In the latest in my series on the films of 1994 I write about the universally beloved cult classic Clifford.
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Read MoreDirector John Landis, screenwriters Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman and Steve Martin and stars Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short joined forces for the clever and affectionate 1986 western comedy Three Amigos, which is enormous fun if you can overlook its very 1980s style of casual racism.
Read MoreCharles Grodin Month comes to an end with a fond look back at Clifford, a notorious flop that cast Martin Short as a ten year old boy and Grodin as his apoplectic uncle that went on to find a dedicated cult thanks largely to podcaster Tom Scharpling.
Read MoreThere has, paradoxically, never been a better time to laugh at the idiot apocalypse of Mars Attacks! than now, when the end seems so tantalizingly, horrifyingly near.
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