Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5536 Films to Buy & Rent
Journey to the West (Conquering The Demons) (2013)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Chi-kin Kwok
Feat. Shu Qi, Zhang Wen, Bo Huang
- Stephen Chow directs this entertaining Monkey legend spoof with imagination and an eye for the ridiculous. Centred on a Buddhist's unpredictable road…
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
- Dir. Jeff Wadlow
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse…
- The self–made superheroes who donned caps and masks to fight crime on their own terms return for this crash–bang sequel to the hit 2010…
Knights of Badassdom (2013)
- Dir. Joe Lynch
Feat. Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau…
- Bumbling comedy parody of a group of live–action role players (LARPs) who inadvertently conjure up a demon and must raise swords to defeat it…
Last Vegas (2013)
- Dir. Jon Turteltaub
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman…
- Four Hollywood old boys get together for this baby boomer romp through the casinos and nightclubs of gaudy Las Vegas.
A geriatric bromance that…
Le Weekend (2013)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum
- Director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi (VENUS, THE MOTHER) reteam for this poignant story of a long–married couple who revisit Paris…
Life of Crime (2013)
- Dir. Daniel Schechter
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def, Isla Fisher…
- Elmore Leonard adaptation has two crims get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real–estate developer who shows…
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
- Dir. David Trueba
Feat. Javier Camara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer…
- Award–winning Spanish comedy concerning a Beatles–obsessed school teacher on a quest to meet John Lennon, picking up two teenage runaways…
Love Punch (2013)
- Dir. Joel Hopkins
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall…
- A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.
Lucky Them (2013)
- Dir. Megan Griffiths
Feat. Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, Oliver Platt…
- Toni Collette stars as rock journalist Ellie Klug, who is assigned to write a piece on her former boyfriend, a musician who had disappeared ten years…
Maron (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Marc Maron
- The caustic stand–up and podcast ace gets his own television series chronicling the ups and downs of a life in humour.