The Second Civil War
Joe Dante’s political satire The Second Civil War (1997), made for HBO, has become more relevant in the 2020s than it ever was in the waning days of the Clinton… Read more »
Tag: Denis Leary
Operation Dumbo Drop
Even as a kid I knew that Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) wasn’t as good as Angels In The Outfield (1994), even though it did sport some superior product placement (… Read more »
Demolition Man
In 1993 Schwarzenegger had Last Action Hero and Stallone had Demolition Man. Both films satirized the action blockbusters that these two actors dominated in the eighties while also, tongue in… Read more »
Small Soldiers
In the wake of Disney’s Toy Story (1995), DreamWorks released Joe Dante’s Small Soldiers (1998). Where Toy Story offered its audiences only superficial sensations of nostalgia, Small Soldiers delivers a scathing parody of Corporate… Read more »
