Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5501 Films to Buy & Rent
- War on Everyone (2016)
- Dir. John Michael McDonagh
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Pena, Theo James…
- The Irish writer/director of CALVARY and THE GUARD goes Stateside for this comic actioner about two corrupt cops who gleefully blackmail and frame…
- Where Am I Going? (Quo vado?) (2016)
- Dir. Gennaro Nunziante
Feat. Checco Zalone
- Currently the highest grossing film in Italian cinema history, this refreshing comedy follows the fate of a comfortable middle–aged slacker…
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
- Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Feat. Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman…
- Spiky war comedy with Tina Fey as a journalist assigned to Afghanistan at the height of the second Gulf War. Based on the acclaimed memoir "The…
- Whisky Galore! (2016)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff…
- Rousing modern interpretation of the Ealing comedy classic which sees Scottish Islanders attempt to commandeer cases of whiskey from a stranded ship…
- Why Him? (2016)
- Dir. John Hamburg
Feat. Zoey Deutch, James Franco, Bryan Cranston…
- This raunchy twist on the father–vs–fiance scenario stars Bryan Cranston as a protective father who freaks out at the prospect of his…
- Wiener-Dog (2016)
- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy…
- Typically black humoured and viciously insightful comedy from dir. Todd Solondz, a spin–off from his indie classic WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE,…
- Zoolander 2 (2016)
- Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz…
- Amiable but only occasionally inspired sequel has Derek and Hansel return to the fashion world to help investigate who is behind the mysterious…
- 5 Flights Up (Five Flights Up) (2015)
- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Cynthia Nixon…
- Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton headline this amiable drama as a long–married couple endure a hectic weekend as they ponder the sale of the…
- 7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
- Dir. Bob Byington
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Stephen Root, Olympia Dukakis…
- Quirky comedy in which Jason Schwartzman essays another misanthropic slacker who lands a job at a garage where he becomes smitten with his new boss.
- 800 Words (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Erik Thomson, Michelle Langstone, Jonathan Brugh
- From the writers of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE come this gentle dramedy that follows the travails of a widowed Sydney columnist as he up sticks for life in…