Comedy

• The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (01/11/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farmsowned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. This adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel from WES ANDERSON (The Royal Tenenbaums) is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation featuring vibrant performances by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, and Bill Murray. Bonus Features New digital master, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary featuring Anderson Storyboard animatics for the entire film Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score Interviews with cast and crew Puppet animation tests Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets Animated awards acceptance speeches Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based Gallery of Dahl's original manuscripts Discussion and analysis of the film Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay; a 2002 article on Dahl's Gipsy House by Anderson; White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film; and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera

• The Old Curiosity Shop | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £7.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (38.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts he and his granddaughter flee.

• Robin Hood Men In Tights | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Legend that had it coming, Robin Hood: Men in Tights wipes away the mystery and the dignity of Englands most infamous stocking-filler as Robin of Loxley and his merry men bring a dose of sheer mayhem to Sherwood Forest. Throwing away their titles and their trousers, Robin and his nylon clad crew battle to bring down the evil Prince John and his hideous sidekick the Sheriff of Rottingham to procure the key to Maid Marians heart.and her chastity belt!

• Cheers - Series 4 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £14.83   |  Saving you £20.16 (135.94%)   |  RRP £34.99

  For its fourth season, Cheers served up a new bartender. Following the death of Nicholas Colasanto, who had played Coach, the season premiere introduced Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), the Indiana hick who certainly didn't raise the bar's collective IQ but had his own brand of endearing goofiness. That episode, "Birth, Death, Love and Rice", also explained what happened at the end of season 3 when Sam (Ted Danson) chased Diane (Shelley Long) and Frasier (Kesley Grammer) to Italy in hopes of preventing their marriage. The end result is that Diane returns to work at the bar and resumes her sexually charged flirtation with Sam, and Frasier becomes a brooding presence always looking for a way to win her back. Jennifer Tilly guest-stars as one of Sam's ex-girlfriends who actually hits it off with the petulant psychiatrist, but stealing the show in the same episode ("Second Time Around") was Dr. Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth), in what was supposed to be a five-minute one-shot role. The impossibly buttoned-up Sternin was such a perfect match for Frasier that she later became a regular cast member and won two Emmys. In other memorable episodes, Andy Andy (Derek McGrath) returns to terrorize Diane ("Diane's Nightmare"), the gang tries to turn the tables on Gary's Old Town Tavern in a bowling match ("From Beer to Eternity"), and Frasier sets up a night at the opera ("Diane Chambers Day"). In the three-part season finale ("Strange Bedfellows"), Sam begins dating a politician (Kate Mulgrew, later of Star Trek: Voyager) running for reelection. Diane decides to work for her opponent before taking a more drastic step, leading to Sam's memorable telephone call that served as a cliffhanger leading to season 5. Unlike previous seasons, the DVD set has no extras. --David Horiuchi

• Dusty Young - Live On Stage | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £6.79   |  Saving you £-0.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  300 Best Irish Jokes Live! Side-splitting laughs galore hilarious.I know you all like a laugh... well you'll split your sides when you hear some of the stories and jokes on this great DVD!

• Horrible Bosses | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three friends (Bateman, Day, Sudeikis) conspire to murder their awful bosses (Spacey, Aniston, Farrell) when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

• Airplane/Airplane 2 | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £7.65   |  Saving you £-1.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Airplane! The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 funniest movies ever made). The humour may be low and obvious at times, but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '70s cinema, from disco films to star-studded disaster epics--are more than worthy for send-up. If you've seen even one of the overblown Airport movies then you know the plot: the crew of a filled-to-capacity jetliner is wiped out and it's up to a plucky stewardess and a shell-shocked fighter pilot to land the plane. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty are the heroes who have a history that includes a meet-cute à la Saturday Night Fever, a surf scene right out of From Here to Eternity, a Peace Corps trip to Africa to teach the natives the benefits of Tupperware and basketball, a war-ravaged recovery room with a G.I. who thinks he's Ethel Merman (a hilarious cameo)--and those are just the flashbacks! The jokes gleefully skirt the boundaries of bad taste (pilot Peter Graves to a juvenile cockpit visitor: "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"), with the high (low?) point being Hagerty's intimate involvement with the blow-up automatic pilot doll, but they'll have you rolling on the floor. The film launched the careers of collaborators Jim Abrahams (Big Business), David Zucker (Ruthless People), and Jerry Zucker (Ghost), as well as revitalised such B-movie actors as Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Leslie Nielsen, who built a second career on films like this. A vital part of any video collection. --Mark Englehart Airplane 2 The 1982 sequel to Airplane! is basically more of the same class-clown ironies but with a more forced feeling to the jokes. In the first film, veterans such as Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges were feeling their way through self-parody, and the air of experimentation was part of the fun. By this film, however, everybody knows what's up, and the assuredness of new cast members Raymond Burr, William Shatner, and Chuck Connors is almost counterproductive. Still, there's lots to laugh about. --Tom Keogh

