Two vulgar comedies about bridesmaid-zillas explore toxic insecurity with humor and insight.
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In Tim Burton’s horror/comedy, the future Moira Rose staked her claim as a comedy superstar.
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Newly minted Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh’s first starring role was in this wild and wacky action comedy, now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
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The most Lynchian of David Lynch’s movies is getting its long-overdue day in the limelight.
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Mel Brooks’ infamously audacious comedy lands its laughs with giddy pleasure and unexpected depth.
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It’s been four decades since Monty Python’s last hurrah, which found them in a philosophical frame of mind.
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In this seriocomic drama, released 30 years ago this month, both Robert De Niro and Bill Murray tinkered with their established personas in ways that would re-direct their careers.
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You will believe a man can be an infant in the delightful cult oddity ‘The Baby,’ released 50 years ago this week.
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With the Oscars around the corner, let’s go back twenty years, when Miramax basically ruled the Academy Awards – and Harvey was determined to get another Best Picture win.
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The recently departed composer’s ability to set a mood through memorable melodies and canny vocal arrangements added to the timelessness and relatability of beloved feature films, while elevating some of the tackier basic-cable fare of the 1980s and beyond.
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As ‘History of the World, Part II’ debuts on Hulu, we look back at Mel Brooks’s original film, which is a wonderfully strange and funny tale told at the expense of history’s sacred cows.
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Jean Cocteau’s 1946 adaptation of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is a luminous work, with edges that its subsequent versions have sadly sanded down.
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