Comedy + genre (Fantasy, Horror, and Science-fiction)

Minnie Bouvèé (Swanson) is a Mob Queen in the French Quarter of New Orleans with an ongoing rivalry with arch-nemesis Poodle Mackenzie (Jennifer McClain). After Minnie has Poodle's crew brutally slaughtered, she's ready for the fallout. What she doesn't expect is to be stalked by a shadowy figure who has a penchant for leaving behind gardenias and worrisome notes. Minnie finds she must uncover the truth: whether this is Poodle's revenge or just her own estranged sister's strange way of saying hi when she reappears in Minnie's life after stealing Minnie's man.

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The trailer for Big Easy Queens sets the stage for a showdown between criminal enterprises and the undead horrors haunting the streets of New Orleans. A bunch of unconnected scenes give a taste of the humor and camp that permeates the film. From zombie screams to drag glam, this film is sure to delight and surprise its audience as it delivers a hilarious new entry to the queer horror subgenre.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text adventure game, and 2005 feature film.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an international multimedia phenomenon; the novels are the most widely distributed, having been translated into more than 30 languages by 2005. The first novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), has been ranked fourth on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The sixth novel, And Another Thing..., was written by Eoin Colfer with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams. In 2017, BBC Radio 4 announced a 40th-anniversary celebration with Dirk Maggs, one of the original producers, in charge. The first of six new episodes was broadcast on 8 March 2018.

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When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

Based on characters created by Matt Wagner and Neil Gaiman, and now technically a spinoff of Netflix’s The Sandman series that Gaiman’s working on (as they are in the comics), the series stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri respectively as Charles Rowland and Edward Paine. Though they died decades apart from each other, they caught on real well as friends and decided that instead of passing on to the afterlife, they’d be better suited as a pair of ghost detectives in the mortal realm. With the help of their clairvoyant friends Crystal Palace (Kassius Nelson) and Niko Sasasi (Yuyu Kitamura), the boys solve supernatural crimes, all the while avoiding witches, the forces of Hell, and anyone who may want to send them onto the next stage of their afterlives.

Though Gaiman and Wagner created the Dead Boy Detectives for The Sandman #25 in 1991, the pair truly sprung to life thanks to a spinoff comic from Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham released throughout 2014. By that point, the pair had made sporadic appearances throughout the Sandman universe, in turn inspiring the release of the comic. Looking back on the duo, Gaiman recalled to Tudum their’ “good-heartedness and dedication” as the reason for their extended popularity. “Who amongst us can honestly say that if we were hanging around the Earth as a ghost we wouldn’t want to start a detective agency?”

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A bawdy comedy musical will blend classic shlock sci-fi and the British tradition of pantomimes into a new Christmas adventure.

Tide Nor Time Players are performing a new, original comedy musical for Christmas entitled Lance McKrack and the Dr X. Mass Adventure.

Lance McKrack and his trusty crew must battle the evil Professor Brainovski to save Dr X. Mass before it’s too late and Christmas is stolen from the galaxy.

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The production will be in the grand tradition of classic 1950s science fiction films such as Forbidden Planet.

There will be an eclectic mix of music, comedy, silliness for the kids and bawdy humour for the adults.

Shows will be performed at The Depozitory, Ryde on December 16 at 6.30pm and on December 17 at 2pm and 6.30pm.

The film stars Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, The Black Phone) as convicted arsonist Sam Wanoutsky who “is the middle of hosting his own conspiracy podcast, The Naked Umbrella, when his trailer home explodes and burns to the ground. Convinced he's been set up, Sam hits the road with his wife, Irene, to clear his name. Now off his meds, and with his parole officer hot on his tail, Sam's psychosis returns as he traverses his relationship with reality and his eternal love for his wife.”

As the night draw in, out minds tirnto.classic. Christmas movies,Ike Gremlins!

When Billy Peltzer is given a small creature called a Mogwai by his father, he is unaware of the carnage he is about to encounter. There is a huge responsibility in looking after Gizmo as there are certain rules which must be followed. The Mogwai must be kept away from bright light, never made wet and never, ever be fed after midnight. When an accident occurs involving Gizmo and water, the next evolution stage of the Mogwai appears, and it isn't nice at all.

Unhinged and wonderful lunacy. A bit of a slow start but then kicks into crazy gear. I don't want to spoil anything because the "wait, did that just happen?" Is half the joy but absolutely worth a watch if you like splatter slapstick and ridiculousness. Plus, a tight 90 which is always nice.

Janitor Josh Futterman is leading an aimless life but excelling at his favourite video game, when the main characters from said game, Tiger and Wolf, appear and tell him the thing was a test, having been sent back in time to try and locate the one person capable of saving the world. Can the hardened future warriors shape the shiftless Josh into the hero the future needs? Or will the banality of his life drag them all into irrelevance and mediocrity?

There's a lot of good stuff on Amazon Prime Video, but for me the jewel in the crown is Upload. An original series conceived by Greg Daniels (creator of the US Office), it's quite simply the best thing on the platform. The third season began airing on October 20th and finishes this weekend but I'm quite concerned that you (the wider world) haven't been showing it enough love.

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Set primarily in an idyllic digital heaven called Lakeview (think The Good Place meets a five-star hotel) Upload follows the (after) life of Nathan Brown, a young coder who had a tragic accident. Despite that premise, it's genuinely the funniest show I've seen in years, and it's not even a pure comedy. The plot is up there with some of the most exciting series out there and all the characters (even the secondary ones) are compelling.

As we've just had Deathgasm recommended then it makes sense to throw this in:

A stoner metalhead named Todd Smith, his crushee Jenny, his best friend Curtis, and the geeky Hannah, search their high school for a mayhem-causing Satanic spell book, while being opposed by Atticus, the evil guidance councillor.

Deatngasm is about a high school metal band that accidentally unleashes the apocalypse. Funny, gory and a tight 90 minutes. 100% recommend.

James is all too eager to put his one-minute time machine to use in winning the heart of Regina, until he discovers the unexpected consequences of his actions.

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With his Incarcerat tour starting up I thought I'd grab the tasters released from his TerrorTome tour last year. If you get the chance it's well worth going - it's a book tour that's a spoof of a book tour while working perfectly as a book tour. First half is a reading of a selection from the book that is, presumably, picked because he's contractually obliged not to cause heavy soiling of the seats, followed by a Q&A in the second half where he deftly avoids getting cancelled again. He then does a heroic book signing afterwards.

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Co-creator of the cult hit sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, Rob Grant, has announced that he is currently working on a brand new prequel project, to be called Red Dwarf: Titan.

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This comes after a legal dispute over the rights to the show was resolved earlier this year, with the show's co-creators, Grant and Doug Naylor, both being able to continue working separately on Red Dwarf in different media.

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Shortly after this, Naylor said he thought the show was likely to return to screens at some point, adding that there's "real interest".

Naylor said: "Providing the boys are available, which isn’t the easiest thing because they’ve all got these mad schedules, especially Craig [Charles] and Robert [Llewellyn].

"But provided we can get everyone available and they do all want to be available, they want to make more, I think we’ve got a good chance."

Somehow arriving perfectly in between the numerous months when “Barbenheimer” was all that anybody wanted to talk about on the internet, and Oscars season, which will inevitably revive the conversation surrounding the accidental double feature—really landing in a sort of perfect lacuna of interest—B-movie master Charles Band has announced that he’s making an actual Barbenheimer movie of his own. The Puppet Master co-creator—who has now made nearly 400 films, most of them some flavor of terrible, and almost all of them some flavor of cheap—publicized the upcoming mash-up idea at the American Film Market this weekend.

The movie, unsurprisingly, will focus on living dolls, who go out into the real world, find out how we treat our playthings, and decide to invent their own nukes to exact retribution. And if you want to gauge the level of comedy at play here, please contemplate the tagline “D-Cup, A-Bomb,” and the fact that the main characters will be “Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer” and her boyfriend, “Twink Dollman.” Truly, Charles Band has become death, destroyer of subtext.

Ironically, the most charming thing about the whole endeavor is how shameless Band himself is about what he’s up to, telling THR that “It’s 100 percent true,” that he’s trying to capitalize over this summer’s obsession with Barbie and Oppenheimer.“But it’s also,” he adds, “An opportunity to have fun with the bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe and the darkness of Oppenheimer. You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humor.”

I found it quite enjoyable and has a Samara Weaving obviously having fun.

In the 1980s horror writer Garth Marenghi wrote, directed and starred in a TV series so cutting edge that TV channels refused to show it. It's now the early 2000s and the series is finally being released. Set in Darkplace Hospital, Marenghi plays Dr Rick Dagless, a caring yet unconventional doctor. His colleagues are Drs Lucien Sanchez and Liz Asher and boss is Thornton Reed. Together they deal with some bizarre, paranormal cases.

Max Naughton sits in an interrogation room sporting a black eye, a bruised cheek and dressed in a furry costume which is caked in dry blood. He will explain.

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