Spies Like Us gets away with quite a bit, mostly because Landis sets his usual “anything goes” tone…

The hotel sequence in Ghostbusters is brilliant. It may be the most effective scene of its kind in comedy history, purely because of how it sets everything up, from the characters motivations, to the electronics, down to foreshadowing the end of the film. It does it all. It is impossible to hate any scene that [...]

There’s not much like a John Landis late ’70s or ’80s comedy. Animal House, Blues Brothers, Coming to America, and of course Trading Places all fall into that category. The latter is fondly remembered for many a reason, though it doesn’t comes off perfectly. This is still one of the better comedies of the era. [...]