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…
ComedyThe Monty Python troupe consisted of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Brian's mother Mandy reveals that his father was actually a Roman soldier instead of the family's claimed Jewish parentage.
ComedyThe statement is defensible. The musicians needed tax shelters.
ComedyThe Bedazzled property exists in two substantial film adaptations across approximately thirty-three years. The 1967 British production directed by Stanley.
Comedyis one of the great American comedies of all time and one of the most substantial parody films in commercial cinema history. The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker collaborative team had been working substantially in comedy production before Airplane!.
ComedyTwenty-five films that couldn't survive contemporary Hollywood development — and an honest verdict on each one. Thirteen are genuine losses. Two are genuine gains. Ten are complicated. The ratio tells you everything about what's actually happening to cinema.
ActionRoboCop is a better film than its premise suggests and a more subversive one than its marketing implied. Paul Verhoeven made a corporate satire inside a violent action film, and the two registers enhance each other instead of competing.
ActionThe Running Man is a better idea than film. The concept, a death sport television show operating as the primary mechanism of social control in a dystopia.
PsychologicalA man reads his app's terms and conditions at 2 AM and discovers something buried in the legal text that changes everything: the service has been building a digital copy of him, and it's almost done.
FantasyA cab driver from Queens gets dropped into Oz by a tornado and spends three years driving a Toyota Camry on the Yellow Brick Road, discovering that fairy tales have terrible infrastructure.
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