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...
Maximum 80's: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels/Three Amigos (1988)
7.4/10
Director: Frank Oz, John Landis
Starring: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Chevy Chase, Martin Short
Steve Martin and Michael Caine occupy the roles played by Marlon Brando and David Niven in this very faithful and very comic remake of the 1964 comica... Read more
May in the Summer (2014)
5.7/10
Director: Cherien Dabis
Starring: Hiam Abbass, Cherien Dabis, James Garson Chick
High off the success of her first book and planning to marry Ziad, her sensible, stable and studious fiance, May Brennan has it all. At least that's w... Read more
Maybe Baby (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Ben Elton
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Dawn French, Joann...
Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson are trying to have a baby with not much success and much frustration as their lives become increasingly caught up in... Read more
McHale's Navy: Season 1 (1962)
7.5/10
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Billy Sands, Gavin MacLeod, Carl Ballantine, Gary V...
Ernest Borgnine stars in the WWII-set comedy as maverick PT boat captain Quinton McHale, whose crack squad might be good at their jobs, but have a hab... Read more
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
7.8/10
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Starring: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke
Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkw... Read more
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Blu-ray) (2015)
7.7/10
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Starring: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke
Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkw... Read more
Me and My Sister (2004)
6.4/10
Director: Alexandra Leclere
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot, Francois Berleand, Brigitte Catillon, Michel V...
The incomparable Isabelle Huppert is Martine, a controlling Parisian snob, trapped in a loveless marriage with everything she could want except happin... Read more
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004)
7.3/10
Director: Miranda July
Starring: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman
Successfully cross-pollinating quirky rom-com with ensemble drama, performance artist Miranda July's debut feature navigates the tricky waters of inti... Read more
Me Two (2008)
5.7/10
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Alain Chabat, Marina Fois, Francois Damiens
Ranu, a shy accountant, suddenly discovers a completely opposite personality living in his head: 80's singer Gilles Gabriel. Read more
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
6.6/10
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Robert Forster
In this comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, Jim Carrey is Charlie, a Rhode Island state trooper whose anger is so repressed that he develops another pe... Read more