If you love satirical black comedies trying to reclaim narratives, Blazing Saddles (1974) is a great find. Helmed by Mel Brooks, it is an inspiring post-modernist political satire on how racism was ...

Mel Brooks' stone-cold classic Blazing Saddlesis one of the rare comedies that's lost little of its impact over the years. It uses the inherently backward-looking form of the western to lampoon the ...

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 ...