Comedy

• Blott On The Landscape | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.39   |  Saving you £12.60 (170.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea: why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extrao

• Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.14   |  Saving you £5.85 (95.28%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is ample proof that not all sequels suck. Sometimes they're even better than the original. It is the future. Society has at last solved all its major problems, thanks to amiable lunkheads Bill and Ted and the inspiring music of their band, Wyld Stallyns. Only one man is dissatisfied with the way things have turned out, the evil De Nomolos (Joss Ackland). In an effort to change the future, De Nomolos sends evil Bill and Ted robots back in time to prevent the real Bill and Ted from winning a pivotal Battle of the Bands. What follows is a spirited journey through the afterlife as Bill and Ted try to rescue their girlfriends, save the future, and, oh, yeah, learn how to play the guitar. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey swings easily between childish and clever humour, and is good at both: a Bergman reference is quickly followed by an equally funny bit about Death's stinky feet. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter seem happy to be reprising their roles and even manage to add funny spins on Evil Robot Bill and Ted. William Sadler very nearly steals the movie as Death, playing both his wounded dignity and budding desire to be funky to a T. As if that weren't enough, George Carlin returns as Rufus and Pam Grier does a cameo just for the hell of it. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

• Back To The Future: The Ultimate Trilogy (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (12/10/2020) from £16.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Experience one of the most popular movie series of all time like never before with Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy ! Join Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and a time traveling DeLorean for the adventure of a lifetime as they travel to the past, present and future, setting off a time-shattering chain reaction that disrupts the space-time continuum! From filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, this unforgettable collection features hours of bonus features and is an unrivalled trilogy that stands the test of time. BONUS FEATURES OVER ONE HOUR OF ALL-NEW BONUS The Hollywood Museum Goes Back To The Future Back To The Future: The Musical Behind The Scenes An Alternate Future: Lost Audition Tapes Could You Survive The Movies? Back To The Future PLUS Tales From The Future: 6-Part Documentary The Physics of Back To The Future Deleted Scenes Michael J. Fox Q&A 8 Archival Featurettes Behind The Scenes Footage Music Videos Audio Commentaries Back To The Future: The Ride Doc Brown Saves The World! (Short Film) OUTATIME: Restoring the DeLorean And Much More!

• Carry On Christmas Special | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £7.45   |  Saving you £17.54 (235.44%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unseen for many years these four made-for-TV Christmas Carry On spectaculars feature favourite stories and timely traditions including Treasure Island A Christmas Carol pantomime and much more in the only way the Carry On team know how... pure slapstick comedy and scripts full of trademark innuendo! This is Carry On at its Christmas best! Carry On Christmas 1969: sees Sid James Barbara Windsor et al in a re-working of literary classic 'A Christmas Carol' - obviously thou

• Not The Nine O'Clock News - The Best Of Not The Nine O'Clock News - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Volume One of Not the Nine O'Clock News comprises 98 minutes of early material from the sketch show that ran between 1979 and 1982. Starring Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys-Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson and coscripted by Richard (Blackadder) Curtis among others, it wasn't especially ground-breaking by the standards of Monty Python or contemporary series such as The Young Ones, but it did provide some pretty blunt belly-laughs at the major social and political concerns of the era: Thatcher, Reagan, police brutality, the prospect of nuclear war. The latter makes for an excellent Question Time spoof, in which, with the four-minute warning having sounded, a panel of politicians continue bleating on their own agenda ("Three million people are going to die unemployed!"). Atkinson's stuff is among the best here, be it as a hideous young Tory, or as Gerald the Gorilla, now civilised to a fault by the captor who caught him in the wild. ("Wild? I was livid!") The much-repeated bit of him walking into a tree, however, doesn't work as he clearly anticipates the collision. While the musical elements look inevitably dated and a lengthy sketch on darts players boozing reaches the "Yeah, we get the point" mark long before it reaches its end, it's surprising how topical much of this material remains decades on--a sketch involving an agonising gay vicar springs to mind--while time hasn't eroded the quality of much of the writing. On the DVD: Not the Nine O'Clock News on disc comes with no extra features. --David Stubbs

• The Love Punch | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £4.63   |  Saving you £15.36 (331.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Reuniting with director Joel Hopkins for the first time since 2008's Last Chance Harvey Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson plays Kate whose biting banter with ex-husband Richard (Pierce Brosnan) suggests that the embers of their former ardour haven't been fully extinguished. When an unscrupulous French financier steals their nest egg to buy a $10 million diamond for his bride-to-be the divorced duo grudgingly agree to hatch a plot to nab the rock.

