Drama

• Keepin' It Gangsta | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £9.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (39.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Straight Outta Compton: He's got his homies a gun and a plan. Small time gangsta and tough Compton local Henry Hen Alabaster (writer-director Ryan Combs) is fresh out of the pen and looking to go legit by starting his own record company and producing rap records. His only problem is he needs some serious bills to bankroll the operation. Enlisting the help of three of his homies - Hump (Sean Epps) Johnny (Johnny DeaRenzo) and K.K. (Jules Dupree) - Hen hatches a plan to set up and then blackmail a corrupt and racist politician Drake Norelli (Dave Baker) who has made a fortune laundering money for the mob. After doping Norelli and taking a series of compromising and incriminating photographs of him that could destroy his career Hen and his crew manage to extort four million dollars from the tarnished politico. But the homies' success is short lived and they soon find themselves up against the cops the mob and a crooked politician bent on revenge... Hood Angels: Traci Felicia and Cinnamon are street smart beauties who get framed for felonies they didn't commit. Trapped in his lock-up their luck takes a turn when they are approached by attourney Larry Abrahams who agrees to get their charges dropped - if the ladies investigate the murder of his friend and popular rap artist Nitro Jones. The ladies go under cover at Nitro's label and ferret out clues to his murder... Snuffed Out: Two girls who are responsible for the death of the District Attoney's nephew try to leave town. A drug dealer and a DEA agent are after the girls who defend themselves with guns...

• Qurbani | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 1) | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £6.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (115.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• TWILIGHT SAGA TRIPLE DVD -HMV EXCL | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Three films of the Twilight saga - Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse - in one box set. Based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight saga adds a dangerous twist to the classic story of star crossed lovers as we meet 17 year old Bella Swan and the mysterious vampire Edward Cullen and see how their stories unfold throught this trilogy.

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 8 To 13 | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £6.88   |  Saving you £8.11 (117.88%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The second part of the third series contains outstanding Emmy award winning episodes which comprise: The Bolter / Goodwill To All Men / What The Footman Saw / A Perfect Stranger / Distant Thunder / The Sudden Storm

• A Few Days In September | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Of Unknown Origin | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A low-rent horror flick from the early 1980s, Of Unknown Origin completely misses the mark in the scare stakes and instead comes across like a grisly, live-action version of Tom and Jerry. Our inept hero is the ambitious, house-proud executive Bart Hughes (Peter Weller), who is left alone by his wife and son to complete a business proposal only to discover that he is sharing his apartment with a mischievous giant rat. Unable to trap or poison his foe, Hughes quickly descends into nightmare-haunted madness and thus the stage is set for a suspenseless battle of wits that is less cat-and-mouse and more idiot-versus-rat. Finding an angry rodent swimming in your toilet might be a pretty unpleasant prospect, but cinematically speaking it's far from terrifying. Created using jerky point-of-view shots and creature effects that range from incongruous real-life footage to button-eyed glove puppets, the rat is an unthreatening villain, despite Weller's best efforts to react in abject horror when he finds the corners of his mail nibbled or his dry groceries spoiled. There are some unsuccessful attempts to make Hughes' plight more immediate to the audience by references to real-life rat problems--he visits a library to research his enemy and finds some disturbing photographs of rat-attack victims and subsequently ruins a dinner party with a genuinely unsettling rant about infestation and plagues--but it's difficult to feel sorry for him when he can't even muster the tenacity to track down a professional exterminator. By the time Weller gets caught in one of his own traps, you will probably be rooting for the rat anyway, and might take some pleasure from a ridiculous denouement in which, dressed in full battle-gear, he completely destroys his beloved apartment by clumsily chasing the elusive vermin with a nail-studded baseball bat. Gore Verbinski's genuinely hilarious Mousehunt did it with a lot more charm. On the DVD: Of Unknown Origin comes to DVD with a basic selection of extras. An entertaining commentary from Peter Weller and the likeable George P Cosmatos III does the film a lot of favours, even if their efforts to talk up its importance as an allegory for man's struggle against nature using comparisons with The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, Alien and Jaws fail to convince. Added to this is the theatrical trailer ("If it doesn't scare you to death, it WILL find another way!"), a choice of languages and scene selection. --Paul Philpott

