Drama

• Wild at Heart Series 1, 2, & 3 | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Set against the stunning scenery of the South African bush this boxed set contains both Series One and Series Two of Wild at Heart the story of Danny Trevanion a widowed English vet and his new extended warring family. Sarah Danny's second wife decides the family should all go on holiday to return a sick monkey to its natural habitat in Africa. She hopes the trip as well as being a break from their normal city routine will bring them all closer together as a family. The holiday becomes a permanent adventure when they decide to stay to run a game reserve presenting life-changing opportunities for the whole Trevanion family.

• Tape | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Richard Linklater's Tape doesn't announce itself as a Dogme movie, but it might very well qualify. Acted out in real time in a single setting--a cramped, grimy motel room--with no music score, a cast of just three and shot on grainy digital video, it marks a further step back to basics for Linklater after the woeful miscalculation of his gangster period drama The Newton Boys (1998). It's set in Lansing, Michigan, hometown of petty drug-dealer and part-time firefighter Vince (Ethan Hawke), who's come back for the screening, in Lansing's film festival, of the debut feature of his old school friend Johnny (Robert Sean Leonard), now an indie filmmaker. At least, that's Vince's ostensible reason--but it turns out he's got a hidden agenda that involves Amy (Uma Thurman), the girl they both fancied in high-school, and now the local assistant DA. Tape was adapted from a stage play (by Stephen Belber, who also scripted) and often feels like it, with characters announcing their motivations and reactions in grandstanding, tell-don't-show speeches. The camerawork tends to the tricky, too--tilted angles and way too many whip-pans during dialogue sequences--as if Linklater was worried his single set might get visually boring. But the tight, twisty plotting, compact running time and intense performances keep the film absorbing. Hawke and Leonard's mutual lacerations carry a rancid sense of resentments banked up and brooded on for years, while Thurman's Amy, arriving halfway through the action, visibly relishes setting both men by the ears. As a meditation on the relativity of truth Tape may not be in the Rashomon class, but it shows Linklater doing what he does best, making pungent use of minimal resources. On the DVD: Tape offers no extras on disc, just the trailer. Production-value splendour was obviously never on the menu here, but the 2.0 Dolby Digital sound and 16:9 anamorphic widescreen transfer do the original no disservice. --Philip Kemp

• Echoes In The Darkness | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania a case that lasted seven years.

• Like It Is | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £12.70   |  Saving you £2.29 (18.03%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Like It Is is much like watching a train wreck--the very idea of it is repellent and yet you perversely can't avert your eyes. While its urban grittiness and sooty veneer entranced some critics who mistook its violent, netherworld neorealism for art, Like It Is offers little in the way of redemption, positive gay imaging or even particularly good narrative. Paul Oremland directed this venture about a young, gay Blackpool tough named Craig (Steve Bell) who bare-knuckle boxes for money. He ultimately moves to London in search of a better life and falls in with the trendy London gay-club scene, meeting and falling for a handsome record producer named Matt (Ian Rose) and his wealthy boss (played by the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey). The better life is quickly tainted by disillusion and misery, much as is the viewing experience. Steve Bell is, in real life, a featherweight boxing champion in Britain and therefore brings an urgent and raw vitality to the lead, but the characters as a whole are either irritating or unsympathetic, and it's ultimately difficult to find anyone to care for, or a story worth empathising with. --Paula Nechak, Amazon.com

• Undercover | Blu Ray | (06/05/2019) from £8.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• The Wolf of Wall Street | Blu Ray | (14/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Darkest Light | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Catherine (Keri Arnold) is a fearless eleven year old who thinks nothing of skipping school to play on the wild Yorkshire moors near her family farm. Her parents hardly notice as they are too preoccupied by her younger brother Matthew's (Jason Walton) illness. As Matthew's condition starts to deteriorate Catherine makes friends with Uma (Kavita Sungha) a new girl in the valley. While playing truant on the moor one day the two girls have a mysterious experience that convinces Catheri

• Eight Crazy Nights | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adam Sandler (who supplies the voices of three of the main characters)invites you to share some holiday cheer in the new, no holds-barred, animated, musical comedy.

• Notre Musique | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £19.88   |  Saving you £0.11 (0.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Part poetry part journalism part philosophy master filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's 'Notre Musique' is a witty and lyrical reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell represented by modern war and then moves to Purgatory set in Sarajevo. Finally Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by Marines from the United States. At the same time the film also follows the parallel stories

• Asterix & Obelix - Mission Cleopatra | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £6.45   |  Saving you £6.54 (101.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The beautiful Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets Julius Caesar that she if she succeeds in building a sumptuous palace in his honour within 3 months he will proclaim the Egyptians to be the greatest race on Earth. Edifice the poor architect entrusted with the task of constructing the palace faces an imposible task... Unless he can lay his hands on the legendary magic potion as used by the mighty Gauls of a certain little village. Asterix Obelix and the druid Getafix come to the aid

• Wing And A Prayer | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £9.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (37.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of eager young Navy pilots become frustrated when their superiors enact a non-combat strategy against the Japanese. To make matters worse the pilots must answer to a rigid unyielding commander (Ameche). Against all odds the men fly into action in the decisive Battle of Midway. Nominated for a 1944 Best Original Screenplay Oscar this stunning war drama uses actual combat footage to tell its engrossing story.

