My Cousin Vinny There are times where a movie comedy is made that right from its very conception can be seen by many (including those who made it) as something that will be a forgettable, time filling programmer from the get go, an effort that will bring some smiles and chuckles before being filed away […]
Mystic River What we have here is a clash of the diversive acting styles of Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, and surprisingly, Robbins comes out WAY ahead in terms of performance. Clint Eastwood directs with an eye for the unremittingly sober details of working class life in the city of Boston, and crafts a tale […]
Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad! Hot off the success of their major hit Airplane! (STILL to this day the definitive disaster movie spoof), the legendary ZAZ trio of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams surprised everyone by setting their sights on television next, coming up in the process with Police Squad!, […]
National Lampoon’s Animal House Bad taste in movie comedy had been cultivated for almost a decade after the collapse of The Old Production Code, mostly in the work of Mel Brooks. But this 1978 film which has been hailed as a classic to this day reached a new high (or low) by bringing the mindset […]
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation In 1989, when it came time to come up with the third installment in the Vacation series, the producers must have obviously looked at the troubled final product of what was European Vacation, and managed to discern a few of its flaws, which included a disjointed, uneven tone (no doubt caused […]