retro trailer: ‘Blazing Saddles’

Take a look back at an old trailer… For some mysterious reason that I can’t quite put my finger on, Jonah Rex, which is opening on Friday, is putting me in mind of this movie. Interesting how this trailer doesn’t come anywhere near spoiling the best jokes of the film, doesn’t give away the plot … more…

retro trailer: ‘Patton’

Take a look back at an old trailer… For Memorial Day, the U.S. holiday honoring our veterans, a movie about a doozy of a soldier. From my review: This biopic of the American general is a straightforward film without subtext or irony, just as its subject is. Not that he isn’t a mass of eccentricities. … more…

The Runaways (review)

There hasn’t been a movie like The Runaways, one about women rockers that’s just as raw and earthy and tough and pitiless as the ones about the men are.