One Battle After Another: Anderson’s Anora

Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo: Warner Leonardo DiCaprio once said that turning down Boogie Nights (1997) was the greatest regret of his career. Paul Thomas Anderson, who was just starting out, had…

Vacation

Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) decides to recreate the road trip to Walley World that his parents took him on 30 years ago, this time with his wife (Christina Applegate) and…

Ally McBeal: Justice in a Miniskirt

Vonda Shepard, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Jane Krakowski, Calista Flockhart, Lisa Nicole Carson, Greg Germann, Portia de Rossi, Peter MacNicol and Lucy Liu. Photo: Fox David E. Kelley has a…

Scary Movie 4 

Cindy (Anna Faris) moves into a haunted house and familiarizes herself with the neighbor (Craig Bierko)... but then aliens attack Earth. Director David Zucker’s second stab at this franchise mainly…

Scary Movie 3

So, this is when they got rid of the Wayans brothers and hired the people who virtually created this genre, including David Zucker. Primarily, The Ring and Signs are spoofed,…

Scary Movie 2 

This sequel is mainly a send-up of The Haunting (1963), as the leading characters spend a weekend at a haunted house. But many other films are also desecrated, including The…

Scary Movie 

High school teens accidentally hit a stranger with their car; some time later, a murderer strikes at their school. This horror spoof looked to Airplane! (1980) for ideas, but came…