Comedon
Free and Easy (1930) WikiData IMDb
Free and Easy
director: Edward Sedgwick actor: Buster Keaton / Anita Page
other title: Le Metteur en scène / Easy Go
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
April 3, 2026 watched
Another early talkie where they were still throwing in everything & the kitchen sink. Just let Buster bust!

Watched in #Comedon watch party on Mastodon.
1930s BusterKeaton USA Comedon Comedy
Soup to Nuts (1930) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Soup to Nuts
director: Benjamin Stoloff actor: Ted Healy / Moe Howard
other title: Die Drei von der Feuerwache / Sopa para los locos
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
BASEketball (1998) NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
BASEketball
director: David Zucker actor: Trey Parker / Matt Stone
other title: Sem Trapaça Não Tem Graça / Die Sportskanonen
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. When a rival owner wants to institute major rule changes, Coop and Remer's team is the only one standing in the way.
Animal Crackers (1930) TMDB IMDb
Animal Crackers
director: Victor Heerman actor: Groucho Marx / Harpo Marx
other title: Det tossede hus / Os Galhofeiros
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
Lake Placid (1999) IMDb TMDB
Lake Placid
director: Steve Miner actor: Bill Pullman / Bridget Fonda
other title: Lake Placid - Il terrore corre sul lago / Pânico no Lago
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Cooley High (1975) WikiData IMDb
Cooley High
director: Michael Schultz actor: Glynn Turman / Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they are falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through to the dramatic end of high school.
Dolemite Is My Name (2019) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Dolemite Is My Name
director: Craig Brewer actor: Eddie Murphy / Wesley Snipes
other title: Chamem-me Dolemite / Yo soy Dolemite
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Amazing Grace (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Amazing Grace
director: Stan Lathan actor: Slappy White / Moms Mabley
A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to further his own reelection efforts.
Hot Rod (2007) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hot Rod
director: Akiva Schaffer actor: Andy Samberg / Jorma Taccone
other title: Hot Rod - Uno svitato in moto / Hot Rod - Loucos Sobre Rodas
For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank's operation -- and then Rod will kick Frank's butt.
Hot Shots! (1991) IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
Hot Shots!
7.0 (7 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams actor: Charlie Sheen / Cary Elwes
other title: Ases Pelos Ares / Hot Shots! - Die Mutter aller Filme
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
When Harry Met Sally...
8.2 (9 ratings) director: Rob Reiner actor: Billy Crystal / Meg Ryan
other title: Harry, ti presento Sally... / Da Harry mødte Sally
Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry's fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other?
Volunteers (1985) IMDb WikiData
Volunteers
director: Nicholas Meyer actor: Tom Hanks / John Candy
other title: Un ponte di guai / Broen, der kvajede sig
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
director: Jake Kasdan actor: John C. Reilly / Jenna Fischer
other title: Walk Hard - La storia di Dewey Cox / A Vida é Dura
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
The Producers (1968) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
The Producers
director: Mel Brooks actor: Zero Mostel / Gene Wilder
other title: Per favore, non toccate le vecchiette! / Forår for Hitler
Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
This Is Spinal Tap
director: Rob Reiner actor: Christopher Guest / Michael McKean
other title: On the Rocks / Spinal Tap
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
Life of Brian (1979) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Life of Brian
7.8 (9 ratings) director: Terry Jones actor: Graham Chapman / John Cleese
other title: Brian di Nazareth / Monty Python's life of Brian - et herrens liv
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
The Blues Brothers (1980) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb KevGa-NeoDB WikiData
The Blues Brothers
8.7 (6 ratings) director: John Landis actor: Dan Aykroyd / John Belushi
other title: The Blues Brothers - I fratelli Blues / Blues Brothers
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
March 1, 2026 watched
One of my all time faves!

Seen multiple times over the decades. This latest watch (28 February 2026) was of the extended version (2hrs 28mins), which I missed in the #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon.
Musical Comedon USA 1980s Soul
Dark Star (1974) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Dark Star
director: John Carpenter actor: Brian Narelle / Cal Kuniholm
other title: Estrela Negra / Dark Star - Finsterer Stern
A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.