“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” (1993) is correctly the most maligned of the trilogy. In retrospect, the handoff from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to All
Neither the height of parody nor the depths of a phoned-in throwaway, “High Anxiety” (1977) is likable comedy from a writer-director-star, Mel Brooks, who clearly
“The Blood on Satan’s Claw” (1971) comes up on a lot of lists of suggestions for films in the daylight/folk horror spirit of “The VVitch,”
The wide-audience crowd-pleaser “Splash” (1984) plays today like a homework assignment for a viewer going through the catalogs of director Ron Howard (his first hit)
It had bothered me that the Turtles seem to be at April’s apartment for months while Shredder and the Foot Clan “simultaneously” regroup in days
I can imagine writer-star Gene Wilder and writer-director Mel Brooks watching “Frankenstein” (1931) and inserting jokes, a la the “Airplane!” (1980) writers when watching “Zero
For over 40 years, the nightmares of H.R. Giger have successfully been passed on to us via Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver and other filmmaking talents.
“The Muppet Movie” (1979) is a true classic: a road film, a comedy, a romance, a film with heart. It’s worth it for the cameos
Director Dan Trachtenberg has crafted a legitimate “Predator” film that’s almost a kid-friendly Disney film as well. The joke – stated with some concern –
I’ve often heard great family movie screenplays complimented with “Both a child and an adult can like it,” but I don’t usually agree. One exception