Zombieland

Oh, the joys of indiscriminately blowing away flesh eating zombies!

2009 film from director Ruben Fleischer stars Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson.

Learn the rules of survival first then go on a road trip across country as Eisenberg seeks his parents, Stone looks for Playland amusement park, and Harrelson searches for a Twinkie...all trying to survive in a world gone crazy with zombies.

Great fun, funny...look for a great cameo by Bill Murray as...well, Bill Murray.

Nothing Sacred

William A. Wellman directed this deric March and Carole Lombard.

One of the original screwball comedies about a reporter who fakes a story and the hilarious complications that ensue.

Romance, comedy, and drama all belnd well. Lombarde was a masterful actress who excelled in comedic roles. Catch this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029322/

His Girl Friday

Howard Hawks directed this 1940 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosiland Russell.

Taken from the play "The Front Page" this has been made many times in various incarnations but this one remains classic.

Newspaper reporter (Russell) is leaving her job after divorcing her editor (Grant), who is as concerned about losing his wife and his star reporter. He schemes to keep her on the job and near him with a breaking story about a killer's execution.

Smart and funny, with overlapping dialogue that will keep you on your toes and laughing out loud.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/

Holiday

1938 George Cukor comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn was a follow-up to the success Grant and Hepburn had with Bringing Up Baby.

Free-thinking, happy-go-lucky Grant is enaged to an heiress but when he begins to question the meaning of his life he finds he has much more in common with her spirited sister (Hepburn).

Smart writing, great cast, and very funny screwball comedy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030241/

Bringing Up Baby

Howard Hawks directed this comedy starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

One of the best movie comedies ever.

Grant plays a nerdy professor who is drawn into the life of a wacky heiress who changes him forever. A totally screwball comedy if there ever was one.

Grant and Hepburn are wonderful together. Lots of abusrd situations but it all works. The stars shine in this one.

Remade (sort of) as "What's Up Doc?" with Ryan O'Neal and Barbara Streisand.

Don't miss this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/

The Awful Truth

1937 Leo McCarey comedy stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

A separated couple are both about to remarry but spend their time trying to foil each other's plans for wedded bliss.

Very funny screwball comedy which set the tone for the Cary Grant "character" which was honed over his next few movies.

Funny, and holds up even today.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028597/

My Man Godfrey

William Powell and Carole Lombard star in this gem of a screwball comedy directed by Gregory La Cava in 1936.

Daughter in rich, disfunctional family hires Powell as a butler thinking he is a "forgotten man", a hobo.

The family is crazy but Powell endures and helps bring a sense of rationality to them...somewhat.

Funny, with great writing and characters. Holds up today, especially in these tough economic times.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028010/

Something Wild

1986 Jonathan Demme film stars Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, and Ray Liotta.

Unusual film bounces back and forth between screwball comedy and suspenseful drama...with some scary violence along the way.

Stuffy businessman Daniels meets sexy Griffith and, kooky as she is, is swept away on an days long adventure. The actors keep the improbable plot interesting. Griffith is fun and attractive (read that as hot), Daniels is adequately staid and goofy, and Liotta steals the whole shebang.

Plot twists and turns as the whole movie veers from one genre to another. Different.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091983/

Twentieth Century

Love those screwball comedies...from His Girl Friday to Bringing Up Baby. But this one could be the grandaddy of them all.

Made in 1934 and directed by Howard Hawks, Twentieth Century stars John Barrymore at his funniest and Carole Lombard who matches him laugh for laugh.

Broadway producer with an ego the size of New York turns shopgirl Lombard into a star but when she decides to leave him, he tries every trick in the book to win her back. He has plenty of time, as they travel across country on a train called the Twentieth Century.

Taken from the original Broadway play, this returned to Broadway some time ago as a musical called On the Twentieth Century.

Played for laughs, it provides more than enough.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025919/