Comedy

• Vampire's Kiss | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seduction. Romance. Murder. The things one does for love! In this outrageous erotically charged thriller Nicolas Cage stars as a womanizing New York executive who becomes convinced that he's a vampire when one of his conquests bites his neck in the throes of passion!

• Mafia! | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This hapless comedy may actually work a lot better on video than it did in theatres. A parody of contemporary mob movies (with a few sidebars skewering such hits as Forrest Gump and The English Patient), Mafia! most closely resembles the first two Godfather films in its generational saga of a gangster family. Lloyd Bridges plays Don Cortino, a native Sicilian who presides over a crime syndicate, and Jay Mohr plays his Michael-Corleone-like son. The film is by Jim Abrahams, formerly of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker directing team (Airplane!, The Naked Gun), single-handedly trotting out the old dumb-joke aesthetic that worked wonderfully a lifetime ago but looks a little creaky in the era of There's Something About Mary. Silly allusions to every crime film (GoodFellas, Casino) produced in the last three decades and featuring at least one wise guy or made man find their way into Mafia!'s gags, but most are arbitrary and shrugged off. The film tanked in theatres for good reason; on the other hand, Mafia! might have a lot more to offer if you're slumped on your own couch at the end of a long day, ready for brain-dead entertainment and absolutely apathetic about comic integrity. Even a film this instantly stale on the big screen might have its place in video posterity. --Tom Keogh

• The Alibi | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.41   |  Saving you £9.58 (280.94%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sophisticated Ray Elliott (Coogan) runs an alibi service for adulterous husbands. By getting into a tight squeeze with a new client he must rely on the alluring Lola Davis (Romijn) who gets his own heart racing...

• That Old Feeling | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It was the perfect wedding except for two things ...the bride's parents The wedding from hell just sparked a match madeiin heaven! Happily divorced for 14 years Lilly and Dan still have one thing in common they hate each other with nuclear capacity. But after a knock-down drag-out fight at their daughter's wedding their pent-up hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion! Now the two unlikely lovebirds are on the run - with their frantic daughter her new stuffed-shirt

• Home Improvement - Season 4 | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the fourth season of Home Improvement, the Taylor family faces some important milestones. Tim (Tim Allen) turns 40, Jill (Patricia Richardson) is laid off from work and pursues her Master's Degree and youngest son Mark (Taran Noah Smith) slowly begins to outgrow precocious middle brother Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). (Oldest sibling Brad, played by Zachery Ty Bryan, remains pretty much the same confident kid he always was.) As for their inner circle, Tim's Tool Time buddy Al (Richard Karn) gets an ego boost when he's named one of Detroit's hottest bachelors, and little seen but often heard neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman) goes on his first date in two decades. Add Debbe Dunning, who replaces Pamela Anderson as the new Tool Time girl, and you've got the makings of another solid season. When the ABC sitcom aired during the 1994-1995 TV season, it did well enough to place in the Top 5 for the fourth consecutive year. And aside from some pop culture giveaways (Jill's clothes; Randy's use of a floppy disc to backup his computer), the warmth and humour exuded in this 25-episode, 3-disc set hold up remarkably well. Like Everybody Loves Raymond minus the screeching mother-in-law, Home Improvement is driven by the classic combination of a sensible wife married to a silly man-child husband who thinks about himself first, even when he doesn't intend to. When Jill wants to go back to school so she can become a therapist, Tim isn't supportive. At first it appears he just doesn't want any changes. But he later confesses he's worried she'll lose interest in him if she returns to school. After she reassures him that this would never be the case, he says, "If your dream is to work with nuts, you should go back to the world of macadamia". Look for an appearance from a very young Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Dawson's Creek), guest starring as Brad's makeup-savvy girlfriend who advises him on how to cover up his pimple. As for Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels, Ally McBeal), her blink-and-you'll-miss-her spot as a woman interested in Al is little more than a glorified cameo. --Jae-Ha Kim

• Two And A Half Men - Series 3 | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £9.39   |  Saving you £16.60 (63.90%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise complete with Malibu beach house overpaid job and a very active dating life. The his uptight brother Alan in the throes of a divorce moves in - and brings his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Sorry Charlie. It looks like paradise lost.

• Jason Byrne - Live: The Collection | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £24.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.28%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Cirque du Byrne Jason Byrne, the Ringmaster of comedy, presents his stand-up show Cirque du Byrne filmed during the sell-out UK tour. With a riotous set captured at London's Hammersmith Apollo, Jason shows just why his is one of the fastest and biggest selling comedians of all time at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and across the UK. Opening with a high-octane spectacular, Jason's devilishly inspired and deftly delivered stand-up comedy will have you roaring with laughter.

