Comedy > Oscar Comedy > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: bonus disc features loads of interesting extras
Disadvantages: the sexual violence is a little too crude

Pulp Fiction (winner of the Palm d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival) features three intertwined storylines. The film jumps back and forth between: Bruce Willis as a boxer who has made a deal with the mob to lose a match, John Travolta taking out his boss' wife and getting into a heap of trouble, and Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson's misshaps over an 'accidental' murder. One of the best moments of the films features a moment between Travolta and Uma ...
...mistakenly shoots up heroine and Travolta needs to drive a huge needle through her chest in order to save her. This is, of course, Tarantino's most well known film and deserves all the award winning acclaim it has been given. This 2 disc special collector's edition features a bonus disc full of great extras. It goes behind the scenes of the film and offers various articles and reviews and also has a production design featurette. Overall, if you liked ... Read review

Advantages: Great movie with some superb acting performances.
Disadvantages: Maybe a little slow for a younger audience

Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, details the subtleties of southern life. Adapted from Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, the movie tells the story of Miss Daisy and her chauffer, Hoke. It is a sentimental journey through the years as we watch a reluctant friendship build between a wealthy lady and her chauffer. The Plot Miss Daisy is becoming a danger on the highways as she manages to write-off her car in her own driveway. ...
...eventually allows Hoke to be her chauffer. As the movie progresses in its quiet and sometimes funny way we see a reluctant friendship develop as the two realize they have much in common. Hoke, with his gentleness and patience begins to win the war against the temperamental Miss Daisy. As Miss Daisy’s synagogie is attacked, Hoke points out similarities between the Klu-Klux-Klans attacks on black churches. The movie is tinged with sadness throughout ... Read review

Advantages: Lovely performances
Disadvantages: There isn't a lot of action to drive the movie along

After a whirlwind romance, sophisticated Chicago art dealer Madeleine and Southern gent George get married. She's never met his family, so when they go to visit a reclusive artist in North Carolina, they extend their trip to take in his folks. The down-to-earth group are his mother Peg, father Eugene, taciturn brother Johnny and Johnny's pregnant wife Ashley. None of them know quite what to make of the urban sophisticate and only Ashley welcomes ...
...really find common ground or are they doomed to misunderstand one another? Director Phil Morrison's film looks exactly like what it is; a low-budget independent movie that has to rely more on its cast and script than high-tech gadgetry and flashy visuals. It is shot on the hoof on digital video and fits the naturalistic style of acting and dialogue. It's almost as if you're a silent observer of the characters' lives, privy to their most intimate ... Read review

Advantages: Reasonable retro comedy
Disadvantages: I prefer George and Mildred. Yes, really.

Terry and June Medford are a middle-aged couple whose daughter has left home. Now that Terry has been promoted, they move to Purley and settle down to a comfortable suburban existence. But with Terry and his hare-brained schemes, life is never quiet for long. And with neighbours like Tina and Brian, there isn't much hope of him staying out of trouble. Thankfully, June is a loyal wife and puts up with much of Terry's madness because she loves him. ...
...another go. At the time, Terry and June became synonymous with the happily married surburban lifestyle that everyone was supposedly aiming for, although in hindsight, it is sometimes a little bit hard to take - worrying about the carpet when others are struggling to survive does seem like a problem taken too far. However, I think it is important to try to remember that it isn't supposed to be insulting - it is just a reflection of society at the ... Read review

Advantages: Warm and nostalgic
Disadvantages: Nothing major

Radio Days is a film directed and written by Woody Allen in 1987. Allen does not appear in the film but he does feature as a narrator. Radio Days is inspired by Allen's childhood in the forties and is a nostalgic and bittersweet comedy about an era when radio was the most influential and popular medium and everyone gathered around their sets at night to listen to serials and comedy shows. The film has two broad strands that tie it together. The frst ...
...Allen has said that Radio Days is an exaggerated view of his childhood with many autobiographical traces. He did live by the beach (Long Beach) for a time and characters in the film were inspired by some of the relations he grew up with. He wanted to pick out a group of old songs that each evoked a memory and make a film about how important and glamorous radio seemed when he was a child. In Radio Days we meet little Joe's eccentric but warm family ... Read review