• George And Mildred - The Movie | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £5.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (96.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George and Mildred are the ultimate odd couple the popular landlord and landlady from Man About The House who became a household name with Thames Television in the 1970's and 80's. Mildred is vain snobbish and domineering; George is shy timid frigid and henpecked. Together they make a great partnership! In this feature length movie Mildred is still trying to steer him towards romance; George still doesn't know what she's driving at...

• The Young Ones - Series One | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A horrible, vile, disgusting sitcom about four students who live in the most revolting house in Britain", The Young Ones became an instant BBC comedy landmark in 1982 by launching an all-out assault on the moribund sitcom, mixing Monty Python-esque madness with post-punk anarchy. There are no real stories, only a succession of often hysterically funny scenes as ingenious gags collide with deliberately corny lines, cartoon-like ultra-violence, pop music breaks, surreal interludes with characters ranging from the Three Bears to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and gross-out moments based on various bodily functions and substances. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan are the four housemates: Rick (Cliff Richard-worshipping radical sociology student), Vyvan (violence-loving punk medical student), Neil (put-upon suicidal hippie) and Mike (self-styled cool guy). Alexei Sayle appears regularly playing various mad Russians. Taking a cue from National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) the show now seems to anticipate the teen gross-out flicks of the late 1990s but to far more amusing effect. In retrospect The Young Ones is cheerfully un-politically correct in a way which may shock more now than 20 years ago; certainly some of the insults and drug-taking would have trouble getting on TV today. The first series was followed by a second equally hilarious series; Mayall and Edmondson played essentially similar characters in Filthy, Rich and Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991-5). On the DVD: The Young Ones on disc has disappointingly no extra features except optional English subtitles. The sound is full, clear mono and the 4:3 picture is as good as can be expected from a 1980s BBC comedy shot on video and certainly far better than the show appeared when it was broadcast.--Gary S Dalkin

• Johnny English Strikes Again (DVD Plus Digital Copy) | DVD | (18/02/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN Rowan Atkinson returns as the much-loved accidental secret agent in Johnny English Strikes Again. When a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all active undercover agents in Britain, the country's only hope is called out of retirement. English's new mission is his most critical to date: Dive headfirst into action to find the mastermind hacker. A man with few skills and analogue methods, English must overcome the challenges of modern technologyor his newest mission will become the Secret Service's last. Bonus Features Include: The Comedy Genius of Rowan Atkinson Johnny English Legacy A Cast of Character The Gadgets The Car

• The Thick Of It Collection | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £6.31   |  Saving you £28.68 (454.52%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Featuring every series special episode and bonus extra of the BAFTA and British Comedy award winning series. Welcome to the Ministry for Social Affairs and Citizenship (DoSAC) a government department barely registering on the Today Programme radar but high-profile enough to receive the attentions of Malcolm Tucker the government's director of communications whose ferocity is only matched by his skill in delivering incredible foul-mouthed tirades. Successive ministers (Hugh Abbott and Nicola Murray) and their backroom team lie backstab and hopelessly bluff their way through gaffes crises Prime Ministerial resignations and possible election dates - only thankful that Shadow minister Peter Mannion also has little idea what is going on... Irreverent brilliantly sweary and painfully funny this series smashes its way through the corridors of power in a bulldozer of hilarious farce and sharp satire.

• Mr Bean: Series 1, Volumes 1-4 (20th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.36

  Bean is back in all new digitally re-mastered episodes! Re-live all of your favourite episodes across four hilarious DVDs in this side-splitting box set which has been digitally re-mastered for the first time. Watch from a safe distance as Mr. Bean's haphazard misadventures are brought to life in vivid jaw-dropping clarity. This very brilliant box set contains all 14 of the original episodes 2 sketches that were never seen on Television and a behind the scenes look at the story of Bean from the creators of the series.

• Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (140.28%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Mike Myers returns as International Man of Mystery Austin Powers for a third time. When his arch nemesis Dr. Evil teams up with new villain Goldmember its up to Austin to save the day!

