Mel Brooks
Film genres can be susceptible to changing tastes. Hollywood has abandoned many ideas that were once standard. But that doesn’t mean the impact those genres had went away. This series…
It seems that with each milestone anniversary, Warner Brothers finds a reason to release another special edition of Mel Brooks’ classic western send-up, Blazing Saddles. To their credit, they continue…
Mel Brooks: Make A Noise — Don’t be schtupidt, be a schmarty!
Dreamworks’ CGI caveman spectacular The Croods comes out on Friday. It’s the first big animated movie of the year, but it’s hardly the first time a bunch of modern(ized) stone-age…
A series in which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the…
Ken’s Shane annual gift guide
Spaceballs may not be a classic, but it endures because budding teenagers continue to discover it.
Popdose and Kirkus delve into that lovely, genteel bedtime tome, Go The Fuck To Sleep.
It’s that time of year again — and this April 1, Pete Chianca looks back at some of the finest fools in film.
Don’t know what to get your friends and loved ones for the holidays this year? If they’re lovers of merriment, obnoxious humor and immature behavior, we can think of no…
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks met when both men were writers for Sid Caesar’s fabled television program, Your Show of Shows. Working from an idea that Reiner had, they developed…