Comedy

• This Year's Love | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  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 £12.01   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  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.

• The Infidel | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £5.08   |  Saving you £10.91 (214.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mahmud Nasir is a successful business owner and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted... and Jewish.

• Pitch Perfect: 2-Movie Collection | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £7.45   |  Saving you £0.26 (3.49%)   |  RRP £7.71

  Double bill of musical teen comedies following the fortunes of an all-girl a cappella singing group. In 'Pitch Perfect: Sing-along' (2014), Anna Kendrick stars as Beca, a freshman who is persuaded to join The Bellas, her university's all-female singing group. Raising their energy and expanding their repertoire, The Bellas have soon taken their music to a whole new level, culminating in a sing-off against their male counterparts in a campus-wide competition. In 'Pitch Perfect 2' (2015) The Barden Bellas enter an international singing competition that a group from the US have yet to win. Can they impress the judges enough to beat their competitors? The cast also includes Elizabeth Banks, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow and Katey Sagal.

• Goodbye Charlie Bright | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £11.68   |  Saving you £-1.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A new comedy set in and around a London council estate, that sees how the lives of four teenage friends are changed forever during the course of one long hot summer.

• Chasing Amy | Blu Ray | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When successful comic book artist Holden meets Alyssa a fellow comic book artist he falls head over heels in love with her. Holden gets the shock of his life when he finds out she's not interested in him. She has her romantic sights set on another... woman! But she decides to be friends anyway. As Alyssa'a and Holden's friendship evolves so do their feelings. Through a maze of unexpectedly humorous twists Holden discovers that friendship and love have never been so complicated or so funny.

• Toast | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £33.64   |  Saving you £-17.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  No matter how bad things get it's impossible not to love someone who's made you toast. Once you've bitten through that crusty surface to the soft dough underneath and tasted the warm salty butter - you're lost forever. Based on the heart-wrenching bittersweet story of British cook and writer Nigel Slater's childhood adapted from his best selling memoir Toast is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. Starring Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech Sweeney Todd) alongside Ken Stott (Rebus Messiah) Victoria Hamilton (Pride and Prejudice) and Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Spiderwick Chronicles) Toast is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain.

• Game Night | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jason Bateman (the Horrible Bosses films, TV's Arrested Development, Ozark) and Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams (Spotlight, Dr. Strange) team up in New Line Cinema's action comedy Game Night. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein are directing the film, marking their second film as co-directors, following Vacation. Joining Bateman and McAdams in the cast are Billy Magnussen (Bridge of Spies, TV's American Crime Story), Sharon Horgan (Amazon's Catastrophe), Lamorne Morris (TV's New Girl), Kylie Bunbury (TV's Pitch, Under the Dome), Jesse Plemons (Black Mass, TV's Fargo), Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Chelsea Peretti (TV's Brooklyn Nine-Nine), with Michael C. Hall (TV's Dexter and Six Feet Under) and Kyle Chandler (Manchester by the Sea, TV's Bloodline). Bateman and McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's charismatic brother, Brooks (Chandler), arranges a murder mystery party, complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all part of the game right? But as the six uber-competitive gamers set out to solve the case and win, they begin to discover that neither this gamenor Brooksare what they seem to be. Over the course of one chaotic night, the friends find themselves increasingly in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn. With no rules, no points, and no idea who all the players are, this could turn out to be the most fun they've ever had or game over.

• Roy Chubby Brown - Standing Room Only | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £6.35   |  Saving you £13.64 (214.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Prepare yourself for an hour of Britains' favourite fat er bloke as he entertains a riotous crowd live in Northampton. Filmed in April 2002 Chubby is more outrageous and filthy than before - even the Queen Mother can't escape the Chubby treatment! Enjoy Roy Chubby Brown at his rudest and crudest best and see why all his live shows really are Standing Room Only.

