mike myers

Wayne’s World began life as a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch about two metalhead slackers who broadcast a TV show from their basement. The skits became a fan favourite part of the show, and after a proposed sketch anthology film…

Ogres have layers. So does this movie. Shrek, that magical, weird, upside-down fairytale experience by Dreamworks turns 20 this year. What is it about the title green swamp dweller that's so appealing and led to him spawning three sequels?…

Tobe Hooper. Wes Craven. Sean S. Cunningham. Dario Argento. Horror cinema has many famous directors, auteurs if you want to be posh about it, but few are considered as varied and frightening as John Carpenter. Carpenter has directed…

A lot of well regarded, lasting films were released 10 years ago. No Country for Old Men, Zodiac, The Assassination of Jesse James, There Will Be Blood, Superbad, Persepolis and many others all celebrate their decade anniversary this year.…

They say the best parodies come from a place a true affection, that you can only scathingly send something up if you have real investment in it to start with. This was definitely the case with Austin Powers as Bond had in many ways already…

There’s a scene in the middle of the 2007 film I Am Legend where Will Smith’s character Robert Neville walks downstairs to find a woman and a boy watching DreamWorks’ landmark animated comedy Shrek. After perfectly reciting some of the…

This week's Tittererer's Digest is all about Saturday Night Live. The more cynical among you may suggest that every Tittererer's Digest is mostly about Saturday Night Live anyway, so what's the f*cking difference? To them I say; fair point,…