Inside Out (2015) and Inside Out 2 (2024) Review
The film is basically a story about the psychological. Pete Docter built the premise from his own experience watching his daughter Elie change as she entered adolescence.
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The Indiana Jones Trilogy (1981, 1984, 1989) Review
Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Temple of Doom in 1984, and The Last Crusade in 1989 form a complete trilogy that arrived before Hollywood started planning trilogies as franchise products. Raiders is the first and the best.
I, Claudius (BBC, 1976) Review
The production budget was approximately three hundred thousand pounds, which was modest even by 1976 BBC standards. Herbert Wise directed all twelve episodes.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Review
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the darkest films Disney has ever released and one of the most thematically ambitious animated features in the studi. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed.
Hotel (1983-1988) Review
Hotel is one of the substantial Aaron Spelling 1980s television productions and one of the more enduring American prime-time soap operas of the decade. Aaron Spelling had been one of the most successful American television producers across multiple decades before…
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Review
The statement is defensible. The musicians needed tax shelters.
Finding Nemo (2003) Review
Finding Nemo is one of the foundational documents of Pixar's golden era and one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century. Stanton would subsequently direct WALL-E in 2008, Finding Dory in 2016, and various other major…
Finding Dory (2016) Review
Finding Dory is one of the more substantive Pixar sequels and one of the more thoughtful contemporary animated productions about cognitive disability. The substantial gap between productions reflected Pixar's broader sequel discipline during the period.
Fargo (FX Series, 2014-present) Review
Fargo is one of the best television series of the past fifteen years and one of the most creatively ambitious anthology productions in American television. Five seasons have aired across the past decade with additional seasons in development.
Fargo (1996) Review
Fargo is one of the best American films of the 1990s and one of the most distinctive achievements in the Coen Brothers filmography. The two cowrote the screenplay.
Fantasia (1940) Review
Fantasia is one of the great animated films in cinema history and one of the foundational documents of the entire American animation tradition. The film consists of eight animated segments set to classical music compositions.
Dumbo (1941 / 2019), Contrast Review
The Dumbo property exists in two substantial Disney adaptations across nearly eighty years. The 1941 animated production is one of the great classical Disney achievements and the production that financially saved Disney following the substantial commercial disappointment of Fantasia.
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