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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And Mother Makes Three: The Complete Series (1971)
7.3/10
Starring: Wendy Craig, Julie Dawn Cole
Sally Harrison is a harassed, well-meaning but scatterbrained young widow doing her best to bring up two boisterous sons. Read more
Identity Thief (2013)
5.7/10
Director: Seth Gordon
Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, Genesis Rodriguez
Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up... Read more
Redirected (2014)
6.6/10
Starring: Vinnie Jones, Scot Williams
Four friends - John, Ben, Tim and Michael - turned first-time robbers, get stranded in Eastern Europe through a series of misadventures and have to fi... Read more
Grimsby (2016)
6.2/10
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson
MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's a football hooligan (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby ha... Read more
Henry's Crime (Blu-ray) (2010)
6/10
Director: Malcolm Venville
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Judy Greer, Fisher Stevens, James Caan, Vera Farmiga
Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing. Read more
Jack Rosenthal At ITV (1961)
Director: Mike Newell
Disc 1: Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.: Two amateur football teams clash in a local needle match. Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill: It's a great day in t... Read more
Freaks of Nature (2015)
5.9/10
Director: Robbie Pickering
Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Denis Leary, Ed Westwick, Vanessa Hudgens, Keegan-Michael Key,...
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers - one human,... Read more
Hop (2011)
5.4/10
Director: Tim Hill
Starring: Russell Brand, James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria, Gary Cole, Elizabeth Per...
E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In LA, he's taken in by Fred after t... Read more
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
6.4/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley
A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal. Read more
First Night (2010)
5.3/10
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Richard E Grant, Sarah Brightman, Oliver Dimsdale, Susannah Fielding, Nigel Lind...
Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the cap... Read more