Without question, sitting through director Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger was the most frustrating film-going experience I’ve had all year. Epic in scope, gorgeous to look at, mythic in its approach to its seminal title character, at its best the film successfully hearkens back to some of the great Westerns and at times pays homage […]
Mel Brooks
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Monsterly marvelous
The musical comedy Young Frankenstein, from the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers, comes to Sangamon Auditorium, UIS Saturday, April 21. Based on Mel Brooks’ hilarious film by the same name, three-time Tony winner Brooks himself wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the book to this musical, along with three-time Tony-winning writer […]
