Editor’s Note: Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) is a freelance writer in Chicago. The views expressed here are his own. View more opinion on CNN. On social media at least, Mel Brooks’ classic “Blazing ...

I was 15 and probably looked about 11 when "Blazing Saddles" was released in 1974, but my buddies and I had no trouble buying movie tickets. The kid at the counter was no cop, and the sweet lady ...

(JTA) — The phrase “that movie could never be made today” has probably been said more about “Blazing Saddles” than any other movie in history. Mel Brooks’ spoof of Hollywood Westerns is full of the ...

It's as tiresome to hear someone say "They couldn't make 'Blazing Saddles' today" as it is to endure the Western clichés the movie skewered when it opened in 1974. For one thing those who lament that ...

(WHTM)– This year is marking a milestone for a couple of classic movies, and to celebrate many movie theaters in central Pennsylvania will be showing them. Mean Girls is celebrating turning 20 this ...

“Blazing Saddles” is the kind of unreproducible film that doesn’t need a remake. But if it were remade, it almost certainly wouldn’t be the left who would object. Like most Brooks films, “Blazing ...