Category: Comedy

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1980s / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

One of Woody Allen’s (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose) finest films, Hannah and Her Sisters sees the esteemed filmmaker return to Manhattan to deliver one of his most insightfully satisfying stories yet. At its...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

The Heat (2013)

Bridesmaids director Paul Feig returns for another female-centric raunchy comedy and, for the most part, manages to strike gold yet again, at least in terms of generating requisite memorably funny moments.  If you want an...

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Adventures in Babysitting is Chris Columbus’s directorial debut, after years of screenwriting for such Spielberg-produced hits as Gremlins and The Goonies, putting his name on the map as a go-to director of broad family entertainment.  He more than borrows...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy

Monsters University (2013)

A step down from the delightfulness of Monsters Inc., but still a delight nonetheless, Monsters University may lack for the more affecting aspects of its predecessor, but taken as a fun, cute, comic film for all ages,...

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1980s / Comedy / Thriller

Raising Arizona (1987)

Joel and Ethan Coen follow up their neo-noir breakthrough, Blood Simple, with an entirely different but no less satisfying follow-up, Raising Arizona, which plays out like a somewhat broad and inherently silly farce, but with a...

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2000s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

God Bless America (2011)

Standup comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (That’s How We Do It, World’s Greatest Dad) writes and directs this wildly violent satire that targets popular television programs and the media in a bold and very bloody way....

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1980s / Comedy / Romance

Roxanne (1987)

Steve Martin (The Lonely Guy, The Man with Two Brains) stars and writes this modern adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s most famous play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”, and while it lacks the classic style and level of...

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1990s / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror

Army of Darkness (1992)

Army of Darkness represents the third and (so far) final entry in the Evil Dead trilogy by Sam Raimi (Darkman, The Quick and the Dead), further continuing the trend away from the more straightforward horror of The Evil Dead and...

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1970s / Comedy / Drama

The Sting (1973)

The duo of Robert Redford (The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor) and Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke, Torn Curtain) reunite for another classic, directed by George Roy Hill (Slap Shot, Funny Farm), who had worked with...

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2010s / Comedy / Horror

John Dies at the End (2012)

After a nearly 10-year hiatus from feature films, Don Coscarelli, the director behind such cult B-movies as The Beastmaster, Phantasm, and Bubba Ho-Tep, helms this intentionally trippy horror comedy that is bound to become a cult classic...