Mel Brooks’ lovingly hilarious spoof of the Universal Frankenstein films is both the funniest and the most loving tribute to classic movies ever made.
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‘Blazing Saddles’ – Mel Brooks spoofs the western on HBO Max
More than simply a loving spoof of Hollywood westerns, this is one of the funniest movies ever made and one of the most audacious satires of racism to come out of Hollywood.
The original ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ – a world of pure imagination
“Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination.” Gene Wilder is the weird, wonderful, slightly sinister candy bar king who invites five children into his factory kingdom in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s fantasy. It is a rare breed: an imaginative live-action […]