Drama

• Malcolm X | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £16.01   |  Saving you £1.98 (12.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Do the Right Thing climaxed with the photographic images of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King engulfed by flames of rage; Malcolm X explores the genesis and evolution of that rage over Malcolm's lifetime, and how these two great figures--held up to the public as polar opposites within the African-American human rights movement (King for nonviolent civil disobedience, Malcolm for achieving equality "by any means necessary")--were each essential to the agenda of the other. Lee careens from the hedonistic ebullience of Malcolm's early days to the stark despair of prison, from his life-changing conversion to Islam to his emergence as a dynamic political leader--all with an epic sweep and vitality that illuminates personal details as well as political ideology. Angela Bassett is also terrific as Malcolm's wife, Betty Shabazz. --Jim Emerson

• Youth | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the Academy Award®-winning director of The Great Beauty, and featuring a career-best performance from Michael Caine, Youth is a warm, witty and deeply moving portrait of love and loss. With dazzling visuals, a great soundtrack and a stellar supporting cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz and Jane Fonda.

• 23 Walks | DVD | (25/01/2021) from £7.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British drama starring Dave Johns and Alison Steadman. Strangers Fern (Steadman) and Dave (Johns) meet in a park in London and over the course of a number of walks with their dogs an unlikely romance blossoms between the elderly pair.

• Shoplifters | Blu Ray | (25/03/2019) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The 2018 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or-winning film from visionary director Kore-eda Hirokazu (Nobody Knows, After the Storm) is a critically-acclaimed portrait of a family in Japan. After another successful shoplifting spree, Osamu (Lily Franky, Like Father, Like Son) and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold and invite her home with them. Osamu's wife Nobuyo reluctantly agrees to shelter her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, relying on petty crime alongside their part-time jobs and inadequate incomes, they seem to live happily together - until an unforeseen incident upsets the delicate balance the family have created, revealing long-buried secrets...

• Hidden (cache) | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A married couple are terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

• Fifty Shades Darker + Fifty Shades of Grey DVD Double Pack DVD + Digital Copy | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £4.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FIFTY SHADES OF GREY - Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. FIFTY SHADES DARKER - While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.

• The Jim Jarmusch Collection | Blu Ray | (06/10/2014) from £99.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Blu-Ray Boxset of Jim Jarmusch’s first six films: Permanent Vacation Stranger Than Paradise Down By Law Mystery Train Night on Earth and Dead Man.

• What Maisie Knew | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a contemporary interpretation of the classic Henry James novel and set in present day New York City the story centres on Maisie an unwitting six-year-old girl enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother a rock and roll icon and her father a charming but distracted art dealer. Darkly comic and emotionally compelling What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos and complexity of a modern marriage.

• Punch-Drunk Love | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £9.93   |  Saving you £-3.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the director of "Magnolia" comes the tale of a beleaguered small-business owner embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman who plays the harmonium!

• Beyond | DVD | (12/01/2015) from £3.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (433.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For a brief moment in history, the world stood still. All eyes and minds focused on the skies and the colossal, unidentified object that was discovered on a collision course with Earth. Now, shrouded in mystery, the vast alien spacecraft looms ominously in sight above Northern Europe bringing with it an uncertain future. Amidst the chaos of the ensuing global catastrophe one young couple, searching for their infant daughter, their lost relationship and the hope of salvation embark on a perilous journey across a beautiful but treacherous landscape. They are driven on by hope, confronting their own demons while forced to survive in a world that stands on the brink of collapse. Survival is a choice

• The Shape of Night (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/04/2024) from £19.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young woman from the countryside (Miyuki Kuwano of Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth) falls in love with a handsome hoodlum (Mikijiro Hira, Sword of the Beast), who pushes her into a life of prostitution. When his sleazy superiors catch sight of her, she finds herself trapped inside the gaudy maze of city nightlife. Directed by Noburo Nakamura, a veteran of the Shochiku studio's signature Golden Age family dramas, The Shape of Night was made as a reaction to the radical film styles of the Japanese New Wave. With its lush cinematography full of saturated colours, a lyrical tone and its story of love leading to inescapable tragedy, it has been compared to the films of Douglas Sirk, while also acting as a precursor to the work of Wong Kar-wai.★★★★★ 'a lyrical, nearly Wong-kar Wai-like counterpart to ardent work by Oshima or Imamura' - Film Comment'kept me continually gripped and often surprised' - David Bordwell'The camera angles and movements, the colour scheme and editing all work brilliantly to illustrate her constant sacrifice and lead us to emotionally internalise the gaudy city as a dazzling parade that always leads her back to her situation. Stylistically the film anticipates the Wong Kar-wai of In the Mood for Love and echoes Douglas Sirk at his most stirring.' - Nick James, Sight and SoundProduct FeaturesLIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:High-Definition digital transferUncompressed mono PCM audioVisual essay on the artistic upheavals at Shochiku studios during the 1960s by Tom MesNew and improved English subtitle translationReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time TomorrowLimited edition booklet featuring new writing by Chuck Stephens Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markingsMore to be confirmed!