• The Spell | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jenny is a young girl who has it all - beauty brains a steady boyfriend and even her own flat at the age of 16. But scratch beneath the surface and you uncover a childhood scarred my mistreatment and abandonment. Desperate for attention and seeking the love she never received from her parents Jenny becomes involved with a handsome stranger with a dark obsession with the occult. Surrounded by witchcraft and black magic her choices soon take her down a path that leads to a series of terrifying other-worldly experiences. She seeks help from friends doctors psychiatrists and religious leaders but finds only scepticism and disbelief. But finally committed to a mental hospital and on the very edge of sanity can she find a way to salvation? The Spell is based on true documented events.

• Shakespeare In Love / Elizabeth / Elizabeth - Golden Age / Other Boleyn Girl | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (-29.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shakespeare In Love: When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! Elizabeth: Now close to death Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) steps up her policy of Protestant repression. Even Princess Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) her younger sister and her heir apparent is in grave danger but Mary's last ditch to execute her for treason fails. Within days Mary is dead and Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England but with enemies and rebellion continuing in her own council she is advised to hit back. She retaliated in a counter-coup of immense ferocity wiping out all opposition to her leadership. Her throne is finally secure. Elizabeth: Golden Age: Tells the thrilling tale of an era - the story of one woman's crusade to control love crush enemies and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. As Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart conspires with Philip of Spain to topple the throne Sir Francis Walsingham Elizabeth's trusty advisor works tirelessly to protect her from the many plots and conspiracies against her. Preparing to go to war to defend her empire Elizabeth struggles to balance royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her attraction to Sir Walter Raleigh. The Other Boleyn Girl:

• Big Boys Gone Bananas | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  What is a big corporation capable of doing in order to protect its brand? Recently, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten experienced this personally. His previous film Bananas! recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers successfully brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. That film was selected for competition by the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Nothing wrong so far, right? But then just before leaving Sweden to attend the Los Angeles world premiere of h...

• 3 Modern Classics - The Stepfather / Glengarry Glen Ross / The Last Seduction | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Stepfather - This is the chilling tale of a congenial family man whose engaging smile and staid demeanor insidiously mask a deep-seated dementia. His obsessive desire to live the ideal family life ultimately leads to the family's very destruction. Glengarry Glen Ross - He's an animal of instinct. Ferocious. Hungry. Driven by the kill. He's an endangered species. A dying breed. And he's going down fighting. He is The Property Salesman. Cinema's star players chase le

• Dirty Deeds | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £45.01 (644.84%)   |  RRP £51.99

  DIRTY DEEDS is an Aussie gangster flick set against the booming casino underworld of late 1960s Sydney. Bryan Brown (COCKTAIL, THE THORN BIRDS) stars as Barry Ryan, an Australian mobster who controls the city's gambling scene and is making a killing from the casino slot machines. His profitable venture attracts the unwanted attention of the American Mafia, who attempt to secure a piece of the action by sending in two of their henchmen: the pensive, world-weary veteran Tony (John Goodman) and his violent, not-too-bright sidekick Sal (Felix Williamson). Ryan soon finds himself fending off the trigger-happy Yanks, Outback-style, while also contending with his feisty wife (Toni Collette), needy mistress (Kestie Morassi), and a crooked cop (Sam Neill). Utilising flashy camerawork, black comedy, and mobster protagonists, writer/director David Caesar tips his hat to the criminal capers of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, while lending the proceedings a distinctly Down Under flair.

• Coolie | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Coolies are the luggage handlers at Indian railway-stations and are viewed by members of society as the bottom of the pile. One man pledged his life when he was a young child after loosing his family to protect defend and uphold the rights of the Coolies for they where the only family he had left. His name Iqbal his game to gain the Coolies more rights. The major enemy to Iqbal is Zahfar the evil buisnessman who stole his mother away from him and who is at the core of the con

• Roja | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Roja lives in a Tamil village and her sister is about to be married to a man from the city. He decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir where some militants decide to perform a kidnapping...