• Excuse My Glove | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This light-hearted story of romantic heroism and sporting glory features British boxing legend Len Harvey as a young man who steps into the limelight by accident... then decides it's worth fighting to stay there! Also starring Cockney comedy star Ronald Shiner and a line-up of the cream of 1930s boxing talent Excuse My Glove is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Don Carter who is more interested in stained glass than fisticuffs unwittingly accepts a challenge to fight in a boxing-booth at a fair. Recognising a potential money-spinner when he sees one the booth's proprietor appoints himself Don's manager and Don quickly finds out that the spirit of the Marquess of Queensberry does not always prevail – on either side of the ropes! Bonus Features: Image gallery

• Pie In The Sky - Series 5 - Part 1 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After being shot on duty DI Crabbe decides to retires from the police force to set up his own restaurant 'Pie In The Sky'. While he would much rather be left to his own devices in the kitchen he is constantly called back on duty by his needy ex-boss Chief Constable Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair).

• Frasier - Season 3 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (74.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  With this third season, Frasier scored an impressive hat trick, winning its third successive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. You don't need too much analysis to get to the bottom of this unprecedented success. The series was a primetime oasis of wit and sophistication, with welcome forays into farce that pricked Frasier's bubble of pomposity. His priceless reactions to the assaults on his dignity are worthy of Jack Benny. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) can be infuriating, as in 'The Focus Group,' in which he is obsessed with knowing why a lone focus group participant (guest star Tony Shalhoub) doesn't like him. But he is also endearing in his delusional view of himself as, in the words of one mocking bystander, a 'man of the people.' Frasier meets his match in new station owner Kate Costas (Oscar-winner Mercedes Ruehl). Their combative relationship turns to lust over the course of the first 10 episodes. But the season's most pivotal story arc is the separation of Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Maris. 'Moon Dance,' which marked Grammer's directorial debut, is a series benchmark, as a crestfallen Niles tangos with his unrequited love, Daphne (Jane Leeves), at a high society ball. Not that the Crane family still doesn't have issues to work out. Frasier cannot abide being beaten at chess by Martin (John Mahoney) in 'Chess Pains.' Frasier and Niles ill-advisedly go into joint practice in 'Shrink Rap,' and find themselves on the opposite sides of a sanity hearing in 'Crane vs. Crane.' Lilith is sorely missed, but in this season's blast-from-the-past episode, Shelley Long returns in 'The Show Where Diane Comes Back.' It is a joy to see Cheers resurrected, if only in Diane's self-absorbed new play, which Frasier agrees to back. And any episode with Frasier's amoral agent Bebe (Harriet Sansom Harris) is must-see television. Frasier's humor was character-based, rather than topical, giving it a longer shelf life. For those who lament the end of one of television's gold standard series, this boxed set will be excellent therapy. --Donald Liebenson Synopsis Frasier is a half-hour comedy series set in Seattle, which chronicles the lives of an eloquently pompous radio show host, Dr. Frasier Crane, (Kelsey Grammer), his competitive, high-brow brother Niles (David Hyde Pierce), their crotchety father Martin (John Mahoney) and Martin's semi-psychic, live-in home-care provider, Daphne (Jane Leeves). A show that made history by becoming the first series, comedy or drama, to achieve a record five consecutive Emmy wins for Outstanding Comedy Series, Frasier has earned a total of 30 Emmy Awards.

• Lady Godiva Rides Again | Blu Ray | (01/06/2020) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dennis Price and Stanley Holloway star in this classic, early 1950s comedy from legendary film-makers Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. A cautionary tale of fame and fortune, Lady Godiva Rides Again also features Kay Kendall, Diana Dors and George Cole and is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. A starstruck provincial waitress wins the local beauty contest to ride as Lady Godiva in the town pageant. She goes on to win first prize in the Fascination Soap Beauty Contest and immediately finds herself plunged into a strange new world of privilege, glamour... and not a little danger! Special Feature: Image gallery

• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Woody Allen's 1982 homage to Bergman and Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a delight from start to finish and must rate as one of his most joyous films. The period setting--Edwardian up state New York--gives the whole thing a misty, elegiac quality. Part Midsummer Night's Dream (the magic supplied by visions through a spirit glass) and part Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman's source material provides the basic plot and ensuing couplings), it's a gentle satire on male sexuality and frustration. Allen handles the angst with the lightest of touches. He plays a Wall Street broker who spends his holidays inventing flying machines (they work, with telling consequences). He and his wife (Mary Steenburgen) are increasingly depressed by their ailing sex life. Cue the arrival of weekend guests: crusty academic (Jose Ferrer) and beautiful blue-stocking fiancée previously in love with Allen (Mia Farrow, of course); and insatiable doctor (Tony Roberts) with his latest squeeze, a nurse (the excellent Julie Hagerty). Eighty minutes of unravelling, discovery and renewal follow, accompanied by a Mendelssohn sound track. This is one of Allen's most treasurable pictures. On the DVD: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is presented in widescreen that recaptures the pleasure which greeted the setting of this most pastoral of Allen's films on its first release; it really does glow with summery light. The standard stereo soundtrack is perfectly acceptable. Extras include the original theatrical trailer and multiple language soundtracks.--Piers Ford

• Crime And Punishment In Suburbia | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Roseanne appears the perfect teenager; she dates the high-school heartthrob and lives in a beautiful home. But when her mother suddenly leaves her stepfather for a barman half her age her world turns upside down. Life is unbearable with her now alcoholic and abusive stepfather. Classmates begin to point and whisper while the only person who appears unchanged is Vincent a loner who has always been obsessed with her...

