Outside of the Shrek films, the past decade hasn't been to kind to Mike Myers's career. While its now commonplace for critics and Internet commenters to dogpile on the man, let's not let The Love Guru taint our collective opinion of Myers. He's created a lot of beloved comedy in his time, especially with his work on Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World, and Austin Powers. In an industry where most big name comedy actors are pumping out two or three movies a year, their faces a ubiquitous presence on the posters and cardboard cut-outs that blanket cinema lobbies year-round, it's refreshing to see Mike Myers showing a little reluctance [...]
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 are his takes on movies everyone else has seen before.
Last week I started this column by saying how exciting it is to think that I might see “a film I didn’t know I needed.” I was being hyperbolic, of course, but I really do like the idea of finding a classic comedy that fills some sort of gap – whether it’s simply the context for a quote I’ve heard thousands of times but never understood, or a deeper understanding of the shoulders [...]
