Movies: Michael Showalter

Will Nitch is on a mission to achieve a transendental tantric sexual experience: a sustained orgasm. He begins to assemble a Secret Society of Women: women are, afterall, pivotal to helping a man to reach the cosmic blue lights. Will wants all the wo...

Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm....

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge....

The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep...

Following the events of the first film, Sue Ann now resides in the Pacific Northwest, working as a real estate agent, when her murderous past as “Ma” comes violently back to the surface....

A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development....

In 2024, the eleven (!) members of the iconic mid-90’s cult comedy troupe The State reunited for a live tour. With their irreverent and absurdist live sketches as the backdrop, and framed with a greatest-hits playlist of classic material, the group’s...

This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye t...

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together....

The story will follow a real-life '90s Texas bank robber named Peggy Jo Tallas, who got away with her heists by dressing up as a man, aka “Cowboy Bob.” Her disguises were carefully crafted, with the help of a towel stuffed under her shirt, a leather ...

The film follows two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas...

A Cyrano de Bergerac-type story about a behind-the-scenes songwriter in the world of pop stars....

Ray Romano first cut his stand-up teeth at the Comedy Cellar in New York. Now, in his first comedy special in 23 years, he returns to where it all began....

"Birthday" is a new short film from the unique three-man comedy group STELLA:...

When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside her stomach since she was seven....

A brisk look into the lives of two bomb diffusers. John Hamburg's student film....

The comedy trio performs live in Boston....

No one is better at portraying rehabilitationamalist Giles Vanderhoot than Vanderhoot himself....