"Actor: Steve Coogan"

• Knowing Me, Knowing You/Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £16.29 (440.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ah-Ha! In 1995 Norwich's most famous son Alan Partridge made the transition from radio to TV with Knowing Me, Knowing You, a chat-show so wholly misunderstood that one clever-clog TV critic described it as "moribund". By way of rebuttal, just consider Alan's parade of fantastic guests, including a hypnotist who persuades Alan that he's an owl; a US pop diva with whom Alan shares a memorable Abba duet that happens to be in all the wrong keys for him; raunchy male dance-act Hot Pants; Cirque des Clowns, whose extreme violence upsets Alan; and, most exciting of all, Roger Moore (via mobile phone from a traffic jam on the Chiswick roundabout). Steve Coogan's creation fell on hard times later--as chronicled in the magnificent I'm Alan Partridge Series 1 and Series 2--but here he's revelling in his prime-time exposure with no thought of becoming "clinically sad" or gorging on Toblerone bars. Co-writers Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber lovingly recreate everything that's fake and contrived about the whole chat-show genre: the shameless plugging, the recalcitrant celebs, the novelty acts and, most of all, the insufferably smug host oblivious to his own tediousness. Coogan's regular guests are ably played by some faces familiar from The Day Today: Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, David Schneider and Patrick Marber himself. Other game guest stars are John Thomson (as a naval officer also called Alan Partridge) and Minnie Driver (as a transsexual agony aunt), not forgetting Steve Brown as disconcertingly gay music director Glen Ponder. The high-water mark of Alan's career arrived with his Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule in which his own living room was lovingly recreated at Television Centre. Unfortunately, and despite the presence of Mick Hucknall, the new Chief Commissioning Editor of BBC TV, Tony Hayers, is deeply unimpressed with the show and gets punched in the face by Alan, who, it turns out, is handy with a turkey. On that bombshell, Alan's career took a downward turn. On the DVD: Knowing Me, Knowing You is a two-disc set including all six episodes and the Christmas special. There's a group commentary throughout with contributions from Armando Iannucci plus Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Steve Brown and Dave Schneider speaking in and out of character. Other extras include the original pilot show, Alan on Comic Relief, Alan's rural rambles, his TV trailers, plus stills and cast biographies. --Mark Walker

• Alan Partridge - I'm Alan Partridge - Episodes 1 To 6 | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £5.94   |  Saving you £17.04 (577.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I'm Alan Partridge finds Steve Coogan's media creation back in his native Norwich, having lost his beloved chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and now reduced to the pre-Breakfast slot playing old T'Pau and Soft Cell singles to an audience of farmers and all-night bakery workers. He's also lodged at the Linton Travel tavern, whose permanently smiling manageress, bland decor and themed buffets are redolent of what vast tracts of England have become. He's very much at home there. While there's much media satire in Partridge's pitiful pitches of programme ideas to the BBC ("Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?"), I'm Alan Partridge is more a bleakly hilarious take on Modern Middle English Man, irascible and profoundly bored. Between innumerable moments of high, wild comedy, such as a disastrous video Partridge does for a boating agency and an encounter with his one (insane) fan, the most telling moments of the series come with his efforts to fill his dismally empty days, taking a trouser press to pieces, staring at the astro turf at an owl sanctuary or walking to a service station to buy windscreen cleaning fluid just for something to do. All this proved a little too darkly uncomfortable for mainstream audiences--yet Alan Partridge was probably the finest British comic creation of the 1990s. --David Stubbs

• Northern Soul | Blu Ray | (20/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Northern Soul is the story of a youth culture in the 1970’s which changed a generation. No longer satisfied with the prospect of a small town life and a factory production line two young boys dream mof going to America to discover rare records which will help them become the best DJ’s on the scene. This journey forces them to confront rivalry violence and drug abuse and their friendship is tested to the limit. This is Northern Soul. Special Feature: Behind The Scenes

• Mrs Merton And Malcolm - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Described as possibly the most disturbing show on television by Time Out magazine Mrs Merton and Malcolm was a spin off from the wildly successful The Mrs Merton Show. Created by Caroline Aherne Craig Cash and Henry Normal the programme developed Aherne's spoof chat show host Mrs Merton into a sitcom mum looking after her grown-up son Malcolm. The duo lived a highly structured life alongside Mr Merton who was only ever seen on screen as an immobile silent lump in bed upstairs.

