On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild.
On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool.
Todd Barry is back with a brand new stand up special from The Den Theater in Chicago.
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.
Chalkboy Chad, a man with a one of a kind personality, tries to take hold of his surreal, mysterious life while also figuring out the unexpected cause of his grandmother’s death.
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
The story of two inseparable friends born on the same day of the same year. As they grow up, their unique, idyllic world—understood only by them—begins to crumble when one of them finds a boyfriend.
Brothers Robert and Ed Goilie make a promotional short film, in an attempt to raise funds to resurrect and save their beloved Memaw's mall.
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Ciko, a film editor, faces a major dilemma when tasked with cutting several scenes of the lead actor due to acting flaws. Secretly, Jagad, the director, asks Ciko to edit the actor out of the film entirely, without the knowledge of Tasya, the producer. The situation becomes even more complicated as the actor is a special request from an important investor. During the preview, the investor demands more scenes of the actor, threatening to withdraw funding if his request is ignored. Tensions escalate as Tasya and Jagad clash over the final cut of the film, with Ciko caught in the middle. Feeling there is no way out, Ciko ultimately decides to leave the project.
A day in the lives of a bunch of video store clerks in 1999, as the world as they know it is about to change drastically.
When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives.
The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.
A young scientist studies the mechanics of time travel by having a conversation with a group of her future selves.
Stupid Little Golf Video (released as Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video in the United States) is the third and last of the how-to-golf-badly trilogy. (The other two are Bad Golf Made Easier and Bad Golf My Way.) It is the only one that is released on DVD.
This one hour show was recorded live at The Metro Theatre in Sydney in June 2019, and features special guest CAM KNIGHT.
In this mystery-comedy, a young chauffeur investigates the disappearance of a client. He is aided by his Italian teacher, a homeless estate agent, and an artist who uses random stock photos to illustrate her dreams. Everything seems like a clue in this slightly absurdist world, but to what?
Seymour tries his best to make his date as perfect as humanly possible
An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive. His pain and confusion is your laughter.