If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great find. Helmed by Mel Brooks, it is an inspiring post-modernist political satire on how racism was ...

The post Whoopi Goldberg Says Blazing Saddles Is a “Great Comedy, Would Still Go Over Today” appeared first on Consequence. Mel Brooks’ film is set in 1874 and explores a mostly-white frontier town ...

I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...

“Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” is one mutt of a movie. If re-imagining 1974’s western parody “Blazing Saddles” as a cuddly, computer-animated spoof of samurai movies sounds like a misguided idea, ...

(CNN) — On social media at least, Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing Saddles” has become the standard example of a film that supposedly could not be made today because of rampant left-wing political ...

There’s nothing wrong with occupying children for 90 minutes. Yet there is something welcome and soothing about the way Paws of Fury links together puns, sight gags, one-liners, and self-referential ...

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This year's 15th annual TCM Film Festival will celebrate EGOT winner Mel Brooks, specifically highlighting his trailblazing parody, Spaceballs. The writer, director, producer, actor, and playwright is ...

Norman Steinberg, the screenwriter behind the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles, has died, according to a statement provided by his family. Per the statement, the late screenwriter died March 15 at ...