Drama

• Now Is Good (DVD + UV Copy) | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tessa is seventeen and passionate about life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she determines to use every moment, compiling a catalogue of what a normal teenager would experience, including losing her virginity and taking drugs. With the help of her friend Zoey, she sets the list in motion. While her family deals with fear and grief, each in their own way, Tessa explores a whole new world. Falling in love with Adam, her new neighbour, wasn't on the list, but it proves to be the most exhilarating experience of them all.

• Lawrence of Arabia - Two Disc Set | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £20.09 (410.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1962 Lawrence of Arabia scooped another seven Oscars for David Lean and crew after his previous epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, had performed exactly the same feat a few years earlier. Supported in this Great War desert adventure by a superb cast including Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole gives a complex, star-making performance as the enigmatic TE Lawrence. The magnificent action and vast desert panoramas were captured in luminous 70mm by Cinematographer Freddie Young, here beginning a partnership with Lean that continued through Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970). Yet what made the film truly outstanding was Robert (A Man For All Seasons) Bolt's literate screenplay, marking the beginning of yet another ongoing collaboration with Lean. The final partnership established was between director and French composer Maurice Jarre, who won one of the Oscars and scored all Lean's remaining films, up to and including A Passage to India in 1984. Fully restored in 1989, this complete version of Lean's masterpiece remains one of cinema's all-time classic visions. --Gary S Dalkin On the DVD: This vast movie is spread leisurely across two discs, with Maurice Jarre's overture standing in as intermission music for the first track of disc two. But the clarity of the anamorphic widescreen picture and Dolby 5.1 soundtrack justify the decision not to cram the whole thing onto one side of a disc. The movie has never looked nor sounded better than here: the desert landscapes are incredibly detailed, with the tiny nomadic figures in the far distance clearly visible on the small screen; the remastered soundtrack, too, is a joy. Thanks are due to Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg who supervised (and financed) the restoration of the picture in 1989; on disc two Spielberg chats about why David Lean is his favourite director, and why Lawrence had such a profound influence on him both as a child and as a filmmaker (he regularly re-watches the movie before starting any new project). Other features include an excellent and exhaustive "making-of" documentary with contributions from surviving cast and crew (an avuncular Omar Sharif is particularly entertaining as he reminisces about meeting the hawk-like Lean for the first time), some contemporary featurettes designed to promote the movie and a DVD-ROM facility. The extra features are good--especially the documentary--but the breathtaking quality of both anamorphic picture and digital sound are what make this DVD package a triumph. --Mark Walker

• The Time of Their Lives (BD) | Blu Ray | (31/07/2017) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Collins stars in this comedy drama written and directed by Roger Goldby. Former Hollywood starlet Helen (Collins) decides to pay her respects to her late ex-husband by crashing his funeral on the glamorous French island of Ile-de-Ré. With the help of her best friend Priscilla (Pauline Collins), Helen escapes her retirement home in London and the pair set off on their journey. Things take a turn however, as the duo soon become entangled in a love triangle with reclusive Italian millionaire Alberto (Franco Nero) after they decide to pick him up along the way. The cast also includes Ronald Pickup and Joely Richardson.

• 1984 | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labelled ""Ministry of Love"" he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton) a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts and crush his soul...

• Drugstore Cowboy | Blu Ray | (10/03/2025) from £19.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gus Van Sant's dreamy, drifty, deadpan second featurean addiction drama based on James Fogle's autobiographical novelcaptures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix. Swinging between dope-fueled disconnection and edgy paranoia, Matt Dillon plays the leader of a ragtag crew (also featuring Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and James Le Gros) that robs pharmacies for pills, coasting across the 1970s Pacific Northwest while trying to outrun sobriety and fate. With a brilliant supporting turn from counterculture high priest William S. Burroughs and a lyrical feeling for the streetscapes of Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Oregon, Drugstore Cowboy cemented the director's status as a preeminent poet of outsiderhood.Film Info¢ United States¢ 1989¢ 102 minutes¢ Color¢ 1.85:1¢ English¢ Spine #1251DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES¢ New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant and director of photography Robert Yeoman, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack¢ [UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features¢ Audio commentary featuring Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon¢ The Making of Drugstore Cowboy, featuring interviews with Van Sant and members of the cast and crew¢ New interviews with Yeoman and actor Kelly Lynch¢ Deleted scenes¢ Trailer¢ English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing¢ PLUS: An essay by author and screenwriter Jon Raymond¢ New cover by F. Ron Miller

