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81) Lead Balloon: S3
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Jack Dee returns once again to the screens as the hapless Rick Spleen. Despite professional and domestic crises, Rick manages to hold his head up high and retain his self-respect. Well, actually, no he doesn't - getting the worst score of all time on a much-loved radio panel show, and the disclosure of his real name on a show about family trees certainly does away with any remaining pride. Domestic chaos, social mishaps and professional disasters...
82) Give Out Girls
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Diana Vickers and Tracey Ann Oberman star in this sharply observed comedy about a gang of four girls (and a couple of guys) who work in the world of 'promotions'. A world that's instantly recognisable to anyone who's ever done a job simply to pay the rent, it's a show about doing a job rather than having a career, working hard at avoiding work and how, because you spend so much time with them, your work colleagues become your mates by default. They...
83) Lead Balloon: S1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Jack Dee stars as Rick Spleen, a disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer. His career has not quite gone the way he had hoped; hosting corporate events and appearing on second-rate daytime chat shows was not meant to be part of the plan. Worse still, he's stuck with a lousy stage name that he chose twenty years ago. Whether he is being accused of putting on weight, suspected of being gay or worried about accidentally poisoning another performer,...
84) Semi-Detached
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Lee Mack stars in this farcical family sitcom about a divorced couple living on the same street. Playing out in real time, this madcap sitcom is packed with exquisitely timed mayhem. With each episode, a new crisis kicks off in Stuart’s life. Stuart hasn’t exactly made it easy for himself. His ex-wife lives across the street, his alcohol-swilling dad lives in the bedroom next door and his new girlfriend, not to mention his daughter, can be a tad...
85) McLintock!
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
In this classic comic western, aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans.. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But...
86) Buddymoon
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
David is left by his fiancé days before the wedding, and Flula, his eccentrically upbeat best man, insists that they go on David’s honeymoon together: a backpacking trip through Oregon’s scenic mountains. Prepare to laugh when the pair crosses paths with a dazed conspiracy theorist, an attractively charming backpacker, and a bloodthirsty predator who all partake in a trek that tests their friendship – and their lives. The BUDDYMOON adventures...
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Don Alfonso plays the marimba for a living. When he meets an old underground heavy-metal legend, they decide to do something radical and fuse both sounds. A fresh and hilarious documentary-fiction hybrid about the fusion between tradition and modernity that conveys a moving and authentic sense of Guatemalan life.. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.. “This largely comic look at one determined marimba player’s struggles...
88) Josh: S1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A flat-share sitcom about the minutiae of modern life, written by and starring fast-rising comedian Josh Widdicombe. Frustrated, single and reliably grumpy, Josh shares a flat with his two best friends: Owen, a romantic Welshman as laid-back as Josh is uptight; and Kate, a perfectionist who spends her life pursuing every trend from A to Zumba. This trio of twenty-somethings also have to contend with Geoff, their irritating landlord. Josh is hampered...
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Shakespeare uses one of this favorite devices -- trickery -- in a plot relished by Elizabethan playgoers. The new wife of a young count resorts to chicanery to win...
90) Josh: S2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Josh Widdicombe returns for a second series of this quirky comedy about the highs and lows of life as an anxious old man trapped in a young man's body. Things don't run smoothly for Josh as he gets embroiled with a sexually voracious older woman, attempts to evict a drug-taking squatter from his flat and tries to end ten years of friendship with the world's most boring man, aka Pete the Human Potato. Expect plenty of high-pitched grumbling, a glossary...
91) Stella: S1
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Starring and created by Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones, Stella is a heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working class Wales. The fictional town of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys is home to Stella Morris - a 40-something divorcee with three kids and an ironing business. Eldest child Luke is in prison. Daughter Emma is 16, gorgeous, lazy and in love whilst Ben, the 13 year old brains of the family, has a natural inquisitiveness...
92) Impostors
Pub. Date
1979.
Description
A polysexual vaudeville playing promiscuously with melodramatic intrigue, camp and intellectual gamesmanship, IMPOSTORS remains as unclassifiable as it was in 1979.. Its slippery "plot" centers on the romance between besotted Peter and elusive Tina. She's a faithless bisexual and beauteous onstage assistant to lookalike magicians Mikey and Chuckie (stage legend Charles Ludlam of Manhattan's Ridiculous Theatrical Company) who, for their part, inhabit...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In this darkly funny drama, a pregnant woman disrupts the lives of her alcoholic mother and vulgar lesbian sister during a nervous breakdown.. Winner of an Audience Choice Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.. "The actresses bring heart and nuance to their characters, whose verbal pushing and shoving go with their sisterly and maternal bonds." - Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An angry rejoinder to 'Tiny Furniture'...Drew Tobia’s...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A wry mockumentary that asks the question, what would the world be like if women were in charge?. Imagine a world where, since 1953, women have been able to reproduce without men and they are no longer giving birth to male babies. Now, over 60 years later, this deadpan comedy follows the youngest man still alive, 37 year-old Andrew Myers. Working as a housekeeper for a family of women, Andrew finds himself at the center of a battle to prevent men...
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
This Argentinian dramedy gives us elements of Woody Allen’s nervous comedy and Cassavetes’ melodramatic roller coaster in a storm of egos that takes place on one decisive weekend in the lives of Juana, a popular actress about to star in an important theater production, and her husband Roman, a director suffering from writer’s block.. The couple’s daughter, Lila, serves as a mirror reflecting her parents’ frustrations and joys. The long takes,...
96) Him & Her: S1
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Steve and Becky are young, unemployed and lazy. All they want to do is eat, drink and have sex - so they do. They don't want to get a job - so they don't. They're happy to spend their days watching DVDs in Steve's bedsit, but they're constantly interrupted by Dan - the lonely bloke from upstairs, Laura and Paul - Becky's sister and her fiancé or, most frighteningly for Steve, Becky's parents. Him and Her is an anti-romantic comedy, lifting the lid...
97) Two 4 One
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A bittersweet comedic drama that sees a transgender hero in an unimaginable predicament.. When transgender man, Adam, helps his baby-crazy ex-girlfriend Miriam artificially inseminate, they wind up in bed together—and they both get pregnant. Now Adam must grapple with his identity, feelings for Miriam, and learn what it means to be a man.. Official Selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Chicago Gay and Lesbian International...
Pub. Date
1980.
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors.. This comic confrontation between the sexes is one of the most frequently-staged plays. Its sparkling wit and rich characterization are matched with an outstanding...
99) The Necktie
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A mixture of puppet and hand-drawn animation, THE NECKTIE is the story of Valentin and his quest to find meaning in his life. Stuck in a dead-end job, he has forgotten all about the things that used to bring him joy. Years pass, and boredom replaces all his aspirations and hope for the future. It is only on his 40th birthday, when he rediscovers an old accordion hidden in the depths of his closet, that he regains his lust for life.. Nominated for...
100) Cobweb
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film 'Cobweb', but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
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