“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 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
“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
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”