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.
The Nude Bomb (1980)
5/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, Sylvia Kristel, Pamela Hensley, Dana Elcar, Don Ad...
Get smart with the most bumbling - yet undeniably cool - spy ever! Join Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (aka Agent 86) of the original 'Get Smart' TV serie... Read more
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Eric Idle, Gary Weis
Starring: Eric Idle, John Halsey, Rikki Fatar, Neil Innes
The Rutles, a living legend that will live long after other living legends have died. The Rutles are a non-existent band that look like the Beatles, b... Read more
The Shirley Temple Collection: Volume 1 (1932)
Starring: Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple's career started when she was just a toddler with these films from the 'Baby Burlesques' series. The short films satirized popular movi... Read more
The Spoils of Babylon (2013)
6.9/10
Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Tim Robbins, Tobey Maguire, Val Kilmer, Will Ferrell, Jessica...
6-part comedy mini-series that spoofs the epic and overly melodramatic television sagas that were commonplace in the 1980s. Patriarch Jonas Morehouse... Read more
The Story of Ricky (1993)
7.1/10
Director: Nam Nai Choi
Starring: Fan Siu-Wong, Fan Hoi Sang, Ho Kar Kui, Yukari Oshima, Tetsuro Tanpa, Gloria Yip
Aka 'Riki-Oh'. This over-the-top number has won a cult following for its deliberately outlandish martial arts violence, in which Riki displays the rem... Read more
The Tick: The Entire Series (2001)
7.4/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld, Danny Leiner, Bob Welch, Craig Zisk, Boris Damast, Andrew Tsao
Starring: Patrick Warburton, David Burke, Nestor Carbonell, Liz Vassey
He is the wild blue yonder. The front line in a never-ending battle between good and not-so-good. He is The Tick (Patrick Warburton)... hero of the cu... Read more
The To Do List (2013)
5.8/10
Director: Maggie Carey
Starring: Clark Gregg, Alia Shawkat, Connie Britton, Rachel Bilson, Johnny Simmons, Andy S...
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting cam... Read more
They Call Me Trinity / Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
Director: E B Clucher
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger
'They Call Me Trinity', is a wild spoof on 'The Magnificent Seven' made international superstars of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer playing half-brothers... Read more
This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (2016)
7.6/10
Director: Christian Nicolson
Starring: Christian Nicolson, Sez Niederer, Lewis Roscoe, Daniel Pujol, Joseph Wycoff
Three ordinary guys are thrust into a parallel world of an old Sci-Fi movie. Trapped in a low budget universe they must somehow fight their way home b... Read more
This is Spinal Tap (1983)
8/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Tony Hendra, June...
This hilarious, pseudo-rockumentary follows the U.S. comeback tour of Spinal Tap, a raucous British heavy metal band that has seen better days. The fi... Read more