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Blazing Saddles
now streaming
Jan. 17, 2024
Netflix Is Getting Into the Anniversary Screening Biz Celebrating films with 50th, 40th, 30th, and 20th birthdays in 2024.
Mel Brooks Destroyed at Radio City Music Hall Last Night Mel Brooks won’t sit down. The good people at Radio City Music Hall have set up two chairs on stage, one for the moderator Kevin Salter and one […]
By Ramsey Ess
the industry
Sept. 1, 2016
By Nate Jones
Gene Wilder, the Original Willy Wonka, Dead at 83 He starred in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, as well as many Mel Brooks films.
By Nate Jones
The 20 Best Comedy Movies of All Time The funniest movies tend to burrow into our brains like no other form of popular entertainment. Through repeated viewings and earworm quotes, […]
By John Wenzel
Mel Brooks Comments on the ‘Questionable Taste’ of Seth MacFarlane “It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films. I’m sure Seth […]
By Megh Wright
Mel Brooks and His Wonderful Rejection of Subtlety Back in a time when our primary source of film-watching outside the movie theatre involved a trip to a video store, it was much harder to be a […]
By Brad Becker Parton
adaptations
Jan. 15, 2013
Mel Brooks Talks Blazing Saddles Musical “Now that Django Unchained has literally used the N-word, I think I’m in the clear.”
By Zach Dionne
‘Black Dynamite’ Follow-Up Will Be a ‘Blazing Saddles’ Homage Michael Jai White, star and co-writer of the 2009 blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite, spoke to Crave Online this week about plans for a sequel […]
By Bradford Evans
Mel Brooks Looks Back on Blazing Saddles’s Near-Failure Here’s Mel Brooks on the near-death of Blazing Saddles in his AV Club interview:
“I kept saying to all the other writers, ‘Write anything you […]
By Hallie Cantor
The Lost Roles of Richard Pryor One of the most acclaimed and respected stand-up comedians of all time, Richard Pryor shot to fame in the 1970’s and proved to be a charismatic […]
By Bradford Evans
But How Does it Hold Up? A few weeks ago I re-watched the venerable Mel Brooks film, Blazing Saddles. I hadn’t seen the movie in at least seven years, mostly because […]
By Justin Gray
The Finally Screenings: I Just Watched Blazing Saddles For the First Time In The Finally Screenings, Alden Ford is watching comedy classics that, because he grew up in a cave in Alaska, he’s never seen before. These […]
By Alden Ford
Please, Mel Brooks, Skip ‘Blazing Saddles: The Musical’ Even with the inevitable kick-line of farting cowboys, how could this be anything but a disappointment?