• Trading Places | Blu Ray | (05/12/2022) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The very rich and extremely greedy Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet over whether born-loser Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) could become as successful as the priggish Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) if circumstances were reversed. So begins one of the funniest, most outrageous comedies of the '80s, cementing Eddie Murphy's superstar status. Alongside the street-smarts of Ophelia (Jamie Lee Curtis), Winthorpe and Valentine are a trio ready for a riotous revenge that culminates on the commodities trading floor in New York City. Trading Places is presented here newly remastered from a 4K film transfer, under the supervision of director John Landis. Product Features New Filmmaker Focus: Director John Landis on Trading Places HD Insider Trading: The Making of Trading Places Dressing the Part The Trade in Trading Places Trading Stories Industry Promotional Piece Deleted Scene with commentary by Executive Producer George Folsey, Jr. Deleted Scene Isolated Score Theatrical Trailer

• Abigail's Party | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £5.48   |  Saving you £10.51 (191.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Originally screened as part of BBC's Play for Today series in 1977, Abigail's Party is among Mike Leigh's most celebrated pieces, with his then-wife Alison Steadman appallingly brilliant as what Alan Bennett described as the "brutal hostess" at a ghastly suburban soiree. The Abigail of the title never appears--rather, the dull thud of her lively teenage party forms a distant backdrop (and contrast) to an excruciating evening of chilled red wine, olives and the music of Demis Roussos. Steadman plays the overbearing Beverley, an Amazonian mass of frustrated sensuality in a low-cut party frock. Tim Stern is her small, stressed estate-agent husband. The guests are Janice Duvitski as Angela, a nurse whose quite spectacular gormlessness shields her from the stilted social awkwardness quietly raging around her, John Salthouse as Tony, her taciturn husband and Harriet Reynolds as Sue, the gangly and miserably nervous mother of Abigail. Rather than play for gags, Leigh and his actors mercilessly turn the screw of embarrassment through a series of too-true-to-life exchanges of dialogue, the stuff of all our collective worst memories of encounters with neighbours, aunts and office colleagues. Often misread as a satirical parade of suburban grotesques, Abigail's Party probes deeper than that, touching on nerves of anxiety and repression that throb behind the net curtains of modern England, culminating not in farce but tragedy. Decades on, Abigail's Party is as psychologically true and close to home as ever--hard to bear but utterly brilliant. On the DVD: Abigail's Party is perfectly reproduced here in all its 1970s garishness. The one extra is a short featurette, focussing on Alison Steadman's playing of Beverley, with comments from the original actors in the TV series and Peter York marvelling at her "paint-scraping" voice. --David Stubbs

• Northern Exposure | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Episodes include: Pilot Brains Know-How & Native Intelligence Dreams Schemes And Putting Greens Soapy Sanderson The Russian Flu Sex Lies & Ed's Tape A Kodiak Moment and Aurora Borealis.

• Letters to Juliet | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £5.44   |  Saving you £14.55 (267.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the beautiful surroundings of Verona, Italy, Letters to Juliet is a story of discovery and the search for that one true love.

• The Simpsons Movie | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £5.03   |  Saving you £14.96 (297.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Springfield's first family finally come to the big screen in a feature length animated adventure.

• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 11 | DVD | (13/06/2022) from £18.51   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Larry David has it all--so why does he seem intent on making a mess of his life? Larry David stars as...Larry David in this acclaimed verite-style comedy series that follows him at home, at work and around town, as he lands himself in various predicaments with both fictional and real-life personalities. Jeff Garlin and Cheryl Hines co-star.

• The Fall Guy | Blu Ray | (05/08/2024) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman fresh off an almost career-ending accident. Colt is persuaded to return to his stunt career when he's told his ex, Jody (Emily Blunt), is directing a film and asked for him specifically. With hopes of winning back the love of his life, Colt returns to set only to find the movie's leading man missing and production in peril. Ensnared in an increasingly wild conspiracy, he must solve the mystery to save Jody's film and get one last shot with her. What could possibly go wrong?David Leitch (director of Bullet Train and producer of John Wick) delivers a hard-hitting hilarious action-thriller with The Fall Guy.

• See No Evil, Hear No Evil | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £7.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (76.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a comedy thriller about disability that teeters perpetually on the brink of execrable taste, but more often ends up being bland. Brash blind Wally (Richard Pryor) and mild-mannered, cute deaf Dave (Gene Wilder) form a working partnership based partly on mutual regard and partly on desperation. A man is killed at the counter of their cigar store and neither of them can quite account for their actions or identify the killer, Eve (Joan Severance). They find themselves arrested and subsequently on the run. Eve and her henchman--a surprisingly sinister Kevin Spacey--pursue them remorselessly, searching for a gold coin that is more and less than it appears. Mild sexual chemistry between Wilder and the villainess is perhaps one of the few elements here not entirely watered down from late-period Hitchcock. Playing disability for slapstick is perhaps not the most enlightened way to increase sympathy for the disabled: this is a crass film whose good intentions are more than usually fragile. On the DVD: the disc includes a rather smug featurette and filmographies of the two stars. --Roz Kaveney