Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5540 Films to Buy & Rent
Veep (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Matt Walsh
- THE THICK OF IT creator Armando Iannucci successfully transplants the formula of his hit British political satire to the White House in this winning…
Vulgaria (2012)
- Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung
Feat. Chapman To, Dada Chan, Suet Lam
- Amusingly scattershot showbiz satire of a struggling film producer who turns to making pornography under the financing of a twisted triad…
Wanderlust (2012)
- Dir. David Wain
Feat. Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux…
- Newly unemployed, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play a Manhattan couple who decide to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love…
Watch, The (2012)
- Dir. Akiva Schaffer
Feat. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill…
- Four suburban blockheads form a neighbour watch group when they discover an alien invasion is upon them in this ballsy buddy comedy with a…
What To Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
- Dir. Kirk Jones
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks…
- Strictly one for those either expecting or rearing, this predictable rom–com via the rocky road of motherhood angles its jokes squarely at…
What's in a Name? (2012)
- Dir. Matthie Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière
Feat. Patrick Bruel, Valerie Benguigui, Charles Berling
- A French "dinner party" comedy par excellence that interrogates the anxiety of impending parenthood and bourgeois politics when a liberal couple find…
Why Stop Now? (2012)
- Dir. Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan
- Jesse Eisenberg plays a piano prodigy determined to get his drug addicted mother (Melissa Leo) into rehab – with the help of a bumbling dealer…
Wrong (2012)
- Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Feat. Jack Plotnick, William Fichtner
- In this follow–up to the cult horror RUBBER, dir. Quentin Dupieux refines his unique storytelling craft with this beguiling comedy of the…
You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)
- Dir. Ronnie Khalil, Monroe Mann
Feat. Ronnie Khalil, Monroe Mann
- A group of diehard Stephen King fans make a pilgrimage to a lake near his residence, only to fall victim to serial killer in their midst.
A campy…
Young Doctor's Notebook, A (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Alex Hardcastle
Feat. Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe
- Tragi–comic TV series set in the early 20th century, with actors Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe playing a troubled and incompetent medic at a…