After slaying the Arthurian legend in their now classic Holy Grail, the Pythons set their sights on the Greatest Story Ever Told. Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion - nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.
When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' quirky feature debut. ...
Our Take: You will laugh your hardest in this sharp family comedy. Steve Carell gives a surprising turn, far from The 40 Year Old Virgin, and the whole cast creates a hilarious portrait of a dysfunctional but loving family.
Jonathan Haze stars as clumsy assistant florist Seymour, who saves his job in Mr. Mushnik's skid-row flower shop when he brings in a unique man-eating plant.
Taking its title from the state motto of New Hampshire, Live Free or Die is a deadpan comedy about a clueless, aspiring criminal named John "Rugged" Rudgate (Aaron Stanford), who spends his days forging rebate coupons and selling speakers out the back of his van. One day, Rugged runs into an old acquaintance, the dim-witted Jeff Lagrand (Paul Schneider), who ...
A corrupt police officer steals drugs from a group of smugglers and is sent to prison, where he is severely beaten and receives serious head injuries. When he awakens, he believes he is "Mike," the detective protagonist from an American crime novel, and escapes prison for the purpose of fighting a communist group pursuing him.
From acclaimed auteur Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs), LOL is a raw, witty, and painfully intimate look at modern sexuality and the technology that either helps us click or turns us off.
Lolita (Marilou Berry) is the 20-year-old daughter of Étienne Cassard (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a wealthy and well-known editor and writer, and most of the people she meets seem to be more interested in her dad than in her; her zaftig figure doesn't help her self-esteem much, either. Lolita is a gifted singer and has been studying with a voice coach, Sylvia ...
Our Take: Director Agnes Jaoui and star Jean-Pierre Bacri (real-life husband and wife) are the most popular and sucessful comic duo in France. Look At Me proves why: it's smart, funny, moving and unflinchingly honest in its depiction of love of all kinds. It was a smash at the Cannes Film Festival and it's one of the most satisfying movies we've seen in a long time.
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman) turns to gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law (Kathy Bates).
From acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing) is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses.
Pipe - smoking Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati's endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati's wildly funny satire of vacationers determined to enjoy themselves includes a series of precisely choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers. The first entry in the Hulot series is a masterpiece of gentle slapstick.
In this comedic slice-of-life, a young man who has been away for a long time comes back home to visit his mother, an egocentric literary critic consumed by the world of books. His sister is pretty much wrapped up in herself, his father is a journalist and somewhat of a dreamer, in short, no one in his family is prepared ...
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep and Mariel Hemingway star in Woody Allen's extraordinary and funny film that explores the embattled life and loves of a successful New York comedy writer.
Our Take: The opening montage alone - a love letter to NYC - makes this worth seeing.
Margot Zeller (Nicole Kidman), a savagely bright, razor-tongued short-story writer who creates chaos wherever she lights, sets off on a surprise journey to the wedding of her estranged and free-spirited, easy-going sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Margot arrives -- her all-too-rapidly maturing son Claude (Zane Pais) in tow -- with the gale force of a hurricane. From the minute she ...
Me and You and Everyone We Know is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly ...
Our Take: Director Miranda July started out as a visual artist and it shows- unlike a lot of artists who turn to movies she didn't make a "weird" movie. She applied her artistic sensibility to a very funny and romantic story that features the most hilarious depiction of online dating you may ever see. This miraculously poetic and award-winning debut film explores the outwardly generic yet internally brave dreamers of companionship and human connection who must reconcile their fantasies of love and happiness.
Screenwriter/director Naoko Ogigami’s fourth feature is a comedy as refreshing as shaved ice on a warm afternoon. A propeller ride away, where the sky is deep blue and the sandy beaches curve into the ocean, stands a unique seaside inn. Taeko, a serious young woman and the first client of spring, rolls in her gigantic suitcase, unaware that her needs ...
Our Take: Ogigami’s delicate comedy is as peacable and refreshing as the pastel-colored seaside resort where a harried urbanite comes for a much-needed respite, only to find herself irritated at the odd group rituals of her curious cohabitants. Best seen with Buddha-mind, or first thing in the morning.
One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman’s surprise hit Metropolitan is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alongside the wit and sophistication, though, ...
A Michael Jackson impersonator lives alone in Paris and performs on the streets to make ends meet. At a performance in a retirement home, Michael falls for a beautiful Marilyn Monroe look-alike who suggests he move to a commune of impersonators in the Scottish Highlands.
This classic Monty Python comedy, directed by Pythons Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, is a hilarious send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a ...
In the tradition of Big Night and Chocolat comes this "delicious romantic comedy!" that won over 10 international film awards and captured the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But, Martha's ...
To help fight the communists, comic-strip superhero Mister Freedom (John Abbey) is sent to France by an American group called Freedom Incorporated. Receiving his orders from Doctor Freedom (Donald Pleasence), he battles the Russian Moujik Man and a fire-breathing dragon named Red China Man in this political satire critical of U.S. policies. When one of the heroes nears death, another ...
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