Drama

• The Long Firm | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.43   |  Saving you £13.56 (210.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the swinging sixties in London there was only one crime boss in Soho that mattered: the indomitable Harry Starks. With a reputation for savagery and generosity in equal measure Starks ruled central London with a coercive fist and his favourite implement of torture: the red-hot poker. Based on Jake Arnott's best selling novel which combines fact with fiction this is a retrospective tale of criminality in the 1960s through to the 1980s; told from the view of four characters a

• Bad Girls - Series One | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  If the concept of a TV drama set in a woman's prison was one potentially fraught with cliché, the critical and commercial success of Bad Girls is a testament to fine writing, performance and production. With no preamble or scene setting, Series 1 immediately plunges the viewer into the world of Larkhall Prison, its inmates and staff. This approach leaves the characters to reveal themselves at varying pace, with each episode bringing new details about their life on the outside. Given the nature of the setting, it is unsurprising that the show is an ensemble, female-dominated piece. Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones and Debra Stephenson are all excellent in the three key roles, with impressive support throughout the cast. Male characters are generally relegated to the sidelines, with the exception of sleazy warden Jim Fenner (played with skin crawling accuracy by Jack Ellis). The sexual realities of the environment are handled realistically and sensitively, and not for nothing is the word "uncut" splashed across the cover: there are some quite disturbing scenes, especially in the earlier episodes. On the DVD: The DVD enhances the show's attempts to capture the atmosphere of prison, with sharp contrast between light and darkness and the constant barracking, cat-calling and snide asides sounding crisp, clear and suitably nasty. Of the impressive 70 minutes of extra features much will only be of real interest to absolute devotees. A documentary examining work on the forthcoming third series may go into admirable detail, but how much interest a costume truck can actually be is perhaps debatable. The footage itself is a little unpolished, but does provide the cast members with an opportunity to reveal themselves, as does the extensive interview section. Not only do the main actors give valuable insights into their characters, but it is also interesting to see how the process has influenced their opinions on the prison system. A feature on a book signing in London certainly puts the show into an audience context, but the collection of outtakes (presented in a, supposedly intentionally, amateurish and tacky manner by Lahbib) is at best superfluous. There is more than a hint of trying to find material to fill the space, but overall this is an impressive effort. --Phil Udell

• The Last Picture Show (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. This aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtrys novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybill Shepherd)and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman lonely housewife and Ben Johnson grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal work in the career of invaluable film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich. Product Features BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 4K digital restoration of the directors cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall Two documentaries about the making of the film QA with Bogdanovich from 2009 Screen tests and location footage Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker Francois Truffaut about the New Hollywood Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller Cover by F. Ron Miller

• Freefall | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by John Irvin this explosive action thriller stars karate and weapons expert Eric Roberts and Jeff Fahey. Roberts proves himself as one of the hottest action heroes of the decade in a movie that has it all: murder espionage passion and mind-blowing stunts - all shot against the incredible backdrop of locations spanning Africa America and Europe. With Freefall - you'd better hang on for your life!

• Enid | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The film explores how the orderly reassuringly clear worlds Enid Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life. It sheds light on the ambitious and driven - but as yet unpublished - young woman from the development of her rich imagination against the adversity of an imperfect childhood two World Wars and a first marriage ending in divorce - to household name. One of the most recognised storytellers of all time Enid Blyton's charming characters and classic tales have enchanted countless generations of children for almost 80 years. Having sold over 500 million books in 40 countries this film follows the woman behind the enduring and compelling stories such as the beloved Famous Five Secret Seven Malory Towers and Noddy series.

• Reckless | DVD | (18/04/2016) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robson Green, Francesca Annis and Michael Kitchen star in this award-winning drama series from Paul Abbott, the phenomenally successful creator Touching Evil and Shameless.One of three hit series for Abbott in 1997, Reckless charts the intense, turbulent affair between a young surgeon and the wife of his ruthless consultant boss. Winner of the National Television Award for Most Popular Drama, the complete series is featured here along with its movie-length sequel both of which earned BAFTA nominations for Francesca Annis.Travelling by train to Manchester to care for his ailing father, Owen Springer meets beautiful, forty-something Anna Fairley; unbeknown to Owen, she heads the management team overseeing his assessment for a new job at a Manchester hospital. Having successfully obtained the post, Owen discovers that Anna is married to his new boss, Richard Crane, only after realising he is falling in love with her. But is Anna's marriage as secure as she believes it to be?

• Courage Under Fire | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  January 1991 : The world is watching the Gulf War. Day and night millions tune into CNN-TV to see a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. As the US Forces take a starring role the PR department at the White House is working overtime. What they're looking for is a hero. What they find is a scandal. What a troubled officer must now uncover is the truth...

• Elizabeth Of Ladymead | DVD | (20/01/2014) from £8.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (11.62%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Directed by renowned producer/director Herbert Wilcox at the height of his career, this British post-War film drama spans four generations to tell the never-changing story of the soldier husband who returns home expecting to find everything just as he left it. Starring screen icon Anna Neagle, Elizabeth of Ladymead is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Ladymead is the gracious Georgian mansion in which El...

