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Wes Anderson's comic Indian road-movie, set on a train, follows three brothers on a road-to-nowhere as they try to bond with one another after the death of their father. Trying to rekindle their sibling affections, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody), and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) Whitman travel across India to meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston), who has forsaken western life to become a nun in the Himalayas. Along the way, the hapless brothers fall victim to a range of mishaps, involving, among other things, pepper spray and an unhealthy fondness for pharmaceuticals, as their well-intentioned trip spirals out of control.
Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in this romantic comedy centred on the unexpected life changes that befall a priggish university admissions officer. Portia (Fey) maintains an outward veneer of calm and efficiency in the exalted position she holds, selecting the chosen few deemed suitable for Princeton University. But when she agrees to meet former college classmate John (Rudd) at his alternative-run school out in the sticks, her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. John believes that one of the gifted students that he's championing for Princeton, Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), is actually the child that Portia had adopted back in her college days. As Portia struggles with the ethics of helping to further Jeremiah's academic progress, a growing romance with John soon threatens to throw a spanner in the works of her hitherto orderly life.
A collection of two Alan Partridge specials. In 'Welcome to the Places of My Life', former chat show star Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) takes viewers on a 'documentary' tour of the county that has shaped the life of this national icon - Norfolk. Showcasing such highlights as the Riverside Leisure Centre, the local dry ski slope, and the inspiring spaces of Norwich City Hall, Alan shares his thoughts on the sights and sounds that have come to mould the broadcasting legend. In 'Open Books with Martin Bryce', Alan talks to stand-in host Chris Beale (Robert Popper) about his latest autobiography 'I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan'. In a candid and wide-ranging interview, the North Norfolk Digital DJ discusses all aspects of his life, including his once all-consuming Toblerone addiction.
Every episode of the US comedy following the struggles of Malcolm (Frankie Muniz), a boy with the IQ of a genius, and his family. Season 1 episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Red Dress', 'Home Alone Four', 'Shame', 'Malcolm Babysits', 'Sleepover', 'Francis Escapes', 'Krelboyne Picnic', 'Lois Vs. Evil', 'Stock Car Races', 'Funeral', 'Cheerleader', 'Rollerskates', 'The Bots and the Bees', 'Smunday' and 'Water Park'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Traffic Jam', 'Halloween Approximately', 'Lois' Birthday', 'Dinner Out', 'Casino', 'Convention', 'Robbery', 'Therapy', 'High School Play', 'Bully', 'Old Mrs Old', 'Krelboyne Girl', 'New Neighbours', 'Hal Quits', 'The Grandparents', 'Traffic Ticket', 'Surgery', 'Reese Cooks', 'Tutoring Reese', 'Bowling', 'Malcolm Vs. Reese', 'Mini-Bike', 'Carnival', 'Evacuation' and 'Flashback'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Houseboat', 'Emancipation', 'Book Club', 'Malcolm's Girlfriend', 'Charity', 'Health Scare', 'Christmas', 'Poker', 'Reese's Job', 'Lois' Makeover', 'Company Picnic: Part 1', 'Company Picnic: Part 2', 'Reese Drives', 'Cynthia's Back', 'Hal's Birthday', 'Hal Coaches', 'Dewey's Dog', 'Poker #2', 'Clip Show', 'Jury Duty', 'Cliques' and 'Monkey'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Zoo', 'Humilithon', 'Family Reunion', 'Stupid Girl', 'Forwards Backwards', 'Forbidden Girlfriend', 'Malcolm Holds His Tongue', 'Boys at Ranch', 'Grandma Sues', 'If Boys Were Girls', 'Long Drive', 'Kicked Out', 'Stereo Store', 'Hal's Friend', 'Garage Sale', 'Academic Octathalon', 'Clip Show 2', 'Reese's Party', 'Future Malcolm', 'Baby: Part 1', 'Baby: Part 2' and 'Day Care'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Vegas', 'Watching the Baby', 'Goodbye Kitty', 'Thanksgiving', 'Malcolm Films Reese', 'Malcolm's Job', 'Christmas Trees', 'The Block Party', 'Dirty Magazine', 'Hot Tub', 'Ida's Boyfriend', 'Softball', 'Lois' Sister', 'Malcolm Dates a Family', 'Reese's Apartment', 'Malcolm Visits College', 'Polly in the Middle', 'Experiment', 'Dewey's Special Class', 'Victor's Other Family', 'Reese Joins the Army: Part 1' and 'Reese Joins the Army: Part 2'. Season 6 episodes are: 'Reese Comes Home', 'Buseys Run Away', 'Standee', 'Pearl Harbor', 'Kitty's Back', 'Hal's Christmas Gift', 'Hal Sleepwalks', 'Lois Battles Jamie', 'Malcolm's Car', 'Billboard', 'Dewey's Opera', 'Living Will', 'Tiki Lounge', 'Ida Loses a Leg', 'Chad's Sleepover', 'No Motorcycles', 'Butterflies', 'Ida's Dance', 'Motivational Speaker', 'Stilts', 'Buseys Take a Hostage' and 'Mrs Tri-County'. Season 7 episodes are: 'Burning Man', 'Health Insurance', Reese Vs. Stevie', 'Halloween', 'Jessica Stays Over', 'Secret Boyfriend', 'Blackout', 'Army Buddy', 'Malcolm Defends Reese', 'Malcolm's Money', 'Bride of Ida', 'College Recruiters', 'Mono', 'Hal Grieves', 'A.A.', 'Lois Strikes Back', 'Hal's Dentist', 'Bomb Shelter', 'Stevie in the Hospital', 'Cattle Court', 'Morp' and 'Graduation'.