• Guest House Paradiso (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £19.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a decade of honing their signature characters, Richie and Eddie, across TV and stage-show appearances, British comedy legends Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (The Comic Strip Presents..., The Young Ones) finally gave the pair the big-screen outing which they truly deserved in the riotous, vomit-soaked entertainment that is Guest House Paradiso. When Mr Nice (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) and his family check in to 'the cheapest hotel in Britain' - run with maximum inefficiency and malfeasance by Richie and Eddie - it sets off an outrageous chain of events involving rubber underwear, a beautiful Italian film star (Hélène Mahieu), her abusive fiancé (Vincent Cassel, Irreversible), and a consignment of radioactive fish. Featuring a spectacular supporting cast, which also includes Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming!, Hammer's The Old Dark House) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually), this slapstick tour-de-force is a latter-day classic of disreputable British comedy, which has to be seen to be believed. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from the original interpositiveOriginal 5.1 surround sound and stereo audio tracksThe Making of 'Guest House Paradiso' (1999): archival documentary featuring interviews with actor, co-writer and director Adrian Edmondson, actor and co-writer Rik Mayall, producer Phil McIntyre, and actors Fenella Fielding, Hélène Mahieu and Simon PeggParadiso Pegg (2023): interview with celebrated actor, writer and comedian Simon Pegg in which he looks back at his time making the filmInterview with Colin Towns (2024): the prolific film and television composer discusses his scoreInterview with Sean Barton (2024): the veteran editor recalls his work on the filmInterview with Tom Brown (2024): the production designer explores the guest house's unique challenges From the Cutting Room Floor (1999): outtakes from the film's productionOriginal theatrical trailersImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingLimited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Jon Robertson, archival articles on the making of the film, and full film creditsUK premiere on Blu-rayLimited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Just Go With It | Blu Ray | (30/05/2011) from £8.78   |  Saving you £17.20 (297.06%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In Just Go With It, a plastic surgeon (Sandler), romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon-to-be-ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie.

• Pitch Perfect 2 | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £2.74   |  Saving you £17.25 (629.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Barden Bellas are back in 'Pitch Perfect 2', the follow-up to summer 2012's smash hit.

• Yes Man | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £3.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (472.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Yes Man" stars Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, a man who signs up for a self-help programme based on one simple principle: say "yes" to everything...and anything!!

• The George Formby Film Collection | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £24.95   |  Saving you £-11.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rediscover the magic of 'The Ukulele Man' himself - George Formby - with seven of his very finest films! George Formby was Britain's biggest box office star when he moved to Columbia Studios to make these seven fabulous comedy musicals - full of hit songs and packed with daft and inspired comedy in the true Formby style! Finally released from the films vaults and digitally remastered for optimum sound and picture quality, these seven films are now available to own for the very first time in one very special DVD box set! Films: South American George (1941) Much Too Shy (1942) Get Cracking (1943) Bell Bottom George (1944) He Snoops To Conquer (1945) I Didn't Do It (1945) George In Civvy Street (1946)

• The Upper Hand - The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £7.84   |  Saving you £13.41 (203.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Upper Hand: The Complete Series 5 (3 Discs)

• The Party (1968) (Eureka Classics) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Though this film is a relatively minor one in the massive canon of Peter Sellers, it has moments of absolute hilarity. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers' most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from India (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party. That's pretty much it as far as plot goes, but Edwards and Sellers know how to milk a simple idea for an unending string of slapstick gags. The result is a film that is episodic and sketchy but also frequently loony in an inspired way. --Marshall Fine

• Agony - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £23.39   |  Saving you £1.60 (6.84%)   |  RRP £24.99

  BAFTA-nominated actress Maureen Lipman stars as Jane Lucas author of a problem page in a glossy magazine and radio Agony Aunt. A huge hit for ITV in the late 70s and early 80s Agony lasted for three series. Based on the experiences of real-life Agony Aunt Anna Raeburn Agony trod a thin line of black humour - the darkest joke of all being that Jane offers solutions to people on a daily basis but can't solve her own personal problems.

• The Gaffer - The Complete Series | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £31.92   |  Saving you £-6.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bill Maynard (Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt!) is Fred Moffat the tight-fisted yet quick-thinking director of a struggling light-engineering firm in this cleverly scripted bittersweet sitcom which regularly attracted audiences of over 16 million. The recession is biting and the Gaffer finds himself under siege from the taxman his creditors his bank manager... and just about everyone else. He sometimes resorts to extreme measures to keep his head above water and is permanently at odds with militant shop steward Harry (Russell Hunter - Callan). But glamorous secretary Betty (Pat Ashton) is always around to lighten the mood - even if she rarely succeeds in getting Harry and Fred to see eye-to-eye... Presented here are all three series of this hugely popular sitcom from Yorkshire Television.

• Mr Bean's Movie Box Set (The Ultimate Disaster Movie/Mr Bean's Holiday) | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £9.56   |  Saving you £10.43 (109.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Box Set Comprises: Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie: When the Royal National Gallery of London is asked to send their finest scholar to oversee the unveiling of Whistler's Mother in California they send their most inept and detested employee in a desperate attempt to get him out of their lives. That employee is Mr. Bean - the master of disaster! Mr. Bean's Holiday: Disaster has a passport! Mr. Bean returns but not for long as he goes on his travels to the south of France where mishap and mayhem begin by the end Bean even has his video diaries at the Cannes Film Festival.

• The Mitchells vs. The Machines | Blu Ray | (14/12/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An old school father and his plugged-in, filmmaker daughter struggle to relate as their family embarks on a road trip to her new college. Their drive is interrupted by a machine apocalypse that threatens to tear these unlikely heroes apart unless they can find a way to join forces and save humanity.

• Dark Shadows | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series "Dark Shadows" to the big screen in a gothic comedy featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.

• George And Mildred - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £9.01   |  Saving you £10.98 (121.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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! This box set features all ten episodes from the first series. Moving On:When George and Mildred plan a move to middleclass suburbia Mildred is