Comedy

• Shaun Of The Dead | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A romantic comedy. With zombies. From the co-creator of TV's "Spaced" comes another offbeat tale about a group of London friends whose visit to the pub is rudely interrupted by a gang of zombies.

• In Your Dreams | DVD | (18/02/2019) from £5.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dexter Fletcher delivers an engaging performance as an embittered dentist with the power to warp reality in Gary Sinyor's In Your Dreams. Co-starring Elize du Toit, Parminder Nagra and Linda Hamilton, this cult comedy deftly combines genres in a sex comedy-amateur detective-psychic powers mash-up! Albert Ross - a boy with huge ambitions - has grown up into an abject failure: he's done nothing, gone nowhere AND he has a step-mother from hell. One day he suffers a mysterious accident and suddenly finds that whatever he dreams comes true! Suddenly a whole new life opens up for him... but he will he use it for good - or ill..?

• The Three Stooges - Soup To Nuts | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Kids In America | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on real events Kids In America is a teen comedy about a diverse group of high school kids who band together to peacefully kick their principal's ass. Boasting an impressive cast of both established stars and hot new talent ""Kids"" tackles such issues as sex education freedom of speech and how to kiss for six minutes straight without losing consciousness from lack of oxygen. Holden Donovan (Gregory Smith) is fed up with Principal Weller (Julie Bowen) who goes to great lengths to stop the students from exercising their right to free expression. She expels a young woman for passing out condoms and advocating safe sex on national 'safe sex' day and suspends two boys who were kissing in the hallway. Meanwhile she is running for the Superintendent of their school district which will give her a chance to practice her brand of administration beyond Booker High School. The students have an ally in Mr. Drucker (Malik Yoba) one of their teachers who encourages them to fight for their rights. He pays a price for his leadership and is fired by Principal Weller. He decides to use his dismissal to make a change of his own by producing a documentary chronicling the experiences of students who are faced with similar issues. As the story unfolds Donovan befriends a group of kids including love interest Charlotte (Stephanie Sherrin) Lawrence Chuck Walanda Emily and Katie. Together they organize the student body to take on Weller and make real change at Booker High.

• Duck Season | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £6.58   |  Saving you £13.41 (203.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of six awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actor and Actress. 'Duck Season' is a hilarious comedy shot in black and white set in the sprawling Mexico City. Teenagers and best friends Mok and Flama have everything they need to survive another boring Sunday: an apartment without their parents porno videogames and a pizza delivery menu. However when the lights go out strange things begin to happen. This is on

• Gremlins: 30th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Edition | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When his absent-minded father gives young Billy Pelzer (Zach Galligan) a new pet, he warns him to abide by three rules. The rules get broken, of course, and the pet--a cute Mogwai named Gizmo--unwittingly gives birth to the vicious Gremlins who proceed to terrorise the town. Although the long shadow of Producer Steven Spielberg hangs over Joe Dante's 1984 comedy Gremlins almost as much as it did over Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), Dante doesn't allow it to overwhelm his own quirky style too much. Glimpses of Robbie the Robot and The Time Machine (which promptly disappears) at an inventors' convention reveal his passion for old-movie references (which culminated with Matinee, 1993). Aided and abetted by Spielberg's guidance and a script by Chris Columbus (who would go on to direct and produce the Home Alone franchise) and a music score by Jerry Goldsmith, Dante had all the help he needed to make the biggest hit of his career. Much of the humour derives from Dante's playful handling of the setting in Smallsville, USA, whose inhabitants are as much the target of his satire as they are of the Gremlins' unwanted solicitations. The xenophobic neighbour who warns prophetically of "gremlins" in foreign cars and machinery provides a subtext for the attack on homely American values, as does showing Invasion of the Body Snatchers on TV while the wicked Gremlins hatch. The sight of the little tykes cavorting in a bar, getting drunk and even dancing in pink leggings looks suspiciously like a satirical dig at the whole 1980's culture of selfishness: with their destructive impulses and overindulgences the Gremlins are the ultimate egotistical yuppies. As with many Spielberg projects, the bland hero saves the day for nostalgic, old-fashioned values, but there are plenty of laughs along the way--for example in the now-classic scene when the hero's mother fights off Gremlins in the kitchen by stuffing them in the blender and microwave. Dante's 1990 sequel is even more satirically pointed, and he effectively remade the original with Small Soldiers (1998), replacing Gremlins with toys. --Mark Walker

• Leatherheads | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Oscar winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger go head-to-head in a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925.

