Items Matching Tag 'Comedy'

Ruggles Of Red Gap: Dual Format Edition (Masters of Cinema) (Blu-ray Details)
The great Charles Laughton found one of his most iconic roles in Leo McCarey's definitive screen version of Harry Leon Wilson's best-seller Ruggles of Red Gap - a wryly humorous tapestry of the American West at the turn of the 20th century. When the Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young) transfers the services of Ruggles (Laughton), his immaculate English valet, to Egbert Floud (Charlie Ruggles), a...

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts Complete Series Collection (DVD Details)
When a fight breaks out at Fumizuki Academy, nobody throws a single punch. Instead, the students utilize the school's technology to summon Avatars, pint-sized stand-ins with battle powers based on academic ability. That "academic ability" part is bad news for Yoshii: he's an idiot, stuck in lowly Class F with the slackers. If these misfits want to escape their dump of a classroom and earn some...

Yatterman (Blu-ray Details)
Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a brand new plot and re-imaged characters, this live action debut of Yatterman will re-define the robot...

Crime or Punishment?!? (DVD Details)
Ayame is an unsuccessful girl celebrity, who happens to take on the PR role of a "police chief for a day". It is the job of a campaign girl to smile and act as a police chief for one day. It should have been a simple job, however, the police station staff treat her like the real police chief and look to her for instructions, which makes Ayame feel perplexed. In addition, she runs into her ex-boy...

Fairy Tail: Part 2 (DVD Details)
Across the Fiore kingdom, wizards join guilds and make their pay by filling magical needs - but one guild has a reputation as the roughest, rowdiest, most dangerous of all: Fairy Tail! In the midst of a mission to break the curse over Galuna Island, Natsu and the gang face a band of deranged mages trying to resurrect the monstrous demon Deliora. Gray's determined to put the freeze on the...

Deadball (DVD Details)
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a...

Yakuza Weapon (Blu-ray Details)
Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his father's number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also...

Lucky Luke (DVD Details)
Jean Dujardin (Oscar and BAFTA winning star of The Artist) stars as Lucky Luke, a crack-shot gunslinger with a lightning fast draw and a conscience to boot. After witnessing the savage murder of his parents at the hands of the vicious Cheater Gang, Luke dedicates his life to bringing the very wildest in the west to justice, that is with a non-lethal twist. Years later, when the President of the...

Genshiken: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Sasahara appears to be a quiet college freshman, but a certain darkness lurks within his soul. For one thing, he knows what "cosplay" is, and he'd like to know more. He knows how to unlock all the secret characters in Guilty Gear X, and he'd like to know more. He knows what the plot twist is going to be in episode twenty-five of Kujibiki Unbalance because he's read the manga, and he'd like to know...

Fairy Tail: Part 1 (DVD Details)
In the Kingdom of Fiore, powerful wizards make their living by joining magical guilds and contracting out their services to become "wizards for hire." Harnessing the forces of Dragon Fire, Ice, Weaponry, and the Zodiac, four young wizards of the infamous guild Fairy Tail team up to seek their fortunes. Growing stronger with every mission, they travel the countryside helping people and battling...

Adrift In Tokyo (DVD Details)
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets....

Citizen James (DVD Details)
Carry On star Sid James stars as Citizen James in the hilarious 1960s TV comedy series. Sid James as Sid and Bill Kerr as Bill, are joined by Liz Fraser as Liz, Sid's long-suffering fiancée, and a supporting cast that includes Sydney Tafler, John Bluthal, Patricia Hayes, Bob Todd, Frank Thornton, Irene Handl, Lance Percival, Derek Nimmo and film star Cecil Parker. In Series One, written by...

Fruits Basket: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Adapted from the phenomenally popular manga written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, the animated version of Fruits Basket has been charming and intriguing anime fans worldwide ever since its original Japanese television debut. Now, the complete anime series has been collected together on the four-disc DVD release Fruits Basket Complete Collection, which features all 26 episodes plus a generous...

Midori Days: Volume 3 - Handle With Care (DVD Details)
As Seiji continues to live out his days with Midori as his loving right hand, her real body rests at home in a coma. Kouta is Midori's childhood friend. Desperate to wake her from her coma, he tries to convince Seiji to give her a kiss, like the prince rescuing sleeping beauty. Meanwhile, Midori's mom lines up all manner of quacks and faith healers to try and save her daughter. What will happen to...

Midori Days: Volume 2 - Wrong Hand Man (DVD Details)
Seiji's beset on all sides by assertive females! Shiori wants to live with him because her father is remarrying. Ayase is trying to ask him out, but he's too dense to notice. His crazy sister Rin is trying to toy with his emotions, and Midori is still his right hand. Even Takamizawa is getting in on the...action. But Seiji's biggest challenge is yet to come. He's about to wake up and find that he's...

Midori Days: Volume 1 - A Helping Hand (DVD Details)
Seiji "Mad Dog" Sawamura is the ultimate high-school punk. With his super-strong invincible right hand, he can punch through cement walls or entire street gangs. As for how he got his right hand that strong... well, he's got some problems getting a girlfriend. Just when he thinks his only girlfriend will be his right hand, his right hand becomes an actual girl! Midori Kasunago wished she could...

