Having just attended the Animal House Reunion, I was excited to see this cult-classic college comedy which I hadn’t seen since I was a child. I was full of energy—like everyone else in the near-sold-out theatre—and prepared for hilarity to ensue. The guests certainly shored up so... Read More »
Courtesy of Next Projection and TIFF, last night I witnessed a unique and exciting cinema panel with some of the makers and cast members of the cult college classic Animal House (1978). This reunion really set the tone for Toga! The Reinvention of American Comedy—a series TIFF is... Read More »
Even though Meatballs had been released a few years earlier and Caddyshack was a sensation in 1980, Stripes was really the coming out party for a new team of comedy geniuses. It was the biggest hit for these new comedians at the time. The seventies belonged to the likes of Mel ... Read More »
How fitting it is that Billy Wilder’s filmography of the 1950s was bookended by Sunset Blvd. and Some Like It Hot, one a dark lamentation of the faded glory of the Hollywood studio system, the other a joyous jolt of energy that proved instrumental to its undoing. Condemned by the... Read More »
Free from the specter of nostalgia about the summer camp experience or the film itself, I can confidently state that Meatballs can be best experienced today for its influence and placement at the forefront of a new brand of raucous North American comedy. Conceived by Canadian wri... Read More »
When looking at the works of John Landis (especially during his peak in the late 70's to mid 80's), many film geeks would look towards either his breakout hit of National Lampoon's Animal House ( a film I'm embarrassed to say is one of my cinematic blindspots) or his 1981 horror/... Read More »