• Shakespeare In Love/Marie Antoinette/Vanity Fair | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £11.22   |  Saving you £8.77 (43.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden) (1998): When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! Marie Antoinette (Dir. Sofia Coppola) (2006): A decadently imaginative interpretation of the life of France's iconic teenage queen Marie Antoinette from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI aged 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the termination of her royal tenure and ultimately the fall of Versailles in the French Revolution... Vanity Fair (Dir. Mira Nair 2004): Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women. She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and aims to find a rich husband.

• Philomena | Blu Ray | (24/03/2014) from £5.98   |  Saving you £19.01 (317.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952 Philomena (Judi Dench) was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a fallen woman. When her baby was only a toddler he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him but with no success.Then she met Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) a world-weary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Together they set off to America on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son but also create an unexpectedly close bond between Philomena and Martin.The film is a compelling narrative of human love and loss that ultimately celebrates life showing that there is laughter even in the darkest places.

• Chivalry | DVD | (13/06/2022) from £3.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani write and star in this sharp satire of contemporary sexual politics. Cameron, an acclaimed film producer, needs to detoxify his latest movie or face ruin. Bobby, an ambitious feminist filmmaker, has what he needs to get ˜woke' and stay relevant. As Bobby and Cameron bounce between gender tension and creeping attraction, their encounters with a star-studded line up including Wanda Sykes, Sienna Miller, Paul Rudd and Peter Mullan gives them the nagging feeling that they are just pawns in the studio's secret agenda. All they need to do is reshoot an inappropriate sex scene. How hard can it be? Product Features Featurette

• Twenty Four Hour Party People | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of the Manchester music scene from 70s punk through to the early nineties, as seen from the perspective of Tony Wilson, musical entrepenuer who signed countless bands from Joy Division to the Happy Mondays to his legendary Factory Records label.

• Sunshine | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sunshine

• Tropic Thunder/Zoolander/The Heartbreak Kid | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £7.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (110.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Tropic thunder: A group of well-known successful actors are cast in the biggest most expensive war movie ever produced! They include Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) - a pampered action superstar Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) an intense three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise The Fatties; multi-platinum hiphop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). After filming begins the director (Steve Coogan) has a change of heart and throws the actors into real-life combat and they are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying. Will they make it out of the jungle in one piece? Zoolander: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic he's so hot right now Hansel (Owen Wilson) scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu (Will Ferrell) seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda (Christine Taylor) can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere! Ben Stiller's Zoolander is an endearingly broad silly off-the-wall comedy to be enjoyed by beautiful people everywhere. Strike a pose! Heartbreak Kid: Ben Stiller stars as Eddie an indecisive guy who begins dating the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila. Upon the urging of his father and best friend Eddie proposes to her after only a week fearing this may be his last chance at love marriage and happiness. However while on their honeymoon in sunny Mexico Lila reveals her true beyond-awful nature and Eddie meets Miranda the woman he realizes to be his actual soul mate. Eddie must keep his new increasingly horrid wife at bay as he attempts to woo the girl of his dreams.

• Alan Partridge Presents The Cream Of British Comedy - Teenage Cancer Trust | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £11.39   |  Saving you £-5.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alan Partridge's PA Lynn pulled off a bit of a coup when she managed to land Radio Norwich's premier DJ the job of presenting the 2004 Teenage Cancer Trust Comedy night at the Royal Albert Hall. Boasting a stellar comic line-up that included the likes of Ricky Gervais Simon Pegg Rob Brydon Rich Hall Noel Fielding and guest stars the 2004 Teenage Cancer Trust Comedy night has already gone down in comic folklore.

