By the end of 1945, the long struggle of World War II was finally over and American soldiers, who fought so long and hard, were finally settling in back home with their friends and family. Most in Hollywood felt as…
It’s been nearly a decade since Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson teamed up for the surprise comedy hit Wedding Crashers. Surprisingly, there was no sequel, leaving fans clamoring for another film from the pair. While The Internship isn’t nearly as…
Director William Lustig’s Maniac caused its share of controversy upon release in 1980, with the late film critic Gene Siskel labeling the film as nothing more than grisly and hateful toward women. Siskel had a valid point, but Lustig understood…
Given Disney’s major success on Broadway with such properties as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, it comes as no surprise that Dreamworks Animation wanted to take a shot at stab at this potential goldmine with one of…
Classified as a romantic comedy, Dan Mazer’s I Give It a Year offers plenty of laughs if not much romance. By design, the relationship at the center of things isn’t easy to root for, and the film’s love quadrilateral doesn’t…
Often considered one of the top ten comedies of all time, the original Airplane! is a perfect spoof of the popular disaster films of the 1970’s. Highly quotable, some of its most famous lines are still repeated today, more than…
Surprisingly dark and depressing, to call The Hangover Part III a comedy seems disingenuous. After the lively debauchery that made up the bulk of the first two films, it seems director Todd Phillips attempted to do something different with the…
Clint Eastwood’s second film as a director—and his first western, High Plains Drifter takes us back to his days making spaghetti westerns in Italy with Sergio Leone. His character, a gunslinger known simply as “The Stranger” passes an unmarked grave…
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War….
Credited with revitalizing Disney’s animation unit, when it was released in 1989 The Little Mermaid garnered largely positive reviews, earning $84 million at the box office during its initial release and $211 million in total lifetime gross. Based on the…