Comedy

• The Complete Buster Keaton Short Films | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Containing thirty-two films - with a running time of over 700 minutes - this collection documents Buster Keatons short films between 1917-1923. Capturing Keaton's first steps in front of a camera this box set charts his early association with ex-Keystone Kop Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle through to headlining starring in and directing his own box office smash hits. Using Chaplin's old Hollywood studios in 1920 Keaton's sophisticated technical inventiveness coupled with his haunted-yet-handsome ""Stone Face"" persona created a succession of the most timeless classic comedy shorts ever realised. The Masters Of Cinema series presents the following films in a four-disc box set with audio commentary by Joseph McBride on six of the films and a 212-page book Films comprise: 1. The Butcher Boy (1917) 2. The Rough House (1917) 3. His Wedding Night (1917) 4. Oh Doctor! (1917) 5. Coney Island (1917) 6. Out West (1918) 7. The Bell Boy (1918) 8. Moonshine (1918) 9. Good Night Nurse (1918) 10. The Cook (1918) 11. Backstage (1919) 12. The Hayseed (1919) 13. The Garage (1919) 14. The ""High Sign""* (finished 1920 released 1921) 15. One Week* (1920) 16. Convict 13* (1920) 17. The Scarecrow (1920) 18. Neighbors (1920) 19. The Haunted House (1921) 20. Hard Luck (1921) 21. The Goat (1921) 22. The Playhouse* (1921) 23. The Boat* (1921) 24. The Paleface (1922) 25. Cops* (1922) 26. My Wifes Relations (1922) 27. The Blacksmith (1922) 28. The Frozen North (1922) 29. Daydreams (1922) 30. The Electric House (1922) 31. The Balloonatic (1923) 32. The Love Nest (1923) *features audio commentary

• The Happiest Days Of Your Life | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £10.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (109.19%)   |  RRP £22.99

  From acclaimed director Frank Launder ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ is a precursor to the hugely successful St. Trinian’s series set in Nutbourn College the most established and respectable of boy’s schools. A military mistake billets a girls’ school to share the college’s premises to the outrage of their horrified headmaster and headmistress played with comic mastery by Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. Initially the two are hostile to one another. However with a staff of dazed eccentric teachers and a student body of knowing and troublesome children they are forced to pull together as the situation stumbles from the sublime to the ridiculous!

• Doctor Dolittle 2 | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eddie Murphy returns as the modern day Doctor Dolittle, a man who can truly talk to the animals. This time round its up to him to save a forest, and an endangered bear.

• The Van | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £8.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (57.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once the ugly duckling of the rural Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns as a glamorous high flying journalist, ruffling feathers, rekindling old passions and shaking up the sleepy village with hilarious and heart-warming consequences.

• Santa's Slay | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off he returns to his evil ways.

• Johnny English - 3 Movie Box Set (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (18/02/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Johnny English Rowan Atkinson stars as the title character in Johnny English, an office-bound junior intelligence worker suddenly thrust into the spotlight when the Crown Jewels are stolen from the Tower of London and a plot is uncovered that threatens world security. A bit unseasoned but extremely enthusiastic, English is quickly outfitted with a highly-specialized automobile, armed with the ultimate in intelligence gadgetry and allowed highest access to the agency's files. All of England's hopes are resting on English Starring along with Atkinson are international star Natalie Imbruglia as Special Agent Lorna Campbell, renowned comedian Ben Miller as English's sidekick, Bough, and multiple Academy Award nominee John Malkovich as the very French and very crafty business magnate, Pascal Sauvage. Johnny English is a spy comedy with thrills, chills and surprises for the whole family. Bonus Features Include: The Making of Johnny English Johnny English Reborn Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier's life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. Bonus Features Include: Deleted/Extended Scenes with Intro from Director Oliver Park The Wheelchair Chase Gag Reel Feature Commentary JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN Rowan Atkinson returns as the much-loved accidental secret agent in Johnny English Strikes Again. When a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all active undercover agents in Britain, the country's only hope is called out of retirement. English's new mission is his most critical to date: Dive headfirst into action to find the mastermind hacker. A man with few skills and analogue methods, English must overcome the challenges of modern technologyor his newest mission will become the Secret Service's last. Bonus Features Include: The Comedy Genius of Rowan Atkinson Johnny English Legacy A Cast of Character The Gadgets The Car Plus a Digital Download of Johnny English Strikes Again to watch on your mobile devices

• Drop Dead Gorgeous | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Drop Dead Gorgeous probes the heart of a small Minnesota town where a teen beauty pageant has unleashed a fury of very unladylike behavior.

