Brendon Burns releases the DVD of his hugely acclaimed show 'Y'Know - Love n God n Metaphysics and Shit'. Brendon has screwed up. He's split up with his girlfriend and he's not quite sure why. As he tries to process his part in the break up, he winds up searching for his place in the Universe and discovers that sort of behaviour is for wankers. So he tries to find his faith in... something, but he's not sure what. A comic love letter, and a journey through the Edinburgh Award Winners mind, t...
Lalapipo: A Lot of People
Miss Emmeline Lucas known universally to her friends as Lucia is a dreadful snob but in Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards Lucia meets her match. On the surface they are the most genteel of society ladies but beneath the veneer of politeness and etiquette lies a bitter and seething malice. There is no plan too devious no plot too cunning no depths to which they would not sink in order to win the battle for social supremacy. Using their deadly weapons of garden parties bridge evenings and charming teas the two combatants strive to outcharm each other as the vie for the position of toast of the town. The Village Fete: Still mourning the death of her husband nine months previously Lucia decides to get away from the village where she lives for a while and rent a place in another part of England. Taking her best friend Georgie along with her and they both fall in love with the place. They decide that they will both rent there for the summer and return to home to participate in the village fete before moving out... Battle Stations: Lucia and Georgie move to their rented homes in Tilling and it is not long before Lucia and Miss Mapp are competing against each other in games of oneupmanship. The Italian Connection: Lucia holds her garden party in Mapp's garden and it is a success. Her happiness is soon brought back to earth when Mapp gleefully tells her that the Contessa Faraglione is coming to visit Tilling and that the two of them will be able to talk Italian to each other. Lobster Pots: A party at Lucia's new home leads to Mapp trying anything she can to get hold of Lucia's recipe for lobster. This leads to the two of them finding themselves stuck in the house during a raging flood. The Owl And The Pussycat: After months lost at sea Mapp and Lucia return to Tilling much to the surprise of all the residents who had thought that they had died. They both plan evenings where they will tell their memoirs of their adventure versions that differ quite dramatically from each other...
Combining the bubble-gum pop of 'The Monkees' with the super-sized family comedy of 'The Brady Bunch' The Partridge Family first rode their psychedelic bus into American living rooms on September 25 1970. Loosely based on the folksy family singing sensation The Cowsills The Partridge Family follows the adventures of widowed mother Shirley Partridge and her flock of singing children: Keith Laurie Danny Christopher and Tracy as they tour the country in a wildly painted bus performing music as a family. Episodes Comprise: 1. What? And Get Out of Show Business? 2. The Sound Of Money 3. Whatever Happened To The Old Songs? 4. See Here Private Partridge 5. When Mother Gets Married 6. Love At First Slight 7. Danny And The Mob 8. But The Memory Lingers On
Bobby is thrust into a confrontation with a sleazy banker and challenges him to a water ski race. With the distraction of beautiful tanned bodies, who knows what further erotic adventures await them.
A window cleaner buys a book entitled 'How To Succeed in Business' and employs its methods to help him climb the corporate ladder.
Saturday Night Live: Kings of Comedy Collection 1 (4 Discs)
Walk The Line (Dir. James Mangold 2005): In 1955 a tough skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash walked into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on American culture. With his driving freight-train chords steel-eyed intensity and a voice as deep and black as night Cash sang blistering songs of heartache and survival that were gutsy full of real life and unlike anything heard before. That day kicked off the electrifying early career of Johnny Cash. As he pioneered a fiercely original sound that blazed a trail for rock country punk folk and rap stars to come Cash began a rough-and-tumble journey of personal transformation. In the most volatile period of his life he evolved from a self-destructive pop star into the iconic 'Man in Black' - facing down his demons fighting for the love that would save him time and again and learning how to walk the razor-thin line between destruction and redemption. Sideways (Dir. Alexander Payne 2004): A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careers woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth soon find themselves drowning in wine and women (Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen). Emerging from a haze of pinot noir wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future the two inevitably collide with reality. Now the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged... if they get there in one piece at all. Winner of the 2005 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Good Night And Good Luck (Dir. George Clooney 2005): George Clooney's second film as director takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public Murrow and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental.
