"Director: Hugo Blick"

• Operation Good Guys - Complete Series 1 To 3 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £13.90   |  Saving you £16.09 (115.76%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring all three series of Operation Good Guys. Series 1: A new fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords. But things are not quite what they seem... Operation Good Guys is in fact an innovative and irreverent comedy. Blurring the line between fact and fiction it witnesses on camera the total breakdown professionally and personally of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation Th

• The Honourable Woman | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £13.05   |  Saving you £11.94 (91.49%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Written and directed by Bafta winner Hugo Blick and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal The Honourable Woman is a fast-paced thriller set against an international backdrop. As a young girl Nessa Stein witnessed the assassination of her father by the armed wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Now in her late thirties Nessa is at the forefront of the Middle East peace process. Ennobled for her campaigning work the newly made Baroness must fight forces that are conspiring against her as she awards a highly lucrative contract to a Palestinian businessman. When he is subsequently killed Nessa and her brother come under the close scrutiny of Whitehall and the Secret Intelligence Service. Set against the gripping backdrop of government paranoia and espionage The Honourable Woman tells the story of one woman's personal journey to right the wrongs conducted in a past life.

• Sensitive Skin | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £12.04   |  Saving you £7.95 (66.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Suddenly it's sexy to be 60 in this dark comedy starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson. Sensitive Skin looks at life through the eyes of a successful couple living in metropolitan London. Along with their friends Al and Davina Jackson struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealousy and try to cope with their fear of the future. Al (Lawson) is a pundit for a broadsheet newspaper and is paid to find imperfection in everything; Davina (Lumley) works in an art gallery and is paid to make life more beautiful. However being 60 isn't simple. The couple's 30-year-old son Orlando refuses to acknowledge adulthood while Davina's sister Veronica and her husband Roger intimidate the Jacksons with their confident and controlled grasp of life.

• Sensitive Skin Series 2 | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £12.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (58.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sensitive Skin looks at life through the eyes of a successful couple living in metropolitan London. Along with their friends Al and Davina Jackson struggle with sexual temptation and professional jealousy and try to cope with their fear of the future.

• Marion And Geoff - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £13.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (49.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rob Brydon can be seen as a different character again in Marion and Geoff. He plays Keith Barrett a mini-cab driver who makes a new and valued friend in Geoff - the man his wife left him for! In Series 2 Marion And Geoff picks up 2 years 6 months and 3 days since Keith Barret saw his little smashers and thanks to Social Services he's all set for a happy family re-union. Keith isn't a cab driver; he's now a chauffeur!

• Marion And Geoff - Series 1 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £2.39   |  Saving you £13.60 (85.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Originally broadcast in 10-minute segments on BBC2, Marion & Geoff is a very funny if at times unrelentingly bleak comedy in which Rob Brydon plays Keith, a hapless cuckold who addresses us via a camcorder set up in his mini-cab. The Marion and Geoff of the title are his estranged wife and her new lover, though as Keith--who never fails to perceive a bright side to his utterly dismal existence--says, "I don't feel I've lost a wife, I've gained a friend." Through his monologues, we learn that Keith has a room in a student house where banging techno is played day and night; that in order to make the journey to see his two boys, he must make an overnight journey from London to Cardiff by car; that his only friend is a tollbooth operator (though the operator doesn't seem to know it) and that, although he's been driving a minicab for a while, he's yet to pick up a fare. Keith's attempts to buy presents for his children generally backfire ("I've kept the receipts. I learned that from my old dad. He always used to say keep the receipts"), no more heartrendingly so than in an evidently disastrous attempt to pay a surprise visit to the newly attached Marion and the kids in Disneyland. As he hugs the tiny Winnie the Pooh puppets he's tried to give to his children, his uniformly chipper tone wavers momentarily and the comedy threatens to darken into something like tragedy. However, Keith's indomitable if inappropriate optimism eventually enables him to bumble through. Masterly in its veracity and Pooteresque banality, Marion & Geoff is as near-flawless as The Office. On the DVD: Marion & Geoff on disc comes with an informative if somewhat giggly commentary, featuring Brydon and director and cowriter Hugo Blick. There's the Comic Relief special, in which Keith's cheque to the charity bounces with typically pitiful consequences and outtakes from the series, all of which would have merited inclusion in the final edit. --David Stubbs