All 12 episodes from series 1 and 2 of the British sitcom set in a high street mobile phone store. The show follows new employee Christopher (Tom Bennett) as he settles into his job and gets into various predicaments along with his fellow workers, Ashley (Andrew Brooke), Jerwayne (Javone Prince), Janine (Emma Fryer) and manager Lance (Martin Trenaman). Series one episodes are: 'Doctor Who', 'Never On a Tuesday', 'The First Temptation of Chris', 'Bear Bad Man', 'Salesman of the Month' and 'Soldier, Swingers, Shelley, Shelley'. Series two episodes are: 'Lance Got Game', 'It's Training Men', 'The Sleepyman', 'Whatheather', 'Come Dine With We' and 'Revenge of the Razz'.
Genre-crossing Chinese comedy starring Kevin Spacey and Daniel Wu. Plunged into despair thanks to his failing marriage to moody journalist Pang (Beibi Gong) and the pressure he is under from his bosses to lie for the sake of the company he works for, prosthetic engineer Li (Wu) contemplates suicide as a means of escaping his daily woes. However, before he can tie the noose around his neck, in walks his American neighbour and soon-to-be life mentor Chuck (Spacey). While mining the depths of Li's dissatisfaction, Chuck encourages him to free his mind and begin living authentically and the two become superhero vigilantes in the process, but as Li's fight against society's injustice comes to a head his grasp on reality begins to slip...
Bruce Beresford directs this 1970s musical comedy starring Barry Humphries and Terry Thomas. In the small town of Sludgley, two nightclubs try to outdo each other by booking the best British bands they can get hold of when the local authorities uncover an age-old law that means only one of them can remain open. The film includes performances by Mud, The Rubettes, Kenny and many others.
Extended cut of the action comedy inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairytale starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. The film is set 15 years after the young Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest and taken prisoner in a gingerbread house by a child-eating witch. The siblings managed to escape, and in the intervening years have taken advantage of their subsequent immunity to bad spells and curses to set themselves up as expert bounty hunters, becoming world-famous for their skill in tracking down and killing evil-doers around the globe. The film follows the brother and sister on their latest assignment - a campaign against evil sorceress Muriel (Famke Janssen) - which they begin to realise may be their golden opportunity for revenge of a more personal nature.
The entire first series of the BBC black comedy following the exploits of three 20-somethings who decide to set up a business specialising in assisted suicide. With his terminally ill neighbour pleading for a way out of his misery and his brother Joey (Ben Heathcote) in need of cash to pay off his gambling debts, Scott (Blake Harrison) and his mate Cozzo (Marc Wootton) come up with what they think is an ideal, albeit extremely illegal, way to help both - an assisted suicide machine. But as they struggle to keep their business under wraps, they soon realise that 'here today, gone tomorrow' is not the only answer to life's problems.
Jim Jarmusch's black and white urban comedy features a series of separate vignettes, all based around characters (most of them famous) sitting around drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and discussing life. Originally released as three separate shorts, the main narrative strands feature famous faces including Steve Buscemi, Roberto Benigni and musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits. These are interspersed with sketches featuring luminaries as diverse as Bill Murray, Steve Coogan, Cate Blanchett and the Wu-Tang Clan. This full-length version was screened at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.
