Drama

• The Wife | Blu Ray | (28/01/2019) from £7.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to support her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour with undiminished grace and humour. The foundations of their marriage have, however, been built upon a set of uneven compromises and Joan has reached a turning point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel rewarding a spectacular body of work, Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets. Based on the bestselling book by Meg Wolitzer, The Wife is a poignant, funny and emotional journey, a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation, featuring a stunning cast that also includes Max Irons, Annie Starke, Harry Lloyd, Elizabeth McGovern and Christian Slater.

• This Property Is Condemned | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the play by Tennessee Williams and scripted by Francis Ford Coppola (amongst others) 'This Property Is Condemned' features an outstanding performance from Robert Redford as Owen Legate; the man sent to shut down much of Dodson town's railway. Owen meets Alva a beautiful girl whose affections are keenly sought after in Dodson. Whilst axing jobs Owen tries to woo Alva in an attempt to whisk her off to New Orleans so they can start a new life together. Now Alva must make

• Auschwitz: The Final Journey | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £8.32   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Margarets Museum | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a poor Canadian mining village after the Second World War fragile dreamer Margaret McNeil finds a kindred spirit when a tall Celtic miner serenades her one night in a diner and follows her home. Her mother a viciously misanthropic widow who has lost both a son and husband to the mines views such displays of emotion as folly - futile and soul crushing. Against her mother's wishes Margaret marries the miner who tries to avoid the harsh mining life by getting fired and taking a job as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant. As Margaret's brother falls in love with the cruel mine manager's daughter plotting to leave the godforsaken hamlet and keep both their souls intact Margaret and Neil shut themsleves away from the oppressive community building their own refuge by the wind swept coast a haven for their burgeoning desires and memories.

• Ingrid Goes West | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ingrid Thorburn is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing 'likes' for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane is an Instagram-famous 'influencer' whose perfectly curated, boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid's latest obsession.

• The Weak and the Wicked | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Glynis Johns Diana Dors and Sybil Thorndike star in this powerful sympathetic drama tracing the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison. Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Joan Henry – a writer and former debutante who further drew upon her own prison experience for the novel and classic film Yield to the Night – The Weak and the Wicked is directed by Henry's future husband Oscar-nominated J. Lee-Thompson. The film is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Jean Raymond an upper-class woman with a gambling addiction is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually however her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. Features: Original theatrical trailers Image gallery Promotional material PDF  

• Single Father | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £12.77   |  Saving you £7.22 (56.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Is there life after loss? David Tennant stars in this touching and humorous four-part drama about a man struggling to raise his four children after the sudden death of his partner. Dave is a lovely man in his late 30s happily living in the midst and mess of a pretty typical 21st century family. He adores his partner Rita even when she's difficult which is quite often and he loves their kids. But when Rita dies suddenly Dave faces the daunting prospect of bringing up their children on his own as well as coping with his own and his children's grief. Things get even more complicated when he begins to fall in love with his wife's best friend Sarah. Is Dave betraying Rita by falling in love again so quickly or will he be walking away from happiness if he ignores his feelings?

• Lady In The Water | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £8.71   |  Saving you £10.28 (118.03%)   |  RRP £18.99

  A building manager and his fellow tenants rescue a mysterious young woman from their pool and try to help her to get home.

• Backbeat | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  He had to choose between his best friend... The woman he loved... And the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world. A reconstruction of the legendary British rock group's early days before the advent of Beatlemania and world-wide fame. The story focuses on the turbulent and exciting period that the Beatles' spent in Hamburg Germany in 1960-62 when they played in a series of rough-and-tumble dives and came into contact with cutting-edge artists. Among them was photographer A

• Tiger Warsaw | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £5.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Chuck 'Tiger' Warsaw returns to his home town after an absence of 15 years precipitated by an act of irresponsibility which destroyed his sister's wedding and left his father mentally unstable. His home-coming is shunned by his family but he tries desperately to overcome the problems and gain forgiveness.

• Dallas - Season 4 | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Sucking in viewers with the dramas, scandals, and intrigues of the Texas elite, 'Dallas' quickly became a national sensation after debuting in 1978.

• Mogambo | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £10.15   |  Saving you £5.84 (57.54%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Big game trapper Victor Marswell (Gable) has his hands full when the feisty Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner) and a couple on safari descend on his company in Kenya...

• The Nightingale | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases British officer Lieutenant Hawkins through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. Special Features She Will Not Be Silenced: an interview with Actor Aisling Franciosi Sometimes Trouble Finds You: An interview with Actor Michael Sheasby Just Making Light, Sir: An Interview with Actor Damon Herriman I Surrender: An Interview with Actor Harry Greenwood Taking Flight: An interview with Producer Kristina Ceyton Assembling Vengeance: An Interview with Editor Simon Njoo (12mins) Building Something Special: An Interview with Production Designer Alexander Holmes Hear her Voice: an interview with Composer Jed Kurzel ˜Bloody White People': A Video Essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Nightingale in Context The Making of The Nightingale Theatrical Trailer

• Son of Saul | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £11.36   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

• Mamma Mia! - 2-Movie Collection | DVD | (21/11/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Seven Thunders | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (63.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dave (Stephen Boyd) and Jim (Tony Wright) are British soldiers who escape from an Italian POW camp. They are smuggled into Marseilles, where Dave falls in love with orphan waif Lisa. The men then meet Dr Martout, who is to organise their escape from France. However, Dave and Jim object to Martout's vicious methods, and find themselves forced to outwit both him and the Nazis.

• Jesus Of Nazareth | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £12.81   |  Saving you £7.18 (56.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives ample screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted verbatim, the locations have a Palestine-like authenticity, and, aside from some of the principals (Robert Powell as Jesus, Olivia Hussey as Mary, and Stacy Keach as Barabbas), many of the non-Roman characters are actually played by Semitic-looking actors. Zeffirelli diligently provides the socio-political background that gave rise to Jesus' following and the crisis in belief it caused for the people of Israel (and one or two Romans). --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

• The Last Detail | Blu Ray | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Last Detail nearly didn't get a release. Columbia, for whom it was made, was alarmed by the movie's barrage of profanity and resented the unorthodox working style of its director, Hal Ashby, who loathed producers and made no secret of it. Only when the film picked up a Best Actor Award for Jack Nicholson at Cannes did the studio reluctantly grant it a release--with minimal promotion--to widespread critical acclaim. Nicholson, in one of his best roles, plays "Bad-ass" Buddusky, a naval petty officer detailed, along with his black colleague "Mule" Mulhall (Otis Young), to escort an offender from Virginia to the harsh naval prison at Portsmouth, NH. The miscreant is a naïve youngster, Meadows (Randy Quaid), who's been given eight years for stealing $40 from his CO's wife's favourite charity. The escorts, at first cynically detached, soon start feeling sorry for Meadows and decide to show him a good time in his last few days of freedom. Ashby, a true son of 60s counterculture, avidly abets the anti-authoritarian tone of Robert Towne's script. Meadows is a sad victim of the system--but so too are Buddusky and Mulhall, as they gradually come to realise. A lot of the film is very funny. Nicholson gets to do one of his classic psychotic outbursts--"I am the fucking shore patrol!"--and there are some pungent scenes of male bonding pushed to the verge of desperation. But the overall tone is melancholy, pointed up by the jaunty military marches on the soundtrack. Shot amid bleak, wintry landscapes, in buses and trains and grey urban streets, The Last Detail is a film of constant, compulsive movement going nowhere--a powerful, finely acted study of institutional claustrophobia. On the DVD: The Last Detail disc doesn't have much in the way of extras. There are abbreviated filmographies for Ashby, Nicholson and Quaid (though not for Young) and a trailer for A Few Good Men (1992). The mono sound comes up well in Dolby Digital, and the transfer preserves DoP Michael Chapman's subtle, subfusc palette and the 1.85:1 ratio of the original. --Philip Kemp

• Seven Psychopaths | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Boat That Rocked | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1966 - pop music's finest era - and a bunch of ramshackle DJs play rock & pop 24 hours a day broadcasting from Radio Rock, an infamous pirate ship in North Sea. On board arrives 18 year old Carl, who is instantly plunged into a series of hilarious and life-changing adventures and misadventures. His mother thought the boat would straighten him out a spectacular mistake! From Richard Curtis (Blackadder, Four weddings, Love Actually) THE BOAT THAT ROCKED is a brilliant comedy featuring some of the best pop music ever and an all-star cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans, Tom Sturridge & Kenneth Branagh Fabulous Features 14 Chunky and Funny Deleted Scenes 46 minutes of new, unseen material 6 Rocking Featurettes in HD Feature Commentary, with Richard Curtis, Producer Hilary Bevan Jones, and actors Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd