They make us laugh and shiver, often at the same time. This week’s movie poll asks for your top pre-1989 horror/comedy film. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Ghostbusters are just three of the chilling choices.
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Watch the Birdie: Red Skelton’s a Slapstick Shutterbug
Lots of laughs develop when klutzy cameraman Red Skelton comes to the aid of heiress Arlene Dahl in Watch the Birdie. Guest writer Angela Petteys reviews the 1950 MGM comedy, which also stars Ann Miller.
Read more →It’s Really Not a Very Funny, Funny, Funny, Funny Movie
With a cast that reads like a Who’s Who of movie comedy, Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World debuted 50 years ago this month. Does it, however, hold up in the laughs department? Read on to see why one reviewer says, for the most part, no.
Read more →Kickstarting Edgar Kennedy
Guest writer Rob Hall looks at a project to restore the over 100 two-reel films funnyman Edgar Kennedy made for RKO in the 1930s and ’40s and bring the genius of the “slow-burn” comedic actor to new generations of fans.
Read more →A Salute to Actress Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener is one of Hollywood’s most versatile stars… and busy too. Did you know she is slated to appear in as many as five movies in 2013? Movie Irv presents his thoughts on the charming Oscar nominee.
Read more →Jerry Lewis: Great Success Being a Total Idiot
Don’t be wary of Jerry… OK. I understand that Jerry Lewis is a bit like horseradish. He’s an acquired taste. In other words, he takes some getting used to. But those of us with a tolerant palate know full well…
Read more →Jerry and Dean’s List
OK. So they weren’t Laurel and Hardy, Hope and Crosby, or The Marx Brothers. But Martin and Lewis were certainly one of the most successful comedy teams to ever achieve film stardom. And, believe it or not, to this day…
Read more →Quirky Comedies for Your Consideration
Comedy is subjective. What’s funny to you may not be funny to me, and vice versa. People recommend comedies to you all the time; you watch them and you don’t get it. You tell other movie fans about how much…
Read more →Ernst Lubitsch Films Noel Coward: Design for Living
Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Don Knotts Film Performance?
Movie Fans, we would like to know what is your favorite Don Knotts Performance? Don Knotts is best known as Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show. Cast your vote today.
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