Plot: Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Read More
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They say music soothes the savage beast, but it seems to us that the best musically-driven movie scenes do just the opposite: They get our toes tapping, our hands clapping and our rumps shaking. When executed the right way, scenes that heavily involve...
SEE LIST HOME PAGE SEE 50-26 IN THE LIST 25. 'Young Frankenstein' (1974) The scene: The Monster does the ol' soft-shoe How best to describe the comedic climax to Mel Brooks' classic horror spoof? Easy -- 'sooper dooper.' Dr. Fronk-en-steen (Gene...
Sex in movies is often reduced to mood lighting, soft pop music, a bed, partial disrobing and some hazy camera work. (On the other hand, of course, there's porn.) But when a movie gets a sex scene RIGHT, the result isn't just titillating; it can be...
Continuing with our celebration of excellence in geek -- the Geek Awards -- we present the 25 best geek characters to grace the silver screen. To truly separate the great geeks from the good, we had to dig into the true meaning of the term. In today's...
For contemporary audiences, Mel Brooks shares a lot in common with filmmakers like the Zucker brothers: he's a guy who pioneered a lot of the conventions of modern parody who may or may not quite still be relevant. In other words, his influence is...

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