Cheap DVDs

Retro Revival Boxset £4.75

The Police Academy films have, quite rightly, come in for a lot of stick over the years – however, the first one is actually pretty good. The bloke who does the funny voices somehow doesn’t seem as funny now though. Shame.

This makes up one third of the Retro Revival boxset, with the other two movies being The Goonies and Gremlins. Most people like these, so I don’t have to defend them!

Click here to get this set of cheap DVDs for £4.95 from Zavvi.

Alfred Hitchcock Boxset £17.98

Alfred Hitchcock is easily one of the greatest director’s of all time. Never has anyone deserved the moniker given to them as much as he does with "The Master Of Suspense".

This Alfred Hitchcock Boxset contains 14 of his very best films (including Vertigo, The Birds and a Psycho: Special Edition DVD), along with a documentary looking at his life.

Amazon are selling this collection for £17.98 – click here for more details.

The Mr Men And Little Miss DVD Collection £9.99

If your ever stuck for something that will keep young kids entertained for a while, then I can heartily recommend The Mr Men And Little Miss DVD Collection. The books are excellent, and these animated stories are equally as good.

This 12 disc set contains a whopping 146 classic tales which run for just over 14 hours, meaning this will take quite some time to get through – handy for the inevitable rainy days this Summer.

Click here to buy this boxset for £9.99 from HMV.

Cold Feet: The Complete Collection £17.98

Many people enjoyed comedy drama series Cold Feet, but it does have one thing to answer for – it kick-started the career of James Nesbitt. The Yellow Pages adverts he used to do were enough to put me off watching anything he’s ever in ever again, I’m afraid.

Cold Feet: The Complete Collection is an 11 disc set that contains all 32 episodes from the five series’ that were made. There’s also some bonus material looking at the making of the programme.

To get this for £17.98 from Amazon, click here.

Discounts At The Hut Group This Weekend

There’s some discounts at The Hut Group this weekend that could come in handy.

Simply enter the following voucher codes for the appropriate discount at The Hut:

Bank10 for £1 discount on a £10 spend
Bank20 for £2 discount on a £20 spend
Bank45 for £5 discount on a £45 spend

Click here to visit their site.

Over at the Argos Entertainment website there is a very similar kind of deal going on:

Argos10 for £1 discount on a £10 spend
Argos20 for £2 discount on a £20 spend
Argos45 for £5 discount on a £45 spend

To visit them simply click here.

All of these discounts will expire at midnight on the 31st of August, so you have a couple of days in which to use them.

Carry On: The Ultimate Collection £29.99

Although there is still talk that a long-mooted production titled "Carry On London" will appear at some point in the future, I think it’s safe to say that it will probably be nowhere near as funny as any of the original films – even though some of these have lost a bit of their charm over the years.

Carry On: The Ultimate Collection is a massive 30 disc boxset which contains every movie from the series (bar "Carry On Columbus, which has been held up by legal issues) and the full "Carry On Laughing" sitcom, along with a smattering of special features.

Click here to get this for £29.99 from HMV.

The Coen Brothers’ Collection £3.99

If you’ve only heard of The Coen Brothers because of the success of No Country For Old Men, then The Coen Brothers’ Collection gives you a good chance to see some of their excellent earlier stuff.

Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, and The Hudsucker Proxy are all very good in their own right. Bonus features wise you get an audio commentary on Blood Simple, and some deleted scenes on Barton Fink.

Click here to get this boxset for £3.99 from HMV.

Joey: The Complete First Season £4.99

Joey was an American sitcom that starred Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, reprising the role that made him popular in Friends. Sadly the show suffered from pretty terrible viewing figures, and was cancelled midway through the second year.

Joey: The Complete First Season contains the initial 24 installments. There aren’t any extra features included, which really isn’t that surprising based on the unpopularity of the programme.

Click here to buy this for £4.99 from Play.com.

Mad About You: The Complete First Season £4.49

Mad About You was a U.S. sitcom that aired between 1992 and 1999, and starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple living in New York City – Reiser played a documentary film-maker and Hunt was a public relations specialist.

Inside the Mad About You: The Complete First Season boxset you’ll find the first 22 episodes. Sadly there are no extra features, but the episodes themselves should be entertaining enough, to be honest.

Click here to buy this for £4.49 from Sendit.com.

Greatest Ever… Urban Boxset £6.93

It’s sometimes a little difficult to categorise exactly what constitutes an urban movie, but it’s safe to say that if there’s a gloomy feel about it (and violence is either seen or implied) then it’s one. Some good examples are to be found in this Greatest Ever… Urban Boxset.

8 Mile, Boyz N The Hood. Do The Right Thing, Lockdown and Gridlock’d are all very good in their own rights, with 8 Mile and Boyz N The Hood in particular being well worth a watch.

Asda have this set available for £6.93 – for more information, click here.