With Comedy Comes Controversy

With comedy comes controversy. In the 1974 film “Young Frankenstein”, it is clear that this is often the case. The film was directed by Mel Brooks, a highly skilled and sought after director of his time, and starred Gene Wilder, who had come up with the idea for the movie. The story is a comedic…

“Stop Horsing Around” about Blazing Saddles

As any typical and classic Western film the scene is perfectly set by right at the beginning. Fancy font displayed over a desert scene with the usual wild west song playing in the background. Those first couple of minutes trick you into thinking this is yet another wild west movie. As the film plays out you…

Big Little Big Man

Little Big Man is a 1970 film starring Dustin Hoffman who plays 120 year old Jack Crabb recounting his adventures of his time with the Native American tribe,  the Cheyenne. The story starts with 10-year old Jack in a carriage that is destroyed with his parents being killed by the Pawnee tribe of Indians. From there,…

Giddy Up Cowboy!

Giddy Up Cowboy! Mel Brooks’ classic western pushes the comedic boundaries to deliver his finest work, Blazing Saddles. The hugely successful satirical western was nominated for several Oscars including Best Film Editing. It was the winner of the prestigious, Writers Guild of America for Best comedy written directly for the screen. With such success and…

The Shining: The Shining Classic

As a soldier of the transformation of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood, a film director who rescued waned Hollywood since World War II, Kubrick has made some really great films. Kubrick’s works are very poor compared to most American directors. He started his directing career in the 1950s, and he only made 18 works in his life. Kubrick didn’t seem to be…

After The Blood Comes The Boys!

The 1976 movie Carrie who was played by Sissy Spacek as the lead role as Carrie.  This movie was about a young girl who started her period and she got bullied. Carrie had telekinesis powers that she started after she started her period at school.  She took notice and did research. The girls who bullied…

The Shining is Just as Scary as Everyone Says

The horror genre is one of the most polarizing and perplexing of the last quarter century, and for many, the first horror film to come to mind is “The Shining.” Few can deny the cultural and historical impact that “The Shining” has had not only on the genre, but on the film industry as a…

Bugging’s of the Past

    The Conversation is a movie based in San Francisco about a “bug” specialist by the name of Harry Caul. The film starts with a scene in San Francisco’s Union Square, where Harry and his team are tracking and listening to a conversation between a middle-aged man and a younger woman. Harry is a…

Were the Monkees a-HEAD of their time?

One of the main questions a Monkees fan or just an outside observer can ask of the film Head is, what were they thinking and why? As someone who has known about the late 1960s band who have been compared to the likes of The Partridge Family and a mockery of the Beatles, I found…

A Landmark Film: Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde is considered a landmark film, and is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era, since it broke many cinematic taboos and was popular with the younger generation. Its success prompted other filmmakers to be more open in presenting sex and violence in their films. The film’s ending also…