ActionHighlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…
AnimatedWizards is one of the substantial adult animated productions of the late 1970s and one of the most distinctive Ralph Bakshi feature productions. He had directed Fritz the Cat in 1972, Heavy Traffic in 1973, and Coonskin in 1975 before…
AnimatedTangled appeared during a transitional period in Disney animation. The film adapts the Rapunzel fairy tale through the Brothers Grimm version.
AnimatedThe Shrek franchise consists of six feature productions across approximately twenty-one years of continuous DreamWorks production. The 2001 original is one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century and the production that established DreamWorks Animation as…
AnimatedSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the foundational achievement of American feature animation. The achievement is historical instead of dramatic.
AdventureThe Princess Bride is one of the most quoted films in American popular culture and one of the most enduring family films of the past forty years. The Princess Bride extended his range into family adventure territory that his previous…
FantasyThe Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror films of the 1990s and one of Christopher Walken's most committed performances. It grossed approximately sixteen million dollars in its initial theatrical release on a production budget of approximately eight…
FantasyThe Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror franchises in American cinema. The original 1995 film delivered Christopher Walken's career-defining performance as the rebel angel Gabriel.
AdventureThe film is structurally tight. The source material is darker and more philosophically complex than the Disney adaptation suggests.
AnimatedPinocchio is Disney's technical masterpiece. The film was released in February 1940 as the studio's second animated feature after Snow White.
AnimatedMatteo Garrone's Pinocchio is the most faithful screen adaptation of Carlo Collodi's 1883 source novel ever produced. The production is the work of Italian filmmakers reclaiming their own cultural property from international adaptations.
ActionThe Mummy trilogy is one of the most enjoyable adventure franchises of the late 1990s and 2000s and one of the more successful examples of what mainstream. Stephen Sommers wrote and directed the first two films.
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