Comedy

• Leatherheads | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £4.27   |  Saving you £20.72 (485.25%)   |  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 £4.90   |  Saving you £-2.91 (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 £7.15   |  Saving you £-4.16 (N/A%)   |  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 £4.98   |  Saving you £20.01 (401.81%)   |  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

• Why Stop Now | DVD | (17/02/2014) from £5.51   |  Saving you £8.74 (205.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eli Bloom (Jesse Eisenberg) is a musical prodigy and he has an important audition to get to. The only problem is his mother. A recovering drug addict she needs to get to her rehab centre and the only person she trusts to get her there is Eli. What should be a simple task spirals comically out of control as his mother's drug dealer turns up and the chances of Eli getting to his audition look less and less likely.

• Bad Manners | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The home of the Bleeding Heart for orphans is more like a prison than a home for parentless children. Run by the tyrannical sister Serena and her eccentric partner in crime Mr Kurtz it doesn't take the inmates long to hatch an escape plan. With a scheme in mind the kids begin to wreak havoc in the orphanage until one of them is 'selected' to join the Fitzpatrick family. The escape plan quickly turns to a rescue mission and the friends set off in search of their lost 'brother'. On

• For A Good Time, Call... | Blu Ray | (25/02/2013) from £3.39   |  Saving you £18.60 (84.60%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Special Features: Deleted Scenes

• The Sure Thing | Blu Ray | (07/09/2015) from £31.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two mismatched college students (John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga) find themselves trapped together during a cross-country road trip, trying to make it home for the holidays. She can't stand him, and he just wants to get to LA, where a sexy "sure thing" is waiting to greet him with open arms. It's not hard to predict where this sweetly old-fashioned romantic comedy is going to end up, but along the way there are many pleasures to be had. Director Rob Reiner, in his second feature (after This Is Spinal Tap), has a nice eye for the kitschy flotsam found along the American highway, and his identification with the college kids doesn't condescend to them one bit. The movie helped make a star of John Cusack, who gives a delightfully spritzy performance--kind of a precursor to his similarly energetic, likeable turn in Say Anything. Given the usual crass tenor of Hollywood college movies, The Sure Thing is something to treasure. --Robert Horton

• 20 Centimetres | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £19.04   |  Saving you £-4.05 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With an 'Almodovarian' twist and the flamboyance of The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert director Ramn Salazar's 20 Centimetres tells the story of Marieta (Mnica Cervera) a narcoleptic transsexual who longs to get rid of 8 inches of equipment that separates her from being the glamorous woman she dreams to be. When she accidentally falls asleep in the most inopportune times Marieta's dreams become lavish and colorful musical numbers where as a real woman she can sing in Spanish French & English. So cue up the lights powder that face and slip on that sexy gown because Marieta's dreams are about to come true... Nominated for the Golden Leopard award at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival.

• Delhi Belly | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tashi, Arun and Nitin - flatmates, buddies and partners in crime. Tashi is to get married in a month but still doesn't know if his fianc is The One! Arun can't make up his mind who he wants to kill first - his girlfriend who has just dumped him or his stupid, annoying boss whose idea of creativity is sketching a smiling banana! And Nitin is about to discover that eating delicious tandoori chicken off a street vendor is going to give him the worst case of Delhi Belly he's ever known! Three regular blokes, living the regular life Except for one small detail - they are on the hit list of one of the world's deadliest crime syndicates. Will they be able to get away before the sh*t hits the roof and it comes crashing down? Delhi Belly - the meanest comedy you're ever likely to see.