Madonna challenged herself with a brutal lead role in Dangerous Game, Abel Ferrara’s seedy 1995 show-business melodrama but delivered her usual terrible performance.
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Christopher Guest’s 1989 directorial debut The Big Picture is an outlier in many ways in its writer-director’s career but it’s laugh out loud funny like his best later work.
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In honor of the final day of the Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror I write lovingly of a movie that combines two of my enduring obsessions: the dizzyingly post-modern Nicolas Cage show-biz comedy The Unbearable Weight of Staggering Talent.
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Robert Townsend’s classic send-up of Hollywood racism remains eternally timely, if more than a little dated.
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Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels continues to be the best.
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Billy Crystal’s obnoxious and unfunny movie world comedy America’s Sweethearts would be perfect for My World of Flops except that it was inexplicably a hit.
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You know what movie is tons of fun? Hail, Caesar!
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Eddie Murphy scored a tremendous comeback turn in Craig Brewer’s wonderful tribute to the clown prince of blaxploitation, Dolemite is My Name.
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Cecil B. Demented, John Waters’ tribute to guerrilla filmmaking of the purest kind, is warped and wonderful. Also, very sweet.
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In a piece that will be collected in The Fractured Mirror, I wrote about Bill Condon’s powerful exploration of the tortured psyche of Frankenstein director James Whale, featuring a revelatory turn by Brendan Fraser.
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