In a comedy that brings together some of today's sharpest talent, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team with writer/director Michael McCullers to tell the story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives forever.
Shy and retiring young executive Brandon Walker invites a select group of friends for a quiet weekend in the country. Denise a hitchhiker joins them and soon fills them with a sense of dread with her fireside tales of true revenge killing sprees. Nightmare tales can come true...
Further adventures of Bobby Benji and Huey in their pursuit of sex in the 50's. While preparing for their final exams they try to work out if it's better to be going steady with one girl and if changing girlfriends all the time leads to too many complications. this leads to frustration with girls who wont go all the way and problems with girls who will go all the way with anyone!
Available for the first time on DVD! After squandering his grant money despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts makeup and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the ""Shelmikedmu "" a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse he gets into the act as we
A tongue-in-cheek stop-animation series starring mild-mannered private investigator Dick Spanner the creation of Terry Adlam and Gerry Anderson. Originally screened on television as part of the series Network Seven this DVD features Dick Spanner in two investigations complete with lots of sight gags wisecracks and satire throughout. Dick Spanner is voiced by Shane Rimmer who was previously the voice of Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds. As a bonus there are interviews with Gerry Anderson at the end of each serial and a new video to go with the theme song.
Just Buried is a ruthlessly twisted dark comedy about ambition, greed, sex and death. When Oliver (Jay Baruchel) returns to his small-town home to attend his estranged father's funeral, his uneventful life suddenly takes a turn. He has just inherited the family business - a funeral home on the verge of bankruptcy. Aided and abetted by the bewitching embalmer Roberta (Rose Byrne), Oliver accidentally, and then not-so-accidentally, provides himself with paying customers. Together they ...
Round Ireland With A Fridge
Their uncles paved the way for their hijinks... Now all they want is their mummy. When Ollie falls for a museum curator's daughter they get mixed up in a scheme involving a missing mummy. Bronson Pinchot and Gailard Sartain attempt to re-create the magic of one of Hollywood's most beloved comedy teams. Shot in South Africa and co-produced and directed by Larry Harmon.
This is the splendid film adaptation of John Irving's bestseller. Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp a complex and unpredictabale young man at odds with a violent and cruel world... The World According To Garp earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor: one for John Lithgow; and the other for Glenn Close as Best Supporting Actress.
For nearly four decades Benny Hill reigned supreme as the king of bawdy humour and seaside postcard-style japery on British television. Undoubtedly out of his entire body of work it is the shows that he did for Thames television in the 1970s for which he is best remembered with their combination of high-speed farce risqu jokes and beautiful ladies. It is these shows that undoubtedly turned him into a global superstar - topping the ratings in America also. With his 'three stooges'
In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Leonard Rossiter's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best loved comedy heroes. Laugh again at some of the best sketches ever written for television and film and a few that may have escaped you from his earlier career. In addition to archive interviews with Mr Rossiter himself we also hear the first hand reflections of co-stars and friends Bruce Bould John Barron John Wells Sue Nicholls Eric Chappel and Don Warrington who all pay tribute to the comic genius that was Leonard Rositter. Although sadly missed Leonard Rossiter will continue to entertain us on TV screens for years to come via the comic legacy that is 'Rising Damp' 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' 'Billy Liar' and 'The Losers' and much more.
When the US military accidentally release a noxious substance that causes 'death from instant old age', everyone over twenty-five dies and the youth of America are left to their own devices to invent a new world order. Fresh from bringing the late-60s counter-cultural explosion to the screen in The Trip, Roger Corman delivers his most ambitious and anarchic take on the 'Love Generation' yet - a free-wheeling blend of acid rock, far-out humour and psychedelic excess that faithfully captures the revolutionary spirit of its time. The Guardian Interview with Roger Corman (1970, audio only): archival interview held at the NFT Original theatrical trailer
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