Drama

• Jimmy Reardon | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £40.79   |  Saving you £-37.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Jimmy's about to change his entire life in just one night. It's the eve of high school graduation the beginning of the rest of his life. But for Jimmy Reardon it seems like the end. His girlfriend Lisa is moving to Hawaii. His friends are going Ivy League. And if his father gets his way Jimmy is going to a very dull all male business school. Jimmy however has other plans for himself. In just 24 hours he's going to demolish his relationship with Lisa several friendships and his dad's car. River Phoenix (Stand By Me) stars as the irrepressible Jimmy Reardon in this rambunctious comedy based on a novel written by director William Richert when he was 19.

• Danielle Steele Collection | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Bandslam | Blu Ray | (07/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "High School Musical's" Vanessa Hudgens hangs out with new friends in this summer's musical treat "Bandslam".

• Out of Africa | DVD | (04/04/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Out of Africa seems to have slipped more readily from public memory than other comparably lauded films. Yet Sidney Pollack's panoramic treatment of Karen Blixen's novel has retained its atmosphere and slow-burning emotion, and deserves reassessment. Meryl Streep is in her possibly most involving starring role as Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish free spirit whose ill-fated venture at the beginning of World War One to run a coffee plantation in Kenya is overlaid by her intimate yet distant relationship with adventurer and idealist Denys Finch Hatton, unselfconsciously portrayed by Robert Redford. Klaus Maria Brandauer puts in a rare and convincing English-language appearance as the amoral but charming womaniser Baron Bror Blixen. The film is tellingly held together by Kurt Luedke's finely honed screenplay, and John Barry's sumptuously expressive score. On the DVD: The anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen format reproduces superbly, as does the 4.1 discrete audio. 18 access points are provided, with printed and aural subtitles in English only. Pollack's feature commentary is amusing enough on a single run-through, but an on-location documentary would have been preferable. Production notes and biographies are very adequate, though the theatrical trailer reproduction is notably inferior. No matter, this is a major film, well worth the transfer to DVD.--Richard Whitehouse

• Double Indemnity | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £10.19   |  Saving you £-0.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But, of course, in these plots things never quite go as planned, and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out. From the opening scene you know Neff is doomed, as the story is told in flashback; yet, to the film's credit, this doesn't diminish any of the tension of the movie. This early film noir flick is wonderfully campy by today's standards, and the dialogue is snappy ("I thought you were smarter than the rest, Walter. But I was wrong. You're not smarter, just a little taller"), filled with lots of "dame"s and "baby"s. Stanwyck is the ultimate femme fatale, and MacMurray, despite a career largely defined by roles as a softy, is convincingly cast against type as the hapless, love-struck sap. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com

• Billy Madison | Blu Ray | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For Adam Sandler fans only, this dopey comedy features the former Saturday Night Live star as an overindulged rich guy whose father insists he repeat grades 1 through 12 before taking over the family business. The scenario is perfect for Sandler's infantile leanings (which he has fortunately outgrown in more recent movies), and for the most part the jokes about being too old and too big for the experiment are obvious. Chris Farley and Steve Buscemi turn up in uncredited cameo appearances, but otherwise the film is pretty dismissible, except for those diehards who can't get enough of Sandler. --Tom Keogh

• Tyrannosaur | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  TYRANNOSAUR is a powerful and affecting drama from feature writer / director Paddy Considine. It follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance.

• Haggard | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ryan Dunn (played by himself) is one sorry SOB; he's completely hung up on Glauren (Jenn Rivell), his ex-girlfriend, even though she's out playing the field. Rumor spreads that she's hooked up with heavy metal's poster child, aptly named Hellboy (Rake Yohn). Ryan can't stand the thought of the two of them together, so he recruits his friends Valo and Falcone to find out the truth. The pair do whatever it takes to get their evidence, even break into her house. In the meantime Ryan flirts with insanity, has run-ins with the law and even gets stabbed in the eye with a fork as his friends try relentlessly to help him forget the girl. Haggard also features special appearances by professional skateboarders Tony Hawk, Jason Ellis and Bucky Lasek.

