You’ll often hear the common refrain online: “You could never make Blazing Saddles today” because modern audiences are too sensitive for Mel Brooks’ politically incorrect Western satire. There’s a fig ...
Netflix will be celebrating movies turning 20 to 50 years old with their Milestone Movies Collection to debut on the streaming service, the company announced Wednesday. The first spate of 14 films ...
THE BLACK PALACE OF LECUMBERRI was no joke. As the cell door closed behind him, a wave of dread struck Budd Boetticher. Stench rose from a hole in the ground, and the only window, twenty feet above, ...
"Blazing Saddles," a 1970s Western film, has sparked Twitter debate over whether the movie could be made in today's "woke culture." Many took to Twitter to applaud director Mel Brooks as a comedic ...
This Houston Chronicle review was originally published on March 15, 1974. The easiest way to deal with Mel Brooks' new film "Blazing Saddles" (at the Greenway Plaza, Northwest, Town & Country and ...
“Blazing Saddles” is the kind of unreproducible film that doesn’t need a remake. But if it were remade, it almost certainly wouldn’t be the left who would object. Like most Brooks films, “Blazing ...
Netflix is kicking off its Milestone Movies: The Anniversary collection with films that are turning 50 in 1974 — a group that happens to include some of the medium’s all-time classics. The anniversary ...
Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released Blazing Saddles to gales of laughter and a mighty roar of flatulence jokes. Also to mixed reviews from harrumphing critics. Typical was Vincent Canby, whose New ...
"Chinatown," "Blazing Saddles" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (Credit: Paramount, Warner Bros.) Netflix will be celebrating movies turning 20 to 50 years old with their Milestone Movies ...