Drama

• Dulcima | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This acclaimed drama feature casts Cathy Come Home star Carol White as a young woman whose determined efforts to escape a life of rural poverty lead to complications and worse; Oscar winner John Mills is the lonely ageing farmer with whom she finds work accommodation and the promise of easy money. An earthy sympathetic adaptation of H.E. Bates' novel Dulcima earned director Frank Nesbitt a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1971. This rare much sought-after film is now presented in a brand-new transfer from the original elements. Dulcima a pretty girl treated as a drudge by her family lifts herself from her environment by becoming housekeeper to Parker a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her and a strange yet mutually beneficial relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper newly arrived on a nearby estate also catches Dulcima's eye... SPECIAL FEATURES: [] Original Theatrical Trailers [] Image Gallery [] Original Pressbook PDF

• Lords Of Discipline | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Will (David Keith) arrives for his last year at a Military Academy in the Deep South USA in the 1960's where a black student has been accepted for the first time. Will is forced to help the new student from the attentions of racists but is he prepared to risk his own career to do so? Based on the novel by Pat Conroy.

• If Beale Street Could Talk | DVD | (17/06/2019) from £5.04   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings us his highly anticipated next feature, an adaptation of James Baldwin's stunning novel, If Beale Street Could Talk. In early 1970's Harlem, Tish, a nineteen-year old girl, is in love with a young sculptor, Fonny, the father of her unborn child. When Fonny is falsely accused of rape and imprisoned, Tish and their families race to clear his name before the baby is born. A story about love persisting in the face of racial oppression and injustice, Jenkins brings together a talented young cast which includes Stephan James (Selma, Race) as Fonny and newcomer Kiki Layne as Tish.

• Bull Season 4 | DVD | (15/02/2021) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Season Four of BULL returns a few months after the bombshell revelation that Dr. Jason Bull (Michael Weatherly) is expecting a child with his ex-wife and Benny's (Freddy Rodriguez) sister, Isabella Colón (Yara Martinez). While Bull prepares for impending fatherhood at home, his work at TAC suffers in the wake of Benny's resignation as TAC's staff attorney after learning Bull slept with Isabella at their father's funeral. As Bull readies the team to mount a defence for a young bartender on trial for involuntary manslaughter following an inebriated customer's mass killing, he faces uncharacteristic doubt that they can win without his top lawyer and closest friend by his side in court.. SPECIAL FEATURES Audio Commentary by Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez and Bethany Rooney on Labor Days Audio Commentary by Michael Weatherly on Fantastica Voyage Four Bagger

• Half Of A Yellow Sun | DVD | (04/08/2014) from £7.55   |  Saving you £10.44 (138.28%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover the 'revolutionary professor' Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (John Boyega) in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests and surprises herself when she falls in love with Richard (Joseph Mawle) an English writer. Preoccupied by their romantic entanglements and a betrayal between the sisters the events of their life loom larger than politics. However they become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire country and the world. Based on the award-winning best seller by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun is the feature film debut from London based Nigerian playwright novelist and screenwriter Biyi Bandele. Starring Oscar-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave) BAFTA-winner Thandie Newton (Crash) BAFTA-nominee Joseph Mawle (Birdsong) Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) and John Boyega (Attack the Block) Half of a Yellow Sun is an epic love-story weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war produced by Andrea Calderwood of Slate Films (The Last King of Scotland).

• My Girl/My Girl 2 | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  My Girl: A coming-of-age comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone) and newcomer Anna Chlumsky, MY GIRL is an irresistible story of first love and loss. Chlumsky makes an extraordinary acting debut as Vada Sultenfuss, a precocious 11-year-old tomboy and Macaulay Culkin is Thomas J., the boy next door. Their summer adventures from first kiss to last farewell introduce Vada to the world of adolescence. My Girl 2: The year is 1974. Vada is now 13 years old. Research for a school assignment leads Vada to Los Angeles where she stays with Uncle Phil (Richard Masur), his likeable girlfriend (Christine Ebersol), and her streetsmart son, Nick (Austin O'Brien Last Action Hero). Guided by Nick through the city of Los Angeles in search for clues to her late mother's history, Vada makes some surprising discoveries about her roots and also about herself as she confronts the uncertainties of adolescence, first love, first kisses and her place in a changing family.

• Rescue Me - Season 1 | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) is a lifesaver. Whether he's pulling survivors from fiery high-rise infernos or the twisted steel of a subway collision Gavin takes great pride in leading the heroic but often overwhelmed firefighters of New York City's Truck Company 62. Gavin is also a man drifting between sorrow and anger over a recent separation from his wife (Andrea Roth) and three kids and recurring memories of comrades and other New Yorkers who fell victim to the tragedy of 9/11.

• Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 1-5 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A terrible idea, of course", was Krzysztof Kieœlowski's first reaction when his co-scriptwriter, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, first suggested the idea for Dekalog--a series of 10 one-hour films, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. But from this unpromising beginning came an edgy, unsettling tour de force, the culmination of Kieœlowski's work in his native Poland and, quite possibly, the last cinematic masterpiece to come out of Communist Eastern Europe. The full Dekalog consists of ten one-hour films: this pair of double discs contains the first five. The links to the specific commandments are often oblique and imprecise, and shouldn't be taken too literally. Kieœlowski is using this framework not as a direct exposition of Mosaic Law, nor even as a commentary on its relevance today, but rather as a series of meditations on the complexity of moral choices. All the films are set in the same drab high-rise Warsaw housing estate, and characters from one story will show up the background of others, passing across the frame as they go about their business. One young man who appears in nearly all the films never plays a leading role nor even speaks a line, but remains a watchful, melancholy presence, haunting and disquieting, gazing at the events unfolding around him like an uneasy conscience. Grim though these stories are, there's often a note of ironic humour leavening the overall bleakness. But this set ends with one of the grimmest of all. In Dekalog 5 a young man murders a taxi driver for no apparent reason, then is executed himself. Both deaths are equally squalid and appalling. This episode was later expanded to feature-film length with the title A Short Film About Killing. The greater length enhanced its impact; it's a pity that room wasn't found for that longer version here. On the DVDs: Dekalog, Parts 1-5 offers very little additional material. The second disc, which contains episodes 4 and 5, also includes a brief on-screen text biography and filmography for Kieœlowski. The films are shown in their original 4:3 ratio, in a crisp clean transfer. --Philip Kemp

