Drama

• Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition (UK Version) | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  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 £18.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  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 £7.05   |  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.

• Asteroid City | DVD | (25/09/2023) from £5.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.

• Pitch Perfect 3-Movie Boxset | DVD | (23/04/2018) from £27.78   |  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 £24.19   |  Saving you £37.80 (156.26%)   |  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

• The Outlaws: Series 3 | DVD | (01/07/2024) from £8.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mean Streets (Special Edition) | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £6.27   |  Saving you £11.72 (186.92%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A study of four young Italian-Americans and their involvement with the Mafia and local crooks.

• I Saw The Light | DVD | (12/09/2016) from £11.60   |  Saving you £6.39 (55.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  'I Saw The Light' is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music.

• Come Back To The 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Blu Ray | (22/07/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN, the fantastical character driven comedy starring Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black and Kathy Bates, for the first time ever in the UK, in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition as part of The Masters of Cinema Series from 22 July 2019. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is one of the wonderful highlights of an under-appreciated chapter of director Robert Altman's career. Between the box office disappointment of Popeye (1980) and the explosive comeback of The Player (1992), Altman returned to lower-budgeted, independent filmmaking, often boldly experimenting with how theatre work could be inventively adapted for cinema and television. This period of Altman's oeuvre also includes such masterworks as Streamers (1983), Secret Honor (1984), and Tanner '88 (1988), but was initiated by Come Back, and this funny, touching film of the play by Ed Graczyk (who adapted it for the screen) is a triumph. Altman's film also jump-started the serious acting career of Cher, nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Sissy, one of the Disciples of James Dean, an all-women fan club devoted to the late actor, meeting for a reunion at a crumbling Woolworth's in a small Texas town in 1975. Joined by group leader Mona (Sandy Dennis) and the glamorous, initially mysterious Joanne (Karen Black), the women recall their love for Dean, and the club that began twenty years earlier when the actor was in a nearby town filming Giant, and the fatal car accident that followed. Soon, as more memories of 1955 are recalled, secrets are revealed and old friendships are put to the test. Reuniting Altman with his previous stars Dennis (That Cold Day in the Park) and Black (Nashville), and providing Kathy Bates with an early feature role, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a study of nostalgia's ability to distort the past, and another of the director's fascinating portraits of the friendships between women. It's also one of Altman's warmest and most entertaining movies. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean for the first time ever in the UK in a Dual Format edition. Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation from a newly updated version of the 2012 TFF funded restoration Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing New and exclusive feature-length audio commentary by Lee Gambin Cutting Jimmy Dean [25 mins] New and exclusive interview with film editor Jason Rosenfield Designing Jimmy Dean [11 mins] New and exclusive interview with art director David Gropman Original Theatrical Trailer PLUS: a collector's booklet featuring a new essay by film critic and writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

• Shock and Awe | DVD | (10/09/2018) from £3.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.

• Vienna Blood Season 2 | Blu Ray | (31/01/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1900s Vienna, a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Max Liebermann is a brilliant young English doctor and student of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. When Max comes into contact with Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help him investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders. Max's extraordinary skills of perception and psychology and Oskar's forceful tenacity lead them to solve some of Vienna's most mysterious and deadly cases.

• King and Country (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  KING AND COUNTRY is a 1964 uncompromising WW1 drama, directed by Joseph Losey, featuring outstanding performances from Tom Courtenay (who won the 1964 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor) and Dirk Bogarde. During World War I, a young soldier, Hamp (Tom Courtenay) deserts his post, attempting to escape the ever-present sound of guns and walk back home. Captain Hargreaves (Dirk Bogarde) an aristocratic and British Army lawyer must defend Hamp before the army tribunal, for whom the crime of desertion carries a nasty stigma and the penalty of execution. Initially, Hargreaves approaches Hamp's case with disdain; however, upon learning that Hamp volunteered for duty on a dare, that he is the sole survivor of his unit and that his wife has been unfaithful in his absence, his efforts on Hamp's behalf become more impassioned and earnest.

• Tumbledown | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A BBC drama based on the experiences of the Royal Scots Guard Lieutenant Robert Lawrence covering his military training the fateful action he saw in the Falklands conflict and the aftermath of the terrible injuries which he sustained.

• Where The Wild Things Are | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £4.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (226.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.

• The Good Doctor Seasons 1/2/3/4/5 | DVD | (14/11/2022) from £69.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• In Love and War | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £10.82   |  Saving you £-0.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Richard Attenborough brings the story of Ernest Hemingway's affair with a beautiful nurse during the First World War to the screen. Having conned his way into the Red Cross 18-year-old Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) interviews soldiers on the Italian front. When one of them is injured during an attack Hemingway attempts to carry him to the hospital but is himself shot in the leg. In hospital his leg is saved from amputation by nurse Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock). The two fall in love but their relationship comes under strain when Agnes is sent to the front and finds herself torn between two men after her colleague Dr Carraciolo proposes to her.

• The Theory Of Everything | Blu Ray | (11/05/2015) from £9.95   |  Saving you £-3.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.34

  Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play.  The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary and uplifting story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and of two people defying the steepest of odds through love. The film, based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, by Jane Hawking, is directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire).

• In Bruges | Blu Ray | (19/04/2021) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following a job that's gone very badly wrong, two hitmen Ray and Ken are sent to Bruges by their boss Harry and told to lie low and await instructions. Ken falls in love with the cobbled streets and canals of the picturesque city but for Ray it's torturous boredom and he upsets both locals and tourists. When the call finally comes from Harry it may not be the ticket out he was hoping for. Special Features Six Shooter: Martin McDonagh's Oscar Winning Short Film in HD Shoot First, Sightsee Later: A New Interview with Director of Photography Eigil Bryld Finding the Rhythm: A New Interview with Editor Jon Gregory Finding Bruges: A New Interview with Production Designer Michael Carlin The Alcove Guy: A New Interview with Actor Eric Godon When in Bruges - interviews with cast and crew and on-set footage Strange Bruges interviews with cast and crew and on-set footage Deleted Scenes Boat Trip Around Bruges Gag Reel Optional English subtitles for the hard of hearing