You Only Live Twice For the fifth outing for Sean Connery as James Bond 007, the producers decided to stop dicking the fans around with pseudo-villains and bring out the big gun: Ernst Stavro Blofeld finally takes center stage as the primary bad guy, and with the legendary Donald Pleasence in the role, it’s not […]
Young Frankenstein A film that pays as much tribute as it does spoofs the genre it is taking on, Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy classic is certainly faithful to the Universal horror classics of the 1930s and in particular, James Whale’s Frankenstein films that starred Boris Karloff. Brooks even goes so far as to utilize the […]
Young Guns Historians have long debated the true nature of the legendary Western figure that was Billy The Kid, about whether he was a Robin Hood-type outlaw that fought for what he thought was right, or whether he was a psychotic killer that used the injustices of his time to satisfy and fulfill his own […]
Zoolander If there is such a thing as an island of tranquility in the ocean of diarrhea that passes for Hollywood comedy these days, it may very well be Ben Stiller, whom as a writer, director, and actor consistently comes up with funny, engaging material that many of his peers can only hope to aspire […]