The Nice Guys (2016) Photo : ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection Shane Black’s hardboiled comedy brings a tough guy enforcer (Russell Crowe) and a hapless private eye (Ryan Gosling) together to solve a knotty, noir-ish crime involving a porn star named Misty Mountains and a mysterious adult film named “How Do You Like My Car, […]

Movie about Porn Stars, From ‘Boogie Nights’ to ‘Red Rocket’ Courtesy of Everett Collection Although porn films have been around since the late 1800s, even having a near-mainstream surge in popularity in the early ’70s thanks to films like 1972’s “Deep Throat” and provocateurs like Andy Warhol, major films about the pornography business took a lot […]

Narrative structure: symmetry of opening and closing scene.

Trey Parker wrote, directed and stars in this broad comedy about a cash-strapped Mormon who accidentally becomes a porn star, thanks to his portrayal of an X-rated superhero.

Setting: 1984 East Germany. Time span: 7 years, 1984-1991.