Actors & Directors
- Dan Aykroyd
- Michael Palin
- John Belushi
- Eric Idle
- Eric Idle
- Gary Weis
- Neil Innes
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.02
Review The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash [1978] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Michele Dotrice
- Michael Crawford
Run time: 140 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.59
Review Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Specials / Second Sight Films Ltd.:
![Review Vision Video Ltd. / Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete First Series [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QDZ713PDL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Tristram Shapeero
- Liddy Oldroyd
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.04
Review Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete First Series [1999] / Vision Video Ltd.:When Gimme Gimme Gimme first hit the television screen in 1998, it immediately divided the critics. Plenty loathed it, but it soon acquired cult comedy status in the BBC2 post-watershed tradition. Since then it has gone mainstream on BBC1 but as the first series shows, its appeal lies in a surreal anarchy. Linda (Kathy Burke, brilliant) and Tom (James Dreyfus, who went on to star with Bette Midler in her ill-fated sitcom) live in a world of self-delusion. They are the ultimate misfits; a grotesque ladette who thinks she is "gorgeous" and worships Liam Gallagher and a neurotic gay actor who can't land a decent part for toffee but cherishes a secret passion for Simon Shephard, the smooth star of popular television dramas such as Peak Practice. They trade non-PC insults like most people make small talk (Linda: "There's no such thing as gay. It's just laziness. "), yet are totally reliant on each other. It's vulgar, coarse, often outrageous and certainly not for the faint-hearted. But in most parts it is extremely funny. [+]And if the self-regarding cuteness of so many US comedy imports turns your stomach, you'll love it. This is Will and Grace, on cocaine, in a parallel universe. On the DVD: presented in standard 14:9 format with stereo soundtrack, this disk simply gives you the first series of Gimme Gimme Gimme exactly as it appeared on television. So the picture and sound quality are fine. Just select your favourite episode from the index and laugh away. The lack of extras is disappointing. There must be some great outtakes, which would have added a bit of value; so would biographies of the stars and writer Jonathan Harvey, who has become one of the UK's best young playwrights. -Piers Ford.
![Review Cinema Club / Ups and Downs of a Handyman [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NQQ8P6FWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Bob Todd (II)
- Chic Murray
- John Sealey
- Sue Lloyd
- Barry Stokes
- Gay Soper
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £4.99
Review Ups and Downs of a Handyman [1975] / Cinema Club:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / White Men Can't Jump [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EPHZ92KWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ron Shelton
- Woody Harrelson
- Tyra Ferrell
- Rosie Perez
- Wesley Snipes
- Cylk Cozart
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.48
Review White Men Can't Jump [1992] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:White Men Can't Jump, writer-director Ron Shelton's 1992 follow-up to the baseball comedy-drama Bull Durham, involves a different sport: basketball, as played on the neighbourhood hustler circuit. Woody Harrelson is Billy Hoyle, a good shooter using his white complexion to fool black players into thinking he can be stomped in easy bets. Billy's banter-filled matchup against Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) on a public court leads to a partnership in which Sidney becomes Billy's manager, taking the white outsider on a tour of the tougher sections of Los Angeles, where he plays homeboys for a few bucks. Inevitably, the two come apart over their innate competitiveness, a situation that has to be re-evaluated after Billy gets into trouble with some underworld creditors. Meanwhile, Billy's girlfriend (Rosie Perez) sits at home preparing herself for a maybe-someday appearance on Jeopardy. As with all of Shelton's sports-related films (Tin Cup, his script for The Best of Times), White Men Can't Jump is less about the fine points of the game than it is the rules by which players survive it. The script is literate and crackling with wit and satire (a scene in which a politician sponsors a black-white "solidarity" game is hilarious). The actors are entirely in sync, and the scenes under and around the hoops are a thrill to watch. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.
![Review 4 Front Video / Harvey [1950]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X378E0MGL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- James Stewart
- Charles Drake
- Peggy Dow
- Henry Koster
- Josephine Hull
- Cecil Kellaway
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.99
Review Harvey [1950] / 4 Front Video:It's always a small surprise to revisit this movie and realise what a subtly dark performance James Stewart gives as an alcoholic who claims he keeps company with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit. As Elwood P. Dowd, the actor emits a faint whiff of decay and spirits, yet Stewart also embraces Dowd's romanticism and grace with splendid ease. Based on a hit play and directed by Henry Koster, the film is terribly funny at times, especially whenever Elwood decides it is only polite to introduce Harvey to complete strangers. The supporting cast can't be beat. -Tom Keogh.
Release date: 2001-04-30
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.25
Review Player / Comedy Tim Robbins:
Release date: 2002-11-18
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.35
Review Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo / Vision Video Ltd.:
Price: £10.99
Review Pink Panther Strikes Again:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / One Foot In The Grave - Series 3 - Complete [1990]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F132ER5EL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Annette Crosbie
- Susan Belbin
- Angus Deayton
- Richard Wilson
Run time: 174 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.74
Review One Foot In The Grave - Series 3 - Complete [1990] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Smith And Jones - One Night Stand [1984]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5134K5KGFWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robin Carr
- Chris Bould
- Annette Lynton
- Andrew Francis (II)
- Graham C. Williams
- Kim Clifford
- Chris Langham
- Dominic Brigstocke
- Raymond Mason
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.49
Review Smith And Jones - One Night Stand [1984] / 2 Entertain Video:
RRP: £10.99
Price: £16.99
Review Steve Martin-Live:Steve Martin in a live concert performance.