Samurai Girls (DVD Details)
Muneakiru Yagyu is a gifted student of the samurai way, but until he arrived at his dojo, he never knew just how gifted he truly was. There, beautiful girl Jubei falls naked from the sky and right into his arms, and when they kiss, he magically transforms her into a powerful master samurai. So, naturally, every beautiful girl at the dojo can't wait to kiss him now! And some, like the sexy Gisen,...

K-ON! - Volume 4 (DVD Details)
The school festival is here again but Yui is out sick. The girls try to make do with Azusa on lead guitar and suddenly Yui shows up. But her guitar playing is just too perfect and she's seems to be too polite to everyone. What has happened to Yui and will she be make it to the performance in time? Melancholy has set in on a cold winter day as all the girls face some troubles doing their own...

My Old Man: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
Clive Dunn (Dad's Army) is Sam Cobbett, the geriatric hero of this hilarious sitcom which takes a look at the generation gap – and in particular, what happens when a wily, outspoken old curmudgeon ends up living under the same roof as his daughter and son-in-law. This second series also stars Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke and Jon Laurimore. Having been prised from his terraced house in...

Miss Jones and Son: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
Paula Wilcox (Man About the House) stars in this comedy series depicting the complicated life of Elizabeth Jones, a young woman bringing up her baby alone at a time when single mothers faced widespread disapproval and prejudice. Written by Richard Waring (And Mother Makes Three) and produced and directed by Peter Frazer-Jones (Man About the House, Robin’s Nest), Miss Jones and Son was the first...

Whisper Of The Heart - Double Play: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
From the creators of the Academy Award-winning SPIRITED AWAY comes a tale scripted by the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. Directed by his protégé Yoshifumi Kondô, this film is a simple tale about a young girl who falls in love and learns to believe in herself. Her name is Suzuku Tsukishima and she is nearing the end of her final year of junior high. An avid bookworm, she devours books while...

Welcome to the NHK: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
Sato's life is going down the drain. He's dropped out of college, only goes outside once a week, and sleeps sixteen hours a day. Surviving on a steady diet of internet porn sites, he finds himself falling further into a pit of despair. Then he has a sudden epiphany. Sato decides that the sinister broadcast company known as "The NHK" is trying to transform their viewers into jobless, societal...

Sarah Millican: Chatterbox Live (DVD Details)
In the year that saw her nominated for two British Comedy Awards, complete a nationwide sell-out tour and become a regular face on the UK’s top comedy shows, Sarah Millican has ascended to become one of the nation’s best loved comedians. Recorded in London earlier this year, Chatterbox Live invites you to enter the wonderful world of Sarah Millican--where living alone drives your parents to...

Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer (DVD Details)
Milton Jones, - you know the weird bloke with the shirts from Mock the Week. As well as star of the Michael McIntyre Roadshow, and the voice of 9 series for Radio 4 (including The Very World of Milton Jones and Another Case of Milton Jones) and all sorts of other radio and telly as well. Awards too. Well it s his new show with new stuff, not in his last show...

U Got Jokes: Volume 5 (DVD Details)
It's funny , It's Amusing, It's Exciting , It's U Got Jokes live at the Indigo2. This Jam packed DVD showcases five of today's hottest comedians on the UK urban comedy circuit. Hosted by MTV's Kat who is joined by Funmbi, Slim, Mo The Comedian, Axel The Entertainer and A Dot Comedian. This is the fuunist to date as there is no holding back with riffs on everything from Relationships, to body...

K-ON! - Volume 3 (DVD Details)
Azusa has just joined the Light Music Club and she is shocked that all they do is drink tea and eat snacks instead of practicing. The rest of the band reassures her that they will practice hard at their training camp, but despite Azusa's objections the girls end up playing all day at the beach. Azusa soon learns that reason why the band plays so well is because they have so much fun together....

John Bishop Live: The Sunshine Tour (DVD Details)
Following the release of the fastest-selling debut stand-up DVD ever (not to mention the biggest seller of last year), John Bishop returns with his new live DVD. Seen by over 400,000 people across the UK, Sunshine was filmed live at Liverpool's Echo Arena on the last night of his sell-out tour of the same name. The combination of John's ability to keep the laughs coming along with his unique...

Alex Zane presents The Best of Rude Tube (DVD Details)
At last! The Best Of Rude Tube is brought together on this fun-filled DVD special, featuring over 100 of the world's favourite internet videos. Join Rude Tube's Alex Zane as he shares his favourite animal antics, freaky skills, total fails, cyber celebrities and mind-boggling pranks & stunts in 150 minutes of non-stop LOL entertainment. The Best of Rude Tube is also packed with added...

Jokers Wild: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 11 NOVEMBER 2012. Running for five highly successful years, Jokers Wild is a lively, rapidly paced panel game in which two teams of top comics compete for laughs from a studio audience. While team members delve into their repertoires for winning jokes based on topics drawn randomly from an oversized pack of cards, bonus points may be scored by opposing...

Slayers: Evolution-R (DVD Details)
The magical mayhem of The Slayers Revolution continues in The Slayers Evolution-R! With the original cast of The Slayers back together for the first time in over a decade, Lina Inverse and her crew are reunited and doing what they do best - saving the world by almost destroying it! Lina's gang and their new ally Pokota are hot on the trail of the Hellmaster's Jar! It's no ordinary piece of...