A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2019)
The Argentinean duo-brothers Nicolas and Luciano Onetti are back with another of their retro-Italian Giallos, which began with Deep Sleep (2013) and continued with Francesca (2015), What the Waters Left Behind (2017), and Abrakadabra (2018). This time they step back from their usual writer and director chairs and serve as producers on this horror anthology […]
80 Blocks from Tiffany’s (1979)
Along with Albert Brooks and Tom Schiller, Gary Weis created small movies that were an integral part of the early Saturday Night Live. He also directed The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash and music videos for The Bangles song “Walk Like an Egyptian,” as well George Harrison’s “Got My Mind Set On You” and Paul Simon’s “You […]
MacGruber (2010)
Directed by The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, MacGruber does what all SNL films do: stretch a short segment into a full movie. However, because this movie has a rich history of spy films and MacGyver to make fun of, it does much better than most. Star Will Forte would tell The A.V. Club, “What you see with this movie […]
Superstar (1999)
Kids in the Hall member Bruce McCulloch directed this, another example of trying to turn a sketch into an entire long form story. In this case, Catholic high school student Mary Katherine Gallagher finally grows beyond five-minutes of jokes to tell you more of her life. Does it work? Steve Koren wrote this, as well […]
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