• The Honourable Woman | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £8.40   |  Saving you £16.59 (197.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  As a young girl Nessa Stein witnessed the assassination of her father by the armed wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Now in her late thirties Nessa is at the forefront of the Middle East peace process. Ennobled for her campaigning work the newly made Baroness must fight forces that are conspiring against her as she awards a highly lucrative contract to a Palestinian businessman. When he is subsequently killed Nessa and her brother come under the close scrutiny of Whitehall and the Secret Intelligence Service. Set against the gripping backdrop of government paranoia and espionage The Honourable Woman tells the story of one woman's personal journey to right the wrongs conducted in a past life. Special Features: An Introduction to The Honourable Woman Behind the Scenes

• Up In Town | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Six bittersweet monologues from ageing society beauty Madison Blakelock (Joanna Lumley) whose looks friends family and fortune seem to have left her behind...

• Marion And Geoff - Series 2 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £6.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (189.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second series of Marion & Geoff had an awful lot to live up to. That it might be as good as the mini masterpieces of pathos (and bathos) that made up the first series was all any viewer could reasonably expect; that it actually surpasses them is testament to the achievement of cowriters Rob Brydon and Hugo Blick. These six episodes (plus an hour-long special on the second disc) provide a window into an all-too-painfully familiar world of betrayal, deceit and family disintegration, as seen through the eternally optimistic eyes of Keith, a man who against all the evidence of his own senses somehow manages to retain his respect for the dignity of human nature. Keith has put his mini-cab days behind him, and is now gainfully employed as a chauffeur to a wealthy American family. In between his duties delivering the young boy to school--and dodging the family's two Dobermans on the lawn--Keith unwittingly forms a personal bond with the boy's mother, Catherine. Slowly Keith is awakened to the truth about her unhappiness, and the activities of her wayward husband Peter, a self-proclaimed film producer much given to auditioning young actresses on his casting couch. Simultaneously, relations with Marion and his "little smashers" are improving, thanks to regular family meetings at motorway service stations. Mirroring events with his employers, Marion and Geoff are heading for trouble too, though once again Keith is the last person to realise what's really going on. Poignant personal revelations follow, leaving Keith with a surprisingly difficult choice at the end. As before, the joy in Brydon's deadpan monologues to camera as he drives around the streets of London is not what he tells you, but what is revealed by implication. A disastrous night out with Geoff and Peter, for example, contrasts their vicious, self-serving natures with Keith's naive, almost heroic good nature: in a quandary about parking in a disabled space he remarks tellingly, "I'm not disabled, I'm disadvantaged." Marion & Geoff turns out to be a celebration of modest decency in the midst of a painfully cynical world. On the DVD: The six episodes are presented on the first disc, though unlike Series 1 there's no commentary. On the second disc is the hour-long special episode "A Small Summer Party", in which we see in heartbreaking detail the day when Keith found out about Marion and Geoff (and we finally get to see the famous couple, with Geoff played by a not entirely unexpected guest star). --Mark Walker

• The Last Word Monologues | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sheila Hancock Rhys Ifans and Bob Hoskins star in three very different takes on and insights into life and death - each one poignant and compelling tinged with sadness and humour. A dying woman (Sheila Hancock) waits to receive drugs to take her own life. A farmer (Rhys Ifans) tries to find a way to free himself from the yoke of a dominating mother. An assassin (Bob Hoskins) waits in a public lavatory for his next target. These three people don''t know each other but they have one thing in common: they are all about to kill or be killed''