Comedy

• The Night That Never Happened | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The events that occur the night of a bachelor party are often shrouded in secrecy. This was never more true than the night before Claire and Brad's wedding. Claire sends her trusted college friend Tori along to make sure that Brad behaves himself. But before the evening is over, a stripper will make off with the cash, a loan shark will have to be paid off, the maid of honour will be kidnapped, and the groom will be held hostage by a sexy dominatrix. And somehow, everyone finds time to push th.

• Get Santa | DVD | (16/11/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Get Santa tells the story of a father and son who must team-up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage after crashing his sleigh and finding himself on the run from the police.

• FAMILY GUY SEASON 2 - VIRGIN EXCLUSI | DVD | (09/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The most hilarious animated sit-com since 'The Simpsons', Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers, a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else, and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family, but along the way, he makes mistakes that ar.

• FAMILY GUY SEASON 3 - VIRGIN EXCLUSI | DVD | (09/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The third season of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy finds television's most dysfunctional cartoon family even more animated than usual. As MacFarlane himself noted, he was inspired to go for broke, thinking that the series--already juggled like a hot potato in the US TV schedules (at one point, it aired opposite the mighty Friends)--had been cancelled. Just as This Is Spinal Tap walked the fine line between "clever and stupid", so Family Guy gleefully mocks the line between "edgy and offensive". Like The Simpsons, Family Guy lends itself to multiple viewings to catch each densely packed episode's way-inside "one-percenter" gags (so-called by the creators because that is the percentage of the audience who will get them), scattershot pop-culture references, surreal leaps and gratuitous pot shots at everyone from, predictably, Oprah, Kevin Costner and Bill Cosby to, unpredictably, Rita Rudner. Also like its Springfield counterpart, this series benefits from a great ensemble voice cast, with surprising contributions from a no-less-stellar roster of guest stars. --Donald Liebenson

• Adventureland | Blu Ray | (18/04/2011) from £26.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A sweet and slap-happy mix of indie coming-of-age drama and Judd Apatow’s scatological but heartfelt manchild comedies, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland is a winning look at the pleasures and frustrations of dead-end jobs and teenage kicks as viewed through a filter of mid-‘80s pop culture. The underutilized and always watchable Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) is a sheltered, introspective New York college grad who discovers that his parents' financial woes will not only quash his dream of a summer in Europe (to enjoy its more "sexually permissive" nations) but require a move to Pittsburgh, where he lands a job at a dilapidated amusement park. There, he’s thrown in with a motley crew of eccentrics, small-town types and a few genuine free spirits, most notably co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), whose complicated past proves irresistible to his repressed psyche. Mottola, who directed Superbad, and once worked in a similar park as a teen, doesn’t shy from the crude laughs that make Apatow’s features so popular, but he tempers it with a wistful tone and layered characters that hew closer to his earliest work, The Daytrippers. Though ill-matched at first, Eisenberg and Stewart make a likable on-screen couple, and they’re well-supported by a terrific cast that includes such die-hard scene-stealers as Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the park’s offbeat owners, Martin Starr as a Russian lit aficionado, and Ryan Reynolds as a former town tamer, now reduced to working as the park’s handyman. A soundtrack performed by underground faves Yo La Tengo and filled with a smart mix of hip cuts (Hüsker Dü, the New York Dolls, the Replacements) and period faves (Falco’s "Rock Me Amadeus") underscores the film’s blend of tentative emotions and broad laughs. -- Paul Gaita

• La Folle Histoire De Max Et Léon | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1939, Max and Leon are inseparable friends and both utterly immature and foolish. Thrown into the middle of WWII, their sole objective quickly becomes to desert their platoon and return home to their home town, their old simple life and their wine-drinking ways. But the harder they attempt to escape, the more they find themselves drawn into history in the making, all the way to the beaches of Normandy.

• Hot Shots! - Part Deux | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Special Features: An Adventure in Film Making Early Awareness Theatrical Trailer

• Cowards | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cowards are an innovative new 4-man sketch group comprising Tim Key Tom Basden Stefan Golaszewski & Lloyd Woolf. Step inside their joyfully absurd world in this original comedy which features sketches spoofs & animation. The series is directed by Steve Bendelack (Little Britain League of Gentlemen The Royle Family & Mighty Boosh) who is probably the most consistently outstanding director in UK comedy. Cowards is a funny visually-arresting highly-individual sketch show performed with skill and subtlety by four of the best young writer-performers around.

• In Sickness & in Health | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £19.89   |  Saving you £40.10 (201.61%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Hugely Successful sit-com that ran for 8 years from 1985 to 1992 the sequel to Till Death Do Us Part. Written by Johnny Speight it follows the fortunes (or mis-fortunes) of bigoted pensioner Alf Garnet played brilliantly by Warren Mitchell. We see Alf uprooted from his Wapping home and re-located to a West Ham council flat and follow all the drama and problems he brings upon himself by his very opinionated and controversial views on.. well everything.

