John Schlesinger’s notorious flop is a fascinatingly cynical – if heavily flawed – look at American culture.
Tag: comedy
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.
Raindance 2020: My Thoughts Are Silent
A quiet, cynical and darkly humorous look at Ukrainian life and hopeless dreams of escape that feels both alien and entirely relatable.
The Becket List: Middle-Class Complaints About First World Problems
A new book taking swipes at daily irritants that whines when it needs to roar.
The Lovers And The Underrated Charms Of The 1970s Sit Com Film Adaptation
The movies based on British sit-coms of the 1970s are better than you might have been led to believe.
Sabrina – Britain’s Biggest Sex Symbol
Britain’s top glamour girl of the 1950s remembered.