• Spike Island | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (23.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  School is nearly out for summer (and forever) for five 16-year-old lads from Manchester. A nostalgic snaphot of Britain in the early 1990's this is a fictional story set against a real event -UK band The Stone Roses' legendary gig of May 27th 1990 at Spike Island in Widnes. The film follows the exploits of Stone Roses fans and wannabe band Shadowcaster Gary 'Tits' Titchfield Darren 'Dodge' Howard Chris 'Zippy' Weeks 'Little' Gaz Duffy and 'Penfold' Andrew Peach'. Nothing will stop our boys from seeing their heroes on stage this is the story of their journey and the 72 hours across which their friendships are tested and their future is shaped together or apart. Special Features: Making Of Extended and Deleted Scenes Zippy Drumming

• Breakfast Club - 30th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (06/04/2015) from £22.52   |  Saving you £4.47 (19.85%)   |  RRP £26.99

  John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. --Tom KeoghWARNING! Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Please be advised that this was produced in year 1985 and the quality of the sound and image will reflect this, this is not a defect. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}

• The Tower | DVD | (13/12/2021) from £8.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Waking The Dead - Series 5 | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £13.94   |  Saving you £21.05 (151.00%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Led by Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd ( Trevor Eve ) the Cold Case Squad investigates serious crimes which have gone unsolved.

• Catherine Cookson - The Cinder Path | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £4.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (5.05%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A year before the outbreak of the First World War Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie but when he joins the army he discovers amongst the horrors of the Western Front a strength he never knew exist

• England Is Mine | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  England Is Mine is the story of the making of Morrissey - front man of legendary band The Smiths and one of British music's most influential figures. In 1970's Manchester, Steven Morrissey (Jack Lowden Dunkirk, A United Kingdom, '71), an introverted, uncompromising teenager, finds himself frustrated with his working-class existence. With dreams of a successful music career being dampened by his run-of-the-mill job at the local tax office, Steven finds solace in the city's underground gig scene where he meets Linder Sterling (Jessica Brown Findlay Downton Abbey, The Riot Club) an intelligent, self-assured artist who encourages him to make his ideas of superstardom a reality.

• Afternoon Delight | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life and career that's gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.

• To Sir, with Love (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sidney Poitier gives one of his finest performances as Thackeray, an out-of-work engineer who decides to try his hand at teaching, only to be faced with a class full of unruly teens (including Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, and Lulu) intent on breaking his spirit. But Thackeray, no stranger to hostility, meets the challenge by treating the students as young adults. When offered an engineering job, Thackeray must decide if he wants to stay. Extras 2K restoration Audio commentary with Judy Geeson and film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman Audio commentary with novelist E.R. Braithwaite and author/teacher Salome Thomas-El Those Schoolboy Days (2016, 24 mins): interview with actor Christian Roberts Look and Learn (2016, 11 mins): interview with art director Tony Woollard E.R. Braithwaite: In His Own Words (2011, 24 mins): the writer discusses his life and work Lulu and the B-Side (2011, 5 mins): interview with the acclaimed singer Miniskirts, Blue Jeans and Pop Music! (15 mins): a look at the swinging sixties To Sidney with Love (2011, 5 mins): agent Marty Baum on Sidney Poitier Principal El: He Chose to Stay (2011, 11 mins): interview with teacher and author Thomas-El Isolated score: experience Ron Grainer's original soundtrack music Image gallery: promotional material Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• La Bamba (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (15/01/2024) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother (Rosana DeSoto) and rebellious brother (Esai Morales), rises from his farm-working roots to chart-topping fame in the early days of rock until one fateful night that haunts music history. Propelled by a hip-shaking soundtrack featuring Los Lobos and Carlos Santana, La Bamba captures the electric vitality of an artist who bridged cultures to create his own American dream. Product Features New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Luis Valdez, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentaries featuring Valdez, actors Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales, and producers Stuart Benjamin, Taylor Hackford, and Daniel Valdez New interview with Luis Valdez Conversation between Valdez and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez from El Rey Networks The Directors Chair Making-of program featuring cast and crew Audition footage Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and Spanish subtitles PLUS: An essay by critic Yolanda Machado