• Cheers - Series 5 | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  It's the cozy little Boston bar where everybody knows your name... welcome to Cheers - the Emmy Award-winning smash-hit television series that kept the laughs uncorked for 11 years. Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) make on-again off-again wedding plans - including a marriage proposal that ends in an assault and battery charge! Not to be outdone Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) move in together; Woody (Woody Harrelson) finds himself abruptly engaged; Carla (Rhea Perlman) falls for a hockey goalie; and Cliff (John Ratzenberger) gets bitten by a dog... and becomes smitten with the dog's owner. Will Norm's (George Wendt) new job pan out? Will Carla get ""birdzilla"" cooked in time for Thanksgiving dinner? Will wedding bells finally chime for Sam and Diane? You'll find all the answers - and unending laughs - in all 26 hilarious episodes of the season that marks the farewell appearance of Shelly Long as Cheers regular ""Diane Chambers."" Episodes Comprise: 1. The Proposal 2. The Cape Cad 3. Money Dearest 4. Abnormal Psychology 5. House of Horrors With Formal Dining and Used Brick 6. Tan N' Wash 7. Young Dr. Weinstein 8. Knights of the Scimitar 9. Thanksgiving Orphans 10. Everyone Imitates Art 11. The Book of Samuel 12. Dance Diane Dance 13. Chambers vs Malone 14. Diamond Sam 15. Spellbound 16. Never Love a Goalie (1) 17. Never Love a Goalie (2) 18. One Last Fling 19. Dog Bites Cliff 20. Dinner at Eight-ish 21. Simon Says 22. The Godfather Part III 23. Norm's First Hurrah 24. Cheers: the Motion Picture 25. A House is Not a Home 26. I Do and Adieu

• The Errand Boy | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £9.78   |  Saving you £6.21 (38.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Exploring the more childlike qualities and sensitive side to Jerry Lewis and his brand of comedy The Errand Boy is the story of Lewis' young mail boy who is employed as a spy for a Hollywood studio company to uncover a scheme that is enabling thieves to steal right from underneath the movie Executives noses. The setting of a Hollywood movie lot is the perfect location for Lewis to play-out his uncontrollable and ingenious sense of humour. As Morty the studio underling Lewis wreak

• Slap Shot 2 - Breaking The Ice | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Get set for more hard-charging action and laughs than you can shake a stick at in this uproarious sequel to the original 1977 Slap Shot. Sean Linden (Stephen Baldwin) is the long-suffering captain and coach of the Charlestown Chiefs. The Chiefs are a team whose glory days are a distant memory. However the team's new millionaire owner (Gary Busey) has a new game plan: to turn the Chiefs into the bumbling underdog losers in a bogus made-for-TV hockey league! And to add insult to injury

• Scary Movie 4 | Blu Ray | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Anna Faris and Regina Hall return to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion in this new spoof!

• Bless This House - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £11.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (67.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the longest running British sitcoms stars Sid James stars as Sid Abbott an office supplies salesman who is constantly trying to bridge the generation gap and deal with his two teenage children whilst also trying to keep his own incompetence to a minimum. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Generation Gap 2. Mum's The Word 3. Father's Day 4. Be It Ever So Humble. 5. Another Fine Mess 6. For Whom The Bells Toll 7. A Woman's Place 8. The Day Of Rest 9. Make Love Not War 10. Cha

• Mr Bean - Live Action | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The legend is back and on DVD for the very first time! Rowan Atkinson returns as the hilarious legendary character Mr. Bean; delighting all ages with his madcap antics fans can relive classic Bean episodes whilst younger family members can be introduced to the crazy world of Mr. Bean! This DVD contains 3 of the original classic episodes: 'Mr. Bean' 'The Return Of Mr. Bean' and 'Hair By Mr. Bean Of London' (previously unseen on TV). Whether he's on the beach trying to change into

• The Secret Policeman's Ball | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Amnesty International's legendary Secret Policeman's Ball is back - bigger better and Ballsier than ever before. The Ball in the Hall is a non stop rapid fire relentless smorgasbord of comedy and music. Featuring never-before-seen collaborations huge stars from both sides of the Atlantic brand new sketches explosive stand-up off-stage performances surprise ingredients and an anthem for the world.