Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5536 Films to Buy & Rent
Shameless (TV Series, US) (2011)
- Feat. William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin
- Watchable, surprisingly insightful remake of the hit British series attempts to three–dimensionalize the 'trailer park' stereotype in its…
Sitter, The (2011)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor…
- An R–Rated 'Adventures in Babysitting', with college dropout Jonah Hill dragging three unsuspecting youngsters on an urban sortie when his…
Skylab (2011)
- Dir. Julie Delpy
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Emmanuelle Riva, Eric Elmosnino…
- Julie Delpy directs this nostalgic crowd–pleaser, set around a rowdy family gathering in the summer of 1979, whose youngest member believes…
Something Borrowed (2011)
- Dir. Luke Greenfield
Feat. Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield…
- Modest wedding drama with the appealing Goodwin testing the boundaries of friendship after sleeping with her best friend's fiance.
Source, The (La Source des femmes) (2011)
- Dir. Radu Mihaileanu
Feat. Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass
- A dashing feminist dramedy sprung from the male bias in the Middle East, about a village of women who take up a 'sex strike' after their husbands…
Spark of Life, The (As Luck Would Have It) (2011)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Jose Mota, Salma Hayek, Blanca Portillo…
- An aggressive media satire centred around the frenzied bidding war that erupts for a permanently and publicly immobile man's story, with the man…
Stephen Merchant : Hello Ladies... Live! (2011)
- Out from the shadow of Ricky Gervais, the gangly co–creator of THE OFFICE turns his awkward, self–abasing persona into a frequently…
Strigoi (2011)
- Dir. Faye Jackson
Feat. Constantin Barbulescu, Camelia Maxim, Catalin Paraschiv
- Slow–burning horror, laced with dean–pan humour, has residents of a Romanian village contending with an outbreak of communist vampires.
Suburgatory (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Jeremy Sisto, Jane Levy, Alan Tudyk…
- A single father moves to the 'burbs to ensure a better quality of life for his teenage daughter – although all is not as normal as expected.…
Suits (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams
- Smart, sassy lawyer show where a brilliant college drop–out with a photographic memory is hired by one of Manhattan's top corporate firms,…