• Whitstable Pearl: Series 2 | DVD | (25/03/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Passenger (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In one of the most acclaimed films of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-up, Zabriskie Point) directed international star Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, The Border, Wolf) and Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) in an elliptical and fascinating thriller about alienation and lost identities. Now finally making its Blu-ray debut in the UK, this essential work from one of cinema's most renowned and celebrated film artists is accompanied by an array of fascinating and insightful extra features Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Alternative presentation with original Italian Professione: reporter titles and credits Audio commentary with actor Jack Nicholson (2006) Audio commentary with screenwriter Mark Peploe and journalist Aurora Irvine (2006) New audio commentary with film historian Adrian Martin (2018) Jenny Runacre on ˜The Passenger' (2018, 15 mins): new interview in which the South African-born English actor recalls the film's production Steven Berkoff on ˜The Passenger' (2018, 11 mins): new interview in which the actor-writer-director remembers working with Antonioni Profession Reporter (1975, 5 mins): Michelangelo Antonioni discusses The Passenger in an archival interview conducted at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Antonioni on Cinema (1975, 5 mins): the acclaimed filmmaker discusses The Passenger and his philosophy of cinema The Final Sequence (1985, 13 mins): Antonioni analyses The Passenger's much-celebrated climactic sequence Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• North and South: Book 1 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £10.08   |  Saving you £25.91 (257.04%)   |  RRP £35.99

  One is from a Northern industrial family one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American War. But their bond faces sterner tests. The issues dividing North and South can also set friend against friend. John Jakes' bestseller about the pre-Civil War decades thunders to the screen in a lavish six-part miniseries presented by award-winning executive producer David L. Wolper. In all 140 actors num

• Mona Lisa | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £7.11   |  Saving you £-1.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Love is a weakness to be exploited and betrayed. Starring Bob Hoskins Michael Caine and Cathy Tyson 'Mona Lisa' is a classic drama written and directed by Neil Jordan about a driver (Hoskins) who falls for his employer - high-class prostitute Simone (Tyson).

• Happy Valley Series 3 | Blu Ray | (13/02/2023) from £14.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Catherine discovers the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, it sparks a chain of events that unwittingly leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce. Her grandson Ryan is now 16 and still living with Catherine, but he has ideas of his own about what kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father. Still battling the seemingly never-ending problem of drugs in the valley and those who supply them, Catherine is on the cusp of retirement. Product Features Bringing back a global hit Crafting unforgettable characters

• The Hunt (Jagten) | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  4:33 Am The Morning of October 19th. A Father (Jo Michael Burke) his stepson and a cameraman venture deep into the woods setting out to make a deer hunting tutorial video. When they track a wounded deer into a restricted area however things start to take a turn for the surreal...First they come across a series of monuments that have no apparent purpose and no discernible origin. As They track the deer farther into the woods they begin to feel the distinct feeling that someone or something is following them. Only the young boy sees it moving in the trees stalking them. Realising they're in over their heads they try to find their way out of the woods but the woods don't seem to want to let them go.In a shocking final confrontation the hunters finally realise the truth - that they've been the hunted all along. And the real hunters are not of this Earth...