The latest movie taken from TV's Saturday Night Live is about a politically incorrect TV show host desperately tracking down a wealthy lost love.
Ken Dodd: The Laughter Show
The complete first series of the cult classic comedy show.
It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor hotel and a hapless bellboy named Ted is in for the wildest night of his life. While delivering room service Ted meets up with a series of outlandishly eccentric guests from a pair of pint-size pranksters bent on destruction to a demented movie star who makes Ted an outrageous offer he can't believe or refuse! Directed by four of Hollywood's hottest filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino and featuring hilarious performances from Antonio Banderas Marisa Tomei and Madonna this hysterical romp is five-star fun!
Harold Pinter's first full-length stage play, The Birthday Party, was 10 years old when William (The Exorcist) Friedkin directed it for the cinema in 1968. In some ways, it was already a period-piece by then, Pinter's use of a combination of silence and excruciatingly banal dialogue to generate precipitous dramatic tension having been absorbed by contemporary theatrical mythology long since. Are the sinister McCann and Goldberg real? Or do they exist only in Stan's head? At the end, we're none the wiser. But Friedkin's claustrophobic direction, with the tormented Stan as its focus, has taken us through a master study in understated horror. The handheld camera, so fashionable in modern television drama, has rarely been used to such hypnotic effect. As Stan, Robert Shaw is mesmerising in his descent to animal-like submission. Sydney Tafler's Goldberg and Patrick Magee 's McCann make a truly terrifying double act. Cult television fans will appreciate an early appearance by Helen Fraser (these days best known as a sadistic prison warder in Bad Girls) as the easily seduced neighbour. Now that Friedkin's film is itself over 30 years old, the scent of mothballs ought to be even more pronounced. Its decrepit seaside boarding house setting and the drabness of the peripheral players are redolent of the distinctly non-swinging side of the 1960s in which it was made. But more than anything, The Birthday Party is about unspecified terror and the sort of inner demons that lurk in all of us. On the DVD: Excellent sound quality helps to make this a compellingly theatrical experience: never has the noise of tearing newspaper been more menacing. And the picture quality retains the grainy authenticity of the original print. Special features include brief backgrounders on the history of the play and Friedkin's career, and a slide show of still s from key scenes. --Piers Ford
The Cannon And Ball Show: The Series 1
Only Fools and Horses is perhaps the last great and universally popular British sitcom. Series 4 reached 1985; Grandad has sadly passed on, to be replaced at Nelson Mandela House by Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield). Only Fools and Horses improved with age and the fourth series was still confined to the half-hour format, is good but not vintage (that occurred during Delboy's "Yuppy" years). Episodes such as "It's Only Rock'n'Roll", in which Rodney joins a band, show all the failings sitcoms usually expose when getting to grips with such alien subject matter: the situations have yet to involve the full complement of the entire Nag's Head ensemble and there are still occasional disturbing racial references. However, Uncle Albert's introduction does bring the series up a notch, as his furtive brandy-swilling, yarn-spinning and doddery bungling swiftly get on Delboy and Rodney's wick (though he's not without some cleverly introduced pathos), while episodes such as "Watching the Girls Go By" and "As One Door Closes" build effectively up to the sort of big, laugh-out-loud final twists that would become the series' trademark. On the DVD: full screen, no special features, sadly, except scene selection. --David Stubbs
The complete second series of the comedy drama series in which Clare an American in Glasgow is still struggling with writer's block and Janice is becoming ever closer to Rab... Episodes comprise: 1. Suenos 2. Hunger 3. You Must Change Your Life 4. Drowning 5. Research 6. A'Salaam Insh'Allah
This rip-roaring selection features the comic heroes of modern television - Del Boy and Rodders Alan Partridge French and Saunders Victoria Wood the Red Dwarf crew Harry Enfield Reeves and Mortimer and others - in some of the most memorable and funny TV moments ever. Join the Trotters and the rest of the Peckham Posse on their strife-filled hilarious annual seaside jolly the Young Ones as they take on the toffs (the young Fry Laurie and Ben Elton) in an anarchic University Cha
Britain's greatest living stand up comedian is back and funnier than ever!
Kevin Bridges: The Full Story Boxset featuring The Story So Far and The Story Continues.
Vengeance, the directorial debut from writer and star B.J. Novak (The Office, The Mindy Project), is a darkly comic thriller about Ben Manalowitz, a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. The film's ensemble cast includes Issa Rae (Insecure), Ashton Kutcher (That 70s Show), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), J. Smith-Cameron (Margaret)and Dove Cameron (Live and Maddie).
British Pop Icon. Rock Star. Ladies Man. Russell Brand the unexpected star and scene-stealer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and controversial host of the 2008 VMA's make his Comedy Central debut with Russell Brand in New York City. Detailing the difficulty of handling his newfound fame in America recounting the time he met the Queen and instructing women on how they should approach him. Russell Brand proves he's the hottest thing to come out of Britain since The Beatles.
Curtain Up is a 1952 British film directed by Ralph Smart, written by Jack Davies and Philip King. In an English provincial town, a second-rate repertory company assemble at the theatre on Monday morning to rehearse the following week's play, a melodrama titled Tarnished Gold. Harry (Robert Morley), their irascible Director, is highly critical of the play, which has been foisted on him by the owners of the Company and is unenthusiastic about its prospects. The cast, a mixture of wanabee-film stars and has-beens, are equally unenthusiastic and little progress is made. Just as matters seemingly cannot get worse, the authoress of the play, Catherine Beckwith (Rutherford), appears and insists on 'sitting at the feet' of the Director.
Join Kath & Kim as they open their mock-colonial front door to the cameras in this fly-on-the-wall-slice-of-life eight part series! Kath is a forty-something empty-nester who is very proud of her home and how she looks. Kim is her spoiled twenty-something daughter whose glass of Diet Coke is always half empty never half full. They have an opinion on all the important issues... politics homosexuality Mariah Carey's breakdown... Featuring both series 1 and 2 there's never been a better time to start indulging in the world of Kath and Kim! Series 1 - Episodes Comprise: 1. Sex 2. Gay 3. Sport 4. Fat 5. Old 6. Money 7. Party 8. The Wedding Series 2 - Episodes Comprise: 1. The Announcement 2. Inside Out 3. The Moon 4. Obsession 5. My Boyfriend 6. Another Announcement 7. The Shower 8. The Hideous Truth
Derek Zoolander is back and better-looking than ever in this outrageously funny sequel to the smash hit. Derek and Hansel were once top male supermodels, now reunited to uncover an international conspiracy against the world's most beautiful people. Bonus Features: The Zoolander Legacy Go Big or Go Rome
Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.
A sure thing comes once in a lifetime... but the real thing lasts forever. Rob Reiner directs this enchanting romantic comedy about a boy who wants a girl and a girl who wants a man. The boy is Gib (John Cusack) who is out to find 'The Sure Thing'. A no questions asked no strings attached no guilt involved 100% safe bet. The girl is Alison (Daphne Zuniga) who likes her men to be mature prefers an early night to a party and wants to go and see her tea drinking fiance. Thi
Live stage performance by controversial American comedian Reginald D. Hunter recorded during his 2013 tour.
Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird had disappeared as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with a friendly next door neighbour Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise things were much as before wi
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