Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin are sublime in this film, and when they are on screen together, there’s a nervous energy that gives way to unexpected warmth with jolts of action and physical humor that’s a joy to behold. Directed by the sly Martin Brest (Beverly Hills Cop, Going In Style, Scent of a…
This movie is cold, hard, steely, lethal, terse, and most especially – REAL. This may well be the last, truly great car-chase movie, if for no other reason than the fact that almost every single bit of action was done on location, by real stunt men and women driving actual cars on actual city-streets and…
The King of Comedy is my #3 Martin Scorsese picture behind Goodfellas and Raging Bull. This is a brilliant black comedy, with an aggressively funny and hugely obnoxious performance from Robert De Niro. Jerry Lewis is utterly brilliant here, all dead pan and stern seriousness, completely unimpressed with De Niro’s idiotic pestering and absurd shenanigans….
I can vividly remember the opening night for Wag the Dog. It was back in 1997, I was in high school becoming a budding film lover, and I went with a group of friends to see this bitter black comedy about Hollywood and politics and I can remember being one of the few people in…
