Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5501 Films to Buy & Rent
- Edge of Seventeen (2016)
- Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
Feat. Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner…
- Candid and humourous coming–of–age drama where an awkward seventeen year old comes to terms with her all–star older brother dating…
- Elvis & Nixon (Elvis and Nixon) (2016)
- Dir. Liza Johnson
Feat. Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer…
- Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon square off in this entertaining account of rock 'n' roll icon Elvis Presley's journey to the White House to request…
- Emo the Musical (2016)
- Dir. Neil Triffett
Feat. Benson Jack Anthony
- Unashamedly cliched adolescent angst musical, developed from Australian writer–director Neil Triffitt's 16–minute short. A suicidal emo…
- Everybody Wants Some! (2016)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Blake Jenner, Will Brittain, Ryan Guzman…
- Richard Linklater's spiritual successor to DAZED AND CONFUSED follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the…
- Family Fang, The (2016)
- Dir. Jason Bateman
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn…
- The Fang siblings, raised by performance artist parents, return home as adults with their own artistic careers in this art–world family…
- Family Law, The (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Trystan Go, Fiona Choi
- Gently comic series set in one dysfunctional Chinese–Australian family seen through the eyes of a fourteen–year old boy.
- Fleabag (TV Series) (2016)
- Dir. Tim Kirkby, Harry Bradbeer
Feat. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman…
- Ground breaking British comedy from the brain of genius writer, actor and producer Phoebe Waller–Bridge, developed from her one–woman…
- Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg…
- Meryl Streep shines in this biopic of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible…
- Ghostbusters (2016)
- Dir. Paul Feig
Feat. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon…
- Proving they're not always a "bridesmaid", Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig headline this riotous girl–powered reboot of the eighties comedy…
- Girl vs. Boy (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Will Robertson, Emma Draper, Courtney Abbot
- Kiwi romantic whodunit set in "The Bay", where an amateur detective takes it upon herself to solve the mystery behind the divisions in her tight knit…