Bank-robbers unwittingly let loose a zombie horde onto the streets of London, in this comedy horror from director Matthias Hoene. Andy (Harry Treadaway) and Terry (Rasmus Hardiker) are determined to save their grandad Ray (Alan Ford)'s care home by robbing a bank. But when they break into a 350-year-old underground vault, the gang of robbers realise they've bitten off more than they can chew when they unleash a zombie army. With the undead looking for their next meal, the gang, led by Katy (Michelle Ryan), must rescue the old folks, all the while battling their way to freedom with their hard-earned dosh.
The complete fifth series of the light-hearted BBC panel show hosted by Rob Brydon. Joined by team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell, Brydon presides as a range of celebrity guests attempt to detect truth amidst a mire of lies. Among the challenges on the show, each guest must read aloud a series of statements about themselves and attempt to bluff and double-bluff the opposition as they try to guess which of the statements are correct. Among the celebrities to appear in this series are Jack Whitehall, Miranda Hart, Kevin Bridges, Louie Spence, Frank Skinner and Phil Tufnell.
All 12 episodes from the BBC black comedy written by and starring Julia Davis. In the first series, beauty salon owner Jill (Davis) is on a mission to find a man. Pretending that her hospitalised husband is dying, she joins a dating agency but when her dates don't come up to scratch, she sets her sights on her neighbour, Don (Angus Deayton), and develops a very unhealthy obsession about him. Moving in to 'nurse' his terminally ill wife, Cath (Rebecca Front), Jill is determined to seduce him and bring their marriage to a grinding halt. In the second series, Don and Cath have moved to a seaside retreat to escape from Jill and work on their marriage. Jill, still obsessed with Don, manages to find them, however, and brings disorder into their life once more by claiming that their 12-year-old son is the father of her unborn child.
Updated version of the Dickens' classic with Bill Murray as Frank, a network TV president and modern day Scrooge who is always looking out for number one. One night, as Christmas approaches, he is visited by three zany ghosts including ex-New York Doll David Johansen as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Carol Kane as a violent Ghost of Christmas Present; whilst jazz great Miles Davis appears in a cameo role as a street musician.
All six episodes from the second series of the Dublin-set sitcom depicting the life and times of Mrs Agnes Brown (played by writer/creator Brendan O'Carroll) and her unruly brood. In this series Cathy (Jennifer Gibney)'s new boyfriend Professor Clowne (Mike Pyatt) is fascinated by Agnes's odd behaviour when she swallows what she thinks are heartburn pills. The episodes comprise: 'Mammy Pulls It Off', 'Mammy's Coming!', 'iMammy (Batteries Not Included)', 'SuperMammy', 'Mammy's Going' and 'New Mammy'.
This complete box set contains all eight seasons of Desperate Housewives. Welcome to the sexiest street in suburbia, where the lawns are green and the scandals ripe. Rediscover every delectable moment of this sinfully original series, from the stunning beginning on Mary Alice’s unusual day, through the climactic finale. This collection gathers all eight seasons together in a sizzling set that is totally desperate and dangerously delightful.
A double bill of teen-sex comedies. 'Porky's (1981) is set in 1950s Florida and a group of high school teens try to release their sexual frustration by going to Porky's, the local brothel. However, when the owner throws them out into the local swamp, the boys' interest switches from getting laid to getting even. A huge 'sleeper' hit at the box office, this film spawned two sequels and a spate of nostalgic teen sex comedies. In the first sequel 'Porky's 2' (1983), the high school kids do battle with puritanical grown-ups and the Ku Klux Klan, winning the day through a combination of schoolboy pranks and sexual hi-jinx.
Grim Mancunian characters brought to life by Steve Coogan (creator of Alan Partridge), in two Bafta winning spoof video diaries. In 'Paul Calf's Video Diary', Steve plays the title character as he and his friends bum around Manchester by getting drunk and doing Chuck Norris impressions. Coogan also plays Paul's sister, Pauline, who turns up again as the leading role in the second video diary: 'Three Fights, Two Weddings and a Funeral'. In it, Pauline is engaged to marry Spiros, a Greek man she met on holiday, but Fat Bob (or Fat Robert Esquire as he prefers to be called) is also in love with her. Both films also star Patrick Marber, John Thomson and Gary Olsen. As an added extra, there are previously unreleased interviews with Paul and Pauline.
Madcap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley (Leslie Phillips) plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to 'close the deal'. However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch (Ray Cooney), to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his own mistress and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things.
