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Interview: David Zucker, legendary spoof comedy writer/director
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • November 10, 2025 @ 3:22pm
David Zucker has written and directed some of the biggest comedies of all time, including Airplane! and The Naked Gun.
Jenna Rink is just your ordinary 13-year-old girl. She looks awkward and geeky with her brace face and not-yet-filled-out body that leaves her on the outside of the popular "Six Chicks", a group of six drop dead gorgeous teenage females. Jenna lives next door to her best friend Matt, a fellow outcast and school photographer.
I have thought long and hard to how I was going to write this review. How does a critic review the second half of a larger movie? Instead, I decided to review the whole film while keeping in mind to what I gave the first entry in the series.
For me the first film was an opus to Quentin Tarantino from Quentin Tarantino.
WARNING: This review may contain spoilers that relate to Kill Bill Volume I.
When we last left The Bride (Uma Thurman) she was well on her way to her ultimate destination after knocking off the first two members on her hit list of Viper Death Squad Assassins, Vernita Green (Vivica Fox) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) â€" a task that took her to Japan and the world famous S
The Alamo has always been as one of the most classic legends of American history. The Alamo symbolized an epic struggle, desperate realization of horror, and the legendary men who fell to an onslaught of Mexican soldiers numbering in the thousands.
They say you can't go home again, but that's just what Chris Vaughn (The Rock) wants to do. After an 8-year stint in the army, Chris has decided to head home to the small mountain town he grew up in and start work at the local mill. Upon his return, he finds that the mill has been shut down by his old friend who took over ownership when his parents passed away.
Back in 1973, the true story of a Southern sheriff named Buford Pusser â€" played by Joe Don Baker â€" who battled the odds with his pickup truck and a hunk of wood made audiences stand up and cheer.
Comic writer and creator Mike Mignola has always had a flair for the dark, mysterious, and heavily moody. His artistic style renders his creations and drawings often in heavy black backgrounds where only portions of their faces are seen. Mignola's art style was always more about the words than the pictures when creating a comic.
Lars Von Trier's last film, Dancer in the Dark, starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve was THE film studies movie of the year. I'll bet there wasn't a film program in the world that didn't show this film in at least one class. Will Dogville live up to this? Well, in my first class EVER at Carleton University, I was talking about it with a fellow classmate.
Marva Munson (Irma P.Hall) is a simple woman living in the deep South somewhere along the Bible belt. A widow, she lives at home with her cat Pickles and regularly attends church services on Sunday with a group of her friends. Being a widow and living in a rather large house, she rents a room out to supplement her income and for some human companionship.
The subgenre that is grifter noir features unsavoury characters like kingpins, loan sharks, petty thieves, cops on the take, and others. They are absolutely delightful to watch, especially when the story is done right: full of twists and turns.
Gary Yates should be a proud man. He did it spot-on right. Kevin Pollak is Harlen, an older con man who is losing his touch.
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