1980s / Comedy / Documentary
by Vincent Leo · Published September 17, 2004 · Last modified May 14, 2019
Gilda Live films the Broadway show “Gilda Radner: Live from New York”, a sketch comedy primarily featuring one of the original, and most popular “Saturday Night Live” not-ready-for-prime-time players, Gilda Radner. Uncensored and able...
Grand Theft Auto (not to be confused with the mega-popular videogame) is a quintessential 70s car film, full of non-stop chases, explosive pile-ups, and constant defiance of the law. Perhaps more significant as the...
Perhaps the lesser of all of the Coen Brothers’ films, their remake of the 1955 film, The Ladykillers, proves to be just too disjointed to fully enjoy in its totality. Blame miscasting of the supporting...
The Distinguished Gentleman is one of those rare Eddie Murphy vehicles that has aged well, produced at a time when his superstardom was on the decline, during his critically dormant period between his last racy...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 28, 2004 · Last modified December 2, 2019
This is pretty much a generic romantic comedy where the two would-be love interests find themselves on opposite ends of competing interests. In many ways, Laws of Attraction suffers from following too closely on the heels...
I’m not sure what it is about Hal Needham that he can make a couple of fun and entertaining films like The Cannonball Run and Smokey and the Bandit, and yet completely lose his mind when trying to...
Just when you thought things couldn’t possibly be worse in the Smokey and the Bandit saga than Part II, along comes Part 3 to remind you that no matter how bad things can be, someone can always come...
A huge success at the time of its release (only Star Wars made more money in 1977), Smokey and the Bandit was the right movie at the right time, riding the wave of Burt Reynolds’ popularity, rascally...
Will Ferrell delivers again, with a little help from his friends, in this scattershot comedy that manages to hit just enough hilarious moments to look past the fact that there isn’t a well-developed, cohesive...
It’s hard to believe that a movie as poor as Double Whammy would ever be made by such a credible filmmaker like Tom DiCillo, yet here it is, a sloppy piece of head-scratching ineptitude for...
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