Joe Dante followed up Gremlins with 1985’s delightful Explorers, a Spielbergian exploration of kids in space.
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Joe Dante and Allan Arkush’s 1976 show business satire Hollywood Boulevard is lurid, sensational and utterly irresistible.
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In this piece collected in the forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror I take a fond look back at Joe Dante’s wonderful 1993 coming of age comedy Matinee.
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Donald Trump is essentially the monstrously powerful telekinetic child-God from the classic Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” and despite being on the cusp of losing the source of his tremendous power, he still retains the awful ability to relegate those who displease him to metaphorical cornfields of doom.
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Phil Hartman Month closes on a high note with a fond look back at Hartman’s hilarious performance as a ragingly ineffectual President of the United States in 1997’s The Second Civil War, Joe Dante’s almost eerily prescient political and media satire about a near-future US driven to the point of civil war over the issue of immigration.
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You know what movie has aged beautifully? Joe Dante’s wonderful, timely and prescient 1998 satire Small Soldiers.
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Brendan Fraser month continues as we take a fond look back at 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Joe Dante’s heroic, misunderstood attempt to atone for Space Jam’s sins.
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Remembering one of the all-time greats.
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