Saturday Night Live - FilmBuffOnline

SNL@50: The Eras: 1976-1979: Addition By Subtraction

October 18, 2024 Bill Gatevackes

For most shows, losing your biggest and most popular star would be fatal. For SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it only made it better. [click for more]

SATURDAY NIGHT And The Truth Of “Based On A True Story”

October 16, 2024 Bill Gatevackes

SATURDAY NIGHT asks the question of how much creative license is too much, and how lack of authenticity affects the film. [click for more]

Review: SATURDAY NIGHT A Frenetic Love Letter To A Comedic Institution

October 11, 2024 Rich Drees

Director Jason Reitman takes us behind the scenes of the iconic SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE with a (fictionalized) telling of the ninety minutes leading up to the show’s very first broadcast. [click for more]

We Found It On Streaming: SCARE ME (2020)

October 11, 2024 Bill Gatevackes

SCARE ME is a creepy display of the horrors of storytelling, buoyed by the performance of its leads, that can’t quite make it to the finish line intact. [click for more]

SNL@50: The Eras: 1975-1976: In The Beginning

October 4, 2024 Bill Gatevackes

Our first SNL era covers the first, tumultuous year of the show. We cover its growing pains, its successes and its failures. [click for more]

SNL @ 50: The Hardship Of Being A SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Fan

September 27, 2024 Rich Drees

Want to explore the full depeth of the history of the venerable sketch comedy institution? You might have a bit of trouble with that. [click for more]

We Found It On Streaming: LOVE, GILDA (2018)

September 20, 2024 Bill Gatevackes

Gilda Radner’s life has the making of a powerful documentary biography. That makes it puzzling why LOVE, GILDA is so bland and tame. [click for more]

Molly Kearney Also Announces SNL Cast Departure

August 2, 2024 Rich Drees

Kearney’s departure from the show marks the second cast member exiting in under a week. [click for more]

Punkie Johnson Leaving SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

August 1, 2024 Rich Drees

The comic first announced her departure at a live show and then later on social media. [click for more]

We Found It On Streaming: CANDY CANE LANE (2023)

December 8, 2023 Bill Gatevackes

CANDY CANE LANE is a mixed bag, part inventive, part formulaic. [click for more]