• Jet Pilot | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £25.74   |  Saving you £-15.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story! A corps of silver jets soar across the majestic blue American skies while a beautiful lady waits faithfully for her hero. John Wayne and Janet Leigh star in this military romance: a classic Howard Hughes production! Anna a Russian MIG pilot escapes the USSR and lands on a US Airforce base in Alaska. There she meets Colonel Shannon and after he debriefs her the two become romantically invo

• Shadow of the Sword | Blu Ray | (02/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fearsome swordplay abounds in this 16th Century epic chronicling the time-tested loyalty of two friends during the notorious Inquisition.As children, Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Headhunters, Game of Thrones) and Georg (Peter McDonald, Wreckers) developed a strong bond, both orphans growing up in a monastery. Following a 15 year absence, neither could have predicted the devastating circumstances which cause their lives to collide once more. When soldier Martin unwittingly becomes forced into the role of executioner, and local cleric Georg sentenced to death, Martin has to make a choice: will he be executioner or saviour?

• Diary of Lust | DVD | (11/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Traitor | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wonderland (1999) | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Bad Girls from Valley High | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £2.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (77.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the halls of Valley High no one's hotter, sexier, or more ruthless than the well-dressed Huns - beautiful Danielle (Julie Benz, Taken), ditzy Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback, Bring It On), and brainy Brooke (Monica Keena, TV's Dawson Creek). They rule the school with a manicured fist until a mysterious and gorgeous foreign exchange student arrives on the scene and steals away the attention of seriously hunky Drew. What's a sassy trio of popular girls to do? Murder, of course!

• Tender Mercies | DVD | (10/09/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out Country & Western star and the young widow he meets in a Texas motel... With his country singing career on the skids and along with life's disappointments he hides at the bottom of a bottle. He has nowhere else to turn. But then an attractive widow and her young son arrive to help him pick up the shattered pieces. Through her love and inspiration he learns to give thanks for tender if small mercies. Te

• In The Cold Of Night | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Fashion photographer Scott Bruin has everything a bachelor could possibly want. But after a night of love making with one of his models he has a nightmare where he sees himself strangling a beautiful girl to death....

• Amar Akbar Anthony / Abhimaan | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Amar Akbar Anthony: After spending much time in jail for his boss Robert (Jeevan) who had accidentally killed a pedestrian while driving Kishanlal (Pran) comes home only to find his wife Savetri (Nirupa Roy) and his three children starving. Kishanlal then goes to confront Robert who had promised to take care of his family in return for taking his blame. But Robert fails to recognize him and insults Kishanlal. Not one for temper Kishanlal then attacks Robert then tries to es

• Angels | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £14.26   |  Saving you £-4.27 (-42.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Angels is a devilish tale of a man who is about to commit suicide when an angel appears and starts showing him the erotic pleasures he would be missing. Features the tragic beauty and Billy Idols' girlfriend Savannah who ironically committed suicide by blowing her brains out a year or two after this film was made.

• Happy End | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon, Hidden) returns with a biting satire on bourgeois family values set in the shadow of the European refugee crisis. Featuring a cast of top acting talent, including Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz and Toby Jones, it's a piercing dark comedy on the blind preoccupations of middle-class angst. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Happy End bears all the hallmarks of Haneke's uniquely stark and unsympathetic style. Pairing pitch-black humour with chillingly precise direction, it's proof if we ever needed it that he remains one of modern cinema's true visionaries. Read more at https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/happy-end/#HiJoRqmElwrKDZ6e.99

• FLOATING WEEDS | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-5.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Towards the end of his career, Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story; Late Spring; Early Summer; An Autumn Afternoon; Good Morning) returned to a story he had made some 25 years earlier as a silent, Ukigusa monogatari [A Story of Floating Weeds], for a magnificent colour reworking, photographed by legendary cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu monogatari).When a travelling theatre troupe brings their show to a seaside port, Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura), an ageing actor, is reunited with his former lover, sake bar owner Oyoshi (Haruko Sugimura), and his illegitimate son Kiyoshi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), to the distress of his current mistress Sumiko (Machiko Kyo).From this simple scenario, Ozu builds, one exquisite image at a time, a saga of profound humanity and rich understanding. Encompassing a novelistic range of emotions and tones with the utmost delicacy, Floating Weeds stands tall even amidst a body of work as extraordinary as Ozu's. Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Floating Weeds in a beautiful new high-definition restoration.