Drama

• Knives Out 4K | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Acclaimed writer and director Rhian Johnson (Brick, Looper, The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell, KNIVES OUT is a witty and stylish whodunnit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing until the very end.

• Raised by Wolves: Season 2 | DVD | (12/12/2022) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a great religious war finds the human race teetering on the edge of extinction, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b.From executive producer Ridley Scott, RAISED BY WOLVES follows Mother and Father as they attempt to raise human children in this mysterious virgin land a treacherous and difficult task that's jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious group of surviving humans.As the androids make contact with this zealous and dangerous order, they struggle to control the beliefs of their fiercely self-determining children.

• The Chelsea Detective Series 1&2 | DVD | (23/09/2024) from £38.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fame - Season 2 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning TV series portrays the lives of a diverse group of talented high school students at New York's School of the Arts. Training hard for careers onstage the young performers face tough competition and even rejection along with all of the normal teenage dramas.

• Nebraska | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £19.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Academy Award Winner Alexander Payne the director of Sideways and The Descendants comes the film that critics are calling 'a triumph'. When a father (Bruce Dern) and his adult son (Will Forte) embark on a journey to claim a million-dollar prize what begins as a fool's errand becomes a search for the road to redemption.

• The Happy Prince | DVD | (15/10/2018) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? The lover imprisoned and freed, yet still running towards ruin in the final chapter of his life? Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintance, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. THE HAPPY PRINCE is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century.

• Intolerance (Loves struggle throughout the ages) | Blu Ray | (08/12/2014) from £10.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (83.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A fter shaking the world with his hugely controversial epic The Birth of a Nation pioneer filmmaker D. W. Griffith spared no expense in putting together his next project Intolerance (Love’s struggle throughout the ages): a powerful examination of intolerance as it has persisted throughout civilisation set across four parallel storylines that span 2500 years. There is the Babylonian story depicting nothing less than the fall of Babylon; the Judean story which revolves around the crucifixion of Christ; the French story which presents the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in all its horror; and a modern American story of class struggle crime and the plight of life in the early 20th century set within urban slums and the prison system. Starring such luminaries as Lillian Gish Constance Talmadge and Miriam Cooper who share screentime with an enormous main cast and some 3 000 extras Griffith's film — the most expensive motion picture ever produced at the time — went on to become a critical success whose influence has only grown in the decades since. The Masters of Cinema Series are proud to present the 2013 restoration of Kevin Brownlow's and David Gill's preserved Intolerance featuring Carl Davis's orchestral score for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Bonus Features: New high-definition 1080p presentation of the acclaimed Brownlow and Gill Thames Silents restoration of the film. Orchestral score by the esteemed composer Carl Davis • Two feature-length films by Griffith that act as companion pieces to Intolerance and take their material from the main film: The Fall of Babylon and The Mother and the Law accompanied by new scores by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on 'Intolerance' a 2013 documentary featuring preservationist Kevin Brownlow discussing the film. 56-PAGE BOOKLET filled with vintage and modern reports reflections and essays on the film.

• The Last Showgirl | Blu Ray | (26/05/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, showgirl Shelly (Pamela Anderson) sets out to plan her next act.

• The Artist And The Model | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1943 an old sculptor and his wife live in a small town on the border between occupied France and Franco's Spain. 80 year-old Marc Cros has not sculpted for years; disillusioned by two world wars, the artist has lost all faith in art, life and humanity. But when his wife Lea finds a Spanish woman, Merce, on the run from Franco's army and offers her the chance to live in the artist's studio, Marc inadvertently finds himself with an attractive young model for what will be his last sculpture. ...

• Black Swan (DVD + Digital Copy) | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• When In Rome | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £5.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (103.57%)   |  RRP £11.99

  An ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome in search of love...only to get more than she bargained for!

• Winter's Bone | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £7.94   |  Saving you £8.05 (101.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) embarks on a mission to find her father after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without a trace. Faced with the possibility of losing her home and being turned out into the Ozark woods Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to save her family. She hacks through the lies evasions and threats offered by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Winter's Bone is directed by Debra Granik (Down To The Bone) and adapted for the screen by Granik and Anne Rosellini. Based on the best-selling novel by Daniel Woodrell this tense naturalistic thriller stars Jennifer Lawrence John Hawkes Kevin Breznahan Dale Dickey Garret Dillahunt Sheryl Lee and Tate Taylor.

• Breathe | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £2.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (135.35%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in this warm, funny and uplifting true story. BREATHE follows the life of Robin Cavendish (Garfield) and his wife Diana (Foy), an adventurous and determined couple who refuse to give up when Robin contracts polio and is given just months to live. Against all advice, Diana brings him home from hospital where her devotion and witty determination transcends his disability. Together and with the help of Diana's hilarious twin brothers, both played by Tom Hollander, (The Night Manager) and the pioneering ideas of their friend and inventor Teddy Hall, (Hugh Bonneville, Paddington, Downton Abbey) they find a way to live a full and passionate life.

• The Monocled Mutineer | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £6.91   |  Saving you £13.08 (189.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A soldier in the First World War Percy Toplis was a rake rogue and master of disguise who became the most wanted man in Britain. This is a BAFTA-winning story of high romance hilarious impudence and savage retribution. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the book by William Allison and John Fairley.

• Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition (UK Version) | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £39.66   |  Saving you £30.33 (76.48%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Season 1 Twin Peaks devotees, who have kept the mystery alive on myriad Web sites, will jump at the chance to return to the spooky town that might just be the anti-Mayberry. Rarely syndicated, the Twin Peaks television series has lost none of its quirky and queasy power to get under your skin and haunt your dreams. So brew up a pot of some "damn fine coffee," dig into some cherry pie, and lose yourself in David Lynch and Mark Frost's murder mystery and soap opera, which unfolds, in one character's words, "like a beautiful dream and terrible nightmare all at once." Twin Peaks was a pop culture phenomenon for one season at least, until the increasingly bizarre twists and maddening teases so confounded audiences that they lost interest in just who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). This series was a career peak for most of its eclectic ensemble cast, including Kyle MacLachlan as straight-arrow FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, Michael Ontkean as local Sheriff Harry S. Truman, Sherilyn Fenn as bad girl Audrey Horne, Peggy Lipton as waitress Norma Jennings, and Catherine Coulson as the Log Lady. Alumni enjoying current success include Lara Flynn Boyle ("The Practice"), as good girl Donna Hayward, and Miguel Ferrer ("Crossing Jordan"), hilarious as forensics expert Albert Rosenfield (who has absolutely no "social niceties").--Donald Liebenson Season 2 "Don't search for all the answers at once," says a giant appearing to FBI Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in a vision. "A path is formed by laying one stone at a time." In Twin Peaks, that's easier said than done. Over the course of two seasons, that path went nowhere and everywhere. "Bureau guidelines, deductive technique, Tibetan method, and luck" don't cut it here. It also takes a little magic, which is what makes David Lynch and Mark Frost's bracingly original serial drama one of TV's ultimate trips, and still the stuff that fever dreams are made of. With the DVD release of season 2, die-hard Peakers can rekindle their obsession with this macabre, maddening, sinister, and surreal series set in the rural Pacific Northwest community whose bucolic surroundings hide "things dark and heinous." (If you're new to Twin Peaks, best to get the lay of the land by watching the brilliant feature-length pilot and the instant-cult-classic first season, which capture Twin at its peak.) Three main mysteries drive season 2. First, there's the still (!) unresolved murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). Then, there's the question of who shot Cooper in the season 1 cliffhanger. And finally, ultimately: What about Bob? With its dream logic, bizarre behavior, and nightmare imagery, much of what transpires goes right by you. Some subplots (Sherilyn Fenn's sexpot Audrey held captive at the bordello, One-Eyed Jacks) are easier to latch on to than others (amnesiac Nadine believes she's an 18-year-old high schooler) And, yes, that's a pre-X-Files David Duchovny as Dennis/Denice, a transsexual DEA agent. In Twin Peaks' second season, the truth is out there, but we are entering A Few Good Men territory. When Laura's killer is at last revealed in episode 16, no doubt many will not be able to handle the truth. The teases, red herrings, and out-and-out gonzo looniness will try the patience of viewers with a more conventional bent. But, as Cooper observes at one point, "All in all, [it's] a very interesting experience," with enough doppelgangers, allusions, pop-culture references, and in-jokes to keep bloggers buzzing. If, for example, you get any pleasure from recognizing Hank Worden, who played Mose in The Searchers, as "the world's most decrepit room service waiter," then Twin Peaks may just make you feel right at home. --Donald Liebenson

• Medea (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A mythical tale of love, betrayal and revenge, Medea is a fascinating collision of Freudian and Marxist themes from Italy's most controversial director. Adapted from the Euripidean drama, Pasolini's disturbing vision of personal and national conflict stars operatic legend Maria Callas in the title role, offering an extraordinary performance as the high priestess Medea whose love is threatened by corrupt political ambition. A vivid and aesthetically challenging vision, Medea is a complex blend of classical mythology and contemporary social criticism.

• Law And Order Special Victims Unit - Series 3 | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £35.99   |  Saving you £-23.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.13

  Join the force along with the 2006 Emmy-Award winner for Outstanding Lead Actress Mariska Hargitay Emmy nominee Christopher Meloni and the rest of the elite squad of New York City detectives as they investigate sexual crimes ripped from today's headlines. Renowned producer Dick Wolf brings you all 23 riveting episodes each packed with powerful storylines and provocative plot twists. Joining the incredible cast is a compelling roster of guests including Eric Stoltz John Ritter Henry Winkler Bobby Canavale and Martha Plimpton in the role that earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress. The recipient of 12 Emmy nominations and tremendous critical acclaim Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Third Year delivers the quality that viewers have come to expect from this intelligent hard-hitting franchise. Episodes Comprise: 1. Repression 2. Wrath 3. Stolen 4. Rooftop 5. Tangled 6. Redemption 7. Sacrifice 8. Inheritance 9. Care 10. Ridicule 11. Monogamy 12. Protection 13. Prodigy 14. Counterfeit 15. Execution 16. Popular 17. Surveillance 18. Guilt 19. Justice 20. Greed 21. Denial 22. Competence 23. Silence

• The Midnight Gang | DVD | (04/11/2019) from £3.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Midnight Gang is an adaptation of the book by David Walliams.When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself on the miserable children's ward of St Hugo's Hospital, where he is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter and wicked matron. But things aren't as bad as they seem and Tom is soon to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!The Midnight Gang tells the extraordinarily heartwarming and funny story of five children on their quest for adventure! It is a story of friendship, magic and most importantly... making dreams and wishes come true.

• Pitch Perfect 3-Movie Boxset | DVD | (23/04/2018) from £25.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Now graduated from college and out in the real world where it takes more than a cappella to get by, the Bellas return in Pitch Perfect 3, the next chapter in the beloved series. After the highs of winning the World Championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time. The boxset also includes a bonus disc packed with OVER 30 MINUTES of additional exclusive behind the scenes content, including: Bellas Through the Years The A Cappella Aquatica Aca-Boot Camp: Round 3 Bellas Find Love

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £13.89   |  Saving you £48.10 (346.29%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television seriesThe Sopranos is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home. This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegiate mob clan and his own nouveau-riche brood. The brilliant first series is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get. Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed. The first year's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland