Comedy

• Spike Lee - Mo' Better Blues/Crooklyn/Inside Man/Clockers/School Daze/She Hate Me/Do The Right Thing/Get On The Bus/Jungle Fever | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Titles Comprise: Mo' Better Blues Crooklyn Inside Man Clockers School Daze She Hate Me Do The Right Thing Get On The Bus Jungle Fever

• Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £6.02   |  Saving you £9.97 (165.61%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a teenager is forced to leave behind her beloved Big Apple in a family move, she has problems adjusting to life in surburban New Jersey.

• Dirty Sanchez - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete first series is now available in this superbly designed double pack. Extreme dark humour dangerous stunts and outrageous gags all caught on camera. The comic story of four best buddies testing the limits of their friendship as they unleash torture and abuse on each other in their pursuit of pain.

• Cannibal the Musical | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alferd Packer was the only man in the United States ever convicted of cannibalism--what better hero for fellow Coloradan and future South Park creator Trey Parker to celebrate in music? Blue-eyed and boyish Parker was still in college when he wrote, directed, composed the songs for and took the starring role as the innocent young Packer in this film, giving a gee-whiz performance as an ambitious pioneer who joins an ill-fated trek west that ends up stranded in the mountains. At times resembling a perverse community theatre parody of Rodgers and Hammerstein ("My heart's as full as a baked po-ta-to!"), Parker bounces back and forth between cheery production numbers and goony songs ("Let's build a snowman", sings one starving-mad hiker) and grotesque gore (bloody body parts, festering sores, human hors d'oeuvres). It lacks in style and consistency and the juvenile gags and fart jokes wear thin over the course of a feature film, but Parker's sheer energy and inventiveness carry the overlong picture to a rousing conclusion. Regular Parker collaborators Matt Stone and Dian Bachar co-star in this tuneful barbecue. --Sean Axmaker

• The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate depiction of workplace perdition has to be Whitbury Leisure Centre in The Brittas Empire, despite the later claim of The Office to the title. And while David Brent seems all too uncomfortably real, Chris Barrie's Gordon Brittas carried the gung-ho officiousness of mediocre middle-management to its surreal conclusion. The Brittas Empire could never quite make up its mind if it was a quasi-realistic sitcom or a fantasy comedy, and it's this uneasy mixture that invites you to question whether there's anything terribly funny about unplanned single parenthood, childcare problems, assault in the workplace and women who are addicted to prescription drugs (see also Waiting for God) because of their partners' behaviour. Then, just as you're pondering all this, Brittas comes out with another mouthful of managerial psychobabble that makes you realise that only this kind of tragi-comic exaggeration is robust enough to stand up to Barrie's monstrous creation. This second series treads a fine line between the merely bleak and the really rather nasty with exquisite precision. It opens with the news that Brittas has been killed abroad in an industrial accident, prompting his tranquillizer-addled wife to mourn him for less time than it takes her to remarry--except, of course, that Brittas is alive and well. Along the way, receptionist Carole attempts to murder Brittas with a JCB when she mistakenly thinks he's assaulted her baby, which she keeps in a cupboard under her desk. On the DVD: The Brittas Empire, Series 2 carries all seven episodes on two discs, together with several extras including a gallery, a profile and a Brittas Management Quiz (don't ask!). --Roger Thomas

• The Big Chill (1983) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending a weekend together, reminiscing about their shared pasts as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties. Poignant and warmly humorous in equal measure, this 1983 baby boomer milestone made a star of writer-director LAWRENCE KASDAN (Body Heat) and is perhaps the decade's defining ensemble film, featuring memorable performances by TOM BERENGER (Platoon), GLENN CLOSE (Fatal Attraction), JEFF GOLDBLUM (The Fly), WILLIAM HURT (Broadcast News), KEVIN KLINE (The Ice Storm), MARY KAY PLACE (Being John Malkovich), MEG TILLY (Agnes of God), and JOBETH WILLIAMS (Poltergeist). And with its playlist of hit songs from the sixties, The Big Chill all but invented the consummately curated soundtrack. Product Features New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by cinematographer John Bailey and approved by director Lawrence Kasdan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Alternate remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio Reunion with cast and crew, including Kasdan, actors Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams, from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival Documentary from 1998 on the making of the film Deleted scenes Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer, director, and actor Lena Dunham

• Ricky Gervais Live 2 - Politics | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £17.09 (348.78%)   |  RRP £21.99

  ""Most comedians slog around the country for fifteen years playing to students drunks and even women in grotty venues with the vague hope that someone will give them their own TV show. I'm doing it the other way round. In my show I will be doing my usual brand of brilliant irreverent yet observational comedy covering such universal subjects as meeting Jack Nicholson driving around in limo's and not putting my hand in my pocket once. Sounds great to me!"" - Ricky Gervais 'Another

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Series 1 | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £19.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The simple version: This is the story of Master Shake Frylock and Meatwad: teens who live together unsupervised somewhere near the Jersey shore. Carl their next door neighbor has an above-ground pool and an attitude. The complicated version: This is a story of mysteries neighborhood conflicts aliens mad scientists rabbits robots rabbit robots perms cologne heavy metal haunted school buses giant moths mold with a generous heart Dracula road trips removable brains and of course leprechauns. And that's only the beginning.

• The Nice Guys | Blu Ray | (02/06/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A private eye and a tough guy for hire get tangled up in the seedy underbelly of 1970s Los Angeles as they investigate an adult film star's mysterious death. Special Features ¢ New audio commentary with Director Shane Black and Co-writer Anthony Bagarozzi moderated by Writer Priscilla Page ¢ Knights in Tarnished Armour: a new interview with Shane Black ¢ Finding an Audience: a new interview with Co-Producer Ethan Erwin ¢ A Thousand Cuts: a new interview with Director of Photography Philippe Rousselot ¢ From Lethal Weapons to Nice Guys: a video essay by Leigh Singer ¢ Always Bet on Black: archive featurette ¢ Worst Detectives Ever: archive featurette ¢ Cast Interviews ¢ Trailers

• Abbott And Costello - Meet The Killer/Jekyll And Hyde | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meet The Killer: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami). Jekyll And Hyde: Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. At one point the serum that turns Jekyll into the murderous Hyde gets injected into Tubby.

• Heathers 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (08/12/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Widely acknowledged as a true cult classic of modern American cinema, Heathers has captured the imaginations of troubled teenagers the world over with its acerbic satire of the sugar-coated high school movies of the 1980s... At Westerburg High School, an elite clique of snobby girls known as Heathers reign supreme. Smart and popular, Veronica (Winona Ryder, Stranger Things) is a reluctant member of the gang and disapproves of the other girls' cruel behaviour. When Veronica and her mysterious new boyfriend, JD (Christian Slater, True Romance), play a trick on the clique leader, Heather Chandler (Kim Walker), and accidentally poison her, they make it appear a suicide. But it soon becomes clear to Veronica that JD is a sociopath intent on vengefully killing the school's popular students. She races to stop him, clashing with the clique's new leader, Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty), and leading to an explosive final confrontation with her troubled former lover. Directed by Michael Lehmann, Heathers pushed the teen comedy into dark and nightmarish territory and is distinguished by the career defining central performances of its stars Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. The film is presented here on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray alongside a wealth of extra material providing insight into the making of this hilarious and shocking film. 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Restoration from a 4K scan of the original camera negative by Arrow Films 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original 1.0 mono, and optional stereo 2.0 and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by director Michael Lehmann, producer Denise Di Novi and writer Daniel Waters Lehmann's Terms, an interview with director Michael Lehmann Pizzicato Croquet, composer David Newman and director Michael Lehmann discuss the music of Heathers How Very: The Art and Design of Heathers, production designer Jon Hutman, art director Kara Lindstrom and director Michael Lehmann discuss the look of Heathers Casting Westerberg High, casting director Julie Selzer discusses the casting process for Heathers Poor Little Heather, an interview with actress Lisanne Falk Scott and Larry and Dan and Heathers, an interview between screenwriting team Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs Larry Flint), and Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters The Big Bowie Theory, an appreciation by the writer, actor and comedian John Ross Bowie Return to Westerberg High, an archival featurette providing further insight into the film's production Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads, an archival featurette with the cast and crew featuring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and writer Daniel Waters The Beaver Gets a Boner, Michael Lehmann's student film from 1985 made at the USC School of Cinematic Arts Original trailers Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Robert Sammelin

• Strictly Ballroom | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Baz Luhrmann – the director of the award-winning hits Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge! – comes Strictly Ballroom... the hilariously funny romantic comedy that's sure to leave you laughing, cheering and feeling great! It's the magical story of a championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules, and his ugly duckling dancing partner. Together they make their dreams come true! You're sure to enjoy this exhaustively funny comedy as it dances and soars its way straight into your heart. Critics everywhere fell madly in love with this big-screen treat – and so will you! And, as an added bonus, this special edition includes Samba To Slow Fox, the entertaining documentary that inspired Strictly Ballroom.

• Monty Python's Life Of Brian | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £7.23   |  Saving you £12.76 (176.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  That rarest of rare treasures, Monty Python's Life of Brian is both achingly funny and seriously satirical without ever allowing one to overbalance the other. There is not a single joke, sight gag or one-liner that will not forever burn itself into the viewer's memory as being just as funny as it is possible to be, but, extraordinarily, almost every line and every indestructibly hilarious scene also serves a dual purpose, making this one of the most consistently sustained film satires ever made. Like all great satire, the Pythons not only attack and vilify their targets (the bigotry and hypocrisy of organised religion and politics) supremely well, they also propose an alternative: be an individual, think for yourself, don't be led by others. "You've all got to work it out for yourselves", cries Brian in a key moment. "Yes, we've all got to work it our for ourselves", the crowd reply en masse, "Tell us more". Two thousand years later, in a world still blighted by religious zealots, Brian's is still a lone voice crying in the wilderness. Aside from being a neat spoof on the Hollywood epic, it's also almost incidentally one of the most realistic on-screen depictions of the ancient world--instead of treating their characters as posturing historical stereotypes, the Pythons realised what no sword 'n' sandal epic ever has: that people are all the same, no matter what period of history they live in. People always have and always will bicker, lie, cheat, swear, conceal cowardice with bravado (like Reg, leader of the People's Front of Judea), abuse power (like Pontius Pilate), blindly follow the latest fads and giggle at silly things ("Biggus Dickus"). In the end, Life of Brian teaches us that the only way for a despairing individual to cope in a world of idiocy and hypocrisy is to always look on the bright side of life. --Mark Walker

