Gerald Morris

Back in 1987, Carl Reiner made a teen comedy called Summer School, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley. It remains one of the more underrated gems of the entire 1980s teen comedy wave, and I still hold it fondly to this day. Buried inside that movie is a storyline involving two students, Dave and Chainsaw, who are so obsessed with horror movies that they dedicate their entire summer to recreating their favorite horror moments with fake blood and latex, all while running a season-long...

The Fantasia International Film Festival turns 30 this year, running July 16 through August 2 in Montreal. That's over 125 features and more than 200 shorts crammed into eighteen days. If you have never paid attention to Fantasia, here is the pitch: it is the largest genre festival in North America, and it operates almost entirely outside the machinery that dominates the fall circuit. No campaign consultants. No Telluride-to-Toronto handoff. Just horror, sci-fi, animation, kung fu, and a...

There is a moment early in Marty, Life Is Short where Martin Short's alter ego, the oafish celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick, scoffs at the very idea of a documentary being made about Martin Short. "They're making a documentary on literally everyone," Glick grumbles — and he's not entirely wrong. The celebrity documentary has become its own genre at this point, with Netflix leading the charge on what feels like a new one every few weeks. Short is self-aware enough to lampoon the format from...