Throughout the vast history of cinema the profession of law enforcement has been portrayed heavily and made its mark on the big screen in both dramatic and comical fodder. Whether it be straight up cops and robbers or crooked officers on the take in gangster flicks or ant-hero gun-slinging loners trying to buck the system …
So I’d gone over to my cousin’s house to see his new puppy and, as he and I are often wont to do, we got to talking about movies and TV and the like. The conversation drifted around to movies we liked but our kids didn’t. “I have Blazing Saddles (1974),” he said, nodding at …
Consider this an offer you shouldn’t refuse. The nationwide Cinemark movie theater chain is kicking off another Classics Series tonight, April 10, with one of the all-time classics, a film whose iconography is endless: 1972’s The Godfather. Cinemark will also be showing such films as Alien, Blazing Saddles, and The Graduate over the next five …
Did the “Baghead” scene in Django Unchained (2012) feel at all familiar? It was total Mel Brooks. We’ve seen bumbling baddies arguing with one another in the desert before. Blazing Saddles (1974), one of the cinematic funnyman’s best, shot a hole in westerns and racism with one bullet. While the majority of Quentin Tarantino films …