Top Five: Cinematic Comedy

Top Five: Cinematic Comedy

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Cineworld, 15 March, 8pm & 10.30pm. £9.10 &£6.30

Join Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill S. Preston (Alex Winter), members of the totally bodacious local band The Wyld Stallyns, as they travel through time – and attempt to pass their history exam -  at the behest of a messenger from the future (George Carlin).

Directors' Cut, Avant Garde, 16, 23 & 30 March, 7.30pm. £5/£6

A comedy panel show with a movie theme hosted by Craig Meighan - with team captains comedians Rick Molland and Gareth Waugh and special guests.

Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, Cineworld, 21March, 8pm & 10.30pm. £9.10 & £6.30

Stanley Kubrick’s classic black comedy featuring Peter Sellers in multiple roles – as relevant today as when it was made 50 years ago.

Gladstone’s Bag Presents... Comedy Cine-Variety, Britannia Panopticon, 29 March, 2pm &4pm. FREE

Two programmes of silent films (Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy) with live music and sound effects, novelty instruments and music hall songs, presented in the unique surroundings of Scotland’s oldest Music Hall.

Airplane!,Cineworld, 1 April, 8pm & 10.30pm. £9.10 & £6.30

Named one of the ten funniest movies of all time, this disaster spoof is enduringly hilarious. An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley.