Drama

• The Story of GI Joe | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Classic World War II drama directed by William Wellman based on the newspaper columns written by war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Burgess Meredith stars as Pyle who joins an American army unit fighting its way across North Africa. Over time he gets to know the soldiers well and finds much human interest material for his readers back in the USA. Later he catches up with the unit in Italy and accompanies it through the battles of San Vittorio and Cassino. Robert Mitchum won an Oscar for his role as the unit's commanding officer Bill Walker.

• Deficit | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An exploration into society and class as the audience witness what happens when two different social classes meet at a family gathering in Mexico.

• Cesar Chavez | DVD | (08/06/2015) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Chronicling the birth of a modern American movement “Cesar Chavez” tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but softspoken Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people. Chavez inspired millions of Americans from all walks of life who never worked on a farm to ght for social justice. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual’s ability to change the world.

• The Girlfriend Experience | Blu Ray | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, "The Girlfriend Experience" is five days in the life of Chelsea (adult film star Sasha Grey), an ultra high-end call girl who offers the full 'girlfriend package' to her clients.

• Five Dollars A Day | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The conservative son of a thrifty conman begrudgingly joins his father on the road - after being released from jail for one of his dad's earlier crimes.

• The Three Faces of Eve | DVD | (05/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Johnny Depp Collection | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £13.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Astronaut's Wife On a seemingly routine mission to repair a space satellite, astronaut Spencer Armacost (Depp) loses contact with Mission Control for a period of time. Once Spencer has returned to Earth his wife Jillian (Charlize Theron) falls pregnant with twin boys, but her joy is tempered by the suspicion that something terrible happened to her husband in space - something which could threaten the entire human race. Dark Shadows When playboy Barnabas Collins (Depp) breaks the heart of the beautiful Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green), an old family curse is released as Angelique, a witch, turns Barnabas into a vampire before burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. Returning to his former home at Collinwood Manor, he finds his estate in ruins and the dysfunctional dregs of his family in tatters. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has enlisted the services of live-in psychiatrist Dr Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter) to help with her numerous family problems - but between Elizabeth's loser brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller), her rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chlo? Moretz), and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath), Dr Hoffman has certainly got her work cut out. Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' (2007), Tim Burton's film version of the Stephen Sondheim musical, is based on a 'penny dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century. The story centres around Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair... Don Juan DeMarco Marlon Brando plays a psychiatrist whose last case, that of Don Juan (Depp), is his most difficult. Don Juan is the world's greatest lover, having seduced over 1000 women, and his amorous tales totally captivate the analyst, re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost forever.

• Wildflowers | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £4.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (21.01%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marin County 1985. Cally a 17 year old California girl was brought up for the first five years of her life in the idyllic chaos of a commune and has lived since then with her father on a houseboat. Her father is gallant and sweet but not always successful in his efforts to hold onto her and their makeshift home. Her mother was the hero or so the story goes having gone underground for political reasons soon after Cally was born. And then there is Sabine. She is the most beauti

• The Pool | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a bus boy working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants-indeed about the world around him-and his curiosity changes the shape of his future. Remarkably cogent and affecting, this is inspired storytelling distinctive for its ability to transmit a complete viewpoint in just a phrase or brief conversation. In the same vein as his latest documentary, Smith's creative acumen focuses on the gulf between the rich and poor, sharing its insights, observations, poignancy, and truth in a deceptively simple narrative. Working in Hindi with young actors and in a country obviously not his own, Smith has nevertheless created a superbly incisive portrait that will move and delight you. Special Features: A'Making Of' feature

• Cartier Affair | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Joan Collins and David Hasselhoff star in this made-for-TV comedy caper, in which a con artist who has just gotten out of jail. Curt Taylor (Hasselhoff) finds himself back in business when he becomes an assistant to glamorous film star Cartier Rand (Collins). Curt's primary interest in working with Cartier is the opportunity to get his hands on her world famous and highly-valuable collection of jewelry. In time, however, Curt finds himself attracted to Cartier, which will take a bit of explaining, since he informed Cartier's jealous fiance that he was gay in order to win the job. The Cartier Affair also stars Telly Savalas, Charlies Napier, and Ed Lauter.

• Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya | DVD | (26/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this movie David Dhawan mirrors his thoughts through Salman Khan's character Sameer who shrugs 'Kyun why kaiko ka koi jawab nahi hota [All questions need not have an answer]'. So back he is with another mad caper which thoroughly tends to the laugh muscles. Characteristically a Dhawan movie involves that either the hero cooks lies or is in disguise or he cons. In Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya everyone gets to contribute -- hero lies heroine pretends and side hero cons. Comedy is a

• Rudy - The Rudolph Giuliani Story | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With an outstanding performance by James Woods, Rudy: The Rudolph Giuliani Story is a warts-and-all portrait of New York City's lame-duck mayor, who rose from political disfavour to unexpected heights of heroism and leadership in the wake of September 11, 2001. Originally broadcast on the USA Network and based on Wayne Barrett's muckraking biography, it's a condensed, Cliff's Notes rendition of Giuliani's political career, with each commercial break serving as a chapter stop, beginning on the eve of 9/11 and alternating past and present highlights from Giuliani's rise to power. The film offers an unflinching portrait of a devoted public servant who's as fallible as he is competent: his wife (Penelope Ann Miller) understandably suffers while extramarital affairs and political fearlessness are all seen as by-products of Giuliani's compulsion to improve the city he loves. As Robert Dornhelm's clunky direction combines actual news footage with exacting recreations of 9/11 and its aftermath, Woods' charismatic performance wisely avoids mimicry to show us a flawed but noble man who, in the final analysis, deserves our conditional respect. --Jeff Shannon

• Detention | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A slasher-movie killer frightens a group of teens during their senior year of high school.

• Killing Zone | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Carmen is the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. When his brother is cold-bloodedly murdered in his prison cell Carmen vows personal revenge. Exiled from the United States he returns and begins a slaughter that stretches across Los Angeles. The cops and the DEA are powerless so they turn to Carmen's old enemy for a bloody showdown.

• Bonds Of Love | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £3.80   |  Saving you £2.19 (57.63%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Robby Smith and Rose Parks are two lost souls. Mentally disabled Robby still lives with his over-protective family and ex-alcoholic Rose is regarded as a `bad woman so Robby's parents react with predictable horror when the two fall in love. But they have failed to gauge the strength and purity of Robby and Rose's feelings for each other - a situation complicated by their secret marriage. As Robby's parents launch a legal battle to reclaim their son can Rose prove that her bad reputation is far from merited? And can Robby prove that he can be an independent and valued member of society?

• Prey For Rock 'n' Roll | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After years of being ignored by record producers the band ClamDandy's front woman Jacki has reached a crossroads in her life. She is turning 40 and had made a pact with herself a decade earlier that if they hadn't made it in the L.A. club scene by then that she would throw in the towel and give up on her dream of taking ClamDandy to the top. This decision gets complicated when old secrets personal tragedy and false hope threaten to break the band up...

• Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years - Vol. 4: The Long Tide Of Surrender / What Price Churchill | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It’s easy to forget that before fronting the British war effort through most of World War II, Winston Churchill had spent the previous decade isolated in Parliament and in internal opposition to the Conservative party. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years dramatises this period in which the growing menace of Nazism in Germany was met with indifference, even fear by governments of the day who were more concerned with their survival than in serving those who had elected them. Churchill is perceptively played by Robert Hardy, confirming the image without falling into caricature. Visionary and obstinate by turns, he galvanises his supporters and enrages his enemies with a passion borne of conviction. A seasoned British cast includes Peter Barkworth as the amiable but ineffectual Stanley Baldwin, Eric Porter as the truly "out of time" Neville Chamberlain, Edward Woodward as the scheming Samuel Hoare and Nigel Havers as the tragically flawed Randolph Churchill. Martin Gilbert has done a persuasive job transforming his novel into a TV script, the scenes in the House of Commons having a gritty reality that makes compulsive viewing. On the DVD: it’s a pity that the Southern Pictures production, first screened in 1981, has emerged so dimly in this incarnation. Has the master tape eroded so badly, or was it simply not available? However, it’s worth putting up with the technical defects to enjoy this historically informed and grippingly dramatic serial. --Richard Whitehouse

• Othello | DVD | (08/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Othello (William Marshall)

• Sleep With Me | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £5.27   |  Saving you £7.72 (59.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz and Craig Sheffer star in this captivating romantic comedy spiced with a healthy dash of reality.

• Vivre Sa Vie | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £15.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (20.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Luc Godard expertly directs his then wife Anna Karina in one of the seminal movies of the French new wave. As one would expect from Godard the film is daring and experimental both in its use of sound recording and finished editing and includes a thought-provoking insight into the social conditions and mores prevalent at the times. Karina plays provincial girl Nana working as a shop assistant who after separating from her husband decides to embark on a career as an actress.