Comedy (Film)

Audrey is a black comedy about a mum assuming her comatose daughter's identity to further her acting career, and a commentary on the societal expectations we place on mothers. We chat with the stars of the new Australian film, Jackie van Beek and Hannah Diviney.

Sebastian Stan is almost unrecognisable as a man struggling with his disability in new film A Different Man. But the breakout star is the actor who lives with neurofibromatosis in real life, and has a very different way of looking at things.

Making Saturday Night Live would never be a simple job, but this film takes us back to the very first episode, in 1975, and the hijinks that took place to get it to air. 

Directed and co-created by Dylan River, Thou Shalt Not Steal is a zippy Western set around Alice Springs, with plenty of twists and laughs.

Adam Elliot talks through his first feature film in 15 years, and his careful trademark balance of tragedy, comedy and clay.

Wolfs is a crime caper that attracted Hollywood A-listers and a $US200 million budget but the movie's biggest mystery, and perhaps the biggest crime depicted, is where all that money went.

From a trashy all-star rom-com of dreams to a fresh comedy series helmed by Natasha Rothwell, here are four shows to watch that are new, very good and out right now.

An 18th-birthday mushroom trip brings Elliott face to face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self, forcing her to rethink everything about family, love and her identity.

Kneecap's songs have made the Belfast hip-hop group controversy magnets. But if you want to know what they're singing about, you'll have to learn Irish. 

It’s been a long journey for the sequel of Tim Burton’s classic ghostly comedy but it’s finally showtime.

June Squibb made her Broadway debut in 1959, but Thelma is the first film where the 94-year-old's name is at the top of the call sheet.

The juice is loose — again! 36 years after the hapless Deetz family first hit the silver screen, an impressive cast featuring Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara is back to battle with the afterlife.

Working at Blockbuster as a teenager helped Melbourne filmmaker Jessica Smith discover her sexual identity. Her new series shows that journey, with all its excruciating awkwardness and joy. 

It's not easy for women or people of colour to get leading roles in Hollywood films. But streamers are increasingly offering opportunities for diverse actors to step into the limelight.

The world of Jackpot!, where California civilians are encouraged to murder for lotto money, is only a touch more ridiculous than the script this action comedy tries to pull off.

This latest team-up from the MCU sees Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds stuck in a purgatory for cinematic superhero rejects — and it's a fitting metaphor.

Australia once lost a war to hordes of emus. (Yes, emus.) Now, a team of Australian actors and producers including Dane Simpson have dialled the story up to 11 in their new comedy, The Emu War.

Despite producers allegedly threatening to block the premiere, and then filing a lawsuit against actor-director Rebel Wilson, The Deb will close Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Scarlett Johansson plays a bright marketing expert, hired to make sure everyone knows the US put a man on the Moon, opposite Channing Tatum as NASA's launch director.

Yorgos Lanthimos regulars Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe return for Kinds of Kindness — a triptych of sinister narratives starring the same ensemble, which mirror the cynicism of the director's early work.