Released in the fall of 1995, Showgirls became the first big budget, wide release “NC-17” rated film. Despite the presence of director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas–both coming off
A frenzied parody of the underrated Airport series (which, incidentally, had already parodied itself by 1980 with the atrocious Concorde: Airport ‘79), many of the gags used in Airplane! have
Writer/director Noah Baumbach explored divorce from the perspective of a 16-year-old boy in 2005’s The Squid and The Whale. Marriage Story finds him exploring the deep emotions of a marriage
Loosely based on the Jane Austen novel, Emma, Clueless focuses on Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) a vapid, spoiled teenager living in Beverly Hills. One of the coolest girls in school,
Held up for years because of legal battles between current and former Lynyrd Sknyrd members, Street Survivors is more of an Artimus Pyle biopic (no music by Lynyrd Sknyrd is
The buxom horror hostess Elvira (played by Cassandra Peterson) first appeared on a local Los Angeles station (syndicated to other markets). It wasn’t long before she was appearing on The
Released in 1966 and promoted with no gimmicks, Let’s Kill Uncle (also known as Let’s Kill Uncle Before Uncle Kills Us) represents a subdued William Castle. Twelve-year-old Barnaby Harrison (Pat
Based on the ground-breaking 1968 Broadway musical of the same name, Hair was long considered unfilmable. Under the guidance of noted director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
It’s Samantha Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday. Unfortunately for her, it’s also the day before her older sister’s wedding, causing her entire family to forget about her birthday. To make
An epic portrait of athletes’ will to succeed, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad is a beautiful, if unconventional documentary of the 1964 Summer Olympic games in Tokyo, Japan. Every Olympiad commissions