• Times Square | DVD | (14/07/2014) from £16.19   |  Saving you £-6.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Presented in a brand-new digital transfer Allan Moyle's cult feature of 1980 is a paean to teenage rebellion telling the story of two girls who meet in a New York psychiatric unit and bonding through a shared sense of alienation go on the run together in spectacular fashion! Volatile streetwise Nicky (Robin Johnson) is an aspiring rocker while Pamela (Trini Alvarado) is a timid isolated girl whose wealthy father is currently campaigning to clean up the city's famous square; Johnny DeGuardia (Tim Curry) is the sympathetic late-night DJ who promotes their newly formed punk outfit 'The Sleez Sisters'. Times Square explores themes revisited in Moyles' Pump Up the Volume a decade later and allusions to lesbian love have ensured repeat screenings at LGBT film festivals worldwide. In addition to gloriously gritty scenes of early-'80s New York and pre-cleanup Times Square the film also boasts a now-legendary rock 'n' roll soundtrack featuring songs by The Ramones Lou Reed Roxy Music The Cure Talking Heads and others alongside specially composed numbers including XTC rarity Take This Town and Flowers of the City co-written by ex-New York Doll David Johansen. SPECIAL FEATURES [] Original Theatrical Trailer [] Image Gallery

• Sledge Hammer - Series 2 | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Trust me I still know what I'm doing! It would take more than a nuclear explosion to stop everyone's favourite violence-loving lawman! David Rasche returns - along with co-stars Anne-Marie Martin and Harrison Page - in the surprising (because nobody expected the network to renew it) second season of the series These are the infamous final episodes featuring such guest stars as Richard Moll Ray Walston Edy Williams Bud Cort Bernie Kopell Adam Ant Davy Jones and more in

• Low Winter Sun | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £10.72   |  Saving you £9.27 (86.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Channel 4's stylish two-parter Low Winter Sun is one of the most gripping and tense police shows ever produced by the world-renowned channel. Frank Agnew is a law abiding detective at Blackmoss CID in Edinburgh. However when his girlfriend Sinada goes missing his colleague Joe Geddes informs him that his corrupt partner Brendan McCann has murdered her and so Agnew with Geddes' help takes revenge. As the plot thickens it occurs to Agnew that Geddes may have had his own

• Shine on Harvey Moon - Series Four | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by the writing partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran who went on to create such comedy classics as Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart. Originally broadcast on ITV in 1985, Shine on Harvey Moon features a superb cast including Kenneth Cranham, Elizabeth Spriggs, Maggie Steed, Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Nigel Planer. More than just a comedy series, Shine on Harvey Moon was also an entertaining historical record of changing attitudes and changing lifestyles in a drastically changed world.After being demobbed from his post as a stores clerk for the RAF stationed in Bombay, former professional footballer Corporal Harvey Moon returned home to the east London district of Hackney only to discover that his family friends and neighbours had assumed him 'missing in action'.This three disc set comprises all eight episodes from Series F our:Kind Hearts and CoronetsAnything GoesMud SticksLove is BlindLover, Come Back to MeAll or Nothing At AllWe're in the MoneyLove and Marriage

• King Solomon's Mines | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £19.93   |  Saving you £-3.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  King Solomon's Mines had been filmed several times before, but this 1985 adaptation of H Rider Haggard's novel is far and away the most absurdly tongue-in-cheek. Making no disguise of riding Indiana Jones's coattails, the adventure starts fast and grows ever wilder. Richard Chamberlain wears Allan Quatermain's fedora and expression of grim determination. Supposedly concerned with the novel's quest for lost gold, the movie is really an excuse to string together numerous sight gags and low-budget attempts to upstage Raiders of the Lost Ark (hardly surprisingly, it fails). Pursued by a wax-moustachioed and Wagner-obsessed Herbert Lom, Quatermain and a dizzily blonde Sharon Stone escape an avalanche and crocodiles before being boiled in a cauldron with plastic vegetables at the Village of the Upside Down People. Nothing lingers in the memory, though, than the sight of Chamberlain skiing behind a locomotive. Cheap and rudely plagiaristic it may be, but Indy never got to be as (un)intentionally hilarious. On the DVD: King Solomon's Mines has come up exceptionally well on disc in this widescreen print. Sound is in Dolby 2.0 and is a faithful representation of the effort put into the film's sound design. The only extra is the original trailer. --Paul Tonks

• Howard's Way - The Complete Collection | DVD | (27/02/2023) from £39.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every episode from all six series of the BBC drama following the mixed fortunes of the Howard family. When Tom Howard (Maurice Colbourne) is made redundant, he decides to follow his dream of designing and building boats and uses his redundancy payout to purchase a struggling boatyard. His wife Jan (Jan Harvey) is not impressed with his risky new venture and his decision puts a strain on their relationship. Meanwhile in the coastal town of Tarrant, daily life is full of love, lies, secrets and scheming...

• The Forger | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £7.18   |  Saving you £5.81 (80.92%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Light drama starring Josh Hutcherson and Hayden Panettiere. Joshua (Hutcherson) has a talent - he is able to recreate any painting given to him. So when local art forger Everly (Alfred Molina) promises Joshua he can make him millions, he agrees to forge a specific painting which is apparently lost but in doing so gets tangled in a web of lies and betrayal.

• Shogun | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £46.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £37.99

  From the golden age of the miniseries comes Shogun, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell's bestselling epic novel. In his award-winning performance, Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a "torn and cruelly divided country" locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (the venerable Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock ("I piss on you and your country", he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. Shogun was a production blessed with good karma, and it remains an awesome achievement from a bygone era when the miniseries was king. --Donald Liebenson

• Hit & Miss | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £5.81   |  Saving you £14.18 (244.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mia is a contract killer with a secret: she's a transgender woman. After a young life where she never quite fitted in, Eddie, an underworld linchpin, took Mia under his wing and created a brilliant assassin.But Mia's life is turned upside down when she receives a letter from her ex, Wendy, who reveals that she's dying from cancer - and that when they were together Mia fathered a son, 11-year-old Ryan. Now Mia is his legal guardian.Travelling to a tiny village in West Yorkshire to see the boy, Mia meets the rest of Wendy's farmhouse clan: 16-year-old Riley, 15-year-old Levi, and 6-year-old Leonie.Hit & Miss follows Mia's attempts to mix her killer instincts with her new maternal ones, in a search for her own identity. A lethal killer at the heart of a troubled family in the middle of nowhere is where the series begins.