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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.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)

8.3/10
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idl...

King Arthur meets Monty Python in this irreverent, insane, funny film with Graham Chapman as King Arthur convening his knights to seek the Holy Grail.... Read more

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

6.6/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Rob Lowe, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, E...

More swingin' 60s lunacy as Dr Evil returns to Earth with a time-travel machine and goes back to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo and terrorise the world w... Read more

Army of Darkness ( Evil Dead III ) (1992)

7.6/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Marcus Gilbert, Embeth Davidtz, Bruce Campbell

This is the third film in Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead" series and is by far the most polished. Film fanatics will cherish the comedy, mayhem and salutes to... Read more

Blazing Saddles (1974)

7.8/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Mel Brooks, Harvey...

Hollywood Westerns were never the same after director/co-writer Mel Brooks put them through the comedy wringer with this tasteless, hilarious spoof. C... Read more

Hercules Returns (1993)

7.6/10
Director: David Parker
Starring: David Argue, Bruce Spence, Mary Coustas

Three film entrepreneurs open an old cinema with the classic 'B' grade film 'Hercules'. However, on opening night they discover that it's in Italian w... 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

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

6.2/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles, Michael Caine, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Verne Tro...

The third outing for Mike Myers' toothy super-sleuth finds Powers time-hopping again - this time back to 1975, where the devilish Dr Evil and lame-cla... Read more

Soap: Season 1, Episodes 1 - 10 (1977)

8.2/10
Starring: Katherine Helmond, Cathryn Damon, Robert Mandan, Richard Mulligan, Diana Canova,...

The controversial sitcom that defined the late '70s and became an instant classic, "Soap" took viewers into the quirky lives of the Tates and the Camp... Read more

Scary Movie 3 (2003)

5.5/10
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Anna Faris, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Camryn Manheim, Simon Rex, George...

Great trilogies come in threes. David Zucker ("Flying High") takes over the directing reigns for this latest outing that features Anna Faris, Charlie... 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