STRIPES
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO BUDDY MOVIES! “Don’t go! All of the plants are gonna die!” I’ve seen every scene a hundred times, and I’m still floored by how cool and funny it all is…
Posted on December 5, 2001 by Brad Laidman
THE LAST BOY SCOUT
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  Year Released: 1991 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 105 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO BUDDY MOVIES! Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, a once proud secret service agent…
Posted on December 5, 2001 by Brad Laidman
ADAM’S RIB
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  Year Released: 1949 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 101 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO MEN VERSUS WOMEN! Sex Wars mid-century style…
Posted on November 28, 2001 by Brad Laidman
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
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  Year Released: 1940 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 112 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO MEN VERSUS WOMEN! This was the movie that saved Katherine Hepburn’s career…
Posted on November 28, 2001 by Brad Laidman
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
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Year Released: 1940 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 92 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO MEN VERSUS WOMEN! It’s a drag to be Ralph Bellamy. Sure you get to be in movies, you’re sort of a movie star, but you’re only there to lose the girl to Cary Grant…
Posted on November 28, 2001 by Brad Laidman
MISTER ROBERTS
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Year Released: 1955 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 123 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO ROLE MODELS! “Mister Roberts” is a movie dedicated to anyone with a boring dead end job who wants to be a hero…
Posted on November 14, 2001 by Brad Laidman
BRONCO BILLY
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Year Released: 1980 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 116 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO ROLE MODELS! Kids, you should never kill a man unless it’s absolutely necessary…
Posted on November 14, 2001 by Brad Laidman
BORN YESTERDAY
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Year Released: 1950 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO ROLE MODELS! “Born Yesterday” is full of great ideas about the wonder of the common man…
Posted on November 14, 2001 by Brad Laidman
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
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  Year Released: 1936 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 115 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO ROLE MODELS! Deeds is a square simple egg who writes sentimental greeting card poetry and plays the tuba to help himself concentrate…
Posted on November 14, 2001 by Brad Laidman
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
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Year Released: 1939 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO ROLE MODELS! We can’t always be Jefferson Smith, but at least we know where the high bar is…
Posted on November 14, 2001 by Brad Laidman
THE PRODUCERS
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Year Released: 1968 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 100 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO CAUSTIC COMEDY! Maybe the most warped movie of all time…
Posted on November 7, 2001 by Brad Laidman
AIRPLANE!
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Year Released: 1980 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 88 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO CAUSTIC COMEDY! So is “Airplane!” still funny and relevant?
Posted on November 7, 2001 by Brad Laidman
BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA
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Year Released: 1996 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 80 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO CAUSTIC COMEDY! Beavis dramatically convinces us he’s going through something far worse than Heroin withdrawal…
Posted on November 7, 2001 by Brad Laidman
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
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Year Released: 1997 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 90 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO CAUSTIC COMEDY! Educated people will tell you that you’re not supposed to enjoy bathroom humor, but I even enjoy Tom Arnold politely asking for a courtesy flush…
Posted on November 7, 2001 by Brad Laidman
HELTER SKELTER
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Year Released: 1976 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 119 minutes |
FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO REAL-LIFE HORROR! I don’t care how rich I get, you won’t be finding me with a house in the Hollywood Hills…
Posted on October 17, 2001 by Brad Laidman
