches, the volcanic surge of the Earth's interior as the planet heaves itself into being--you certainly can't say Terrence Malick lacks for visual expressiveness. The Tree of Life is Malick's long-cherished project, a film that centres on a family in 1950s Waco, Texas, yet also reaches for cosmic significance in the creation of the universe itself. The Texas memories belong to Jack (Sean Penn), a modern man seemingly ground down by the soulless glass-and-metal corporate world that surrounds him. We learn early in the film of a family loss that happened at a later time, but the flashbacks concern only the dark Eden of Jack's childhood: his games with his two younger brothers, his frustrated, bullying father (Brad Pitt), his one-dimensionally radiant mother (Jessica Chastain). None of which unfolds in anything like a conventional narrative, but in a series of disconnected scenes that conjure, with poetry and specificity, a particular childhood realm. The contributions of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and production designer Jack Fisk cannot be underestimated in that regard, and it should be noted that Brad Pitt contributes his best performance: strong yet haunted. And how does the Big Bang material (especially a long, trippy sequence in the film's first hour) tie into this material? Yes, well, the answer to that question will determine whether you find Malick's film a profound exploration of existence or crazy-ambitious failure full of beautiful things. Malick's sincerity is winning (and so is his exceptional touch with the child actors), yet many of the movie's touches are simultaneously gaseous (amongst the bits of whispered narration is the war between nature and grace, roles assigned to mother and father) and all-too-literal (a dinosaur retreats from nearly killing a fellow creature--the first moments of species kindness, or anthropomorphic poppycock?). The Tree of Life premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d'Or there after receiving boos at its press screening. The debate continues, unabated, from that point. --Robert Horton The Thin Red LineOne of the cinema's great disappearing acts came to a close with the release of The Thin Red Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days of Heaven (1978), returned to the director's chair after a 20-year coffee break. Malick's comeback vehicle is a fascinating choice: a wide-ranging adaptation of a World War II novel (filmed once before, in 1964) by James Jones. The battle for Guadalcanal Island gives Malick an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence, but he's just as likely to meander into pure philosophical noodling--or simply let the camera contemplate the first steps of a newly born tropical bird or the sinister skulk of a crocodile. This is not especially an actors' movie--some faces go by so quickly they barely register--but the standouts are bold: Nick Nolte as a career-minded colonel, Elias Koteas as a deeply spiritual captain who tries to protect his men, Ben Chaplin as a G.I. haunted by lyrical memories of his wife. The backbone of the film is the ongoing discussion between a wry sergeant (Sean Penn) and an ethereal, almost holy private newcomer (Jim Caviezel). The picture's sprawl may be a result of Malick's method of "finding" a film during shooting and editing, and in some ways The Thin Red Line seems vaguely, intriguingly incomplete. Yet it casts a spell like almost nothing else of its time, and Malick's visionary images are a challenge and a signpost to the rest of his filmmaking generation. --Robert Horton

• Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsellem | DVD | (08/12/2014) from £11.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (73.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015 and winner of two Ophir Awards; Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amselem follows one woman's anguished fight against Israel's archaic and antiquated divorce laws. Desperate to free herself from a loveless marriage an Israeli woman named Viviane Amselem files for divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband. But Israeli law and its Rabbinical court dictates that a divorce can only be granted under the husband's consent. Determined to obtain her dignity and freedom Viviane finds herself fighting an epic and deeply dramatic psychological battle against a profoundly absurd legal system and her cold and calculating estranged husband.

• Tanner Hall | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £17.35   |  Saving you £-7.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As Fernanda (Rooney Mara) enters her senior year at the sheltered New England boarding school Tanner Hall, she's faced with unexpected changes in her group of friends.When Victoria (Georgia King), a manipulative troublemaker from her childhood shows up for the fall semester she immediately begins to win over Fernanda's friends: adventurous and sexy Kate (Brie Larson), and tomboy Lucasta (Amy Ferguson), while causing tension between all the girls. Escaping from the drama at school, Fernanda begins a complicated friendship with an older family friend Gio (Tom Everett Scott). Jealous of Fernanda's exciting and dangerous relationship, Victoria plots to sabotage her plans and publicly humiliate her.Meanwhile, Lucasta struggles with newfound feelings towards another classmate, and Kate is too preoccupied with making her teachers nervous to pay attention to her classes. Flirting with adulthood, each girl realizes they need each other to get through their first grown-up decisions - and the consequences they bring.

