Drama

• Edward Scissorhands - 25th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £4.88   |  Saving you £5.11 (104.71%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavour of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-coloured suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighbourhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's child-like vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer

• Sylvia | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £6.42   |  Saving you £9.57 (149.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow, "Sylvia" is a story of the love, passion, wit and despair between two of the 20th century's most brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and the British poet Ted Hughes.

• Wildlife | Blu Ray | (18/03/2019) from £6.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fourteen-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry - a housewife and a golf pro - living a seemingly idyllic life in 1960s Montana. His family s carefully constructed façade is about to come crashing spectacularly down however, when Jerry loses his job and his sense of purpose. In an attempt to restore his pride, Jerry takes off for the summer to help fight the wildfires raging near the Canadian border, a life-threatening job, for very little pay. An angry and bereft Jeanette must quickly learn to fend for herself, and does so with gusty, challenging cultural expectations and taking a quietly bewildered Joe along for the ride. An elegant adaption of the Richard Ford novel of the same name, Wildlife is an impressive directorial debut from Golden Globe nominee Paul Dano, starring Carey Mulligan (Never Let Me Go, An Education, Shame, Suffragette), Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko), Ed Oxenbould (The Visit, Paper Planes) and Bill Camp (The Night Of, Loving, Midnight Special).

• Inherit The Wind | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £15.80   |  Saving you £-2.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two-time Best Actor winners Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the twentieth century. Garnering four Academy Award nominations including Best Actor (Tracy) and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare critically acclaimed dramatic role Inherit the Wind is powerful provocative cinema and a helping measure of entertainment. The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to enga

• Monarch Of The Glen - Series 7 | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The seventh and final series of this wonderful Highland drama brings with it a host of new problems for the McDonald family to contend with introducing a few new faces as well as revisiting one or two old ones. Following the sudden death of his partner Meg Golly now finds himself as a single parent struggling to cope with the demands of both his son and his job. He soon learns that he is not alone and he and Molly become become closer than they have been for a long time. Meanwhile

• SUS | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From Barrie Keeffe, the writer of the British classic The Long Good Friday and based on a true story, SUS is a gripping and emotionally fuelled drama, with dialogue crackling in humour and insight.

• Apostle Peter and the Last Supper | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Set in Rome A.D. 67, two jailers at the ancient Mamertine Prison take custody of a famous criminal. He is Simon Peter of Galilee - apostle, disciple and personal-friend of Jesus, also called the Christ. Condemned to death, the elderly Peter (Robert Loggia- Season 1 The New Hawaii Five O) recounts his life as a simple fisher man who became one of the boldest figures in all of Christianity. As Peter prepares to depart this earthly life, he will make an unforgettable impression on his jailers through the saving power of the Gospel. A dramatic encounter with an incredible finale.

• The King Of Comedy | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A struggling comedian gambles his uncertain future on a hare-brained scheme to ransom his way onto television by kidnapping a popular talk-show host.

• Suspected Person | DVD | (01/02/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Power Game's Clifford Evans gives a strong performance as a man on the run in this suspenseful wartime drama co-starring Patricia Roc, David Farrar and William Hartnell. Written and directed by Lawrence Huntington, Suspected Person is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...SPECIAL FEATURE:Image GalleryOriginal script PDF

• Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind | DVD | (29/12/2003) from £8.97   |  Saving you £7.28 (94.42%)   |  RRP £14.99

  George Clooney's directorial debut is an adaptation of the cult memoir of TV game show impressario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman!

• The Dressmaker | Blu Ray | (14/03/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jocelyn Moorhouse directs this Australian revenge comedy starring Kate Winslet as Myrtle Dunnage, a woman who returns to her hometown to take care of her ailing mother Molly (Judy Davis). Myrtle's return sparks much debate between the residents of the town as she was accused of murdering someone many years ago. Now an expert dressmaker, Myrtle goes about transforming the local fashion while exacting her revenge upon those who have wronged her in the past... The supporting cast includes Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.

• CITY OF WOMEN | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini's own oeuvre), La citta delle donne [City of Women] taps into the era's restless youth-culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini's post-punk opus. Marcello Mastroianni appears as Fellini's alter ego in a semi-reprise of his character from 8-1/2, Snaporaz. As though passing into a dream, the charismatic avatar finds himself initiated into a phantasmagoric world where women - or an idea of women - have taken power, and which is structured like an array of psychosexual set-pieces - culminating in a bravura hot-air balloon that decisively sticks the anti up into climax. A great adventure through the looking-glass, as it were, of Fellini's own phallic lens and life-long libidinal ruminations, La citta delle donne sharply divided critics at the 1980 Festival de Cannes, some of whom had merely anticipated a nostalgic retread of the earlier Mastroianni works. What they were greeted with, and what remains today, is, in the words of Serge Daney, a victory of cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present La citta delle donne on Blu-ray and DVD in Gaumont's glorious new HD restoration. Special Features: Newly Translated Optional Subtitles Substantial Booklet Containing Writing on the Film, Vintage Exerpts and Rare Archival Imagery

