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.
Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Luenell , Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Pamela Anderson, etc ...
Sacha Baron Cohen stirred up a legal hornet's nest when he took his obnoxious Kazakh reporter character, Borat, on the road in the US and A. From dru... Read more
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Pamela Anderson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Luenell , Ken Davitian
Sacha Baron Cohen stirred up a legal hornet's nest when he took his obnoxious Kazakh reporter character, Borat, on the road in the US and A. From drun... Read more
Born Yesterday (1950)
7.6/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
Excellent movie version of the Broadway success. Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her hilarious performance as Billie, the dumb blonde to end all dumb b... Read more
Bottle Rocket (1996)
7.1/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Robert Musgrave, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Lumi Cavazos, Andrew Wilson
Fresh out of a mental institution, slacker Anthony joins a misfit mastermind for a bookstore robbery. While on the lam he dates a Paraguayan motel mai... Read more
Bottle Shock (2008)
6.8/10
Director: Randall Miller
Starring: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis...
The year is 1976, and Napa Valley has yet to gain the reputation as one of the world's best-known wine regions. Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) has sacrifi... Read more
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island (1997)
7.8/10
Director: Ed Bye
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall
Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour, we find Richie (Rik Mayall) and Eddie (Adrian Edmondson) marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Paci... Read more
Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Show (1995)
8.3/10
Starring: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
Filmed during the 1995 sell out nationwide tour which left over 500,000 fans standing on their seats and screaming for more. "The Big Number 2 Show" f... Read more
Bottom: Series 1 (1991)
8.2/10
Director: Ed Bye
Starring: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
The perverted and foul-smelling duo of Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler are introduced here in series one of this cult comedy. Rik Mayall and Adrian... Read more
Bowfinger (1999)
6.4/10
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Terence Stamp, Steve Martin, Heather Graham, Eddie Murphy, Christine Baranski
Steve Martin (who also wrote this) plays a down-and-out producer whose new ultra-low budget sci-fi epic "Chubby Rain" stars action super-hero Eddie Mu... Read more
Boy (2010)
7.5/10
Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi
Boy is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother, Rocky, a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy's other hero, his father, A... Read more