Word: landises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The sight of Carole Landis and Victor Mature grunting lustfully through One Million B.C. was enough to satisfy 1940 preteens; the vision of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. engorged many a Saturday-matinee libido 26 years later.
In another sense, Polyester is like all independent films. Whether the director has reformist ideals or dreams of big bucks, whether his mogul is an arts council functionary or a local businessman looking for a tax write-off, the game of scrounging and scrambling must be played. Dawn of the...
Apt credentials for the loony bin are also flashed by John and Gwen Landis (Jonathan Hogan and Swoosie Kurtz), who want to buy the Talley place. Gwen is a vivacious twit who used to bomb her father's banks and now blitzes audiences with her pop singing. Kurtz delivers...
Traditionally, artists begin their careers by imitating their masters and gradually developing or refining a style that in the happiest cases becomes unique. In recent American films, though, the process has been reversed. Hot young directors like Steven Spielberg and John Landis have exercised their talent on elaborate homages to...
Assume for a moment that Director John Landis means to subvert the twin genres of musical comedy and action melodrama. He fails there, since periodically the film stops dead in its headlong rush toward satire and puts on an ingratiating face, mugging and mewling to win over its audience. Landis...