• Limelight (Chaplin Collection) | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The legend of silent films, Charlie Chaplin, plays an ageing music-hall comedian who befriends a young despondent ballet dancer, Terry (Claire Bloom). Terry is in slow recovery, learning to feel confident about life after her attempted suicide.Also included in the highlights is a famous Chaplin and Buster Keaton comedy skit in this Academy Award-winning film, as the two comedians portray faded stars seeking an audience in a contantly changing world.

• Ali G Indahouse | DVD | (25/04/2022) from £8.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The most controversial and hilarious number one blockbuster, see the original superstar from Staines as you've never seen him before. Assisted by his loyal crew, the West Staines Massive and his girlfriend ˜me Julie', he emerges as the unlikeliest of heroes he's invincible, insatiable, and of course irresistible to bitches! Product Features DA AUDIO COMMENTARY wiv me & me best mate Ricky C SCENES NOT IN IT, INNIT me wicked outtakes & dropped scenes ME VIDEO DIARY da lowdown on making dis movie TALKIN' DA TALK so you can talk wiv respect, aii! ALI'S GALLERY me and some well fit birds Oh yeah, and some phat trailers

• Ed Wood | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £9.15   |  Saving you £5.84 (63.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The significance of Ed Wood, both man and movie, on the career of Tim Burton cannot be emphasised enough. Here Burton regurgitates and pays homage to the influences of his youth, just as he would continue to do with Mars Attacks! and Sleepy Hollow. Everything is just right, from the decision to shoot in black and white, the performances of Johnny Depp (as Ed) and Martin Landau (as Bela Lugosi), the re-creation of 1950s Hollywood and the evocative score by Howard (Lord of the Rings) Shore. The plot struck a poignant familiar chord with Burton, who saw the relationship between the Ed and Lugosi mirroring his own with Vincent Price. Most importantly Burton responded to the story of the struggling, misunderstood artist. For all Burton's big-budget blockbusters (Batman, Planet of the Apes), he still somehow retains the mantle of the kooky niche director. And in the mid-90s, this film actually represented the last vestiges of his independent film production. Fans can only hope he'll soon return to those roots soon. On the DVD: Ed Wood on disc has a good group commentary in which Burton is interviewed rather than expected to hold forth on his own, making his insights alongside the screenwriters, Landau, and various production heads very worthwhile. Also worthy are the featurettes on Landau's Oscar-winning make-up, the FX and the Theremin instrument employed in the score. Best of all is an extremely exotic Music Video based on that score. This doesn't seem to be a new transfer of the film, but in black and white you're less likely to notice. --Paul Tonks

• Carry On Cruising | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A life on the ocean wave with the Carry On crew! Sid James is the long-suffering Captain of the luxury cruise liner S.S. Happy Wanderer a ship full of misfits who don't know their portholes from any other holes! It isn't long before the luckless passengers mix with the hopeless crew to raise titanic laughs on the ship of fools. Carry On Cruising is the sixth Carry On film and the first in colour and stars all the Carry On favourites including Sid James Kenneth Williams Kenneth Connor Joan Sims and Lance Percival.

• The Pink Panther Strikes Again | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Being sent insane by working with Clouseau for too long Sgt Dreyfus vows to destroy him forever - and if he can't he vows he will destroy the world. Clouseau ends up with over 20 assassins on his tail but is more worried about his martial arts manservant getting the better of him!

• Russell Brand Live | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £1.89   |  Saving you £18.10 (90.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Big Brother's Big Mouth presenter takes his energetic flamboyant and sometimes downright controversial personality to the stand up arena. Named best Stand Up in 2006 by Time Out magazine expect a non stop tirade of gags and social commentary from the incomparable Russell Brand.

• Red Dwarf : Series 8 | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £11.38   |  Saving you £11.61 (102.02%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The BBC takes viewers three million years into the future with this science-fiction spoof chronicling the intergalactic adventures of the only human to survive a radiation leak on the ship Red Dwarf. In Series 8 the crew are reinstated by the nanobots