Spies Like Us (1985)
The Dr. Strangelove-esque plot of Spies Like Us involves the two most inept, low-level U.S. intelligence agents they could find to go on a mission as expendable decoys for the real agents. Emmett Fitz-Hume...
Tagged: John Landis
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Blues Brothers ranks among my favorite films of all time — not the best, just a favorite. With inspiration that never remotely comes close to ceasing, John Landis’ wildly over-budget film is more an experience...
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
George Zaloom and Les Mayfield, assistants to producer Hilton Green on the set of Psycho II, came up with an idea for another potential sequel. It was a riff on Hitchcock’s Spellbound except with an...
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Filmed in 1985, this 1987 comedy is an omnibus of sporadic concepts, most of them revolving around the worlds of pop culture, utilizing a common theme of the kinds of things one might see...
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy...
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Vacationing American friends, David (Naughton) and Jack (Dunne), stumble off the beaten trail into a pub called the “Slaughtered Lamb” only to find its inhabitants odd and the pentagram they have drawn on their wall...
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Here’s another review that will most likely get me in trouble with the film’s biggest fans, as Animal House is generally considered to be a comedy classic among many circles. I’ve seen it a few times...
Trading Places (1983)
Some people may be too young to remember the days when Dan Aykroyd or Eddie Murphy could make a funny movie or even director John Landis for that matter. They say that comedy is all...
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Elwood Blues gets out of jail and once again gets the old band together to head to Louisiana and enter a Battle of the Bands contest to save the orphanage. Along the way the...
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Three years before the trio of comedy writers of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!, Ruthless People) would score their mega-hit Airplane!, they made this sporadically funny, screwball vignette comedy flick which...