• Muck And Brass - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £11.42   |  Saving you £8.57 (75.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Muck And Brass: The Complete Series (2 Discs)

• Creature Comforts Series 1, Part 1 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £3.94   |  Saving you £14.05 (356.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  There's nothing not to like about Aardman Animations' new Creature Comforts series, belatedly inspired by their Oscar-winning short film and the subsequent spin-off TV ads that turned out to be far more memorable than the product itself ("It's got to be easily turn-off-and-onable"). But if you stop and think about it for a moment, Creature Comforts is an extraordinarily un-PC concept. First of all, identify some members of the public who are willing to drone on about trivia that's really of no interest to anyone but themselves. (Ideally they will be working class and perhaps a bit dim, although it helps if they're over-articulate in the way that dull people often are when someone suddenly feigns an interest in them.) If they have a strong regional accent or are elderly, so much the better. Then sync up their interviews with a bunch of claymation cartoon animals, linking any extraneous noises to improbable snippets of on-screen action. Finally, sit back and watch as the very people you're patronising laugh their heads off at your efforts, thus proving that they were every bit as dim as you thought. Cynicism aside, though, the ability of the British public to laugh at themselves is a national trait worth celebrating, and it's brilliantly exploited here by the company that brought you Wallace and Gromit. On this first volume you get six episodes, of which perhaps the funniest is "Working Animals", where we learn that egglaying is "very repetitive" and meet the greyhound who can never quite get his latest bit of portentous self-analysis out before the trap opens. On the DVD: The Creature Comforts Series 1, Part 1 DVD contains just the first six 10-minute episodes of the series. To add value, the disc also includes what is quite literally a making-of documentary, plus the original Creature Comforts short and sundry other items of interest. --Roger Thomas

• Punch Drunk Love | Blu Ray | (21/11/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights). Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty toilet plunger salesman Barry Egan (ADAM SANDLER, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affections of a mysterious woman named Lena (EMILY WATSON), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN). Fuelled by the careening momentum of a baroque futurist score by JON BRION (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia), the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood musicals and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance.

• Peter Rabbit 2 (2 DISCS - UHD and BD) | Blu Ray | (02/08/2021) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Thomas and Bea are now married and living with Peter and his rabbit family. Bored of life in the garden, Peter goes to the big city, where he meets shady characters and ends up creating chaos for the whole family.

• Roy Chubby Brown - Too Fat To Be Gay | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Batten down the laughter hatches for a barn-storming night of jokes banter and hilarious micky-taking from Britain's most outrageous comedian bar none! You'll explode with laughter as Chubby rips into his live audience with a non-stop battering ram of laugh-out-loud comedy. From motorway pile-ups to marriage counsellors cancer-causing sausages to asylum seekers' swimming skills and from disabled parking to why Chubby really is too fat to be gay - this show is grab-your-guts funny!

• Carry On Cabby | DVD | (27/02/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rare Carry On with more interest in having a proper plot than tossing off gags every line, Cabby is also one of the friendliest of the series, built around the relationship between a cackling but good-hearted Sid James and an unusually touching Hattie Jacques. Sid's so obsessed with his taxi business that he neglects his wife, spending their wedding anniversary driving expectant father Jim Dale to and from the maternity hospital on a false alarm that naturally pays off with a delivery in the back of the cab. This drives Hattie to set up her own rival firm ("Glam Cabs"), employing dolly birds in tailored uniforms to undercut the likes of Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey. It ends happily, with a pair of hold-up men trapped in a ring of taxis and the marriage saved. Among the expected Carry On bits: Connor in drag, Amanda Barrie in a corset, Hawtrey in a leather jacket as a devout rambler ("We like to go as far as we can"), Liz Fraser as Connor's perky intended. Kenneth Williams is missed, but his role as the obnoxious shop steward (Carry On producer Peter Rogers never missed a chance to be nasty about the unions) is ably taken by Norman Chappell. Other familiar faces are Bill Owen, Peter Gilmore, Milo O'Shea, Renee Houston and Michael Ward as the tweedy businessman who has apparently left a pearl earring in the back of Connor's cab. On the DVD: No extras, but it's a smashing widescreen presentation of a pristine black and white print. --Kim Newman

• A Bad Moms Christmas | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £3.83   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened moms (Amy, Kiki, and Carla) as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of Christmas in hopes of creating a more perfect holiday for their families. And if that was hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their ultimate holiday foes: their own mothers. By the end of the journey, our moms have redefined how to make the holidays special for their families and it ends up bringing them closer to their own moms.