New and Classic Films on DVD and Blu-ray

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - £11.99

Neither a sequel nor a remake of Abel Ferrara's bleak 1992 thriller, Werner Herzog’s version is a darkly comic 're-imagining'. Milo Wakelin braves iguanas and a post-hurricane setting.

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From the Cheap Seats - The Magic Carpet Ride

Inspired by the release of Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, James Oliver explains the hard task of the film writer in conveying a film's sense of fun.

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Bronco Bullfrog East End late 60s classic, now £12.99

Julian Upton looks past the typical ‘swinging sixties’ output to find a glimpse of a more authentic London in Barney Platts-Mills’ bold micro-budget attempt to establish a new kind of working-class cinema.

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Scandal - DVD just £11.99 Cold War shenanigans with a cracking cast

Nick Riddle takes a look at this once controversial film about the cold war sex scandal that toppled Britain's Conservative government in the early 1960s and finds that it has held up extremely well as a high-calibre heritage movie.

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The Mike Leigh Collection - Ten works from the master of wry social-realism

Mike Leigh is undoubtedly one of the greatest working British directors today with critically masterpieces including Life is Sweet, Naked and Vera Drake. We take this chance re-appraise his work.

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Lola - DVD just £8.99 Jacques Demy’s musical without songs

David Parkinson sings the praises of the forgotten man of the nouvelle vague, Jacques Demy, and his “musical without music” debut Lola, a loose prequel to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

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