Spoofs
The wide wonderful world of film lends itself splendidly to the 'spoof' or parody as most genres have conventions and unwritten rules that are very easy to twist and undermine. It's all about messing with audience expectation - and nobody is safe - from TV cops ('Police Squad') to zombies ('Shaun of the Dead'); disaster flicks ('Airplane') to westerns ('Blazing Saddles'); Alfred Hitchcock ('High Anxiety') to Arnold Schwarzenegger ('Last Action Hero'). Sit back and have a laugh, at someone else's expense.
Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
7.2/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack H...
Based on a 1963 stage show by Charles Chilton, lampooning World War I and war in general, and focused on the Smith family who have five sons to send o... Read more
One Eyed Monster (2008)
4.2/10
Director: Adam Fields
Starring: Ron Jeremy, Veronica Hart, Carmen Hart, Amber Benson, Charles Napier
Ron Jeremy plays himself (though not for long) in this way over-the-top horror spoof in which his tadger is possessed by a homicidal alien and starts... Read more
OSS 117 - Cairo: Nest of Spies (2006)
7.1/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Berenice Bejo, Jean Dujardin, Jean-Francois Halin...
Introducing Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, French special agent OSS 117. After the mysterious death of his colleague Jack Jefferson while on assignment... Read more
OSS 117 - From Africa With Love (2001)
7/10
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Pierre Niney, Natacha Lindinger, Wladimir Yordanoff
The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures. Read more
OSS 117 - Lost in Rio (2009)
6.9/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Rudiger Vogler, Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Alex Lutz
The year is 1967 and Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin) - or, OSS 117 - is a dashing French intelligence officer whose handsome looks and deb... Read more
Our Man Flint (1965)
6.5/10
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Gila Golan
Super Secret Agent Flint (James Coburn) of Z.O.W.I.E. sets out to foil a plot to control the worlds weather when an evil organisation called Galaxy se... Read more
Our Man In Havana (1960)
7.2/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richa...
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, Alec Guinness stars in this classic spy spoof as Jim Wormold, an English expatriate who sells vacuum cleaners in H... Read more
Our Man In Havana (Blu-ray) (1960)
7.2/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richa...
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, Alec Guinness stars in this classic spy spoof as Jim Wormold, an English expatriate who sells vacuum cleaners in H... Read more
Police Squad!: The Complete Series (1982)
8.5/10
Director: David Zucker, Georg Stanford Brown, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Joe Dante, Paul Krasny, Reza Badiyi
Starring: Georg Stanford Brown, Dick Clark, William Conrad, William Duell, Robert Goulet,...
Finally on DVD, all six episodes of the hysterical TV-cop spoof that inspired the hit movie 'The Naked Gun'. Leslie Nielsen is Detective Frank Drebin... Read more
Poltergay (2006)
5.4/10
Director: Eric Lavaine
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski, Gilles Gaston Dreyfus, Jean...
An over-the-top horror spoof from France, with a young married couple thrilled to have bought a decrepit old mansion at a cheap price only to discover... Read more