In honor of 4/20, I am running a piece collected in The Fracture Mirror book about Kevin Smith’s mind-bogglingly self-indulgent stoner comedy Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
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Nothing in the world is more enjoyable than seeing The Boondock Saints’ Troy Duffy get what’s coming to him in the classic 2003 documentary Overnight.
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Director John Landis, screenwriters Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman and Steve Martin and stars Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short joined forces for the clever and affectionate 1986 western comedy Three Amigos, which is enormous fun if you can overlook its very 1980s style of casual racism.
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The deeply loathsome 1981 show business satire Under the Rainbow hired a hundred and fifty little people actors for its irreverent take on the making of The Wizard of Oz, albeit at a terrible cost.
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We all have that Barton Fink Feeling but Barton Fink has it in spades!
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My journey through the entirety of American movies about the film industry looks at one of Bruce Willis’ earliest film performances, as real-life western movie star Tom Mix in Blake Edwards’ underwhelming 1988 western mystery Sunset.
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Seventy two years later, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard remains a hip, roaringly contemporary marvel.
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The director of Death Wish brings you the kind of star-studded salute to Hollywood’s past that you would expect from the creep who made Death Wish.
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In this piece collected in the forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror I take a fond look back at Joe Dante’s wonderful 1993 coming of age comedy Matinee.
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In this piece that will appear in my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror, I pay reverent tribute to 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was hailed as a technological miracle when it came out. It has only gotten better with time.
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