• Rachel, Rachel | Blu Ray | (11/09/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  New England schoolteacher Rachel Cameron's life is small and safe. Too small and too safe for a warmhearted woman who wants to do something-anything-to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward joined their stellar talents in this powerfully human movie, with Newman making his directorial debut and Woodward giving one of her hallmark screen performances. Both won New York Film Critics and Golden Globe awards for their work, and the film garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The Newmans teamed afterward on other masterful films (The Glass Menagerie, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge and the TV miniseries Empire Falls). But for tenderness, insight and artistry, none surpasses Rachel, Rachel.

• ER - Complete Series 9 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £8.49   |  Saving you £37.50 (441.70%)   |  RRP £45.99

  The Names Change. The Task Remains: Saving Lives. It's always rush hour at the ER. Each day - each moment - brings new challenges triumphs and losses. No one ever expected those losses would include one of County General's talented med students.

• Snow White And The Huntsman/ The Huntsman: Winter's War | Blu Ray | (15/08/2016) from £9.48   |  Saving you £7.50 (100.13%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Definitely not your average retelling of the classic Snow White fairy tale, Snow White and the Huntsman is a dark, action-fantasy film that's based more on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale than the well-known Disney version of the story. It features intriguing concepts, impressive special effects, and some disappointingly lackluster acting. The essence of the "Snow White" story is preserved in this recounting: the queen's beautiful daughter Snow White, who is heir to the throne, is displaced and persecuted by an evil stepmother after her mother dies. Here, the evil stepmother Ravenna possesses a disturbing power to maintain her own perpetual youth by stealing youthfulness from the hearts of the young and beautiful, but her magic mirror warns that Snow White's innocence and purity as she comes of age will destroy Ravenna's chance at immortality. When Snow White escapes from the castle prison, Ravenna hires a downtrodden Huntsman to bring her back so that Ravenna can steal her youth and achieve personal immortality. But Snow White runs into a dark and sinister forest where mushrooms disperse hallucinogenic spores, trees come to life, flocks of bats spring from inanimate objects, and dwarves lurk in the shadows. The roles of the seven dwarves and the Huntsman in this version of the story prove to be quite different from the original, but what remain steadfast are Snow White's inner strength and absolute goodness, and her stepmother's innate evilness. This film is full of fascinating imagery that's brought to life through powerful special effects, great costuming, and captivating cinematography--the scenes in the dark forest and the fairy-filled wilderness beyond are reason enough to see it. Unfortunately, the story moves a bit slowly and the acting by Kristen Stewart (Snow White) and Chris Hemsworth (Huntsman) is rather stoical and passionless and lacks chemistry, though Charlize Theron does stand out as a particularly disturbing Ravenna. --Tami Horiuchi

• Sin Nombre (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  "Sin Nombre" - translated as 'without a name' - represents millions of anonymous immigrants all over the world treading the beaten path to what they hope will be a brighter world. Executive produced by Gael Garcia Bernal and directed by Cary Fukunaga.

• Franklyn | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £5.08   |  Saving you £10.91 (214.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An explosive, and sometimes surreal, journey through London and the metropolis Meanwhile City charting the path of four disparate characters

• The Souvenir Part II | DVD | (25/04/2022) from £8.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Joanna Hogg's shimmering story of first love and a young woman's formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy. With an outstanding cast that also includes Richard Ayoade, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn and Tilda Swinton, the critically acclaimed sequel to The Souvenir is a truly unmissable cinematic event.

• To Kill A Mockingbird | Blu Ray | (05/12/2022) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill A Mockingbird. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch-the Academy Award®-winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time. Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction and nominated for 8 Academy Awards®, this beloved classic includes hours of unforgettable bonus features. Watch it and remember why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Now for the first time in 4K Ultra High Definition, with brand new documentary To Kill A Mockingbird: All Points of View: Delve deep into the impact and legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird in this new documentary as film historians, scholars, and Gregory Peck's grandson, Christopher Peck, reflect on the messages of hope, courage and integrity that are still relevant 60 years after the film was released. Product Features To Kill A Mockingbird: All Points of View Fearful Symmetry A Conversation with Gregory Peck Feature Commentary with Director Robert Mulligan and Producer Alan Pakula And More!

• Red Rocket | DVD | (24/10/2022) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny and humane portrait of a uniquely American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.