• My Dear Secretary | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £5.91   |  Saving you £2.07 (70.89%)   |  RRP £4.99

  If Charles Martin's wisecracking 1948 period-piece My Dear Secretary hasn't quite endured as a classic of its kind, it still commands attention as an appealing and often very funny curiosity. Kirk Douglas rightly earned his status as one of the titans of big-screen epic drama, so it's a surprise to encounter him in this romantic comedy as a feckless writer who can always find something to do rather than get down to work, leaving a string of outraged, frustrated or compromised secretaries in his wake. Douglas has a reasonably light comic touch and spars well with Laraine Day, in determined form as the secretary whom finally tames him and, in a notable strike for women's liberation, becomes a successful author herself in the process. But this is a film in which the supporting cast steal the best lines and scenes. Keenan Wynn is delightful as Ronnie, Douglas' neighbour and partner in the pursuit of pleasure. Some splendid high campery offers ample evidence that in a more enlightened age, Ronnie would surely have been openly gay. How else to explain his hilarious last reel marriage of convenience to the wealthy dragon of a landlady, played by the irrepressible Florence Bates? It isn't vintage screwball by any means, but My Dear Secretary is witty and literate enough to make you long for a revival in sophisticated cinema comedy. Truly, they don't make 'em like they used to. On the DVD: As the rush to release long-forgotten gems on DVD turns into a deluge, we will probably have to get used to the sort of disappointment on offer here: unrestored prints with no digital remastering and lousy sound quality, simply slammed onto the disc. The film could hardly be served less adequately. There isn't even any static background information on the production or the actors, making the package rather poor. --Piers Ford

• Banjo On My Knee | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £10.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (62.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea are Pearl and Ernie, a dewy-eyed young couple in Mississippi. Ernie has lived on the Mississippi River all his life, a member of the proud 'shanty-boat people'. Pearl is a 'land girl,' and unaccustomed to the simple ways of the river folk. But Pearl is determined to be a good wife to Ernie, and her new father-in-law, Newt (Walter Brennan) has high hopes for a grandchild. These sweet, straightforward plans go awry on their wedding day when a local troublemake.

• Jamie Foxx - I Might Need Security | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (201.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stand-up comic Jamie Foxx has also forged a successful career for himself as a movie star (BOOTY CALL BAIT) and TV sitcom actor (""The Jamie Foxx Show."") On I MIGHT NEED SECURITY he returns to his roots at Oakland California's Paramount Theater. To a sold-out crowd Foxx displays the irreverent and witty comic chops that opened the doors of fame to him in the first place. Originally filmed as an HBO special.

• Shampoo | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shampoo was billed as a sex comedy when it was first released in 1975, cashing in on the priapic reputation of its leading man and producer Warren Beatty. More than a quarter of a century on, that tag looks somewhat inadequate. Against a background of aimless bed-hopping and power-broking, Shampoo satirises the cultural and political wasteland of late-1960s Beverley Hills society. Ladies who lunch are married to ambitious, unfaithful husbands with mistresses; their daughters are dysfunctional; and the mistresses spend more time with their dogs than their lovers. George, the philandering hairdresser, is the common denominator who services them all. But he has private ambitions and is hustling for investment in his own salon. Beatty's restless performance as the man who can't say "no" is intriguing, waking up suddenly and too late to the chaos and vapidity of his life. The humour is bleak, sharpened by the background of Nixon's ascent to the White House: Shampoo is a cynical by-product of the Watergate scandal. There are good performances from Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn as two of George's leading conquests, and from a pre-Star Wars Carrie Fisher as the teenager who tries to seduce him. But Lee Grant garnered the awards as the embittered wife who finally calls "time". On the DVD: Shampoo is presented in 1:85.1 anamorphic widescreen, replicating the glossy production values of the original theatrical experience. The mono Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is well balanced. There are no extras apart from standard subtitles. --Piers Ford