Release date: 2002-11-25
Run time: 720 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £39.99
Review Absolutely Fabulous Series 1-4 Box Set [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:Absolutely Fabulous was first broadcast in 1992 and became an instant hit. Originally a sketch on the French and Saunders Show, Jennifer Saunders saw its potential and created one of the most ground-breaking and debauched comedies on British TV. Centred around the hip London fashion scene the series follows Edina (Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley), two women who refuse to grow up and are constantly on a mission to lose weight, gorging themselves with cocaine and/or champagne, endlessly throwing parties (or throwing up at parties), and sporting outrageous outfits, which were the height of fashion at the time-honestly sweetie! The superb comic performances reinvented the careers of Joanna Lumley and June Whitfield. Saunders meanwhile secured her status as one of Britain's top female comedians. Although its consciously chic clothing looks a little dated now, its mad characterisations endure and the jokes remain as hilariously slick and apt as ever. On the DVD: Absolutely Fabulous DVD box set comes beautifully packaged in mock velvet, with each series individually packaged inside. The original sketch from the French and Saunders Show and the pilot episode, "Mirrorball", offers all you need to understand the show's origins The commentary with Jennifer Saunders and John Ploughman on Series 4 is refreshing, owning up to the mistakes they made and the jokes that didn't work. The outtakes are funnier than the usual Hollywood blips. The 4:3 transfer is standard for a television comedy. -Nikki Disney.
![Review 2 Entertain Video / French And Saunders - Series 3 - The Complete Collection [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M8W1WA4RL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Simon Brint
- John Birkin
- Tristram Shapeero
- Steve Bendelack
- Edgar Wright
- Betty Marsden
- Bob Spiers
Run time: 214 min.
Price: £16.99
Review French And Saunders - Series 3 - The Complete Collection [1987] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Stuart Allen
- Nina Baden-Semper
- Jack Smethurst
- Kate Williams
- Anthony Parker
- William G. Stewart
- Rudolph Walker
- Tommy Godfrey
- Ronnie Baxter
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98
Review Love Thy Neighbour - Episode 7 Plus An Original Never Before Seen Pilot Episode / Pegasus Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- HARRY ENFIELD
- PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Review SMASHIE AND NICEY: The End Of An Era / TIGER ASPECT:On the 22nd of November 1993 an event was to happen that was of such Earth-shattering proportions that it was to quite literally shatter the Earth to its very proportions. On that day Smashie and Nicey parted company for the last time with FAB FM. This special video presents an overview of their dazzling careers as founding fathers of the poptastic British scene!.
Release date: 2004-11-22
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.99
Review Bill Bailey - Live / Universal Pictures UK:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Open All Hours [1976]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B6VWESCCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ronnie Barker
- Lynda Baron
- David Jason
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Open All Hours [1976] / 2 Entertain Video:Written by Roy Clarke, who was also responsible for Last Of The Summer Wine, Open All Hours exhibited a similarly relaxed attitude towards plot. Ronnie Barker plays Arkwright, the miserly grocer who longs to marry busty Nurse Gladys (Lynda Baron) ("Let's strike while the iron's lukewarm". ) David Jason, meanwhile, plays Arkwright's nephew Granville, a romantic who chafes at the confines of shop life and lusts after one "Gloria" (of whom we only ever catch a rear-end view). A series of customers offer little side vignettes, gossipy tittle tattle and tales of their own sexual frustrations. This is a special 90-minute long edition, featuring the pilot. Although it was made in 1983, Open All Hours seems to belong to an earlier era still, in its cosily nostalgic, saucy postcard worldview of everyday Northern folk, a world in which Granville still does his rounds in a cloth cap on a delivery bike. The script creaks with double entendres and how amusing you'll find Arkwright depends on how amusing you find a man with a stammer. Don't expect Steptoe-style pathos or wit, here. Open All Hours is notable, however, in that it constituted Jason's comedy apprenticeship under Barker, standing him in good stead for Only Fools And Horses. -David Stubbs.
Release date: 1995-10-16
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.45
Review Craig Charles-Live on Earth [1995] / ITV DVD:
![Review Warner Home Video / Ooh You Are Awful! [1972]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NA1PJSECL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ronald Fraser
- Dick Emery
- Cliff Owen
- Pat Coombs
- William Franklyn
- Derren Nesbitt
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Ooh You Are Awful! [1972] / Warner Home Video:
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The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash [1978], Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Specials, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete First Series [1999], Ups and Downs of a Handyman [1975], White Men Can't Jump [1992], Harvey [1950], Player, Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo, Pink Panther Strikes Again, One Foot In The Grave - Series 3 - Complete [1990], Smith And Jones - One Night Stand [1984], Steve Martin-Live, Absolutely Fabulous Series 1-4 Box Set [1992], French And Saunders - Series 3 - The Complete Collection [1987], Love Thy Neighbour - Episode 7 Plus An Original Never Before Seen Pilot Episode, SMASHIE AND NICEY: The End Of An Era, Bill Bailey - Live, Open All Hours [1976], Craig Charles-Live on Earth [1995], Ooh You Are Awful! [1972] |
