Drama

• Captain Phillips | Blu Ray | (08/07/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, Best Actor, 1993, Philadelphia; Best Actor, 1994, Forrest Gump), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. The two men are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control. Special Features: Commentary with Director Paul Greengrass Capturing Captain Phillips 58 minutes of in-depth behind-the-scenes featurettes on making the acclaimed film

• Handsome Devil | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ned and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities.

• Nowhere Special | Blu Ray | (04/10/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  James Norton and Daniel Lamont are superb in this heartfelt drama about a single father determined to do the best by his son before he dies. John (Norton), a 35-year-old window cleaner, lives with his three-year-old son Michael. He was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and has decided that he will find the best family to take Michael in after his death. Against the advice of the adoption agency he's working with, John cannot face telling his son the truth, taking him on visits to prospective families under the guise of visiting new friends. But as his condition starts to show, he begins to ponder what his legacy should be for his son should Michael start life anew or should John leave him with the tools that would allow him, later in life, to know the father he had. As with his previous feature Still Life , writer-director Uberto Pasolini draws from a well of understatement. More a snapshot of two lives than covering the full arc of John's journey, the film succeeds in being deeply affecting without resorting to sentimentality. Norton and Lamont help immeasurably their affection for each other on screen convincing in every way. Extras Somewhere Special - The Making of Nowhere Special

• Sátántangó | Blu Ray | (27/04/2020) from £15.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Bela Tarr's seven-hour episodic film, inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. Restored and available for the first time on Bluray.

• Bridget Jones 1 & 2 Double (DVD + UV Copy) | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £4.57   |  Saving you £5.42 (118.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bridget Jones's Diary Featuring a blowzy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears dissing her. Instead she embarks on a disastrous liaison with her raffish boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, infinitely more likeable when he's playing a baddie instead of his patented tongue-tied fops). Eventually, Bridget comes to wonder if she's let her pride prejudice her against the surprisingly attractive Mr. Darcy. If the plot sounds familiar, that's because Fielding's novel was itself a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, whose romantic male lead is also named Mr. Darcy. An extra ironic poke in the ribs is added by the casting of Firth, who played Austen's haughty hero in the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Austen's novel. First-time director Sharon Maguire directs with confident comic zest, while Zellweger twinkles charmingly, fearlessly baring her cellulite and pulling off a spot-on English accent. Like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill (both of which were written by this film's coscreenwriter, Richard Curtis), Bridget Jones's stock-in-trade is a very English self-deprecating sense of humour, a mild suspicion of Americans (especially if they're thin and successful), and a subtly expressed analysis of thirtysomething fears about growing up and becoming a "smug married." The whole is, as Bridget would say, v. good. --Leslie Felperin Bridget Jones 2: The Edge Of Reason Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from the law office? Will the reappearance of dashing cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) further spell the end of her self-confidence when they're shoved off to Thailand together for a TV travel story? If such questions also seem pressing to you, this sequel will be fairly painless, but you shouldn't expect anything fresh. Director Beeban Kidron and her screenwriters--all four of them!--are content to sink matters into slapstick, with chunky Zellweger (who's unflatteringly photographed) the literal butt of all jokes. Though the star still has her charms, and some of Bridget's social gaffes are amusing, the film is mired in low comedy--a sequence in a Thai women's prison is more offensive than outrageous--with only Grant's rakish mischief to pull it out of the swamp. --Steve Wiecking

• The Bodyguard/Rumour Has it/Message in a Bottle Triple Pack | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £12.78   |  Saving you £7.21 (56.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In her spectacular film debut Houston plays Rachel Marron a superstar at her peak. Costner plays Frank Farmer the security expert with whom she falls in love.

• 3 Classic Sci-Fi Films Of The Silver Screen - Missile To The Moon / Earth Vs The Flying Saucers / Planet Outlaws | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Missile to the Moon: An expedition to the moon arrives to find a sinister female presiding over a race of moon-women. A remake of 'Cat Women of the Moon'. Earth Vs The Flying Saucers: Aliens travel to Earth to seek help for their dying planet. However when they arrive at a U.S Army base the Army mistakenly greet them with gunfire... Planet Outlaws (aka Destination Saturn): The re-edited version of the 1939 Universal serial 'Buck Rogers'. Buck and his comrade Buddy are released from suspended animation after 500 years on ice. The world which they once knew is now under the control of Killer Kane a terrifying mobster. Needless to say the duo quickly get onboard a plan to take down the criminal mastermind and his band of futuristic assasins.

• Starship Apocalypse | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £3.54   |  Saving you £13.71 (601.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After their failed attempt to take over the Federation war fleet, John Worthy and General Gustav are sentenced to death but they are rescued by Worthy's girlfriend, Jolli, who has control of a new Starship, The Deliverance. Meanwhile, The Overseer, Ruler of the Federation, wants to enslave the rebellious worlds with an ancient alien Nano-Virus that turns humans into mindless slaves. Starship Deliverance, Worthy and his team are all that stand in the way of total slavery of the entire human race.

• Honey 2 | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £4.17   |  Saving you £11.82 (283.45%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.

• No Time for Tears | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anna Neagle, George Baker and Anthony Quayle take leading roles in this star-studded medical drama, with an early film role for Sylvia Syms as a beautiful young nurse at the very beginning of her career. Presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance.The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness. When we take a closer look at the rich patterns formed by these lives, we can trace individual threads emerging...SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• King Charles III | DVD | (15/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prince Charles' fictional accession to the throne following the Queen's death. When he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues: a constitutional crisis, street riots and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace.