• Live Virgin | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £4.94   |  Saving you £-2.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

• Cup Cake | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  P.J's in a pickle his parents are missing he is a spectacular failure at running their bakery 'Cup Cake' and he is up to his neck in debt with the local loan-Sharks. To add to his misery he has been duped into marriage by their impossibly tanned and serially jilted sister Kitty. Enter Gala a mysterious beautiful artist with a few tricks of her own. P.J. a robot-obsessed dreamer and his hapless friends aided by the ever resourceful Gala set about cooking up the revival of 'Cup Cake's' fortunes and spicing up P.J's love life along the way.

• Let's Ruin Dad's Day! | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  With two workaholics for parents 12 year-old Jason can't remember the last time all the family had dinner together. To make matters worse Jason constantly hears how his friends' parents are divorcing. It's no wonder he mistakenly suspects his parents are splitting up when his dad announces he's leaving for a job interview in Chicago. In a hilariously misguided attempt to save his family Jason and his 14 year-old sister Celina follow dad to Chicago convinced that if Dad gets the job the family will split up. Their mission is clear: ruin Dad's day! Before the kids are finished their Dad finds himself in handcuffs! Now Jason and Celina must use even more creative means to undo their mischief. Some quick thinking and family teamwork are required to save the day in this hilarious comedy in the tradition of 'Home Alone'.

• Furry Vengeance / Evan Almight | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £11.51   |  Saving you £6.47 (75.94%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Evan Almighty: Newly elected to Congress Evan (Steve Carell) leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions... Furry Vengeance: When Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) uproots his family to the Oregon woods to build an 'eco-friendly' housing development he thinks his biggest problem will be keeping his family happy. But his job puts him top of the local animals' hit list as the feisty creatures set out to teach Dan that green isn't just the colour of money!

• Diamonds | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £6.83   |  Saving you £-3.84 (-128.40%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Girl Most Likely | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £11.58   |  Saving you £10.41 (47.30%)   |  RRP £21.99

  GIRL MOST LIKELY... is a smart and funny romantic comedy starring Wiig as Imogene, a once promising New York playwright whose meteoric rise has fizzled out, thanks to a crisis of confidence.

• Jackass - The Movie/Jackass - Number Two | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £6.92   |  Saving you £18.07 (261.13%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jackass: The Movie: All the jackasses you love from the MTV series are back performing stunts no one would let them pull on television. Johnny Knoxville and his insane crew take the concept of the MTV show Jackass - a bunch of guys doing dangerous and disturbing stunts just to see what happens - to the extreme... and this time it's not edited for television. Jackass: Number Two: Those conservative reserved fellows Steve-O Johnny Knoxville Chris Pontius Bam Margera and the rest of the crew are up to it again in the sequel to 2002's phenomenally popular Jackass: The Movie. This is not for the faint hearted!

• Minder - Series 7 - The Complete Series | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £14.24   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The final six episodes of Minder to feature Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann comprise: It's A Sorry Lorry Morrie / Days of Fine and Closures / Fatal Impression / The Last Video Show / Fiddler on the Hoof / The Wrong Goodbye.

• Sally Of The Sawdust | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  In a fascinating departure from the austere moral drama in which he specialized D.W Griffith demonstrates his talents for warm-hearted comedy in Sally of the Sawdust. W.C. Fields made his third screen appearance as Professor Eustace McGargle a lovable confidence man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster). Intending to return Sally to her grandparents McGargle learns that her wealthy and esteemed grandfather (Erville Alderson) is a stern ju