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
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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
“You’re Next” (2011) signaled that a new generation of millennial filmmakers were next, as the horror genre segued into a 2010s style to replace the
Gene Hackman and other Eighties-Nineties spy movie faces like Kurtwood Smith, Daniel von Bargen and Terry O’Quinn make “Company Business” (1991) watchable. It skirts the
Although it’s set in a time when the idea of a computer instantly telling you the price of orange-juice concentrate stock is cutting-edge, “Trading Places”
The spectacle of the best franchise superhero and action movies got to me in 2025, although I also sat through surprising misfires. I still surprised
I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even
Superhero fatigue? What superhero fatigue? In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe completed the Infinity Saga, essentially a 22-episode TV season except with mega-budget movies.
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