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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ATL (2006)
6/10
Director: Chris Robinson
Starring: Tip Harris, Lauren London, Jackie Long, Lonette McKee, Antwan Andre Patton, Evan...
Based on a story by Antwone Fisher, this comedy/drama tells the story of four disillusioned teens preparing for life after high school. Rashad and hi... Read more
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes! (1977)
4.6/10
Director: John De Bello
Starring: David Miller, Sharon Taylor, George Wilson
A tomato farm downwind from the local nuclear reactor grows intelligent, monster-sized vegetables (or are they fruits?) that run amok and threaten Sou... Read more
Attack the Block (2011)
6.6/10
Director: Joe Cornish
Starring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Dra...
A fast, funny action adventure that pits a teenage gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters, Joe Cornish's "Attack the Block" turns a London... Read more
Attack the Gas Station (1999)
7.1/10
Director: Sang-Jin Kim
Starring: Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang, Ji-tae Yu, Yeong-gyu Park, Jun Jeong,...
An imaginative and stylish Korean comedy, satirising the prolific Asian crime genre and South Korea's social turmoil. Four bored youths decide to rob... Read more
August: Osage County (2013)
7.2/10
Director: John Wells
Starring: Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Ewan McGregor, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Mer...
"August: Osage County" tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged... Read more
Aurore (I Got Life!) (2017)
7.4/10
Director: Blandine Lenoir
Starring: Agnes Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert
A French woman hits menopause, quits her job as waitress, and feels everything going downhill. But then she meets her old love from before she got mar... Read more
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles, Michael Caine, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Verne Tro...
The third outing for Mike Myers' toothy super-sleuth finds Powers time-hopping again - this time back to 1975, where the devilish Dr Evil and lame-cla... Read more
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Blu-ray) (2002)
6.2/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Michael Caine, Mike Myers, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Beyonce Knowles, Verne Tro...
The third outing for Mike Myers' toothy super-sleuth finds Powers time-hopping again - this time back to 1975, where the devilish Dr Evil and lame-cla... Read more
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)
7/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers
A hilariously goofy spoof of James Bond and other 60's spy movies. Mike Myers plays both the English superspy Powers and his nemesis the nefarious but... Read more
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Rob Lowe, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, E...
More swingin' 60s lunacy as Dr Evil returns to Earth with a time-travel machine and goes back to 1969 to steal Austin's mojo and terrorise the world w... Read more