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 poster for “The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again” (1979) acknowledges the first film in this two-film franchise and its strengths: The Apple Dumpling Gang
I grew up with “The Apple Dumpling Gang” (1975). I would have been 8 years old upon its release. It showed repeatedly at local theaters
“Hoppy Serves a Writ” (1943) is a playful romp of a film. That’s probably the best that can be said of it. It survives from
I have to give writer-director George Romero credit for this much: No two of his “Living Dead” films are quite like each other. He can’t
After leaning into the Western side of sci-fi/Western in his first two “Firefly” novels, James Lovegrove uses sci-fi to good effect in “The Ghost Machine”
“Bone Tomahawk” (2016) is a rare horror-Western and also a standout example of the genre. Writer-director S. Craig Zahler mashes up John Wayne and Eli
James Lovegrove’s first “Firefly” novel – 2018’s “Big Damn Hero,” co-plotted with Nancy Holder – spans several genres. But his second is a straight-up Western,
I appreciate that “Jonah Hex” (2010) is only 82 minutes long – the length of some episodes of “Westworld” nowadays – because it makes for
After “Back to the Future” (1985), a pitch-perfect comedy, and “Back to the Future Part II” (1989), a thrillingly inventive time-hopper, “Back to the Future