The most hated film of the 2010s now feels even more out of time than ever – but was it actually as awful as you have been told?
Tag: comedy
Yes, It’s The Benny Hill Show!
The kerfuffle over the famous comedian’s return to UK TV.
Cats U.K. Head To Luton Airport
The story of a novelty record cashing in on a passing TV commercial fad.
John Waters’ Yuletide Massacre
The Pope of Trash announces a festive, filthy US tour.
Puncturing The American Dream: Honky Tonk Freeway Reconsidered
John Schlesinger’s notorious flop is a fascinatingly cynical – if heavily flawed – look at American culture.
Nobody Likes A Good Laugh More Than I Do: The Artistic Value Of Comedy
It’s time that we took comedy a lot more seriously as an art form.
Austin Powers – A Man Of His Time
Looking back at the Austin Powers films, a series now almost as out of touch with modern sensibilities as the character himself. But does that matter?
Boris Karloff’s ‘Mad Doctor’ Cycle: An Appreciation
Looking back at the short series of underrated and provocative films that Boris Karloff made for Columbia Pictures at the start of the 1940s.
Can You Dig It? A New Biography Of Legendary Dolemite Star Rudy Ray Moore
A new biography of the pioneering and outrageous star of Dolemite.
The Espionage Era: Hot Enough For June
The first in our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s is a lovely ‘accidental spy’ romp with Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina.
Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel To Blazing Saddles
The Mel Brooks classic that became a TV series that ran for four seasons without being broadcast anywhere.
The Ageless Appeal Of Harold And Maude
Cult cinema, desperate film hipsters, moral hypocrites and the joys of death – Hal Ashby’s oddball movie explores and exposes more than you might think.