• A change in the weather | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In an attempt to revisit a creative collaboration and revive his marriage, a theatre director brings together a group of performers to spend a week with him and his wife in an isolated, mountainous part of southern France. As the work progresses, fiction and reality become blurred and there is a constant tension between the characters emotional lives and the nature of the work - an investigation into the changing nature of love. The couple are haunted by memories and dreams which, in the end, threaten not only the venture but the marriage itself. All this is underpinned by a sense of melancholy, reflected in the songs and music performed, and in the dramatic and implacably beautiful landscape.

• This Land Of Mine | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Albert Lory is a teacher at a school in German-occupied France. He is a coward but he is drawn into the actions of the resistance. Arrested by the Germans because of a murder the German officers promise him freedom if he is willing to collaborate with them against France.

• Titanic/The Man In The Iron Mask/Romeo And Juliet | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titanic: Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar nominee Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the ""unsinkable"" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. Man In The Iron Mask: Its 'all for one and one for all' as the Three Musketeers along with D'Artagnan reunite in this swashbuckling tale of action and adventure. Leonardo DiCaprico stars in the dual role of the cruel King Louis XIV and the mysterious prisoner encased in the iron mask. Paris is starving but the King of France is more interested in the debauched affairs of court. The Musketeers devise a daring plot to save France from the tyranny of this King only D'Artgnan stands in their way. The Man in the Iron Mask is a stunning film of intrigue danger action and romance. Romeo + Juliet: Baz Luhrmann's dazzling and unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story is spellbinding. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes portray Romeo and Juliet the youthful star-crossed lovers of the past. But the setting has been moved from its Elizabethan origins to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona beach. This brilliant and contemporary retelling of the world's most tragic love affair makes this wildly inventive ""Romeo & Juliet"" unforgettable.

• Cracker - To Say I Love You | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a young man with a chronic speech impediment is caught by the police for joyriding Fitz is brought onto the case and recommends a psychological evaluation. However D.S. Beck releases the young man contrary to Fitz's advice and the violent murder of a loan shark in a dark alley marks the beginning of what Fitz considers to be a Bonnie & Clyde style killing spree. A volatile male personality with enough strength to murder a man with his bare hands and a female with the sexual chemistry to lure potential victims to their death. Fitz's success on the professional front contrasts with his own personal failings as the drink and gambling take their toll.

• Judaai | DVD | (30/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Judaai is a story of a young lady Kajal (Sreedevi) and her husband Raj (Anil Kapoor) who are happily married with two children. Kajal constantly dreams of being rich and yearns for the luxuries of life.In fact her greed for money is so immense that it starts to threaten the very foundation of her marriage. Raj's income is unable to support the luxuries demands of his wife. Jahnvi (Urmila Matondkar) is a rich young beautiful girl and believes money can buy anything and everything.Jahnvi finds herself attracted to Raj and as time passes she decides that marriage is what she really wants. Jahnvi strikes a deal with Kajal 2 crore in exchange for Raj's hand in marriage once Kajal has signed the divorce documents.Slowly Kajal finds herself being alienated from Raj and her children and it isn't long before Kajal demands to get Raj back.Will Kajal get Raj and the children back? or will Jahnvi remain Raj's wife?

• The Harvest | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When disillisioned writer Charlie travels to Mexico to research a bizarre spate of murders he is dragged into a nightmare world of intrigue seduction and murder. Seduced by Natalie Charlie's life changes forever. Abducted and drugged he awakes to discover that one of his kidneys has been 'harvested' by a ruthless gang involved in the illegal trade of body parts. He flees setting out to find Natalie before his abductors return to reap the rest of their deadly harvest. Based around true events 'The Harvest' is a violent and sexy film that's compulsive to watch.