IVAN VASILIEVICH CHANGES HIS PROFESSION
This is, quite simply, the Soviet time travel comedy
CECIL B. DEMENTED
Far from John Waters’ best work, but funny and perceptive enough in its corrosive portrayal of guerilla filmmaking to warrant a qualified recommendation
A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
A black comedy whose effectiveness pivots on an unexpected but quite canny casting choice: Michael Caine, playing a New York businessman using highly unorthodox practices to get ahead
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
SUPERBMAN: THE OTHER MOVIE
The cinema of spoofery had one of its highpoints in this 1981 dismantling of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
BEETLEJUICE
Tim Burton’s second feature was this 1988 triumph, his first collaboration with novelist Michael McDowell
BUBBA HO-TEP at 20
Here’s a film that hasn’t been getting too many retrospectives, but I say it’s deserving of at least one
Documenting Terry Gilliam
Two books and four docs about the one and only Terry Gilliam
William Friedkin’s Films, Ranked
On August 7, 2023, film director extraordinaire William Friedkin, a.k.a. Hurricane Billy, passed away. Here’s my ranking of his 20 features.
BORDELLO OF BLOOD
The second, and last, TALES FROM THE CRYPT big screen spinoff