• Doctor Dolittle | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Betty Thomas directs and Eddie Murphy stars in Doctor Dolittle, the 1998 hit film which, while ostensibly aimed at children, has a high quotient of hip and even mildly gross humour. Murphy stars as John Dolittle, whom we see as a child talking to a neighbourhood dog who explains that the reason mutts sniff each others' butts is to assess their characters when first meeting them. Little John promptly tries this out on being introduced to his school principal. Warned off such social eccentricity, Dolittle stops talking to animals and as an adult becomes a respectable doctor running his own medical practice--until a bump on the head revives his capacity to understand animals, whereupon mayhem, mortification and a menagerie of needy and freeloading creatures are heaped upon his ordered existence. Murphy plays it relatively straight. It's the animals, some of them vividly enhanced by Jim Henson's animating team, who provide the real laughs here, and a thoroughly worldly, wisecracking bunch of characters they prove to be. There's a couple of hard-boiled, squabbling rats, a pigeon who complains of impotence, Rocky the guinea pig (voiced by Chris Rock) with a neat line in hip backchat, while Albert Brooks voices the gruff, melancholy tiger whose life Dolittle must try to save. A sweet but by no means saccharine comedy. On the DVD: The DVD edition features scene selection and a trailer. --David Stubbs

• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £6.92   |  Saving you £7.07 (102.17%)   |  RRP £13.99

  OK, let's get all the disclaimers out of the way first. Despite its colourful (if crude) animation, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is in no way meant for kids. It is chock full of profanity that might even make Quentin Tarantino blanch and has blasphemous references to God, Satan, Saddam Hussein (who's sleeping with Satan, literally) and Canada. It's rife with scatological humour, suggestive sexual situations, political incorrectness and gleeful, rampant vulgarity. And it's probably one of the most brilliant satires ever made. The plot: flatulent Canadian gross meisters Terrance and Philip hit the big screen and the South Park quartet of third graders--Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman--begin repeating their profane one-liners ad infinitum. The parents of South Park, led by Kyle's overbearing mom, form "Mothers Against Canada", blaming their neighbours to the north for their children's corruption and taking Terrance and Philip as war prisoners. It's up to the kids then to rescue their heroes from execution, not mention a brooding Satan, who's planning to take over the world. To give away any more of the plot would destroy the fun but this feature-length version of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central hit is a dead-on and hilarious send-up of pop culture. And did we mention it's a musical? From the opening production number "Mountain Town" to the cheerful anti-profanity sing-along "It's Easy, MMM Kay" to Satan's faux-Disney ballad "Up There", Parker (who wrote or cowrote all the songs) brilliantly shoots down every earnest musical from Beauty and the Beast to Les Misérables. And in advocating free speech and satirising well-meaning but misguided parental censorship groups (with a special nod to the MPAA), Bigger, Longer & Uncut hits home against adult paranoia and hypocrisy with a vengeance. And the jokes, while indeed vulgar and gross, are hysterical; we can't repeat them here, especially the lyrics to Terrance and Philip's hit song, but you'll be rolling on the floor. Don't worry, though--to paraphrase Cartman, this movie won't warp your fragile little mind unless you have something against the First Amendment. --Mark Englehart

• The Good Life - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Good Life: Complete Season 1 (2 Discs)

• Never Been Kissed | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Let's get this straight: Drew Barrymore started a production company to develop original scripts outside of Hollywood and the first project she chose to produce was this, a romantic comedy written by USC grads Abby Kohn and Mark Silverstein about a nerdy, virginal woman who returns to high school as an undercover reporter, finally gets to be popular, and falls in love. And Barrymore decided, as producer, that the perfect actress to play this virtuous, clean-cut, and downright annoying geek would be... Drew Barrymore? It's hard to believe that after The Wedding Singer Barrymore's not getting enough dopey, formulaic, predictable romantic comedies coming across her desk. The complete inability to buy Barrymore as unattractive, awkward, and unpopular ruins Never Been Kissed from the start, but it's doubtful a better actress could have saved it. The jokes fall flat, the romance between Barrymore and her English teacher (played by Michael Vartan) lacks chemistry, and the portrayals of high school and the newspaper newsroom is clichéd and uninspired (big surprise here: the director, Raja Gosnell, previously made Home Alone 3). Gosnell can't even give the gifted character actor, John C. Reilly, anything to do. Only David Arquette, who plays Barrymore's out-of-control brother, brings any energy to the film. -- Dave McCoy, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• Irish Showband Legends | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £8.75   |  Saving you £-2.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Various Artists - Ireland's Showband Legends

• Hot Fuzz | DVD | (17/12/2007) from £8.15   |  Saving you £3.84 (47.12%)   |  RRP £11.99

  A top London cop must contend with life in a sleepy West Country village in this new comedy from the 'Shaun Of The Dead' team.

• Lee Evans - Live In Scotland | DVD | (06/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the side-splitting grand finale at the Edinburgh Playhouse of Lee Evans' 100 date sell-out UK tour. Lee performed to over 150 000 people and shows us why he is described by the critics as ""one of our finest living comedians"". Against the backdrop of a giant kilt and sporran Lee invites you to watch the ""Lee Evans Trio"" where he attempts to play all the instruments at the same time. He then takes you on a hilarious journey from evolution running in flip-flops shopping th

• This Year's Love | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An unpretentious Brit-flick distinguished by a great cast, This Year's Love is writer-director David Kane's wry, funny study of six singletons in search of something--possibly love, possibly just sex--that will help them make sense of an untidy world. Aside from the acting, the film's strongest feature is its unflinching realism. The setting is North London's Camden Lock, an area that is in equal parts ultra-trendy and horrendously squalid. The characters reflect the locale: a circle of youthful drop-outs, wannabes and never-have-beens united in their common desire to surmount loneliness and find that elusive "perfect match". The central figures are newlyweds Danny and Hannah (the wonderful Douglas Henshall and Catherine McCormack) and the film in essence concerns itself with the fallout from the spectacular and rapid disintegration of their marriage. Danny first hooks up with cleaner-cum-nightclub singer Mary (a marvellously self-deprecating Kathy Burke), while Hannah finds lecherous womaniser Cameron (an unwashed Dougray Scott). Cameron's flatmate Liam (Ian Hart) fails to impress posh single mum Sophie (Jennifer Ehle in dreadlocks), who goes on to reject Danny and Cameron in turn, while Liam becomes dangerously obsessed by Hannah then Mary. So the merry-go-round of relationship swapping, unlikely coincidences and bittersweet life-lessons turns full circle. David Kane's comic dialogue is witheringly sharp, the situations (aside from all the coincidental meetings) are well-observed and the characters sympathetically three-dimensional (helped in no small part by the quality of the ensemble cast). The frequently hilarious comedy is tempered by an underlying despair: if it's not exactly Brassed Off or The Full Monty for neurotic, self-obsessed metropolitans, it's a film that's at least happy to exist in the same genre and achieves the same poignant empathy with its characters. The soundtrack is great, too. Imagine that the cast of Trainspotting gate-crashed Four Weddings and a Funeral and the result would be This Year's Love. On the DVD: Short on-set interviews with the principals and a promotional featurette are supplemented by a sequence of unedited behind-the-scenes footage. The film itself is presented in a good-looking anamorphic (16:9) print. --Mark Walker

• The Boat That Rocked | Blu Ray | (07/09/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Richard Curtis ("Love Actually", "Four Weddings and a Funeral") delivers a feel-good hit in the making with this look at Britain's most infamous Rock'n'Roll, anti-establishment, high-sailing DJs!

• Zombieland | Blu Ray | (15/03/2010) from £7.45   |  Saving you £17.54 (235.44%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss. Tallahassee is a zombie-slayin' badass. But the pair has to decide which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.

• Being There | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £16.77   |  Saving you £-2.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Hal Ashby's much-praised Being There stars Peter Sellers in what was perhaps his finest comic performance. Chance the gardener has spent his entire life in an old man's house and has no idea of the world outside except for what television has given him. Sellers manages to make his innocence touching and oddly impressive rather than an offensive exploitation of disability. Jerzy Kozinski's screenplay neither entirely endorses nor discounts the twin possibilities that Chance's simplicity and closeness to the natural world give him access to real wisdom, or that he is simply a blank on whom people project what they want to see and hear. What is clear is that he gives his dying friend Ben (Jack Warden) peace of mind and consoles Ben's wife (Shirley Maclaine). Whether he's being groomed for the Presidency or appearing to walk on water, he always does something right, and the same is true for Sellers' minimalist performance. On the DVD: Being There is presented in a widescreen visual aspect of 1.85:1 and has 1.0 Dolby Digital mono sound; it comes with the original theatrical trailer, information about the stars and director and a list of the film's awards. --Roz Kaveny

• The Divorce Of Lady X | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This light-hearted society comedy from the Alexander Korda Library features three great actors early in their careers: Korda's wife-to-be Merle Oberon Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. Adapted by Lajos Bir'' from the 1933 stage play Counsel's Opinion The Divorce of Lady X is a solidly produced 'screwball whimsy' in which Korda used an early threestrip Technicolor technique masterfully to give the film its particular lustre. The beautiful Leslie (Merle Oberon) a costume party guest and handsome divorce lawyer Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier) find themselves stranded by fog in an already overcrowded hotel. Leslie's solution is to commandeer Logan's bedroom relegating him to the sofa eat his breakfast and sneak off leaving only a note: 'Goodbye Lady X'. The next day she overhears Logan making disparaging remarks about women in divorce cases and decides that with the aid of her friends Lord and Lady Mere (Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes) and an elaborate ruse she will teach the misogynist a lesson...

• No My Darling Daughter | DVD | (05/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Juliet Mills plays the vivacious daughter of a wealthy international industrialist who runs away with a playboy millionaire, but falls in love with the hard-working young man who has been sent to bring her back.