• Manchild - Series 1 | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stockbroker Terry orthodontist James art dealer Patrick and decking king Gary are friends from schooldays. Except for Gary who is still married there is nothing to stop the boys as they indulge what they believe is their last chance to recapture their youth. Their efforts to bring back their heady carefree bachelor days mostly make them look absurd. They have the money for the hip clothes motorbikes and beautiful young girlfriends but these things really are the domain of much younger men. And although they'd never admit it there are worries about health impotence ex-wives and children that will not go away.

• The Gospel of Us | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Easter. Port Talbot is in a battle for its life. Authoritarian forces have taken over and the town is in thrall to ICU, a sinister and merciless corporation depleting the town of its resources with scant regard for the residents. The atmosphere is explosive. Resistance is inevitable.When a company man and suicide bomber clash on the beach, catastrophe is only averted by the intervention of a softly spoken man who had disappeared 40 days earlier. Revealed later as the Teacher (Michael Sheen), he attracts followers and becomes a focus for the Resistance. His influence quickly draws the attention of ICU, who perceive him as a danger who must be removed at all costs...

• Psych - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Fake Psychic. Real Detectives. Fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and his skeptical best friend Gus (Dule Hill) are on the case in the fresh and quirky runaway hit Psych! Relive every quick-witted remark and hilarious misadventure in all 16 Season Two episodes! Thanks to a childhood spent with a family of cops Shawn possesses an incredible photographic memory and notices seemingly insignificant details. These traits allow him to spend his jobless days providing the police with mystery-solving tips - but his knowledge soon makes him a suspect. In order to clear his name the unlikely sleuth declares that he has clairvoyant abilities and launches his own investigative agency Psych. Episodes Comprise: 1. American Duos 2. 65 Million Years Off 3. Psy vs. Psy 4. Zero to Murder in Sixty Seconds 5. And Down the Stretch Comes Murder 6. Meat is Murder But Murder is Also Murder 7. If You're So Smart Then Why Are You Dead? 8. Rob-a-Bye Baby 9. Bounty Hunters! 10. Gus's Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy 11. There's Something About Mira 12. The Old and the Restless 13. Lights Camera... Homicidio 14. Dis-Lodged 15. Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion 16. Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead

• Danielle Steel's Daddy | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £7.87   |  Saving you £-1.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Patrick Duffy and Linda Carter star in this highly emotional story of love loss and rediscovered happiness. Oliver is a top advertising executive who seems to have it all - a beautiful wife three great children and a lovely home. But one fateful day his wife announces she is leaving home to become a mature student at a far away university. Her promise to return on weekends is quickly broken and Oliver must take on the role of both father and mother to his increasingly confused a

• Soldier Soldier - The Complete Series 7 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete and final series of ITV's hugely popular series Soldier Soldier. For the last time follow the trials and tribulations of the King's Own Fusilliers. There's rivalry between the ranks as they prepare for action at home and abroad under the rule of a new whip-cracking commanding officer played by James Cosmo. A secret abortion a terrorist attack a gay teenager who wants to join the army and an elopement are just some of the dilemmas facing Britain's best-love

• Brooklyn | Blu Ray | (29/02/2016) from £6.41   |  Saving you £18.58 (289.86%)   |  RRP £24.99

  BROOKLYN is the story of a young woman, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan; Atonement) who moves from a small town in Ireland to Brooklyn, where, unlike home, she has the opportunity for work, a future - and love, in the form of Italian-American Tony (Emory Cohen; The Place Beyond The Pines). However, when Eilis returns temporarily to Ireland she finds herself absorbed into her old community, but now with eligible Jim (Domhnall Gleeson; About Time) courting her. As she repeatedly postpones her departure back to America, Eilis finds herself confronting a terrible dilemma - a heart-breaking choice between two countries and two futures.

• The Abyss (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £44.99   |  Saving you £-35.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Academy Award winning director and master storyteller James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration -- the legendary wreck of the Titanic.

• Play For Today Volume 3 (3 x Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (11/04/2022) from £42.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  50 years on from its first transmission, the BBC's Play for Today anthology series remains one of British television's most influential and celebrated achievements. Between 1970 and 1984, plays which combined some of the era's finest writing, acting and directing talents were broadcast direct to living rooms, regularly challenging viewers and pushing the boundaries of TV drama. In Play for Today: Volume Three, six more iconic dramas from the series arrive on Blu-ray for the first time, further demonstrating the trailblazing qualities of these innovative, stimulating and abiding television landmarks. The Plays Edna, the Inebriate Woman (Written by Jeremy Sandford | Dir. Ted Kotcheff, 1971) Just Another Saturday (Written by Peter McDougall | Dir. John Mackenzie, 1975) Bar Mitzvah Boy (Written by Jack Rosenthal | Directed by Michael Tuchner, 1976) * The Mayor's Charity (Written by Henry Livings | Dir. Mike Newell, 1977) Coming Out (Written by James Andrew Hall | Dir. Carol Wiseman, 1979) A Hole in Babylon (Written by Jim Hawkins and Horace Ové | Dir. Horace Ové, 1979)

• In the Realm of the Senses (1976) (Criterion Collection) UK Only - Original title: Ai no korîda | Blu Ray | (03/01/2022) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Still censored in its own country, In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), by the always provocative Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all time. A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, Oshima's film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone. Special Features New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition) New audio commentary featuring film critic Tony Rayns New interview with actor Tatsuya Fuji A 1976 interview with director Nagisa Oshima and actors Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, and a 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer Koji Wakamatsu, assistant director Yoichi Sai, and film distributor Yoko Asakura Deleted footage U.S. trailer New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie and a reprinted interview with Oshima