Comedy
Gus (1976) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gus
director: Vincent McEveety actor: Ed Asner / Don Knotts
other title: Uno strano campione di football
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Eat the Rich (1987) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Eat the Rich
director: Peter Richardson actor: Ronald Allen / Jimmy Fagg
other title: Mangia il ricco / Comendo os Ricos
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
Serial Mom (1994) TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Serial Mom
8.8 (5 ratings) director: John Waters actor: Kathleen Turner / Sam Waterston
other title: La signora ammazzatutti / Masse-mor
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Divine Intervention (2002) IMDb WikiData
يد إلهية‎
other title: Intervento divino / Intervenção Divina
Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in the hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead. Neighbors toss garbage over walls. Life goes on until it doesn't.
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
other title: Waxwork 2 - Bentornati al museo delle cere / Spaceshift
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
June 1, 2026 watched
Riffs on multiple films & genres, veering from slapstick to homage. Gets bogged down for too long in mediaeval fantasy before picking up pace again. Somehow managed to get a ream of cameos ranging from Bruce Campbell to John Ireland.

Closes with a hiphop theme, as was de rigeur for early 90s Hollywood, but this one's a banger from the L.A. Posse. Suck it, hataz!

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
Horror 1990s Comedy Parody HorrorSciFi
A Samurai in Time (2024) WikiData NeoDB IMDb
侍タイムスリッパー
8.2 (6 ratings) director: Junichi Yasuda actor: Makiya Yamaguchi / Norimasa Fuke
other title: 侍タイムスリッパー
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
Johnny Stecchino (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Johnny Stecchino
other title: Zahnstocher-Johnny / Johnny Palillo
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
The Full Monty (1997) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Full Monty
director: Peter Cattaneo actor: Robert Carlyle / Mark Addy
other title: Full Monty - Squattrinati organizzati / Det' bare mænd
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Bananas (1971) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bananas
director: Woody Allen actor: Woody Allen / Louise Lasser
other title: Il dittatore dello stato libero di Bananas / Mig og revolutionen
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
May 4, 2026 watched
Some hilarious moments, especially the trial.

#Watched in #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon.
1970s USA Comedy
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
I soliti ignoti
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Renato Salvatori
other title: I soliti ignoti / Os Eternos Desconhecidos
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts and film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.
Polite Society (2023) IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB
Polite Society
director: Nida Manzoor actor: Priya Kansara / Ritu Arya
other title: Polite Society - Operazione matrimonio / Una sociedad educada
Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
Hercules Returns (1993) IMDb WikiData
Hercules Returns
director: David Parker actor: David Argue / Michael Carman
other title: O Retorno de Hércules
When Brad gets fired from his job, he goes to reopen an old cinema, he enlists his frends to help him show the last film the cinema aired before it closed... Only they don't know, the film is in Italian. With everyone sitting ready they begin to dub the movie... on the fly!
Thank God It's Friday (1978) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Thank God It's Friday
director: Robert Klane actor: Jeff Goldblum / Raymond Vitte
other title: Grazie a Dio è Venerdì / Graças a Deus É Sexta-Feira
It's Friday and everyone is going to the hottest new disco in Los Angeles. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
On Tour (1990) IMDb WikiData
Turné
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Laura Morante
other title: Turné / Nosotros tres
Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
Puerto Escondido (1992) IMDb WikiData
Puerto Escondido
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Valeria Golino
Mario works in a Milan bank. His daily routine is shattered when he witnesses a murder committed by a deranged police commissioner. To save his life, he flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. When he runs out of money he teams up with Alex and Anita, a couple of Italians that will lead him on to a series of adventures and encounters with drug dealers, corrupt police officers and other weird characters.