• Irrational Man | DVD | (01/02/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

• The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 2 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £10.88   |  Saving you £2.11 (19.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ian McShane stars as lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy in three 55 minute episodes: Friends Romans & Enemies The Judas Pair and To Sleep No More.

• The One And Only | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her brand new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight...

• Oscar And Lucinda | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £9.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (31.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In mid-1800's England Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) is a young Anglican priest a misfit and an outcast but with the soul of an angel. As a boy even though from a strict Pentecostal family he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) is a teenaged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a

• The Color Of Money | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £5.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (199.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Martin Scorcese handles directing duties in this 1986 sequel to the classic 1961 film The Hustler, which marks the return of Paul Newman to the role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson. Anxious to break into the big time again, Eddie finds a talented protégé (Tom Cruise) to groom; but with the addition of the latter's manipulative girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and the wild streak in Cruise's character, the trio make for a fascinating portrait in group psychology. The cast is brilliant, the script by Richard Price (Clockers) is a paragon of tightly controlled character study and drama (at least in the film's first half), and Scorcese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus make an ornate show of the collision and flight of pool balls through space--something of a metaphor for the dynamics among the three principals. The film is generally regarded as weaker in its second half, and rightly so, as everything that was interesting in the first place disappears. Still, Newman won a deserved Oscar for his performance. --Tom Keogh

• Santa's List | DVD | (09/11/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Body Heat | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  While scoring high-profile credits as a screenwriter (including The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark), Lawrence Kasdan made his directorial debut with this steamy, contemporary film noir in the tradition of Double Indemnity and other classics from the 1940s. In one of his most memorable roles, William Hurt plays a Florida lawyer unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit spun by Kathleen Turner (in her screen debut) as a married socialite who plots to kill off her husband with Hurt's assistance. Kasdan's dialogue is a hoot (sometimes it borders on satire) and the sultry atmosphere is a perfect complement to the perspiration-soaked chemistry between Hurt and Turner, whose love scenes caused quite a stir when the film was released in 1981. John Barry's score sets the provocative mood and both Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke are splendid in memorable supporting roles. --Jeff Shannon

• The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £5.10   |  Saving you £14.89 (291.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft star in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' love story. Faced with a midlife crisis and widowhood after her wealthy husband (Brian Dennehy) dies on a trip to Europe, actress Karen Stone (Mirren) travels to Rome, where she meets the Contessa (Bancroft), who introduces her to a string of potential male companions. However, Stone is unprepared for her reaction when she meets the handsome Paolo di Lio (Olivier Martinez), who is several years her junior. But she soon begins to suspect that Paolo and the Contessa's intentions may be more sinister than she first assumed...

• Julia | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fred Zinnemann's last great movie. Based on part of Lillian Hellman's memoir, the film stars Jane Fonda as Hellman as she recounts her friendship with the enigmatic JULIA, played by Vanessa Redgrave. Fonda gives a gutsy performance, playing well with Redgrave and, to a greater degree, Jason Robards, who plays Dashell Hammett. Alvin Sargent's screenplay cleverly bends time, jumping back and forth as the story of Hellman's friendship with Julia is told and Zinnemann creates a melancholy feel that's sustained throughout. The excellent music by Georges Delerue is haunting and the cinematography by Douglas Slocombe is beautiful. The supporting cast features Meryl Streep as Anne Marie, Maximillian Schell as Johann, Cathleen Nesbitt as Julia's grandmother, Rosemary Murphy as Dorothy Parker and Hal Holbrook as Parker's husband Alan Campbell.

• The Fortune Cookie | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £16.43   |  Saving you £-0.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Billy Wilder directs this first-time pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in a brilliant comedy in which a larcenous lawyer convinces his brother-in-law to perpetrate insurance fraud. Jack Lemmon portrays Harry Hinkle a TV cameraman who gets injured by a very considerate player while working a Cleveland Browns football game. Walter Matthau is the devious lawyer Willie Gingrich who encourages the expensive lawsuit. Co-written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond the film garnered

• The Von Trapp Family: A Life Of Music | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Discover the story behind one of the most beloved musicals of all time: The Sound of Music. Eliza Bennett (Nanny McPhee) stars as the eldest daughter of the von Trapp family, defying the odds to pursue her dream of a musical career, in the true story of their incredible and harrowing journey. Based on Agathe von Trapp's autobiography Memories Before and After the Sound of Music, this heart-warming story of a family drawn into desperate circumstances, also stars Matthew Macfadyen (Anna Karenina) and Rosemary Harris (Spider-Man franchise). Special Features: About the Family (Featurette) / About the Story (Featurette)

• Spartans | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £24.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete Channel 4 documentary series profiling the ancient Greek warrior race their wars and customs. Essential viewing for fans of Troy.