What I Learned From The Finally ScreeningsSeven and a half months and 30 films ago, I began a mission to watch all the best comedies my sheltered childhood, lack of cable, and […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching Bio-Dome For the First TimeThe first half of the 90s was a fertile ground for comedies that exploited the popularity not just of a single comedian, but of a specific […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching Reefer Madness For the First Time
It’s safe to say that, upon its release, Reefer Madness was intended to be, on some level, serious. It’s a film that was originally financed […]
Watching Arthur For the First TimeIf it gives you any idea how inside-out my movie viewing track record was as a child, the only Dudley Moore movie I had ever seen until this […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching Police Academy For the First TimeThe cadets who constitute the leading characters in Police Academy share many characteristics. They all have a lot going against them. They’re […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching Slap Shot For the First TimeAs The Finally Screenings have shifted from comedies that are at the top of classic-comedy lists to films that are found on more obscure or […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching The Goonies For the First TimeThe 80s were a great time to be a kid. High-concept comedies and sci-fi movies, loud, parent-maddening music, classic video games and cable TV. […]
Watching Quick Change For the First TimeThis week, I watched Bill Murray’s Quick Change. It’s a movie I had barely heard of before having it recommended to me, but man — it’s […]
Watching Top Secret! For the First TimeOne of the most popular movie suggestions people have for me when they hear I’m writing this column is Airplane!, and I can’t blame them for […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching ‘Idiocracy’ for the First TimeNormally for this column I watch a comedy many people have told me to see, but this week I did something a little different — I watched a […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching Clueless For the First TimeSeeing as how it’s Women In Comedy week here at Splitsider, I thought it would be appropriate to watch a comedy from a female writer and/or […]
ByAlden Ford
Watching Some Like It Hot For the First TimeIn The Finally Screenings, Alden Ford is watching movies that he really should have seen by now, but hasn’t for some reason.
I’m actually not […]
ByAlden Ford
Redefining The Finally Screenings with Duck SoupDuring a two-week hiatus from The Finally Screenings, I’ve had a little time to reflect on what this column has accomplished, and where it’s […]
