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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Morons From Outer Space (1985)
4.5/10
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown
Hilarious misadventures of four ordinary aliens who crash on Earth. The aliens are quite uninterested in Earth, but curious humans find them to be so... Read more
Morris - A Life With Bells On (2008)
6.7/10
Director: Lucy Akhurst
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Greg Wise, Ian Hart, Thomas Oldham
A pastoral indie mockumentary, made on a shoestring by the husband-and-wife team of Lucy Akhurst and Charles Thomas Oldham, Its a success story to... Read more
Mortdecai (2014)
5.5/10
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Paul Bettany, Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow, Olivia Munn, Jeff Gol...
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charl... Read more
Mortdecai (Blu-ray) (2014)
5.5/10
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Paul Bettany, Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow, Olivia Munn, Jeff Gol...
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charl... Read more
Moscow On The Hudson (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Paul Mazursky
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Robin Williams, Alejandro Rey
Paul Mazursky ('An Unmarried Woman', 'Down And Out In Beverley Hills') limits the abrupt improvisations that marred Robin Williams other work, guiding... Read more
Mother Ghost (2002)
6.5/10
Director: Rich Thorne
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Joe Mantegna, Garry Marshall, Dana Delany, Charles Durning, James...
Believing himself recovered from his mother's death, Keith (Mark Thompson) is gobsmacked by the inexplicable appearance of his mother's jewellery - th... Read more
Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976)
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, L Q Jones, Larry Hagman
A freewheeling black comedy about the outlandish exploits of a shoestring ambulance crew. Bill Cosby is the lead-footed driver, Harvey Keitel the susp... Read more
Mouse Hunt (1998)
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken
Not a creature was stirring . . . except one smart mouse. That's a predicament for Ernie and Lars Smuntz, who have problems ridding their dead father'... Read more
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Petter Naess
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley, Erica Leerhsen
Donald (Josh Hartnett) is a taxi driver who also happens to suffer from Asperger's Syndrome, a type of autism. He likes routine, birds and has a supe... Read more
Mr and Mrs Smith (2005)
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Kerry Washington, Adam Brody
A first-rate Hollywood blockbuster, slick in all the right ways - snappy dialogue, good-looking actors and plenty of bare-knuckle action. Brad Pitt an... Read more