The ‘Burbs
Few American comedies in the second half of the twentieth century are as enjoyable as they are witty. Joe Dante’s classic satirical horror spoof The ‘Brubs (1989) is one of… Read more »
Few American comedies in the second half of the twentieth century are as enjoyable as they are witty. Joe Dante’s classic satirical horror spoof The ‘Brubs (1989) is one of… Read more »
Filmmaker David N. Gottlieb famously envisioned Game Show Models (1976) as a vastly different kind of film. Gottlieb’s original film was titled The Seventh Dwarf (who is identified as Happy… Read more »
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 »
Joe Dante’s Piranha (1978) is a creature feature with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. This quicke Roger Corman production was penned by John Sayles and combines the familiar… Read more »
Candy (Candice Rialson) has just arrived in Los Angeles to make it big in the movies. Almost immediately she finds an agent, Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) who gets her a… Read more »
The Hole (2009) represents an intersection of director Joe Dante’s sensibilities; a sort of coming together of Gremlins (1984) and Explorers (1985). This formula proves quite effective in creating a… Read more »
Watching Get Crazy (1983) I kept wishing that I had grown up in a world where a middle-aged Lou Reed was an idol to teenagers everywhere. I’ve seen few films… Read more »
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 »