Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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She's the Man (2006)
6.4/10
Director: Andy Fickman
Starring: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Robert Hoffman, Jonathan Sadowski, A...
This contemporary teen take on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night sees Viola (Amanda Bynes) assuming her brother Sebastian's identity so she can play on the... Read more
She-Devil (1989)
5.5/10
Director: Susan Seidelman
Starring: Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley Jr
Revenge was never sweeter than when spurned housefrau Roseanne Barr launches a vendetta against husband-stealing romance novelist Meryl Streep and way... Read more
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Michael Davis
Starring: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Stephen McHattie
Over-the-top action satire with Clive Owen as the hair-trigger badass, Mr Smith, who becomes the unwilling caregiver to an orphaned baby, rescued from... Read more
Shooting Fish (1997)
6.6/10
Director: Stefan Schwartz
Starring: Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale
This breezy comedy caper focuses on an American con artist and a British techno-geek who team up to scam the rich by peddling a bogus miracle computer... Read more
Shopgirl (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson, Sam Bottoms, Fr...
Steve Martin stars in and adapted the screenplay from his own novella about shopgirl Mirabelle (Claire Danes); she's depressed, underpaid, in debt and... Read more
Shorts (2009)
4.8/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: James Spader, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, William H Macy, Jimmy Bennett, Devon Gearh...
While grownups at Black Box Industries work to improve the handheld gizmo that's this year's high-tech must-have, neighbourhood kid Toby "Toe" Thomp... Read more
Show of Hands (2008)
6.5/10
Director: Anthony McCarten
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Craig Hall, Stephen Lovatt, Kyle Dyhrberg, Chelsie Preston Cray...
Melanie Lynskey came back to NZ to make this light-hearted romantic drama about a competition (famously held in Lower Hutt back in the '80s) where fol... Read more
Showtime (2002)
5.5/10
Director: Tom Dey
Starring: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Frankie Faison, William Shatner
Raucous action comedy with Eddie Murphy as a showboating rookie LA cop with acting ambitions who botches a bust by veteran lawman Robert De Niro by ca... Read more
Shrek Forever After (2010)
6.3/10
Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, John Cleese, Julie Andrews, Mike M...
Longing for the days when he was a "real ogre", Shrek (Mike Myers) signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) to get his roar back... but turns hi... Read more
Shrek Forever After ( Blu-ray ) (2010)
6.3/10
Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, John Cleese, Julie Andrews, Mike M...
Longing for the days when he was a "real ogre", Shrek (Mike Myers) signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) to get his roar back... but turns hi... Read more