Comedy

• Crime or Punishment?!? | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ayame is an unsuccessful girl celebrity, who happens to take on the PR role of a police chief for a day. It is the job of a campaign girl to smile and act as a police chief for one day.It should have been a simple job, however, the police station staff treat her like the real police chief and look to her for instructions, which makes Ayame feel perplexed. In addition, she runs into her ex-boyfriend, Haruki, who is now a detective at the station, which means her ex is her subordinate for the day.Furthermore, Haruki holds a dreadful secret which was the cause for the couple's separation. To make matters worse, a major event takes place on that particular day, and the situation takes an unexpected turn. Would Ayame be able to solve the case, and what is Haruki's secret?

• Closely Observed Trains | Blu Ray | (16/11/2015) from £14.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C DVD: LANGUAGES: Czech ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Shy teenage virgin Milo gets his first job as a railway dispatcher and is suddenly forced to confront the realities of the adult world, not least the temptations of the opposite sex. But they in turn are more attracted to his more experienced colleague Hubi ka and his distinctive way with an inkpad and rubber stamp... This could easily have fuelled a light comedy, but Ji í Menzel s bittersweet feature debut is set during World War II in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and the various farcical goings-on threaten to distract attention from the far more pressing business of staying alive especially since German trains are being attacked by resistance fighters and everyone is under suspicion of collaboration. Co-written by the great Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal (author of the classic source novella), Closely Observed Trains won Menzel a Best Foreign Film Oscar when he was still in his twenties, and it remains one of the best-loved of all Czech films. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes, Oscar Academy Awards, ...Closely Observed Trains (1966) ( Closely Watched Trains ) (Blu-Ray)

• Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £5.47   |  Saving you £17.51 (706.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan and a host of fun new characters all return in this wild comedy adventure where everything comes back to life in ways you've never imagined.

• Hardware - The Complete Series | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mike (Martin Freeman) student trainee Steve (Ryan Cartright) and Kenny (Peter Serafinowicz) constitute the expert staff of Hamway's Hardware Store London - where the customer is rarely right. They run the store under the watchful eye of boss Rex (Ken Morley) a man in the throes of a mid-life crisis while respite and refreshment are provided by the nearby caf'' run by Julie (Ella Kenion) and Mike's girlfriend Anne (Susan Earl); their relationship is occasionally stretched to breaking point by regular outbreaks of laddish behaviour dangerous DIY and the occasional unwanted house-guest... Released on DVD for the first time in the UK Thames Television's Hardware was created and written by Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye. The show's wry humour and offbeat setting provided a perfect showcase for the emerging talents of Martin Freeman soon to achieve international success in The Office and Rose d'Or winner Peter Serafinowicz (Spaced Look Around You); the series also featured Ken Morley best known for the character of Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street and Ella Kenion (The Catherine Tate Show). This release comprises both series of Hardware originally screened between 2003 and 2004.

• Tommy Cooper The Very Best Of | DVD | (28/10/2010) from £7.25   |  Saving you £0.74 (10.21%)   |  RRP £7.99

  2006 IN B/WHITE & COLOUR. SPECIAL FEATURES : BIOGRAPHY , SELECTED GAGS.This Specially Combined Collection Features His Very Best TV Moments & Is the Perfect Testomy To His Unique Brand Of Humour & His Engaging Personality.

• Here Comes The Boom | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £3.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A former collegiate wrestler is working as a biology teacher in a failing school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music lessons, Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter.

• Le Divorce | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this modern-day comedy of manners, American sisters Isabel (Kate Hudson) and Roxeanne (Naomi Watts) come face to face with the complicated social mores of French society.

• Watching The Detectives | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• 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 £4.74   |  Saving you £11.25 (237.34%)   |  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 £22.99   |  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 £4.18   |  Saving you £17.81 (426.08%)   |  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 £N/A   |  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.

• Strictly Ballroom | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £14.75   |  Saving you £-1.76 (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 £5.02   |  Saving you £14.97 (298.21%)   |  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