Mel Brooks

Gene Wilder classics Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Blazing Saddles

To honor the life of comedy legend Gene Wilder – who passed away Monday due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, at the age of 83 – two of the comedian’s most celebrated movies are getting the revival treatment at movie theaters this weekend. AMC Theaters will screen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Blazing ….

Mothra, Willy Wonka and Harry Potter landing at Loew’s in June

June will be a rare month for Friends of the Loew’s, the group behind the monthly revival film screening series going on over at the Loew’s Jersey. It’s rare because this June the group will host two weekends of classic movies, instead of the usual one. Things start off this weekend, with screenings of classic ….

Taxi Driver, Blazing Saddles and Saturday Night Fever headed back to big screen for special screening event

This month the Loew’s Jersey continues to celebrate the historic Theatre’s 80th Anniversary Year, presenting three iconic films of one decade from the 1930s thru the 1980s. This month, the 1960s are in the spotlight, with screenings of Taxi Driver, Blazing Saddles and Saturday Night Fever lighting up the big screen. The Loew’s Jersey is ….

Win one of three copies of the comedy White Night Wedding on DVD

Baltasar Kormakur, creator of modern arthouse classics 101 Reykjavik and The Sea, returns with a bracing adaptation of chekhov’s drama of marital discord, Ivanov in Iceland’s official entry for the 2009 best foreign language Oscar, White Night Wedding (Brúðguminn). The DVD was released this past Tuesday, on September 15th, and to celebrate, I am giving ….

High Anxiety film review

Mel Brooks does the best of his second-tier works (outside the holy canon of The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein) in this send-up of Hitchcock flicks. The story tries to ride closely to Spellbound and Vertigo, but ventures into virtually all of Hitch’s major works, including the most notable scenes from Psycho, The Birds ….