Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5536 Films to Buy & Rent
Camille Rewinds (2012)
- Dir. Noemie Lvovsky
Feat. Noemie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Denis Podalydes…
- A jilted 40–something woman drowns her sorrows to the point of oblivion, sending herself back in time to her sixteenth birthday where she gets…
Campaign, The (2012)
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis…
- A naive political lackey is handpicked to run against a bumbling North Carolina congressman in this demented satire of the American electoral process.
Casa de mi Padre (House of My Father) (2012)
- Dir. Matt Piedmont
Feat. Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Pedro Jr. Armendariz…
- Will Ferrell goes off the grid in this bizarre, no–budget Mexican melodrama. An inspired spoof, depending on your tolerance for inscrutable…
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
- Dir. Donald Rice
Feat. Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Mackenzie Crook…
- Coy period drama with a young woman battling with nerves on her wedding day, while downstairs her fretting husband waits.
Citizen Khan (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Adil Ray, Shobu Kapoor
- A broad cultural comedy (not far removed from MRS BROWN'S BOYS) contentious for its religious and racial punchlines, this is based on the ups and…
Comes a Bright Day (2012)
- Dir. Simon Aboud
Feat. Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd…
- The cherubic charm of Craig Roberts (SUBMARINE) and Imogen Poots carry this swish, luxuriously shot heist movie–cum–romantic comedy,…
Cuckoo (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Greg Davies, Helen Baxendale, Andy Samberg
- A wonderfully awkward British sitcom starring American comedian Andy Samberg as an out–to–lunch hippy who migrates with his new…
Damsels in Distress (2012)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody
- A welcome, long–overdue return to the youthful comedy of manners Whit Stillman made his name with in the 90s. Greta Gerwig plays an earnest…
Danger 5 (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. David Ashby, Aldo Mignone, Sean James Murphy
- Spot–on Australian spy parody follows a team of groovy international agents whose mission is to take down Hitler in an alternate 1960s…
Danny Bhoy: Live at the Festival Theatre (2012)
- Feat. Danny Bhoy
- More hilarity from one of Britain's premiere comedians, here combining the greatest hits from his past two shows, ‘By Royal Disappointment’ and…