"Actor: Lesley Sharpe"

• Rita, Sue and Bob Too (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British films about sex are fairly rare, and mostly embarrassing: from the painfully anxious (Brief Encounter) to the hopelessly naff (the Carry On films). What a treat then is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke's filming of a stage play by young Andrea Dunbar. It's an unsentimental, gleefully lewd comedy about shagging. Tagged for its cinema release in 1987 as "Thatcher's Britain with its knickers down", it even provoked a minor moral hullabaloo in the newspapers. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two giggly Bradford lasses stuck on a ramshackle housing estate. They keep themselves in fags by occasional baby-sitting for nouveau riche couple Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Bob fancies himself rotten, but Michelle has ruled that sex is off the menu. So one night, driving Rita and Sue home, Bob detours to the Yorkshire moors and offers the girls a little something extra in his front seat. Rita and Sue decide to grab it while they can. Alan Clarke's cult following is founded on his bleak, brilliant films about violent young men (Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain). But Rita, Sue is a tribute to Clarkey's ribald sense of humour. It even sports a cameo from novelty pop-act Black Lace, performing their non-hit "Gang-Bang". Teenage debutantes Holmes and Finneran are terrific--just watch them dancing lustily around Bob's red leather sofa to Bananarama. In support, Clarke wisely cast skilled northern comedians like Patti Nicholls and Willie Ross, as Sue's foul-mouthed mum and dad. Amid the laughs, Clarke as usual doesn't stint from showing us the harsh, unlovely side of life. He shot the film on location at Bradford's Buttershaw estate, where Andrea Dunbar grew up and where, tragically, she died of a brain haemorrhage only a few years after the film's release. --Richard Kelly

• Moving On | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £14.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (34.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stunning series of contemporary individual dramas with an all-star cast created by Jimmy McGovern multi-award winning writer of Cracker and The Street. The five stand-alone stories focus on people making life-changing decisions and moving on

• Boon - The Complete Second And Third Series | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Family favourite Michael Elphick (Eastenders Private Schulz) is back as Boon in this fantastic four disc boxed set which contains every episode from the second and third series. Episodes comprise: Series 2: 1. Texas Rangers 2. Special Delivery 3. Day Of The Yokel 4. Smokey And The Band 5. Taken For A Ride 6. Wheels Of Fortune 7. A Ride On The Wild Side 8. Credit Where It's Due 9. Trudy's Grit 10. A Fistful Of Pesetas 11. Paper Mafia 12. Fiddler Under The Roof 13. Once A Fluid Man 14. Full Circle Series 3: 1. Charity Begins At Home (Part 1) 2. Charity Begins At Home (Part 2) 3. Topspin 4. Have A Nice Day 5. Beef Encounter 6. Never Say Trevor Again 7. Honourable Service 8. Peacemaker 9. The Devil You Know 10. Banbury Blue 11. One Reborn Every Minute 12. The Fall and Rise Of The Bowman Empire 13. The Not So Lone Ranger