There are two kinds of movie spoofs. The ones like Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” or the “Austin Powers” series, which would be more accurately described as comedic genre homages, because…
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Jean-Marc Vallée
1995 Liste noire45 [ Reviewed on Extra Beurre ] 1997 Los Locos85 [ Reviewed on Extra Beurre ] 1999 Loser Love12 [ Reviewed on Extra Beurre ] 2005 C.R.A.Z.Y.89 [ review ] 2009 The Young…
2017 log (8)
(2 Aug) Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)96 [ Reviewed on Extra Beurre ] (5 Aug) Dirty Dancing (1987, Emile Ardolino)77 [ This here is a bona fide dancing movie musical, where the story is almost an…
Wrongfully Accused
Back in 1980, writers-directors David Zucker and Jim Abrahams created a new genre of comedy with the classic spoof “Airplane”. They were enthusiastically trying to make you laugh the loudest and more often possible with…
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
The opening scene, which is straight out of the “Origin” miniseries, does a neat bit of sleight-of-hand and effectively depicts the traumatic childhood event which first triggered Wolverine’s mutant abilities. We then segue into an…
