Drama

• Lip Service - Series 1 | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £9.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (156.31%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Lip Service is a bold new lesbian drama created by Harriet Braun (Mistresses Attachments) and follows the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something friends living in Glasgow. Meet Cat (Laura Fraser - A Knights Tale) a self assured architect whose life is spun upside down when her former lover Frankie (Ruta Gedmintas The Tudors) a talented but emotionally reckless photographer reappears in Glasgow unannounced after disappearing two years earlier. Tess Cat's best friend and flatmate has a proven track record of falling for the wrong sorts of women including sultry Lou (Roxanne McKee Hollyoaks). Starring a hot young British cast including Emun Elliott James Anthony Pearson Heather Peace Natasha O'Keefe and Tom Mannion Lip Service takes a fresh look at modern day relationships - in and outside of the bedroom.

• Sherlock Holmes And The House Of Fear | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £8.85   |  Saving you £-2.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sherlock Holmes ever abetted by the trusty Watson investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims...

• Secrets & Lies (1996) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Writer-director MIKE LEIGH (Naked) reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love. When Hortense (RoboCop's MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE), a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Pride & Prejudice's BRENDA BLETHYN, winner of the Cannes Film Festival's best actress award), a desperately lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family. Born from a painstaking process of rehearsal and improvisation with a powerhouse ensemble cast, Secrets & Lies is a Palme d'Orwinning tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath the surface of everyday lives. Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Mike Leigh and director of photography Dick Pope, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New conversation with Leigh and composer Gary Yershon New interview with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste Audio interview with Leigh from 1996 conducted by film critic Michel Ciment Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Legend Of 1900 | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £30.00   |  Saving you £-17.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the Academy Award-winning Cinema Paradiso, comes a remarkable fable about a boy raised on a steam ship who never once sets foot on the land.

• Joe Maddison's War | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in Newcastle in 1939 Joe Maddison's War features shipyard worker Joe (Kevin Whately) who feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war and he's shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge Joe and his friend Harry (Robson Green) reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard. A decision which leads Joe on a journey of self discovery learning lessons of heroism and friendship and also love...

• Basquiat | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In his writing and directorial debut, Julian Schnabel's film Basquiat depicts the life of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, aka SAMO, and the turbulent period from the late 1970s to 1988, as his life was catapulted into fame and notoriety. As Jean-Michel's work gained favourable attention from New York's elite art community, he went from a street punk living in a cardboard box to the first black artist to succeed in the all-white dominated art world. Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright does a brilliant job portraying a man tortured by self-doubt and thoughts of suicide, struggling to survive and be acknowledged as an artist. The film's use of dream-like imagery and rhythmic pace tells the story from the perspective of Jean-Michel's eyes as he manages to "float" through relationships and gallery showings,until his impending death in 1988 from a heroin overdose. Brimming with talent, the film also stars David Bowie as pop-artist Andy Warhol, Michael Wincott as poet Rene Ricard and many others, including Gary Oldman, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Hopper and Courtney Love. --Michele Goodson

• Billy Elliot | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The winner of the audience award at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival.

• Preaching To The Perverted | DVD | (07/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Magnolia - Single Disc Set (1999) | DVD | (02/01/2000) from £16.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize a man about to die: both men are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad.

• The Tree Of Wooden Clogs | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A three-hour peasant epic in which nothing very much happens might sound like the ultimate turn-off; but The Tree of Wooden Clogs ("L'Albero degli Zoccoli") is made with so much love and dedication that it rarely flags. Set in the Lombardy countryside in the closing years of the 19th century, the film traces the interconnected lives of four peasant families all living in the same large farmhouse. The most dramatic event, which gives the movie its title, is when a father chops down a tree so that his son can have clogs in which to walk to school, which leads to quiet tragedy in the final reel. The film's director Ermanno Olmi--himself of North Italian peasant stock--based his subject on incidents from his own childhood and tales told him by his grandfather. His cast were non-professionals, real peasants chosen from villages of the Bergamo region, whom he encouraged to improvise their own dialogue. All the shooting was done on location with a 16 mm camera, using natural lighting and direct sound--a revolutionary approach in Italy at the time, when almost all films were studio-bound and heavily dubbed. The results carry a rare conviction, the unselfconsciously simple speech and muted earth-tones of the visuals make the film feel more like documentary than fiction. The hardships of peasant life are never softened, though now and then Olmi's affection for his characters verges on sentimentality. And the unquestioning, submissive Catholicism of director and characters alike tends to cloy. But the sense of dignity and harmony, and the film's unhurried pace, always in step with the seasons, create a moving celebration of a vanished way of life. The Tree of Wooden Clogs took the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. On the DVD: The Tree of Wooden Clogs doesn't exactly come packed with extras: cast and technical credits, a stills gallery, and a brief two-minute introduction by Olmi, where he explains why he preferred to record in mono, which still sounds fine on the disc. The images have lost nothing of their muted subtlety, and the transfer is in the full 1.33:1 ratio of the original. --Philip Kemp

• One Day | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £7.40   |  Saving you £7.59 (102.57%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Adapted from the internationally praised and bestselling novel, One Day charts an extraordinary relationship. After one day together in 1988, Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime.

• In Her Shoes | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £3.74   |  Saving you £16.25 (434.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette headline this romcom based on Jennifer Weiner's chick lit novel.

• Brighton Rock | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £4.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (303.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from Graham Greene's iconic 1939 novel, BRIGHTON ROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organised crime.

• Roots : The Original Series - 30th Anniversary 4-Disc Box Set | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £13.85   |  Saving you £17.14 (123.75%)   |  RRP £30.99

  1750: The Gambia West Africa. A new Mandinka warrior is born to Binta and Omoro called Kunta Kinte. His father turns the young baby's face to the heavens and whispers ""Behold - the only thing greater than yourself"". So begins the most critically and popularly acclaimed television drama of our time telling the struggle against the suffering slavery and discrimination endured by generations of black people as seen through the eyes of Kunta Kinte and his descendants...

• 21 | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "21" is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds in the country - and how they took Vegas for millions.

• The Vow | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £4.88   |  Saving you £18.11 (371.11%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, The Vow is based on the true story of a newlywed couple recovering from an accident that puts the wife in a coma.

• Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll | Blu Ray | (09/05/2018) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" is the 2009 film of the Ian Dury story starring Andy Serkis in the role of the punk legend.

• The Clifton House Mystery - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Clifton House Mystery: The Complete Series

• Harry Wild Series 1&2 Boxset | DVD | (13/05/2024) from £32.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Interiors | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £12.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (25.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Although indisputably a film by Woody Allen, Interiors is about as far from "a Woody Allen film" as you can get--and maybe more people could have seen what a fine film it is if they hadn't been expecting what Allen himself called "one of his earlier, funnier movies." An entirely serious, rather too self-consciously Bergmanesque drama about a divorcing elderly couple and their grown daughters, it is slow, meditative and constructed with a brilliant, artistic eye. There is no music--a simple effect that Allen uses with extraordinary power. In fact, half the film is filled with silent faces staring out of windows, yet the mood is so engaging, hypnotic even, that you never feel the director is poking you in the ribs and saying, "sombre atmosphere". Diane Keaton, released for once from the ditzy stereotype, shines as the "successful" daughter. Some of the dialogue is stilted and it's hard to tell whether this is a deliberate effect or simply the way repressed upscale New Yorkers talk after too many years having their self-absorption sharpened on the therapist's couch. Fanatical, almost childish self-regard is the chief subject of Allen's comedy--it's remarkable that in this film he was able to remove the comedy but leave room for us to pity and care about these rather irritating people. --Richard Farr