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Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
7.8/10
Director: Paul Justman
Starring: The Funk Brothers
Long-overdue tribute to The Funk Brothers, Berry Gordy's team of superlative musicians who backed such Motown giants as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Th... Read more
The Aristocrats (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Paul Provenza
Starring: Robin Williams, Jason Alexander, Drew Carey, George Carlin, Steven Wright, Smoth...
'A family walks into a talent agent's...' so begins one of stand-up comedy's most well-kept secrets. The so-called 'world's dirtiest joke' gets an ai... Read more
A Night at the Opera (1935)
8/10
Director: Sam Wood
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
Considered by many to be the Marx Brothers' best film. Groucho, Harpo and Chico take on the opera world in order to reunite singers Allan Jones and Ki... Read more
Duck Soup, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers (1931)
7.8/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern
'Duck Soup' In postage-stamp sized Freedoria, Prime Minister Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) declares war on neighbouring Sylvania just for the hell of it... Read more
Duck Soup (1933)
8/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern
In postage-stamp sized Freedoria, Prime Minister Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) declares war on neighbouring Sylvania just for the hell of it in this sati... Read more
A Day At The Races (1937)
7.7/10
Director: Sam Wood
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Anyone for a tootsi-fruitsi ice cream? Side-splitting Marx Brothers comedy has horse doctor Groucho trying to keep Maureen O'Sullivan's sanitarium fro... Read more
Animal Crackers (1930)
7.7/10
Director: Victor Heerman
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Lillian Roth
The Marx Brothers' second film finds them still struggling to get a footing in their new medium. With blocking that exposes its stage origins, Animal... Read more
Horse Feathers (1932)
7.7/10
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, David Landau
Groucho is head of Huxley College, building up a winning football team with the help of Chico and Harpo, in crazy Marx brothers nonsense. (The passwor... Read more
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
7.1/10
Director: Archie Mayo
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Lisette Verea, Charles Drake
Groucho, Harpo and Chico involved in a nest of Nazi spies in a Casablanca hotel. One of the later Marx Brothers' films, but still a good one, with gre... Read more
Room Service (1938)
6.8/10
Director: William A Seiter
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller
Marx Brothers farce with Groucho as a bankrupt Broadway producer fighting off famine and eviction from a hotel room. With Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and... Read more
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)
2.3/10
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Starring: Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus
Miley Cyrus pulls double duty, appearing as herself and alter ego Hannah Montana in this documentary/concert film shot during the "pair's" insanely po... Read more
The Shining (1980)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Jack Nicholson, Danny Lloyd
Stanley Kubrick's great thriller, based on Stephen King's novel, with Jack Nicholson going slowly mad in a remote deserted hotel, terrorising his wife... Read more
The Shining ( Blu-ray ) (1980)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd
From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, director Stanley Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shot... Read more
Silver Bears (1977)
6/10
Director: Ivan Passer
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, David Warner, Michael Caine, Tom Smothers
Michael Caine and Cybill Shepherd star in this witty and intriguing story of crosses, double crosses, wheeler-dealing, comedy, adventure and romance o... Read more
The Cocoanuts (1929)
7.2/10
Director: Joseph Stanley, Robert Florey
Starring: Kay Francis, Margaret Dumont, Oscar Shaw, The Marx Brothers, Mary Eaton
In the Marx Brothers' first feature film, Groucho portrays a hotel owner who tries to fleece everyone, from innocent bellboys and bellgirls to wealthy... Read more
Go West / The Big Store (1941)
Director: Charles Riesner, Edward Buzzell
Starring: The Marx Brothers, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont
Groucho, Chico, Harpo - all certifiably wacko in a double dip of comedies. The Marxmen "Go West" to where the sun always shines, the fun never sets an... Read more
Monkey Business (1931)
7.6/10
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Starring: Ruth Hall, The Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, Rockcliffe Fellowes
While hiding from the authorities on a luxury liner, a quartet of stowaways become bodyguards of rival gangsters, with the usual hilarious results. An... Read more
Friday Foster (1975)
6/10
Director: Arthur Marks
Starring: Carl Weathers, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Scatman Crothers, Yaphet Kotto, Thalmus R...
Statuesque action star Pam Grier is supremely cast as comic-strip heroine Friday Foster. A free-lance photographer with an insatiable thirst for adven... Read more
Glastonbury (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Bjork, David Bowie, James Brown, Nick Cave, Joe Strummer, Paul McCartney, Oasi...
Assembled from hundreds of hours of amateur film footage, Julien Temple's documentary traces 35 years of Britain's most famous music festival. Three... Read more
That's Entertainment, Part 2 (1976)
Director: Gene Kelly
Starring: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, Greer Gars...
An all-singing, all-dancing musical-comedy treat. More magical MGM moments with "more stars than there are in heaven," including hosts Fred Astaire an... Read more
Roots (1977)
8.4/10
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin Chomsky
Starring: John Amos, Maya Angelou, Edward Asner, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, LeVa...
His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name of Toby. Heirs kept his heroic de... Read more