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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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
Shrink (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Jonas Pate
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows, Mark Webber, Jack Huston, Keke Palmer, Dallas Rob...
Literary success, a steady workload, and a marijuana habit do little to quell the demons raging inside celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Henry Carter (Kevin... Read more
Sibling Rivalry (1991)
5.4/10
Director: Carl Reiner
Starring: Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher
Kirstie Alley gives a grand performance as a married woman whose first affair leads to ghoulish disaster - and that's just the beginning. This well ma... Read more
Sideways (2004)
7.5/10
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh
A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careens woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit... Read more