Comedy

A mainstay genre, as old as the hills, good for a laugh, light in tone, and not to be taken too seriously…

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Kajillionaire (2020): Dir. Miranda July
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Gina Rodriguez…; Irreverent comedy from writer-director Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) following a struggling family who survive on petty crime, and whose interdependence is interrupted by the arrival of an outsider (Gina Rodriguez). Evan Rachel Wood is both mesmerising and hilariously dead pan in her…
Misbehaviour (2020): Dir. Philippa Lowthorpe
Feat. Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keeley Hawes…; Crowd pleasing comedy based on real life events in which a group of women disrupted the live broadcast of the 1970 Miss World competition to protest female objectification in beauty competitions. Keira Knightley plays notable activist Sally Alexander, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw is excellent as Miss Grenada…
Happiest Season (2020): Feat. Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie…; A lesbian rom-com gets the Hollywood treatment with this instant Christmas classic from writer-director Clea DuVall. Kristen Stewart plays a woman who discovers that her girlfriend (Mackenzie Davis) is not out to her conservative parents right before they arrive for Xmas, prompting all manner of awkward…
Lucky Grandma (2019): Dir. Sasie Sealy
Feat. Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow; A cranky, chain-smoking Grandma is the heroine of this accomplished and energetic comedy set in New York's Chinatown. After spending her life making an honest living and still not being able to afford her apartment, Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin in an inspired performance) steals a bag of cash from the Chinese…
Rams (2020): Dir. Jeremy Sims
Feat. Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson…; Aussie re-imagining of the hit Icelandic comedy RAMS (2016), with Sam Neill the obvious choice to play a farmer in a decades long war with his estranged brother (Michael Caton) over the prized bloodline of their respective sheep flocks. Shot on location in remote Southwestern Australia, this a warmer and…
Baby Done (2020): Dir. Curtis Vowell
Feat. Rose Matafeo, Matthew Lewis, Emily Barclay…; Appealing Kiwi comedy with award-winning stand-up comedian Rose Matafeo playing a reluctant soon-to-be parent in a state of increasing denial about her impending loss of freedom, as her long-term Brit boyfriend embraces the prospect of fatherhood. A larger scale project than director Curtis Vowell's…
Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020): Dir. Dean Parisot
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal…; Time-traveling rock 'n' roll nerds Bill and Ted are back for another adventure, now as middle-aged dads. From the director of GALAXY QUEST, and the writer of the original Bill and Ted movies, this is a nostalgia-fest with a big heart, filled with unbridled cheesy enthusiasm.