Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Spoof: 182 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mafia! (Jane Austen's Mafia) (1998)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Christina Applegate, Olympia Dukakis
- Ever the low–brow, dir. Jim Abrahams (NAKED GUN et al) delivers a fair quota of spoofing lowblows to the goodfella genre, assisted by a gang of…
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York…
- American cat Mike Myers draws on his predilection for British comedy for this spot–on spy movie satire.
He plays both the swinging '60s spy…
- Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)
- Dir. John Henderson
Feat. Rik Mayall, Jane Horrocks
- Rik Mayall delivers one of his oily variations in what is only his second feature. As a jaded music manager he decides to have his…
- Man Who Knew Too Little, The (1997)
- Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley…
- Contrived spy comedy, in which a bumbling Bill Murray accidently inducts himself into various high level intrigues. Though nothing special, this…
- Scream 2 (1997)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette…
- Neve Campbell and friends get revisited by another round of cell–phone threats, masked stalkers and spotty, self–referential…
- Telly Laughs (TV Series) (1997-1998)
- A spin–off of SKITZ, this irreverent Kiwi comedy hour parodies a variety of popular television shows, movies and commercials.
DVD features…
- God of Cookery, The (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
- Stephen Chow cooks up a comic storm as a mercilessly ego–centric chef who, in great narrative tradition, is forced to truly earn his title…
- High School High (1996)
- Dir. Hart Bochner
Feat. Jon Lovitz, Louise Fletcher
- THE NAKED GUN parody–squad punish the college delinquent genre (DANGEROUS MINDS, HIGHER LEARNING etc). Jokes mainly aim below the belt, and…
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening…
- Tim Burton once again turns tacky into an art form, but this time with a monster budget to match the alien carnage.
This gleefully (though…
- Scream (1996)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich…
- The horror genre gets a long overdue (if tongue–in–cheek) revamp but you needn't be an aficionado to experience the thrill of this…