• Marriage On The Rocks | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What do you do when you have a beautiful house two great children and a Marriage on the Rocks? If you're bored Val Edwards (Deborah Karr) you swap your fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Frank SInatra) for his swingin' bachelor best friend Ernie (Dean Martin) - and watch the spraks fly. Ol' Blue Eyes breezes through this romantic comedy romp at the head of an all-star cast. Along for the laughs are frequent Sinatra co-stars Martin Cesar Romero and Tony Bill plud daughter Nancy Sinatra and K

• Myra Breckinridge | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Everything you heard about Myra Breckinridge is true! In this off-the-wall cult classic from the pen of Gore Vidal Myron Breckinridge goes to Europe to have a sex change and comes back to America as the sexy man-hating Myra...

• Eternally Yours | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Eternally Yours

• Monkey Business | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £8.19   |  Saving you £1.80 (21.98%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The madcap Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury cruise ship in this fast-paced laugh-filled farce. While they manage to elude capture by the ship's captain and crew by staging impromptu puppet shows and hiding in herring barrels getting off the boat is another matter. Before long they're all impersonating Maurice Chevalier in order to disembark and begin their new careers as mob bodyguards. Available for the first time on DVD.

• Doctor Strangelove | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A brilliant film a classic black comedy! A group of war-eager military men plan a nuclear apocalypse that is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) - trigger an ingenious irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers as is Captain Mandrake (Sellers again) the only man who can stop them...

• Sleepless In Seattle | DVD | (13/07/1998) from £5.29   |  Saving you £14.70 (277.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they are destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• In The Army Now | DVD | (01/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A couple of misfits join the army reserves to make money for their get rich quick scheme but get much more than they bargained for when they are assigned overseas!

• Charlie Chaplin - City Lights | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Made in 1931 shortly after the introduction of the talkies, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights is nonetheless near-silent. Chaplin was afraid that, should his universally known and beloved Tramp speak onscreen, he would be severely limited and compromised as a character. And so, City Lights is billed as "pantomime", a piece of cinema harking back to the manners and methods of an already defunct era. Chaplin fell out of fashion towards the end of the 20th century as a new wave of comedians (Rowan Atkinson for one) castigated him for what they saw as his excessive, maudlin sentimentality. Certainly, City Lights--which sees Chaplin's Tramp befriended by a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich benefactor--is hokum indeed. Accepting this, however, what makes the film so marvellous is the deceptive skill and artistry of Chaplin the filmmaker, the immaculate timing and acrobatic grace of his seemingly slapstick comedy, in particular a justly famous boxing sequence. Chaplin's sparing use of sound is inventive also: the wordless waffle of public speakers in the opening scene and another in which the tramp swallows a whistle. Moreover, the conclusion, in which the dishevelled Tramp encounters again the flower girl, her eyesight restored is--sentimentality notwithstanding--one of the most moving and superbly executed scenes in cinema history, not least for its economy and restraint. On the DVD: City Lights contains a generous package of extras on this two-disc set, including an introduction by David Robinson, in which he relates how poorly Chaplin and his leading lady Virginia Cherrill got on, an extended documentary/interview with Peter Lord (partner in animation to Nick Parks), who sings the praises of Chaplin's screen art, and a deleted scene, an immaculate piece of business involving a grate and a stick. There's a bonus in the form of an excerpt from 1915's The Champion, in which Chaplin prefigures the boxing scene from City Lights. Meanwhile, the "documents" section includes a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage, including a test screening for alternative actress Georgia Hale, rehearsal shots, chaotic scenes of Chaplin being mobbed in Vienna, a meeting with Winston Churchill and 1918 footage of Chaplin horsing around with famous boxers of the day including Benny Leonard. It also contains trailers, photo gallery and subtitles. On the first disc, the film's transfer to DVD is splendid. --David Stubbs

• Stonewall | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This historical comedy-drama film was inspired by the memoirs of the openly gay historian Martin Duberman. Stonewall is a fictionalized account of the weeks preceding the Stonewall Riots a seminal event in the modern American gay-rights movement.

• Taking Care Of Business | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jack Hill's SWITCHBLADE SISTERS is the outlandish action-packed story of a tough gang of teenage girls -- the all-female Dagger Debs -- who are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go! A riotously entertaining mix of sex jealousy and massive firepower that critics loved -- don't miss your chance to see one of the wildest films ever made!

• Captain's Paradise | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Captain of an international ferry Henry St. James (Guinness) enjoys life on the waves dashing between one wife in Gibraltar and one in Tangiers. However when each wife finds out about the other St. James finds himself all at sea!