Doom asylum is one of those dime-a-dozen eighties horror comedies. The concept of the movie is that someone gets into a car accident, is wrongfully…

The British have always reserved a rather prominent place in their fiction for boarding schools. From Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby all the way to Rowling’s Harry…

The original Ghostbusters movie was actually pretty damn good. But then came the sequels, the reboot, and our subject for today, the sequel to the…

It’s been too long since we’ve had a good old creature feature on this blog, so today we’re going to talk about The savage bees.…

Today’ subject is an absolute classic. It won seven Oscars,1 including best picture, best director, and best actress in a leading role for Meryl Streep.…

In the early nineties, Harold Ramis was a kind of God of cinematic comedy. He directed Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s vacation, and Groundhog Day, he wrote…

 #This movie is a bit weird. The writers seem to have had an idea for a movie, but no plausible way to set it up.…

Way, way back, in medieval times, framing devices were all the rage: there was Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, One thousand and one nights, the Heptaméron by…

Maybe one day Disney will take over SpaceX and we will really get The Mouse on the moon. For now, however, it is just a…

A while ago, when I talked about Hogan’s heroes, I mentioned how odd of an idea it seemed to have a comedy set in a…