Director/co-writer Mel Brooks starts his run of original genre spoofs in fiery fashion with “Blazing Saddles,” the first of a one-two punch in 1974 with
The pencils of Jack “King” Kirby in “The Silver Surfer” (1978) – the very first Marvel graphic novel – vault so totally over the top
We were spoiled by great natural and supernatural scare flicks as part of the overall horror renaissance in the late 1990s. “Anaconda” (1997) was, at
Some have suggested Rob Reiner had the greatest five-film run of all time with “Stand by Me,” “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Misery”
I probably would’ve liked “Anaconda” (2025) if it had come out eight years earlier to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film it’s riffing
“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
“Selling Superman” (2024, Amazon Prime) gets into the introspective aspects of collecting and dealing comic books by focusing on one family with a bizarre (now
“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)