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.
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
What's Up Tiger Lily? (1966)
6/10
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi, Woody Allen
Starring: Tatsuya Mihashi, Miya Hana, Woody Allen, China Lee
Woody Allen provides the dubbed dialogue for a chopped up Japanese sexy spy thriller where the object of international intrigue is a recipe for egg sa... Read more
Sledge Hammer!: Season 2 (1987)
8.2/10
Starring: David Rasche, Anne-Marie Martin, Harrison Page
Surprising everyone, the uber-violently demented 'Sledge Hammer!' was renewed for another season, despite the apocalyptic ending of Season One. This... Read more
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
7.1/10
Director: Nick Park
Starring: Peter Sallis
Wallace and Gromit have started a new bread baking business, 'Top Bun'. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that a dozen loc... 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
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
5.9/10
Director: Sam Irvin
Starring: Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien, Mary Scheer, Scott Atkinson, Mary Jo Smith,...
Elvira's back in an all-new adventure! With her ample anatomical assets, big black bouffant, and hilarious one-liners, the Mistress of the Dark knocks... Read more
Casa de mi Padre (2012)
5.5/10
Director: Matt Piedmont
Starring: Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Genesis Rodriguez
Offbeat Spanish-language comedy stars Will Ferrell as Armando Alvarez who has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the... Read more
Scream 2 (1997)
6.1/10
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kenne...
Heroine Neve Campbell graduates to aspiring drama major, but after the original "Scream" is turned into a successful movie within this movie, a copyca... Read more
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
The Fred Dagg All-Purpose DVD (2007)
Starring: John Clarke
This authorised 'Daggography' (the most important document ever discovered in New Zealand), celebrates a golden age in our nation's history beginning... Read more