Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5540 Films to Buy & Rent
MacGruber (2010)
- Dir. Jorma Taccone
Feat. Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe…
- From the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE comedy stable comes this spiffy parody of '80s TV legend MACGYVER, with Will Forte rockin' the mullet as he battles…
Made in Dagenham (2010)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson…
- Nostalgic, uplifting dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford car plant in Dagenham, where female machinists famously walked out in protest…
Made In Romania (2010)
- Dir. Guy J. Louthan
Feat. Jason Flemyng, Jennifer Tilly, Elizabeth Hurley…
- Affable mock–umentary concerns a film producer's dream adaptation of an obscure Victorian novel that goes hopelessly awry in backwoods Romania.…
Mammuth (2010)
- Dir. Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Adjani…
- Slyly subversive comic tale with Gerard Depardieu in fine fettle as a retiree battling to secure his state pension.
Marriage and Other Disasters (Weddings and Other Disasters) (2010)
- Dir. Nina Di Majo
Feat. Fabio Volo, Margherita Buy, Luciana Littizzetto…
- Likeable rom–com with romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans.
Meet Monica Velour (2010)
- Dir. Keith Bearden
Feat. Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy…
- Kim Cattrall shines in this indie drama about a nerdy, movie–loving teen who lusts after a softcore actress and embarks on a road trip to see…
Mike & Molly (TV Series) (Mike and Molly) (2010)
- Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Billy Gardell, Katy Mixon…
- A bighearted, if keenly self–deprecating couple comedy about the blossoming romance between two self–loathing attendees of Overeaters…
Miss Nobody (2010)
- Dir. Tim Cox
Feat. Leslie Bibb, Adam Goldberg, Kathy Baker…
- Bloody black comedy with a mousy executive murdering her way up the corporate ladder. Strange brew that suggests AMELIE as remade by the Coen…
Morning Glory (2010)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton…
- Frothy comedy about a young television producer struggling to rescue her networks failing breakfast show, a show saddled with two decidedly ornery…
My Afternoons With Margueritte (2010)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus
- Gerard Depardieu plays an illiterate man who forges an unlikely friendship with a elderly writer in this gentle new film from the dir. of…