• Steve Coogan - The Complete Collection | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £61.85   |  Saving you £8.14 (13.16%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Steve Coogan: The Complete Box Set

• I Am Not An Animal | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £11.02   |  Saving you £6.23 (63.83%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A group of animals (a horse cat sparrow monkey rat and dog) have all been given the power of speech and rational thought. They live in a luxurious 'club class' wing of a secret vivisection laboratory. Pampered and clothed unlike any lab animals in history fed vintage wine and exquisite food they are blissfully unaware of the real world outside. Until one cruel night when a gang of animal rights activists brutally liberate them into their so-called 'natural surroundings'... Epis

• Spitting Image - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £14.21   |  Saving you £8.77 (78.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A milestone in television comedy Spitting Image lifted satire to a new level for over a decade through the 1980s and 90s. No target was safe from the series' gunsights: politicians of all persuasions Ronald Reagan the Pope and even the Royal Family could find themselves up for a ribbing on any given programme. Exceptionally topical the series was worked around that current weeks news stories to retain its biting edge and many famous impressionists honed their craft portraying the voices behind the wickedly accurate rubber puppets: Chris Barrie Rory Bremner Phil Cornwell Steve Coogan John Culshaw Harry Enfield and Kate Robbins (among many others).

• Moone Boy | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £4.79   |  Saving you £15.20 (317.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Moone Boy is a semi-autobiographical sitcom co-written by and starring Chris O'Dowd about a boy growing up in Ireland in 1989. O'Dowd plays Sean, the shambolic imaginary friend of 11-year-old Martin Moone, the youngest child of a family living in a small town. With an ambitious mother trying to forge a career as a Weight Wishers instructor, a troubled father who seeks solace in a clandestine Dads-Anonymous group, and three sisters who are determined to make his life miserable, Martin tries to negotiate his way through life with only the friendship and terrible advice of his imaginary friend to guide him. Special Features: Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery

• Greed (UK) | Blu Ray | (29/06/2020) from £3.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  GREED tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), whose retail empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion bringing the high street to the catwalk and the catwalk to the high street but after a damaging public inquiry, his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicised and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. A satire on the grotesque inequality of wealth in the fashion industry, the film sees McCreadie's rise and fall through the eyes of his biographer, Nick (David Mitchell).

• Despicable Me/Despicable Me 2 Limited Edition Gift Box | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £11.14   |  Saving you £18.85 (169.21%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Despicable MeGru (Steve Carell) is your average guy at least that's what everyone else thinks. He has a secret that is known by very few; he's a criminal mastermind! He hasn't been in the news for a long time since he stole the Times Square JumboTron. He wants to be in the news once again and be recognised for the genius he is to do so he's about to steal something big. Something very very big; the Moon! To steal the moon he comes up with an ingenious plan. With the use of a shrink ray Gru is able to shrink the moon but before he can do so a cunning super nerd named Vector (Jason Segel) steals the shrink ray from him! Now he must battle Vector in order to become the super villain that he wants to be known as. Gru adopts three young girls to help him with his plan in stealing the shrink ray back but doesn't count on the fact that he may soon become a father to the girls and have a moral decision whether to live his dream or become a good dad. Despicable Me 2Get ready for more minion madness! This hilarious animated adventure sees the return of Gru (Steve Carell) who is retiring from the life of a super villain. However he is unwillingly recruited by the Anti-Villain league to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. Supported by the girls the hilarious minions... and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.

• The Trip to Italy (Feature Film Version) | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom comes the follow up to the BAFTA winning first series The Trip. Four years after they ate their way round the North of England Brydon and Coogan take their own Grand Tour around Italy following in the footsteps of Byron and Shelley. The Trip to Italy reunites two men for more delectable food sharp-elbowed rivalry and plenty of laughs. Extras: Deleted Scenes

• The Look Of Love | Blu Ray | (19/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Steve Coogan's passion project reunites him with longtime collaborator Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story) for the real life story of the 'King of Soho', the legendary gentleman's club owner and porn publisher Paul Raymond.

• Saxondale - Series 1 | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £9.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (100.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tommy Saxondale has been through the rock and roll mill and lived to tell the tale. He plays fast and loose shoots from the hip and tells no lies - he's a true maverick. Tommy never took the corporate dollar. He doesn't work for 'the man'; he's his own man. These and other moth-eaten cliches are how Tommy would describe himself. But when Tommy removes his rose-tinted Aviator shades he can't deny a few basic facts; he was a middle-ranking roadie for 20 years but for the past ten years he has been at the cutting edge of the pest control industry... in Hertfordshire. After a hostile divorce Tommy has found his soulmate in Magz proprietress of an anarchic T-shirt shop. In the course of the series Tommy gets his eyesight improved by a prostitute has a heart murmur in Halfords executes a pigeon and experiments with women's make-up. Includes all 7 episodes from the first series.