• Beauty and the Beast Seasons 1-4 Complete | DVD | (29/10/2018) from £43.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Relive all four pulse-pounding seasons of Beauty & The Beast. Three years after NYPD detective Catherine Chandler (Kristin Kreuk) witnesses her mother's murder, a case leads her to ex-soldier Vincent Keller (Jay Ryan), a man with a dark and mysterious past. As their love grows, so does the danger. While Catherine discovers more about who and what Vincent really is, together they must uncover who cursed him with his unnatural abilities. From the shadows, sinister forces conspire to tear them apart and threaten to destroy their lives altogether. It soon becomes clear that in order to stay alive, they'll have to stay together. Special Features: Dressing The Beauty Creating The Beast A Day In The Life Of The Writers' Room Gag Reels Deleted Scenes And More!

• The Winslow Boy | Blu Ray | (03/02/2020) from £10.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version, Pygmalion) and adapted from the seminal play by Terence Rattigan (The Deep Blue Sea Separate Tables) THE WINSLOW BOY is a classic tale of standing up to bureaucracy and one family's testing fight for justice. Based on real life events, The Winslow Boy, Starring Robert Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye Mr Chips) as Sir Robert Morton and Basil Radford (Whiskey Galore, The Lady Vanishes) as Desmond Curry the story follows the tribulations of an Edwardian naval cadet who is accused of the theft of a 5 shilling postal order, then expelled from his academy. On returning home his father becomes determined to clear his name and prove his innocence after what he considers an unfair internal enquiry. During his pursuit for justice the case eventually reaches The House Of Commons to cause public outcry and a political furore. A thoroughly British, searing drama about the conquest for truth and the sacrifices that come with it. Extras: NEW - George Arthur Shee and The case of the missing postal order NEW - Interview with cultural historian Matthew Sweet NEW - Interview with Geoffery Wansell, Author and critic, Stills Galler

• Get Rich Or Die Tryin' | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

• Notting Hill | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Weak Spot (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ugo Tognazzi (La grande bouffe) is an innocent playboy holiday rep in Greece who is picked up by two secret agents (Michel Piccoli, Le Mépris and Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection). Suspected of being part of an underground resistance, he is to be transported by the agents to Athens where he will be interrogated by superior officers. Their journey is the start of a cat-and-mouse game that beautifully plays on Tognazzi's screen persona with the thrilling tension of Costa-Gavras' Z. Newly restored in 4K by Studio Canal, Peter Fleischmann's paranoid thriller is made available on Blu-ray for the first time.

• Alice's Restaurant | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £12.46   |  Saving you £0.53 (4.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Arthur Penn's chronicle of hippie life during the late 1960s garnered the acclaimed director his second Oscar nomination. Based on the song by folk music troubadour Arlo Guthrie son of legendary ""Dust Bowl"" balladeer Woody Guthrie this tribute film to ""the last generation"" features memorable scenes with other folk artists like Pete Seeger who join Arlo in song to make a profound statement about war protest and change. In the late '60s a changing social and political climate inspi

• The Time Traveller's Wife | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £3.85   |  Saving you £16.14 (419.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Time Traveler's Wife is based on the best-selling book about a love that transcends time. Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together even though she never knows when they will be separated. Henry is a time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning Clare desperately tries to biuld a life with her one true love.

• Mister Corbett's Ghost | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mr. Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night just before Christmas Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master were dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls. This film is based on Leon Garfield's classic tale about the apprentice who wishes for nothing more than the death of his hated master, as he wants to spend New Years Eve with his friends, but finds the burden of the man's ghost too great to bear.

• Bandits of Orgosolo + The Lost World (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/06/2024) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Sardinian peasant is suspected of murder following an encounter with bandits. In order to survive, he has no option but to turn to banditry himself. Winning multiple awards at the Venice Film Festival, Bandits of Orgosolo continues the traditions of Visconti and De Sica yet with his own style and rhythms Vittorio De Seta musters just as much power as the earlier masters. This release includes De Seta's remarkable short film programme ˜The Lost World' comprising his Cannes Film Festival award-winning short film Islands of Fire and others which survey Italy's poorest communities. Despite awards and plaudits on release these incredible films only now make their English language debut on home video. Upon release, Bandits moved Martin Scorsese to observe: It was as if De Seta were an anthropologist who spoke with the voice of a poet. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESDisc 1: New 4K restoration from the original camera negative by The Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with Titanus with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family FoundationNew interview with cinematographer Luciano Tovoli (2024, 28 mins)New interview with curator and filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht (2024, 11 mins)Disc 2: The Lost World: A programme of ten restored short films by De Seta, featuring Islands of Fire (1954, 11 mins), The Age of the Swordfish (1954, 11 mins), Golden Parable (1955, 10 mins), Sea Countrymen (1955, 11 mins), Solfatara (1955, 11 mins), Easter in Sicily (1955, 10 mins), Orgosolo's Shepherds (1958, 11 mins), Fishing Boats (1959, 11 mins), A Day in Barbagia (1958, 11 mins), The Forgotten (1959, 21 mins), restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.Archival interview with Vittorio De Seta (2008, 18 mins)New interview with curator and filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht (2024, 21 mins)TrailerOptional English subtitles Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di BattistaLimited edition booklet featuring new writing by Roberto Curti

• Sing Street | Blu Ray | (08/08/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

• To Write Love On Her Arms | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £4.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (263.43%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a true story this musical drama tells the story of how artistic fantasy music and friendships helped teenager Renee embark on a courageous journey towards recovery.

• American Honey (DVD + Digital Download) | DVD | (20/02/2017) from £16.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.