• Stranger In The Family | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A minor car crash has a major impact on the Thompson family when their teenaged son Steve (Neil Patrick Harris Doogie Howser M.D.) sustains a 'simple dose of concussion'. Steve's life goes into freefall as injuries deep in his brain wipe out his memory erasing every element of his identity. His mother Randi (Teri Garr Oscar nominee for Tootsie) refuses to give up on her son even if he is now a stranger to his own family. But Randi's well-meaning efforts to restore Steve's old life drive him to breaking point and Randi must face the harsh fact that there's only one way to restore Steve to the heart of his shattered family.

• London | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £16.49   |  Saving you £-3.50 (-26.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Syd is a strung-out wealthy 20-year old guy whose life is about to go from meaningless to futile. After a massive drug spree he awakes to the news that he is about to lose his ""one true love"" forever... Syd's ex-girlfriend is moving from New York to Los Angeles. Syd has one more chance to win her back at her going-away party. Syd stocks up on cocaine and goes off to the party with Bateman a young English banker he's just met. Throughout the evening however - punctuated by regular drug breaks in the bathroom - we discover that Syd's relationship problems involve more than friction with his girlfriend. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

• The Mighty Macs | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (77.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Carla Gugino, David Boreanaz and Ellen Burstyn star in this drama based on a true story. In 1971 Cathy Rush (Gugino) becomes the head coach of the Mighty Macs basketball team at all-girl's Catholic college Immaculata. The rag-tag team will meet tough opposition at the upcoming national championships and Cathy faces her own challenges as their coach with little financial help or support from the Mother Superior. Can she get her players in shape in time for the tournament?

• Beyond the Hills | Blu Ray | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A powerful Romanian drama centred on the friendship between two young women whose lives and sexualities are put to the test when one of them finds religion. From acclaimed director Christian Mungiu (4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Day) and winner of the Best Actress and Best Screenplay award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

• Life in Emergency Ward 10 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10 and stars Michael Craig and Dorothy Alison. A surgeon arrives from America with a new heart-lung machine in order to save a young boy who has a hole in his heart. The doctor is treated coolly by a jealous rival and an old man dies while on the new life-saving machine. Controversy erupts among his more traditional colleagues over the American doctor's experimental methods. Romance humour and drama surround the doctors nurses and patients all leading to an inevitable hospital party.

• Mary Bryant | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £9.87   |  Saving you £8.12 (82.27%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Her courage paved the way to their freedom. Mary Bryant is the true story of a remarkable woman's fight for freedom and dignity in the first colony in Australia. An action-packed film with an all-star cast including Jack Davenport (This Life) Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and Romola Garai as Mary this is the biggest mini-series ever filmed in Australia.

• Stockholm My Love (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The latest film by British auteur Mark Cousins (I am Belfast, The Story of Film). Stockholm My Love follows the footsteps of Alva Achebe (Neneh Cherry), a Swedish architect fascinated by the way buildings influence lives, but haunted by a tragic event from her past. Filmed on the streets of the Swedish capital by Cousins and acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (best known for his work with Wong Kai Wai on In the Mood for Love), Stockholm My Love is a visually stunning essay film about loss and rejuvenation. The film marks the acting debut of acclaimed musician and singer Neneh Cherry. Special Features: Behind-the-scenes making of featurette (2016) Mini films of key locations that feature in the film (2016) Filmed bus tour around Stockholm with Mark Cousins, produced by the Swedish Film Institute (2016) Theatrical and teaser trailers Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by critic Ian Christie and full film credits