• Danger UXB | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Harrowing, funny, and immediately addictive, the 1979 British television series Danger UXB stars Anthony Andrews as Army Lieutenant Brian Ash, an engineering student whose excitement about his rapid commission as an officer during World War II is tempered by his unenviable post with a bomb disposal unit. Assigned to a fatality-heavy team that defuses unexploded German bombs scattered throughout London during the blitz, Ash faces down his terror and eventually becomes the closest thing to an expert one can be dismantling sometimes booby-trapped ordnance. In doing so, he earns the respect of his superiors as well as from the enlisted men working under him, and his protracted survival is nothing short of miraculous considering the tragic number of friends and colleagues Ash loses. There is a dark side, however. The longer Ash sticks with his unit, the more obsessive he becomes about his responsibility to keep London safe. Meanwhile, his nerves grow frayed and his morale collapses. Ash's desperate romance with a married woman (Judy Geeson) provides him little to hold onto, and when a true crisis ambushes his spirit toward the end, one can't be sure if he's headed for the scrap heap of permanent casualties. Based on the recollections of an actual wartime bomb disposer, Danger UXB was created by John Hawkesworth, who later produced (and wrote many episodes for) the fantastic Sherlock Holmes TV series starring Jeremy Brett. Despite many tense moments in Danger UXB's 13 episodes--one is always expecting a bomb to blow away a favorite character--the show is also graced by great humor (Ash's crew sometimes bring to mind Sergeant Bilko's hustlers) and a warm, likable cast. Andrews himself, perhaps, has never been better. This boxed set includes a History Channel documentary, "Bomb Squad." --Tom Keogh

• Macbeth | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sam Worthington plays the troubled Macbeth in this sexy, bloody, modern day adaptation of a Shakespeare classic.

• By The Sword Divided - Part 1 | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This classic BBC period drama series follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Lacey family living peacefully in their Arnescote castle until the onset of the English Civil War in 1640. The head of the family Sir Martin Lacey is unswervingly loyal to the King. However the family is torn apart when his eldest daughter Anne weds John Fletcher son of a merchant family who support the forces of Cromwell. Featuring episodes 1 - 5: Gather Ye Rosebuds / This War Without An Enemy / T

• Going Postal (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A Tale of Love and Revenge... and Stamps. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist of the highest degree: polite charming and skillful in his work. Nevertheless as the story begins he is confined to a cell in Ankh Morpork and scheduled to die within half an hour after having stolen AM0 000. He is saved when Lord Vetinari offers him a choice: he can walk out of the door (and fall to his death) or he can become Postmaster of the city's run down Post Office. Lipwig chooses the latter hoping for a chance to escape. Unfortunately for him Lipwig's first and last attempt at escape is thwarted by a golem named Mr Pump who delivers Lipwig back to the office of the Patrician...

• Take The High Road | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Take The High Road was one of the longest running shows on UK television. For over 22 years Take The High Road delighted viewers all over Britain as this landmark Scottish Television drama followed the lives of the inhabitants of Glendorrach, a beautiful village in the scenic Scottish countryside.Following the trials and tribulations of the people who live and work on the estate, Take The High Road was shot on location in the village of Luss, on the banks of Loch Lomond, northwest of Glasgow.Now, for the first time on DVD, you can re-live the highs and lows, the friendships and all the dramas as they unfold in this timeless classic.

• Minor Mishaps | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £9.84   |  Saving you £10.15 (50.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a man's wife dies in an accident his children return home to deal with the tragedy together in this acclaimed Danish drama.

• Separation (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (13/08/2012) from £7.29   |  Saving you £12.70 (174.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The terrible truth which women know...and men too often do not!

• Hit & Miss | Blu Ray | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mia is a contract killer with a secret: she's a transgender woman. After a young life where she never quite fitted in, Eddie, an underworld linchpin, took Mia under his wing and created a brilliant assassin.But Mia's life is turned upside down when she receives a letter from her ex, Wendy, who reveals that she's dying from cancer - and that when they were together Mia fathered a son, 11-year-old Ryan. Now Mia is his legal guardian.Travelling to a tiny village in West Yorkshire to see the boy, Mia meets the rest of Wendy's farmhouse clan: 16-year-old Riley, 15-year-old Levi, and 6-year-old Leonie.Hit & Miss follows Mia's attempts to mix her killer instincts with her new maternal ones, in a search for her own identity. A lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family in the middle of nowhere is where the series begins.

• 3 Classic Boris Karloff Films | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This collection of films stars one the of the true originals when it comes to horror 'The Uncanny' Boris Karloff! The Ape: An evil doctor obsessed with curing a young woman of a dreadful disease goes around injecting people with spinal fluid resulting in a killer ape being let loose! Doomed to Die: Mr. James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) uncovers a murderous plot of saboteurs. The Fatal Hour: Boris Karloff is the famous sleuth Mr. Wong on the trail of murder.