Second season of the Australian comedy in which a man's fledgling relationship with a beautiful woman is complicated by the jealousy of her strangely human-seeming pet dog, Wilfred. Adam (Adam Zwar) is initially delighted to be invited home by Sarah (Cindy Waddingham). However, when he meets her 'dog', Wilfred (Jason Gann), his enthusiasm wanes dramatically. While to Sarah Wilfred is a just a pet, Adam sees him as a man dressed in a dog suit - and no mere ordinary man. Wilfred is a drunken, possessive and foul-mouthed ne'er-do-well and the bane of love-struck Adam's life. Episodes are: 'Kiss Me Kat', 'Dog of a Town: Part 1', 'Dog of a Town: Part 2', 'Honey You're Killing the Dog', 'Ice Dog Cometh', 'The Dog Father', 'Dog Star' and 'Bite Club'.
The complete first season of the popular US sitcom. In 'Love and Marriage' Will refuses to give his blessing when Grace accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal. 'New Lease on Life' finds Grace deciding that she wants to move in with Will. 'Head Case' sees the flatmates arguing about bathroom rights. 'Between a Rock and Harlan's Place' has Grace draw up plans to decorate Harlan's place. 'Boo! Humbug' finds Will and Grace going trick-or-treating with Harlan's kids. 'William, Tell' sees Grace become suspicious of Will's relations with his clients. 'Where There's a Will There's No Way' has Grace become concerned about the amount of fun she is having with Will. 'The Buying Game' finds Will using some underhand means when Grace asks him to help her negotiate the purchase of her studio space. 'The Big Vent' sees the friends listening in on a real-life soap opera. 'The Truth About Will and Dogs' has Grace bring a new canine resident into the flat. 'Will on Ice' finds Grace and Jack waxing lyrical about professional ice skating. In 'My Fair Maidy', Will hires a maid to help keep the flat clean. In 'The Unsinkable Mommy Adler' Grace's mother comes to visit. 'Big Brother is Coming (Part 1)' has Will worried about a visit from his estranged older brother Sam. 'Big Brother is Coming (Part 2)' sees Will shocked to discover that Grace spent the night with Sam. 'Yours, Mine or Ours' finds Will and Grace fighting for the attention of a new neighbour. 'Secrets and Lays' has the friends take a weekend holiday in Vermont. 'Grace Replaced' sees Grace fight neighbour Val for the role of Will's right-hand-girl. 'Will Works Out' finds Will taking Jack for a work-out at his gym. 'Saving Grace' has Grace decorate the house of a man who wants to get a date with Will. 'Alley Cats' sees Grace try to become less competitive. Finally, in 'Object of My Rejection', Jack marries Karen's maid.
Comedy written by and starring Kristen Wiig as a hapless maid of honour struggling to keep things on an even keel in the lead up to her best friend's wedding. Annie (Wiig) is still reeling from the failure of her bakery business and the subsequent loss of her boyfriend and all her savings when her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), announces that she is engaged and wants Annie to take charge of her pre-wedding preparations. As if the responsibility of the role at such a tough time wasn't trying enough, Annie faces the small matter of dealing with Lillian's other bridesmaids - led by Helen (Rose Byrne) and Megan (Melissa McCarthy) - who have their own ideas on the kind of events befitting Lillian's final weeks as an unmarried woman. As a variety of mishaps, including mass food poisoning and a plane grounding, riddle Annie's attempts to help, she gradually finds herself usurped by Helen. But will her loyalty to Lillian pull her through in the end?
Every episode from the first nine seasons of the popular US comedy series. The show focuses on the bizarre experiences of John 'J.D.' Dorian as he embarks on his healing career in a surreal hospital crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients.
Lo-tech crime fighter 'The Crimson Bolt' takes to the streets to clean up the city in this dark comedy from director James Gunn. Mild-mannered Frank D'Arbo (Rainn Wilson) decides to enter the world of crime fighting superheroes when his wife, Sarah (Liv Tyler), leaves him for local drug dealer Jacques (Kevin Bacon). Believing his wife will come back to him if he can only defeat Jacques and the rest of the city's lowlife, Frank morphs into The Crimson Bolt, complete with handmade costume and trusty pipe-wrench. But just when Frank's entirely human exploits seem to be running out of steam, the unforeseen arrival of comic shop assistant Libby (Ellen Page), in the guise of sidekick 'Boltie', helps save the day.
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